Viv Groskop

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Writer, Comedian and Broadcaster at Freelance

Author at The Spectator

Contributor at The Guardian

Writer, comedian🌻 🇺🇦 Latest book: ONE UKRAINIAN SUMMER 🌻🇺🇦 Supporting @pen_int for Writers at Risk 📚🎧 Also: HOW TO OWN THE ROOM

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Frischer Schlossgeist: Hausbesuch in einem wach geküssten Weingut samt Schloss bei Bordeaux

2 months ago | cntraveller.de | Viv Groskop

Am Abend eines sonnigen Tages im Spätsommer färbt sich der Himmel pfirsischrot und violett. Die Blätter der Weinstöcke rascheln leise im Wind, Bienen summen – das sind auch schon die einzigen Geräusche, die man in dieser verträumten Stille hört. All das fühlt sich meilenweit entfernt von der modernen Welt an, als wären wir ein paar Jahrhunderte in die Vergangenheit gereist. Saint Christoly‑Médoc. Ein angenehm verschlafenes Dorf, ein paar Hundert Einwohner:innen. Kein Verkehr, kein Lärm.
Jean Marsh obituary

2 months 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.
Jean Marsh obituary

2 months ago | msn.com | Viv Groskop

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‘If anything goes wrong, it happens to me!’ Strictly’s Amy Dowden on cancer, broken feet - and bouncing back

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.
Undefeatable — joy and humour amid war in Ukraine

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.
The Swedish sobriety secret: dry December - and off-licences shut on a Saturday night

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.
Hold the blank page

Nov 12, 2024 | perspectivemedia.com | Mic Wright |Viv Groskop

As I sat down to write this column, a tundra of white space stretched out before me, empty but for the blinking cursor goading me to get on with it. A blank page provides a good example of how freedom can feel – in theory you can fill it however you please but in practice you are constrained in so many ways. I’m not free to write whatever I want here because this issue has a theme (freedom) and I’ve agreed with the editor on how I’ll approach that topic in these 900 words.
how Umeå in Sweden became an idyll for women

Oct 30, 2024 | msn.com | Viv Groskop

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The world’s most feminist city: how Umeå in Sweden became an idyll for women

Oct 30, 2024 | theguardian.com | Viv Groskop

The big red puma is the focal point of Umeå. The world’s first publicly commissioned statue dedicated to the #MeToo movement depicts a snarling cat atop a steel frame designed to imitate prison bars. Its official title, according to its artist creator Camilla Akraka, is Listen but everyone just calls it “puman” – the Puma.
When public speaking goes wrong: lessons from the frontline of comedy

Oct 23, 2024 | ft.com | Viv Groskop

The writer is a comedian, author and host of the podcast ‘How to Own the Room’ Whenever stand-up comedy is mentioned as a career, the...

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