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I taught art in a high-security prison – Waiting for the Out took me straight back to my classroom

Watching Waiting for the Out, the BBC’s flagship new drama series, transported me straight back to my classroom in HMP Wakefield in the mid-1990s. This decaying Victorian building at the heart of a challenged city in the north of England is one of the UK’s ten category-A, high-security prisons for…

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Waiting for the Out review – totally magnificent TV about philosophy in prison

Dennis Kelly’s brilliant drama about a teacher in prison is moving, gripping and almost painfully vulnerable – plus the main character decimates everyone at a middle-class dinner party. What more could you want?

The Guardian - UK

Waiting for the Out review – Poignant prison drama tackles the reality of modern masculinity

4/5 Josh Finan gives a delicate, sensitive performance as an academic teaching a beginner class in philosophy at a British prison

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20 TV shows everyone will be talking about in 2026, from Pride & Prejudice to Dear England

2026 CULTURE GUIDE: There’s plenty to get excited about over the next 12 months, whether it’s psychological thrillers, period dramas, Irish comedies or returning favourites. Ellie Harrison and Katie Rosseinsky take a look

The Independent UK

‘A lot of these scary blokes doing time are terrified little boys’: Dennis Kelly on writing a new kind of prison drama

The new project from the creator of Pulling and Utopia is the real-life tale of a teacher whose life is upended by working with inmates. ‘It upends your prejudices,’ he says

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Waiting For The Out: cast, plot and everything we know

Waiting For The Out stars Josh Finan as a man who teaches in a prison but starts questioning if he too belongs behind bars.

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Oscar Wilde’s The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a work of art activism beloved by Banksy

In 2021, Banksy revealed a mural of Oscar Wilde, clad in prisoner garb, making an escape from the abandoned Reading jail. The artist claimed that he would donate profits from the sale of the stencil he used to create the work (a projected £10 million) to set up an arts…

The Conversation

Literary escapes! 10 top London authors on their summer must-reads

Classic romance novels, epic sci-fi, poetic prose — Alex Peake-Tomkinson quizzes writers from Jessie Burton to Diana Evans on their all-time favourite literary escapes

Evening Standard

Economic levers and buying players who can’t play: Explaining Barcelona’s unexplainable summer

Salary reductions, economic levers, free transfers they can’t afford to register and over €160m spent elsewhere anyway – what’s going on at the Camp Nou this season?

The Independent UK

Right from Wrong; Criminal; The Life Inside review – the problem with our prisons

Three different viewpoints on the UK’s system of incarceration – by Jacob Dunne, Angela Kirwin and Andy West – examine the human cost of our investment in punishment rather than rehabilitation

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