Ian Skidmore obituary
Witty broadcaster and journalist who attracted an international following with his spoof Welsh pirate station, Radio Brynsiencyn
Jeanine Miller obituary
Other lives: Author and scholar of Sanskrit and the Vedas
Walter Greenwood obituary
Co-author of Essential Law for Journalists, the standard textbook for trainee reporters and reference work for news desks
Olive Stevenson obituary
Leading social work academic who played a key role in the Maria Colwell inquiry of the 1970s
Martina Thomson obituary
Other lives: Berlin-born actor who appeared in radio plays and then trained as an art therapist
Marcella Hazan obituary
Italian cookery writer whose books were hugely influential in the US and Britain
Tom Clancy obituary
Bestselling novelist whose military thrillers, including Patriot Games, were made into hit films and spawned video games
Anthony Lawrence obituary
Veteran BBC foreign correspondent and radio broadcaster who reported on China's Cultural Revolution and the Vietnam war
Kofi Awoonor obituary
Leading Ghanaian poet, novelist and political activist whose work was firmly rooted in the traditions of the Ewe people
Ann Wordsworth obituary
Other lives: English tutor at St Hugh's College, Oxford, who never patronised her students
Alberto Bevilacqua obituary
Italian writer, poet and film-maker who adapted and directed his own novels for the screen
Sir David Frost obituary
Veteran broadcaster who started out in the 60s satire boom and found worldwide fame with his TV interviews
Seamus Heaney remembered
Seamus Heaney was a writer of great power, a brilliant intellect – and the best of company. Roy Foster pays tribute to a giant of world literature
Bono on Seamus Heaney: ‘His words have kept me afloat’
The U2 frontman talks about the strength he draws from Seamus Heaney's poetry
Sean O’Hagan: ‘Field Work spoke of a world I knew and had just left behind’
How Seamus Heaney's descriptions of life during the Troubles evoked raw personal experience for Sean O'Hagan