The Pale Horse BBC1, Sunday Rating: Home Channel 4, Wednesday Rating: The screenwriter Sarah Phelps has been taking liberties with Agatha Christie murder mysteries for quite some time. Plots are revised. Characters are redrawn or may be ejected. Language is updated – here we had one ‘raddled arse’ and also one ‘F*** off!’ – and … Read more
From Anne Enright’s potent Actress to the skilful latest by Petina Gappah and an impressive debut from Rosanna Amaka, this week’s best new fiction By Hephzibah Anderson and Max Davidson and Simon Humphreys For Event Magazine Published: 22:02 GMT, 15 February 2020 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 15 February 2020 Actress Anne Enright … Read more
Since James Bond first burst on to our cinema screens in 1962’s Dr No, blazing his Walther PPK and seducing every beautiful woman he came across, there have been 23 more official Bond films, with six actors playing 007. Daniel Craig’s final turn as the special agent in No Time To Die, the 25th Bond … Read more
Adam Rutherford’s enthralling and illuminating new book, How To Argue With A Racist, proves that ‘racial purity’ is a total myth By Francis Wheen Published: 22:02 GMT, 15 February 2020 | Updated: 21:25 GMT, 18 February 2020 How To Argue With A Racist Adam Rutherford … Read more
Ah, Valentine’s Day, scourge of chefs the world over. Those once-vibrant rooms, now packed with despondent tables for two. The heavily marked-up ‘romantic’ menus, the soppy specials with a side order of schmaltz. And all those flaccid, overpriced roses. It’s enough to send Venus running for cover. But worry not. The following restaurants are chosen … Read more
Trivet, a small, resolutely modern restaurant in the shadow of the Shard is as low-key as it is understated. It’s one of those places where quality shines at every level
The American bass Soloman Howard deserves a London debut worthier of his exceptional talents than this sorry Luisa Miller at the London Coliseum By David Mellor for Event Published: 22:01 GMT, 22 February 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 22 February 2020 Luisa Miller London Coliseum … Read more
From Victoria Beckham on As Me to Americast with Jon Sopel and Emily Maitlis and White Wine Question Time, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 GMT, 22 February 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 22 February 2020 As Me Activist Sinead Burke was the first person with achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism, to … Read more
Gaby Roslin has just met a woman with a distressing problem. It happened on her way to this interview. Roslin was walking along (she walks a minimum of six miles a day, a regime she holds partly responsible for the fact she looks a good decade younger than her 55 years) when she saw the … Read more
The Upstart Crow Gielgud Theatre, London Until April 25, 2hrs 20mins Rating: This is a play that recycles the BBC Shakespeare sitcom and plonks in it a playhouse complete with ye olde crappe Tudor scenery. David Mitchell … Read more