By Sara Bright The second season of The Agency drops today on Paramount+, and if you were expecting another slick exercise in tuxedoed nonchalance and…
By Sara Bright When Jerrod Carmichael appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in March 2024 to promote his HBO documentary series, he delivered what has become…
By Sara Bright In the shadow of Catford’s brutalist civic centre, behind a Gothic Revival façade designed by Edward Middleton Barry, St Dunstan’s College has…
By Sara Bright When Sister Wives premiered on TLC on 26 September 2010, it arrived with the unmistakable whiff of spectacle. Here was a television…
By Sara Bright When Shelley Duvall died on 11 July 2024, the world saw two pictures: her terrified face behind the door in Stanley Kubrick’s…
By Sara Bright When 39 girls filed into the old Surrey Street Music Hall in Sheffield on 12 March 1878, nobody could have predicted that…
By Sara Bright Only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still stands. The Great Pyramid of Giza, built around 2560 BCE for…
By Sara Bright In the summer of 1834, a steamship carried two of France’s most celebrated writers from Paris to Venice. Alfred de Musset, the…
By Sara Bright In 1965, at the Württemberg State Theatre in Stuttgart, John Cranko unveiled a ballet that had no right to exist. The intendant…
By Sara Bright There is a particular cruelty to the way the world remembers Priscilla Presley. She is frozen at seventeen, dark-haired and porcelain-skinned, standing…