FILM OF THE WEEK FOUR KIDS AND IT (Cert PG, 109 mins, Sky Cinema, Drama/Comedy/Fantasy/Romance, available now exclusively on Sky Cinema, available from August 3 on Amazon Prime Video/BT TV Store/iTunes/Sky Store/TalkTalk TV Store and other download and streaming services, also available from August 3 on DVD £12.

TAKING its title from Norse mythology's notion of heaven as an astral plane where souls linger invisibly after they depart the mortal realm, Summerland is an elegantly constructed drama set on the Kent coast under threat from the Luftwaffe.

LET there be light..

Maid of Sker (PS4) By: Wales Interactive FROM mahogany minstrel Tom Jones to Gavin and Stacey, Wales punches well above its pop-cultural weight.

1. When did you think about a career in broadcasting and what were your first steps into it? When I was seven or eight I recorded the theme to The Gremlins off the TV while talking over it on my Fisher Price Tape Recorder so I guess that was my first ever radio link.

Seasick Steve Love & Peace YOU don't picture Seasick Steve as a hippy, but the cover of his new album features a hand making a peace sign and clutching a flower, and he did spend the 1960s in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, ground zero for the Summer of Love.

Boyzlife Strings Attached BOYZONE and Westlife – two of the biggest boybands to emerge from Ireland during the 90s, both manufactured in the Louis Walsh pop factory, both charting numerous number ones.

WELL, it still very quiet, isn't it? Not for a while yet will we hear the fiddle, flute, bodhrán, guitar, pipes and whatever you're having yourself animate a crowded backroom in a public bar.

BELFAST'S August Bank holiday weekend is synonymous with the Belfast Mela, when thousands of visitors come together to revel in a unique carnival of global cultures.

BOOK OF THE WEEK: The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-Eun is published in hardback by Serpent's Tail, priced £12.

SOMETIMES it's the quiet ones who have the best stories.

ILLUSTRATING children books on the subject of dementia or a biography on the life of a mathematician is no easy task, but it's one that 29-year-old Ashling Lindsay accomplishes with creative sensitivity.

TALENTED craft makers from across Northern Ireland are being invited to submit creative pieces of work for a new ‘Unlocked' exhibition which is being curated for August Craft Month.

How do you unwind at the weekend? As theatre people, we don't really do weekends.

STARS of Riverdance, including three dancers who have returned to work as doctors in Irish hospitals, have taken part in a compilation video filmed from lockdown in beautiful locations around the world in support of Trócaire.

A west Belfast actress has come up with an innovative idea to keep the acting community's spirits up in lockdown.

TIME TO get the driving gloves and the car coat on, foot to the floor, it’s another Bluffer’s Guide to Irish. One of the consequences of Coronavirus is the relative lack of cars on the ro...

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READ ALL about it, read all about it, hot of the presses comes the Bluffer’s Guide to Irish. A léitheoir dhil - dear reader, the fact that you are reading this newspaper, be it the paper...

There won’t the sound of laughter, romance and the Irish language in the country’s Gaeltacht summer colleges this year but the craic refuses to die. The Comórtas Amhrán T&iac...