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...Rupert Everett reads from Coward’s diaries with a tamped-down, melancholy edge; Alan Cumming narrates as if worried we might walk out should he pause for breath....
...Coward’s extraordinary career — writer, actor, singer, songwriter, spy — is narrated by Alan Cumming and peppered with Coward quotes read by Rupert Everett who wisely (veddy wisely) avoids imitation....
...Alan Garner, whose book Treacle Walker, a novella that explores themes of folklore and time, will turn 88 on the day of the prize ceremony on October 17....
...An independent investigation into the Woodford affair should be established, according to Gina and Alan Miller, co-founders of the True and Fair Campaign, which seeks improvements in consumer protection...
...We learn that Rupert Everett is a Badedas and Fenjal man, while philosopher and author Alain de Botton elevates soaking to a cerebral plane: “Baths are ideal places to think....
...The film begins in 2013, the year that director Jack Cocker and presenter Alan Yentob (then still at the BBC) began documenting Everett’s passion project, already a half-decade in the making....
...FT graphic: Alan Smith Photograph: Everett Collection...
...The local vicar there, Alan Everett, believes that his church was uniquely able to respond to the disaster “because we live alongside each other, and Muslims trust us”....
...His drawing of former Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois had his head in the shape of his home state....
...Brevan Howard’s British born co-founder Alan Howard led the charge by moving to Geneva in 2010, in the wake of the introduction of tighter EU regulation of hedge funds....
...Everett Koop, the US surgeon-general during the Reagan and Bush administrations who demonised smoking and took controversial stances on Aids and abortion, died in his home in New Hampshire on Monday....
...As late as the 1980s, drama producers such as Alan Shallcross, who died last month, could and did commission a play over lunch....
...Alan Strachan is a dependable directorial hand at this kind of material, and he does not disappoint....
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