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From the pompous vanity of Sir Walter Elliot in Persuasion (1817), to the shallow reading habits of Isabella in Northanger Abbey (1817), few characters in the works of Jane Austen are spared the gentle satire of her famously ironic narrative voice. Similarly, some of her best remembered characters, like Elizabeth…

Director in the West End and regional theatre for five decades who often worked with the playwright Alan Ayckbourn

Tim Parker tells inquiry the firm relied too heavily on lawyers and should have shown key report to the board

Revolutionary AI technologies can't solve the 'wicked problems' facing policy makers.

TV director who made dramas by some of the top screenwriters of the 1980s and 90s, such as Alan Bennett and Alan Plater

Women’s body parts have long been appropriated for the purpose of cursing, so it’s only right that we reclaim them with profane gusto

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

Inspired by global warming and the refugees who lost their lives trying to reach Europe, Shezad Dawood’s work asks difficult questions. How will it go down in church?

From animatronic cowboys to hungry alligators, there is nothing quite so creepy as a derelict funfair