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What keeps an author at the top of their game? In the case of Patricia Cornwell, one of contemporary crime-writing’s most legendary figures, the answer is apparent as soon as she turns up on Zoom. It’

Works by Handel, Liszt, J Strauss I, J Strauss II and Tchaikovsky Duo Pleyel Linn Records CKD757 56:36 mins Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya and Richard Egarr name themselves after the 1848 Pleyel they own,

Ruth Jones and James Corden are giddy with excitement when they arrive to talk with Big Issue. We are in St Katharine Docks, London, where they’re midway through the edit for the 90-minute Gavin & Sta

CHINA FACES ACCUSATIONS OF ESPIONAGE and WEAPONIZING OUTER SPACE as it BU ILDS a NEW OBSERVATORY in CHILE critics say WILL BE USED for MILITARY PURPOSES