Comedian, songwriter and actor Isy Suttie has been a fixture on the comedy circuit for many years and is a regular at our annual Christmas benefit. She plays Mark’s kooky girlfriend Dobby in Channel 4’s Peep Show, and will appear in the new series of Shameless. We meet her
After a lifetime of pleasing inebriation Laurie Taylor finds that the booze just isn't working anymore
The new exhibition of Ice Age Art at the British Museum in London, reveals that creativity, skill and the urge to make art is nothing new in human history. Toby Saul reports
Making a Panorama documentary about the Church of Scientology journalist John Sweeney memorably lost it on camera "like an exploding tomato". In his new book he analyses the Church and it's treatment of those who criticise it. Review by Andrew Mueller
Sarah Ditum on the incredible true story of Thomas Day, the 18th-century Englishman who tried to use the ideas of the Enlightenment to mould his ideal bride
A year to the day after members of the punk collective Pussy Riot were detained following a 'blasphemous' guerilla anti-Putin performance in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, the lead singer of Canadian band Irreverend James and the Critical Mass Choir issues a call for solidarity and presents his band's version of the offending song, Punk Prayer
The narrator of Ang Lee’s sumptuous film Life of Pi promises that his story will make you believe in God. Does it? asks Brian McClinton
Jonathan Meades' television essays are that rare combination of intelligence, style and fascinating facts which remind us of what television too rarely is: informative and surprising popular entertainment. His latest foray down the backroads of forgotten culture takes him to Essex, that much maligned county, where he finds melancholic poetry and religious delusion on the shifting sands of a land in-between
In which Laurie Taylor visits an experimental theatre, and regrets it
The Book of Mormon, by the creators of South Park, smashed records on Broadway and debuts in London's West End in February. But is it any good? Natalie Haynes has the answer