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Archie’s odyssey: the boy who was lost at sea but found his way home

Archive on 4 - Victoria Wood - Loose Chippings - BBC Sounds

'She was complicated.' BBC Radio 4 - Great Lives, Victoria Wood

Victoria Wood's lovely letters - Jasper Rees - The Oldie

Dinnerladies at 25: why the sitcom is Victoria Wood's greatest achievement

'Can I thrust by? I’m a diabetic.' Victoria Wood’s greatest sketch

Victoria Wood: The Songwriter - Live Q&A - Happy Festival

Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 4: Victoria Wood's biographer

Jasper Rees on Victoria Wood and a revival of Talent

The unseen Victoria Wood

The strange story of Victoria Wood’s ‘lost’ play — and how it launched her comedy career

Victoria Wood: 'I wasn't quite normal... so I exaggerated my oddness'

Victoria Wood: ‘She made audiences laugh till it hurt and choked them up with sorrow’

My discovery of 80 unseen scripts that shine a light on Victoria Wood's genius

Our Friend Victoria – Victoria Wood’s genius is irreplaceable

Victoria Wood, 1953-2016: 'Please could you repeat the question?'

Jim Parker obituary

Anne Reid on her Daniel Craig sex scene: ‘I was very scared’

The inside story of Angela Rippon’s Morecambe & Wise Christmas Special

‘It reflected a time when we all behaved very well’: the making of Dad’s Army, the greatest British sitcom

'I want to look like Bill Nighy': my encounters with Michael Gambon

The McCartney Legacy - what Paul really got up to in the Wings years

John Standing on the day Peter O’ Toole dragged him off to a nunnery

How my great uncle Julian saved thousands of Jews from the gas chambers – and met Adolf Eichmann

‘Sexual passion frightens me’: the tragic, romantic life of Stefan Zweig

Knife – Salman Rushdie's harrowing new book

Is Sussex England’s most mysterious county?

Mr Bates vs the Post Office, review: you will be left seething by the sense of injustice

Le Carré's dirty linen

The 10 best episodes of The Crown – ranked

The epic European trek that is being transformed by climate change

His lyrics for Elton were good, so why is Bernie Taupin’s book laughably bad?

Isabelle Huppert: ‘I think it’s easy to work with me’

Jeremy Lemmon, charismatic Harrow schoolmaster and influential Shakespearean – obituary

‘A drip of unkindness, undermining everything’: what was life like for Jan Morris's children?

'The first thing I do when I wake up is write.' Hilary Mantel, 1952-2022

The DIY Scottish walking trip that has everything – except other people

'How many actors does it take to screw in a light bulb?' William Hurt, great Hollywood contrarian

Antony Sher: 'I discovered I could be other people'

Remembering David Storey, giant of postwar English culture

Helen McCrory: 'If there's one interesting thing about acting it's trying to lose your ego'

John Prine, one of the great American singer-songwriters

Franco Zeffirelli: 'I had this feeling that I was special'

Tim Minchin, Eventim Apollo - fabulous triumph of rhyme and reason

Al Alvarez: 'If I drop dead this minute, I’ve had a ter­rific time'

The making of Local Hero

An encounter with John Richardson, Picasso's biographer

Bruno Ganz: 'I could put my passport between Hitler and me'

David Bowie: Finding Fame - a fascinating insight into the young singer's quest for fame

Bohemian Rhapsody is a drag

The Bell of Treason by P.E.Caquet - the sacrifice of Czechoslovakia

Brian Friel, the private playwright of Ballybeg

Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words - emotional nomad with a fragile gift for joy

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story - Hollywood's brainiest beauty

theartsdesk in Minsk: feasting with Belarus Free Theatre

Hold the Sunset, BBC One - this is an ex-sitcom

The disastrous opening of Pinter's now universally hailed early play

Jeremy Irons: 'I was never very beautiful'

Terence Stamp: ‘My date with Christine Keeler went well’

Queen: Rock the World, BBC Four - we won't rock you

The beautiful game, the horrible kits

Lucy Worsley's Nights at the Opera, BBC Two - there's anti-elitism, and there's infantilism

I Know Who You Are, BBC Four - gripping, but no one to root for

When Sam Shepard was a Londoner

'I were crap at school': Jodie Whittaker, the new Doctor Who

Lenny Henry: ‘If we can’t see it, we can’t be it’

Jez Butterworth: 'There’s a character in Jerusalem who works in an abattoir. He would have thought I was a cunt'

Balancing Acts by Nicholas Hytner - wonderfully insightful about everything but himself

A King Kong for our time

Letter to an unknown woman: Stefan Zweig (and his second wife) in England

Barry Jenkins, director of Moonlight: 'We should now be expanding what an American life is, and which voices are worth hearing'

John Hurt: 'If I’ve been anything I’ve been adventurous'

It’s time Six Wives with Lucy Worsley was taken to the Tower – review

Katori Hall: 'I wanted to create the behind-the-doors Martin Luther King'

Who's afraid of Edward Albee?

Fleabag, BBC Three, series finale - a gloriously rude, and far funnier, update of Bridget Jones

Fleabag, BBC Three - brilliant dark comedy about loneliness and grief

The Age of Bowie: by Paul Morley - paean to the starman

David Bowie Prom, Royal Albert Hall - this ain’t rock’n’roll, this is contemporary classical

Marni Nixon: 'It ended up being totally my voice'

Pierre-Laurent Aimard: 'Populist means something very different in French'

John Cale: 'Lou Reed's death felt like a very public suicide'

Grayson Perry: 'Men should think less about sex'

David Bowie: The Last Five Years, BBC Two - from Reality to finality

Garrison Keillor: 'I would like to die in the company of Lutherans'

Who was St Clair Bayfield?

Florence Foster Jenkins: The real diva

Arnold Wesker: His Life and Career in 10 Scenes

Don Cheadle: ‘Do black movies really not sell?’

Stephanie Beacham reveals she was raped as a young actress - and keeping silent ruined her life

George Martin: 'Paul said he would like orchestral instruments. John couldn’t be bothered'

When Bowie and Boyd hoaxed the art world

Warren Mitchell: ‘If you could be Welsh and Jewish you really couldn’t miss’

Maggie Smith: 'If there’s an old bat to play, it’ll be me'

Ray Davies: 'The Beatles were complaining they had to pay tax. The Kinks were complaining because we had no money at all'

All the world’s a stage: with the Globe's global tour of Hamlet

There will be blood: the Palio di Siena

In Welsh Patagonia

Does anyone know the way to blockbuster?

Siân Phillips: 'Saying yes to work is just a way of life'

Ivo van Hove, the hottest Belgian in town

Shirley Williams: Saving my mother from the scriptwriters

Visual CV: Maggie Smith

Sofie Gråbøl: 'What the fuck are you doing with my jumper?'

Bob Hoskins: 'There’s not too many bald-headed cubic people'

Land of my fathers? My fathers can keep it

theartsdesk in Florence: Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino

Claire Tomalin on Charles Dickens: 'Most of us have behaved like a madman or madwoman'

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Best Character Actor

The Resurrection of Conor McPherson

Cinema Paradiso

The Wagner Interviews

Doris Lessing: 'Books have been my life'

Live from the National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage, BBC Two

Shere Hite: 'The clitoris hadn’t been talked about for maybe 100 years

Bald on blondes: what makes Terry Johnson tick?

JJ Cale: 'There’s a few people everywhere want to hear the guy that wrote the songs'

The Woody Allen story: 'Why do I feel like I got screwed?'

theartsdesk in Florence: The Springtime of the Renaissance

Rowan Atkinson: 'I’m someone who likes to be in control'

Michael Frayn 'It’s better to be known for two things than one thing'

The 2012 London Olympic Games, BBC

Olympics closing ceremony: A long goodbye to the Games

Kiss the Day Goodbye: Marvin Hamlisch, 1944-2012

The Hitchcock Players: Ingrid Bergman, Notorious

The Opening Ceremony, London 2012, BBC One

Shakespeare: Staging the World, British Museum

Thinking of Something Funny: Eric Sykes, 1923-2012

theartsdesk in Raploch: Sistema Scotland Makes Big Noise

Globe to Globe: Hamlet, Shakespeare's Globe

The Underbelly Project: Paris

Václav Havel: 'I dream of old age as a time of rest, when nothing more will be expected of me'

Christopher Hitchens: 'One wants also to try and pass on a bit of what one has soaked up'

theartsdesk in Florence: The British Are Going

The Underbelly Project: New York

Tom Hollander: 'The danger with playing a part that defines you is that it swallows up everything else'

Tim Minchin: 'I’m telling you what you should think'

István Szabó: 'Hungarian filmmakers found a flower language'

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 (3D)

My quest to be more Welsh

The Passion of Port Talbot, NTW/WildWorks

Opinion: Please will you stop talking?

theartsdesk in Florence: Was This the Greatest Renaissance Show Ever Held?

Eileen Atkins: 'I had to get out of my childhood'

Derek Jacobi: 'You don't play the king, you play the man'

Nicola Benedetti goes Romantic

Michael Gambon: 'I'm quite a serious-minded actor. I am! I am!'

Michael Sheen: 'I like the feeling of fear when I think there is no way I can do this'

Martin Amis on 'The Whole Book-To-Film Department'

Corin Redgrave, 1939-2010

Clash of the Titans

Tim Minchin, Hammersmith Apollo

David Hare: 'When you write plays you get more and more isolated'

Is this the most powerful man in classical music?