Helen Brown

When asked for the secret to his tender, unguarded photographs of cinema's biggest stars, Sergio Strizzi would simply say: “I wait.

The phone rang at 4am. “Got one for you,” a harassed A&E matron told Dr Benji Waterhouse – the only on-call psychiatrist covering three London boroughs with a population of 1 million souls that night. A 34-year-old man had jumped from a structure known locally as “Suicide Bridge”. The patient's physical injuries were slight because some thorn bushes had broken his fall. But he was telling A&E medics that his best friend had died the previous day and he was still determined to kill himself.

“Older people need to accept that we now live in a world where people want to take out their phones to take pictures or make videos when they see something they like,” says the violinist Esther Abrami. At a time when orchestras are fighting for survival in the UK, the 26-year-old virtuoso has used social media to attract thousands of younger people into concert halls where debate over the use of mobile phones during performances is

After Ian Bostridge stopped a performance because he was distracted by mobiles, we ask: should we be allowed to film classical concerts?

“The brighter a lady shines, the faster she may burn,” warns Lady Whistledown in TV's Regency bonkbuster, Bridgerton . As Netflix prepares to drop

Are we finally seeing the artist behind the baggy-goth avatar? Interrogating her public image and fan culture, Eilish delivers a restless album that is equal parts sighing and squalling

A “stained daybreak”: that's how the Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz described the morning on which the British Raj left the Indian subcontinent divided into two nations.

Broken Threads, the BBC broadcaster’s superb family history, teems with historical colour and details that both fascinate and shock

‘People can be quite selective about ‘authenticity' in drama,” shrugs Anjana Vasan. “Nobody seems to mind if a prince of Denmark or a duke of Verona

As We Are Lady Parts returns on Channel 4, the comedy’s Bafta-nominated star Anjana Vasan talks guitars, the classics and those eyes