Arts featuresYou are in: Berkshire > Entertainment > Arts features  Charles Dickens tried to cover up a secret and sordid side to his life in Slough...  If Windsor can't come to Shakespeare's Globe, then the Globe shall come to Windsor...  Harry Potter is being filmed in Swinley Forest - find out who else has been filming in Berkshire!  A Newbury mother has invented a new art medium that makes her canvasses look 'edible'.  Forget face-painting, the new craze for kids' summer holiday workshops is all about... recycling!  Performing for children can be an actor's worst nightmare, so what's the secret to success?  Could the next Turner Prize winner be among the exhibits at the University of Reading's Degree Show?  A spectacular pink double decker bus is decorated with "society's unwanted tat". Come see inside!  The late Beatle and Henley resident had discarded the lyric on the floor of Abbey Road studios.  Everybody needs good neighbours, especially when it comes to forming a band...  Watch: Reading young offenders update Wilde's Ballads to reflect life in prison in 2009.  Oscar-winning seminal director Sir David Lean has Reading to thank for his love of film.  BAFTA-nominated Kenneth Branagh spent his "formative years" in Reading, as he tells BBC Berkshire.  A Reading director's first feature film is up against Winslet's Hollywood blockbuster at Berlinale.  What do Elvis Presley, Miss Marple and a local a cappella group have in common?  Ten local schools take on the world in a series of murals. See the photos here!  With The Wind In The Willows turning 100 this month we ask: is Mr Toad based on a Berkshire man?  Take an intimate glimpse behind the scenes inside St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.  Got an idea for a detective novel? Learn top crime-writing tips from Reading author Patrick Lennon.  In light of London 2012 the Henley Literary Festival hosts an author with a very interesting tale...  A Wokingham art gallery are giving Beatles fans the chance of a lifetime...  VIDEO: Henley Festival - is it the strangest of its kind in Britain? Take a tour here.  Artist Chris Gollon shows the darker side of the Henley Regatta in a dramatic exhibition.  Did you know that Jane Austen was educated in Reading and that her family have links to Wargrave?  An impressive art collection in Windsor comes at the hands of the country's homeless...  Listen again to the ups and downs of a couple a week before their wedding day. Will it go ahead?  Relive the troubling times of Thatcham past and present in this gripping BBC Radio Berkshire drama. You are in: Berkshire > Entertainment > Arts features |
