Event Mag with Piers Morgan, Olly Smith, Deborah Ross

How TV's Mum became an unlikely Hollywood star at 63 'I can’t believe this late flourish that I’m having,’ says Lesley Manville, beaming with happiness. ‘It just keeps on giving!’

What drove us to the bottle: Parky was forced to swap his bitter for bubbly, Sting wooed his wife over Mateus Rosé while Mick Hucknall bought a vineyard. Event's Olly Smith on his corking time with the stars

I didn't really know what a podcast was when my producer Richard Hemming first suggested 'A Glass With...' as a way of interviewing celebrities. When I realised it's effectively radio-ondemand I agreed it was a great way to get celebrities to talk about their favourite drinks - especially as many of them own vineyards ...read

The forbidden love that saved JRR Tolkien from the horrors of war: A controversial new film reveals the extraordinary true story behind The Lord Of The Rings

Amazon is adapting for TV the deep history of Middle-earth that precedes The Lord Of The Rings. It paid £192 million for the rights and the show could end up being the most expensive ever made

FILM REVIEWS: After 11 years and 22 films Avengers: Endgame comes to a quite brilliant and highly emotional end... Definitely worth assembling for

Amazingly, it's only 11 years since a motor-mouthed Robert Downey Jr took on the part of Iron Man and almost overnight transformed our cinematic appetite for Marvel superheroes.

CLASSICAL REVIEWS: Billy Budd is a great masterpiece... Sad that Covent Garden hasn't put it on for 20 years but even sadder that is could, and should, have been so much better

In opera, comparisons, however odious, have to be made.

Why Trump and Brexit have given new life to Dead Ringers: We're in a golden era for mimicry, Jon Culshaw and Jan Ravens tell Event, as they prepare to perform their hilarious Radio 4 show live for the very first time

Dead Ringers has been sowing merry mischief on BBC Radio 4 since 2000. It fell off the airways for what Culshaw calls 'a tea break' in 2007, only to return in 2014 with a whole new roster of characters

POP REVIEWS: The Specials have found their moment again with the help of 20-year-old model and activist Saffiyah Khan who joins them at the Brighton Dome

For the elders of pop, today's charts are like the Lord: they giveth, and they taketh away. The Top 40 is so youthful that most veterans have no hope of a hit, but the album chart is more accommodating.

THEATRE REVIEWS: The plot occasionally clunks in All My Sons at The Old Vic but performances by excellent Sally Field and furtive Bill Pullman match the depth of the play

Two American oldsters from the movies, Sally Field and Bill Pullman, along with TV's young Victoria, Jenna Coleman, all star in this, Arthur Miller's first hit in 1947.

EVENT COLUMNISTS

7 Unmissable Events: From Lesley Joseph in Calendar Girls to Sally Field on stage and Katherine Jenkins, Event picks the top things to see this week

Gary Barlow and Tim Firth's delightful musical about the WI group who disrobed for charity now has a new cast, including Lesley Joseph as Jessie, until August 10.

CRAIG BROWN: How finger-wagging liberals drove this American psycho

Bret Easton Ellis is not a natural charmer. Upon hearing of the death of JD Salinger, he tweeted: 'Yeah!! Thank God he's finally dead. Party tonight!!!'

'Billie Piper changed my life': Singer Johnny Lloyd on the love that revived his career

Johnny Lloyd is the man who has finally made the actress Billie Piper happy - after two failed marriages, first to Chris Evans and then to the actor Laurence Fox

ART REVIEWS: Stanley Kubrick's inhuman amount of work and obsession with detail is put on show at the Design Museum to celebrate 20 years since his death

I'm an insane Stanley Kubrick fan. Barry Lyndon, The Shining, 2001: A Space Odyssey are among my favourite films.

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TOM PARKER BOWLES ON FOOD

I've never had a better bit of batter!

This is pub grub, but superior pub grub with a truly local burr. Scotland has some of the finest produce on Earth, and here they revel in all its fecund, seasonal glory. Good things done really, really well - scran to remember in a room you'll never forget ...read

OLLY SMITH ON WINE

Muscadet is amazing with shellfish and spot-on for a lunchtime sup

On days off, Neptune probably surfs around his realm brandishing his trident while gorging on shellfish. There's no doubt in my mind that the ocean god's barnacle-encrusted goblet is overflowing with the greatest seaside white wine of them all - Muscadet ...read

TECH

It's the size of a batch-loaf but this Bluetooth speaker packs a mesmerising volume

It sounds majestic, with solid, crystal-clear bass, even at volumes my wife will permit. But you wonder who this thing is for. For a speaker costing a grand, it's mysteriously short on features, and it's also only mono ...read

PIERS MORGAN: MY LIFE & OTHER CELEBRITIES

'I'm the country's first trans-slender: identifying as skinny'

Following sustained vicious fat- shaming from TV critics, Twitter trolls and even my own work colleagues, I've decided to take dramatic action to shut them up. I thus announced on GMB today that I have become the country's first 'trans-slender', and am forthwith self-identifying as 'skinny'. So anyone who persists in calling me fat will now be guilty of trans-slender-phobia ...read

LAST WEEK'S EVENT

100 things to do before you die! Our experts pick the world's best cultural experiences

Live like 007 for a night, watch a hologram of your favourite dead pop star or enjoy Shakespeare by candlelight... Event's cultural experts give their tips for the ultimate bucket list... ...read

'Uma Thurman saved my book': The Kill Bill star told Alex Michaelides how to rewrite his debut thriller... now it's a No 1 bestseller and the film rights have been bought by Brad Pitt

Nameless dread haunts the pages of The Silent Patient, a tense psychological thriller, obsessive love story and murder mystery that begins with the death of 44-year-old fashion photographer Gabriel Berenson in his north London home, apparently shot repeatedly in the face by Alicia, his younger artist wife ...read

The superb Edvard Munch: Love And Angst exhibition at the British Museum makes clear there was a lot more to the Norwegian artist than The Scream

It's fair to say Edvard Munch's most famous art-work is considerably more famous than he is. In fact, as the Norwegian's name recedes further into the past, The Scream takes on new life.

Dame Maggie Smith is terrific as Goebbels' secretary Brunhilde Pomse in A German Life but Christopher Hampton's play is too sedate to fizz

Dame Maggie Smith is back on stage for the first time in 12 years - and this 84-year-old isn't on light duties either. She's talking solidly and alone for 100 minutes, no interval, no understudy.

Albariño's pineapple-pear smash-up is the perfect wine for spring

Albariño can feel as fresh and fruity as surfing a peach wedge all the way across the Atlantic. It gains comparison with Chablis but so far prices have been more favourable

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