HelenBrownJournalist
@helenbrownwrites.bsky.social
Journalist contributing to the Daily Telegraph, i paper, The Independent, FT, Perspective magazine, BBC and Sky News.
Wrote about #Wicked and teen girl friendships... inews.co.uk/culture/film...
Wicked is teaching my teenage daughter about friendship
The pink-and-green Hollywood extravaganza is more than fantasy - it helps young girls navigate vicious playground dynamics and overcome their differences
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November 21, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Wrote about #Wicked and teen girl friendships... inews.co.uk/culture/film...
Really enjoyed the new #Celeste album www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
Celeste offers raw, full-bodied declarations of selfhood on ‘Woman of Faces’
There’s a collected confidence to these nine tracks that allows Celeste’s voice to step out the shadow of those early Billie Holiday comparisons, and speak distinctly to the listener’s heart
www.independent.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Really enjoyed the new #Celeste album www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
Had a wonderfully easygoing chat with Matthew Rhys ( #TheBeastInMe ) about his sensational turn as Richard Burton in Welsh National Theatre's touring production of #PlayingBurton ... www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what...
Matthew Rhys on playing Richard Burton: ‘Buying your wife a Cartier diamond isn’t very Welsh’
The actor discusses portraying his fellow countryman, the pressure of celebrity and finding his profession ridiculous
www.telegraph.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Had a wonderfully easygoing chat with Matthew Rhys ( #TheBeastInMe ) about his sensational turn as Richard Burton in Welsh National Theatre's touring production of #PlayingBurton ... www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what...
Met the lovely Bonnie Langford (and her adorable dog Poppy) as she prepares to play Mrs Bird in #Paddington the musical at the Savoy Theatre... www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what...
Bonnie Langford: ‘Paddington will teach children how to behave properly’
The actress on her role in the new stage musical, why screaming and shouting ‘doesn’t work’ and the tragedy of Lena Zavaroni
www.telegraph.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Met the lovely Bonnie Langford (and her adorable dog Poppy) as she prepares to play Mrs Bird in #Paddington the musical at the Savoy Theatre... www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what...
Met up with the reunited #Five as the manband hits the road... www.telegraph.co.uk/music/interv...
Five on why they broke up: ‘Ending the band was a humanitarian act’
The Nineties boy band on breakdowns, run-ins with Simon Cowell and why sex in pop music has gone too far
www.telegraph.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Met up with the reunited #Five as the manband hits the road... www.telegraph.co.uk/music/interv...
Enjoyed the new DemI Lovato... www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
Demi Lovato plugs into an ecstatic-chaotic mood on It’s Not That Deep –review
If the hooks and vocal commitment feel so steel-cored, it’s perhaps because the pop star is hanging onto them for dear life
www.independent.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Enjoyed the new DemI Lovato... www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
Pretty, inventive tunes for pegging out the fascinating/ horrifying dirty laundry on the new Lily Allen album, #WestEndGirl ... www.telegraph.co.uk/music/news/l...
Lily Allen’s compelling new album is like eavesdropping on a gory divorce story
West End Girl – Allen’s first album in seven years – offers the star’s take on the jaw-dropping breakdown of her marriage
www.telegraph.co.uk
October 25, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Pretty, inventive tunes for pegging out the fascinating/ horrifying dirty laundry on the new Lily Allen album, #WestEndGirl ... www.telegraph.co.uk/music/news/l...
In which I fluster poor Steven Mangan by telling him that loads of Portrait Artist of the Year viewers fancy him... inews.co.uk/culture/step...
Stephen Mangan: 'We don't live for ever - my mum's death taught me that when I was young'
The actor and presenter on why he’d never agree to be a sitter on ‘Portrait Artist of the Year’, how he can’t turn down a quiz show and why marital infidelity sounds too stressful
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October 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
In which I fluster poor Steven Mangan by telling him that loads of Portrait Artist of the Year viewers fancy him... inews.co.uk/culture/step...
Reviewed the new Tame Impala album... imposter syndrome does disco?! www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
Tame Impala’s new album Deadbeat is imposter syndrome meets disco – review
Kevin Parker’s latest record begins with what might be the best opening track of the year, as he makes mountains out of social awkwardness molehills
www.independent.co.uk
October 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Reviewed the new Tame Impala album... imposter syndrome does disco?! www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
Met the fish and chip shop owners arguing that, while prices have risen, so has quality... www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-dri...
Fish and chips was Britain’s national dish. Now it’s an unaffordable luxury
The cost of the classic meal has hit the £20-mark in parts of the UK. What is making this Friday favourite so expensive?
www.telegraph.co.uk
October 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Met the fish and chip shop owners arguing that, while prices have risen, so has quality... www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-dri...
Interviewed astronaut Anna Fisher about the excellent new BBC documentary #OnceUponaTimeinSpace. www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2025/10/1...
Anna Fisher, the first mother in space: ‘People said I was terrible for leaving my child behind’
In 1984, with a 14-month-old at home, the astronaut took off on the Space Shuttle Discovery – now she shares her story
www.telegraph.co.uk
October 18, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Interviewed astronaut Anna Fisher about the excellent new BBC documentary #OnceUponaTimeinSpace. www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2025/10/1...
Mixed it with Morpheus... www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2025/10/1...
The Matrix’s Laurence Fishburne: ‘I have no problem following a woman’s lead’
The actor on the ‘manosphere’, filming Apocalypse Now and Netflix’s The Witcher
www.telegraph.co.uk
October 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Mixed it with Morpheus... www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2025/10/1...
Met Steve Backshall, in his socks... www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10...
Access Restricted
www.telegraph.co.uk
October 4, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Met Steve Backshall, in his socks... www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10...
Coffee with the excellent Tim Minchin... www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what...
Matilda’s Tim Minchin: ‘We don’t want a generation of shamed men’
The comedian on Gen-Z gender politics, modern censorship and 15 years of Matilda the Musical
www.telegraph.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Coffee with the excellent Tim Minchin... www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what...
Spoke to musical theatre star Rosalie Craid about great new TV roles in ITV's #TheHack and new BBC Sally Wainwright show #RiotWomen inews.co.uk/culture/tele...
The Hack’s Rosalie Craig: ‘Rebekah Brooks is charm, charm, charm offensive’
As 'The Hack' lands on ITVX, the actor talks studying the phone hacking scandal, working with 'Happy Valley' creator Sally Wainwright, and her new show that centers life post-menopause
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October 3, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Spoke to musical theatre star Rosalie Craid about great new TV roles in ITV's #TheHack and new BBC Sally Wainwright show #RiotWomen inews.co.uk/culture/tele...
#BlueLights is back. I spoke to star Sian Brooke... inews.co.uk/culture/tele...
Siân Brooke: 'Blue Lights made me appreciate what my policeman dad had to deal with'
As the acclaimed Belfast-set police drama returns to BBC One, the actress talks about the power of TV to connect people and being mentored by Sheila Hancock
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September 29, 2025 at 6:30 AM
#BlueLights is back. I spoke to star Sian Brooke... inews.co.uk/culture/tele...
This is the intelligent, de-escalating album the world needs this month... www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
Olivia Dean de-complicates romance on her new album The Art of Loving - review
Dean’s appealing message about dropping the games and relaxing into kindness runs through every song on this record, from beginning to end
www.independent.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 7:56 AM
This is the intelligent, de-escalating album the world needs this month... www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
Spoke to the marvellous Rachel Shenton about the new season of my favourite comfort TV, #AllCreaturesGreatandSmall ... inews.co.uk/culture/tele...
All Creatures Great and Small's Rachel Shenton: 'The Herriots had a beautiful love'
The actress talks insider family dynamics from the writer's children, her first day on set with a bull - and why soaps are the best training for actors
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September 25, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Spoke to the marvellous Rachel Shenton about the new season of my favourite comfort TV, #AllCreaturesGreatandSmall ... inews.co.uk/culture/tele...
Met Miriam... inews.co.uk/culture/book...
Miriam Margolyes: ‘Arnold Schwarzenegger farted loudly, purposefully, and malevolently in my face’
The Harry Potter actress discusses her unfiltered new memoir, her distain for Nigel Farage, and how to correctly pronounce Anusol
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September 13, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Met Miriam... inews.co.uk/culture/book...
Some wonderful, original writing in Kate Riley's first (and, she says, last) novel #Ruth about a woman's life in a Christian communist community.... www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-si...
A simple life fraught with difficulties: Ruth, by Kate Riley, reviewed
‘The only solution for anger at your husband is to bake him a pie,’ says the eponymous heroine of Kate Riley’s first (and, she claims, last) novel, Ruth. ‘She heard it first from her mother and unders...
www.spectator.co.uk
September 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Some wonderful, original writing in Kate Riley's first (and, she says, last) novel #Ruth about a woman's life in a Christian communist community.... www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-si...
Hard relate to this mood.
September 12, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Hard relate to this mood.
My review of the V&A's #Bowie Centre... inews.co.uk/culture/musi...
The new David Bowie Centre lets you get close enough to smell him
Containing 90,000 sacred relics from Bowie’s career, the V&A East's new collection is a shrine to the chameleonic rock star
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September 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
My review of the V&A's #Bowie Centre... inews.co.uk/culture/musi...
Had a jolly natter with Oldham's own Olivia Cooke (Slow Horses, House of the Dragon) about her delectably bingeable new Prime Video series #TheGirlfriend ... inews.co.uk/culture/tele...
Olivia Cooke: 'Sex scenes shouldn't make you feel like a chunk of yourself has been taken'
As she stars in new thriller The Girlfriend, the actor reveals why a House of the Dragon stunt made her feel sick, her 'melancholic' childhood and why intimacy coordinators are so important on set
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September 9, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Had a jolly natter with Oldham's own Olivia Cooke (Slow Horses, House of the Dragon) about her delectably bingeable new Prime Video series #TheGirlfriend ... inews.co.uk/culture/tele...
Interviewed the impressive Olympic Equestrian Abi Lyle about surviving domestic violence at the hands of a man who went on to kill another woman, as detailed in Death of a Showjumper on Sky. www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/abi-lyl...
Olympic equestrian Abi Lyle: ‘I survived my abusive partner – then he murdered my friend’
The dressage competitor opens up about dating Jonathan Creswell, the jockey who strangled Katie Simpson to death
www.telegraph.co.uk
September 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Interviewed the impressive Olympic Equestrian Abi Lyle about surviving domestic violence at the hands of a man who went on to kill another woman, as detailed in Death of a Showjumper on Sky. www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/abi-lyl...