The creator of Happy Valley is back — with her most personal drama yet TV’s star writer Sally Wainwright reveals how her hotly awaited BBC show Riot Women is born out of break-up, menopause and her beloved north

A couple of months ago I was lucky enough to interview TV legend Sally Wainwright for her new drama #RiotWomen - we talked about depression, divorce, the menopause, her favourite TV show, Sarah Lancashire, Happy Valley - and giant cats. She was fantastic. www.thetimes.com/article/7ad8...

RHS Chelsea Garden of the Year Award 2025 winner YouTube video by Burbsonian

Am completely obsessed with the
moment Kazuyuki Ishihara wins the award for best garden at Chelsea. So unexpected (scroll to 53 seconds) m.youtube.com/watch?v=_mPq...

The politics of love — this summer’s rom-com must-read Jessica Stanley, author of the debut novel Consider Yourself Kissed talks to Alice Jones about leaving Australia, finding a husband in London and her nerdy news obsession

My interview with Jessica Stanley about writing the romcom of the summer, her own real-life meet-cute, her Alan Hollinghurst obsession and making the Times parliamentary sketchwriter her romantic hero - a subject on which I have *some thoughts*
www.thetimes.com/article/0510...

Lucy Punch: ‘Unlike Amanda, I’m not good at juggling’ Motherland’s queen bee on her new spinoff comedy, Amandaland, and the joy of having Joanna Lumley as a second mum

“I’ve always thought of Amanda as an arrested teenager. She’s a mean girl.” I interviewed Lucy Punch about school Whatsapp groups, posh accents, Joanna Lumley, life with Dinos Chapman and escaping the LA fires. Amandaland starts tonight and is VERY funny
www.thetimes.com/article/f55d...

How The Brutalist was made: a micro-budget, day-long sex scenes and IV drips Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold are the team behind the year’s most acclaimed film. Making it was agony

”Colleagues predicted that Corbet would never be permitted to make a movie again.” Fascinating interview about the “agony” of making The Brutalist. Mark Rylance was originally cast as the lead! The director was on a drip during the shoot! It only cost $9m!
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/brut...

What a joy The Producers is. A cast to marvel at and a production packed with the wittiest, silliest details. Magic. Surely it must transfer (tho the close-ups at the Menier Chocolate Factory are very much part of the pleasure)

Can I learn to sing like Bob Dylan? My lesson with Timothée Chalamet’s voice coach Eric Vetro was the voice coach for A Complete Unknown but could he help our rock critic — who has a ‘voice to make dogs howl’ — find a tune?

"I ask Vetro for any last words of advice as I prepare to subject my family, who have always been so rude about my singing, to a dulcet-toned rendition of Lay Lady Lady that evening.
‘My advice is simple,' he replies. ‘Don’t do it!'"

www.thetimes.com/article/b412...

With you!

@gralefrit.bsky.social hello Joel! Alice Jones from The Times here - could I send you a message please? thanks

Mathew Horne on Gavin & Stacey: ‘I never fell out with James Corden’ The actor on tears shed while filming the final episode of the BBC sitcom, his ‘chaos’ years with Corden and how fatherhood has changed him

‘I’ve become more like Gavin’: I talked to Mat Horne about shooting the last ever Gavin & Stacey (‘I was inconsolable’), his ‘chaos’ years with James Corden, fatherhood, going on stage with Sigourney Weaver and how he finally made peace with being Gavin

www.thetimes.com/article/a134...