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Outlander season 2: plot details and casting info for the second chapter in Claire and Jamie's story

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It's goodbye to Scotland Season one might have been entirely embedded in Scottish landscape, but series two will see the Frasers rubbing shoulders with new faces in France. "The story of Jamie and Claire in the 18th century pretty much starts with their arrival in France. The big story point picks up from where we left season one, which is Claire and Jamie deciding to attempt to change history by stopping the Jacobite rebellion and changing history so as to prevent the slaughter on Culloden Moor and the destruction of the Highland culture after it. Read More...

Paddington film: author Michael Bond explains how he invented Paddington Bear

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For example, although I didn’t realise it at the time, my coming across a small bear when I took shelter in Selfridges toy department one snowy Christmas Eve was just such a million- to-one chance. Had there been two bears, I might have given them a passing glance, but I could hardly ignore one bear all by itself, with Christmas coming on. He looked so forlorn that I bought him as a stocking filler for my wife, and I called him Paddington after our nearest railway terminus because it has a masculine ring to it; important but not overbearing, with nice, safe, West Country overtones. Read More...

Prized Apart review: what did viewers think of the new Emma Willis and Reggie Yates gameshow?

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When it comes to liking the new Emma Willis and Reggie Yates entertainment show Prized Apart it seems that viewers were, well, prised apart. Advertisement Some people loved - and many loathed - the new entertainment which started last night on BBC1. In the show ten couples are split up: one is put through a series of challenges in Morocco while the other is forced to general knowledge questions in order to keep them in the competition and the chance to take home £100,000. Read More...

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