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For many British gen Xers, BBC Record Breakers was a staple of their childhoods in the 1970s and 80s. Following the news the show is to be rebooted after 24 years off air, people have shared their recollections of its featured world record attempts, beloved and controversial presenters and theme song, Dedication. Andrew Brooke. Many … Read more

“Pictures or it didn’t happen.” So runs the immediate social media retort to any claim deemed too extraordinary to be true. Carried within it is an assumption shared across the globe which has held firm almost since the invention of the camera: that the ultimate form of proof is the photograph. The idea is so … Read more

She has played spies, detectives and two queens of England. Now Olivia Colman is to take the part of Mrs Bennet, the scheming mother of five daughters, in a Netflix adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. The six-part series will also star Emma Corrin as Elizabeth Bennet, and Jack Lowden as Mr Darcy. The … Read more

Pick of the weekPauline Black: A 2-Tone Story As the mixed-race lead singer of two-tone band the Selecter, Pauline Black was a pivotal figure in a genre that, however briefly, melded white punk and Black reggae sensibilities into a vibrant, politically engaged musical whole. In this revealing documentary, created with director Jane Mingay, she tells … Read more

Sitting in the belly of north London’s Islington Assembly Hall in the middle of four sold-out nights, TV on the Radio frontman Tunde Adebimpe is recalling the precise moment he wanted to quit his band – and music – for ever. It was 2019 and the group, an art-rock four-piece who haven’t made a record that … Read more

Most teenagers rebel against their parents in small ways: sneaking out, stealing a nip of Cointreau, arriving home past curfew. Not Varada Sethu, the Newcastle-raised actor who’s about to grace screens as new companion Belinda Chandra in the forthcoming season of Doctor Who. Her rebellion took on a go-big-or-go-home attitude befitting a future screen star: … Read more

‘Sinéad, you must read my diaries. The most naked ones are in Emory College, Georgia.” This was a voicenote left for me by Edna O’Brien in 2023, after I had started to film a feature documentary with her, granting me access to the most personal work she created in her lifetime: her unpublished diaries. She … Read more

You’ve only just got home from a holiday when you start planning the next one. So it is with the super-rich spa satire The White Lotus. The gunsmoke is still clearing from the finale of the third season but speculation is rife about where the HBO hit will head next. This week’s climax of Mike … Read more

The French cinéaste Agnès Varda, who died in 2019 at the age of 90, had many lives. Initially a photographer, she broke through as a film-maker with Cléo from 5 to 7 in 1962, and then reinvented herself in her late 70s with art installations that toured the world’s most prestigious contemporary exhibition spaces, from … Read more

Exhibition of the week Ali Cherri: How I Am MonumentThis Beirut-born artist creates contemporary monuments that echo the archaeology of the Middle East. Baltic, Gateshead, from 12 April to 12 October Also showing Richard WrightComplex, beguiling yet ephemeral site-specific paintings by the 2009 Turner prize winner. Camden Art Centre, London, from 16 April to 22 … Read more