Steve Coogan

The 20 best podcasts of 2020

We went down a YouTube rabbit hole, Alan Partridge made a triumphant return and a singular look at cold war espionage came with an irresistible earworm. Plus more of the year’s best pods

Rachel Aroesti and Hannah J Davies

24, Dec, 2020 @2:00 PM

The 50 best TV shows of 2020: 50-1

Michaela Coel’s smart, subversive and taboo-breaking drama gave us absolutely unbeatable television – plus more of the year’s best

18, Dec, 2020 @8:09 AM

Alan Partridge on his new podcast: 'This is the real, raw, be-cardiganed me'

He’s back – sporting a post-lockdown haircut and hosting a new podcast. Britain’s No 1 raconteur talks about his new hat, driving a Vauxhall, and why Boris Johnson looks like the evil rabbit in Watership Down

Rich Pelley

02, Sep, 2020 @5:00 AM

'I barely breathed': Tilda Swinton, Emma Thompson, Steve McQueen and more on their most memorable moments at the movies

From transformative nights in the grubbiest of fleapits to spellbinding screenings under the stars, film-makers and critics recall the communal thrill of going to the cinema

15, May, 2020 @5:00 AM

The week in TV: Noughts + Crosses; McDonald & Dodds; Liar; The Trip to Greece

Malorie Blackman’s race-switching novel gets a bravura BBC adaptation

Euan Ferguson

08, Mar, 2020 @5:30 AM

The Trip to Greece: like watching the most entertaining people you know dominate a dinner party

Coogan and Brydon continue to aggressively impersonate Michael Caine over risotto – and yet, within that, there is art

Joel Golby

29, Feb, 2020 @11:00 AM

Greed review – Steve Coogan entertains in broad satire

A rambunctious caricature of Philip Green

Wendy Ide

23, Feb, 2020 @5:30 AM

David Mitchell: ‘I see myself as a coward’

The former Peep Show star felt right at home playing a lily-livered journalist in Michael Winterbottom’s film Greed. He talks about marriage, capitalism – and Armageddon

Tim Jonze

20, Feb, 2020 @6:00 AM

Greed is ... good? Why Hollywood can't make its mind up about billionaires

Steve Coogan’s take on Philip Green is the latest in a long list of tycoons portrayed on screen, ranging from corrupt tax avoiders to smouldering heroes

Steve Rose

17, Feb, 2020 @9:00 AM

Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan: 'Work-wise, Steve's terrific. On a personal level, appalling'

The Trip is heading to Greece for its fourth – and possibly final – leg. What has 10 years of sparring done to its stars?

Laura Barton

15, Feb, 2020 @8:00 AM

Steve Coogan on Terry Jones: he was the heart and voice of Monty Python

When Coogan played Mole in Jones’s film of The Wind in the Willows, it sparked a friendship with a comic he had idolised since childhood – and who was equally brilliant in real life

Steve Coogan as told to Alex Needham

23, Jan, 2020 @3:03 PM