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The Met Gala dress code is 'Fashion is Art'. But is it?Does McQueen equal Mondrian? And is Dior on a par with Dalí? Susanne Madsen weighs in.
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'Rocco knows that the four-hours-on, two-hours-off routine of an Atlantic crossing is nothing to the sleep deprivation of Cowes Week': A spotter's guide to the SeasonAs hats and morning coats are brushed off, picnic hampers are packed and shoes are polished, we pick some of our favourite characters from the Season's milieu.
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Marcus Wareing: ‘I’ve sacrificed more than any other chef’The MasterChef host and celebrity chef talks to Lotte Brundle.
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Hamish Mackie reveals his dream time-travel destination and the artist he'd most like to meetWhere would you go if you could wind back the clock?
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Lock your doors and close the windows, the Royal Family is coming to visitThroughout history, a visit from the monarch and their family has meant nothing but chaos. Bronwen Riley investigates.
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'Audiobooks are closer to how stories used to work before we pretended silence was superior': These are a few of Rankin's favourite thingsAmie Elizabeth White talks to Rankin about air fryers, dogs and time. Illustrations by Bryony Fripp.
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Is the cure for modern life as simple as going for a walk?Annabel Streets, author of 'The Walking Cure', joins the Country Life Podcast.
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Clodagh McKenna on living next door to the real Downton Abbey, meeting her husband at Fortnum & Mason’s and forest bathingLotte Brundle meets the celebrity chef and TV personality.
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‘He approached death as the next part he was going to play’: Gregory Doran on life after the death of his husbandThe former artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare company set out on a worldwide search for all of Shakespeare’s first folios after his husband died four years ago. Lotte Brundle pulls up the curtain on his consuming passions.
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'The best letters feel necessary, as though the writer couldn’t not write them': Shaun Usher opens the envelope on 13 years of Letters LiveFrom humble beginnings at a book launch, to events across the world, James Fisher investigates the enduring appeal of the letter from its greatest curator.
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‘Vandalised, disembowelled and dismembered’: Artist Jack Milroy gives books a brutal treatment with beautiful resultsThe artist, now 87, once ate tinned sardines for 100 lunches in a row for his craft. He speaks to Lotte Brundle ahead of a new London exhibition.
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'You don't want to be cast out of Car Park One, do you? A snob's guide to Royal Ascot picnicsSophia Money-Coutts goes through the dos and don'ts of Royal Ascot.
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‘I have no concept of anyone who's like me. Now, that's either because I'm such an egomaniac that I am sort of completely self obsessed, or … because I haven’t watched enough films’: Monty Don’s consuming passionsMonty Don swerves questions with the abundant charisma that made him a ‘Gardener’s World’ darling.
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A tourist tax is a nice idea, but it is not an answer to a cultural crisisSomething needs to be done, but not this.
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'Who wouldn’t want a full head of hair like Paul Anthony Kelly as JFK Jr in "Love Story"?': A snob's guide to hair transplantsSophia Money-Coutt answers all of your pressing hairy questions, such as: should you get a transplant, and, what should you say to a friend who has clearly had one?
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The world has gone Lilliputian: The 21st-century renaissance of the dolls' houseA renewed interest in opulent dolls' houses is allowing artisans to indulge their wilder miniature flights of fancy.
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‘I try to offset that sense of boring normality by playing bass in a punk rock band with Robert Peston and Ed Balls’: John Wilson’s consuming passionsBest known for BBC Radio 4’s ‘This Cultural Life’, John Wilson is used to asking celebrities about their cultural inspirations. Lotte Brundle turns the tables.
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These are a few of Dame Prue Leith's favourite thingsThe South African-born cook talks to Hetty Lintell.
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A glass act: This centuries-old craft is alive and wellFrom Venice to Netflix, blown glass as an art form still captures the imagination.
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‘Dialogue is an extension of feeling. If I don’t remember a line, it’s because I haven’t understood why I was saying it’: Claire Foy’s consuming passionsClaire Foy has played seminal British roles as both Elizabeth II in 'The Crown', and in 'A Very British Scandal'. In her latest film, she takes on one of our country's most beloved author's, Enid Blyton. Will Hosie meets her.
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John Goodall: Every attraction has a visitor threshold and pushing beyond it is destructiveThe Natural History Museum is officially the most visited UK museum but, this week's Athena asks, how much do visitor numbers matter?
