Adam Farrer, author of Broken Biscuits and Other Male Failures, listens patiently and nods. I’m interviewing him about his ...

Looking Up, a loop of Pat Flynn’s CGI-animated shorts, ran to mark the opening of Wonderful Electric, the new digital ...

The Secret Public: LGBTQ Pop 1955–1985 is at John Rylands Research Institute and Library until November 15, 2025. For more ...

Outcast is a tale for our times. The events depicted in my book might have taken place a quarter of a century ago but this true story of a maverick Yorkshire businessman who fights back against the ...

When Yorkshire-born Kieran Hodgson joined the cast of BBC Scotland’s hit comedy series Two Doors Down, he decided to go “all in” and relocate with his partner to Glasgow. The move north of the border ...

During lockdown, retail manager Aiden Ryan wanted to use his time constructively. Armed with only a whisk and a dream, first-time baker Ryan decided to try his hand at cake-making with a view to ...

For my 20th birthday in my first home of my own, my mum gave me a framed Paul Klee print. I loved it. The colour palette of that picture has left an impression on me and is part of my visual lexicon.

The British Library is one of London’s most recognisable landmarks. This Grade I listed building comprised of brick and marble sits alongside St Pancras International Station and holds an incalculable ...

Two decades have passed since Martin Isherwood wrote the UK’s 2003 Eurovision entry, Cry Baby, with support from his colleague, musician Mel Purves. Now, with less than a month to go until Eurovision ...

When singer and songwriter Eric D. Johnson (Fruit Bats) heard that his friends, the singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and multi-instrumentalist and producer Josh Kaufman, who’s worked with the exalted ...

Picture the scene: a gloomy Saturday evening in Manchester and the rain pours down like shoals of silver fish from a glowering, diluvian sky. Inside The Stoller Hall, however, The Brighouse & Rastrick ...

Henry Normal, co-writer and producer of award-winning TV shows and films such as The Royle Family, The Mrs Merton Show, The Parole Officer, Paul Calf, Gavin & Stacey, Alan Partridge, among many others ...