From How To Fail With Elizabeth Day to Reasons To Be Cheerful: This week’s top podcasts

From Phoebe Waller-Bridge on How To Fail With Elizabeth Day to Ed Miliband’s Reasons To Be Cheerful and Poetry Unbound, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 GMT, 15 February 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 15 February 2020 How To Fail With Elizabeth Day For one hour each week, the journalist Elizabeth Day … Read more

Everything But The Girl’s Tracey Thorn on her struggle to be a good mother and have a pop career

Tracey Thorn was recently having breakfast with her husband Ben Watt in their Hampstead home. The couple have been together personally since meeting at the University of Hull in 1981, and professionally since starting the musical duo Everything But The Girl a year later. As a band, they had four top ten singles and their … Read more

How to watch on demand TV

From Netflix to Apple TV+, Sky On Demand to BritBox, the ultimate guide to watching on demand TV on your smart TV, laptop, tablet or smartphone By Event Magazine Published: 15:39 GMT, 13 February 2020 | Updated: 15:40 GMT, 13 February 2020 If you’re confused about the ever-changing landscape of on demand and catch-up TV, … Read more

Jenny Offill, Jacqueline Woodson and Emma Jane Unsworth: This week’s best new fiction 

From Jenny Offill’s sublime Weather to a powerful new novel from Jacqueline Woodson and Emma Jane Unsworth’s Adults, this week’s best new fiction By Hephzibah Anderson and Catherine Taylor and Eithne Farry For Event Magazine Published: 22:01 GMT, 8 February 2020 | Updated: 11:24 GMT, 9 February 2020 Weather  Jenny Offill          … Read more

Former speaker John Bercow is alert to pomposity in others but never in himself

Unspeakable John Bercow W&N £20  Rating: The shortest sentence in this autobiography is also the truest. ‘Brevity,’ writes John Bercow, ‘is not my strong suit.’ You can say that again! Unspeakable might have been better titled Unstoppable, as it goes on and on and on, surfing the wave of its own long-windedness. Bercow never uses … Read more