Hats off to Deutsche Grammophon. Not only is it the producer of the finest complete Beethoven set in this, his 250th anniversary year.

What is it with women and shoes?

It's never been easier to find a feminist role model. Publishing is awash with gutsy heroines thanks to series such as Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls , which celebrates extraordinary women.

We live in seismic times for the women's movement.

Igor Stravinsky, not a great one for dishing out prizes to his colleagues, declared that Poulenc had the greatest melodic gift of any 20th-century composer.

Having owned every issue of Vogue published since September 1977, as well as having devoured numerous books on the subject, I had thought I was an expert.

For a music lover, there's nothing better than putting on a debut album by an unknown and realising that you've found a new favourite.

The first child born in an NHS hospital arrived a minute after midnight on July 5, 1948. She was named Aneira after Aneurin Bevan, the architect of the health service.

Georges Bizet was 17, and a student working on a piano reduction of Charles Gounod's symphonies, when he wrote his own solitary Symphony.

Even in isolation, Gary Lineker is looking for the positives. Is it his job to help keep our spirits up? 'I am not sure it is part of my job, but I feel it is something I would love to be able to do,' he says

As if to demonstrate that pop is a game of fine margins, New Rules , Dua Lipa's excellent three-point manifesto for heartbroken girls, was the sixth single to be pulled from her debut album.

With 12 children, the Galvin family of Colorado were always going to be notable.

As a young student with journalistic ambitions, the broadcaster and former Radio 4 Today programme presenter James Naughtie spent the summer of 1970 in America.

Sometimes hype is just that; hype. But occasionally it's true.

For better or worse, the pandemic has sent many of us back to our family units, and this podcast could be a lifeline to those looking to detoxify dynamics at home.

Quite a few albums that should have come out now have been postponed till the autumn. You can understand why, but it's no use to the fans who have time to kill and a thirst for new music.

Like the Führer he served with unblinking loyalty, Otto Wächter was an Austrian.

We don't see much of Berlin-based Daniel Hope these days, but an album like this shows us what we are missing.

Alexandra Shulman is British Vogue's longest-serving editor. Between 1992 and 2017 she oversaw the magazine's rise to a record circulation.

In a fascinating, fitful career, Fiona Apple has often felt like a one-woman band - singing, playing the piano, perhaps throwing in some rudimentary percussion.

When we think of Vikings, we immediately conjure up a vision of hairy men in pointy helmets with nothing but pillage and slaughter on their mind. But what about the women?

Out of this strange suspended spring, patterns are emerging. If an album isn't postponed, it's quite likely to be special. Music, like the sky on a sunny day, seems brighter, sharper, deeper.

Sound the booze alarm! I fear the surge in no- and low-alcohol tipples may prove the garlic to my thirsty vampire

Okri is always good company and these 20-odd tales showcase his lucid prose and freewheeling imagination.

Jerry Doubles from Nigeria shared on Twitter how six job seekers had been made to wait almost 12 hours to be seen for an interview. Many blasted the employer for not valuing their time.

Nyekachi Douglas of Nigeria was one of the final three for Miss World. When it was announced that Toni-Ann Singh of Jamaica won the crown instead of Douglas, the woman happily celebrated.

The reality star, 35, put her sister Kourtney's behind on full display as the elder sibling completed a weightlifting exercise. Khloe posted a boomerang video of her sister bending over.

The Princess Royal, 69, told Vanity Fair that she is a 'fuddy-duddy' who puts value in the tried and tested approach to philanthropy, while younger royals want 'new ways' of doing things.

Tekashi 69 just broke the record for Instagram Live viewers as he broadcast an epic rant on Friday after his release from jail. 

The chef, 53, showed his followers a glimpse of his lavish property's spacious garden when he took to Instagram on Saturday.

Millionaire aviation tycoon Simon Dolan, pictured in 2011, has put the government on notice that he will seek a judicial review of the government's lockdown decision.

Echo Studio is Amazon's latest attempt at a 'hi-fi' Echo device, and it's certainly a burly piece of kit

I'm mature enough to admit that, sometimes, the whole point of a gadget is the attention you get from using it in public.

Celebrity Masterchef saw the most famous name in this week's heat and the whole series make it through to Wednesday's show.

The Apprentice usually makes it impossible not to conclude that the candidates' only actual talent is getting dressed quickly.

It was the semi-final of The Great British Bake and Patisserie Week - a mouth-watering prospect, particularly when Paul Hollywood smiled that combining them was 'pretty cruel.'

Warrior Dog Foundation founder Mike Ritland asked for the last word during an interview when suddenly he mentions the conspiracy theory behind disgraced billionaire Jeffrey Esptein's death.

World champion Lewis Hamilton claimed his 11th win of the season in Formula One's Abu Dhabi finale on Sunday after a monumental campaign of racing.

The 69-year-old Terminator star is hoping viewers will forget the contentious election campaign and give his version of NBC's reality show a fair shake when it returns to NBC after a two-year break on January 2..

The New Celebrity Apprentice rolled out its two-hour season premiere on Monday, drawing 4.9million viewers. The debut episode of Trump's final season drew 6.5million viewers.

JAN MOIR: If only victualler's daughter Sophia Trenchard (Emily Reid) and posho Lord Edmund Bellasis (Jeremy Neumark Jones) had been in control of their lust, we wouldn't be here at all.

JAN MOIR: As much as the couple hate publicity, Meghan Markle kindly found it in her heart to give an interview to American television, the first to be broadcast in her post-Windsor world.

The allegations against Grissom were presented to Los Angeles prosecutors on Tuesday, according to the New York Daily News. Grissom has previously denied the accusations.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY PAUL NEWMAN IN COLOMBO: Silverwood is relaxed and thoughtful as he sits in the cafe of England's hotel ahead of his third Test series in his first six months.

EXCLUSIVE BY MATT HUGHES: The ECB instigated a review into Watmore's appointment last week after revelations that he had been subject of an independent whistleblowing report.

Charlie Sheen's controversial past includes his public meltdown in 2010 and struggles with drug and alcohol abuse.

The figures released on Sunday signal a steady climb in interest in the Republican field's stand-offs - though still short of the 15 million who tuned in to the Las Vegas debate in early December.

'It's pretty tough when you have both David Bowie and Prince championing you, but the music business still can't really be bothered,' says Beverley Knight with a shrug

In the late Seventies Sounds magazine published a letter from a reader moaning about David Bowie's 'pretentious' reminiscences of his Berlin years on radio.

In the annals of British pop, Woody Woodmansey is far from the most famous name. But when he performs in Hull, he achieves a rare distinction: arriving fans pass a blue plaque in his honour.