As a combination, it was a bit of a strange brew. The opening one-two of “The Red Ground”, all bar room twang, and “Does It Ever Cross Your Mind?” getting a hoedown ready indicated a Nashville heart, ...

His wife Rachel has recently died, leaving him with teenage daughter Kim (Chloe Sweetlove) to bring up and battling a serious alcohol problem. When in doubt he’s liable to reach for his hip flask, and ...

Will Sharpe plays Mozart with a blend of reckless self-indulgence, sexual promiscuity and child-like enthusiasm, even if he doesn’t stretch to the manic extremes of Tom Hulce’s performance in Milos ...

Then we flashed back several hours to see the soldier, Shaun Emery (Callum Turner), winning his appeal against his conviction for murdering an insurgent in Afghanistan, because of flawed video ...

Poor Arthur. He has a really rough time in King John – but he also has some of the best scenes in the play. He’s King John’s nephew. He’s 12 or thereabouts, he becomes a pawn in a power struggle for ...

In the sob-story role of the widowed cashier in “the cage” is Sheridan Smith, a dab hand at playing women in extremis. But here she is a complex blend of she-wolf protecting her two children and ...

All this and more was duly resolved, in an episode that gripped ferociously from the opening seconds and hauled us over some scorching dramatic coals. Silk is almost unfailingly watchable, though ...

Joan Sutherland in 1975: Opera gave her a glamour and status she had never imagined having Her Mad Scene had an escapist quality that I don’t remember anyone else equalling for me - the way she chased ...

On her 14th album, the US singer-songwriter enters new territory. “Pulse” is nothing like anything she has done before, and the Mitchell-esque leanings towards jazz are more evident than when they ...

With its strings, slowies and lush M.O.R production, the music sometimes achieves the emotional impact it aims for. “Old Love”, delivered in an autumnal Iggy Pop croon, is a melancholic piano-led ...

Tom Kettle (Joe Hanley) recites a poem while the Carney family (including Charlene McKenna's Caitlin in the red dress, Niall Buggy's Uncle Patrick next to her and Aaron McCusker's Quinn leaning ...

Sadly, tonight's Dispatches showed that five years on, people are still being held in institutions that do not meet their needs, make them better, or in some cases, even keep them safe. While ...