CRAIG BROWN: Eight things you didn't know about panto... Is that Puss in...
'The word "Pantomime" comes from the Norwegian "Pan" meaning "Celebrity", "Om", meaning "Out of" and "ime", meaning "work", writes Craig Brown
View ArticleCRAIG BROWN: Don't moan, Michelle... just do a good deed
CRAIG BROWN: Most people employ PRs to help make them more famous. But Mone and Barrowman are the opposite: after too long in the headlines, they yearn for obscurity.
View ArticleCRAIG BROWN: All hail the King of the sideburns! Elvis styled himself on ME,...
CRAIG BROWN: Ancient British pop stars are always keen to boast of their associations with Elvis Presley.
View ArticleCRAIG BROWN: RIP to Steve Wright - radio's busiest and buzziest DJ
There were periods when I listened to Steve Wright almost every afternoon. He seemed sharper than most other disc jockeys and, unlike them, was curious about the world beyond the studio.
View ArticleCRAIG BROWN: A jaw-dropping interview with a ruthless killer!
Craig Brown: Earlier this month, top TV host Tucker Carlson successfully interviewed Vladimir Putin. Now Carlson has pulled off a second exclusive interview - Jaws, the world-famous shark.
View ArticleCRAIG BROWN: Never drizzle Silvikrin on your porridge!
Craig Brown: In the days when there were still newsvendors on the pavements, one of their failsafe headlines, scrawled in huge capital letters was: POP STAR FOUND DEAD.
View ArticleCRAIG BROWN: Let's be clear minister - that's as clear as mud... Or why...
Anyone who listens to Radio 4's Today programme each morning is offered a daily opportunity to share their breakfast with a minister.
View ArticleCRAIG BROWN: Why doesn't Dave Dee have a special coin?... Not to mention...
CRAIG BROWN: Which British pop group spent more weeks in the singles charts between 1965 and 1969 than The Beatles? I'm told this is a regular question in pub quizzes.
View ArticleCRAIG BROWN: If Kanye's chilly, spare a thought for his missus Bianca...
CRAIG BROWN: Unlike Kanye West, Bianca Censori must have felt the cold, as she kept setting off on their shopping expeditions without a woolly jumper.
View ArticleCRAIG BROWN: Why Alan Clark's racy diaries will never gather dust
CRAIG BROWN: Had he not kept a diary, Alan Clark would barely rate a footnote in the history of the Conservative Party.
View ArticleCRAIG BROWN: Why Edward's the prince of very silly walks... 14 facts about...
1 Prince Edward has just celebrated his 60th birthday. Studies of an early school photograph suggest he is the seventh boy from the right in the second row.
View ArticleAsk Lee Anderson! The Reform MP answers your DIY queries (as told by CRAIG...
Q: Good morning, Lee! Lee: That's not what I said. You're putting words in my mouth. Q: I'm sorry, but - Lee: Next question! Q: You were going to tell us how to put up a shelf.
View ArticleThey're not that great! Louis Walsh's A to Z of the over-rated (as told by...
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Off camera he's this skinny little thing, a proper weakling, speaks like Julian Clary. Couldn't lift a 5lb bag of potatoes.
View ArticleCRAIG BROWN: Why can't Yoko Ono forgive the man who shot John Lennon?
CRAIG BROWN: As John Lennon sang on Mind Games: 'Love is the answer.' Isn't it time Yoko Ono practised what she has long been preaching?
View ArticleSold! A cupboard for eternity - with Marilyn and Hugh, writes CRAIG BROWN
CRAIG BROWN: The oddest things sell at auction. In April 2011, a prosthetic pointed ear worn by Leonard Nimoy in his role as Mr Spock on Star Trek sold for £700 at auction in Los Angeles.
View ArticleCRAIG BROWN: Unexpected badger in the bagging area! 10 things you didn't...
CRAIG BROWN: Which came first - the bar code or the scanner? The first product to bear a bar code was a packet of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum. It was first scanned in the small Ohio town of Troy in 1974.
View ArticleCRAIG BROWN: At £42 million, a home for the wretched rich
CRAIG BROWN: Princess Beatrice 's husband, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi , describes himself as the 'Founder and Creative Director' of a company called Banda.
View ArticleCRAIG BROWN: 'Eaven knows if it's an aitch or a haitch! University Challenge...
CRAIG BROWN: Amol Rajan , the host of University Challenge, has announced that, from now on, he will no longer pronounce the letter 'h' as 'haitch'. Instead, he will say 'aitch'.
View ArticleCRAIG BROWN: Test your letters knowledge Part 1... Dear all, is this the end...
The heroic founder of the Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society, Dinah Johnson, fears that the Royal Mail 's proposal to reduce delivery days to two or three a week will spell the end of the letter.
View ArticleCRAIG BROWN: Test your letters knowledge Part 2... Did Larkin get in a...
Alan Bates, the campaigner and former sub-postmaster, has called the Post Office an 'atrocious organisation' that is 'beyond saving'.
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