This Hollywood movie tells how a multi-national group escaped from Joseph Stalin’s gulag and survived climatic extremes to walk 4,000 miles to political freedom in India.
This exhibition documents the Sidney Street Siege in east London—where Lithuanian anarchists had a raging gun battle with police in 1911.
A new weekly, live comedy current affairs show sounds promising with hosts Charlie Brooker, David Mitchell and Lauren Laverne.
Barry Norman explores how the experience of going to the cinema in Britain has changed over the past 100 years.
It’s very easy for the history of the English language to be a dull list of words and sentences delivered by long-dead classic authors and upper class figures.
Pantomime is a debased cultural product used to take working class people’s money at Christmas because it is "traditional".
When Grace Petrie played Glastonbury’s Leftfield stage, an awestruck Billy Bragg declared that she "stole the fucking show".
Among such Yuletide gems as Kirstie and Phil’s Perfect Christmas, Jamie’s Best Ever Christmas and Lorraine Kelly’s Children’s Hospital at Christmas will be the odd film and drama that are actually worth watching.
Congratulations to Stephen Lowdon of County Durham and Jimmy Burns of Southport who won our competition and will now receive a Lenin kitchen apron and a Big Red Diary—also available from www.redstuffshop.com
Grace Petrie performing "Emily Davison Blues", outside Nick Cleggs Sheffield Constituency Office. 13th December 2010
You will probably know that this week Coronation Street reaches 50 years of continuous broadcasting. ITV is celebrating the event with the razzamatazz it normally reserves for royal weddings and successful world cup bids (oh dear, cancel that one).
This is a nasty film—but it could well scoop a Best Documentary Oscar next February.
