Features

The Flying Circus members - left to right, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, John Cleese, Terry Jones and Eric Idle - receiving special Bafta awards

And now for something completely familiar...

The Python team are proving that, even in their late 60s, being anarchically rude to one another still comes naturally.

Inside Features

Observations: Pryce brushes up on his Pinter

Friday, 16 October 2009

Jonathan Pryce has appeared in The Caretaker before – a BBC adaptation followed by a staging at the National Theatre in 1980 – but when veteran director Christopher Morahan asked him if he would consider doing it again, he was immediately interested. His one proviso? "If I do it I want to do it at the Everyman".

Defying Gravity: Star trekkers, the next generation

Friday, 16 October 2009

With no aliens, warp factors or teleportation, new space opera ‘Defying Gravity’ appears more down to earth than the classics. But that just adds to its appeal, says Gerard Gilbert

The Week In Radio: Shooting star almost got the brush-off

Thursday, 15 October 2009

I’ll only give you an interview if you go to bed with me,” is not the kind of line a journalist hears much nowadays. Or perhaps I don’t get out enough. But whereas a request like this today would have broadcasting apparatchiks in a frenzy over harassment procedure, back in 1972 it didn’t faze David Bailey. It didn’t even bother him that it was Andy Warhol asking. He said yes, and the resulting surreal documentary made history, entertainingly recounted in Radio 4’s When Bailey Met Warhol.