Chris Harvey

2 weeks 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.

3 weeks 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.

4 weeks 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.

2 months ago | 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.

2 months ago | 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.