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Mark Lawson

Mark Lawson is a Guardian writer and broadcaster

November 2024

  • Alan Bennett.

    Alan Bennett at 90: ‘What will people think? I don’t care any more’

    In his 10th decade The History Boys writer is as prolific as ever with a war film in the works and a new sex-fuelled novella set in a home for the elderly. He talks about mourning Maggie Smith, turning down a knighthood and what he makes of Donald Trump

October 2024

  • Anna Maxwell Martin as Delia Balmer in Until I Kill You.

    ‘She still sleeps in the bed she was tied to’: Anna Maxwell Martin takes down a serial killer

    Delia Balmer spent four days as the hostage of her murderer boyfriend, only to survive his axe attack – and get him put away. The team behind a challenging drama about her horrific experience tell all

September 2024

  • Nell Barlow as Kathy and Maximus Evans as Philip in Never Let Me Go at Rose theatre.

    Never Let Me Go review – fresh life found in Kazuo Ishiguro’s school dystopia

  • Jane Bown's portrait of Dame Maggie Smith, Actress

    Maggie Smith: the magisterial star of Harry Potter and Downton had the courage and talent to do absolutely everything

  • Can’t bear to face it … David Oyelowo as Coriolanus at the National Theatre.

    Lisa Nandy’s conference speech was a love song to the arts, performed with hands in empty pockets

    Mark Lawson
  • Huw Edwards received a suspended six-month sentence for indecent images of children

    Full Story
    The devastating secrets of Huw Edwards – Full Story podcast

  • From Mick Jagger to Crossroads: the pioneering career of Cleo Sylvestre

  • David Edgar: ‘If you can only think yourself into the shoes you’re wearing it makes creating fiction impossible’

  • Today in Focus
    The devastating secrets of Huw Edwards – podcast

  • Rebus: A Game Called Malice review – Rankin’s fine-dining detective faces corpses between courses

August 2024

  • Rory Keenan (right) as Alec Leamas in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold at Minerva theatre.

    The Spy Who Came in from the Cold review – first staging of le Carré classic is a hot ticket

  • Jane Horrocks as Meg in The Birthday Party at Ustinov Studio.

    The Birthday Party review – Jane Horrocks hosts in a house of horrors

  • Should have his pick of kings and princes … Alfred Enoch as Pericles at the Swan theatre.

    Pericles review – Alfred Enoch rules the stage in a neglected Shakespeare

  • Raphael Papo plays in Fiddler on the Roof.

    Fiddler on the Roof review – shtetl showstoppers speak to the present

July 2024

  • Edwards will likely be digitally removed from various entertainments where he appeared as himself.

    Huw Edwards’ fall comes 14 months after career peak

  • A scene from Glitch

    Glitch review – dynamically delivered drama about the Post Office scandal

June 2024

  • Stephen Kunken (Don Pearlman) in Kyoto.

    Kyoto review – 1997 protocol on climate crisis fuels gripping theatre at the RSC

  • Before a fall … Hugh Bonneville and Karen Gillan in Douglas Is Cancelled.

    ‘And today’s news is … I’m cancelled’: Hugh Bonneville, Alex Kingston and Steven Moffat on their cancel comedy

May 2024

  • Emma Barnett on The Today Programme.

    Emma Barnett on the Today programme review – so chilled John Humphrys will choke on his cornflakes

  • Ta-da! Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana in The Crown.

    The Crown to Happy Valley: who will win the TV Baftas … and who should?

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