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Sunday round-up 12 October 2025
Admit it, when did you last hold Carlos the Jackal and Les Dennis in the same thought? Yet birthday boys both today; and various forms of Columbus Day…
Oct 12
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Eliot Wilson
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Sunday round-up 5 October 2025
Clinking glasses for Peter Ackroyd, Bob Geldof and Imran Khan, the first aerial combat and International Day of No Prostitution—lots to get through...
Oct 5
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Eliot Wilson
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Sunday round-up 28 September 2025
French icon Brigitte Bardot celebrates her 91st birthday, it's the feast of St Wenceslaus and Ulster Day marks the signing of the Solemn League and…
Sep 28
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Eliot Wilson
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Sunday round-up 21 September 2025
Birthday greetings to Jerry Bruckheimer, Stephen King, Bill Murray, Samantha Power and Liam Gallagher. Not necessarily a party you'd want to attend.
Sep 21
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Eliot Wilson
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Sunday round-up 14 September 2025
The Holy Father, Sir Sam Neill and Nas are all celebrating birthdays, President William McKinley died and it is the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy…
Sep 14
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Eliot Wilson
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Sunday round-up 7 September 2025
Birthdays for Gloria Gaynor, David Cannadine and Corbin Bernsen, while Brazil celebrates 203 years of independence and Ukraine honours its military…
Sep 7
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Eliot Wilson
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Sunday round-up 31 August 2025
Van Morrison, Debbie Gibson and Queen Rania of Jordan walk into a bar... because it's their birthday! Somehow they agree to raise a glass for the feast…
Aug 31
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Eliot Wilson
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Sunday round-up 24 August 2025
Birthday greetings to Jean-Michel Jarre, Sir Stephen Fry and Dave Chappelle, and a sombre but defiant marking of Ukraine's Independence Day
Aug 24
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Eliot Wilson
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Podcast: Henry VIII, wives and securing the succession
Bluff King Hal is inextricably connected in our minds with his six wives but we concentrate on personal relationships rather than statecraft
Aug 18
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Eliot Wilson
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Sunday round-up 17 August 2025
Robert De Niro's waiting... because it's his birthday and he's booked Laser Quest with John Humphrys, Julian Fellowes and Kevin Rowland; and the end of…
Aug 17
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Eliot Wilson
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Sunday round-up 3 August 2025
The irreplaceable Sir Terry Wogan would have been 87 today; candles for the more-alive Steven Berkoff and Martha Stewart, and the feast of St Waltheof…
Aug 3
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Eliot Wilson
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Sunday round-up 27 July 2025
What do Bobbie Gentry, Bob Diamond, A-Rod and Jonathan Rhys Meyers have in common? Let's start with a birthday...
Jul 27
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Eliot Wilson
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