We launched our Extinct Entertainments series with an introduction to the defunct theatrical form that is hippodrama. As if the gods are coming out as keen Londonist readers, lo and behold, there is a new hippodrama planned for the 02 centre next year - Ben Hur! It's got horses! Religion! No Charlton Heston! To mark the 50th anniversary of the film, a special live show is scheduled for the 02 centre in September 2009.......

View Larger Map Fulla, Padda and Waendel were three wealthy Saxons. No one has the slightest clue what they looked like or what they were up to; whether they died young or lived to a grand old age. None can say if they exchanged farming tips, fisticuffs or bodily fluids with other notable Saxons Gisla, Wynman and Putta. They are murky names in crumbling Anglo-Saxon chronicles. Yet we recall them every day, whenever we mention......