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Television scriptwriter whose best work, such as On Giant’s Shoulders, Virtuoso and Hancock, was based on real lives

Marathon effort: Bower's extraordinary challenge

With Liz Truss becoming the 56th British prime minister, it got me thinking about how many PMs there have been in my lifetime. The answer is 16, going back to Clement Atlee, which is a bit scary. In fact, while I was still residing in the UK there were only…

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The Whitechapel quartet's Tony Hancock-referencing 2002 debut remains a classic - and distinctly English - salvo from what was once dubbed the garage rock revival.

With the release of ‘Mrs Harris Goes to Paris’ later this year, starring Lesley Manville as a British cleaning lady going to Paris to buy a Dior dress, Geoffrey Macnab looks back at films set in Paris and says when it comes to wish-fulfilment fantasies on screen, there has only…

Terry Nation's Daleks are known across the world - but not many people know about the man himself

Writers’ agent who became a television producer with credits including Sherlock, Men Behaving Badly and Coupling