To mark 40 years since the death of Philip Larkin in December 1985, Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and ...

Stars Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson hold their own in this uneven adaptation of the Mick Herron novel, writes Moira Macdonald ...

Emma Thompson plays the private-eye heroine of Mick Herron’s first series of novels in a new series for Apple TV.

Flagpole Radio Café announced a return to the stage at Edmond Town Hall this holiday season. Announced this week, the local variety show that brings together The Flagpole Radio Café Orchestra and the ...

Literature has long portrayed messed-up families. As poet Philip Larkin famously wrote, “They f*** you up, your mum and dad. / They may not mean to, but they do.” In honour of this rich vein of ...

The Belfast-born poet, who died five years ago, left us a precious legacy of transcendent beauty, vigour, wit and profundity ...

Martha' singer Tom Waits is an icon who straddles the worlds of folk, jazz, and a plethora of others. But there is one solo ...

Yes. Down Cemetery Road is based on a novel by Mick Herron - in fact, it was his very first published book! It introduces ...

With 800 years of maritime history, this northern town is going all in on its seafaring past in 2026 with revamped museums, ...

The shift began that September. Early in the month, Carlos Alcaraz, then 19, won his first major title at the US Open. Later the same month, Roger Federer, then 41, bid a tearful good-bye to tennis at ...

How many conservative professors can you count on one hand? They are a rare breed in Australian academia. This reviewer sometimes claims to be the nation’s most-read centre-right political scientist ...

From Sufjan Stevens to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, we're looking at the creepiest opening lyrics ever written as we head ...