Richard Curtis

Ronan O’Rahilly (79) set up the pirate radio station on a ship in 1964

Tony Robinson on Baldrick, lockdown, his socialism and why he doesn’t miss acting

Fr Ray Kelly’s protective halo means frontrunner Sinéad O’Carroll is put through the wringer

Half our favourite movies have vanished. But there’s still plenty of great stuff to search for

The comedian on how racist abuse and his mother’s violence shaped him as a performer and activist

Scarlett Curtis on Saoirse Ronan, mental health and female activism

The director on his new romcom, in which only one man remembers the band existed

The Conservative party has had its first vote on a future leader. Six candidates remain

Four Weddings and a Funeral was, for a while, the highest grossing British film of all time

Father Ted, written by Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan, came second, with I’m Alan Partridge in third

The uneven comedy has become as much a Christmas tradition as the ire it provokes

Comedian on the ‘cult’ of Catholicism, his love of poetry and giving up fags and booze

Review: Beattie Edmondson inherits a spoilt pooch in this live-action Disney movie

Reality TV: Channel 4’s dating show teaches us that none of us know what we’re doing

The ‘Trainspotting’ director will take the reins on 25th James Bond film – and Craig’s fifth

Daniel Craig will play the shaken-not-stirred imperial thug for perhaps the last time

Behind the scenes at the making of the film version of the Beatrix Potter’s book – and keeping lookout for an appearance by Julian Assange

Actor best known for role as Alice in the long-running BBC comedy died of natural causes

Men appear in court accused of assault, false imprisonment of BBC journalist

He’s writing a bawdy comedy with his brother and Michael McElhatton. Who wouldn’t? he asks

Sheeran’s audience craves traditional, the comfortable conformity and uniformity of the generic

As Comic Relief gets set to air the Love Actually sequel, we assess the merits of the original

Working Title becomes first British production company to take $1bn in the UK box office

Her beauty, fashion and baking videos have been viewed more than 300 million times, but now the focus is on changing the world

From Love Actually to Die Hard, 25 of the most enduring Christmas movies

Review: What’s not to like about Richard Curtis's adaptation of the Roald Dahl story, starring Dustin Hoffman and Judi Dench?

Retailers have begun their festive marketing, but that doesn’t make it compulsory to go shopping now

Brendan and Domhnall Gleeson nominated in the best actor category

The Wet Wet Wet singer, currently playing Che Guevara in the musical Evita, recalls the the summer of 1994, when love (and then loathing) was all around the charts

It hasn’t taken Domhnall Gleeson long to establish a reputation as a versatile actor, equally at ease on stage and screen. He talks about working on Richard Curtis’s new time-travel rom-com and a forthcoming role opposite his dad Brendan