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A celebration of the Wolf Hall trilogy author Dame Hilary Mantel, who died aged 70 last year, is to take place at Southwark Cathedral next month.Family, friends and colleagues of Mantel will gather in London on 20 April for the memorial event, which will include tributes and readings from the double Booker prize winner’s body of work.“It was a terrible shock to lose Hilary so suddenly last autumn,” said Nicholas Pearson, Mantel’s editor. “The outpouring across the world of literature in the days that followed was a…

Scientists working on the scorched interior of Notre-Dame de Paris have found iron was used in the cathedral’s construction in the mid-12th century. It’s an unexpected discovery that changes how researchers thought the church was built, and provides surprising insights on the iron trade in 12th-century Paris.The findings were made possible—ironically—by the devastating fire that swept through the famous cathedral in April 2019 during planned renovations. The fire destroyed most of the church’s roof and prompted…

View of the chevet of Notre-Dame de Paris under restoration. Credit: Maxime L'Héritier, CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) The Notre-Dame de Paris is the first known cathedral of Gothic-style architecture to be initially constructed with extensive use of iron to bind stones together. The 2019 fire that significantly damaged the cathedral enabled analyses leading to this discovery, by Maxime L'Héritier of…

A unique performance of Gustav Holst’s masterwork The Planets – played on a magnificent pipe organ rather than by an orchestra and punctuated by poems inspired by children’s responses to the music – is to be staged in the suitably vast Salisbury Cathedral.The idea of the community music project is to introduce more people, young and old, to the 140-year-old “Father” Willis organ, one of the treasures of the cathedral.It is also intended to get the children who took part and the adults who will watch and listen thinking…

Notre-Dame On Fire: French Film About The Cathedral’s Fire To Have A Theatrical Release In India Soon (Pic Credit: Poster) The French film ‘Notre-Dame On Fire’, which is based on the Notre-Dame cathedral fire, is heading to India for a theatrical release. The film, which has been directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Jean-Jacques Annaud, will debut in Indian theatres on June 22. The film is a PVR Pictures release. On bringing the film to Indian screens, Kamal Gianchandani, CEO, PVR Pictures Ltd. said in a…

The Truman Show is a 1990s Hollywood movie about a man who lives in a bubble, cut off from the world. As played by Jim Carrey, Truman Burbank – surrounded by actors, his every move dogged by cameras – stares at a stage set and believes that it’s real. In the film’s final scene he climbs the stairs, finds a door and prepares to escape his gilded cage.That keynote image – Truman’s ascent against a painted sky – is now the official poster for the forthcoming Cannes film festival, soon to be plastered on programmes,…