From showbiz to spaceships, what we can expect in 2019

In the arts, politics, science, sport, technology and business, we preview the events that will shape our world in the next 12 months

Lovers of Shakespeare are invited to witness "a marriage of true minds" in early February when Kenneth Branagh and Judi Dench play Mr and Mrs Shakespeare on the big screen in Branagh's All Is True. The screenplay, written by Ben Elton, follows the playwright's return to Stratford-upon-Avon in 1613 after the Globe theatre burns down.