Maxine Peake

Transmissions: the Definitive Story: Lights Out: From the Ashes of New Cross - review
A brilliant podcast series offers treasures old and new for Joy Division fans, and Radio 4 revisits the 1981 New Cross fire
Miranda Sawyer
31, Oct, 2020 @5:00 PM

Nights in the Gardens of Spain & Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet review – fetish with flair
Tamsin Greig flutters while Maxine Peake is uproarious in a fiendish double bill from Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads series
Susannah Clapp
11, Oct, 2020 @9:30 AM

Nights in the Gardens of Spain and Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet review – pain and passion in Bennett duo
Tamsin Greig and Maxine Peake play long-suffering women, gravely put-upon by the men in their lives, in Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads
Arifa Akbar
02, Oct, 2020 @12:37 PM

Maureen Lipman: 'I'd have to be stark raving mad to support Boris Johnson'
Trans actors, Palestine, Tony Blair, typecasting, socialists with multiple houses … as she stars in Rose, a play that covers everything from the Holocaust to the six-day war, the actor lets rip
Zoe Williams
18, Aug, 2020 @5:00 AM

Diane Morgan: ‘It sounds mad that I wrote, directed and star in Mandy. Like I’m Orson Welles'
The motherland star on being showrunner on her new sitcom, working with famous friends – and being distantly related to Bet Lynch
Michael Hogan
02, Aug, 2020 @11:00 AM

Starmer faces backlash from leftwing MPs over Long-Bailey sacking
Labour MPs including Jeremy Corbyn met with the party leader to express concerns
Heather Stewart Political editor
26, Jun, 2020 @10:54 AM

Rebecca Long-Bailey sacking reignites Labour turmoil over antisemitism
Swift decision by Keir Starmer is praised by Jewish groups but condemned by Labour left
Peter Walker, Heather Stewart and Severin Carrell
25, Jun, 2020 @9:03 PM

Sunday with Maxine Peake: ‘If it was up to me, it would be crumpets’
The actor tells Michael Segalov about big breakfasts, old LPs and loving being at home
Michael Segalov
21, Jun, 2020 @5:45 AM

Jodie Comer to star in new BBC production of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
The series has already begun filming at Elstree, following distancing guidelines, and will feature 10 of the original monologues as well as two new ones written by Bennett
Toby Moses
28, Apr, 2020 @8:51 AM

Play on! 12 of the best Shakespeare productions to stream
Theatres may be closed but you can celebrate the Bard’s birthday on Thursday by watching one of his plays online
Chris Wiegand
22, Apr, 2020 @11:06 AM

The week in theatre: The Welkin; Krapp’s Last Tape/ Eh Joe/ The Old Tune; The Sunset Limited – review
A pregnant question hangs over Lucy Kirkwood’s elegant new courthouse drama, while a superlative Beckett triple bill could teach Cormac McCarthy a thing or two
Kate Kellaway
26, Jan, 2020 @10:30 AM

The Welkin review – Maxine Peake leads Lucy Kirkwood's jury of matrons
Twelve bickering, bantering women must determine an accused murderer’s pregnancy claim in this admirable drama
Arifa Akbar
23, Jan, 2020 @12:04 PM
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