Rewind radio: Live coverage of Nelson Mandela’s memorial service; Book at Bedtime; Alice’s Wunderland – review
The World Service's expert reporting of Mandela's memorial service showed why its grant shouldn't be cut, writes Miranda Sawyer
Spare Rib contributors sought so editions can be digitised and saved
British Library aims to trace writers, photographers and artists whose work appeared in magazine from 1972 to 1993
Kindles makes up for lack of books in Ghana’s reading revolution
Guardian Christmas appeal: school turns to technology to tackle poor literacy among students – and achieves remarkable results
Guantánamo’s books blacklist suggests censors’ random sense of security
Clive Stafford Smith: From Jack and the Beanstalk to John Grisham, the Guantánamo banned books list makes no sense. But send me a book for the Camp Delta library, and I'll see if it makes it past the censor
Murder on the Orient Express to be remade by 20th Century Fox
Ridley Scott named among producers of latest film version of Agatha Christie's detective novel
What Bill Clinton wants to teach Nick Clegg about the end of power
Paula Cocozza: The former US president recommended a book called The End of Power to the deputy prime minister recently. What lessons can Clegg take away from this volume?
Russell Brand banned from Guantánamo Bay
According to Shaker Aamer, the British comedian's memoirs have fallen foul of the censors at Camp Delta. But I fail to see the funny side
Judy Blume meets Lena Dunham? My brain is short-circuiting
Emma Brockes: Their work describes young adulthood and sex for two different generations. Blume's impact on my youth still makes me blush
The best books on Democratic Republic of the Congo: start your reading here
Pushpinder Khaneka's DRC guide focuses on a 1950s missionary family, greed and corruption in the 1960s, and the fallout from 1990s genocide
Peter Frank obituary
Academic and broadcaster who made Russian politics intelligible to a British audience
World’s leading authors: state surveillance of personal data is theft
500 signatories including Günter Grass, Margaret Atwood and Martin Amis demand 'digital bill of rights' to curb state abuses
International bill of digital rights: call from 500 writers around the world
In a petition to the United Nations, a group of authors agree that democratic rights must apply in virtual as in real space
Caroline Criado-Perez: ‘I don’t know if I had a kind of breakdown’
Elizabeth Day talks to the student whose fight for a female face on British bank notes made her a target for abuse online
Maya Angelou writes poem in honour of Nelson Mandela
Angelou's poem, His Day is Done, is circulated in 15 languages as a tribute to Mandela 'on behalf of the American people'
Harvey Weinstein and Warner Bros in Hobbit legal showdown
Hollywood producer and studio go to arbitration over claims they owe him millions for Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy