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...Click here for the answers James Walton is co-host of “The Booker Prize Podcast”...
...This year’s line-up includes James Blake, Cat Power, Simple Minds, Queens of the Stone Age, Air, Take That and The National....
...What was Oscar Wilde’s first stage comedy — and first stage hit? Which track and field event has been part of the Olympics for men since 1896 — and for women since 2000?...
...February 28 to August 26; further information and tickets here Performance ‘Le Portrait de Dorian Gray’ and ‘Les Trois Soeurs’, Théâtre le Ranelagh Thomas Le Douarec brings Oscar Wilde’s fantastical novel...
...In Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, what kind of sandwiches are referred to as a “reckless extravagance”? Who’s the main presenter of Channel 4’s The Last Leg?...
...This was less James Bond than Mr Bean. Or maybe that should be Mr Biden....
...It was hard to know what to make of charismatic actor/TV host James Corden being banned in October from Keith McNally’s New York restaurant Balthazar for “abusive” outbursts to staff....
...D’Sylva says he named his restaurant Dorian because, like its namesake in Oscar Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray, it will be “a little bit naughty”....
...When good Americans die, wrote Oscar Wilde, they all go to Paris. Of course, Americans can be impatient people, and quite a few, hoping to beat the queues, don’t wait for death....
...It was dedicated by James Joyce to Michael Healy, Nora [Joyce’s wife]’s uncle, and none of us had spotted it. It was worth about £3,500....
...Soon James confirms it: “there was never a mistake for you that he could leave unmade”....
...What word appears in the titles of the James Bond films released in 1967 and 1973? Click here for the answers...
...The only escape for Fanny (Emily Beecham) and Linda (Lily James) is a suitable marriage, but Uncle Matthew scarcely lets them off the estate....
...And as you heard, one of them is the audiobook of Ulysses by James Joyce. Notoriously, that is one of the harder books to decipher in the English language....
...The story has all the grace and lyricism of one of Oscar Wilde’s fables, garnished with sublime watercolour artwork by Daniela Jaglenka Terrazzini....
...“That’s when I started collecting,” says Doller, whose favourite pieces are by James Stiff & Sons – a competitor to Doulton in Lambeth – and a Macintyre Pottery vase in the recognisably art-nouveau style...
...These bohemian, velvet-clad chaps — among them James McNeill Whistler, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris and Oscar Wilde, the movement’s poster boy — filled paintings and entire rooms with peacock plumes...
...The answers (should you need them) are found here James Walton is the author of the Penguin Book Quiz (£9.99)...
...I joke that Oscar Wilde said it first, with “revenge is a dish best served cold”. Clyburn breaks into a smile: “Kennedy stole a lot from other people, he might have stolen that line.”...
...Round on the Links The link was ancient and historic peoples Maya Angelou Phoenician (Phoenix) The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) Norman Lamont Roman Abramovich Aztec Camera Angle Viking Jute Harold...
...No mind-boggling location and special effects budget needed, even for James Bond, as the recent adaptation of The Man with the Golden Gun (BBC Radio 4 and Sounds) demonstrates....
...Then places such as Sager + Wilde, Vinoteca, The Laughing Heart and Noble Rot started popping up, and all of a sudden the wine bar got cool. These days, the wine bar is where it’s at....
...What kind of husband is Sir Robert Chiltern, according to the possibly ironic title of a play by Oscar Wilde? In 1991, which horse race, sponsored by Seagram, was won by a horse called Seagram?...
...We open with a Victorian tea party in the manner of Oscar Wilde....
...In an epoch renowned for scintillating style and wit — Oscar Wilde, so often in Paris, haunts the story — Barnes never loses sight of the tears and blood beneath the gilt....
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