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...print by Mark Bradford, “Rona” (2023, edition of 25, $185,000)....
...In David Farr’s fascinating new play, Sam, a 33-year-old journalist from the UK, arrives in the New Mexico desert to bury her estranged mother, Kath....
...There is The Sportsman, with chef Stephen Harris, on the coast at Seasalter and Read’s, a restaurant with rooms in a Georgian manor house run by the impeccable team of David and Rona Pitchford, in Faversham...
...Coronavirus gets a mention on the defiant “Act Like You Know”: “Act like you know when the ’rona hit, I didn’t take a hit.”...
...It’s also been 10 years since Plastiki — David de Rothschild’s 60ft catamaran made from 12,500 plastic bottles and other recycled plastic waste — landed in Sydney Harbour after a four-month Pacific Ocean...
...Commissioned to make a concert film of musician David Byrne’s acclaimed Broadway show American Utopia, Lee shot three performances before the run ended in late February....
...David Clementi, the BBC chair overseeing the process, is expected to depart early next year....
...David Harrower’s new adaptation goes back to the novel and gives us a Brodie it is far harder to forgive....
...It is also a strange message to be sending to Europe about the role of David Davis.”...
...Rona Fairhead is to stand down as chair of the BBC after Theresa May ordered a re-run of the process to find a head for the UK broadcaster....
...A public auction, as with the Lesedi La Rona, was a break from the traditional way of buying large rough diamonds, and David Bennett, worldwide chairman of Sotheby’s jewellery department, says it has “no...
...The monologue was delivered centre-stage by the anonymous ex he left behind, played by Scottish actress Rona Morison....
...A former deputy governor of the Bank of England, Sir David was picked to lead the BBC’s new unitary board following a three-month search to replace outgoing BBC Trust chair Rona Fairhead....
...His new position will be more hands-on than the outgoing chair of the BBC Trust, Rona Fairhead, who announced in September that she would not be taking up the new role as head of the unitary board after...
...Sir David did not respond to requests for comment....
...Rona Fairhead: Clean break Rona Fairhead this week became the latest victim of Theresa May’s purge of the Cameroons....
...“This is a historic rough diamond,” said David Bennett, worldwide chairman of Sotheby’s jewellery division, as he prepared for a much-heralded sale in June: the auction of the Lesedi la Rona, a 1,109ct stone...
...The sole lot is a 1,109-carat rough diamond, Lesedi la Rona (pictured above), which means “our light” in the Tswana language of Botswana, where it was found....
...Rona Fairhead, the outgoing chair of the BBC Trust, was in May appointed head of the new unitary board by David Cameron but announced she would not be taking up the role in September after his successor...
...Rona Fairhead, the trust’s chair, had been appointed in May by David Cameron, the former prime minister, to head the unitary board until 2018 so as to oversee the broadcaster’s transition....
...Such is the importance of the new structure that David Cameron should have told Rona Fairhead, the trust’s chair, to apply for the somewhat different job of heading it....
...Ministers are searching for a new chair after the head of the BBC Trust, Rona Fairhead, said she would not be taking up the role after Theresa May, prime minister, asked her to reapply for the job....
...One year after being returned to power at the general election, David Cameron finds himself besieged on numerous fronts....
...David Cameron, the former prime minister, intervened earlier this year to set a £450,000-a-year threshold for disclosure....
...A recent report by the culture select committee criticised the BBC and the government over the reappointment of BBC Trust chairman Rona Fairhead to run the new unitary board....
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