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Mark Lawson

Mark Lawson is a Guardian writer and broadcaster

January 2025

  • Caroline Gruber and Zoe Goriely in As Long As We Are Breathing.

    As Long As We Are Breathing review – unblocking the horrors of the Holocaust

  • Johnnie Walker in a BBC Radio studio in 1976.

    ‘I hated playing by the rules’: Johnnie Walker, the empathetic radio DJ with a rebel spirit

December 2024

  • Gary Lineker in a dark suit and white shirt holding a mic.

    From constant scandals to its best shows ending – how 2024 turned into the BBC’s annus horribilis

    With star names such as Gary Lineker, Kirsty Wark and Mishal Husain leaving, a slew of others embroiled in legal troubles and a sharp drop in income, this has been a dreadful 12 months for the broadcaster. But could it get worse?
  • Samuel West as Malvolio in Twelfth Night at the Royal Shakespeare theatre.

    Twelfth Night review – Samuel West achieves greatness as Malvolio

    As the petty tyrant cruelly duped by his household West leads a superb, tinsel-inflected take on Shakespeare’s melancholy comedy

    • The Housetrap review – Agatha Christie meets Lady Fanny Button in immersive mystery

    • The Last Days of Liz Truss? review – endgame at No 10 is tip of the iceberg

    • Twelfth Night review – a classy, musical and seasonal feast. Play on

November 2024

  • Ed Gaughan in Make Good.

    Make Good: The Post Office Scandal review – a musical miscarriage of justice

  • Alan Bennett.

    Alan Bennett at 90: ‘What will people think? I don’t care any more’

October 2024

  • Anna Maxwell Martin as Delia Balmer in Until I Kill You.

    ‘She still sleeps in the bed she was tied to’: Anna Maxwell Martin takes down a serial killer

    Delia Balmer spent four days as the hostage of her murderer boyfriend, only to survive his axe attack – and get him put away. The team behind a challenging drama about her horrific experience tell all

September 2024

  • Nell Barlow as Kathy and Maximus Evans as Philip in Never Let Me Go at Rose theatre.

    Never Let Me Go review – fresh life found in Kazuo Ishiguro’s school dystopia

  • Jane Bown's portrait of Dame Maggie Smith, Actress

    Maggie Smith: the magisterial star of Harry Potter and Downton had the courage and talent to do absolutely everything

  • Can’t bear to face it … David Oyelowo as Coriolanus at the National Theatre.

    Lisa Nandy’s conference speech was a love song to the arts, performed with hands in empty pockets

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  • Huw Edwards received a suspended six-month sentence for indecent images of children

    Full Story
    The devastating secrets of Huw Edwards – Full Story podcast

  • From Mick Jagger to Crossroads: the pioneering career of Cleo Sylvestre

  • David Edgar: ‘If you can only think yourself into the shoes you’re wearing it makes creating fiction impossible’

  • Today in Focus
    The devastating secrets of Huw Edwards – podcast

  • Rebus: A Game Called Malice review – Rankin’s fine-dining detective faces corpses between courses

August 2024

  • Rory Keenan (right) as Alec Leamas in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold at Minerva theatre.

    The Spy Who Came in from the Cold review – first staging of le Carré classic is a hot ticket

  • Jane Horrocks as Meg in The Birthday Party at Ustinov Studio.

    The Birthday Party review – Jane Horrocks hosts in a house of horrors

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