AI expert warns against telling your secrets to chatbots such as ChatGPT
Prof Mike Wooldridge will address looming questions around AI in this year’s Royal Institution Christmas lectures
July 2023
TV review
Clean Sweep review – silly crime fun with the most incredible beard I’ve ever seen
This new Irish thriller starring Charlene McKenna opens with a Lady Macbeth moment. If you can get past the ludicrous twists and an unfeasibly hairy disguise, it’s enjoyable
August 2022
Appearing on University Challenge was terrifying – now I’m setting the questions
Lillian Crawford
My mixed experiences on quiz programmes taught me that the real joy lies in acquiring knowledge, not showing it off, says writer Lillian Crawford
In this dark, poetic one-man play, Toby Stephens gives it his all as the wrecked writer – imprisoned for gay sex in 1895 – as he rues his misfortunes with his younger self
April 2022
BBC to cut number of programmes it makes, says director general
Tim Davie suggests more stations could become archive services, as he prepares to announce deep cuts
March 2022
TV review
Skint review – a vivid, unflinching examination of modern poverty
Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee and film-maker Peter Mullan oversee these vivid 15-minute monologues about being poor. The uniformly strong tales they tell are too rarely seen in drama
January 2022
Jana Bennett obituary
Groundbreaking BBC executive whose list of achievements included the launch of BBC Three, BBC Four and iPlayer
September 2021
Arts shows star in new Radio 4 line-up after storm at axing of film programme
Mark Kermode will co-host show exploring ‘unexpected links and discoveries’ in screen history
April 2021
Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: Intruder; Sort Your Life Out; Sitting; This Is a Robbery; Wellington Paranormal
Brief letters
A recipe for failure for the sweet-toothed
March 2021
BBC Four to become archive channel as cost-cutting drive continues
Lockdown culture
David Ireland: 'As a writer, I want to be socially irresponsible'
February 2021
Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: ZeroZeroZero; The Drowning; The Repair Shop; Craftivism; Ramy – review
A new mafia drama boldly goes where all mafia dramas have gone before, while Ramy finally makes his debut on a UK channel
October 2020
'Every boy’s dream is to be James Bond': Inside North Korea with 'Mr James' and 'the Mole'
The Guardian view on Artemisia Gentileschi: triumph of a trailblazer
August 2020
No animal violence: BBC series offers more calming natural world
TV review
Everything: The Real Thing Story review – the searing saga of Britain's soul pioneers
July 2020
Lockdown culture
With the BBC at bay, Sky embraces the possibilities of the arts on TV
Mark Lawson
Following a similar strategy to their sports output, the broadcaster plans to make Sky Arts available to all - a move which may worry their rivals
June 2020
Lockdown culture
Live music returns to Royal Opera House for an online audience
Collaboration with BBC will see three concerts live-streamed; Abbey Road reopens; and BBC announces its first remote access documentary featuring the Kanneh-Mason
May 2020
The Proms to go ahead this summer, but 'not as we know them'
World’s biggest classical music festival hopes to offer some live concerts at Royal Albert Hall
