BBC

Party time at the Rose 0
- Arts, News
- 7th November 2024
Mike Leigh’s feast of agonising drunken smalltalk, Abigail’s Party, is back on stage at Kingston’s Rose, with Laura Rogers playing the deliciously excruciating hostess Beverley – the part that Alison Steadman made her own in the beloved TV version. The suburban satire is so cemented in the collective conscience from that masterful 1977 BBC adaption
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Tamiko’s Christmas carol tops poll as BBC Radio 3’s winner 0
- Arts, News
- 24th December 2021
Tune in to Radio 3 tomorrow (Christmas Day) and hear a new carol devised by Berrylands’ Tamiko Dooley. Tamiko won a nationwide BBC Christmas Carol Competition to create a tune to the words of Christina Rossetti’s poem Love Came Down At Christmas. Her composition was among six shortlisted by a panel of judges from nearly 1,000 entries.
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Tamiko reaches finals of BBC Christmas carol competition 0
- Arts, News
- 16th December 2021
Berrylands’ Tamiko Dooley is a finalist in a nationwide competition to come up with a new Christmas Carol. The BBC challenged the public to create a tune for the words of Christina Rossetti’s poem Love Came Down At Christmas. There were nearly 1,000 entries which have been whittled down to six by the judges. You
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Emma Hayes is crowned queen 0
- Chelsea FC Women, News, Sport
- 8th May 2020
Chelsea Women’s gaffer Emma Hayes has been crowned queen of the WSL after winning most fan nominations in a manager-of-the-season and team-of-the-season poll organised by the BBC at the tail end of this strange, truncated footballing year. Blues players Beth England, Magda Eriksson and Millie Bright feature in the team of the year, alongside a
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Kaz shines as BBC pundit 0
- Chelsea FC Women, Sport
- 26th January 2020
Congratulations to former Chelsea Women captain Karen Carney for an impressive debut performance as a pundit on the BBC’s Match of the Day on FA Cup 4th round weekend The 32-year-old Surbitonian, who retired last summer, made her first appearance alongside Danny Murphy and host Gabby Logan, and seemed relaxed and assured in her new
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