FR: Sir Kenneth Branagh, Simon Russell Beale, Julie Hesmondhalgh

Published: Jan. 24, 2014, 3:28 p.m.

Simon Russell Beale on King Lear and Julie Hesmondhalgh on her controversial exit from Coronation Street; Sir Kenneth Branagh discusses the transition from Shakespeare to directing and playing the baddie in a thriller set in the new Cold War. John Wilson talks to special effects expert Tim Webber about defining Gravity; we count up rather more than three Musketeers and Tasmin Little delivers a Winter Olympics-related musical surprise.