Starring: Eva Birthistle, Aidan Gillen, Timothy Spall

In his introduction to this new translation of Doctor Zhivago, Richard Pevear quotes from a letter written by Boris Pasternak in English: "living, moving reality in such a rendering must have a touch of spontaneous subjectivity, even of arbitrariness , wavering, tarrying, doubting, joining and disjoining elements". Pevear uses this quote to stress his point that Doctor Zhivago is "a highly unusual book". He argues that "to embody the 'living moving reality'", it "had necessarily to be an experimental novel".

Andrew Roberts explores our long and dubious relationship with vehicle accessories

Thelma Speirs is one half of the millinery label Bernstock Speirs, which launched in 1982. Six years later, she and Paul Bernstock made the iconic topless hat worn by Kylie Minogue on the cover of her first album; they have since collaborated with Jean-Paul Gaultier, among others. Thelma, 50, lives above a café on Columbia Road in east London; Paul lives in the flat below her. Visit their online shop at bernstockspeirs.com

How does Stephen Poliakoff get away with this stuff? Glorious 39 begins, in mildly intriguing fashion, in the run-up to the Second World War, positing an appeasement conspiracy cooked up by a bunch of toffs who believe Britain hasn't a chance against Hitler.

The obituary of Keith Waterhouse (8 September) reminded me of an interview I once did with Albert Finney, who told me a lovely story about his West End debut as a leading man, in Waterhouse's famous play Billy Liar, writes Brian Viner.

The last of the 2000-plus articles that Keith Waterhouse wrote for the Daily Mail was published just a month ago. Appropriately enough, it celebrated the 50th anniversary of the publication of Billy Liar, his hilarious and engaging novel that became a hit play, a film, a musical and a television series. Although his principal profession and passion was journalism – and nobody did it better – it is for Billy Liar that he is likely to be longest remembered.

The wry observations of Keith Waterhouse, who died on Friday, aged 80

Veteran playwright, author and columnist dies quietly in his sleep

Sarah Miles, star of David Lean's 1970 classic drama set in Ireland, is planning a sequel

Oscar-winning French composer Maurice Jarre, who wrote the rich, lyrical scores for films including 'Doctor Zhivago' and 'Lawrence of Arabia', has died in Los Angeles at the age of 84.

The language of the war on terror made her shudder - and provoked her to become a fearless champion of its victims, notably the Guantanamo Bay inmate Binyam Mohamed. Robert Verkaik reports

This hilarious memoir takes us behind the scenes of some classics of modern cinema

2 April 2004