Mystery, murkiness and miracles: A trip to Spike Island, the British Isles’ biggest prison
Now a tourist attraction.
Britain
‘Looking’: Andrew Haigh’s ground-breaking masterpiece
A beautiful and ahead of its time masterpiece.
Songs about buildings: the five greatest songs about brutalism
Dragging concrete dust into the studio.
‘Nil by Mouth’: Gary Oldman’s gritty debut that broke profanity records
Unflinching portrayal of working-class Britain.
The Nation’s Favourite Song: When the British public voted on the greatest song ever written
“You can’t trust people.”
The Slits: celebrating the enduring influence of the first all-female punk band
“Every cell in my body was steeped in music…”
The towering presence of brutalist architecture
A brief history of the Brutalist “cult of ugliness”.
‘Pressure’: The seminal movie from Horace Ové
“I was tired of reading in the papers about young blacks hanging around on street corners”.
