A somewhat truncated list from my post-Shakespeare Live! holiday... normal service to be resumed next week. • Lonely rangers - the dark side of westerns: Michael Newton for the Guardian on an excellent BFI Southbank season, Ride Lonesome: more
The usual weekly selection of links to things I have found interesting to read and to watch over the past seven days. • The Kennedy films of Robert Drew & Associates - capturing the Kennedys: it's great news that more
Last weekend was a touch busy, what with getting Prince Charles, Judi Dench and one or two others on screen, so forgive these Links being a couple of days late. • William Shakespeare, playwright and poet, is dead at more
Next Saturday, 23 April, I am one of the producers on the Royal Shakespeare Company-BBC collaboration Shakespeare Live! From the RSC. It is going to be a great show, and you can see it at 8.30pm on BBC more
Links to interesting stuff from the past week. • How offshore firm helped billionaire change the art world for ever: the first of two stories about what the Panama Papers reveal about the high end of the art market, this more
Now, with some post-Dublin additions... • The art of being in the wrong place at the right time - behind the scenes of social media newsgathering: a remarkable reflection by David Crunelle from medium. • Lost in Trumplandia: the fascination more
A time there was when very Sunday morning I contributed a list of reading and viewing that I had found interesting during the previous week. To mark this blog rising once again from decrepitude, here is a selection for today. • more
I'm not quite committing yet to (a) posting regularly, or (b) returning to a regular Sunday links, but here are some pieces that I have appreciated over the past week or so: • The movies of my youth: Italo Calvino more
After a (rather wonderful) week in Yorkshire I feel connected again - our house had no wi-fi and the 3G felt more like 0.0003G for much of the time. So it's back to the Links, which are now presented in more
It's our boy Ben's 21st birthday today, and we have had an excellent party in Whitstable. This morning's links have now been added to, with - as before - apologies for not properly crediting those who highlighted for me many more