Joanna Lumley pursues a life-long dream to track down the elusive and beautiful Northern Lights in this amazing journey in Norway's Far North. Yet with no guarantees that this incredible natural phenomena will appear, it's in the balance as to whether her journey will be in vain or if she will finally fulfil her lifetime ambition and see the Northern Lights herself.

 Joanna grew up in tropical Malaysia and, as a little girl, had never seen snow or felt cold. Inspired by the fairy tales and picture books of the North, full of trolls and snow queens, she always longed to make this journey. So compelling was the lure of the North that, aged seven, at a fancy dress party in Kuala Lumpur for the Queen's Coronation in 1953, she insisted on going as a Norwegian girl. . Read the full story »

Interviews »

Anna Richardson
[September 2008]

A chat with Anna Richardson about new Channel 4 series The Sex Education Show. In the series Richardson has subjected herself to all kinds of privations, experiments and tests in the name of research. She’s also talked to a range of people, from experts and sexperts to a cross-section of the nations teenagers, and even to random strangers in the street, in an effort to find out exactly what people think about sex in Britain in 2008.

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Film »

Mr Perrin and Mr Traill
 

Despite being almost forgotten these days Mr Perrin and Mr Traill serves as a great insight into Public School life of the time. The novel was pretty popular  during the time the film was made and stayed in print for many years and the movie itself stays pretty faithful to the tone of the novel, albeit updating the setting to the then modern day. The dynamic between the two leads is the most satisfying of the all round good performances in the film too (apart from the smallish appearance by the legendary Finlay Currie of course).

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