The Greatest Man I Ever Knew?
The rich, varied, and absorbing life, and careers, of John Freeman
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Rivers of Babylon
The great provocateur - Joan Rivers
A Saga with Staying Power
Revisiting the unsurpassed TV glories of The Forsyte Saga
Civilisation: Do we know it when we see it? He did
The presenter the BBC chooses to remake Kenneth Clark's seminal series has a tough act to follow
Boxing Clever
British television today is rubbish. But boxed sets — especially those dramas from America — are like bottles of fine wine, waiting to be consumed at the perfect moment
No Laughing Matter
The fact that most of today's comedians are left-wing isn't necessarily the reason they aren't funny. It's because they aren't very bright
Washington Reds
The characters are duplicitous, torturing sexual predators selling Western secrets to the KGB: the baddies, right? Not in The Americans
The Birth of the Affluent Society
David Kynaston’s Modernity Britain, the fifth of his series of histories of Britain since 1945, reveals the late Fifties to be not a time of illiberalism and repression, but of a generosity
Just Not Kosher
Jewish Mum of the Year is both offensive and fails to explain the vagaries of Jewish life without resorting to shameful stereotyping
Reach For the Sky
While woeful arts coverage on ITV and the BBC looks beyond saving, the two Sky Arts channels offer brave, and often unpredictable, film-making
Melvyn Bragg Misses the Art of the Matter
Culture has never been in better shape, boasts our leading arts broadcaster — but only if you focus on soap operas and sport
KGB TV
Russia Today's PR offensive is thinly-veiled Kremlin spin