His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

DIRECTOR Dick Lester has been the lovingly eulogised subject of this column on several occasions down the years. As the Goons-connected helmsman of The Beatles' two fabtastic forays into mainstream ...

In post-nuclear-holocaust England, a handful of bizarre characters struggles on with their lives in the ruins, among endless heaps of ash, piles of broken crockery and brick, muddy plains, and heaps ...

Fans of classic British comedy, like Monty Python, should check out the 1969 Richard Lester film, The Bed-Sitting Room. Technically, it’s a post-apocalyptic film, set after a nuclear war, but mostly ...

Before The Texas Chainsaw Massacre... there was Ed.

Three years since the nuclear misunderstanding which led to the third world war ("and it's no idle boast when I remind you that this was the shortest world war on record... two minutes twenty eight ...

To mark the centenary of Spike Milligan’s birth, Radio 4 Extra broadcasts Paul Merton and John Antrobus’ reworking of the 1960s post-apocalyptic, surrealist play. Three years since the nuclear ...