3 d. ago A Welsh sporting hero died without anyone realising, then something truly beautiful happened

Led by his faithful dog, Chung Kum Weng's coffin was draped in the flag of Wales, he country he fell in love with

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6 d. ago Archive of the Future review – mesmerising safari through Vienna’s natural history museum

Joerg Burger’s film, as immersive as a museum visit, lovingly embraces the meticulous labours of the curators and touches on key current questions for the sectorJoerg Burger’s meticulous and mesmerising study of the Vienna Museum of Natural History is itself a work of natural history, in that it studies its core subject from a number of methodological angles. In one level, it simply puts the displays on display via some exquisitely composed, high-resolution photography that drinks in the rooms, both public and private, where the many collections dwell; vitrine after vitrine, drawer upon drawer, archive boxes until the end of time, with beetles, geological samples, taxidermied birds and botanical samples, each one lovingly tagged and sorted.That said, the fact that the archive is only maybe 10% digitised and indexed means that the staff clock up kilometres’ worth of walking every day as they search for requested items: as such this is also a study of information science at a point of...

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9 d. ago The beautiful Welsh Gothic mansion and park used for BBC's Dope Girls filming that you can visit

An award winning Welsh park and castle features in the latest BBC One drama Dope Girls

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9 d. ago BBC Dope Girls: The brilliant free museum in Wales where BBC's latest big drama was filmed

The new BBC series is set in post-war London, but it was actually filmed in a museum that's a core school trip memory for those from Wales

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1 week ago BBC drama is hailed as 2025's answer to Peaky Blinders and Killing Eve

Dope Girls: The Birth Of The British Drug Underground is a slim, pacy non-fiction volume by journalist/ academic Marek Kohn, published in 1992. 

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1 week ago Beautiful Welsh canal used by thousands of people faces being left to run dry

'This is a disaster. People who own boats on the canal will be left sitting on the mud so will need to relocate at huge expense'

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2 w. ago BBC viewers blast new historic drama as 'a load of drivel' and 'totally confusing tripe'

The criminal underworld drama dives into London at the end of the First World War and follows a group of women as they tackle the country's expanding illicit underground clubland.

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2 w. ago Dope Girls: BBC Drama Focuses on Female Gangsters in 1918 London Soho

Dope Girls: BBC Drama Focuses on Female Gangsters in 1918 London Soho  Bleeding Cool News

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2 w. ago BBC viewers slam new series hailed 'Peaky Blinders' spiritual successor'

New BBC series Dope Girls has started airing, but the period drama has failed to impress some TV viewers so far

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2 w. ago Dope Girls review – the dodgy accents could give Peaky Blinders a run for its money

This fun, gory tale of women trying to set up a nightclub in the 1918 Soho underworld is lively – even if it tries to cram too much in. Shame about the ropey vocal affectations The Peaky Blinders comparisons have been flying around ever since filming on Dope Girls began, so it sounds as if the BBC was hoping that it might have a successor on its hands. Certainly, there are some superficial similarities between the two. Dope Girls is set in 1918 and deals with the aftermath of the first world war, as the surviving men return. But here, it’s the women who are in the spotlight, as the female workforce of the past four years suddenly find their newfound social status has been relegated once again. In mood and tone, however, it is less a return to Small Heath, and more of a predecessor to Cabaret.Kate Galloway (Julianne Nicholson) is a businessman’s wife and wartime butcher, who falls on hard times after a family tragedy. Destitute and homeless, she heads to London, where Armistice Day i...

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2 w. ago Dope Girls cast in full from Mare of Easttown to Little Women stars

New BBC drama Dope Girls brings the imagined Soho streets of 1918 vividly to life - but who is in the cast?

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2 w. ago Inside Dope Girls star Julianne Nicholson's life from famous Brit actor husband to 90s TV roles

Julianne Nicholson plays a Soho nightclub owner in Dope Girls - but what else has she been in?

Culture

2 w. ago Dope Girls on BBC One review: a gloriously seedy romp through history

This historical drama gleefully tears up convention in its quest to show us how women threw off the shackles of the patriarchy

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2 w. ago Druggy period drama Dope Girls struggles to hit the ultimate high

Despite Peaky Blinders comparisons, this tale of crime and debauchery in post First World War Soho doesn’t quite find its voice.

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2 w. ago Live like James Bond: The 007 filming locations you can visit

The secret agent has left bullet holes and martini glasses across the world, from Jamaica to the Scottish Highlands, Istanbul to Shanghai

Society

2 w. ago Dope Girls: the real story behind the upcoming BBC crime drama

The female-fronted hedonism of post-WWI Soho provides the inspiration for the BBC’s latest crime drama

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2 w. ago BBC Dope Girls: cast list, plot, air date, and how many episodes

BBC's brand new series Dope Girls will be a fictional six-part drama "inspired by a forgotten time in history" following World War One

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2 w. ago Eliza Scanlen: ‘I’m at this weird age where l’m still getting jobs for 17

The Australian star of ‘Sharp Objects’ has risen rapidly in the last decade from ‘Home and Away’ to tentpole Hollywood flicks. Over coffee, she speaks with Annabel Nugent about growing pains, the freedom of shaving her head – and how Saoirse Ronan looked after her on the set of ‘Little Women’

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2 w. ago BBC Dope Girls release date, cast and what to expect as new series lands on TV

The BBC has announced the release date for its highly-anticipated new series Dope Girls, which is set to be released later this month

Culture

3 w. ago Where is ‘Mad About The Boy’ set? All the Bridget Jones filming locations you can visit in London

Here are the settings behind Bridget’s single (and sometimes not-so-single) life in the UK capital

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