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Film + Letters

May 2026

  • Northern soul aficionados dancing at Wigan Casino in 1977.

    Northern soul acts from the US came to Wigan – and some even settled in England

  • The Erechtheion at the Parthenon, Athens, Greece

    Schemes and strategies for scattering ashes

March 2026

  • Hand holding phone displaying Wordle game with colored letter tiles.

    Wordle inventor gets ahead of the game

  • Donald Trump and Keir Starmer at a press conference in September 2025.

    Brief letters
    Thank you, Keir, for keeping calm

  • Row of DVDs on a shelf

    Going back to the good old days of DVDs

  • Australian Jousting Championships 2025 at Kryal Castle, Leigh Creek, Victoria, Australia.

    Brief letters
    Driven to the right side of the road?

  • Brief letters
    A royal rule of thumb for measurements

  • What the Baftas N-word controversy revealed about disability and race

February 2026

  • A still from the Channel 4 drama Dirty Business, pictured (L-R): Julie Preen (Posy Sterling), Heather Preen, Suzanne Preen and Mark Preen (Tom McKay)

    Brief letters
    Sewage drama turns on the waterworks

    Brief letters: Dirty Business | Grit-free cockles | Blair’s ‘messianic trench’ | Wuthering in semaphore | Counting widows
  • Kenneth Williams in a 1970 TV show.

    Brief letters
    Kenneth Williams and racist attitudes

    Brief letters: Calling out racism | Cognitive shuffling | Free art | Party of rejects | Arresting event | Andrew and the media

    • Wuthering Heights, Yorkshire actors and working-class stories

    • Letter: Colin Ford obituary

    • Brief letters
      Recalling a royally messy family history

January 2026

  • People waiting to board a northern line train

    Underground wit and poor attention spans

  • Alan Rickman with Juliet Stevenson in Truly Madly Deeply in 1991.

    Truly, madly, deeply in awe of Alan Rickman’s kindness and intelligence

  • Jane Arden in 1958

    Jane Arden was a cinematic master of grief-art

  • Alan Rickman at the BFI London Film Festival in 2014

    Alan Rickman was the model of friendship and care – and then there was that voice

  • Brief letters
    Well done, Disney, for taking on Trump

  • Wuthering Heights is like a Greek tragedy

December 2025

  • Brigitte BardotFILE - French film actress Brigitte Bardot appears at the Mount Royal Hotel in London on April 9, 1959. (AP Photo/Dave Dawson, File)

    Letter: Brigitte Bardot obituary

    Quentin Falk writes: Betty Box would recall in her memoir that Bardot’s ‘fractured English charmed everyone’
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