The Guide: Max Richter, Kneecap, Bambie Thug and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
October 26th to November 1st, 2024: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Ben Elton
TV guide: 12 of the best new shows to watch, beginning tonight
From Arthur Conan Doyle’s hatred of Sherlock Holmes to Stacey Solomon’s love of Christmas crafts
‘The BBC said we couldn’t have a scene with Vyvyan having sex with the floor’: The Young Ones at 40
In 1982, the sitcom with Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondon, Nigel Planer, Christopher Ryan and Alexei Sayle brought alternative comedy into the mainstream
Star turns: The brilliant Belfast boys who defied the sectarian tide
The Star of the Sea were a tight group of young lads before the Troubles tore them apart
‘After Blackadder, for the first time in my life it was dead easy to get in the door’
Tony Robinson on Baldrick, lockdown, his socialism and why he doesn’t miss acting
Ben Elton: ‘How am I going to say something when you can’t say anything?’
With his first tour in 15 years starting tonight in Dublin, the trailblazing comedian has some scores to settle
Kenneth Branagh: ‘The life of an actor? Strange men phone and offer you money’
The actor and director talks Shakespeare ‘trutherism’ and his working-class upbringing
All is True: Kenneth Branagh’s salty take on Shakespeare
Review: An odd but charming film about the ageing playwright’s twilight years
'Demographically, women are going to take over the world quite soon. So, enjoy'
Women's writing for Women's Day: Caitlin Moran, the best-selling feminist, talks to Una Mullally about trying to be unfamous and why the future of politics is female
The funny thing about being a girl is . . .
So, women aren’t funny, eh? We talk to four funny females playing the Vodafone Comedy Carnival to get their take on that lazy trope
Actor and comedian Rik Mayall dies at 56
Star of ‘The Young Ones’ was known for an array of manic, madcap characters
David Baddiel: ‘It was weird being depressed and having to go on TV’
On the comedian’s mind are anti-Semitism and how it is not really considered racism, his experience of fame as ‘a constant puncturing of the moment’, and doing stand-up again
Man’s bond with unborn child is too often denied
Irish commentariat had little to say about High Court application over proposed abortion
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