Joanne Froggatt boldly leads ITV’s dark, timely drama. Plus: The Darling Buds of May are back in new reboot The Larkins. Here’s what to watch this evening Continue reading…
Strictly Come Dancing 2021: week three results show – as it happened
James Bond! Bodyguard! Er, Shrek! It was Movie Week on the Strictly dancefloor, but which couple were gone when the credits rolled?First up tonight it’s JUDI AND GRAZIANO! This week they’re dancing the Charleston to ‘When You’re Good to Mama’ by Queen …
Nadifa Mohamed: ‘Modern-day Britain is intense’
The Somali-born writer talks about her Booker-shortlisted novel, the story of a victim of a miscarriage of justice in 1950s Cardiff, ‘broken hearts syndrome’ and her love of John DonneRecently shortlisted for the 2021 Booker prize, Nadifa Mohamed’s thi…
Daniel Craig gives £10,000 to fathers walking for suicide prevention charity
Men say ‘just brilliant’ that the actor helped publicise charity walk in memory of their daughtersDaniel Craig has donated £10,000 to a fundraising challenge by three fathers who lost their daughters to suicide.Andy Airey, Mike Palmer and Tim Owen are …
Statue of pioneering MP Barbara Castle joins recent memorials to prominent British women
Depiction of veteran Labour MP latest in series of sculptures of significant women, including Diana Princess of WalesBarbara Castle, the pioneering British female politician and prominent national figure from the 1950s to the 70s, has been commemorated…
The week in audio: Front Row; Add to Playlist; This Cultural Life; White Mischief; A Home of Our Own
Radio 4 reshuffles its cultural offerings, while two new shows look at whiteness and the UK’s crazy property marketFront Row (Radio 4) | BBC SoundsAdd to Playlist (Radio 4) | BBC SoundsThis Cultural Life (Radio 4) | BBC SoundsWhite Mischief (Radio 4) |…
What’s our message to outer space? We are not so brilliant here on Earth | Rowan Moore
The prize-winning poetry of the Azerbaijani president’s daughter and the Dubai Expo both lack inspirationYou might think of poets as poor – starving in their garrets, receiving tiny sums for their occasional slim volumes of verse and all that. Not so L…
Ron’s Gone Wrong review – a cheeky tech spin on ET
A lonely boy and a sparky bot team up for in a tender film that dials up the charm but swerves the big-tech questionsScreenwriters Peter Baynham and Sarah Smith have programmed this watchable if very derivative animated movie about a lonely, bullied ki…
Birmingham cultural gem at risk as developers eye jewellery quarter
An industrial hub for 200 years, the area’s historic workshops are being turned into flatsIn the dusty workshop basement of luxury jeweller Deakin & Francis, grooves have been worn into the wood of workbenches used by generations of skilled hands t…
On my radar: Edmund de Waal’s cultural highlights
The ceramicist and writer on the poetry of Louise Glück, the music of Max Richter and the best secret meeting spot in LondonBorn in Nottingham in 1964, Edmund de Waal is an artist, master potter and the author of The Hare with Amber Eyes, which won the…