A couple of months ago I was lucky enough to interview TV legend Sally Wainwright for her new drama #RiotWomen - we talked about depression, divorce, the menopause, her favourite TV show, Sarah Lancashire, Happy Valley - and giant cats. She was fantastic. www.thetimes.com/article/7ad8...

Am completely obsessed with the
moment Kazuyuki Ishihara wins the award for best garden at Chelsea. So unexpected (scroll to 53 seconds) m.youtube.com/watch?v=_mPq...

My interview with Jessica Stanley about writing the romcom of the summer, her own real-life meet-cute, her Alan Hollinghurst obsession and making the Times parliamentary sketchwriter her romantic hero - a subject on which I have *some thoughts*
www.thetimes.com/article/0510...

“I’ve always thought of Amanda as an arrested teenager. She’s a mean girl.” I interviewed Lucy Punch about school Whatsapp groups, posh accents, Joanna Lumley, life with Dinos Chapman and escaping the LA fires. Amandaland starts tonight and is VERY funny
www.thetimes.com/article/f55d...

”Colleagues predicted that Corbet would never be permitted to make a movie again.” Fascinating interview about the “agony” of making The Brutalist. Mark Rylance was originally cast as the lead! The director was on a drip during the shoot! It only cost $9m!
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/brut...

What a joy The Producers is. A cast to marvel at and a production packed with the wittiest, silliest details. Magic. Surely it must transfer (tho the close-ups at the Menier Chocolate Factory are very much part of the pleasure)

"I ask Vetro for any last words of advice as I prepare to subject my family, who have always been so rude about my singing, to a dulcet-toned rendition of Lay Lady Lady that evening.
‘My advice is simple,' he replies. ‘Don’t do it!'"

www.thetimes.com/article/b412...

@gralefrit.bsky.social hello Joel! Alice Jones from The Times here - could I send you a message please? thanks

‘I’ve become more like Gavin’: I talked to Mat Horne about shooting the last ever Gavin & Stacey (‘I was inconsolable’), his ‘chaos’ years with James Corden, fatherhood, going on stage with Sigourney Weaver and how he finally made peace with being Gavin

www.thetimes.com/article/a134...