Scenes from the brink of catastrophe

His death has raised questions about why he was never honoured

The Mill, Sun, Channel 4 // The Mystery of Rome's X Tombs, Sun, BBC2

By Jove, Biggles, that chap's a gal, don'tcha know!

Summertime. And the living is … well, not so easy if you've got a handful of children to entertain. Thankfully, the West End of London has plenty to offer children of all ages; it also has the annual theatre initiative, Kids Week, to help make a trip up to town more affordable. Kids Week has an exciting line-up of shows offering free tickets and activities throughout August.

The mainstream British media tends to present all stories about conflict through the prism of nationhood. But there is no "us" and "them"

The first six hours of a planned 42 telling the story of a Derbyshire village over the 20th century, and, yes, this first series of Peter Moffat’s drama groaned under its ambition.

Historian Ben Urwand says he has cache of documents that prove Tinseltown enthusiastically cooperated with Nazis' global propaganda effort

The British Museum is set to hold an exhibition on the subject of sex in Japanese art.

Ernest Hemingway was one of the most-celebrated writers of the twentieth century, possessing a straightforward prose style, which often leaned towards understatement.

The best play to date about the tragicomic compromises and ignominious ironies of coalition politics is Michael Frayn's Democracy (2003) about the unstable, ill-natured, ideologically bizarre groupings on which power depended in post-war Germany.

Broadcast banned over fears it would 'ruin the image of the combat soldier'

It could all have gone terribly wrong.

Plus: Hammond Innes's thrillers whose pages don’t turn themselves and falling asleep during Byzantium