FinlandAnyone for crickets? Finnish bakery sells bread made from insectFazer in Helsinki claims to be first store in world to offer insect bread, which contains about 70 crickets ground up into flour
A Finnish bakery has launched what it claims to be the world’s first insect-based bread to be offered to consumers in stores.
The bread, made using flour ground from dried crickets as well as wheat flour and seeds, has more protein than normal wheat bread.
Play timeStageReviewTower Bridge Quay, London
A teacher and his unruly student host a family tour of the capital’s river with scatological gags and gory stories aplenty
They’ve conquered cinema, telly and stages up and down the land. Now the Horrible Histories crew have commandeered a vessel for a lively show that’s part theatre, part sightseeing tour and fired by the same formula of shock and gore as the books.
A book that changed meAlan Warner This article is more than 3 years oldHow a badly behaved heroine transformed my grey little lifeThis article is more than 3 years oldSophie MackintoshAlan Warner’s Morvern Callar taught me about rooting for the wicked, giving up control and the beauty in ambiguity I first read Morvern Callar when I was about the same age as the eponymous heroine, living in Glasgow, depressed and increasingly isolated.
FrasierObituaryJohn Mahoney obituaryActor who starred as Martin Crane, the cantankerous father in the hit US sitcom FrasierKelsey Grammer had star billing in the TV series Frasier, which took a character from another hit American sitcom, Cheers, the pretentious psychiatrist Frasier Crane, home to Seattle. There the actor John Mahoney, as Frasier’s cantankerous but charming father, Martin Crane, injected a crucial contrasting dimension into a programme lauded for its witty dialogue.
ComedyReviewAmbassadors theatre, London
Liz Kingsman’s slick, self-conscious ‘troubled woman’ show nests its complex jokes within jokes to tremendous effect
‘We need women’s story,” says Liz Kingsman in One Woman Show, her slick parody of Fleabag and the countless creations that have since been compared to it. It’s a show within a show – Kingsman is staging her own production, Wildfowl, filming it in front of a live audience in the desperate hope that a TV commissioner (who couldn’t make it tonight) will pick it up.