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Sebastião Salgado, 1944-2025, one of the great documentary photographers of the age

1 month ago | ft.com | Chris Harvey

As he had done for so many years, in so many places, the photographer Sebastião Salgado stared at human life unblinkingly — this time his...
People said I was a workaholic. Raising a hare changed my life

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Chris Harvey

After stumbling across a baby hare on a lockdown walk, a former government Spad took it home - and it shifted her entire outlook on life"She belonged to the wild, and my job, to the extent that I had one in those early weeks, was to try to keep her alive so that she could return to the wild," says Chloe Dalton, the author of Raising Hare. The "she", of course, is the long-eared title character of this remarkable real-life tale, which has been short-listed for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction.
'White saviour complex? It doesn't exist'

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Chris Harvey

Forty years after Live Aid, Geldof looks back on the gig that united the world's biggest stars - and swallowed his career'F--- off!" thunders Bob Geldof. "All your stories about Queen, all your stories about theories. F--- off!"You need to be in the room to understand just how much energy the man behind Live Aid is putting into the F-bombs that he's presently hurling in my direction. Each one follows a pause for breath to give it the desired explosive force.
'Gangster films these days are just middle-class fantasies'

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Chris Harvey

As he stars in BBC Lockerbie drama The Bombing of Pan Am 103, the actor talks conspiracy theories, Buddhism and growing up in the East EndOn 21 December 1988, Pan American Airways flight 103, travelling from Frankfurt to Detroit via London Heathrow, was set to make the transatlantic leg of its journey when it exploded over Lockerbie in south-west Scotland.
Martin Freeman and Jack Lowden on drinking, Mr Darcy and 007

2 months ago | telegraph.co.uk | Chris Harvey

The respective stars of Sherlock and Slow Horses are stepping away from TV to play an addict and his mentor on stageJack Lowden and Martin Freeman had not met before they agreed to play an alcoholic and his AA sponsor in The Fifth Step - a darkly funny two-hander from the playwright David Ireland. They'd seen each other doing their day jobs, of course. "I love that, what's it called, Fast Ponies? That is a great show," says Freeman, 53.
'I'd get death threats in the night'

2 months ago | telegraph.co.uk | Chris Harvey

As he receives a major award, Zed Nelson explains how he and his photographs made it out of Earth's most hostile zones"I was lucky," says the photographer Zed Nelson, "until I went to Afghanistan." The 57-year-old, who has just won the Sony World Photographer of the Year award for The Anthropocene Illusion, his masterful 2024 series about our relationship to the natural world, is making us tea in his north London kitchen and talking about his early years as a documentary photographer.
Max Beesley: 'Alcoholism is a very quick disease

2 months ago | telegraph.co.uk | Chris Harvey

The actor on society's problematic relationship with drinking, growing up with Robbie Williams and his new drama about the London bombingsAt 8.30am, on the morning of 7 July 2005, Max Beesley was at a hotel in Marylebone participating in a read-through for a new BBC drama, Hotel Babylon. The producer had asked everyone to be in early and the actor - star at the time of Jed Mercurio's medical drama Bodies - had been there in good time.
'I decided that drink, drugs, fags and girls were preferable to football training'

Mar 15, 2025 | telegraph.co.uk | Chris Harvey

As he prepares to play Liverpool legend Bill Shankly on stage, the Scottish actor looks back on his teenage trial for Manchester United FCIt is August 1974. Bill Shankly leads out his FA Cup-winning Liverpool team for the Charity Shield at Wembley. He walks shoulder to shoulder with Brian Clough, the newly installed manager of the league champions Leeds United. It's a significant moment. One month earlier, Shankly had announced his retirement after 15 years at the Anfield club.
'I'm like the Forth Bridge. The work never stops'

Mar 14, 2025 | telegraph.co.uk | Chris Harvey

The controversial stand-up got rich making provocative jokes (and powerful enemies). But what's the secret of his straight face? There's something disconcertingly "too real" about Jimmy Carr in person, as if you're meeting the live-action version of a cartoon. I put it down to the way his on-screen, smart-suited image never changes.
'Chris Packham and Jeremy Clarkson are both provocative silverbacks in their own fields'

Mar 9, 2025 | telegraph.co.uk | Chris Harvey

The presenter and Dancing on Ice finalist talks about the feud between her Springwatch co-host and Clarkson, and how to thrive after cancerMichaela Strachan bounces into the room, all upbeat energy, laughter and a big, warm smile.