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You've got to feel sorry for the Underminer. I give little away when I say that his work is done and dusted in barely ten minutes.

Following this dramatically dismal Pelléas I wondered why they had changed from a perfectly workable production in favour of a new one by controversial Norwegian director Stefan Herheim.

At The Woolpack in Slad, it's impossible to escape the eternal lure of Laurie Lee. He was the village's most famous son, and lies buried in the graveyard opposite, between, as they say locally, pulpit and pub

If songwriting were a sport, Paul Simon would be Roger Federer and Rod Laver rolled into one - a champion from decades ago, still close to his peak.

What a chance this proved for an actor called Ryan Pidgen. There he was, a nobody in the cast. Then a few hours before curtain-up on the opening night, the show's star, Matt Lucas cried off. Strained tonsils.

Recently I visited Arundel cricket ground in West Sussex - if you're a fan of the game, it has to be the most picturesque place in the world to watch a match

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If the Trump Family was a work of fiction, any decent editor would immediately post it back to their creator, saying that they were all much too shallow, and in urgent need of depth

Henson, 52, is Britain's most famous farmer, thanks to 17 years as a presenter of BBC One's Countryfile. He loves sharing stories of the countryside and its people with the show's viewers

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