Entertainment & Reviews

Lyme Regis is set to become a top annual venue for folk music when it hosts the first Lyme Folk Weekend at the end of August.

Lyme Folk Weekend will round off the summer with some of the country's finest folk acts at the Marine Theatre in Lyme Regis, as well as a full-on programme of singing, dancing and entertainment - in pubs and cafes in and around the town and on the sea-front - plus lots of free family events.

Headline acts Turin Brakes, The Albion Band, Spiers and Boden and Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick, will be supported by a host of rising stars, the...

Exeter’s very own award-winning company of four clowns, Le Navet Bete, have been successful in their funding bid to develop and tour their new original show, Once Upon a Time in a Western . A local success story, the company who originally met at Plymouth University and who have since gone on to tour internationally, have been awarded £34,000 by Arts Council England.

Their new show promises to take audiences on an interactive, fast-paced journey across the Wild West as the town of Kidneystone is threatened by outlaw and all-round bad guy Loco Pedro who is secretly in cahoots with...

Weather is a national obsession and in Exeter we are fortunate to have the National Meteorological Library and Archive on our doorstep.

Here you can view the national memory of the weather, including a wide range of fascinating instruments and artefacts.

On display is an early barometer which belonged to the founder of the UK Met Office Admiral FitzRoy and the first ever published newspaper weather forecast which appeared in The Times on 1 August 1861.

Other advances in meteorology including the use of weather ships right up to today’s aviation and satellite...

The National Trust's Collections and Engagement Archaeologist, Nancy Grace, will be at A la Ronde on Thursday 1 August between 11 am and 4pm.

Bring your discoveries for identification and see if you can stump the archaeologist. Learn how to use a sorting tray when on digs, have a go at recording your objects, find out how to draw recreations of whole objects from fragments; and get nose to nose with articles from the past 40,000 years.

This year A la Ronde was featured in ITV's Britain’s Secret Homes programme. Discover more about the collection of archaeological objects on...