This sort of put-upon, nervy air makes Mitchell the perfect lead of Ludwig, a BBC One dramedy—one that leans more toward comedy than drama—that aired last fall and lands on BritBox this week.

“The Residence,” on Netflix, stars Uzo Aduba as a sleuth with a passion for bird-watching; “Ludwig,” on BritBox, offers David Mitchell as a professional puzzle maker impersonating his ...

Only eight years earlier, Henry IV had deposed his cousin Richard II, who died in custody soon afterwards. Richard’s rule was so loathed that the army Henry amassed didn’t have to fight a single ...

After the war, Winifred Wagner was convicted of supporting the Nazis. “Richard Wagner wrote horrible essays about Jewish people. Of course, I do not align with those views," Katharina says ...

Mercenaries with Russia’s Wagner Group, fighting alongside Malian soldiers, have assaulted women, massacred civilians and burned villages in Mali, the displaced say — a campaign of wanton ...

Surgery has revealed fast-growing tumours are present in Richard Scolyer's brain. Doctors have given the former Australian of the Year up to three months to live. The melanoma pathologist had ...

Ludwig II was careful, though, to pay for the work with his personal fortune, not State funds. True, his mind became entwined in Richard Wagner’s often toxic racial fantasies, which, as Julian Young ...

In a Boston Globe career unlikely to be repeated, Richard C. Ockerbloom walked in the front door on his first day as a Northeastern University student co-op, rose to become president, and walked ...