Film editor who was nominated for an Oscar for Deliverance and sought to promote his father JB Priestley’s writing
January 2023
Other lives
John Foster obituary
Other lives: Artist and art teacher who spent the early part of his career drawing antiquities in Egypt
June 2022
The Guardian view on Bradford, city of culture: Yorkshire’s triumph
Editorial: The latest city to win the cultural crown must now work to transform its citizens’ hopes and possibilities
June 2021
Five great British walks with a literary twist
From Boswell and Johnson bickering in Scotland to the coast that inspired Enid Blyton’s Famous Five
January 2021
Other lives
Cynthia Midgley obituary
Proud to be English: How we can shape a progressive patriotism
Julian Coman
August 2019
From the Guardian archive
JB Priestley, grand old grumbler, dies at 89 – archive, 1984
16 August 1984: His canon of more than a 100 plays and books guarantees him a lasting place in 20th century English literature
October 2018
The joy of small things
This column will bring you inspiration to get through the day
From Rebus to The Real Inspector Hound: theatre detectives – in pictures
June 2018
Life with JB Priestley, by the woman he trusted most of all
Lost memoir reveals playwright’s vanities and key friendships
September 2017
Let’s shout it from the dales: here’s why Yorkshire is the best
Dave Simpson
Part of the the county has been named as the happiest place in Britain. To music and football writer Dave Simpson, that’s no surprise
February 2017
Five of the best ... new dance performances
An Inspector Calls and E15: this week’s best UK theatre and dance
From Stephen Daldry’s ground-breaking production to a visceral take on the welfare crisis. Plus: Worst Wedding Ever, Material Men Redux and more
December 2016
JB Priestley works enjoy remarkable renaissance
Works of author and playwright once dismissed as voice of bygone era are now being brought to new audiences
November 2016
An Inspector Calls review – Stephen Daldry helps make the case for justice
A timely revival of Daldry’s expressionistic staging of JB Priestley’s moral thriller repeats its plea for a fairer and more compassionate world
October 2016
Brief letters
Donald Trump plays Citizen Kane to perfection
Brief letters: Witney byelection | ‘Fraud at the Polls’ | JB Priestley’s Jenny Villiers | Alan Partridge’s dislike of Noel Edmonds | Brexit in French | Jean-Claude Juncker
September 2016
When We Are Married review – Barrie Rutter toasts Priestley perennial
Northern Broadsides offer a surprisingly genial take on the tale of three couples whose silver wedding party descends into confusion
August 2016
The Roundabout review – stylish return for early Priestley play
JB Priestley never reconciled the comic and serious elements in this 1931 play, which gives a glimpse of what Auden dubbed ‘a low, dishonest decade’
July 2016
Rachel Cooke's shelf life
JB Priestley and the return of elegant grumbling
A new collection of the great writer’s essays arrives at a timely moment for the form
June 2016
Your next box set
Out of the Unknown review: 1960s BBC sci-fi from a Who’s Who of literary talent
Futurism by Forster, colonising space with Ballard and gleaming white hospitals designed by Ridley Scott – thank goodness it wasn’t all wiped
April 2016
Film blog
Bond director Guy Hamilton: a career in clips
He was known for classic 007 capers and popular adaptations of Agatha Christie novels. Here’s a look through the 30-year career of the late British film-maker – and one-time Orson Welles body double
