Usually transport designers think about moving people around, but people themselves think about the music they listen to or the interesting things they see, so people should be the kings and queens of travelling, moving in mobile sculptures instead o

The 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe promises to be unique. After two years away, there is a bottleneck of performers bursting to perform. The official Fringe brochure is published this Thursday but it could take until September to read it all. From ne

Ahead of the First Night of the 2022 Proms next week, we asked nine of the TV presenters working on the BBC’s coverage of the great classical music festival for their picks of the 84 concerts taking place over the following two months... Prom 4: Cynt

Is your playlist in need of some refreshment? We have some suggestions. Taylor Swift — Evermore Surprise! Again! Taylor Swift’s lockdown adventures continued with the news that she has a recorded second secretly written album. Evermore is the “sister

Unbelievably, it’s already July – summer is flying past faster than you can say pass me the suncream. But Netflix has not stopped to take a break. Up against it, with Disney+ and Amazon Prime getting ever closer to eliminating the gap in the number o

The UK’s leading advocate of rewilding calls it ‘one of the most inspired projects in the whole world’. We are talking about the extraordinary efforts to transform AlUla, an area of ancient desert and oasis in north-west Saudi Arabia. Last month, del

Facing the prospect of replacing a lead actor at Hampstead Theatre’s new show a fortnight before it opened, Cherrelle Skeete had one thought: “What would Noma do?” Noma Dumezweni had played her on-stage mum, Hermione Granger, in the West End show Har

The  clocks have gone back, the weather’s grim - it’s the perfect season for hibernating in front of the television, or a night at the cinema. Here are the films and TV shows on our cultural radar this week… Wolfwalkers I can’t remember the last time

Just because Game of Thrones is over doesn’t mean an end to the murder, treachery and power games in the realm of Westeros. Sky’s upcoming Game of Thrones spinoff series House of the Dragon is airing in August and anticipation for its release is reac

Peaky Blinders screenwriter Steven Knight can’t pinpoint the exact moment he realised that the show had exploded. It might have been when he saw the Peaky Blinders haircuts sprouting up all over the place. Or the rise in the Peaky Blinders-themed we

After almost eight years as the host of The Late Late Show, and with a fortune estimated around the £50 million mark, James Corden is some way beyond simply successful. In town for a four-night London run of his LA-based chat show, on last night’s ev

Somerset House Summer Series is back and this year the line-up is bigger than ever. For 11 nights, the art and culture complex turns major music venue, hosting a range of artists, from massive stars such as John Legend to innovative jazz acts like Yu

There are two types of ‘fuel’ for electric cars – AC current, or alternating current, is the type of electricity that powers your home from the national grid. Charging at home is AC charging. All batteries, however, store power as DC, or direct curre

Groupthink says Russia’s invasion of Ukraine shows we rely too much on fossil fuels. This is only partially right. A more accurate assessment would be that while still relying on fossil fuels, Western policymakers have failed for years to acknowledge

I really think it will be Spaghetti Beard Guy who stays most firmly fixed in my mind. In the future, when I am scouring hazy memories of my very first Glastonbury, I’m pretty sure this will be the image that will prove most indelible. Which, to clari

Yes, it actually happened. Three years since the brave and sleepless last turned Michael Eavis’s dairy farm into southern England’s seventh-largest and first-noisiest city, Glastonbury festival returned for a delayed 50th birthday party that will be

Picture it: an Elton John concert. As the lights dim in preparation for the big show, music booms across the auditorium. Almost in tandem, the audience raise their smartphones to record the experience. It’s an image that has become almost ubiquitous

There were times when it didn’t look like it would happen, but the UK’s festival summer finally arrived in 2021 — and what a blast it was. Now, festival-goers’ eyes are fixed firmly on the upcoming summer, which, all being well, should see a return t

A crowded beach. A day not so much languorous as sweltering. About 20 people cram onto a small square of sand, among them a fidgety workaholic, unable to relax; a wealthy mum with barely half an eye on her kid; a long-distance couple snatching a few

It is one week until Saint Michael (Eavis) opens the doors to his back garden and invites more than 200,000 people to drink, dance and ‘just have a little lie down beside this bin for a minute’. Yes, two years later than planned, Glastonbury is final

Down in value to around £942 from just over £3,000 at the start of the year, Ethereum (ETH) has suffered the same fate as bitcoin and many other cryptocurrencies in 2022, putting it at its lowest price since January 2021. Crypto prices are inherently

London rapper BackRoad Gee lights up when Jay-Z comes on the playlist in the studio where we’re sitting together. “Not many people can say ‘Yo! I made a tune with Jay-Z’”, beams the only UK rapper to ever feature on a track from the hip hop legend. “

The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll is back in the building. The spirit of Elvis has been resurrected by Baz Luhrmann for his hugely hyped new biopic, starring Austin Butler as the man himself. Unquestionably one of the most important musicians of the 20th cen

London Indian Film Festival, the UK and Europe’s largest South Asian film festival, returns this week, with a packed roster of films and conversations taking place across London, Manchester and Birmingham. New films in this year’s programme - which r

From Oasis to Kylie Minogue, Massive Attack to New Order, director Baillie Walsh has spent his career working with some of the biggest names in music. His latest project is a little different, not least because his musical collaborators are composed

Looking back over London Tech Week it is very clear that almost all businesses across the UK economy are deeply affected by technology which throws up significant opportunities as well as challenges. The media and entertainment industry has seen a hu

Let’s call it Impersonation Television, in which the famous and rich have their lives filleted for dramatic purposes. It is a thriving business of real history-ish meets well-costumed make believe. The Queen, starring Helen Mirren, and The Crown are

One of the buzziest live bands of the moment, Bradford’s Bad Boy Chiller Crew are sure to deliver a memorable set at their first ever Glastonbury. MCs Kane, Clive and GK started out sharing comedy skits online before moving into music and quickly gai

Steep rises in food and fuel prices drove inflation to a 40-year high on Wednesday, sparking fresh calls for ministers to do more to help ease the cost of living crisis. Official figures from the Office for National Statistics showed inflation hit a

Summer is upon us, which means it’s time for long, lazy weekends and relaxing holidays. Whatever you have planned, Netflix has you covered. Whether you’re hoping to hone your language skills with some international thrillers or catch up on the sixth