Whether it is apparent or not — and 1 hope it is not — I tried, in ‘The Quality of Mercy’ to put forward a certain philosophy of life.” My partner Harry and I were sent out to Lant by the Government ...

Performer and playwright Edwin Flay has a unique perspective on the subject matter, as a former patient of Shipman's from childhood. His family lived in Hyde throughout the '80s and '90s and his ...

Caravaggio, “The Seven Acts of Mercy” (c.1607), oil on canvas, 390 x 260 cm (Pio Monte della Misericordia, Naples, image via Web Gallery of Art) I have been writing a book about art in the historic ...

Daljit Nagra marks birth and death of William Shakespeare (April 23rd 1564 - April 23rd 1616) as he revisits the BBC's poetry archive to select Adventures in Poetry - "The quality of mercy is not ...

It’s one of the funny things about being a theater critic. The topic of mercy rarely comes up in conversation. Still, in fairness, I doubt I’m the only one who seldom happens across–or uses–the term ...

When should we forgive or show mercy to wrongdoers? Three recent cases - the compassionate release of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the reinstatement of American football player ...

Lewis and Hathaway unearth a dark secret while investigating the death of a young actor. When a young actor is murdered during a student Shakespeare production, Lewis and Hathaway sift through the ...

When his two elder boys were asleep and his wife had gone to the cinema, George Ernest Johnson, 40, a major in the Royal Corps of Signals, carried his three-month-old son’s cot into the kitchen of ...