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Travel
James Bond’s ski club celebrates 100 years of racing — and partying
...Back in the winter of 1969, this svelte, conical retreat was awash with Bond girls, Joanna Lumley and Diana Rigg among them, draped over mountain-chic furnishings segmented by gold-hooped partitions....
January 13, 2024
Television
What to look out for in the new TV adaptation of Black Narcissus
...Powell and Pressburger cast a long shadow at Pinewood; Macdonald is talking in a boardroom just down the corridor from a framed photo of David Niven in A Matter of Life and Death....
December 22, 2020
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ReviewBiography and memoir
Tom Stoppard by Hermione Lee — the real thing
...It helps that Stoppard knows almost everybody in British letters and Lee has interviewed them all: Antonia Fraser, David Hare, Richard Eyre, the late Diana Rigg. To name a few....
October 1, 2020
ReviewTelevision
The Tiger Who Came to Tea and The Snail and the Whale leap from page to screen
...David Oyelowo voices the tiger with smiling suavity, while David Walliams (he’s everywhere) pleasingly narrates. It might be an all-star cast, but nobody dominates the minimalist tale....
December 20, 2019
Jo Ellison
How the new puritans are killing comedy
...David’s latest instalment of Curb Your Enthusiasm, which expresses a solipsism so deep it makes Seinfeld seem cuddly, has seen its viewer numbers shrink by 25 per cent this season....
November 29, 2017
UK banks
Lloyds enforced £1.6m claim on Noel Edmonds despite doubts
...as early as 2007 had identified a fee of £153,000 paid on the disposal of a nightclub that should have gone to the bank but was diverted for no obvious reason into a HBOS account belonging to QCS boss David...
October 31, 2017
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
UK banks
Rogue HBOS unit’s victims struggle to rebuild shattered lives
...Mr Scourfield, 54, lead director of HBOS’s impaired assets division, formed a “corrupt relationship” with David Mills, a business consultant, between 2003 and 2007....
February 2, 2017
Life & Arts
Shakespeare in art
...One moment Puck is a cannonball catapulted through the night sky in David Scott’s romantic “Puck Fleeing From the Dawn” (1837); the next, tousled, leggy Helen Mirren (Hermia) and Diana Rigg (Helena) are...
March 24, 2016
Inside BusinessEd Crooks
US oil refiners face battle to prolong halcyon days
...Today Charles and David Koch, two of Fred’s sons, control a vast and diversified business empire, but the roots of it all are in refineries....
August 17, 2014
Life & Arts
Maureen Lipman on how her life became ruled by animals
...Similarly, Dame Diana Rigg, in a production of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, in which Diva had a small but resonant role as a dog, asked me, darkly, why I didn’t get a proper dog....
January 24, 2014
News in-depthCapital markets
Hedge funds say shorting Japan will work
...David Einhorn, founder of Greenlight Capital, for example, has been short Japan one way or another since 2009, and shorting the yen has been a failed trade for many of the world’s most seasoned macro hedge...
November 29, 2012
US downturn
Mormons boost Romney momentum in Nevada
...“He would bring a lot of publicity for the church, whatever he did,” added David Riggs, a mechanical engineering student....
February 3, 2012
Investments
Thumbs up for best of hedge funds
...“We continue to have an optimistic outlook for the performance of hedge funds for the coming 12 months,” says Peter Rigg, head of global strategy with HSBC’s Private Bank....
June 18, 2010
Life & Arts
Hay Fever, Chichester Festival Theatre, West Sussex, UK
...by his reception as David Tennant’s replacement Hamlet last year; and Guy Henry excels at trying to be that little bit more suave than his lanky frame will allow....
April 19, 2009
Life & Arts
From the kitchen to the screen
...the early postwar TV’s housewife-mentor, Marguerite Patten, through the domestically powerful working-class women of the sitcoms of the 1960s and 1970s, the fantasy dominatrices Honor Blackman and Diana Rigg...
June 19, 2008
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
World
UK auctions: Where the real market is to be found
...David Sandeman, of auctions service EIG, points to a set of new-build flats in Kelso Heights in Leeds....
November 19, 2008
Offshore oil and gas: Weathering a sea change in conditions
...Eon, the German energy group, is building the 60-turbine Robin Rigg wind farm in the Solway Firth, but that is the only project close to coming on stream....
October 30, 2008
UK economy
Concessions help UK regain role as tax haven
...Jacob Rigg of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, which represents advisers, said: “There are definitely some people leaving but much more limited numbers than there would have been.”...
April 15, 2008
Q&ALife & Arts
FT Weekend Berry Bros & Rudd Arts Quiz
...Diana Rigg. 4. David Greig. 5. Jonathan Miller. WINNER: Joan Wales, Surrey Send your answers, along with your name and address, to: arts.quiz@ft.com by midnight on Wednesday March 28....
March 26, 2007
Life & Arts
Violent visions of nationalism
...It’s a vintage week for English icons of the 1960s now re-emerging in their sixties, with Christie as radiant as ever, Diana Rigg turning up as a spunky French nun in The Painted Veil and now an entire film...
April 25, 2007
Terrorism
The troupes have landed
...In New York he is a mensch, a purveyor of caviar to the public, with a succession of high-quality Tony Award-winning shows such as Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa, Medea (starring Diana Rigg), A Doll’s...
April 29, 2005

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