Maureen Lipman's confessions of a reluctant traveller

The actress is a cautious tourist — but surely a boat trip to Turkey couldn’t fail?

Sondheim was refined as gold, a brooding lynx

He was the composer’s composer — and actors would do anything to be in one of his shows

What if Sally Rooney's Normal People was more Jewish?

Maureen Lipman pens a Yiddish-infused version of Normal People in light of Rooney controversy

Barbra Streisand at 75 by Maureen Lipman

'She has got up people’s noses and resolutely kept her own. She is a miracle.'

Post-Brexit Britain - you couldn't make it up

My beautiful Shabbat

Stage, rage and Sappho's cage

Why I love the Queen, the majestic mensch

Hull is city of culture - and we’re gonna gerron with it

My role as David Attenborough

Ready for my close-up… with everyone I have ever met

At last — I contemplate naval

After ritual and a reprimand, the end is Turkish delight

A post-war baby’s guide to ignorance and antisemitism

Sixty years celebrated on the BBC boat? It felt even longer

The islanders who tried to stop a Greek tragedy