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CAREY MULLIGAN will play the lead role of Bathsheba Everdene in an adaptation of Thomas Hardy classic Far From The Madding Crowd. The new film remake will be directed by Thomas Vinterberg, who also created 2012 Danish drama The Hunt. "I've stopped ...

The room where Thomas Hardy wrote the Mayor of Casterbridge and died is to open to the public for the first time. Two rooms, both used by Hardy as bedrooms, are expected to open at Max Gate in Dorchester in June. Previously six rooms at the poet and ...

Thomas Hardy Celebrated musician Geoff Nichols will present an evening of words and music with poems by Thomas Hardy at St Luke's on Saturday May 25 at 7.30pm. Geoff's own compositions will form the main part of the programme, including the song ...

A lecture by Demelza Hookway Date Time 19:30 Place Dorset County Museum This is the first in a series of five lectures about Thomas Hardy and is part of a larger project from a Hardy Country working group which includes Dorset County Museum, the ...

The rare document, written in grey pencil, is for a tune to be played for his 1922 ditty, 'O I won't lead a homely life'. Hardy wrote the words on piece of faded, white paper and underneath a sixteen-bar D major melody. The music is thought to be ...

'EastEnders' character Peter Beale is to return to Albert Square, but he will look rather different... Newcomer Ben Hardy will take over the role of Ian Beale's son, when he returns to Walford this summer. The new Peter: Ben Hardy The new Peter will ...

A manuscript on which Thomas Hardy set one of his poems to music has been sold for £5,000 at auction. The 16-bar melody in D Major is believed to be the only musical manuscript in the Dorset writer's own hand still to exist. The poem "O, I won't ...

Hardys is celebrating 160 years of winemaking with new launches and commemorative packaging. New initiatives are to be announced later in the year and Hardys brand ambassador William 'Bill' Hardy, the great-great grandson of Thomas Hardy, is to ...

Three men have been jailed after "masquerading as police officers" to handcuff and rob people in their homes. Paul Thomas, 35, Anjan Ahmed, 45, and Kelvin Raymond, 29, were sentenced at Manchester Crown Court on Friday after pleading guilty to ...