Cultural life: Diana Quick, actress
'I adored the botanitcal artist Rory McEwan's show at Kew Gardens'
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Visual Arts
I adored the botanitcal artist Rory McEwan's show at Kew Gardens. Also, the Walpole collection of paintings sold by Sir Robert Walpole to Catherine the Great, are currently on loan back to Houghton Hall in Norfolk.
Diana Quick appears in 'The American Plan', Theatre Royal, Bath ( www.theatreroyal.org.uk) to 6 April and the Aldeburgh Documentary festival runs 15-17 November ( www.aldeburghcinema.co.uk/)
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