Vanessa Thorpe

Now 77, the playwright who has chronicled British life for 50 years, says he is stepping up his work rate as he has limited scope to tell important stories

Vanessa Thorpe Arts and Media Correspondent Sir David Hare has charted the forces and habits shaping British life for more than half a century, on stage and on screen.

When a white whale, mysteriously kitted out with covert surveillance equipment, was first spotted in icy waters around Norway five years ago it seemed like an improbable chapter from a spy thriller.

Director sets out to unmask the secret underwater agent known as Hvaldimirin new documentary

“Wish I was at home for Christmas,” runs the chorus of Stop the Cavalry, the seasonal anti-war pop song, in a lyric that voices the dreams of serving soldiers down the ages.

Newly unearthed studies by young private Henry Page have been published to mark Rememberance Sunday

Vanessa Thorpe · 4-min read He has trained would-be assassins and marshalled invading hordes, Napoleonic forces and Roman

Paul Biddiss, who trained Paul Mescal and Day of the Jackal star Eddie Redmayne, says streetwise women are more aware of surveillance and harder to follow

Barbara Hepworth's stone and bronze sculptures are recognised around the world for their distinct, curved forms.

A cache of notes that will be auctioned this week include the artist’s instructions to her bronze foundry and show how deeply involved she was with the casting process