Kirsty Young delves into the archives of psychiatrist Anthony Clare, who for 20 years interrogated celebrity guests - from Anthony Hopkins to Jimmy Savile - live on air

On a walk through the wet fields of Buckinghamshire, the comedian and presenter talks about drinking lager aged three, his dad’s excuse for abandoning his family and why leaving Oxford University was like being thrown from a boat

Communion is a powerful and haunting debut novel about faith and belonging

The Britpop pioneers still have an infectious, age-defying energy and vulnerability

Writers will always steal from each other, but new technologies pose a threat to the value of creativity itself

How a satirical BBC broadcast convinced listeners that London was under siege

The country singer on her new album – a raging indictment of Trump’s America

Naomi Alderman returns with a second series of her witty and accessible profiles of great minds, from Karl Marx to Marie Curie

The Thin White Duke dominates the airwaves for a week of tributes, featuring interviews, ghostly archival footage and a new Labyrinth-inspired radio drama

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 on how Warp Films’s 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