Category: Women Doing Amazing Things
the radical, unsung heroine of design
Dominic Lutyens Features correspondent Her sleek dwellings for free-spirited flappers were way ahead of their time. Now the visionary modernist is being celebrated – in…
Making the journey from Ukraine to south-east England
Irina Garmash-Creeger Ukraine UK unity is a volunteering organisation helping with integration Two years after Russia invaded Ukraine, one refugee who came to the UK…
This year’s Oscars dark horse
Emma Jones Features correspondent Alamy The German actress Sandra Hüller has an Oscar nomination for her blistering performance in Anatomy of a Fall. The film’s…
The Oppenheimer story that won’t win Oscars
Emma Vardy & Sam Granville BBC News, New Mexico Getty Images Tina Cordova The success of the film Oppenheimer has shone a spotlight on the…
The remarkable cult of Elena Ferrante
Clare Thorp Features correspondent There is a moment right at the start of Elena Ferrante’s new novel The Lying Life of Adults where the narrator…
The new era in filmmaking
Beth Webb Features correspondent Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) After being shut down during the pandemic, film and TV shoots are now starting up again.…
How The Go-Go’s pioneered Girl Power
Nick Levine Features correspondent Alamy The 1980s all-female band were dubbed ‘America’s sweethearts’, but as a new documentary reveals, they still had to contend with…
The woman who shaped Hollywood
Amy Nicholson Features correspondent Getty Images Pickford at a bank counter in a promotional still, circa 1920 (Credit: Getty Images) Her move from stage to…
Why Ida Lupino’s taboo-breaking films could be set today
Caryn James Features correspondent Getty Ida Lupino (Credit: Getty) Ida Lupino’s bold, subversive films tackled social issues and still seem fresh almost 70 years later,…
The music that changed America
Arwa Haider Features correspondent EMI Archive Trust and Universal Music Group (Credit: EMI Archive Trust and Universal Music Group) Sixty years ago, Berry Gordy set…