Sport » 4 weeks ago
Claudia MacDonald shone with two tries among England’s nine in a crushing victory that sets up a Grand Slam deciderHolly Aitchison, wearing No 10 for England, kicks off.The teams are out on the pitch in Leicester. Now for th...
Lifestyle » 4 weeks ago
The actor, 49, talks about his royal heritage, earliest memory, hard times in a hostel, four gifted kids and what happened when he met Sidney PoitierDavid, you are going to walk among kings.” This was my mum’s prophecy when I was small. My fat...
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Grand Designs team to make show set in wealthy English countryside that promises to be part glittering social whirl and part bloodbath The Cotswolds had better steel itself: reality television is upon it. A series is planned (rumoured working title: Ladies of th...
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The revered artist conjured groundbreaking scenes of gods, legends and lost civilisations, but, more than anything, his work came to represent the complex soul of Britain like that of no artist before or sinceHe never crossed the Atlantic. Never sailed the Aegean. A&n...
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The actor on her love of sad songs, history podcasts and cemeteries with mysterious gravestonesBorn in Hong Kong in 1982, actor Romola Garai grew up in Singapore and Wiltshire. She has starred in films including Atonement and Suffragette...
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(Strut)This San Francisco session released for Record Store Day sets spoken word to Ackamoor’s uncompromising but joyous spiritual jazzIdris Ackamoor was a champion of Afrofuturism long before that term was coined; his 70s band the Pyramids combined funk and ava...
Lifestyle » 4 weeks ago
Duke of York’s, London A triumphant staging by Rebecca Lucy Taylor of her new album, A Complicated Woman, is part artistic statement, part power pop club nightHard-edged digital club music throbs from the theatre stage – a place most...
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Somerset House, LondonAfter 10 fun-packed years, it’s a wrap for the UK’s biggest celebration of indie, communal gameplay. But the folk games at the heart of this year’s edition have now filtered into the mainstream, from Taskmaster to The Traitors...
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Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg; Royal Opera House, LondonMussorgsky’s apocalyptic unfinished opera is given a fierce new lease of life by the McBurney brothers, Esa-Pekka Salonen and an exceptional young mezzo. And not even illness can keep a great Ca...
Lifestyle » 4 weeks ago
Sadler’s Wells, LondonA triple bill of works by the celebrated American choreographer William Forsythe show ENB’s dancers at their roof-raising bestIt’s no coincidence that so many of a new generation of choreographers have danced fo...