Ben Dowell

Ben Dowell takes a stab at predicting how episode seven of season two will play out

The new four-part mystery Strike: Troubled Blood was a cold case that was positively freezing, going back to 1974, which is so far in the dim, distant past it’s the year I was born.

In the past two months three of Ben Dowell’s friends, all middle-aged men like himself, have died unexpectedly. He explains how this has drastically changed his outlook

Kevin Sampson’s drama about the murderous rampage of Raoul Moat in 2010 has been rightly praised for focusing attention on his victims — Moat’s former partner, Samantha Stobbart (who was injured), her boyfriend, Christopher Brown (who was killed), and PC David Rathband, who was blinded and later took his own life. Over three parts, this has been a story that simply needed telling.

Warning: this article contains spoilers

Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce star in a classy, class-conscious drama based on the 2014 book by the Times columnist Ben Macintyre

I last spoke to Gemma Whelan in April 2020, when we were in the depths of the first lockdown and her work on the stage production of Ben Elton’s Shakespeare co

The sight of Ben Fogle and his friend the adventurer Dwayne Fields running out of their pyramid tent for a naked Antarctic snow bath is not an unstriking one. It shows the lengths these two go to

The former Ukip leader is taking a calculated risk by appearing in the programme

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