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  • Sylvia Syms, Maggie Smith, Penelope Mortimer and Shelagh Delaney come across as coy or sultry, and even Elisabeth Frink looks whimsical and slightly ridiculous.

    Portraits of the artists 2011

  • Nino Ricci drops by to tell Shelagh about good and evil in a Darwinian world (or at least to ask questions of it).

    Science 2009

  • Shelagh Morris, allied health professions offr and occupational therapist, Dept of Health.

    New Year honours: the full list 2011

  • Starting in the late '50s and early '60s, a new generation of politically conscious playwrights like John Osborne and Shelagh Delaney started writing harsh portrayals of life on the wrong side of the tracks, and within a matter of years the determinedly apolitical Mr. Rattigan had become a period piece.

    Terence Rattigan, Forgotten Centenarian Terry Teachout 2011

  • Shelagh Stephenson's "The Memory of Water," which had its English premiere in 1996 and was first seen Off Broadway two years later, is a prime example of a play that turns an oft-told tale into something fresh and immediate.

    Love, Fresh and New Terry Teachout 2011

  • The Russell who developed from the short early films about the likes of John Betjeman and Shelagh Delaney to the full-length and increasingly cinematic programmes on Delius and Richard Strauss was a director who was stretching his medium to the limit.

    In praise of … Ken Russell at the BBC 2011

  • Yet the subject of death and its immediate aftermath, however familiar it may be, remains inexhaustibly fertile, and Shelagh Stephenson's "The Memory of Water," which had its English premiere in 1996 and was first seen Off Broadway two years later, is a prime example of a play that turns an oft-told tale into something fresh and immediate.

    The Family and Its Discontents Terry Teachout 2011

  • BBC Radio 5 Live's Shelagh Fogarty – fortunately off-air – after co-host Nicky Campbell pretended to be a nightmare guest called Anthony Grierson, a supposed philosophy professor, on her last day in the job.

    Media Monkey's Diary 2011

  • BBC presenter Shelagh Fogarty confessed to experiencing sexy dreams about Osborne during a bit of Radio 5 Live banter.

    This week: Sathya Sai Baba, George Osborne, Wayne Rooney 2011

  • Shelagh … I put this link out on Twitter, so everyone came here, even though I ran the same post today on LTBYOVA. kate on

    I NEED YOUR OPINIONS! What should the future of Johnny B. look like? | Johnny B. Truant 2009

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