‘Handsome, boyish – and he can cook!’ Richard O’Sullivan landed on TV like a lovable alien
It was taken as read in the 1970s that all women, given the chance, would go out with him. But the star wasn’t just a…
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Can breath be art? Liz Larner on sculpting with hair, lashes, leather – and international group exhalation
The Californian once cultivated petri dishes breathed on by artists that turned ‘murky and scary’. But now, in our…
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Chris Langham obituary
Actor and writer best known for his role in TV’s The Thick of It who was jailed in 2007 for downloading child…
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Boatbuilders review – a gentle study of craftsmen’s quiet expertise
Venice film festival: Luke Lorentzen’s light-touch documentary follows a team of Maine craftsmen constructing a…
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The Last Bath review – self-mortifying nun struggles with profoundly uneasy sexual awakening
Anabela Moreira is an impressively intense lead as the sister who finds herself in charge of her wayward teenage nephew…
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TV has never been so nerve-jangling: 10 years of the agonising Motherland
The rage, the wine, the power mums, the PTA horror – the BBC sitcom was a spot on send-up of life at the school gates.…
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Radiohead announce 2027 tour with shows in Australia and Japan
UK band will play 16 shows across Perth, Melbourne and Sydney, as well as five shows in Saitama Radiohead will return…
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Primetime review – Robert Pattinson’s preening TV host hunts paedophiles but real drama proves harder to target
Venice film festival: Lance Oppenheim’s drama about controversial US reality show To Catch a Predator is unsure what it…
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Imperium review – Sergei Loznitsa’s archive collage collates everyday life in cold-war Soviet Union
Venice film festival: The Two Prosecutors director cuts together documentary footage shot by a TV crew in the 1970s to…
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‘Swiftly enchanted’: why Bedknobs and Broomsticks is my feelgood movie
The latest in our series of writers recommending their most rewatched comfort films is a reminder that Disney’s kids…
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‘Will I screw this up?’ How I played timpani for the Philharmonia Orchestra – with no experience
He hasn’t seen the score and can’t actually play his instrument. But with the help of a virtual headset, our writer…
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A crucial look at the disappearance of Austin Tice: best podcasts of the week
The US marine turned journalist went missing in Syria 14 years ago – and now, a suspenseful new pod uncovers essential…
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‘Sharks are my film stars’: how the Jacques Cousteau of the North Sea finally unlocked its beauty
Epic plankton blooms make filming in the North Sea notoriously difficult. But a new documentary gives a rare glimpse of…
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Munich Philharmonic/Lahav Shani/Martha Argerich review – the great pianist gleams
Royal Albert Hall, London Argerich stilled a capacity crowd for this prom with her lucid playing of Beethoven’s Piano…
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‘I don’t like the term neurodivergence – it sounds like political correctness’: Werner Herzog on fans, fanaticism and baby foxes
The Bavarian auteur talks directing Kate and Rooney Mara in Bucking Fastard and his popularity on Instagram In outsider…
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‘Please find daddy’: the haunting missing posters of September 11
A collection of previously stored away pictures will be displayed at a new exhibition to mark 25 years since the…
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Colin from Accounts: a show so fearless and hilarious that I want to get a tattoo of it
It’s deliciously satirical, fizzes with electric chemistry – and it’s snortingly funny too. If you haven’t watched the…
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50? Moi? How The Muppets rocked the world with anarchy, nonsense and the inimitable Miss Piggy
Half a century on, Jim Henson’s fuzzy felt friends are as influential as Monty Python and the Beatles. It’s been a wild…
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The week around the world in 20 pictures
The Nepal-Tibet flood disaster, Russian strikes in Kyiv, the Plaskett Fire in California and Notting Hill carnival –…
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Dandies, docs and robbers: Richard O’Sullivan – a life in pictures
The actor had roles in Cleopatra and Doctor in Charge before becoming a household name as Dick Turpin and Robin Tripp…
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‘I didn’t know if I’d ever have sex again’: inside Sharon Horgan’s excruciating post-divorce comedy
Horgan’s hilarious new show probes the perils of ageing and the horror of being single again – and it has sex scenes so…
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‘Men calling us woke need our show more than most’: punks Piss on finding strength in visceral confrontations of sexual violence
The Vancouver band earned a cult fandom for their uncompromising gigs. As they ready their brutal debut album, they…
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The best recent poetry – review roundup
Fetch by Colin Bramwell; Girling by Eve Esfandiari-Denney; The Dead One, The Unconscious One, Thundering in Your Ear,…
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Founding editor of Ms magazine on Gloria Steinem: ‘The least egomaniacal person’
Letty Cottin Pogrebin says Steinem taught the younger feminist how to change a ‘man’s world’ not adjust to it Gloria…
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Kevin Powers: ‘I was ready to abandon Infinite Jest a thousand times’
The American author on falling in love with The Great Gatsby, being inspired by Dylan Thomas – and the memoir of a…
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Sairie: Beneath the Spreading Tree review – exquisite 70s-inflected folk heralds a move into autumn’s chill
(Self-released) Singer Emma Morton brings an indie-girl chorister’s brightness to this captivating debut album, on…
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Chat Pile: Who Loves the Sun review – sludge metallers resurface with a slightly limiting alt-rock rebrand
(The Flenser) The Oklahoma band use hooky vocals to help their lyrics on desensitisation slip down easy, though their…
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The Grand Tour review – a deeply strange rejection of Jeremy Clarkson and the gang
The petrol hijinks show is getting a total reset – with a relatively unknown new set of presenters. Still, there are…
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‘If you can’t understand what sex is, it’s irrelevant if you seem to be enjoying it’: how Queen at Sea upended the dementia drama
Lance Hammer’s first film in 18 years is a heart-wrenching masterpiece about family, mental decline and sexual consent.…
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TV tonight: Joe Lycett broadcasts live from an East End pub – what could possibly go wrong?
The comedian and aspiring landlord welcomes punters and celebrity guests to his brand new boozer. Plus: a courtroom…
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‘Why not try to be the best in the world, just for the fun of it?’ Art Garfunkel on a rich, restless life – and reconciling with Paul Simon
He taught maths and walked across Europe, trying to leave his demons behind. As he goes back on tour aged 84, the…
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Hillary Clinton leads tributes to Gloria Steinem: ‘Her activism was rooted in optimism’
Ex-secretary of state joins Nancy Pelosi, Jill Biden, Roxane Gay and others in heralding groundbreaking feminist Gloria…
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An Unexpected Life by Gloria Steinem review – a fitting tribute to a feminist icon
The activist’s memoir, due to be published this month, now stands as a posthumous testament to her remarkable life…
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New Cemetery by Simon Armitage audiobook review – the poet laureate’s meditations take flight
The building of a cemetery during the pandemic inspires the Huddersfield-born author to reflect on childhood memories…
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A Month in the Country review – delicate, tragicomic tangle of desire and disappointment
Donmar Warehouse, London Brian Friel’s version of Turgenev treads lightly between humour and hurt as wayward passions…
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‘Finally, a victory for the middle-aged white man!’ Chris Cantrill on winning the Edinburgh comedy award
The ex-marketing manager’s win, for his spoof Sycamore Gap-inspired whodunnit Rewilding, arrives just as he’s gearing…
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