Things ratchet up in the explosive Belfast police drama, with blazing house fires, a most terrifying murder and the arrival of a very familiar faceShootings, showdowns and a surprise transfer from Holby General. Here’s your section debrief on the sec...
It is a fraught time of cuts, rewrites – and alcohol. Our writer goes behind the scenes at The Divine Mrs S just as the official opening night looms and not everyone’s ready to face the musicRachael Stirling picks her way from the back of the stage,...
From an alligator ride across Asia to an escape to outer space, the Venice Biennale’s ‘foreigners everywhere’ theme leaves our critic beguiled, tantalised – and frequently appalledVenice. Terrible. Foreigners everywhere, and it is even worse during t...
After three decades on air, the comedian has a new travel show. For comedy nerds, he remains their guy on the insideLike Buster Keaton, Gene Kelly, and Jackie Chan before him, Conan O’Brien shows his genius in his adaptivity, the ability to insert hi...
Corporation says newsreader has left after 40 years of service to ‘allow all parties to move forward’The newsreader Huw Edwards has resigned and left the BBC, the corporation has said.A BBC spokesperson said: “Huw Edwards has today resigned and left...
For their latest album, the heavy trio delved into poetry archives to foreground work by female writers and tell stories of the ‘subjugation of femininity’ across nature and humanitySince their inception in 2012, Big Brave have amplified the torrenti...
Stephen Giddings gives a committed performance as a recovering alcoholic who’s started betting again in this often tense experimental docudramaThe line between fact and fiction is thin to vanishing in this Liverpool-set experimental docudrama, a stud...
Three years ago, on a tough day out with my kids, I barricaded myself in a toilet and wrote to Bluey’s creator with an idea. Now, it has become a reality. I couldn’t be more weirded outFor most people, the latest episode of Bluey – entitled Surprise...
Rather than being an optional extra, dreams might be vital to our functioningExposed, the undulating surface of the brain is shimmering and opalescent, punctuated with arteries and veins. Give any part of it the tiniest jolt of electricity with a pen...
Folk singer revives music believed to have been rejected by hymn book committees, after she found recordings in archive A trove of Welsh hymns believed to have been “cancelled” by all-male committees because they did not like their open approach to i...
In this adaptation of the John McGahern novel, about a middle-aged man who has returned, with his wife, to the countryside of his childhood, makeshift friendships are forged and life’s grand rhythms observed‘Does anything happen, or is it the usual?”...
Cher finally recognised 60 years after her first recordings, while Mary J Blige, Peter Frampton and Dave Matthews Band are among the other inducteesCher, Ozzy Osbourne, Mary J Blige and A Tribe Called Quest are among the stars to be added to the Rock...
A publisher and his authors debate the balance of power between reader and writer in a novel comprising three long, loosely linked talesEarly in the UK-based Indian writer Neel Mukherjee’s new novel, Ayush, an editor at a “self-styled literary imprin...
Popular manga characters receive their first film adaptation as they seek out a villainous colonel and an elusive dessert, brought off with great style by director Takashi KatagiriAfter a successful TV adaptation, the popular characters of the bestse...
A decade after her autistic son Connor Sparrowhawk died in a specialist NHS facility, Sara Ryan’s campaign to reveal the truth about what happened is coming to the stage.In a bare rehearsal space near Southwark tube station, south London, 11 people a...