Paul Weller occupies a strange place in the cultural sphere. Especially since he was adopted as an elder statesman of Britpop ...

At first sight it seemed that Clonter Opera’s decision to tackle Tosca this year might be a leap too far. Its once-a-year complete production, dedicated to nurturing emerging talent in the security of ...

Having played Sherlock Holmes’s politically involved older brother Mycroft in the BBC’s hit crime series Sherlock, Mark ...

Comedian Tony Hancock’s vertiginous rise and fall is neatly traced in the two films he completed in the early 1960s. The ...

Now 45 years in the past, its dazzling star gone a decade or so, The Long Good Friday is a monument of British cinema. Its ...

It started like Sunday afternoon band concert on a seaside promenade, a massive ensemble playing it light. But while there ...

Following the success of its screen version of Michael Connelly’s veteran detective Harry Bosch, starring Titus Welliver, ...

There is a freshness about a show by Youssou N’Dour that never seems to lose its glow. He still has one of the great voices ...

As a sometime writer of Poirot, Sherlock and Christmas ghost stories, Mark Gatiss is no stranger to enigmatic crimes and ...

The first rule for brown people, says the main character – played by BAFTA-winner Adeel Akhtar – in this highly entertaining ...

The best-selling single so far this year in the UK is Californian singer Alex Warren’s “Ordinary”. It stayed at the top of ...

Wheels of Fire was Cream’s third album. Issued in the US in June 1968 and in the UK two months later, it was a double LP. One ...