Conductor, composer and choirmaster who co-presented Music Time for BBC television

The conductor, composer and choirmaster Ian Humphris, who has died aged 84, inspired countless young musicians, either in person or via his many radio and TV appearances. From 1970 he co-presented, with the singer Mari Griffith, Music Time for BBC TV, and went on to...

At a treacherous Christmas time, M dispatches James Bond on the secret agent's most dangerous assignment

M stopped pacing the carpet and looked out through his bullet-proof window. The bleak vista made the head of the Secret Intelligence Service even gloomier. A bitter drizzle was falling on the grey Thames. He buzzed his secretary. "Miss...

A gripping documentary updates previous pioneering work on one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in modern US history

The case of the West Memphis Three has evolved in the last 20 years from a lurid true-crime story into one of the biggest miscarriage of justice scandals in modern US history. I first became aware of it on seeing Paradise Lost,...