Hints and tips:
...Take on a ruined church when you retire, Bob advised visitors. “You’ll never look back.” Other surprises abound....
...I have two nephews in the [Westminster Abbey] choir . . . and I assumed it was about them....
...Tom Murphy’s A Whistle in the Dark at the Abbey Theatre (to November 5) centres on a family of warring Irish immigrants in Teddy Boy-era Coventry....
...Benchmark Furniture — a co-venture between the two — produces furniture for private and public buildings, including Westminster Abbey....
...Among the grand sites were a wealth of more modest but no less interesting memorials, statues and buildings, plus a scattering of quirkier landmarks such as the street behind the Savoy hotel where Bob Dylan...
...Astonishingly, they turn out to be Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse. Bob smiles and asks if I’m any good, and then nods towards Paul, saying: “He’s very good.”...
...A brief mention for two other beguiling memoirs: first, Bob Mortimer’s And Away . . ....
...Stay on CS3, past Parliament Square, glancing up at Westminster Abbey, then dart down Great George Street into St James’s Park — and sudden peace....
...Nearly 200 Anglican clerics have objected to plans for a service marking the occasion at Westminster Abbey on Friday....
...The release follows a similar treatment of another pop masterpiece, Bob Dylan’s 1975 album Blood on the Tracks, freshly refashioned as More Blood, More Tracks, which stretches one of Dylan’s most personal...
...The show was hosted by the jazz artists Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln and drew such an eager crowd that a repeat performance had to be held the same night....
...A warm welcome is extended — and wartime secrets bob to the surface. In truth, the plot — like the war — is only the support act for the central love triangle....
...It was Downton Abbey-on-the-Potomac decades before that television drama was conceived....
...Setting up Playground was inspired partly by the success of Downton Abbey in using digital platforms. It was sold to more than 250 territories and became a global phenomenon....
...and Happy Valley who was also, exactly 30 years ago, Rita in Alan Clarke’s Thatcher-era sex comedy Rita, Sue and Bob Too....
...The Beatles were shown playing “All You Need Is Love” in Abbey Road Studios in London....
...Then there is Westminster Abbey....
...And that was without the golfing process of former Barclays bankers Bob Diamond and Tom King, who both pulled out of the US team....
...New programmes piggyback on established favourites (Downton Abbey aired directly after The X Factor), and educational output sneaks in after popular shows....
...Directed by Julian Fellowes, 2014 Universal The 1920s continue to roar for the youngsters at Downton: Lady Mary gets a bob, Rose finds a dashing swain, Tom threatens to make a break and Edith’s secret...
...Stones, Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix.”...
...This week, the handwritten words to Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” sold for more than $2m at Sotheby’s....
...Last year the sharp 1920s bob she modelled in The Great Gatsby was everywhere....
...Under Mr Bevan’s guidance, the funds of both Abbey’s high street banking customers and clients of subsidiary insurance companies Scottish Provident, Scottish Mutual and Abbey Life were farmed out to the...
International Edition