An overview of the British New Wave season of dramas on Radio 4. In the late fifties and early sixties something extraordinary happened in theatre, film and writing: a different creative energy ...

The British New Wave emerged in the late 1950s and early 1960s and immediately made an impression. Inspired by the French New Wave and rooted in the ethos of social realism, this movement focused ...

With breaking music harder than ever, what makes executives most confident about the new wave of young British artists is their work rate. “Even though everyone else sees the success as ...

Author Nell Dunn on what inspired her to write Up the Junction.Author Nell Dunn on what inspired her to write Up the Junction.

Amid the social strife of 1970s Britain emerged NWOBHM, the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. New bands from ordinary British towns and suburbs like Iron Maiden, Def Leppard; Saxon, and Girlschool ...

When the term first arrived on the pop music scene in the late part of the '70s, new wave was used as a catch-all for music that wasn't quite punk, but it wasn't traditional pop or rock music either.

New advice has been issued by the Foreign Office to British holidaymakers after a wave of violent protests across Turkey, ...