For Beatles fans and others who wonder what might have happened if EMI had turned the Beatles down in 1962. amazon.co.uk/Sorry-Boys-You…

An Amandaland special. Not ab fab. This weird zone of just misleading enough is such a weird place to exist as a newspaper.

This is the shoe event horizon

Loving Fry channelling melchett every time someone knocks on the door #cel

'A Man with a Pint,' (1932) is a winning characterization of a man familiar with the intimate narrative of pub life by Fred Elwell, a British figurative painter strongly influenced by the interior scenes of Walter Sickert.

The Radiohead interview in today's Sunday Times is genuinely heartening. They clearly have principled political differences over playing in Israel but everyone involved just . . . sounds like a grown-up.

Doesn't this compromise you on a massive, massive news story?

Is this how it might have been?amazon.co.uk/Sorry-Boys-You…

The fact that ALAN has won the entire show after this moment is exactly why I pay my tv license x #CelebrityTraitors

Traitors Finale Night. So honoured to work on a show where people gather like this to watch the result. #CelebrityTraitors #SpoilerAlert #thecelebritytraitors

Beatle-y alert: British Library are holding a special anniversary event to play the Stowe Tape with the student who made it, Mark Lewisohn and more special guests. I'll be hosting. April 4th 2026. Tickets here: events.bl.uk/events/the-bea…

Produced this! Absolutely fascinating look at an aspect of espionage right now.

Thanks Dan! Head to Sounds for this on the direction of Russian espionage. Le Carre it ain't...

PLURIBUS I DON'T NEED TO SEE THEM FILLING THE SUPERMARKET

My Archive on Four doc on The Big Lebowski is getting a repeat over the festive period Dec 29 find it on BBC Sounds "THE CULT OF LEBOWSKI." Prompting this BBC compliance note for the ages. Hugh Levinson

What if the Beatles had failed at the first hurdle? Ray Connolly's counterfactual drama. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b0…

My book "The Spy in the Archive: How one man tried to kill the KGB" is out today in the US and I'm so pleased to see this review in the New York Times. "What makes Corera’s book original is that he shows the U.S.S.R.’s demise from the vantage point of its security services."

In Me Own Write! Got handed the v first copy of my BFI Film Classics book on A Hard Day's Night. Out Apr 2nd in the UK, in June in the US. You can pre-order with a 10% discount off the Bloomsbury Books UK website: bloomsbury.com/uk/hard-days-n…

Dear reporters talking about the Oscar noms… Hamnet is not “the story of the inspiration for Hamlet”. “A fiction imagining a possible inspiration..” is closer to acceptable.