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Comedian, actor, Pointless presenter and debut author Alexander Armstrong, grew up in rural Northumberland where his musical ability and joy at being able to entertain began at a young age.
He went to both school and Trinity College Cambridge on music scholarships and after a Footlights’ writing stint, he went on to become one half of the BAFTA-winning comedy duo Armstrong & Miller
If you’re wondering where his passion for classical music began...his Inheritance Tracks will provide the answer.
Inherited: Minuetto Allegretto by the Wombles
Passed on: It Must Be Love by Madness
Producers: Ben Mitchell and Noa Dowling
Two-time World Champion heptathlete, British record holder and Olympic medallist Katarina Johnson-Thompson, known affectionately as KJT, first came to international prominence at the 2012 London Olympics, where she competed as a teenager.
She grew up in Liverpool with an English mother who was a...
Published 11/30/24
Luke Evans says growing up in the South Wales valleys was tough at times. He was an only child in a family of Jehovah’s Witnesses, bullied at school both for his religion – and for being gay.
But, that quiet boy from the valleys who tried to blend into the background is now a huge international...
Published 11/23/24