Shyama Perera

Pozdnyshev’s ruminations on equality – never possible as long as women are viewed by men as sexual playthings - are as current as when Tolstoy wrote them in 1889

Pozdnyshev’s ruminations on equality – never possible as long as women are viewed by men as sexual playthings - are as current as when Tolstoy wrote them in 1889

Pozdnyshev’s ruminations on equality – never possible as long as women are viewed by men as sexual playthings - are as current as when Tolstoy wrote them in 1889

There are some shows that are so terrible they’re sort-of good, and that pretty much sums up Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens which has colonised the King’s Head for a few weeks.

There are some shows that are so terrible they’re sort-of good, and that pretty much sums up Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens which has colonised the King’s Head for a few weeks.

There are some shows that are so terrible they’re sort-of good, and that pretty much sums up Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens which has colonised the King’s Head for a few weeks.

Hobson’s Choice opens with a carousing Henry Hobson returning home after a morning at the pub, singing with increasing gusto until the moment he steps through the door of his Salford shoe shop. Instantly the volume and the joy peter out and he squares up to his three daughters, busily maintaining the store in their smart 1960s shop overalls.

The Profumo scandal shook 1960s Britain and the female principals of the scandal – Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies – continue to inflame the public imagination.

The Profumo scandal shook 1960s Britain and the female principals of the scandal – Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies – continue to inflame the public imagination.

The Profumo scandal shook 1960s Britain and the female principals of the scandal – Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies – continue to inflame the public imagination.