Fifty years after his death, has Benjamin Britten sunk quietly into irrelevance? That would hardly be surprising. The world ...

If you’re very lucky, you may one day get to see a Britten V1000 motorcycle in person. With only 10 of these bikes ever having been made, it’s rare—but definitely not impossible. There’s one that ...

Benjamin Britten's early years are often ignored, overshadowed by the spectacular success of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, when he was 31. But now, the diaries the composer kept for a decade from ...

A terminal illness two weeks ago proved perhaps the most rapidly mutating medical condition of recent times. On Friday, it was a heart condition. On Sunday, it had surprisingly turned into tertiary ...

Built in the early ‘90s by its visionary creator John Britten, the Britten V1000 bike is not only a pink and blue work of art that makes any motorcycle enthusiast’s heart race. It’s an icon that broke ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Learn the history of the Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander, the rugged twin-engine utility aircraft that has connected remote ...

Charles Hazlewood examines Britten's work alongside Bridge's Three Idylls. Duration: 1:03:10 Britten: Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra Charles Hazlewood looks at Britten's Young Person's Guide to ...

Benjamin Britten was a child prodigy who went on to compose some of the 20th century’s greatest works. Peter Parker salutes a man whose genius was fuelled by personal passions. Neil Powell (Benjamin ...

If you can't beat them, do something so insanely different they'll never see it coming. That's not exactly how the old saying goes, but it's exactly what John Britten did at the Isle of Man TT in the ...

Roy J. Britten, a Caltech biologist who discovered that the mammalian genome includes large quantities of repetitive DNA sequences that do not serve as blueprints for genes, has died. He was 92.