Catch up with Lucy Worsley's take on Royal fibs

Highly popular historian Lucy Worsley concluded her new three part series of Royal History’s Biggest Fibs on BBC 2 on Friday. But if you missed it, don’t worry. All three episodes will still be available on the iPlayer for the...

Online summit explores burning issues that will face a post-covid world

An exciting online summit next week featuring guest speaker Gina Miller, the campaigner and co-founder of SCM Direct, will discuss possible solutions to some of the burning issues facing today’s policy makers. Among others taking...

Julian Lloyd Webber and Rev Richard Coles back bid to save Sir Malcolm Arnold papers

Alarming news that legal papers and letters from a troubled period in the life of the late composer Sir Malcolm Arnold may be lost forever.The papers relate to a period of seven years in the 1970s and 80s when Sir Malcolm was in...

Pop Star to Priest: Rev Richard Coles returns to Curtain Up

The success of our new series of online shows continues. Curtain Up, presented by Clive Conway Productions and Iconic Media Solutions, brings some of Britain’s best loved faces into people’s homes this autumn. It is the...

Dan Cruickshank on the memorials and monuments to the dead of World War One

This has been an extraordinary year with so many people's lives impacted by the havoc caused by the coronavirus pandemic.Yet it has been worth remembering a time100 years ago when things were even worse. In 1920 we were still...

Liquidators called in at Soweto's Nelson Mandela House Museum

An important shrine to South African political history is being lost with liquidators called in at the Mandela House Museum in Soweto.It has been reported that the house - a major tourist destination - is to be stripped of its...

Gyles Brandreth and the seven secrets of happiness

Exploring the truth and lies behind the French Revolution

It was good to see ever-popular historian Lucy Worsley’s brand new series, Royal History’s Biggest Fibs, enjoying an enthusiastic following on BBC 2 on Friday.Lucy - a regular contributor to Clive Conway Productions - kicked off...

Raymond Blanc promotes British apples and pears

We’ve enjoyed seeing our good friend the Michelin starred chef Raymond Blanc working hard to help launch this autumn’s Great British apple and pear harvest. For although a proud Frenchman, Blanc has lived and work...

Tutu announces finalists of 2020 Children's Peace Prize

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has announced the finalists of the 2020 International Children’s Peace Prize 2020.They are 12-year-old Ivana Ortega Serret from Mexico, 18-year-old Siena Castellon from Ireland and 17-years-old Sadat...

Farewell to Bond actor Sean Connery for many the quintessential 007

So it is a sad farewell to actor Sir Sean Connery, one of the most iconic film stars of the 20th century who died at the weekend at the age of 90.Connery was best known of course as the man who for many will forever epitomise Ian...

Paul Atterbury chooses his Desert Island Antiques

Curtain Up, Clive Conway Productions exciting new series of live-streamed online shows continues later this month with Antiques Roadshow regular Paul Atterbury imagining his personal choice of Desert Island Antiques.It follows...

NT's Romeo and Juliet re-conceived as a made for TV film

As the desperate stop-go struggle to reopen our theatres and find some way of helping them to survive continues it’s intriguing to see The National Theatre thinking outside the proverbial box to rescue their planned production of...

We owe it to Desmond Tutu to promote peace, love and understanding

A point worth reflecting on in this divided and confused world is that there is always hope.It is now more than 34 years since Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu became the first man of African ethnicity to lead the Anglican...

Curtain up on Pop Star to Priest - the Rev Richard Coles' story

Curtain Up, Clive Conway Productions exciting new series of live-streamed online shows, continues at the weekend with Rev. Richard Coles pondering his extraordinary journey from 1980s pop star to Church of England priest, radio...

Was Anne Boleyn guilty of plotting to kill Henry VIII?

Esteemed royal historian Lucy Worsley has been explaining the circumstances that led to King Henry VIII beheaded his second wife Anne Boleyn. Anne was executed after facing accusations that she had been unfaithful...

Dame Patricia, 91, recovering after a fall.

We are so sorry to hear that 91-year-old actress Dame Patricia Routledge - a frequent and popular speaker with Clive Conway Productions circuit - is recovering after a fall.Dame Patricia, best known to millions as...

More tributes as the 'great enabler' Mama Leah celebrates her 87th birthday

A flood of heartfelt tributes and celebrations greeted Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s 89th birthday earlier this month.And just a week later more warm words flooded to mark the 87th birthday of his devoted wife Leah.The couple met...

Curtain's up on Gyles Brandreth and Rev Richard Coles

Have you checked out our new series of online shows yet. It’s called Curtains Up and launches later this week with a wonderful hour-long entertainment from the inimitable Gyles Brandreth.His show, The 7 Secrets of Happiness, will...

Lost Frost/Nixon material found in a presidential archive

It is fascinating to learn that 'lost' recordings of the famous David Frost/Richard Nixon interviews have been discovered in a US presidential archive.The broadcast interviews were considered political dynamite when they first...

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