Tony Todd on Candyman, Black Lives Matter and seeing stars cry on the set of Platoon
Tony Todd chuckles heartily. “Why in the fuck would I go to a mirror, with me in the mirror – the actor who played the...
Tag : Culture
Sotheby’s to auction defining image of BLM protests
It was one of the defining photos of this summer’s civil rights protests, and was all the more remarkable for being taken by a man...
From cut-out confessions to cheese pages: browse the world’s strangest books
Edward Brooke-Hitching grew up in a rare book shop, with a rare book dealer for a father. As the author of histories of maps The...
‘The more complaints we got, the better’ – how Spitting Image redefined satire
‘The taxi driver who took my wife and I out to dinner last week said: ‘Are you really Roy Hattersley?’” says the former deputy leader...
Swords, sand and razor-sharp insults: The Secret of Monkey Island at 30
Anyone who went to school during the Thatcher years will remember adventure games as something experienced on the class computer, typically a BBC Micro. Educational...
‘I brought skills with me from a war zone’: the long history of migrants in the NHS
Nitha Naqvi’s parents had only recently arrived in the UK from Pakistan when they had her. Both were overworked junior hospital doctors who, cut off...
Yorkshire, Yorkshire, everywhere! How Channel 5 scored lockdown viewing gold
In The Good Companions, the 1929 novel that gave him national fame, JB Priestley begins high up on the Pennines – the “knobbly backbone of...
Steve McQueen and Bernardine Evaristo named among ‘100 great black Britons’
The model and transgender activist Munroe Bergdorf, the artist and film director Steve McQueen and the Booker prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo are among the new...
Andrew Marr: ‘There is a drive on to destroy the BBC’
Andrew Marr is reading a new book by the former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams – research for his Monday-morning radio show Start the Week...
Carrie Hope Fletcher: ‘The arts aren’t viable? See how you feel without them!’
More than six months have passed since the pandemic closed theatres in March. What was that time like?I had just left Les Mis for a...