The pioneering theatre project ‘You Me Bum Bum Train’ is back with a performance shrouded in secrecy – and the experience is genuinely like no other, finds Helen Coffey

Some of the best stars to grace our televisions this year, from Katherine Parkinson to Lennie James, single out their favourite shows, films, music and cultural moments of the past 12 months

‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’, Gabriel García Márquez’s seminal novel, weaves superstition, sex and the surreal into an unparallelled Spanish-language epic. Helen Coffey assesses whether a new Netflix show can possibly do justice to the original

The Irish powerhouse is voicing the headteacher with a heart of gold in Richard Curtis’s new animation ‘That Christmas’. She sits down with Helen Coffey to talk falling in and out of love with acting, the joys of hitting her sixties – and why she’s not quite full of the festive spirit

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‘It’s hell,’ says ex-Strictly Come Dancing star, as Rev Richard Coles offers to pray for her daughter

Former priest Coles had a heart-to-heart with dancer Oti Mabuse