Marking 100 years since the first appearance of Hercule Poirot, Richard E. Grant explores the life of Agatha Christie, and the events that inspired the novels.
A superb, moving and thrilling interview with American actor Sterling Hayden (1916-86), held in Besançon, France, on board a dilapidated barge, when he was 65 years old. An unparalleled portrait,…
Sky Arts presents the definitive story of The Jam, one of the most successful British bands in rock history, who were at the forefront of the late 1970s punk-mod scene….
WELFARE shows the nature and complexity of the welfare system in sequences illustrating the staggering diversity of problems that constitute welfare: housing, unemployment, divorce, medical and psychiatric problems, abandoned and…
Before Google, Yahoo and even Apple, before the Silicon Valley cliché of informal dress code, skateboards running the corridors and wild creativity became commonplace, one company embodied the digital economy…
The 50-year saga of the legendary Swedish pop quartet…from their iconic Eurovision triumph with ‘Waterloo’ to the pre-ABBA chapters of individual lives, and the genesis of their unique sound.
Demystifying the dates and small print on food packaging, journalist Harry Wallop, restaurant critic Jimi Famurewa and other experts investigate if food date labels are in fact a con.
In 1932, the writer Paul Nizan published “The New Watchdogs” to denounce the philosophers and writers of his time who, sheltering behind intellectual neutrality, imposed themselves as true watchdogs of…
Torture chambers, acid vats, greased chutes and gassing rooms were just some of the devices of death designed by the Torture Doctor, H.H. Holmes in his castle of horrors. Follows…
