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The Hairy Bikers on how they lost so much weight

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Hairy Biker Dave Myers is recalling the moment when he saw, through the unfiltered lens of television, that he had got fat. He caught sight of himself on re-runs of The Hairy Bikers’ 2009 Food Tour of Britain. ‘It’s the maddest thing, watching old shows,’ says Myers, ‘like getting your family album out and flicking … Read more

No boring theory or intellectual snobbery. Just poems awash with well-loved lines

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A Little History Of Poetry John Carey Yale University £14.99 Rating: Roughly 250 years ago, James Boswell asked Dr Johnson: ‘What is poetry?’ ‘Why sir, it is much easier to say what it is not,’ replied Johnson. ‘We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is.’ John Carey … Read more

DEBORAH ROSS: Oh, Julian. It’s the same old, lame old bonnety nonsense

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Belgravia Sunday, ITV Rating: The English Game Netflix Rating: This week not one but two new series from Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford, and you do wonder if he can be stopped. I’m not prepared to come out of self-isolation to do it, but maybe you have a strong immune system and … Read more

From Sorry We Missed You to The Palm Beach Story: The best DVDs to enjoy at home

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Just when you thought life couldn’t get any worse, along comes the new Ken Loach movie. Sorry We Missed You (15, ★★★) tells of Ricky (Kris Hitchen), a labourer with plans to set up on his own.  He begs his care-assistant wife Abbie (Debbie Honeywood) to sell her car and uses the cash to buy … Read more

Mark Bebbington album review: The performances are first class

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MUSIC REVIEWS: The performances in Mark Bebbington’s album are first class… it lacks only the final bit of Gallic charm and insouciance that Poulenc brought By David Mellor for Event Published: 22:02 BST, 21 March 2020 | Updated: 22:02 BST, 21 March 2020 Mark Bebbington  Francis Poulenc: Piano Concerto & Concert Champêtre        … Read more

The diagnosis that turned Blue Peter star Janet’s world upside down

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Janet Ellis did what many people dream of doing: while on holiday she stopped to have a ‘what if’ browse in an estate agent’s window and came home having bought a cottage. What she had fallen love with was part-cottage, part-cave, dug into the stone of an Italian cliff. Janet Ellis on Blue Peter in … Read more

Maggie O’Farrell, Evie Wyld and Anakana Schofield: This week’s best new fiction 

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From Maggie O’Farrell’s radiant novel to The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld and Anakana Schofield’s captivating latest, this week’s best new fiction By Hephzibah Anderson and Anthony Gardner and Gwendolyn Smith For Event Magazine Published: 22:02 BST, 21 March 2020 | Updated: 21:22 BST, 24 March 2020 Hamnet Maggie O’Farrell            … Read more