
BFI London Film Festival 2026: What’s On and Where to Go Between Screenings
Twelve days, 251 films, 88 countries. The BFI London Film Festival turns 70 this year and the whole thing is anchored about five minutes from our front door. Wednesday 7
Twelve days, 251 films, 88 countries. The BFI London Film Festival turns 70 this year and the whole thing is anchored about …
Most of London does Christmas theatre in the West End, where you pay West End prices, eat at a chain because it’s …
Everybody has been to that Christmas do. Long table. Three-course set menu chosen six weeks earlier by someone in operations. Crackers. A …
Right, the important bit first, because plenty of listings get this wrong. Oktoberfest at Between the Bridges is not a three-week continuous …
Waterloo gets treated as somewhere you pass through. Four million people a year come up those escalators, look at the departure boards, …
London Literature Festival 2026: Key Dates & Curator Dua Lipa is interviewing Zadie Smith about White Teeth. Two days later she’s on …
A 146-strong all-woman choir opens it. Steve Reich turns 90 and gets four events across the closing weekend, including one billed as …
There’s a moment that happens at almost every bottomless brunch in London. You’re about 50 minutes in. The glasses are half full, …
Anne-Marie Duff is one of the finest stage actors working today. Best known to millions for her role in Bad Sisters on …
Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book has been adapted into almost everything – animated film, live-action blockbuster, stage musical. But this is something …

Twelve days, 251 films, 88 countries. The BFI London Film Festival turns 70 this year and the whole thing is anchored about five minutes from our front door. Wednesday 7

Most of London does Christmas theatre in the West End, where you pay West End prices, eat at a chain because it’s the only thing with a table, and fight

Everybody has been to that Christmas do. Long table. Three-course set menu chosen six weeks earlier by someone in operations. Crackers. A DJ playing Slade at a volume that makes

Right, the important bit first, because plenty of listings get this wrong. Oktoberfest at Between the Bridges is not a three-week continuous run. It’s eight nights, Fridays and Saturdays only:

A fashion mogul cancels Christmas because it’s getting in the way of her landmark show. Three visitors turn up to explain why that’s a mistake. It is exactly the story

Waterloo gets treated as somewhere you pass through. Four million people a year come up those escalators, look at the departure boards, and leave. Which is a shame, because between