Culture (Page 337)

Review at a glance R elative to all that’s gone down before, things are calm when we return to Summerhouse for the new season of Top Boy. Jamie (Michael Ward), the young drug gang leader who spent most of the last season locked in a fraught battle for supremacy ofContinue Reading

The celebrated British archaeology series returns to screens for its first new episodes in a decade in a new extended format – thanks to the support of fans worldwide. Join Time Team for the excavation of two fascinating sites: an Iron Age settlement with underground tunnels in Cornwall, and aContinue Reading

Showing at the Penwith Gallery in St.Ives, 4th March to 2nd April, No Such Thing is a joint exhibition of ceramics by Lloyd Peters and paintings by Nancy Pickard. Lloyd’s ceramics can be seen as fine art pieces, and all this work, with new forms and glaze treatments, will be on show for the firstContinue Reading

Review at a glance “ You couldn’t make it up!” would be the standard newspaperly thing to say about the fate of Volodymyr Zelensky. A comic actor; the winner of the Ukrainian version of Strictly; the Ukrainian voice of Paddington Bear: this is the man whom history has cast asContinue Reading

U K viewers will get to watch the Ukrainian TV show that helped launch Volodymyr Zelensky’s meteoric rise when it airs on Channel 4 this Sunday. Servant of the People, whose three seasons broke viewing records in Ukraine and won awards around the world between 2015 and 2019, starred ZelenskyContinue Reading

Inevitably, there will be Harry Potters and Hermione Grangers commemorated across the UK– and 100 other countries around the world celebrating all things literature in school. This year sees the 25th anniversary of the fair with book bargains and £1 book tokens being gifted to children to encourage a readingContinue Reading

Review at a glance J ust a week ago, an exhibition featuring bomb sites, mass displacement of people and traumatised refugees would have seemed remote from our time. But now, quite a lot of the content and much of the tone of Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945-65, theContinue Reading