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Posts published by “Jude Rogers”

Greta Scacchi: ‘I was always being invited to play a male fantasy’

The actor on 80s stardom, growing Tuscan veg in Sussex and why theatre remains her sacred spaceGreta Scacchi, 63, is an Emmy award-winning actor. Born in Milan, Italy, she spent her childhood in England and two years of her teens in Australia, where sh...

TS Eliot’s women: the unsung female voices of The Waste Land

As the epic poem turns 100, devotee Jude Rogers examines the work’s thrilling, intriguing female characters and the women who inspired Eliot, including his first love, Emily Hale, to whom he wrote more than 1,000 lettersA red lever-arch folder, well-lo...

Music, memory and my dad: how songs define and shape us

The Flying Pickets’ Only You unlocks such visceral emotions for Jude Rogers that it can stop her in her tracks. In this extract from her new book about music’s deep-rooted role in our lives, she asks what science lies behind its power to make the past ...