Sci-fi author Douglas Adams didn’t live long enough to see the technological future he foretold become reality, or how his vision influenced his most famous fan
Slattery was a regular on comedy shows Whose Line Is It Anyway? Just A Minute and Have I Got News For You
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Unthinkable: No of course it doesn't, but it does try to address life’s ultimate questions
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It is some measure of Columbo’s uniqueness that it has no obvious successor
Actor talks about Footlights, teaching, sage advice from doctor and new film After Love
Late psychiatrist felt a deep sense of foreboding when interviewing sexual predator
Acts of neighbourliness, solidarity and self-sacrifice portray people to be mainly good
Hawks & Doves, Michael Portillo’s Irish history lesson, crackles with melodrama
After a flood of support last year, the actor has made a film about mental health and childhood abuse
Philippe Sands tells the tale of a leading Nazi whose son denies his father’s criminality
Tony Robinson on Baldrick, lockdown, his socialism and why he doesn’t miss acting
Graham Norton and Stephen Fry among those to pay tribute to veteran broadcaster
The Monty Python founder had the idea of dropping punchlines for an absurdist style
The singer on a Stephen Fry podcast and why The World at War should be mandatory viewing
Audiobook narrators talk tricky accents, lonely shifts and tackling 100 pages a day
Broadcaster never thought of himself as theologian but he enhanced communion
Peep Show star is ‘depressed’ by Brexit but tries to focus on the ‘greatest aim’ of being funny
‘Threads don’t get any more glorious than this’ – comedian Stephen Fry praises story
Festival director Fergus Linehan says artists want to be paid in euros or dollars instead
Opinon: Let’s not fool ourselves. I wish religion had been an ally of science – usually it was an opponent, and in most of the world it still is
The growth of spoken-word festivals reflects our hunger for real-life experiences
His appearances on Whose Line Is It Anyway? in the 1990s made the son of Irish immigrants a comedy star. Then his life fell apart
Youtuber’s videos about growing up gay in Ireland have racked up 45m views. Now he’s written a book
Deepening relationships may be more beneficial than creating lots of new ones
He becomes first player to reach landmark on way to winning Players Championship
The author on the benefits of stripping back to the ‘acoustic version’ of life
Whatever name the building was known by in its lifetime, it was always a city landmark
Where to go, when to book and what to do for your upcoming trips this year
Our late literary correspondent on Darina Allen, Martin Amis, Nigel Kennedy and more
Ireland rugby hero Peter O’Mahony and Boyzone on the Late Late, Nicole Kidman joins Graham Norton and Michael Parkinson chats to Ray D’Arcy
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Get the latest news, analysis and match reports from the M6N and W6N championships
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices
