Fantasy author Neil Gaiman says in a speech that "snobbery and foolishness" by adults about certain books can easily destroy a child's love of reading.

The winner of this year's Man Booker Prize will be announced later, with Jim Crace's Harvest the favourite with bookmakers to reap the £50,000 award.

Beloved children's show the Clangers is to make a return to television, with a new series in production for CBeebies in 2015.

Actress Natalie Cassidy is to return to EastEnders, seven years after she left the BBC One soap.

A man who made thousands from a "cottage industry" in fake David Tennant and Billie Piper autographs, among others, is jailed.

Rufus Norris is to take over from Sir Nicholas Hytner as director of the National Theatre, regarded as the biggest job in British theatre.

The BBC's new director of radio calls for mobile phones to come installed with digital radio receivers because the experience of streaming radio on smartphones is so poor.

Zombie TV thriller The Walking Dead attracts its largest audience in the US to date, with 16.1 million tuning in for the return of the fourth series.