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This Friday sees the start of The Bradford Film Festival, an unrivalled opportunity to view films on every screen conceivable - from 35mm to the monster IMAX screen, from 70mm to the three projector Cinerama so beloved of 1950s epicmeisters.

WHILE I was a bookworm as a kid one novel I didn't ever read was Carrie's War. But I'm looking forward to finally enjoying the tale - on the stage.

London, Carrie's War Your rating Click on a star to rate Henry Hitchings's rating Reader rating Add your review Description: Emma Reeves's adaptation of Nina Bawden's best-selling book about two children evacuated to the countryside during the Second World War.

It's Glastonbury this week, but that doesn't mean there aren't hundreds of exciting sounding things going on good old London town too.... Opening tonight is the adaptation of Nina Bawden's classic children's novel, Carrie's War , at the Apollo Theatre .

This summer, take an unforgettable journey into the past with Nina Bawdena TMs classic tale - Carriea TMs War, live on stage at the Apollo Theatre.

Missing British comedies found in a movie mogul's garage cinema are being restored for a new generation Richard Brooks FOR some 50 years, the reels of film lay forgotten in a London garage.

Stuart Devenie and George Henare tackle Four Flat Whites in Italy with Darien Takle and Annie Whittle.

There are few comedy characters that stand the test of time like Basil Fawlty. Albertina Lloyd meets up with his creators at a special gathering At the 30-year reunion of comedy show Fawlty Towers, the tallest of the original cast is delighted to be home.

Anoraks, sensible shoes and bicycles aside, it's worth giving Midsomer Murders another go.

HOME > FEATURES > EXPRESS YOURSELF > I love Fawlty but there'll be no fresh Basil COMEDY ICONS: Prunella Scales, John Cleese, Connie Booth and Andrew Sachs reunited Basil's alter-ego John Cleese talks to DAVID STEPHENSON about how the legendary sitcom was made and reveals that the BBC nearly passed on the series.

From the U.K.'s Daily Mail we learned of the unlikely sight at left: The cast of the classic '70s British comedy Fawlty Towers gathered to promote two documentaries airing on the British comedy channel G.O.L.D. starting this weekend .

SEND TO A FRIEND 7 MAY 2009 Thirty years since they had Britons in stitches by running the most appallingly inefficient hotel in the country, the Fawlty Towers crew reunited for a photoshoot on Wednesday.

John Cleese has claimed that the golden age of British TV comedy has passed. The 69-year-old was reunited with the cast of Fawlty Towers - Connie Booth, Prunella Scales and Andrew Sachs - to unveil two documentaries about the making of the classic 70s sitcom.

The cast and crew of comedy classic Fawlty Towers are re-uniting in a celebration of the show's 30th anniversary.

John Cleese and Prunella Scales, in a scene from Fawlty Towers. An Australian hotelier in New Zealand has been likened to Basil Fawlty enlarge New Zealanders are notoriously quick to take offence, particularly where their more cocksure Australian cousins are concerned.

WITH more than fifty years in showbusiness Prunella Scales is easily categorised as one of the country's best loves actresses.

TORQUAY'S fame as the home of the world's worst fictional hotelier will be revived this year with the making of a documentary about the BBC's classic comedy Fawlty Towers.

THEY might call the stage their home, but there was one thing Prunella Scales and Timothy West had yet to experience beneath the spotlights of a theatre - sitting down for a three course meal.

A THEATRE show has become the latest victim of the heavy snow falling across the borough.