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Winkleman ends BBC talk show after single series
The television presenter is stepping down from her Friday night programme after just one series, leaving Graham Norton's productio…
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Tower of London’s architectural archive to be made public as part of planned £70m revamp
A new Archive Study Centre will open as part of a multi-year programme by Historic Royal Palaces
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The Secret Garden review – thoughtful adaptation takes root in the imagination
The Egg, Bath The beloved children’s perennial is the basis for a celebration of craft, creativity and the beauty of the natural w…
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‘Cool, suave and weirdly shy’: Miranda Richardson remembers Sam Neill
Sam had such ease about him and I just loved the way he seemed to cruise through life. But he confronted his mortality with real c…
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Nia Archives: Emotional Junglist review | Aimee Cliff's album of the week
(Island) On the Bradford-born producer’s self-assured second album, drum’n’bass rhythms power up angsty odes with shades of Arctic…
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Madelon Vriesendorp review – sex-crazed visions of skyscrapers copulating
Sir John Soane’s Museum, London The Empire State building is caught in bed with the Chrysler Building and a milk bottle turns into…
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Ten unheard tracks from David Bowie's early career to be released
The previously unheard tracks from the 1960s were recorded when Bowie went by the stage name Davie Jones.
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Germany news: Gender switch neo-Nazi sent to men's prison
Neo-Nazi Marla Svenja Liebich has been transferred to a men's prison after extradition back to Germany, despite being legally regi…
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Germany news: Inland shipping under strain as rivers run low
Drastically low water levels in Germany's rivers has disrupted shipping on several major rivers. Meanwhile, police have recorded a…
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The best books to read in July: new paperbacks from Andrew O’Hagan, Miriam Toews and Oyinkan Braithwaite
Looking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some fantastic new paperbacks, from the gripping story of an international murd…
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‘A sublime, breezy confection’: writers on their 2026 songs of the summer
The annual rundown of Guardian writers picking their most played tracks of the season goes from club-ready pop to sunny tech house…
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New York exhibition explores how the Wiener Werkstätte preserved the human touch of handcraft
Show at the Jewish Museum looks at the movement founded by members of the Vienna Secession, who rejected Bauhaus's mass-production…
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Renzo Piano’s giant glass cube towers over the rest of the Stirling prize’s samey brick-built shortlist
Coming from the same developer as the Shard, London’s latest trophy building may be 54 storeys shorter than envisaged but should r…
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‘I felt Holden was talking to me alone’: The Catcher in the Rye at 75
JD Salinger’s wry, subversive classic inspired novelist Joseph O’Connor to be a writer. He reflects on why this story of a disaffe…
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Fleabag at 10: did Phoebe Waller-Bridge usher in a wave of female-fronted series – or straitjacket them?
The confessional classic opened the floodgates for a generation of brilliant female showrunners. But as risk-averse streamers tigh…
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Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey used occupied land as a film set. That feels like a betrayal | Mohamed Sleiman Labat
The decision to shoot in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara, where the Indigenous people can’t tell their stories without fear of im…
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Sweeney Todd review – Sondheim’s demon barber is still a cut above
Birmingham Rep With tremendous singing from Ramin Karimloo and Meow Meow, Joe Murphy’s superb staging of the story is full of dark…
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Emergencies on planet Earth: images from the climate crisis – in pictures
From fierce flooding and escaped pigs to birds that can’t fly due to the weight of plastic in their stomachs, mankind’s biggest ch…
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Up All Night by Imogen Willetts review – a seductive history of going out
From 18th-century pleasure gardens to Studio 54, the story of nightlife in all its hedonistic – and political – glory In this fabu…
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TV tonight: Jennifer Garner and Chloë Sevigny star in glossy girlie trip drama
Five wealthy women set off for a weekend where everyone has something to hide. Plus: Dan Snow follows in Odysseus’s wake. Here’s w…
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Magic trick piracy highlights cross-border IP theft
A UK magic trick creator's pursuit of digital pirates across Europe has evolved into a documentary that is now drawing attention f…
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Actor Sam Neill died from pneumonia, agent confirms
Neill died in Sydney on Monday, with his family saying his death was 'sudden and unexpected'.
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‘The minute I had success, I stopped taking drugs’: John Waters on 60 years of screen carnage
As Hairspray and his ‘angriest movie’ Desperate Living are rereleased, the ‘Pope of Trash’ reflects on dead dogs, dirty rats, ‘tha…
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England to mandate newborn SMA screening by 2027
A major Oxford-led study will make England the latest part of the UK to routinely test newborns for spinal muscular atrophy, unloc…