Mark Kermode on… director Steve McQueen, a boundary-pushing master

From his feature debut, Hunger, to his new documentary, Occupied City, the Oscar-winning director and Turner prize winner’s work has been a long, lively conversation between art and film

Jamie Dornan fled to rural hideaway after ‘ridicule’ over Fifty Shades of Grey

Christian Grey actor tells Desert Island Discs how response to the box office hit forced him to seek refuge in the countryside

Gary Lineker says he received threats after Israeli sports ban retweet

BBC host talks about cutting screen time and how some of the press are ‘obsessed with trying to do me’, in Guardian interview

‘The levels of attack are extraordinary’: Gary Lineker on punditry, podcasts – and why he won’t stop speaking his mind

The football broadcaster and podcast mogul keeps tweeting about the Israel-Gaza war, despite arguing with friends and getting into hot water with the BBC. What drives him?

Roy Battersby obituary

Radical TV director known for Leeds – United!, a 1974 Play for Today, and his later work on Between the Lines and Cracker

Let’s turn the air blue, girls – we should be free to curse at will

Women’s body parts have long been appropriated for the purpose of cursing, so it’s only right that we reclaim them with profane gusto

A new start after 60: I was a secretary – until I stumbled upon an amazing story I had to film

Frances Harper had never used a video camera before. But at the age of 60, lying in the bath, she heard a story that changed her life

‘No wands or broomsticks’: how TV is reinventing the modern-day witch

With 2024 is set to be the year of the witch, writers are replacing the traditional image with sassy, sexy and dark characters

Henry Sandon obituary

One of Britain’s leading porcelain experts who was a favourite with viewers on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow

Vicars, tennis and a black sleuth… it would be a mystery if the BBC hadn’t updated Agatha Christie

Murder is Easy provoked outrage but the Queen of Crime was in safe hands in a fresh adaptation for a modern audience

‘Game of Thrones effect’ is driving force behind William the Conqueror epics

The huge popularity of Game of Thrones has sparked a renewed interest in historical characters, according to producers

Wallace and Gromit studio Aardman Animations running out of clay

Studio has enough animation clay for just one more film after the manufacturers of its favourite material closed down

Carol Vorderman quits BBC show saying she will ‘not be silenced’ by social media rules

Presenter says bosses had decided she ‘must leave’ after she continued to express political opinions online

BBC updates ‘Lineker clause’ to restrict presenters airing political views

Rule names several high-profile presenters banned from sharing certain views on social media while programmes are on air

Joe Rogan is UK’s most popular podcast, new chart reveals

British shows make up most of the top 10 in an improved ranking system, but the BBC has just one entry