4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (1097+ words) Fans of Graham Norton’s best-selling novels set in his native Ireland will notice a big change when they sit down to watch channel Five’s starry screen adaptation of his family mystery Forever Home. Gone are the jagged peninsulas and pastoral…...

1+ week, 14+ hour ago   (398+ words) After I (Sam) left my creative job working with some of the biggest names in football, including Nike and adidas, to move into corporate life, I missed that connection with the game. I’m a trustee at the National Football Museum…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago   (1251+ words) The relative conviviality of a preview screening shouldn’t perhaps be taken as a surefire guide to the nature and content of a forthcoming TV drama series. If you’ve read Forever Home, the fourth novel by Graham Norton – chat show host…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1366+ words) A quick note before we get into it. I (Sam) know I said the summer shenanigans were over and there’d be no more disruption to your regularly scheduled newsletters. And while that’s technically true, I wanted to offer a heads…...

2+ week, 10+ hour ago   (462+ words) Materials reflecting the everyday resources available to the people who occupied a Northumberland Roman fort nearly 2,000 years ago have inspired a new exhibition at the military base. Running from October 9 to December 31, the installation is the latest commission in The…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1623+ words) Felt Nowt shortlisted for Fringe award North East comedy collective Felt Nowt has been shortlisted for the Panel Prize at this year’s ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards. Sponsored by James Corden and Rhod Gilbert, organisers say this year’s shortlist highlights the…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1374+ words) In the uppermost room of a very old building in Newcastle, the 17th Century Alderman Fenwick’s House on Pilgrim Street, exciting plans are afoot that could shift the region’s theatrical profile. They’ve been afoot for some time but not here because…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1255+ words) Fab Four album has £40,000 ticket to ride A rare Beatles album will be offered for sale at between £20,000 and £40,000 in a Tyneside auction. The album, in the Anderson & Garland Newcastle sale on August 27, links to the filming of the Beatles…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1554+ words) I have seen The Light… and was impressed. Durham’s new DLI museum and art gallery, at first viewing, oozes quality in terms of the building itself and what’s currently showing there. At the media preview I seemed to be one…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (370+ words) An evolving chorus of birdsong dedicated to people who have died will fill Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens as part of a new immersive artwork opening this week (August 21). They can explore a collection of 200 field recordings and original bird paintings…...