Craig McLean

Yorkshire’s brass, beats and grooves polymath brings us 11 tracks for a long (sensibly) hot summer, blending Thundercat, Roy Ayers and Madlib.

Uprising, the director’s new BBC documentary, explores the events surrounding the deaths, 40 years ago, of 14 young Black people after a South London house party.

Simon Amstell’s new stand-up show, Spirit Hole, explores the therapeutic powers of magic mushrooms. The comedian talks trips, quips and ripping the ego out of musicians on Popworld.

A new Sky Original documentary spent two years filming ISIS brides trapped in camps in Syria. Should these young Western women – including the East London former schoolgirl – be allowed home? The filmmaker knows what she thinks.

Five things: the musician and memoirist shares her most treasured items that will never end up selling for peanuts on eBay.

Hang on to your ears – the London band are back with a second album promising “an explosion of different stuff”. Including, they insist, pop.

There’s no one better placed to explain how nature can impact your well-being this Mental Health Awareness Week than the Springwatch presenter.

One per cent: that’s how many teenage footballers signed to club youth squads make it. What happens to the other 99 per cent? Harvey, 16, knows how hard the journey can be.

Emerald Fennell and Carey Mulligan, the director and star of 2021’s smartest, sharpest, darkest thriller, discuss rape, romcoms, revenge and how a Britney banger put the Toxic in toxic masculinity.

Jessie Buckley and Josh O’Connor, the doomed lovers in the National Theatre’s disruptive new play-as-a-TV-film, explain why their Shakespeare adaptation is the right drama for right now.

In the second of a week-long series, figures from music, art, food, sex work and education look back on a year that shook their fields. Here, Louise Hall, President of the Arts University Bournemouth Students’ Union, reflects on a year on – and off – campus.

After EastEnders, Roots and Small Axe, the Londoner now stars in super-slick banking thriller Devils. But he does it all while championing the ethos learned alongside drama school mates Letitia Wright and John Boyega.

The star of the Scream films was also an improbable wrestling star – too improbable even for wrestling. A new documentary chronicles the actor’s attempts at a comeback in the so-called sport. But does it have the ring of truth?

2020 in review: As Wonder Woman 1984 opens in cinemas – only the second major film this entire year – we ask: is the collapse of moviegoing all the fault of 007?

With her second surprise release of the year, the singer-songwriter has come to fix, well, whatever she can.

The photographer who shot our New World Biking magazine feature on the challenges of keeping up with a gang of superfit city cyclists.

Actor Ṣọpẹ Dìrísù on the terrifying demons in his new Netflix film, and the responsibility he had to amplify the voices of refugees.

August 2001: They’ve been banged up, shot at, knifed, adored, ripped off, sampled and mobbed. There’s 30 of them and the youngest is eight. They’ve brought mob rule to the charts and rebuilt pop for the 21st century. This is So Solid Crew: get UR streets on to the future sound of young Britain.

Black History Month: It's September 1999. He is Napoleon in Pumas. In LA, he brokers peace for Biggie and Tupac. In London, he buys champagne for 700 friends. In Paris, he parties with George Lucas. And back in New York, there are the Spanish and rock markets to conquer… Has Puff Daddy come to save hip-hop, or to bury it?