Show's stalwart presenter Jim Naughtie has moved to work on coverage of Scottish independence referendum

Probe into Stuart Hall affair will add to costs

Stephen Fry has been named as the curator of an annual opera festival. The actor and comedian will take the helm at this year’s Deloitte Ignite festival which will explore the work of composers Verdi and Wagner.

A teenage boy has died after a reported gun incident in a quiet village.

Unlike the recent, more daring deconstructions of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, Mike Newell's Great Expectations is close to being a scene-by-scene translation of the novel.

New evidence supports claim former backbencher’s life was threatened

Where are you now and what can you see?

A “physical and mental bully” has been jailed for six years and three months for trafficking four men to the UK and exploiting them to work as slaves.

The London townhouse where Charles Dickens penned "Oliver Twist" and fathered two of his 10 children has just reopened after a 3.1 million pound ($5 million) facelift as the climax of the bicentenary of his birth.

The Week in Books

A tale of two houses, neither one bleak

Charles Dickens' festive ghost story is thought to be partially inspired by the North Yorkshire town

The Bloomsbury-based property has been stripped of as many modern features as possible and filled with the writer's possessions

To reimagine a dark star of classic fiction is a daring move, but one that yields mixed results