The actor on school with the Sex Pistols and why acting was his destiny

The Closer actor on forging a path from Coventry to Hollywood, returning to the National, and the phone call of his career

The Hollow Men emerged from a dark chapter in the poet's life – 100 years on, it continues to speak to the deepest anxieties of our age

Mark Herbert set up Warp Films in a garden shed more than 20 years ago, going on to make cult classics from This Is England to Four Lions. But this year, with Emmy winner Adolescence, the team of ‘chippy outsiders’ went global

The Better Call Saul star is taking the lead in Vince Gilligan’s latest series, Pluribus. She talks sci-fi, jigsaw puzzles and making it big in her forties

The Lemonheads frontman’s riveting memoir Rumours of My Demise reveals the reality of addiction and fame

The visionary theatre director on hierarchy, drama in schools and her new play, Cow/Deer

The DJ, songwriter and producer says that he lived for the night, but now his family is keeping him grounded

Scepticism over the advance of technology has led to a revival of RS Thomas’s poetry, as seen at a choral festival inspired by the Welshman’s finest works

In our world of constant, instantly accessible horror, TV schedulers are turning ever more to the twee genre

Incessant jokes about sex and Kosovan throuples feel like the work of a teenager clamouring for attention. Plus: Jaws at 50 and Arcadia

Lally MacBeth’s The Lost Folk urges us to take care of our most precious traditions before they disappear

Rylan Clark gets to the heart of the matter; Miriam Margolyes lets rip; a journalist, a politician and a spy reveal all; and a feminist theatre company is formed

The new voice of BBC 6 Music on storytelling, why radio will always be better than playlists made by algorithms, and respecting your elders

The uncanny kinship between Radiohead and Hamlet becomes a turbulent study in grief and rage

The campaigner and writer on protesting nearly naked to help swifts, why she let a baby bird live in her hair, and dealing with online misogyny