07.30 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The British ship Dido off the coast of Sarawak, Borneo, 1843, by George Hawkins the Younger. Photograph: De Agostini Picture Library/Getty Images The central figure of Rose Tremain’s new novel is Jane Adeane, a young woman of towering height who is convinced that one day […]
13.12 BST Last modified on Wed 14 Oct 2020 22.33 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Herbert Kretzmer at the premiere of the film version of Les Misérables in 2012. Photograph: Dave M Benett#Retired/WireImage Herbert Kretzmer, the lyricist behind the English-language adaptation of Les Misérables, has died aged 95. Kretzmer also co-wrote Charles […]
11.00 BST Last modified on Sun 11 Oct 2020 19.48 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Across a table in the bar of a Paddington hotel, conversation turns to home. “I lived all over London,” says the actor Ariyon Bakare. “I grew up in Leytonstone, but I also kind of grew up in […]
06.00 BST The HothouseCelia Imrie (Miss Cutts) and Harold Pinter (Roote); directed by David Jones. Minerva theatre, Chichester, 1995. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Old TimesJulie Christie (Kate); directed by Lindy Davies. Wyndham’s theatre, London, 1995. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Party TimeRoger Lloyd Pack (Fred), Nicola Pagett (Charlotte), Gawn Grainger (Douglas), Cordelia Roche (Dusty), Barry Foster (Gavin), Dorothy Tutin […]
11.09 BST La Soirée at the Roundhouse, London, 2011 Facebook Twitter Pinterest A scene from Depart by Circa at Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, London, in 2016 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Piccadilly Circus Circus, part of the London 2012 festival Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tête-à-Tête’s Circus Tricks at Riverside Studios, London, in 2012 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Circa: The Return, […]
09.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Ursula and her first husband Rudi after a picnic in the countryside just before her departure for Moscow. Photograph: Collection of the Hamburger family In November 1930, the 22-year-old Ursula Hamburger was visited at her Shanghai home by a good-looking man with a strong German […]
07.00 BST Last modified on Tue 29 Sep 2020 11.05 BST Blyth Services at Night, Blyth, Nottinghamshire, February 1981Throughout Graham’s childhood his family would take its annual two weeks’ holiday in the Lake District, travelling from his home in London to visit relatives. He says: ‘To an impressionable five-year-old, travelling up the Great North Road seemed a […]
10.49 BST Elisabeth Moss, The Children’s Hour, Comedy theatre, London, 2011 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kit Harington, True West, Vaudeville theatre, London, 2018 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sophie Okonedo, The Goat, Or Who is Sylvia? at Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, 2017 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Michelle Dockery, Network, National Theatre, London, 2017 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cate Blanchett, The Present, […]
21.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Radical … Letitia Wright rallies protesters in Mangrove. Photograph: Des Willie/BBC/McQueen Limited Vivid, immediate and impassioned, this new movie episode in Small Axe, Steve McQueen’s five-part film series for the BBC, is about the Mangrove Nine case in 1970. A group of black British campaigners […]
07.00 BST Last modified on Thu 24 Sep 2020 11.24 BST Jenn Nkiru: Hub Tones, 2018This is a still from a film made for jazz musician Kamasi Washington. Nkiru says of her work: ‘Pushed through an afro surrealist lens, my practice is grounded in the history of black music, the aesthetics of experimental film, the black arts […]
13.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Lunch with Daniel Mays. Illustration: Lyndon Hayes/The Observer If we’d had this lunch six or seven months ago, Daniel Mays suggests, he would have been banging on about how he never got to spend enough time with his wife and two children. Having been a […]
08.00 BST Last modified on Wed 16 Sep 2020 09.29 BST Beautiful Eyes, 2017Yvette Boakye and Laurence Ubong Williams in Beautiful Eyes, part of the production Top Trumps at Theatre 503, London Facebook Twitter Pinterest Heart’s Desire from Blue Heart, 2016Amanda Boxer, Andy de la Tour and Amelda Brown in Heart’s Desire from Blue Heart at Orange […]
09.43 BST Last modified on Wed 9 Sep 2020 13.54 BST Adrien Brody in The Pianist, directed by Roman Polanski. For his screenplay, Harwood adapted the memoir of Władysław Szpilman. Photograph: Dreamworks/Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar Facebook Twitter Pinterest Harwood with his best adapted screenplay award for The Pianist at the Oscars in 2003. Photograph: Frank Micelotta/Getty Images Facebook Twitter […]
11.14 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘It’s a confession’ … Katharina Volckmer. Photograph: Liz Seabrook The subtitle of Katharina Volckmer’s debut novel is revealed only on the title page: “The Appointment (Or, The Story of a Cock)”. In the US edition, it’s a “Jewish Cock”. Volckmer has said the subheading was […]
16.00 BST WallDavid Hare performs Wall at the Royal Court (2009), a monologue about the West Bank barrier separating Israel from Palestinian territory Facebook Twitter Pinterest IvanovRalph Fiennes and Harriet Walter starred in Hare’s translation of Ivanov by Chekhov at the Almeida, London, directed by Jonathan Kent, in 1997. Read Hare on Young Chekhov Facebook Twitter […]
18.24 BST Last modified on Tue 1 Sep 2020 22.29 BST Millennium Dome, London, 1996-99The great white elephant that everyone loved to ridicule. Yet the Dome has endured as one of Rogers’ most unexpectedly successful buildings. As the O2 arena, since 2005, it is one of the world’s most visited performance venues. This was an elegant solution […]
21.59 BST Last modified on Fri 21 Aug 2020 08.57 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The US pop star made the contribution via a Go Fund Me page raising money for Vitoria Mario. Photograph: Isabel Infantes/PA An aspiring mathematician who lives in London has thanked Taylor Swift for making her “dreams come […]
07.00 BST The Urban Void: SilenceFlorence, Italy, motionless and deserted during lockdown. The city’s squares and churches seem straight out of an art history book, where people were removed from the pictures so that the focus would not be diverted from the architecture. The 10th edition of the Cortona on the Move international festival runs until […]
17.27 BST First published on Wed 12 Aug 2020 16.48 BST Greta Scacchi in Uncle Vanya, at London’s Vaudeville theatre, directed by Michael Blakemore (1988) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Brian Cox and Harriet Walter in Three Sisters at London’s Barbican, directed by John Barton (1988) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Felicity Kendal and Alan Bates in Ivanov at the Strand […]
10.00 BST Last modified on Wed 5 Aug 2020 19.49 BST Rory Edwards (Hamlet) in a production adapted and directed by Julia Bardsley at the Young Vic, in 1994 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Russell Enoch (Ghost) and Mark Rylance (Hamlet) in a 1988 RSC tour at Wimbledon theatre in London. All photographs: Tristram Kenton/the Guardian Facebook Twitter Pinterest […]
07.00 BST Self-portrait. Abbey Road Studios, London, 1975. Photograph: Linda McCartney Facebook Twitter Pinterest Paul and Mary. Scotland, 1969 Photograph: Linda McCartney Facebook Twitter Pinterest Brian Jones, left, and Mick Jagger. Hudson River, New York, 1966 Photograph: Linda McCartney Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Beatles. Abbey Road, London, 1969. Photograph: © Paul McCartney / Photographer: Linda McCartney […]
13.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Flight risk … Parks and Rec does London. Photograph: NBC/Getty Images There is a widespread misconception that the classic two-series sitcom – Fawlty Towers, The Office, Fleabag – is national character in action. British writers show restraint and an unerring sense of moderation, which, it […]
14.31 BST Last modified on Tue 28 Jul 2020 20.43 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The big music: Mike Scott and Trevor Hutchinson of the Waterboys playing Milton Keynes Bowl in 1986. Photograph: Pete Still/Redferns Mike Scott, singer-songwriter I was in Manhattan with my girlfriend, Krista. She asked: “Is it easy to […]
22.04 BST Last modified on Sat 25 Jul 2020 22.29 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Guitarist Peter Green (right) and bassist John McVie, of British rock group Fleetwood Mac, rehearsing at the Royal Albert Hall, London, 22 April 1969. Photograph: Michael Putland/Getty Images Peter Green, who has died at the age of […]
13.00 BST Last modified on Sun 26 Jul 2020 20.39 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Going his own way… Kamaal Williams. Photograph: Glauco Canalis Street Dreams is the opening track of the second solo album from London keysman Kamaal Williams, and it could easily be the concept for the entire thing: a […]
17.17 BST The Taming of the Shrew, 1927Sir Lewis Casson and Dame Sybil Thorndike, married in real life, in Shakespeare’s play Photograph: ANL/Rex/Shutterstock Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Way of the World, 1953Margaret Rutherford, left, as Lady Wishfort in William Congreve’s comedy Photograph: Haywood Magee/Getty Images Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lady at the Wheel, 1958Musical comedy starring Burda […]
06.00 BST Last modified on Sat 18 Jul 2020 09.33 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘I’ve had an amazing run, an incredible career’ … McDowell. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian Malcolm McDowell was the insolent prince of early-70s cinema, the Liverpool salesman who stormed the establishment’s barricades. You can see him on screen […]
07.35 BST Last modified on Fri 10 Jul 2020 08.33 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A scene from Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham. Photograph: Everett Collection Inc/Alamy Stock Photo Clocking in at three and a half hours long, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham is a remarkably swift Bollywood experience. In fact, the 2001 film […]
07.00 BST Last modified on Wed 1 Jul 2020 18.48 BST Henley Royal Regatta, Oxfordshire, 2018Trivial Pursuits: The English at Play by Orlando Gili is published by Hoxton Mini Press. All photographs: Orlando Gili Facebook Twitter Pinterest RHS Hampton Court Palace flower show, London, 2019The Royal Horticultural Society’s show is one of the largest in the world, […]
09.00 BST Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Wig out … Khruangbin. Onstage, the Texan trio Khruangbin are a strange sight to behold. At their sold-out show at London’s near-5,000 capacity O2 Academy Brixton last December, guitarist Mark Speer and bassist Laura Lee, dressed in long, black, heavily fringed wigs, sway in unison, […]