How do you begin to tell stories about a war which claimed more than fifteen million lives? For children's author Michael Morpurgo, the…

At one time, every parent and child knew all about Nativity plays. Many will have memories and photographs of tea-towel-adorned shepherds,…

The sun rises over the townships of South Africa on 10th May 1994. And the question at the back of everybody's mind is posed aloud by the…

The statistics are every bit as mind-boggling as the spectacle. A reported budget of $280,000,000 makes James Cameron’s Avatar one of…

A review of the recent Sherlock Holmes films and BBC TV series.

‘I don’t know if the story I want to tell you is entirely true,’ confesses the narrator at the opening of Michael…

According to the Romans, ‘bread and circuses’ were the key to keeping a population content. As long as their immediate physical…