THIS week’s Icon, the actor Bill Paterson, appears to have appeared in almost everything. He has a guid Scots voice, not “och aye the noo”, nor yet inarticulate footballer; not at all elocuted but ...

THEN, in 1979, as intimated earlier, he made a booboo, pooh-poohing an invitation to audition for a role in Hollywood blockbuster Alien. “Nobody will watch this,” he thought. He has called it the ...

While the output of James Blake has always careered between different styles, his combination of electronic sounds with ...