Books & Boots

If you go to the third floor of the Barbican Centre in London, you’re probably heading for the main art gallery (currently hosting the enormous PanAfrica exhibition). But if you...

This summer the Barbican is hosting ‘Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica’, a massive festival of events about global Black culture. The programme consists of more than fifty events across art, cinema, music, performance, talks and more, bringing together artists, thinkers and communities from across the African continent and its global diaspo...

English comedian and TV presenter Paul Merton (born 1957) has been a lifelong fan and promoter of the great American silent comedians. This led up to a series of linked works produced in the Noughties. In 2006, BBC Four broadcast ‘Paul Merton’s Silent Clowns’, a four-part documentary series on the silent comedy of Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, and Harold L...

An asterisk indicates that a work was included in the Beckett on Film project, which set out to film all 19 of Beckett’s stage plays, using leading actors and directors. The box set of 19 films was released in 2002 and most of them can be watched on YouTube.