Tadeusz Różewicz obituary
Poet and dramatist haunted by the second world war and the suffering of Poland
Tom Welsh obituary
Editor, trainer of journalists and authority on media law
Bill Ash obituary
Second world war Spitfire pilot and PoW who was an inspiration for Steve McQueen's character in The Great Escape
Glyn Jones obituary
Other lives: Actor, director and playwright who wrote and appeared in Doctor Who episodes
Phil Hardy obituary
Influential editor, critic and commentator on the international music business
Harry Karnac obituary
Other lives: Bookseller and publisher of specialist books on psychoanalysis
Wally Olins obituary
One of the world's most successful corporate identity and branding gurus
Michael Edmonds obituary
Artist, architect and wartime Bevin boy whose work was inspired by the mines of south Wales
Patrick Seale obituary
Journalist, broadcaster and one of the world's leading chroniclers of Syria and its history
Sue Townsend appreciation
The much-loved author's first agent, Janet Fillingham, recalls a fresh, aspiring writer, and the day she first mentioned a certain spotty teenager
Michael Billington on Sue Townsend: ‘Plays poured out of her’
On stage, the diary-writing teenager Adrian Mole was a joy because Townsend was serious about her single-parent hero and funny about everything else
Roland Meighan obituary
Other lives: Educational academic, researcher and author who was an advocate of home schooling
Lorenzo Semple obituary
Screenwriter highly regarded for his film work but best known for the hit 60s TV series Batman
Phil Evans obituary
Cartoonist on the side of the exploited and the oppressed
Lorna Arnold obituary
Nuclear historian respected by those who supported and opposed the H-bomb