Prince Philip’s funeral was watched by a peak audience of more than 13 million on the BBC and ITV in the UK, as the Duke of Edinburgh was laid to rest during an intimate service in the grounds of Windsor Castle. Some 82.8% of the available...
You can still listen to Testing the Tebbit Test on BBC Radio 4 Extra in which Rajan Datar documents how many English people with ancestors who migrated from Asia, and maybe even from the Caribbean find the test deeply hurtful and offensive. This...
BBC Three has revealed a slate of four Comedy Slices pilots, which include Dinosaur, the latest female-led project from Fleabag producer Two Brothers Pictures. The 22-minute comedy is written by Elizabeth McGovern and Simon Curtis’ daughter,...
The head of Denmark’s medicines agency, Tanja Erichsen, collapsed during a press conference on the decision to stop using the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID vaccine.
According to a report from BBC News, she was taken to hospital as a precaution and...
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I never got into Luther, the BBC series starring Idris Elba. I love Idris, I just found the accents incomprehensible, and I didn’t want to keep rewinding to figure out what the hell people were saying. But Luther is generally considered to be a...
Moscow International Film Festival Unveils Plan The Moscow International Film Festival is set to run as a physical event in the Russian capital from April 22 to 29, making it one of the first international film festivals to take place in physical...
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EXCLUSIVE: Reece Shearsmith, the British actor and writer behind cult BBC series Inside No. 9, has taken a role alongside Ruth Wilson, Saoirse Ronan, and Adrien Brody in Searchlight’s Untitled Murder Mystery. Filming has wrapped on the feature,...
Haji Hekmat (center), the Taliban's shadow mayor in Balkh, in an interview with the BBC.
BBC
A Taliban leader said the coming US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan gives the group victory.
Balkh's shadow mayor told the BBC "We have won...
Related topics: Taliban, Joe Biden, Afghanistan
Haji Hekmat (center), the Taliban's shadow mayor in Balkh, in an interview with the BBC.
BBC
A Taliban leader said the coming US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan gives the group victory.
Balkh's shadow mayor told the BBC "We have won...
Related topics: Taliban, Joe Biden, Afghanistan
Actor Idris Elba's character on "Luther," a British police drama, "doesn't feel authentic" because "he doesn't have any black friends" and "doesn't eat any Caribbean food," according a BBC diversity executive, Yahoo Celebrity UK reported.What a
Billed as a companion piece to ‘The Man Who Sold the World,‘ this new compilation features non-LP singles, alternate versions, and BBC sessions, including 21 never-before-released recordings. Continue reading…
BBC: The attack "damaged an unknown number of centrifuges"... "stopped work at the facility for now."
The post Attack On Iran’s Top Nuke Site “Destroyed” Thousands of Centrifuges, Senior Regime Official Admits first appeared on Le·gal...
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Stephen Silver
Prince Philip,
“The duke's coffin is draped in his personal flag, his standard. The flag represents elements of his life, from his Greek heritage to his British titles. A wreath of flowers has also been placed on the coffin,”...
Remaining .uk registry board members ignore demands of campaign that has already removed CEO Nominet has chosen civil war over compromise, formally rejecting members' calls to install former BBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons as chair of the .uk...
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Speaking ahead of the launch of the BBC series “Greta Thunberg: A Year To Change The World”, the Swedish activist turned climate icon self-deprecatingly said she only “writes and gives speeches and travels around”, suggesting that “anyone...
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EXCLUSIVE: BBC Africa and Nat Geo (Latin America) are among a number of international broadcasters to board the Fremantle-distributed water crisis film Day Zero, which narrator Chiwetel Ejiofor says brings urgency to an environmental issue that is...
Google and Apple have blocked an update to the UK government's COVID-19 contact tracing app for breaching privacy terms, the BBC reports.
The update, which was expected to roll out in time with the lifting of national lockdown on Monday, would have...
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Joseph Siravo has sadly died following a long battle with colon cancer, BBC reports.
The actor was 66 and his daughter Allegra Okarmus confirmed his passing in a since-deleted Instagram.
It said that she was “by his side when my dear father...
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As the United Kingdom mourns the loss of the Queen’s husband the Duke of Edinburgh, who passed away on Friday at Windsor, the BBC earlier adjusted its programming to commemorate the nation’s longest-serving consort.
Apple and Google have blocked an update to England and Wales' contact tracing app that included a feature that would have collected user location data, breaking the companies' terms and conditions for contact tracing apps, the BBC reports.
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