News about Michael Redgrave

Review by the boarders: The BBC's latest school drama, according to CHRISTOPHER STEVENS, is a lesson in lazy stereotypes

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 29, 2024
"Every kind of stereotype is on display in Boarders (BBC), a comedy-drama about five Black students from South London who were escorted into an impossibly posh public school,' Christopher Stevens adds: "All the leads do their best with these paper-thin portions and give them more depth despite the cliches.' However, the supporting cast members don't have a chance.'

As Lincolnshire council bosses lose the High Court fight against the government, asylum seekers will be held at the historic Dambusters RAF base

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 6, 2023
West Lindsborough, Lincolnshire, failed to prosecute RAF Scampton, which had been home to the 617 Dambusters Squadron, from being used to house migrants. In September, the council released a provisional stop notice on the Home Office, stating that the site's construction, which included moving in accommodation blocks to accommodate up to 2,000 people, had broken legislation regarding listed buildings and archaeology. Lawyers representing the councils protested ministers' use of planning laws, saying they should rely on "permitted development rights" because there is "no emergency."

Locals in Scampton, England, have been turned down for meetings on a proposal to house asylum seekers at the Dambusters' historic home

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 31, 2023
Locals in Lincolnshire's RAF Scampton have been deliberately excluded from the discussion, as well as staged demonstrations outside the base on Thursday (pictured). Although the Home Office's scheme is under scrutiny by West Lindsey District Council, up to 2000 migrants could move into the air base, which was once home to the 617 Dambusters Squadron later this year. Residents of Scampton, Cammeringham, Aisthorpe, Brattleby, and North Carlton were invited to meetings, but not for those in Dunholme and Welton, which is just four miles away.

How Barnes Wallis developed the Dambuster bombs from marbles and bathtubs

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 16, 2023
Barnes Wallis, the bomb's designer, has a new biography that reveals how the eccentric expert created the bomb (bottom right). In his back garden in early 1942, his children helped him turn marbles into a water-filled bathtub to put it to the test. Author Richard Morris' book An Engineer's Life by Dam Buster was published in 1951, in which he described the early tests. 'Italy, a small but effective catapult was designed to fire marbles at the surface of the water in a tub, and I was able to determine the coefficient of restitution and the angle at which a traveling sphere will leave the surface of the water after impact,' he said. 'This enabled me to draw a series of curves and to predict the range that would be achieved if the sphere were to be removed from an aircraft traveling at a set speed.' Mr Morris explains how Wallis roped in his son, Barnes, and Mary the Queen to assist. 'The marble trials were held over the Easter weekend, when Mary and young Barnes [his son] only home from school, were enlisted to take measurements on the terrace.' On the nights of May 16 and 17, the RAF's 617 Squadron carried out the raid, officially known as Operation Chastise (top right, with his crew). Inset: After the explosion, the Mohne dam was destroyed.

Can you guess who this actor is? His dad is an action hero and his mother was a member of British acting dynasty

www.dailymail.co.uk, April 10, 2023
His father is one of the world's most well-known action men, and he has had an amazing career spanning four and a half decades. His father not only appeared in one of the best action franchises of all time, but he's also had his fair share of good shows, earning him an Oscar nomination. In the meantime, his mother was a very popular actress in her own right over the course of her 20-year career. She also happened to be a part of a British acting dynasty and the product of a showbiz power couple.