Vermicelli alla Sophia Loren: Rachel Roddy’s recipe for pasta with parsley pesto
A favourite old cookbook (and a pile of parsley to use up) inspire this simple salsa verde – parsley, anchovies, capers, olives – in a fairytale tangle of vermicelli
April 2021
On my radar
On my radar: Douglas Stuart's cultural highlights
The Booker-prize winning author of Shuggie Bain on his love of Sophia Loren, Kylie’s classic hits and the haunting photography of Raymond Depardon
November 2020
French broadcaster apologises after wrongly killing off Queen and Pelé
Public radio station blames technical glitch for publishing premature death notices online
Mark Kermode's film of the week
The Life Ahead review – Sophia Loren's commanding comeback
The star’s expressive performance as a former sex worker caring for an orphaned child is the main draw in this sometimes formulaic tale directed by her son
The Life Ahead review – Sophia Loren serves up some grandmother courage
Sophia Loren: 'The body changes. The mind does not'
Cary Grant never proposed to me on set, says Sophia Loren
September 2020
Sophia Loren returns to movies aged 86
Italian superstar plays a Holocaust survivor who befriends an orphan in Netflix film The Life Ahead, directed by her son Edoardo Ponti