On any night of the week in London this season, a citizen with a couple of shillings in his pocket and a yen to go to the show could have had a ball. He could also have had a fit trying to make up his ...

Andrew Marr examines the way in which Britain went from a rigid, class-obsessed society in the 1950s toward a more liberal, inclusive, egalitarian society in the latter part of the Queen's reign. The ...

Andrew Marr looks back at the extraordinary change of the Queen's reign, selecting a diverse and fascinating range of ‘New Elizabethans' who helped shape the nation we have become.

Before the world première of a new ballet last week, Lincoln Kirstein, general director of the New York City Ballet, came out of the wings and made a little hands-across-the-sea speech. Picnic at ...