Q&A: Isy Suttie
We talk to the comedian, songwriter and actor Isy Suttie, who plays Mark’s kooky girlfriend Dobby in Channel 4’s Peep Show
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Stone cold drunk
Laurie Taylor has a drinking problem
The shock of the old
There is nothing primitive, or cold, about the incredible objects on display at the British Museum’s Ice Age Art exhibition, finds Toby Saul
Book review: The Church Of Fear: Inside The Weird World Of Scientology
The Church of Scientology almost scuppered the career of BBC reporter John Sweeney. He gets his own back with this brave and blackly comic book, says Andrew Mueller
Book review: How to Create the Perfect Wife
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
Pussy Riot: one year on
It is one year to the day since members of the punk collective Pussy Riot were detained following a 'blasphemous' guerilla anti-Putin performance in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.…
Pi in the sky
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
The joy of Essex
You may have thought that the English county of Essex was all dodgy geezers, fake-tan and vajazzles. But Jonathan Meades, whose latest telly-essay with director-photographer Francis Hanly is broadcast on…
Fringe benefits
In which Laurie Taylor visits an experimental theatre, and regrets it
Mission improbable
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…