Category: TV

Born in September 1666, at the age of sixteen Sophie Dorothea of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Celle became the wife of Georg Ludwig, Elector of Hanover and later King George of Great

Through morning fog and blocks of monolithic concrete it makes its way to a neon-lit destination of tiled walls and floors, the Berlin U-bahn subway system used by

Taken to La Reposete by “a friend of the family,” the welcome given to eighteen-year old Thérèse Garan by headmistress Señora Fourneau is proper and formal; there is

Anything she does is the wrong thing, any answer she gives is the wrong answer: if she lies in the interview about her criminal conviction, they find out

Born to English parents but raised at his ancestral home in La Barre in France, there is no doubt that a scholar such as Jean-Luc Picard would be

A flamenco bar seems incongruous on the streets of Tokyo, but to former Yakuza member Egawa it is all he has, a gift from the leader of the

Saturday March 24th, 1984, a day unremarkable in history but largely missed by five students condemned to spend their time in detention in the library of Shermer High

A country divided, President Díaz is the hardline ruler of Mexico, and while the revolutionary leader Santillana has promised his followers that change will come the years have

The Countess Ranevskaya in her “high powdered wig” rumoured to be over a hundred years old, a witch who “sold her soul to the devil” in order to

The spring of 1943, and Masakichi Arakawa, the leader of the Tenryu clan of the Yakuza, has suffered a stroke from which he is unlikely to fully recover;