Lenny Henry says BBC risk losing BAME viewers to streaming services like Netflix 

Sir Lenny Henry has called for the BBC and other traditional broadcasters to follow the lead of Netflix in casting actors that represent Britain’s ethnic diversity. The actor and comedian, 62, who has been on our screens for forty years, said that he still felt ‘very lonely’ in the industry as someone from a minority … Read more

Lenny Henry says BBC risk losing BAME viewers to streaming services like Netflix 

Sir Lenny Henry has called for the BBC and other traditional broadcasters to follow the lead of Netflix in casting actors that represent Britain’s ethnic diversity. The actor and comedian, 62, who has been on our screens for forty years, said that he still felt ‘very lonely’ in the industry as someone from a minority … Read more

SARAH VINE: This was the year terrestrial TV died as the BBC ushered in New Year with woke fireworks

With the exception of Masterchef and the Antiques Roadshow, I’ve more or less given up watching the BBC, as it seems to be living in a parallel universe where Frankie Boyle is funny and Alastair Campbell is still running Downing Street. But like a fool I tuned in anyway on New Year’s Eve, expecting to … Read more

A couch potato took part in experiment on boosting immunity – and when he got Covid, it saved him

It is a perennial health question that has never seemed more relevant: just how can we boost our immune system and give ourselves the best fighting chance against infection? Thousands of books, articles and blogs have been written on the subject (unsurprisingly, more than ever in the past 12 months), making audacious claims about specific regimes, … Read more

A couch potato took part in experiment on boosting immunity – and when he got Covid, it saved him

It is a perennial health question that has never seemed more relevant: just how can we boost our immune system and give ourselves the best fighting chance against infection? Thousands of books, articles and blogs have been written on the subject (unsurprisingly, more than ever in the past 12 months), making audacious claims about specific regimes, … Read more

Coronavirus: London children’s hospital consultant says wards are NOT full of youngsters with Covid

‘Simply untrue’: London children’s hospital consultant blasts ‘irresponsible’ nurse who gave BBC radio interview claiming her hospital has ‘a whole ward of children’ with coronavirus Paediatrician Dr Ronny Cheung blasted ‘lies’ around children with Covid-19 He said there were not ‘wards’ filled with children suffering from coronavirus A matron at a London hospital claimed she … Read more

Coronavirus: London children’s hospital consultant says wards are NOT full of youngsters with Covid

‘Simply untrue’: London children’s hospital consultant blasts ‘irresponsible’ nurse who gave BBC radio interview claiming her hospital has ‘a whole ward of children’ with coronavirus Paediatrician Dr Ronny Cheung blasted ‘lies’ around children with Covid-19 He said there were not ‘wards’ filled with children suffering from coronavirus A matron at a London hospital claimed she … Read more

The BBC’s Black Narcissus is the perfect inspiration for the trip of a lifetime to Nepal

Former Bond girl Gemma Arterton (aka Sister Clodagh) recalled the experience of filming Black Narcissus succinctly. ‘We were in the middle of nowhere in the Himalayan mountains. It took us three flights and a week to get there.’ Her co-star Alessandro Nivola who, as Mr Dean brought a fatal sexual frisson into the community of … Read more