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‘You wouldn’t pick us out as mother and daughter!’: Imelda Staunton and Bessie Carter on acting together for the first time

Bridgerton star Bessie – soon to play Nancy Mitford in a new TV drama – and her mum, acting royalty Imelda, talk Sondheim, sandwiches and taking the stage together in Shaw’s sex worker scandal Mrs Warren’s Profession

The Guardian - UK

‘It is absolutely, fundamentally not autobiography’: Chris Bush on her new play about the trans experience

The award-winning British dramatist had a huge hit with her Richard Hawley musical Standing at the Sky’s Edge. Her latest, Otherland, is a much more personal piece – and, she says, frightening

The Guardian - UK

‘Trump has been explicit about revenge’: Asif Kapadia on his new film about the threat to democracy

The man behind Amy and Senna has turned his attention to ‘techno-authoritarianism’ in the genre-defying 2073. He talks to our journalist – one of the movie’s unlikely stars – about the events that fed his dystopian vision

The Guardian - UK

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‘You get more confident as the parts run out’: Harriet Walter on her stage career, Succession and Shakespeare’s women

In her new book the acclaimed actor imagines what the Bard’s female characters might have said if they had had the chance

The Guardian - UK

Succession star J Smith-Cameron: ‘There’s a bewildered vulnerability to middle age that is ripe to be explored’

The actor famous for playing Gerri Kellman on starring opposite Mark Rylance on the London stage, her recent emergency operation, and her thoughts on the US election

The Guardian - UK

‘My whole life’s interconnected’: Neneh Cherry on the relationships that inspire her, leaving home at 15, and the joy of a trashy box set

The celebrated musician answers questions from Observer readers and famous fans including Michael Stipe, Bernardine Evaristo, Questlove and Sadiq Khan

The Guardian - UK

Documentary-maker Ibrahim Nash’at on filming the Taliban: ‘The secret service asked to see my footage. I left the same day’

Embedded with the Taliban after US forces fled Kabul, Nash’at’s fly-on-the-wall documentary, Hollywoodgate, offers a darkly comic, damning insight into the regime

The Guardian - UK

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‘He’s the party starter!’ Daniel Kaluuya and Kano on friendship, football and their new film

The Oscar winner – and now director – and the rapper and Top Boy star Kane Robinson are longtime friends. Their new movie, the dystopian thriller The Kitchen, draws on their city childhoods

The Guardian - UK

The rise of actor Patsy Ferran: ‘I’m a bit of a duck: calm on the surface…’

She cancelled her honeymoon to star in A Streetcar Named Desire with four days’ notice – then won the 2023 Critics’ Circle best actress award. She talks to the Observer’s theatre critic, an early champion, about her next move

The Guardian - UK

Andi Oliver: ‘I’ve always done exactly what I wanted’

Musician, chef, TV host … Andi Oliver tells of her long journey to the top, explains the delights of Caribbean cooking – and introduces recipes from her new cookbook

The Guardian - UK

Why does This England let Boris Johnson off so lightly?

No Partygate, no dodgy party donors and no sex pests. If only the Covid wards had been as well sanitised as Michael Winterbottom’s dramatisation of Boris Johnson’s pandemic government, writes Sean O’Grady

The Independent UK

From Boris to Borgen: MPs and TV writers on what shows about politics get right... and very wrong

With Boris Johnson drama This England about to air, MPs including Jess Phillips and Andrew Mitchell on why they can’t get enough of political shows

Evening Standard

This England: Director says Kenneth Brannagh did "great job" in portraying Boris Johnson

"I hope that he was flattered when he heard that Kenneth Branagh was going to be playing him...he's a great actor"

Belfast Live

The River Cafe legacy: the enduring influence of one of Britain’s best loved restaurants

The Italian restaurant, which opened 35 years ago, counts Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall among its alumni. We speak to three of its chefs who have taken its ethos with them into their own places

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Kenneth Branagh’s Boris Johnson transformation baffles viewers: ‘That’s Kenneth Branagh?!’

‘Branagh might have one of the strangest bodies of work in film history,’ one commenter wrote

The Guardian - UK

Kenneth Branagh as Boris Johnson revealed in This England teaser

Sky Atlantic series follows PM’s tumultuous first months in No 10 as he grapples with pandemic

Evening Standard

This England: First-look trailer for Covid-19 drama shows Kenneth Branagh as Boris Johnson

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