Maggie O’Farrell, Evie Wyld and Anakana Schofield: This week’s best new fiction 

From Maggie O’Farrell’s radiant novel to The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld and Anakana Schofield’s captivating latest, this week’s best new fiction By Hephzibah Anderson and Anthony Gardner and Gwendolyn Smith For Event Magazine Published: 22:02 GMT, 21 March 2020 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 21 March 2020 Hamnet Maggie O’Farrell            … Read more

From Jo Brand on Table Manners to the eight-part drama Blackout: This week’s top podcasts

From Jo Brand on Table Manners to the eight-part drama Blackout, Castaway and The Coronavirus Podcast, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 GMT, 21 March 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 21 March 2020 Table Manners  Every week on this big-hearted podcast, singer Jessie Ware and her mum Lennie invite a celebrity guest … Read more

From Star Wars spin-off The Mandalorian to Big Little Lies: The best on demand TV to watch this week

DISNEY + The Mandalorian ‘Is it true that you guys never take off your helmets?’ a prisoner asks his captor, the eponymous Mandalorian in the first episode of this eight-episode Star Wars spin-off. ‘Is it true that you guys never take off your helmets?’ a prisoner asks his captor, the eponymous Mandalorian in the first episode … Read more

Angela Rippon discusses equal pay, staying fit at 75 and how she stays unflappable

Angela Rippon was responsible for one of the most memorable moments in British television history. It came in the Morecambe & Wise Christmas Special in 1976, when 20 million gawped as she emerged from behind her Nine O’Clock News desk to high-kick round the studio like an autocue Ginger Rogers. Four decades on, give or … Read more