Viv Groskop
Writer, comedian🌻 🇺🇦 Latest book: ONE UKRAINIAN SUMMER 🌻🇺🇦 Supporting @pen_int for Writers at Risk 📚🎧 Also: HOW TO OWN THE ROOM
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Viv Groskop
Jean Marsh, who has died aged 90, created the classic 1970s television series Upstairs, Downstairs with her friend and fellow actor Dame Eileen Atkins. As well as co-writing the series, Marsh played the part of Rose Buck, a parlour maid, who became something of a sex symbol in the early 70s and returned as the housekeeper when the series was revived nearly four decades later.
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1 week ago |
msn.com | Viv Groskop
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Jan 5, 2025 |
theguardian.com | Viv Groskop
Amy Dowden’s motto is simple: “Don’t get bitter, get better.” There is so much she could be bitter about. As the dancer put it herself in the BBC documentary Strictly Amy: Cancer and Me, in the past year she has had to contend with a mastectomy, chemotherapy, sepsis, blood clots and a broken foot, to say nothing of menopause, breast reconstruction surgery and the Crohn’s disease she has lived with since the age of 19.
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Dec 29, 2024 |
ft.com | Viv Groskop
It seems almost wrong to describe a book about the war in Ukraine as a deeply enjoyable read.
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Dec 17, 2024 |
theguardian.com | Viv Groskop
Christmas is synonymous with overindulgence, especially of drink. Sometimes the weather is an excuse: historically, alcohol was regarded as a way to warm up. Alcohol consumption traditionally increases in December in Europe and the US. Almost two-thirds of Britons say they intend to drink more at Christmas than they do at other times of the year, for example. In Sweden, however, Vit Jul (“White Christmas”) means “dry December”, a month when you don’t drink at all.
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