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As the BFI dedicates a new season to his ‘radical vision’, friends, family, colleagues and contemporaries remember the director and explain the revolutionary and liberating force of his films

An actor best known for appearing in a much-loved sitcom will be enjoying a second stint as a soap star at the age of 89 in the coming months thanks to landing a 'substantial role' on Coronation Street

A critic of the establishment with an unquenchable taste for cinema, Sir Horace Ové made vital in-roads into British film and TV production when opportunities for Black directors were slim.

Ové directed the first full-length Black British feature film, and is credited with inspiring a generation of filmmakers.

Director who examined life in multicultural Britain in pioneering films such as Pressure, a defining work of black British cinema

Even after his demise, the legendary filmmaker Horace Ové continues to serve as an inspiring figure for many prominent artistes, including Menelik Shabazz, John Akomfrah, Isaac Julien, Julien Henriques, Ngozi Onwurah, Steve McQueen,

Including seasons dedicated to Powell and Pressburger, Sir Horace Ové and Joanna Hogg, and Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon at IMAX.

The BFI National Archive and The Film Foundation’s 4K restoration will have a joint world premiere at the 67th BFI London Film Festival and 61st New York Film Festival on 11 October.

The best money decision the author Adele Parks MBE ever made was writing her first novel at the age of 30.

Chart-toppers Wet Wet Wet are hitting the road next year and are including a Halifax gig in their schedule.