Simon Russell Beale Q&A: “I like the look of Macron! Let’s see what he comes up with“
The celebrated actor talks camels, the French Revolution, and playing the piano.
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The celebrated actor talks camels, the French Revolution, and playing the piano.
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The rota developed more gaps than an exceptionally holey piece of Emmental cheese.
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We are conditioned to be annoyed by everything the U2 frontman does.
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I mean, seriously, what is the point?
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Alternatively, 22 croissants, or 32 slices of tarte tatin.
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Actress Ruth Gemmell chills on BBC Radio 4 Extra.
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Morgan Matthews impresses with his BBC4 documentary This Was My Dad.
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Her delicate touch as a director keeps the mood frisky, even at its most fraught.
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Tate Modern offers a powerful glimpse into the civil rights struggle.
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Two fashionable new plays, Ink and Committee, look behind the front page stories.
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The band’s new album Something to Tell You combines mature lyrics and ridiculously catchy hooks.
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Author Tom Jeffreys trekked from London to Birmingham, and found no easy answers.
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Paul Batchelor reviews his Night Sky with Exit Wounds, plus new works from Adam O’Riordan and Colette Bryce.
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Author Adam Scovell’s tone is perfectly pitched between articulate academic and box-set binger.
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Elif Batuman’s novel follows an 18-year-old aspiring writer through her first year at Harvard.
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RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR sometimes feels like drifting, from Cromarty to Cape Cod to Porthmadog.
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Roots, Radicals and Rockers is full of great characters and vignettes of bracingly different times.
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A new poem by Declan Ryan.
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Christopher Jackson’s book tries to explain the delirium of the Wimbledon champion’s devotees.
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The rich legacy of the American nature writer, tax dodger, moralist, activist . . . and pencil manufacturer.
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The Almeida’s young associate director has a reputation for criticising the rest of the theatre world. But, he says,…
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IS tells its members they are divinely obligated to fight for its cause, but that results come from God.
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The rise of populism in Britain and France is the result of a restless “crowd electorate”. Both countries’ future…
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The European commissioner for competition is taming the tech giants.
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Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell and more take part in the Future Library project.
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“It was a catastrophe,” says the Tory MP and grandson of Churchill about the June general election.
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Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The families of the almost 250 people killed in July 2016 may never see justice.
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The rugby referee, unavoidably, now adjudicates as much as he officiates.
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The journalist on column inspiration, Harry Styles, and a package from Mosul.
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Courses would not be flooded with idiots any more than public libraries are besieged by illiterates.
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Her “relaunch” has only brought her sell-by date closer.
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She won the ultimate prize, and then tossed it away so carelessly.
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Theresa May’s difficulty is others’ opportunity, including those Tories scheming to bring her down.
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