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English poet William Wordsworth celebrates our relationship with nature. Written in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, his work is as relevant today as it was 200 years ago. As well as helping us to appreciate the beauty and...

The legendary BBC sitcom, The Good Life, related the tale of a suburban couple, Tom and Barbara Good, who left the rat race to start a small farm - in their garden. Written by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey, it...

The iconic American folk duo, Simon and Garfunkel, is one of the most famous partnerships in the history of music. After first meeting at school in Queens, New York, in 1953, they went on to dominate the charts for more...

British actor Martin Clunes is famous for a number of prime time TV sitcoms and dramas, such as Men Behaving Badly, Jeeves and Wooster, Goodbye Mr Chips and Reggie Perrin, to name but a few. His most famous role in...

The iconic rock band, Queen, had a reputation for making epic videos - but perhaps their most unusual idea was to hire 65 naked cyclists to stage a race around Wimbledon greyhound stadium! The oddest cycle race in history took...

British author Kenneth Grahame wrote one of the most famous children's books of all time, The Wind in the Willows, more than a century ago, yet its characters and plots remain as relevant today as they did in the early...

As the forerunner of today's horticultural TV stars and the first celebrity gardener in Great Britain, Percy Thrower was the voice of gardening on the radio in the 1950s. He was also a writer and enjoyed a long career in...

The heart-warming and humorous tales of a rural veterinary surgeon's day-to-day life in 1940s Yorkshire have delighted generations of animal-lovers, young and old. All Creatures Great and Small was a TV series based on the memoirs of real-life vet, James...