Audrey Hepburn: Beyond the Icon
Audrey's younger son Luca Dotti shares with Imogen A. Rose never-before-seen images and touching memories of life with his legendary mother.
REVIEW – Little Audrey’s Daydream: The Life of Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn’s elder son, Sean Hepburn Ferrer, shares the memory, love and life of his mother in a beautiful children’s book.
Audrey Hepburn: Timely, timeless and true!
Audrey Hepburn passed away in 1993 at the age of only 63. However, she continues to captivate, charm and change the world. Indeed, a beautiful new book and an exciting documentary demonstrate she’s as relevant as ever.
To Toowoomba. It’s all in a day!
Imogen Rose takes you to Queensland’s largest inland city and a comfortable drive of around 90 minutes from Brisbane, Toowoomba is a great place for a day trip.
A Picture Paradise Luxury Escape
Imogen Rose takes you on a luxurious journey north, to the Gold Coast, where she shows you how to find warmth, style and comfort as the months begin to cool.
Samantha Armytage
She's one of our most recognised television stars, yet Samantha Armytage has an authenticity and a natural ability to connect with breakfast viewers each and every week.
The Rising of the Sun – how Sunrise has revolutionised breakfast TV
Every morning in Australia some 513,000 viewers tune in to the country's most popular breakfast program, Sunrise. Clearly the program resonates. It's no fleeting resonance either, for 2017 was its 14th year of consecutive leadership.
The Stroke of Joy: Ken Done’s Brilliant Brush of Boundless Beauty!
Ken Done is 77 years of age, yet there is a timelessness about both the artist and his work, a timelessness that seems related to the extraordinary impact of Ken Done upon the Australian cultural psyche.
John Coates: The Power of Sport
There is nothing as powerful as hope. Nothing that quite moves the human spirit like faith and self-belief. Hope is the substance of passion – passion, in the true sense of the word.
Pop-Up Christchurch
The residents of Christchurch, imbued with an enterprising, entrepreneurial spirit have responded to earthquakes in 2010 and 2011 quickly, finding innovative ways to rebuild its infrastructure.
Downton Abbey Star – Charles Edwards is Down Under
Charles Edwards is a highly accomplished and popular English star of stage, TV and film. He is perhaps best known for his role as London editor, Michael Gregson, or as the character is more commonly known, Lady Edith Crawley's lover in the hit TV series Downton Abbey.
Daniel Vallverdu: The tennis coach everyone’s talking about
Tennis, at the elite level, is a gruelling, unforgiving sport. It demands a personal, physical and psychological commitment as exacting, if not more so, than any other sport.
Rugby’s Man For All Seasons
Ma'a Nonu made his test debut against England in 2003 and was a part of the 2011 World Cup-winning All Blacks team.
The Hour of Hooper
He is dedicated and determined, fit, fast and surprisingly funny. He is driven by an innate passion that motivates a desire for continual improvement.
The Splendour of Sydney
It's a city of extraordinary beauty and appeal! Perhaps more than any other Australian City and as Imogen A. Rose discovers, it offers a remarkable combination of location, atmosphere, natural, and architectural beauty.
Safe flying: how to travel well…long haul
Australians love to travel – yet one of the realities of being based in the antipodes is that very often, this involves a long haul flight. Imogen A. Rose sat down with leading health expert in travel medicine, Dr Richard Dawood to get all the up-in-air advice for travelling safely.
Fair Play Under Threat in AOC challenge!
It would be hard to have missed the ferocious and peculiarly personal siege that has erupted against Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) President, John Coates. Coates is one of the most respected and capable individuals in the world of sport yet this sudden onslaught seems to have little sense of the import of the international regard with which Coates is held.
Auckland By Day
Imogen Rose recommends a quick break in the sunshine in the largest city on New Zealand's North Island.
Disney’s Aladdin and the Promise of Another World!
A child perched on the edge of his seat is a great endorsement for any stage production! I had the pleasure of my ten-year-old, nephew's company for the Australian production of Disney's Aladdin, currently on stage at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre.
Swiss Style – even in politics
Meet Federal Chancellor of Switzerland, Mr Walter Thurnherr, the man responsible for the smooth running of arguably the world's only system of direct democracy.
The Bodyguard: The musical hits Brisbane with Melbourne calling!
The Bodyguard: The Musical is a stage production with a popular history. It carries with it the influence and mammoth, commercial success of the 1992 film starring Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner.
Richie’s Reign
Richie McCaw is in many ways rugby's renaissance man. The most capped and successful All Black to date, he is a pioneering player who has established an unprecedented rugby record.
Christchurch – the chrysalis city
There is a familiarity, a genuine connection between Australians and New Zealanders. When New Zealanders suffer, particularly from something as devastating as the 2011 February Christchurch earthquake, it feels personal for many of us.
Charmed by Cannes
Several times a year, the famous French seaside town of Cannes provides a forum for the media world and its various festivals and markets. The Cannes Film Festival is the most famous. Finding myself at one such event I soon learn that beyond the frenetic and glamorous corporate world of film and television is an attractive, culturally rich and diverse city, steeped in tradition and history.
Brisbane’s Best High Teas
High Tea is a wonderfully popular pastime that conjures genteel images of old-world charm and elegance. It's also a lot of fun! Here are five of Brisbane's best High Tea spots.