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Mark Lawson

Mark Lawson is a Guardian writer and broadcaster

March 2025

  • Richard Chamberlain in The Thorn Birds.

    The original hot priest! Farewell Richard Chamberlain, TV eye-candy extraordinaire

  • Nowhere to be seen … Gavin and Stacey: The Finale.

    Nothing for Gavin & Stacey? The sheer number of omissions in the TV Baftas is ridiculous

  • Owen Cooper and Stephen Graham in Adolescence.

    Adolescence, the backlash: the nightmare of making hit TV in terrifying times

  • The healing touch … Tane Siah (Bukayo Saka) and Gwilym Lee (Gareth Southgate) in Dear England.

    Dear England review – footballing reboot adds extra time for Gareth Southgate’s exit

  • The Mosinee Project review – cold war hoax drama has fun with communist cosplay

  • Athol Fugard, South African political dissident playwright, dies aged 92

February 2025

  • ‘It’s extraordinary how Hi-de-Hi! lives on’ … from left, Ruth Madoc, Simon Cadell, Paul Shane and Holland.

    ‘They now put trigger warnings on Hi-de-Hi!’ Jeffrey Holland on starring in British comedy classics

    He was Spike the gormless comic in the holiday camp hit and also bagged roles in You Rang M’Lord? and Dad’s Army. As he publishes a memoir, Holland talks about frisky stallions, today’s ‘over-sensitive’ era – and being huge in Hungary
  • Hamlet, RSC, February 2025

    Hamlet review – RSC’s bold seaborne concept really pushes the boat out

    The court of Elsinore becomes a ship of state – or a ship of fools – in Rupert Goold’s production

    • The Autobiography of a Cad review – Ian Hislop and Nick Newman retell a rotter’s political progress

    • Churchill in Moscow review – the British bulldog’s gripping meeting with Stalin

    • Vanya Is Alive review – dark Russian satire turns language upside down

January 2025

  • Caroline Gruber and Zoe Goriely in As Long As We Are Breathing.

    As Long As We Are Breathing review – unblocking the horrors of the Holocaust

  • Johnnie Walker in a BBC Radio studio in 1976.

    ‘I hated playing by the rules’: Johnnie Walker, the empathetic radio DJ with a rebel spirit

December 2024

  • Gary Lineker in a dark suit and white shirt holding a mic.

    From constant scandals to its best shows ending – how 2024 turned into the BBC’s annus horribilis

    With star names such as Gary Lineker, Kirsty Wark and Mishal Husain leaving, a slew of others embroiled in legal troubles and a sharp drop in income, this has been a dreadful 12 months for the broadcaster. But could it get worse?
  • Samuel West as Malvolio in Twelfth Night at the Royal Shakespeare theatre.

    Twelfth Night review – Samuel West achieves greatness as Malvolio

    As the petty tyrant cruelly duped by his household West leads a superb, tinsel-inflected take on Shakespeare’s melancholy comedy

    • The Housetrap review – Agatha Christie meets Lady Fanny Button in immersive mystery

    • The Last Days of Liz Truss? review – endgame at No 10 is tip of the iceberg

    • Twelfth Night review – a classy, musical and seasonal feast. Play on

November 2024

  • Ed Gaughan in Make Good.

    Make Good: The Post Office Scandal review – a musical miscarriage of justice

  • Alan Bennett.

    Alan Bennett at 90: ‘What will people think? I don’t care any more’

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