Daniel Defoe: Last News

TV royalty Ram John Holder is currently gracing Weatherfield with his legendary presence on ITV soap Coronation Street as Sarge Bailey. The decorated star recently made his highly anticipated TV comeback and he's not letting his upcoming milestone age slow him down.The iconic actor has joined the cobbles in the substantial role of Ed and Ronnie Bailey's dad, Sarge Bailey, and was spotted filming scenes on set at the ITV studios in Manchester earlier this year, leaving fans thrilled.

Marta Balaga Romanian animator Anca Damian’s psychedelic, musical take on the Robinson Crusoe’s story, “The Island,” will be accompanied by an AR exhibition inviting the audience to further explore its colorful universe, Variety has learned. A board-game based on her seventh feature has also been developed, mirroring its protagonists’ search for paradise in the film.Set to bow at Rotterdam Film Festival, “The Island” was produced by Aparte Film, with Best Friend Forever handling international sales.Despite referencing his most famous creation, Damian doesn’t care for Daniel Defoe’s 1719 novel, she says.

Radio 4’s legendary show Desert Island Discs - celebrating its 80th anniversary this week – famously imagine which luxury item they’d want with them if they were ever left stranded.Monty Python star John Cleese joked he’d like to take a stuffed Michael Palin, politician Boris Johnson chose French mustard and TV mogul Simon Cowell asked for a mirror!But some folk have become real-life castaways, just like Tom Hanks’ character in the hit 2000 film. Here James Moore looks at six gripping tales.The author Daniel Defoe is reckoned to have been inspired to write his 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe by the incredible true story of Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk.Fifteen years earlier he was marooned on the tiny uninhabited island of Mas a Tierra, 400 miles off Chile in the Pacific Ocean after falling out with the captain of the ship he was working on.Selkirk was left with little more than a musket, cooking pot, knife, a flask of rum and a Bible.Yet he managed to survive for four-and-a-half years hunting feral goats and harvesting wild turnips, despite being attacked by rats and once falling off a cliff.Eventually an English ship happened to anchor off the island to find supplies and picked him up.

Her voice is instantly recognisable to any fans of the Outlander audiobooks and she's been bringing the books to life for nearly three decades.

Dominic Cummings has been edited into a list of famous 'visitors' of Barnard Castle on the town's Wikipedia page.