Entertainment & Reviews

The story of Call The Midwife’s Jennifer Worth by her sister Christine

“It was the autumn of 1945. I was seven and Jennifer had recently had her tenth birthday. We knew that whatever had occurred had to be serious. What we didn’t know was that our childhood as we had known it was over.” Having returned to our TV screens recently, the BBC’s evocative Call the Midwife drama tells the stories of women giving birth in harsh and difficult circumstances in the East End of London. Call the Midwife is based on the book written by Jennifer Worth, who died in 2011 but the vivid memories have...

Entries are now open for one of the South West’s most vibrant and longest running film festivals, Two Short Nights. Festival organisers are inviting submissions from filmmakers based across the UK andbeyond, working in every genre, from animation and documentary to moving image artwork and music videos. Each winter, Two Short Nights Film Festival brings crowds of film lovers, filmmakers and industry specialists to Exeter’s city-centre arts hub Exeter Phoenix to indulge in a varied programme of screenings, workshops and events celebrating short film. Now in its 16th year, the festival...

A new exhibition of historic books allows visitors to Exeter Library to explore ideas that preoccupied readers and writers in Devon during the First World War.

The exhibition, War and Prose: Devonshire Literature in the Great War, brings together books from the city centre library’s special collections and from the West Country Studies Library, normally housed at Devon Heritage Centre at Sowton.

Researchers from the Devon Remembers Heritage Project have chosen the books to reflect how Devon’s countryside was romanticised in wartime, how the county returned to its proud...

This year, former X factor winner and gold-selling artist Sam Bailey is delighting fans up and down the country on her Sing My Heart Out Tour and on 6th May, she will be wowing audiences at Torquay’s Princess Theatre with her powerhouse vocals and support from local singer Miracle Chance

Following a successful second album of the same name, Sam is back with her 32-date Sing My Heart Out tour, stopping at some of nation’s most prestigious live music venues, including Princess Theatre.

Speaking about her new tour, Sam says “For me, nothing is more rewarding than getting the...