Guy Barker: ‘all the rock’n’rollers love Charles Mingus’

A fearsome character and fierce jazz innovator, Charles Mingus was a bridge between the early and modern jazz eras

Grange Hill, the Movie: Creator reveals plans for post-Covid film

At 72, the Brookside creator is back working on his first and greatest creation

Juliet Stevenson: ‘My agent said: Go to Hollywood. I thought: I just can’t do this sh*t’

She comes to Galway next month (kind of) in an adaptation of José Saramago’s Blindness

It’s Zammo from Grange Hill. And he’s back – in Albert Square

Lee MacDonald on playing a teenage heroin addict, his car crash, and joining EastEnders

Why Michael Ondaatje’s ‘The English Patient’ deserved the Golden Man Booker

Special accolade celebrates 50th anniversary of the literary prize

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Acclaimed British actor Alan Rickman dies aged 69

Hollywood star who shot to global acclaim as Hans Gruber in Die Hard was suffering from cancer

The Two Faces of January

Viggo Mortensen: “I run into a lot of actors who seem to have had itinerant childhoods”

The Lord of the Rings star talks fame and fortune, film and football, and explains why he’ll be supporting Argentina in the World Cup