The descending refrain opening the song isn’t unusual but attention is instantly attracted as it’s played on a harpsichord.

RaMell Ross’s feature debut follows his poetic documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018) in again observing ...

Does absolutely everything have to get more difficult with each passing year? Apparently so. The amount of time I’ve spent ...

The destruction of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie on 21 December 1988 was one of the ghastliest events in what would become ...

In one sense it was a New Year’s Day “nearly”, just stopping short of giving us the already great Irish lyric-dramatic ...

Mk.gee has been an unexpected thread in a year of music that’s pulled me in many different directions, punctuating the need ...

Having carved a swathe of terror and destruction through the Axis forces in North Africa, the SAS return for a second series ...

You could almost chart the history of British TV by following the career of ITV's Coronation Street, as it has ridden 50 years of social change, seen off would-be rivals, survived accusations of ...

It's the images that linger in the mind as I think back on a bustling theatre year just gone. Sure, the year fielded ...

As always, great concerts have outnumbered great opera productions over a year, and all of our national orchestras can be proud of their record. I’ve sometimes started by celebrating youth, and it’s ...

In an ideal world an end-of-year roundup would applaud only new ventures – fresh productions that you may curse for having ...

Young eldritch junkie Nick Cave would have struggled to predict his maturity as a font of wry and sacred wisdom, or the fathomless loss he reckoned with en route.