42 and all that
It has taken over a quarter of a century. But Douglas Adams' classic sci-fi comedy adventure has finally made it to the big screen. Xan Brooks on The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's interminable journey.
The white stuff
Celebrated documentary-maker Angus Macqueen spent 18 months on the cocaine trail across Latin America from the dirt-poor valleys of Peru to the shanty towns of Rio. Here he recalls the journey that revolutionised his views and explains why he believes 'the dandruff of the Andes' should be sold in Boots.
From Grange Hill to the valleys
She used to play the school goody-goody on television, but now Amma Asante has made a powerful first film about racism in Wales - without a single black character in it. She talks to Bonnie Greer.
Inside the mind of a terrorist
On the eve of the third anniversary of 9/11, a compelling new film goes inside al-Qaeda's Hamburg cell, the group of Islamic radicals who changed the world with their ruthless suicide attacks. Ronan Bennett, who wrote the film, explains what drove them to martyrdom.
The rebel, the lady, and the resurrection
Strange tale of how prayer to a late bishop raised dead man is found in Vatican.
Author takes swipe at scientific elite
Researchers forget that making errors is path to knowledge.
Fear of ‘toxins’ leads to brain drain
Bad press turns UK into nation of chemiphobes.
It was 37 years ago today – and Sgt Pepper cover has still failed to pay
He may have produced the most famous album cover of all time. But, for Sir Peter Blake RA, ubiquity is not its own reward. Thirty-seven years after he and his then wife created the cover of Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the fact that they were paid a piddling £200 still hurts.
Bohemian culture ‘is now the norm’
Author at Hay Festival claims pioneers of alternative lifestyle gave modern world more than literature and hedonism.
Why we must thank the Turks, not Drake, for defeating the Armada
For four centuries, Sir Francis Drake has symbolised English nonchalance and cunning in the face of danger. But yesterday, it was claimed that Elizabeth's protestant throne was saved by a less celebrated ally: the Turkish navy.
UK novel saved by ethnic minorities
American author John Updike last night earned the gratitude of British writers when he assured them that they no longer have an awe-stricken inferiority complex about US novelists.
How to recapture cities’ civic pride
Historian throws down gauntlet on need for regional centres to regain their heritage.
Lost Plots gains a prize
Jasper Fforde, a film technician turned writer, won the Wodehouse prize for comic fiction - plus a live pig, which is at present living unsuspectingly in a field in Powys.