Saltaire's Victoria Hall throws open its doors on Thursday 6th August for a day dedicated to one of the great survivors of the silent-cinema age: the Mighty Wurlitzer. Between 11am and 4pm, visitors can get up close to the theatre pipe organ and hear it played not once but repeatedly, as a rotating cast of organists takes the console throughout the day.

Dicks There was little on which we did not draw a dick, compassing grey paint off lockers, etching desks, but mostly inking each other’s files or textbooks, apostles casting cocks across the Sea of Galilee, Tybalt shaking terrible showers onto poor Juliet, dark colossi swung over relief maps of Gallipoli, some veiny and ridged, some rushed as signatures.

Fresh from a morning of interviews and still buzzing between events, this year's Festival Programming Chair, Lisa Jewell, talks to Andrew Palmer at the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival about omissions, instinct, and the coercive-control novel taking shape for 2027. The deckchairs are out on the lawn of the Old Swan Hotel, the sun is doing exactly wha…

Loosely based on the James M Cain classic novel The Postman Always Rings Twice and not to be confused with Bizet’s opera Carmen, although the music is well-known, in Matthew Bourne’s ballet The Car Man’ the familiar 19th Century Spanish cigarette factory becomes a greasy 1950s garage diner in the American Midwest, and it is here where the dreams and passions of a sma…

There is a particular pleasure in returning to a recording again and again as a reviewer and finding that it yields something new each time, while one thing remains constant. With this latest Chandos disc from Elena Urioste and Tom Poster, that constant is the sheer beauty of the playing: the balance between soloist and accompanist is judged to perfection, and the engineers have done what Chandos so often manages, capturing the sound with such transparency that the listener seems to be eavesdropping on the duo rather than hearing a recording at all. It is sublime, moving and endlessly captivating.

After the amazing response to the recent children's art competition, I didn't envy the judges’ job of picking a few winners and runners-up. There was an array of styles and mediums from ages four to eighteen. I wanted to show the world all the talented artists, but it would take a whole newspaper to include everyone.