The man behind the bow tie

TWO VISIONARY ARTISTS ON THE VERGE OF BREAKING THROUGH, TIM BURTON AND PAUL REUBENS FOUND SUCCESS WHEN THEY FOUND EACH OTHER. AS PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE HITS 40, WE CELEBRATE A MAGICAL TEAM-UP

ONE OF THE MOST GRIMLY FUNNY POEMS OF the past century is Philip Larkin’s “This Be the Verse,” with its opening salvo about how our parents invariably mess us up. Larkin used a saltier word for “mess,

In a candid chat ahead of the release of his memoir We Did OK, Kid , actor, artist and composer Sir Anthony Hopkins reveals how his tough childhood and long battle with alcoholism formed the contented, joyful man he is today

DAD’S THE WORD Joe Swash (left) spoke to ...

Now it feels like we’re getting to the main event. We have thoroughly enjoyed our run through the second series of Fortean TV, but perhaps we were getting a tad too comfortable, what with the jingly m

In the mid-1990s, THE BEATLES returned with Anthology , a new kind of documentary about the group, in which they told their astonishing story in their own words. A curious name, but then this was a diverse portfolio of releases gathered under one roof. A TV series. A groundbreaking series of archival albums. A book. And, most surprisingly, a new Beatles record! As the series and music is accorded a 30th-anniversary release, Uncut steps inside Anthology 2025 to hear about how it all came together, what passive-aggressive ukulele sounds like, and what’s still in the archive. “It makes ‘Revolution 9’ sound like ‘Penny Lane’,” Giles Martin tells John Robinson