SportblogFormula OneA new documentary charts the Canadian’s rivalry with his Ferrari teammate Didier Pironi that ended tragically in 1982
If the death of Gilles Villeneuve at the Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder in 1982 left Formula One traumatised, it was infinitely harder on his wife Joann. More than 40 years on and the emotion still runs high as she recalls the controversial events of that season. So raw have been the wounds, it is only now she has felt able to address them and time has not assuaged the strength of her feelings. Read More...
TelevisionObituaryMichael Pickwoad obituaryProduction designer who worked on the film classic Withnail & I and on the TV series Doctor Who between 2010 and 2017The work of the production designer Michael Pickwoad, who has died aged 73, gained an enthusiastic following from Doctor Who viewers in the 21st-century reinvention of the cult sci-fi series. He employed creativity and what he described as “cunning” to compensate for the lack of a blockbuster-film budget. Read More...
The ObserverFictionReviewAn idea born of lockdown conversations over Zoom, Macdonald and Blaché’s intriguing sci-fi is infused with their own cultural nostalgia
To those readers who know Helen Macdonald from their exact and wonderful writing about the natural world, including the bestselling memoir of grief H Is for Hawk, this book, a trippy, philosophical science-fiction novel with the pacing of a thriller and the pulse of a romance, is an unusual departure. Read More...