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April 2024

  • Cillian Murphy is J. Robert Oppenheimer in OPPENHEIMER, written, produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. Film still

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    From Oppenheimer to Scoop: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    The blockbusting atomic biopic hits the small screen, and some equally explosive stuff from a dramatised newsroom memoir

December 2023

  • Ghosts Christmas special.

    ‘After rehearsal, my face hurts from laughing!’ The Ghosts cast on fun, fame and their festive farewell

    It’s one of the UK’s most cherished comedies, but now it’s bowing out for ever. The stars talk about nicking things from the set – and being called ‘outrageous and shameful’ by Piers Morgan

July 2022

  • A barrage of surprising facts and figures … Horrible Histories: Terrible Thames river boat tour.

    Play time
    Horrible Histories: Terrible Thames review – behold the poop deck!

    Tower Bridge Quay, London
    A teacher and his unruly student host a family tour of the capital’s river with scatological gags and gory stories aplenty

May 2022

  • Jim Howick wears shirt by Nanushka at selfridges.com.

    ‘We were always trying to push boundaries’: Jim Howick on breaking taboos, coping with life and the joy of dogs

  • Jane Martinson

    Only the BBC would take on teaching our kids in a crisis. That’s its point

    Jane Martinson

August 2021

  • The Welsh Labour politician Aneurin Bevan, (1897 - 1960), speaking at a meeting of the National Council for Civil Liberties, (NCCL), at Central Hall, Westminster, London, on the freedom of the press.

    The week in audio: Getting Better; The Fake Paralympians; Horrible Histories Podcast

    Rhod Gilbert brings comic timing to a fine new drama about the creation of the NHS. Elsewhere, a powerful tale of cheating in sport

January 2021

  • From left: Charlotte Brontë (Jess Ransom), Emily Brontë (Gemma Whelan) and Anne Brontë (Natalie Walter) in Horrible Histories: Staggering Storytellers

    Horrible Histories goes mainstream with BBC home schooling slot

    Show is core part of curriculum-based programme helping children to keep learning during lockdown

December 2020

  • Ghosts.

    2020 in TV
    The 50 best TV shows of 2020, No 10: Ghosts

    Written by the Horrible Histories crew, this must-see supernatural comedy bears their stamp of absurdity – and is full of feelgood spirit

April 2020

  • Greg Jenner - writer -  by James Gifford-Mead

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Why David Attenborough is famous but 'he isn't a celebrity' – books podcast

    We speak to Horrible Histories consultant and podcaster Greg Jenner about the history of celebrity and share what listeners are reading

February 2020

  • Illustration by David Foldvari.

    Horrible Histories? We’re living through one right now

    Stewart Lee
    The supposed ‘lack of patriotism’ in the CBBC show is another poor excuse from those who would dismantle public broadcasting
  • general election results projected on to the BBC's broadcasting house in london

    Observer letters: Labour’s future lies in its heartlands

    The party should look at what happened to the Lib Dems before giving up on Scotland and the north of England
  • Mathew Baynton as footman and Sarah Hadland as Queen Victoria in Horrible Histories

    Andrew Neil attacks BBC over ‘anti-British’ Horrible Histories song

    Broadcaster complains after archive sketch promoted on CBBC iPlayer on Brexit day

August 2019

  • ‘I’ve always been more insecure personally than professionally’: Kim Cattrall.

    This much I know
    Kim Cattrall: 'I don’t want to be in a situation for even an hour where I’m not enjoying myself'

  • Room with a view … Hugh Dancy, Mindy Kaling and Max Casella in Late Night.

    Welcome to the raptor pit! The truth about comedy writers' rooms

July 2019

  • Horrible Histories The Movie: Rotten Romans. Rupert Graves, second left

    Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans review: too much teen drama

    The TV comedy loses some of its essential rottenness in this big-screen debut
  • Horrible Histories The Movie: Rotten Romans. Rupert Graves, second left

    Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans review – the empire strikes back

    Derek Jacobi gamely reprises his celebrated role as Claudius in an entertaining big-screen outing for the CBBC television series
  • ‘I’m not good at being polite to the right people’ … Rupert Graves.

    Rupert Graves: 'Genuinely, it helps in this business being called Rupert'

    Costume dramas cast him as a floppy-fringed dreamboat – even though he wasn’t actually posh. Now Rupert Graves is playing a rapping Roman in the latest Horrible Histories romp

June 2019

  • Russian Doll, Fleabag, Pose, Game of Thrones, This Time With Alan Partridge

    Best TV of 2019 so far

    Devastating drama in Chernobyl, a fitting finale for Fleabag and the climax of Game of Thrones. Already, it’s shaping up to be a phenomenal viewing year

May 2019

  • Neal Foster as Henry VIII with Alison Fitzjohn as Anne Boleyn

    Play time
    Horrible Histories: Terrible Tudors review – grisly gags at the Tower of London

  • Mathilda and the Orange Balloon

    Theatre's role models for deaf children: ‘they need to think anything is possible’

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