“I hate directors who take themselves very seriously. I think this is ridiculous.” The enfant terrible of German arthouse cinema, the writer/director Jörg Buttgereit is softly spoken and

No one would have believed in the early days of the twenty first century how easily the masses could be led, their prejudices manipulated, their fears magnified and

The shock of white hair, the spectacles, the moustache; sat at his desk, carefully making notes in his journal, string music and smoke from his pipe filling the

Reduce, reuse, recycle, the mantra of the environmental movement without which there will be no future, at least none which supports a civilisation as we know it today,

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” The author of the radio series which became a book which became a television

By the light of the silvery Moon, something is amiss as a black dressed hooded figure, silhouetted in light and indistinct, advances: is it threatening or searching? Suspended

Manchester, 1999, a few days before the calendar clicks over to what many regard as the new millennium, but while the newspapers concern themselves with how outdated computer

Perhaps the greatest trick achieved by scientist turned magician Kevin Quantum is his ability to be in two places at once; well, perhaps not literally, but while most

The greatest exploration undertaken by the human race, though no member of that species accompanied them into space, the Voyager probes were launched in the summer of 1977

It is the shame of the modern day that the denial of science and the burden of evidence which underpins it has become the default setting of many