‘Firemen are some of my favourite human beings’: evacuated hotel guest turns out to be Henry Winkler
Irish TV viewers watching news coverage on Wednesday night of a hotel fire were surprised to find themselves tuning in to an interview with a Hollywood legend. RTÉ News dispatched a camera crew to the Shelbourne hotel in Dublin city…
Systemic by Layal Liverpool review – the price of prejudice
When I was 15, I went to Southend High Street after school one day with two of my best friends. A group of white men drinking beer walked past us, a trio of brown girls in school uniform. One of…
Best podcasts of the week: Jon Stewart confronts corruption, Trump and more
Picks of the week Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes) Widely available, episodes weekly The two Cheers stars reunite and rekindle their friendship while chatting away to interviewees – and it is every bit…
Freud’s Last Session review – what-if meeting of minds with Anthony Hopkins as the master analyst
Here is a determinedly old-fashioned drama, verbose and elaborate but also forthright and watchable in its way. It is a Stoppardian what-if meeting, imagining a bruising encounter between two celebrated historical figures who could, theoretically, have run into each other;…
Cecilia by K-Ming Chang review – teenage kicks
K-Ming Chang’s oppressively sensual, thrillingly disorienting novella of queer love and intimate obsession is narrated by Seven, who is 24 and working as a cleaner in a chiropractor’s office. She works in near isolation, seeing the chiropractor and receptionist only when they…
‘They’re not like puppy dogs. They should be respected’: how to swim with sharks in British waters
We have only been waiting in the grey Atlantic swell a few moments when the first flash of metallic blue appears in the water. A blue shark, a few miles from the coast of Penzance in Cornwall, emerges from the…
New Zealand on brink of exit after T20 World Cup defeat by West Indies
New Zealand are on the brink of elimination at the group stage of the men’s T20 World Cup after falling 13 runs short of West Indies’ target at the Brian Lara Academy in Trinidad. The co-hosts recovered from a horror…
The Friday Afternoon Club by Griffin Dunne review – Hollywood tales
Early in this deft and multifaceted family memoir, Griffin Dunne admits that he has been known to tell the odd tall tale. His father was the journalist and author Dominick Dunne, and his aunt and uncle Joan Didion and John Dunne,…
TV tonight: the seven main parties battle it out at the next election debate
The ITV Election Debate 8.30pm, ITV1Penny Mordaunt, Angela Rayner, Daisy Cooper, Stephen Flynn, Nigel Farage, Carla Denyer and Rhun ap Iorwerth have been confirmed as the representatives of the seven main parties (Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrats, SNP, Reform UK, Green,…
‘I need your help saving koalas’: how Australians banded together to build wildlife corridors
In 2016 a friend phoned Linda Sparrow about a 400-metre stretch of koala trees on the western edge of Bangalow, a small regional town in northern New South Wales. The landscape in the region had long since been cut back…