Television

An unlikely man of the people

Kenneth Clark has been unfairly accused of elitism; he wanted to democratise the glories of Western art and make it available to all

Features
Turkish delight

Sir Simon Milton is one of the men who destroyed London

On Television
The Critic Books Podcast: The BBC — A People’s History

One hundred years on from the founding of the BBC, David Hendy speaks about how history has shaped the corporation

Podcast
The lady vanishes

TV adaptations have masked the complexity and skill of Agatha Christie

Features
Watching alone

How the internet killed pop culture

Artillery Row
Borderline bleak

Sex and the City’s sequel is more mini-lecture series than TV drama

Artillery Row
Scandal of the Campbells

The story of Margaret Campbell’s divorce, as seen on TV

Artillery Row
My interiors life: weaned on the small screen

My formative years and future
tastes in all things were formed by
1950s and 1960s television,

Features
Otherworldly talents

Long live the golden age of British television, when great actors imbued classic roles with risky, multifaceted complexity

Features
Final frontiers

Adam LeBor on two TV series that are set in border regions, that feature engaging female characters and that are beautifully filmed

On Television