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Trump administration splits with allies on holding Moscow responsible for war

Forsyth's career of more than 30 years has included presenting shows on BBC Radio Scotland, Radio Three and Radio Four

Who can forget the depiction of a grim, resentful, booze-fuelled hellscape peppered with donkeys

The musician, who is deaf/hard of hearing, talks about her latest work, The Land Grows Weary of its Own, which has its Irish premiere this month

Thirty years ago, one event made Austen more popular than almost any other contemporary or close successor

Radio: Newstalk host Seán Moncrieff is at his best when discussing niche subjects that allow stimulating digressions

Television: Series sees Motherland’s obviously posh mum Amanda return as she juggles parenting with a career as an influencer

The Last of Us television series is driving amazing interest in the story, says cave explorer

The BBC World Service is viewed as a critical British asset in the global information war

Television: Aoibheann Walsh, who is from Donegal, and Jordan Dargan, a Dubliner, are among the 18 candidates on Alan Sugar’s The Apprentice

Four women accused actor and comedian of sexual assaults between 2006 and 2013, which he denies

Television: On Holocaust Remembrance Day, powerful BBC documentary The Last Musician of Auschwitz tells the remarkable story of 99-year-old cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

Fans of Horgan’s Motherland can look forward to the spin-off which follows Lucy Punch’s character

There is no rhyme or reason to success or failure on Prime Video’s gameshow. MrBeast’s message for our children seems to be that life is arbitrary chaos

Former RTÉ anchor was interviewing musician on BBC as part of Donald Trump inauguration coverage

Television: Series follows Dublin teenagers seeking to complete their collection of banned VHS movies

TV Highlights Jan 18-24

British environmentalist and BBC presenter Chris Packham on battling to save the planet, standing up to his enemies, and how his autism made him hate himself

Claudia Winkleman’s smash reality show is an effective analogy for the Sisyphean pointlessness of existence. But the contestants can’t say that, obviously

Trio to share presenting duties on football highlights show, which celebrated its 60th anniversary last year

Television: Back for a murderously enthusiastic 28th season, Silent Witness brings a jot of bloody consistency to an unpredictable world

Hard Truths is as moving and acute a film as the 82-year-old has ever made. The director talks about rejection, vindication and never changing his approach to movie-making

News outlets may have a structural bias towards the rational over the mind-bendingly nonsensical. In 2025, that’s not ideal

January 5th-10th – including Dancing with the Stars, Michael Lynn: The Fugitive and Neven’s Portuguese Food Trails

Earlier this week Young backed out of the festival claiming it was ‘under corporate control’ of the BBC

Capacity at the famous music festival, which turns over much of its profit to charities, has increased to 210,000 people

Young says BBC wanted him and his band to ‘do a lot of things in a way we were not interested’

Including The Traitors, The White Lotus, Zero Day, Your Friends & Neighbors, The Walsh Sisters and The Bear

Television: Brendan O’Carroll’s slapstick purgatory remains a Bacchanalia of single entendres and fnarr-fnarr gags

December 24th-27th: including new Christmas specials of Doctor Who, Outnumbered, Gavin & Stacey, and Wallace & Gromit

Tribunal found PSNI and Metropolitan Police carried out covert surveillance on Belfast reporters Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey

Chris Walley’s charismatic tearaway is still in prison on drug charges, leaving his best pal, the Knocknaheeny scamp Conor, flying solo

Gregg Wallace is stepping away from role as a review is conducted into historical allegations of misconduct

Ghost of Christmas Past does overtime as broadcasters make viewers nostalgic for a time when nostalgia was a little less creaky

Television: BBC’s sixth adaptation of author’s Robert Galbraith crime books is full of rumpled charm

MasterChef presenter has stepped back from the television show amid allegations of misconduct

TV presenter denies fresh claims of incidents that Shannon Kyle alleges occurred when she was working on his 2012 autobiography

All it took was for someone to finally decide that it was time to care

Television: Handed a hit comedy by the BBC, RTÉ has once again fumbled its big punchline

The TV presenter faces allegations from 13 people across a range of shows over a 17-year period