Sunday with Michael Morpurgo: ‘We go to the pub where I was inspired to write War Horse’
The children’s author on lunch at the pub that changed his life, alcohol-free Guinness, and games with grandchilden
‘Dangerously misguided’: the glaring problem with Thomas Heatherwick’s architectural dreamworld
The designer’s new book Humanise spearheads a campaign excoriating decades of bad building. Has he forgotten his own expensive disasters? Our critic hasn’t
Tony Birch: ‘I got into a lot of fights. I was a very good street boxer’
Life could have turned out very differently for Birch, who was twice expelled from school as a boy. The celebrated author reflects on masculinity, AFL and surviving domestic violence
‘Demand interestingness’: Thomas Heatherwick rails against boring buildings
Designer says soulless structures make people stressed and lonely as he launches book and campaign
Crossword book club: Patrick Hamilton’s Mr Stimpson and Mr Gorse
The author has given us the clues. Can we fashion them into a puzzle?
How Roger Deakin’s love of water inspired me
The great nature writer and outdoor swimmer has been a huge inspiration to many with his focus on ponds, lakes and rivers
Sunday with Sue Perkins: ‘My brain needs to be set challenges or it goes into mischief’
The comedian and presenter on living with Tiggy the staffy and the joy of electronica
Doon Mackichan: ‘Before meetings I head-bang to Led Zeppelin’
The actor, writer and comedian, 61, on why she’d like to live in the stone age, cold-water swimming and why money doesn’t make you happy
‘If you don’t want to have sex, it’s not like the relationship’s over’: Abbey Clancy and Peter Crouch get personal
He’s the ex-England striker who wants a quiet life. She’s the model on a hair trigger. Now, the husband and wife team have turned unlikely agony aunts
‘Calves are the biceps of the legs!’: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s seven big life lessons
Find opportunity in failure – and don’t let your legs get in the way of world domination. Here is the distilled wisdom of Arnie’s first foray into self-help
‘Rivers of the sea’: how far from shore can rips really take you?
These mysterious currents are responsible for hundreds of drownings but there is a dangerous degree of complacency about them
Joan Collins on love, loss and lust at 90: ‘You have to eat life or life will eat you!’
She has been famous for more than seven decades – and has as much zest and ambition today as she did at 18. She discusses fame, politics, the casting couch, motherhood and marrying five times
How I learned to tell my own story as a South Asian woman
As a child, I wanted to belong, but didn’t see brown girls like me in culture. I’d like space for our stories to be told, too
The complicated rise and fall of Glossier: ‘There were missteps and there were successes’
A new book about Emily Weiss’s billion-dollar beauty company depicts ‘a really brilliant visionary’ who was also ‘oblivious and out for herself’
Running marathons helped me write my novel
The sport helped with my tenacity, and my creativity too