‘Autism made me feel like a foreigner growing up – the kids at school kept asking why I was weird’
Ahead of his new book, writer Daniel Tammet talks childhood, the rise of France’s Right and why he has a ‘lot of respect’ for JK Rowling
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Ahead of his new book, writer Daniel Tammet talks childhood, the rise of France’s Right and why he has a ‘lot of respect’ for JK Rowling
How the Independence Day director lured the Silence of the Lambs star back to TV for a full-blooded romp around the Colosseum
A new Radio 4 documentary chronicles the birth of Ewan MacColl’s folk classic 75 years ago
The retired broadcaster and ‘King of the Swingometer’ on landslides, lacklustre leaders and the thrill of live election broadcasting
As We Are Lady Parts returns on Channel 4, the comedy’s Bafta-nominated star Anjana Vasan talks guitars, the classics and those eyes
Broken Threads, the BBC broadcaster’s superb family history, teems with historical colour and details that both fascinate and shock
We might like to think that attitudes towards women and sexuality have come a long way since the 1800s but that’s sadly not the case
Benji Waterhouse’s memoir You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here does for psychiatry what This Is Going to Hurt did for junior doctors
After Ian Bostridge stopped a performance because he was distracted by mobiles, we ask: should we be allowed to film classical concerts?
From Alain Delon to Monica Vitti, the Italian photographer captured the titans of film’s golden age at their most unguarded
The Indian stand-up on the British Empire’s legacy, toppling statues and why it’s ‘tricky’ making satire under Modi’s ‘gentle fascism’
Actor, presenter, children’s author, classical music DJ, and now game-show host – Stephen Mangan on his shape-shifting career
Peter Andre and his wife’s indecision over what to call their third child has put the challenge of baby naming in the spotlight
The star choreographer on boxing with Bowie, bopping with Elvis, breaking out with Mickey – and the Manson murders
The ‘Queen of Funk’ on the Black Lives Matter movement, why she won’t sing some of her hits, and why she refused to join the Ikettes
A new Channel 4 TV show tells the story of an architect couple’s rollercoaster inheritance