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End of the year special starring coedy legend Angelos Epithemou, Dan Evans and Eleanor Tiernan with Mark Maier as you host

One of the most remarkable artists of her generation, Evelyn De Morgan, is returning to Guildhall Art Gallery this year in a major exhibition that premieres two newly restored artworks. In collaboration with the De Morgan Foundation, Guildhall Art Gallery will present ‘Evelyn De Morgan: The Modern Painter in Victorian London’, from 4 April 2025 to celebrate the work of an extraordinary artist who flew in the face of convention. While exhibiting her paintings in London, a selection of Evelyn De Morgan’s work was included in a ‘Collection of the British School who Have Flourished during Her Majesty's reign’ at Guildhall Art Gallery in 1897. More recently, one of her paintings was featured in the gallery’s ‘Enchanted Interior’ exhibition in 2020. Evelyn De Morgan’s richly coloured canvases, featuring beautifully draped figures laden with messages of feminism, spirituality, and the rejection of war and material wealth, won her many high-profile admirers, including Oscar Wilde, Sir Charles Dilke MP, and the Pre-Raphaelite painter, William Holman Hunt.

Explore the artists who revolutionised modern art in Nigeria in the mid-20th century

Every Monday to Thursday, prepare to be entertained by the UK's finest comics as they bring you fresh ideas, hilarious jokes, and brand-new acts fine-tuning their sets. Get ready for an evening of laughter, excitement, and great value, in the heart of London. Get your tickets now for Midweek Madness at Vauxhall's Big Belly Comedy Club in London!

Join us for an enthralling walking tour that unwraps the legacy of Fleet Street, the erstwhile nerve centre of British journalism.

Arthur Coates & Kerran Cotterell are a two-man trad tornado tearing through the folk world with foot percussion, fiddle, guitar, vocals, and groove to spare. Kitted out with grooving basslines, tight harmonies, and offbeat charm, they’re just a couple of lads with a tangle of strings - yet they somehow summon the sound and swagger of a much bigger band. Their music blends original compositions with tunes and songs they’ve found in the wild, delivered with harmonies, tall tales, and a streak of serious silliness. Their shows mix clickety clacks, plucks and strums, with easy repartee and sharp turns - every piece crafted to keep toes tapping, faces smiling, and the whole room leaning in. It’s groove, grit, and guaranteed good times. Musically, they straddle tradition and invention, bridging the folk archive with a fearless modern edge. Some tracks glisten with clean lines and elegant harmonies - crystalline structures that shimmer in the light of contemporary trad. Others veer gleefully off course, hopping on the blues train for a whistle-stop tour of the Québécois folk line. One moment it’s reels and foot taps, the next it’s jazz chords, pop turns, and grooves that could jump the track and land somewhere between Vulfpeck and Le Vent du Nord. Arthur, a fiddler raised in Aberdeenshire, builds rolling, riff-heavy tunes grounded in his family’s musical traditions and shaped further by studies with Jonny Hardie (Old Blind Dogs). Kerran, a melodic schemer from Cumbria, draws on pop and choral training to weave in crisp harmonies and satisfying twists.