The singular talents of Joyce Grenfell are celebrated in ‘Ode to Joyce’, which is coming to Darlington this November. The likes of Victoria Wood – who cited Joyce Grenfell as a huge influence on her work – and Miranda Wood (another huge fan) are just t…

One of the few writers in the forties and fifties to venture into and write about that ‘other America’, Jack Kerouac was a literary trailblazer who, arguably, turned from that other America and became the kind of aged right-wing American the younger versi…

Steeleye Span has been at the forefront of the folk rock scene for 50+ years and with a new album out this year, they’re showing no signs of slowing. See them in Barnard Castle and Blyth this November. Steeleye Span’s enduring presence on the British m…