Richardson dazzles on her return to the London stage

Genevieve Roberts and Tara Mulholland find out if the latest beauty treatment fads are worth it

Mikhail Gorbachev flies to London for a charity event in honour of his late wife.

Two-and-a-half decades after the rodent-scoffing invaders of 'V' first landed on our TV screens, they're back. But will they conquer the schedules?

A new TV adaptation of John Wyndham's classic sci-fi novel The Day of the Triffids faces one enduring problem: how do you make plants scary? Gerard Gilbert reports

Anna Friel has been cast as the lead in an upcoming stage version of Breakfast at Tiffany's. It's a brave actress who will step into the role immortalised by Audrey Hepburn, says Rhoda Koenig

'I find the red carpet so terrifying that another persona just kicks in'

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Thousands of women will be waking up with Jamie Theakston on his new radio show. Ian Burrell reports

Producers told the secrets of successfully depicting sex on television

Better buy some earplugs. The film musical, long in disrepute, is on the verge of a major revival. But this time tradition's got nothing to do with it, says ADAM MINNS

TELEVISION

The combination of a country shoot and adultery is never wise. All those loaded guns, all that highly charged emotion - and sure enough last night's Berkeley Square (BBC1 ) concluded with a man in Norfolk tweeds lying face down in the bracken. Arnold St John was now the injured husband in at least two senses, the trigger having been pulled not by him, or his faithless wife, or even his cuckolder - but by his eight-year old son Tom, who had been subjected to the sort of persistent mental cruelty which would these days result in a care order and court action. Personally I would much have preferred Tom to have swung his weapon in the direction of the loathsome Louis, a coroneted brat who thinks that putting a bloody pheasant at the bottom of the bed is a character-building jape, but I suppose the producers felt that infanticide might be taking things a bit too far in a family show.

INTERVIEW: JEMMA REDGRAVE