You’d be hard-pressed to find someone who loved movies as much as Robert Osborne, the primetime host of Turner Classic Movies ever since the cable network launched back in 1994. Sadly, Osborne has gone to that great movie theater in the sky as the television host and former actor has passed away at 84. Below, […]
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Historian Bettany Hughes: My six best books
THE ILIAD by Homer (translated by Robert Fagles) Penguin, £9.99 My desert island book. I first read it in ancient Greek at 15 with a boy I was in love with. It collapses time across 2,000-3,000 years, describing men and women in Asia Minor who dressed in animal pelts yet had ideas and dreams the […]