The Presteigne Festival returns with five eventful days from 27 to 31 August 2026 in the Radnorshire town. This year, composer Michael Zev Gordon is in residence, but the festival is also celebrating milestone birthdays […]
Deirdre Brenner (Photo: Andrej Grilc) From 1922 to 1996 more than 10,000 women and girls were incarcerated in Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries. Operated by four religious orders, these for-profit punitive institutions detained individuals against their will, […]
The Sixties singer and Mick Jagger girlfriend died today in London aged 78. Austrian-Jewish on her mother’s side, Marianne grew up in the north of England in considerable poverty. Starting out as a folk singer, […]