How can we cope better with stress, anxiety and bereavement? Medical Herbalist Klayr Hunter takes a gentle, holistic approach using adaptogens, rose tinctures and medicinal mushrooms.

My Name is Not Wigs, a book extract from Angela Cobbin, wig-maker extraordinaire to Broadway offering an intimate glimpse behind the stage door with the greatest actors of our times from Helen Mirren to Woody Harrelson.

Katherine Priddy, singer-songwriter extraordinaire talks in-depth to arts and culture journalist Alison Jane Reid about her remarkable journey from making music in her bedroom to The London Palladium and why she is so proud to come from Birmingham.

Katherine Priddy, the singer-songwriter from Birmingham, with a No 1 album in the folk charts, talks to arts journalist Alison Jane Reid about being discovered at sixteen writing poetic songs inspired by classical mythology and the great British novel from her bedroom.

What's Hot in October Climate stripes couture on the catwalk with Professor Ed Hawkins, blackberry cocktails, Radical Rose Perfume to the return of the pussy cat bow blouse and the book to read Eating to Extinction.

Ten Things I Hate About You starring Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles is the definitive coming of age rom-com that has also inspired the hit Netflix drama Sex Education writes journalist Alison Jane Reid. AJ also reviews the James Bond soundtracks on BBC Sounds, Hania Rani and Somethings Gotta Give.

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