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From The Serpent to Losing Alice and The White Tiger: The best on demand TV to watch this week
The drama about real-life serial killer Charles Sobhraj, who murdered travellers on the so-called Asian hippie trail during the 1970s, reaches its halfway point on BBC1 this week.
From Peter Ho Davies to Hafsa Zayyan, Olivia Sudjic and Jeff Noon: This week's best new fiction
When a scan shows that their unborn child may have defects, a nameless couple opt for an abortion.
From The Fault Line to French And Saunders: The best podcasts to listen to this week
In the wake of 9/11, an unlikely bromance formed between George W. Bush and Tony Blair.
Thin Places review: This memoir may speak to an even wider audience than it first imagined
Derry/Londonderry - where even the choice of name reflects 'which foot you kick with' - has a compelling and fractious history.
DEBORAH ROSS: The Pembrokeshire Murders is just a gripping tale elegantly told
The true-life crime drama The Pembrokeshire Murders was not a whodunnit, as we knew who done it (John Cooper), and it was not a whydunnit.
PIERS MORGAN: My dad can drink £3 wine and pretend it's a 1961 Latour
My parents are now recovered from their nasty bouts of coronavirus back in November. Well, almost. My dad still hasn't got back his sense of taste or smell, ten weeks later.
Cerys Matthews album review: She ends up being too self-effacing in We Come From The Sun
Cerys Matthews was once best known as the lead singer of Catatonia, the Welsh band who sold a lot of records in 1998. Soon, Catatonia may be best known as the band that launched Cerys.
From Delia Owen to Stuart Turton, Julia Quinn, Richard Osman and John le Carré: The best audiobooks
The debut novel of 71-year-old zoologist Delia Owens is a publishing phenomenon, dominating the audio bestseller lists for more than two years.
From Megha Majumdar to Laura Purcell, Kate Mosse and Chris Hammer: This week's best new fiction
Set amid sectarian bloodshed in India, this powerful US debut follows a young Muslim shop clerk who finds herself jailed as a terrorist.
Kevin Godley album review: His voice is as supple and soulful as ever
Pop stars, unlike policemen, are getting older all the time. Paul McCartney has just had a No 1 album at the age of 78.
DEBORAH ROSS: Wildly inaccurate, yes... but this Catherine's just Great
The Great is a period romp based on the life of Catherine the Great, but it is not your average period romp as it is lavishly filthy, wonderfully funny, snappily paced, savagely witty and totally...
Sinfonia of London albums review: Some of the finest string playing ever put on disc
This enterprising album of English music for strings from the 1930s embraces some of the finest string playing ever put on disc by a British orchestra.
Ageless review: A fascinating read with almost every page bursting with extraordinary facts
In 2015, medical researchers at the Mayo Clinic in America discovered that a cocktail of two drugs administered to elderly subjects made them biologically younger.
From WandaVision to Pulling and American Gods: The best on demand TV to watch this week
Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany reprise their roles as Marvel heroes Scarlet Witch and Vision, as they set up a new life in a seemingly idyllic sitcom-inspired town.
PIERS MORGAN: What's my New Year's resolution? To weigh the same as Eamonn Holmes!
I'm not really into making New Year's resolutions, and especially not today because I find the notion of doing Veganuary and Dry January particularly preposterous during another lockdown.
DEBORAH ROSS: Black Narcissus starring Aisling Franciosi is all so sinfully slooow, sister
Black Narcissus is based on the novel by Rumer Godden and was famously filmed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger in 1947, starring Deborah Kerr.
The French Art Of Not Trying Too Hard review: Thought-provoking and delightful book
A photographer I know shoots masterpieces, from Meissen to Monet, for museum catalogues. He explained that the trick to handling these priceless works was to ignore their importance.
From Joyce Carol Oates to Barry Schechter, Gemma Reeves and Isabel Ashdown: This week's fiction
The admirably unflagging Oates returns with a stylish, suspenseful quartet of novellas tinged with the supernatural.
David Bowie single review: He runs the gamut from tenderness to torment
'Five years,' David Bowie sang at the start of Ziggy Stardust. 'What a surprise.' Next week marks five years since his death, which is only half-surprising.
From Dickinson to Rebecka Martinsson and Pieces Of A Woman: The best on demand TV to watch this week
Quirky comedy drama about the great American poet Emily Dickinson, whose genius was unrecognised during her lifetime.
Orchestra Of The Royal Opera House album review: It will sweep you away
Prokofiev's Romeo And Juliet has claims to be the most dazzling of all romantic ballet scores.
From I Can't Believe It's Not Buddha to Chameleon, No Passion No Point and Goodbye To All This
This isn't the podcast I would have imagined Lee Mack hosting, but it's a pleasant surprise.
DEBORAH ROSS: Well Bridgerton isn't Jane Austen but at least there's Regé-Jean Page as Hot Simon
He is Simon Henry Arthur Fitzranulph Basset, Earl Clyvedon, Duke of Hastings or, for short, and as he quickly became known in this house: 'Hot Simon'.
From a fascinating Steve McQueen documentary to Back and Death To 2020: The best on demand TV
After the huge success of The Great Escape, Steve McQueen's star status was such that he could get the backing to make whatever movie he wanted.
PIERS MORGAN: Ozzy Osbourne's Covid advice? 'Don't eat bats - they taste awful!'
It's been a helluva year - the most shocking and life-changing that most of us have experienced.
From Sally Gardner to Jon Clinch and Urs Faes: This week's best new fiction
In this richly spun folk tale of female fellowship and insurgence, silence is weaponised to subvert the patriarchy.
From Paul McCartney to Billie Eilish and Joan As Police Woman: The best songs of 2020
In a year of living anxiously, music has been a balm and a boost. Here are 20 songs to give you a lift while you wait for normality to return.
Soul review: Jamie Foxx stars in a sweet and funny film that also comes recommended by Barack Obama
Pixar's Soul comes recommended by Barack Obama, no less, the first black President of the US fully aware of the cultural significance of it being the first Pixar film to feature a black leading c...
We Keep The Dead Close review: An extraordinary piece of crime writing
In 1969, a female archaeology student is bludgeoned to death in her apartment just off the Harvard campus. No one hears her scream, there is no sign of a break-in, and nothing is stolen.
George Szell review: Remarkable performances
This better-late-than-never Warners box, drawing on original EMI recordings, celebrates the recorded legacy of the Hungarian/American conductor George Szell.
DEBORAH ROSS: Wit, warmth, even love - the biggest catch is in your throat
There must be this belief among TV producers that so long as you throw a celebrity at a place, all will be well, and you don't have to come up with any new ideas, which could prove tiring.
PIERS MORGAN: 'Taxi for Piers Moron!' the papers screamed after my mask gaffe... they were right
Last night, after dining at Harry's Bar restaurant in Mayfair, I left to find paparazzi lurking in the shadows. I stopped to have a chat with them and asked how they were doing in the pandemic.
From Bridgerton to Soul: The best on demand TV to watch this week
Regency London. Beautiful debutante Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor) and the devilishly handsome but rakish Duke of Hastings (Regé-Jean Page) are faking a romance.
From Black Narcissus to Britain's Got Talent Christmas Spectacular and Dunkirk: The best festive TV
A group of nuns attempts to establish a school in the Himalayas but the wild, elemental nature of the place has a disturbing effect on them.
Who was a vicious schoolboy fighter? Find out in our fiendish Christmas books quiz
In November, J. K. Rowling published her first children's book since her Harry Potter series. Its title?
Wonder Woman 1984 review : Gal Gadot and Chris Pine don't set the screen on fire
Three years ago, the original Wonder Woman film was so good it not only established the first female superhero in a leading role but breathed new life into a superhero genre.
A Christmas Carol review: If ever there was a theatre production to experience live, this is it
This streamed version of A Christmas Carol, is back with Andrew Lincoln (The Walking Dead and This Life star) playing Scrooge.
PIERS MORGAN: I won't do Strictly with Giovanni... that stick insect couldn't lift a lump like me
Just when I thought 2020 couldn't possibly get any worse, terrible news reaches me that I've been sent to permanent social Siberia by Kirstie Allsopp.
The Midnight Sky review: We're definitely on familiar territory
George Clooney likes a bit of science fiction.
DEBORAH ROSS: Accused is a superbly told tale of a baby, a dingo and a cruel stitch-up
Something strange has happened at Channel 5 lately, by which I mean it isn't as obsessed with, say, endlessly showing 'the human face' of bailiffs.
From The Bee Gees to The Grand Tour and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: The best on demand TV to watch
With their tight medallions and chest rugs, the brothers Gibb were figures of fun to some, but they wrote more than a thousand songs and had 20 No 1 hits across the globe.
Paul McCartney album review: McCartney III is homespun
Last weekend, Paul McCartney re-entered the chart at No 39 with Wonderful Christmastime. It's not his best song, or even his hundredth-best.
CRAIG BROWN: From raging Trump to a manic magpie, the pick of 2020
This year has been a strange one for the world of books.
From Merlin Sheldrake to James Rebanks and Alan Davies: The best non-fiction of the year
A quirky, thought-provoking, beautifully written and illustrated book about the many ways in which fungi are fascinating.
From Douglas Stuart to Kiley Reid and Sophie Kirtley: The best fiction of the year
This year's Booker Prize winner is the real deal, and a debut to boot.
A Christmas Carol review: Simon Russell Beale is a joy from the off as Scrooge
Simon Russell Beale - an actor normally associated with the classical repertoire - is in his element as Scrooge in this cast- of-three version of A Christmas Carol.
PIERS MORGAN: The devilish, risk-taking part of my brain screamed 'Come on, you big wuss'
'You've been invited on to a Christmas special of Celebrity Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?,' emailed Tracey, my long-suffering PA.
From Diego Maradona to The Best Of An Audience With 1980-2013: The best on demand TV to watch
The extraordinary, chaotic life of the late, truly great Argentinian is detailed in microcosm in Asif Kapadia's compelling account of Maradona's seven-year spell at Napoli.
From Doctor Who to a Katherine Jenkins spectacular: The top 100 shows to watch this Christmas
Braving the terrors of the black chair, comedian Omid Djalili, Charlotte Crosby, Zoe Williams and James Haskell are the first contestants to face John Humphrys' questions in a new series of the q...
From Cecily von Ziegesar to Bridget Collins, Thomas McMullan and Ruth Ware: This week's new fiction
The author best known for the teen hit Gossip Girl returns with a warm, inviting slice of grown-up life, replete with doubt, dissatisfaction and some deeply questionable decision-making.
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom review: The right film at the right time
For reasons we can all appreciate, the major film awards next year have already been significantly postponed, with both the Baftas and the Oscars now taking place in April.
DEBORAH ROSS: Who cares whodunnit in The Undoing? Just look at Nicole Kidman's amazing coats
Who killed Elena Alves? At first I thought it was Jonathan (Hugh Grant). Then I thought it was Grace (Nicole Kidman). Then I thought it was their boy, Henry (Noah Jupe).
From Stephen Hough to Gautier Capuçon and Joseph Calleja: The best albums of the year
Beginning with Beethoven's 250th, here are two exceptional albums by British artists of core repertory that have rarely sounded better.
Beyond Possible review: An inspirational study in leadership
We all know that Everest is the highest mountain in the world, but few outside the climbing community appreciate that it is just one of 14 daunting Himalayan peaks that rise to at least 8,000 met...
CRAIG BROWN: Sir Roy's still going Strong... as his own greatest admirer
Roy who? As Roy Strong admits in this, his third volume of diaries, only those beyond a certain age will recognise his name.
PIERS MORGAN: If looks could kill, Jack Whitehall would have murdered me through my laptop
The GQ Men Of The Year Awards have always been a double-edged sword for me.
From Rumaan Alam to Ivy Pochoda: This week's best new fiction
Amid a blizzard of dystopian fiction, Alam's novel stands out for its eerily languid shift from canny social drama to apocalyptic disaster fiction.
A Promised Land review: Gorgeously written, humorous, compelling and a life-affirming memoir
But was he successful? Was he any good?
From Fiona Apple to The Killers and Taylor Swift: The best albums of the year
Annus horribilis? Not for pop. This has been a year when music has meant more than ever.
From The Undoing to Seaside Hotel and Upright: The best on demand TV to watch this week
Six-part psychological drama in which top psychotherapist Grace Fraser (Nicole Kidman) initially appears to have the perfect life.
The Kanneh-Masons album review: Has a wonderful zip and energy about it
Saint-Saëns would have hated this album. He thought Carnival Of The Animals (1886) threatened his reputation as a serious composer and refused to have it published during his lifetime.
DEBORAH ROSS: 'Will Anne be cleared?' Tracy Borman gasped on The Fall Of Anne Boleyn
A couple of years ago, Channel 5 gave us the lavish historical reconstruction Anne Boleyn: Queen For A Thousand Days.
The Crown may be fiction, but Emma Corrin spot on as Princess Diana
It's season four of The Crown and everyone is asking: but is it historically accurate? No. It is not.
PIERS MORGAN: I was with Gareth Southgate three days before his positive test
It's emerged that England football manager Gareth Southgate tested positive for Covid-19 on October 25 and kept his condition secret as he self-isolated, with 'not pleasant' symptoms, for ten day...
The Time Traveller's Guide To Regency Britain review: A mix of telling anecdote and pithy research
Even the most devoted reader of Jane Austen might find themselves surprised at the reality of life in Regency Britain.
CRAIG BROWN: WOW! Cliff Richard really loves exclamation marks in The Dreamer!
For some time now, the exclamation mark has been going out of fashion. Perhaps we are all more wary and less excitable than once we were.
From Jonathan Lethem to Edward Carey, Kikuko Tsumura and Michael Connelly: This week's best fiction
Imagine some murky but world-changing event. Here, it's called 'The Arrest', and starts with the death of television and the internet. There's no oil, and guns are useless.
From Finding Jack Charlton to The Same Sky and A Star Is Born: The best on demand TV
Although we knew Jack Charlton was ill, his death in July at 85 still came as a shock. After all, he was Big Jack, a seemingly indestructible force.
Gary Barlow album review: If you don't mind a few cliches, this is good fun
For a musician in a band, going solo is usually a chance to get away from the gang, to do something small and introspective.
Hillbilly Elegy review: A film that shows the American dream is still alive but in need of help
Social mobility is a phrase we hear a lot about these days, and quite right too.
DEBORAH ROSS: Missing Succession? You'll love these brazen bankers in Industry
DEBORAH ROSS: Industry is a drama series following five recent graduates as they set out in the world of investment banking, and already you have two problems with it, as I did.
CRAIG BROWN: How a dodgy tour guide duped a professor into thinking Jesus was married
In 2012, at a conference theatrically staged across from the Vatican, the Harvard Professor of Divinity, Dr Karen King, announced that she had discovered a fragment of ancient papyrus.
From Amy Winehouse to Elton John and Elvis Costello & The Attractions: Box sets of the year
Christmas is coming: the discs are getting fat. A musical box set always makes a tempting present, and this year we may even have time to listen to it.
Klopp review: A compelling gallop of a read
It is all there in the title: Anthony Quinn is head over heels in love with Jürgen Klopp. No wonder, really.
From Carys Bray to Bernhard Schlink, Nicole Krauss and H. B. Lyle: This week's best new fiction
Suburban couple Emma and Chris have weathered the storms of redundancy, bereavement and broken dreams.
From The Real Right Stuff to The Pack: The best on demand TV to watch this week
If you've been enjoying the streaming service's drama series based on Tom Wolfe's acclaimed book, you won't want to miss this two-hour spin-off documentary.
The Magic Of Mantovani review: Joseph Calleja's golden voice sounds glorious throughout
For me, this is the best crossover album in years.
PIERS MORGAN: The Archbishop Of Canterbury prays for me! How bad did I have to get for that?
Comedian and actor John Sessions has died, aged 67, and Stephen Fry led the tributes, calling him as 'warm, vulnerable, lovable and loving as anyone can be'. My experience of him was slightly les...
A Christmas Gift From Bob review: Its heart is in the right place
A Christmas Gift from Bob is an unexpected seasonal sequel to 2016's A Street Cat Named Bob and should have been in cinemas now.
How gutless twerp Boris Johnson stopped my interview with Donald Trump
'Good morning, Mr Morgan,' said a polite male American voice on the phone, 'this is the White House switchboard. Are you free to speak with the President?'
Anatomy Of A Killing review: An interesting - in places fascinating - read
On the morning of Saturday, April 22, 1978, an 'Active Service Unit' (ASU) of the Provisional IRA in West Belfast was preparing to carry out a murder.
From The Life Ahead to World On Fire: The best on demand TV to watch this week
Sophia Loren is 86 years old and hasn't made a feature film for a decade, but she's on nomination-grabbingly good form here as Rosa.
From Polly Crosby to Tana French, Louis de Bernières and Anne Youngson: This week's best fiction
Romilly and her artist pa live in a moated Suffolk farmhouse full of damp, deathwatch beetles and ghosts.
CRAIG BROWN: It's not just the silly diagrams and tiny type... it's the weird conspiracy theory
Sir Herbert Butterfield, the renowned Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, once said that history 'is just one bloody thing after another'.
Kylie album review: If you're itching to dance around the kitchen, Disco will do the business
During the first lockdown, many people suddenly found a new interest, while others lost themselves in something they already loved. Kylie Minogue, it seems, did both at once.
DEBORAH ROSS: Don't rock the boat? I wish they'd hurry up and sink it
Don't Rock The Boat was the latest reality television show from ITV, which has taken to stripping its programmes across the week, as if no one has a life - and now we haven't.
From The Simpsons to Rita and Wasteland: The best on demand TV to watch this week
Since it was created by Matt Groening back in 1989, The Simpsons has become one of the most iconic sitcoms of all time.
Let's Do It Review: If only Jasper Rees had taken Victoria Wood's advice of less was always more
No one pinpointed the essence of Middle England both as lovingly and as sharply as Victoria Wood.
CRAIG BROWN: Jules Renard writes with exquisite wit and timeless wisdom
Has anyone ever written of the natural world with the piercing wit of Jules Renard?
From Jonathan Coe to David Leavitt, Don DeLillo and William Hjortsberg: This week's best fiction
A love letter to the Hollywood legend Billy Wilder. Calista, a middle-aged composer and mother-of-two, looks back at 1977 when she was working for the film-maker on one of his last movies.
DEBORAH ROSS: Thrilled by The Sister? NO! Hooked on Hugh Grant? Not yet...
ITV's latest forgettable thriller, spread over four nights, was The Sister , which was so forgettable I'm forgetting it as I'm trying to remember it.
Dame Shirley Bassey album review: It's brassy, it's classy, it's sassy
This is a new album, billed as a 'grand finale'. After making records since 1957, Shirley Bassey has surely earned the right to retire. But in showbusiness every finale is a good excuse for an en...
Maiden Voyages review: A watery in-between world where the usual rules didn't quite apply
During the 25 years between the sinking of the Titanic and the outbreak of the Second World War, thousands of women criss-crossed the Atlantic on the great ocean liners of the day.
DEBORAH ROSS: Helen McCrory's a marvel in Roadkill on BBC1... but did David Hare do any research?
Roadkill , the latest political thriller from David Hare, stars Hugh Laurie as shady Tory Minister Peter Laurence and Helen McCrory as the Prime Minister.
From The Witches to The Mandalorian and His House: The best on demand TV to watch this week
When Roald Dahl wrote his wonderfully scary children's novel about a coven of child-hating witches planning to turn all kids into mice, it was set mainly in England. Bournemouth, in fact.
'It's not the jump that hurts,' Eddie Van Halen told me, 'it's the landing'
I was very sad to hear that Eddie Van Halen, the world's greatest rock guitarist, has died aged 65 after a lengthy battle with various cancers.
Donovan review: He is a likeable presence... but for half an hour his show is underwhelming
No man is an island, unless he's a singer at a socially distanced gig. Donovan is playing the Cadogan Hall, alone with his acoustic guitar.
CRAIG BROWN: The Wilde confessions of 'an old freak on the Hollywood dust heap'
Actors' memoirs are invariably tales of triumph. There may be a few ups and downs, but when the curtain falls, the audience rises to its feet and delivers thunderous applause.
From Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi to Peter Ackroyd, Phil Klay and Ian Rankin: This week's best fiction
Growing up with her extended family in 1970s Uganda, Kirabo wonders why she was abandoned by her mother. She seeks answers from the local 'witch'.
Betrayal review: Directed with admirable clarity
Bath's exquisite Regency theatre is back in business. Hooray!
DEBORAH ROSS: After this, how can anyone watch a performing whale?
John Bishop's Great Whale Rescue wasn't John Bishop's exactly.
'No thanks,' said Rio Ferdinand, 'give your book to someone who'd actually want it'
He sent a message saying, 'No thanks, mate, do yourself a favour and give it to someone else who would actually want it and like, read it. No offence, mate.’
From Rebecca to On The Rocks and Drama Out Of A Crisis: The best on demand TV this week
Daphne du Maurier published Rebecca, her enduring psychological thriller, in 1938 and within two years it had been turned into an Oscar-winning film by Alfred Hitchcock.
Saint Maud review: Entirely rooted in its own genre and yet still entirely its own picture
With Cineworld now shut until further notice and many Odeons and Vues moving to part-time opening, these are dreadful times for cinema and it desperately needs our support.
The Meaning Of Mariah Carey review: It may be preposterous but it's also entertaining and funny
Describing herself as a 'global icon, award-winning singer-songwriter, producer, actress, mother, daughter, sister, storyteller and artist', Mariah Carey can never be accused of selling herself s...
Bruce Springsteen album review: Your home will be full of warmth, and decency, and people
Bruce Springsteen has spent the past few years branching out, with an autobiography, a Broadway show, an orchestrated folk album and a lockdown radio series.
Victoria Hislop to John Lanchester, Sigrid Nunez and Stuart Turton: This week's best new fiction
In the sequel to her best-selling debut, Hislop revisits The Island's leper colony of Spinalonga, which closes when a cure is found in 1957.
DEBORAH ROSS: Michael Palin is deliciously wry in Travels Of A Lifetime
DEBORAH ROSS: Michael Palin's Around The World In 80 Days, originally broadcast in 1989, was the first 'celebrity travelogue', paving the way for the situation we have today.
From The Trail Of The Chicago 7 to Riviera and David Copperfield: The best on demand TV this week
There's one reason why people are talking about The Trial Of The Chicago 7.
Dolly Parton album review: Christmas at Dolly's turns out to be all schmaltz and no personality
A Holly Dolly Christmas prompts mixed feelings before you even listen to it. A Christmas album in early October would normally be sure to make the heart sink.
Roddy Doyle, Alice Hoffman and Ngugi wa Thiong'o: This week's best new fiction
No one does boozy male regret better than Doyle, and he's on typically fluent form in this slow-burn tale of two old friends who hook up for a nostalgia-soaked crawl around the haunts of their yo...
Talking Heads review: A truly heroic project
This is the triumphant conclusion to the series of starry monologues at the Bridge Theatre - a truly heroic project to keep live theatre ticking over during lockdown.
From Brian Blessed's Bedtime Stories to Who Am I This Time? and The Shift: This week's top podcasts
Brian Blessed is not quite sure what a 'bodcast' is, but he sounds very pleased to be hosting one.
'My puppet is every bit as revolting as my worst critics would have hoped'
Spitting Image was one of my favourite TV shows when it first aired. The combination of its hideously grotesque puppets and savage humour sliced through all its victims' preening egos.
CRAIG BROWN: Two real-life tales reveal the utter weirdness of people's lives
Reading these two extraordinary books, the chorus of The Beatles' song Eleanor Rigby kept floating into my head.
Elizabethans review: Andrew Marr examines what it means to be a Briton today
Andrew Marr's Elizabethans kicks off with the Queen addressing the nation just as coronavirus hit.
From a David Attenborough documentary to Ghosts and Brave New World: The best on demand TV this week
David Attenborough has spent the past seven decades travelling the wildest reaches of the globe and produced some of the most memorable documentaries of all time.
Pandora's Jar review: Proves that the classics are far from dead, and keep evolving with us
Swinging a baseball bat, Beyoncé sings: 'What's worse, looking jealous or crazy?' The Hold Up music video shows a woman betrayed by the man she loves.
John Lennon album review: Forty years on, his music is fully alive
Anniversaries are two a penny in pop these days, but the odd one can still stop you in your tracks.
Richard Osman, Marilynne Robinson, William Boyd and Dolly Alderton: This week's best new fiction
Pointless has made Richard Osman an unlikely TV star and his first thriller has been much hyped. Does it deliver? Mostly yes.
John Williams In Vienna review: There's magic in the air throughout
This album, recorded in Vienna's celebrated Golden Hall of the Musikverein, commemorates an ecstatically received visit by John Williams to the Austrian capital in January.
On The Rocks review: A small, strange film but it's rich in New York atmosphere
Sofia Coppola, of course, is the daughter of Francis Ford Coppola, director of The Godfather trilogy and other fine films.
The trouble with Life is there isn't much life to it
Life is the latest drama from Mike 'Doctor Foster' Bartlett and it had, excitingly, been billed as a Doctor Foster spin-off, as one of the characters is familiar.
From a gripping six-part podcast about Stephen Lawrence to Peter 2.0: This week's top podcasts
In this gripping six-part podcast, the Daily Mail's veteran crime writer Stephen Wright sheds light on the attitudes that led to the murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993.
My wife looked like one of my Killer Women subjects - vacant-eyed and murderous
The question I am most often asked these days, by everyone from cabbies to supermarket staff, is: 'What time do you have to get up for Good Morning Britain?'
Diary Of An Apprentice Astronaut review: An enthralling book
Thanks to Covid-19, many of us are dreaming of an escape from Earth at present - and Samantha Cristoforetti's absorbing tale of becoming an astronaut and venturing into space offers just that.
From Spitting Image to The Hobbit and a Challenger documentary: The best on demand TV this week
Since it was announced the beloved puppet show was returning to our screens after 14 years, we've been drip-fed photographs of the new characters who'll be appearing.
Housewife super spy... The secret life of Agent Sonya
With his new spy book, Agent Sonya, Ben Macintyre enters fresh territory. Agent Sonya was a woman and no one in counter-espionage could imagine that a woman could also be a master spy
Robert Galbraith, Andrew O'Hagan, Curtis Sittenfeld and Rose Tremain: This week's new fiction
This new episode in the Cormoran Strike series sees the one-legged detective tackling his first cold case. London doctor Margot Bamborough vanished 40 years ago.
DEBORAH ROSS: Britain's most boring husband? He's thrilling!
Us is an adaptation of the novel by David Nicholls about a middle-aged married couple who may or may not stay together, which doesn't sound especially compelling, but it is
A Feast In The Time Of Plague review: Lively, accessible, but in no sense backward-looking
A Feast In The Time Of Plague is terrific; a contemporary opera that's easy on the ear but never facile, with a storyline based on a Pushkin sketch that manages to combine death with humour.
Amanda Holden review: A good voice, but her debut album, Songs From My Heart, lacks personality
Picture the scene. You've been a talent show judge for 14 years, a lively presence in millions of living rooms on a Saturday night. You have a husband, two daughters and a sideline as a DJ.
My famous friends messaged me, asking if I was about to die...
I began receiving a flurry of messages from famous friends worried that my death might be more imminent than I would like. Pranksters had been requesting 'advanced obituary tributes'
Kate Winslet just turned a blind eye and banked the cheque!
Actress Kate Winslet has expressed her horror at working with directors Roman Polanski and Woody Allen. Three years ago, however, she gave a rather different response to The New York Times...
Rick Astley review: The man with the enormous voice is endearingly ordinary
This was very nearly the summer of the drive-in gig. A whole series of them was announced, with stars from Gary Numan to Dizzee Rascal playing venues like Leeds East Airport.
Ann Cleeves, Susanna Clarke, Nick Hornby and Ken Follett: This week's best new fiction
Cleeves's much-loved police detective, Vera Stanhope, is grumpy, dishevelled and middle-aged but not to be underestimated.
JAMES DELINGPOLE: David Tennant brilliantly smokes out this monster
I still wonder whether spending three hours inside the head of a Dennis Nilson and - thanks to Tennant's brilliance - almost getting to like him, wasn't a slightly tainting experience
Bill & Ted Face The Music review: Laugh-out-loud funny at times, and thin and slow at others
The enduring appeal of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure - released way back in 1989 - hangs on three things.
From Millie Bobby Brown in Enola Holmes to Tehran and The Gentlemen: The best on demand TV this week
Millie Bobby Brown stars as Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes's little sister in the first of what seems certain to be a film franchise.
Burning The Books review: A stirring volume
Throughout history there has been as great an urge to eradicate knowledge as to preserve it.
A disordered rag-bag of clichés, cock-and-bull stories and sleazy boasts!
When is a novel not a novel? If you need an answer to this question, don't, whatever you do, ask Martin Amis or you'll never hear an end to it
Captain Tom asked for two Cokes, a bar of Dairy Milk... and six blondes
Of all Captain Tom's achievements, helping me finally book Sir Michael Caine may top the lot
As moving as Kes... the tale of how troubled Charlie Gilmour was healed by a thieving magpie
Featherhood is wise, self-aware, never forced, often funny, beautifully crafted, and, in the end, as moving as Kes
Author Robert Harris blasts back at the woke warriors
'The whole point in writing a book is to try and experience what someone else might feel. You may succeed or you may fail, but one has to have the freedom to try.'
DEBORAH ROSS: Did ANY BBC documentary makers not go to Oxbridge?
Everyone is always having a go at the BBC for one reason or another, yet I'm rarely among them. But I wonder if there is something up with the people it deems fit to present documentaries.
Sleepless review: This heroic venture in a theatrical desert well deserves a visit
Hats off to the producers. This is the first fully staged musical since lockdown.
From Sarah Paulson in Ratched to High Fidelity and Happy Valley: The best on demand TV this week
The classic 1975 film One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest gave us one of the screen's great villains in Nurse Ratched, the cold-hearted tyrant who rules her psychiatric wards with a rod of iron.
Raise your glass to '31 Days of German Riesling' - this is the perfect time to taste for yourself
Riesling, from its spiritual home in Germany, is one of the greatest treasures of the wine world - and this month I'm delighted to raise my glass to '31 Days of German Riesling'.
Try these apps and games to get you through self-isolation
Like many people, I'm now facing the possibility of several weeks confined with my four-year-old, a prospect only marginally less alarming than being cooped up with Frankenstein's monster
Pure, not prissy: Indian at its best
This is modern Indian cooking at its best, pure but never prissy, with the most eloquent understanding of spice