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Culture

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These highlights from the British Library’s collection are fascinating

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The Ridge — a compelling BBC thriller with sublime writing

Lauren Lyle is a Scottish anaesthetist investigating her sister’s death: a drama to grip you to the end

TV & Radio
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REVIEW
The Ridge — a compelling BBC thriller with sublime writing

Lauren Lyle is a Scottish anaesthetist investigating her sister’s death: a drama to grip you to the end

TV & Radio
REVIEW
FIRST NIGHT
LPO/Canellakis — an inspired tribute to a lost female composer

Lili Boulanger died at 24 and could have been a great, as this double bill with Stravinsky proved

Classical & Opera
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FIRST NIGHT
LPO/Canellakis — an inspired tribute to a lost female composer
Classical & Opera
Katerina Tannenbaum as Esther and Eddie Toll as Schmuli in The Wanderers.
REVIEW
FIRST NIGHT
The Wanderers — there’s a void at the heart of this New York drama

Anna Ziegler’s play about a sophisticated literary family in New York is curiously weightless

Theatre & Dance
Katerina Tannenbaum as Esther and Eddie Toll as Schmuli in The Wanderers.
REVIEW
FIRST NIGHT
The Wanderers — there’s a void at the heart of this New York drama

Anna Ziegler’s play about a sophisticated literary family in New York is curiously weightless

Theatre & Dance
INTERVIEW
Philip Pullman at 79: ‘When I write, nothing bad can happen’

After 30 years the author has completed his bestselling epic series The Book of Dust with The Rose Field. He talks politics, endings and his next chapter

Blonde woman with light blue eyes and a floral dress smiling.
Q&A
MY CULTURAL FIRSTS
Sophy Ridge: I didn’t have a TV growing up — I felt sorry for myself
TV & Radio
Two women in a room with a large image of a woman with blue hair projected on the back wall, in a scene from "The Maids" at Donmar Warehouse.
REVIEW
FIRST NIGHT
The Maids — like being locked in a cupboard with Katie Price
Theatre & Dance
John Adams conducting "The Gospel According to the Other Mary" with the Orchestra and Chorus of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
INTERVIEW
Composer John Adams: ‘Wealthy tech people have no interest in culture’
Classical & Opera
Collage of various fish species around a coral reef.
REVIEW
ENVIRONMENT
‘If farm animals were treated like fish there would be an outcry’
Books
Collage of a woman on a staircase and a man resting his head on his hand.
INTERVIEW
Philip Pullman at 79: ‘When I write, nothing bad can happen’
Collage of a woman on a staircase and a man resting his head on his hand.
INTERVIEW
Philip Pullman at 79: ‘When I write, nothing bad can happen’
Blonde woman with light blue eyes and a floral dress smiling.
Q&A
MY CULTURAL FIRSTS
Sophy Ridge: I didn’t have a TV growing up — I felt sorry for myself
TV & Radio
Blonde woman with light blue eyes and a floral dress smiling.
Q&A
MY CULTURAL FIRSTS
Sophy Ridge: I didn’t have a TV growing up — I felt sorry for myself
TV & Radio
Two women in a room with a large image of a woman with blue hair projected on the back wall, in a scene from "The Maids" at Donmar Warehouse.
REVIEW
FIRST NIGHT
The Maids — like being locked in a cupboard with Katie Price
Theatre & Dance
Two women in a room with a large image of a woman with blue hair projected on the back wall, in a scene from "The Maids" at Donmar Warehouse.
REVIEW
FIRST NIGHT
The Maids — like being locked in a cupboard with Katie Price
Theatre & Dance
John Adams conducting "The Gospel According to the Other Mary" with the Orchestra and Chorus of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
INTERVIEW
Composer John Adams: ‘Wealthy tech people have no interest in culture’
Classical & Opera
John Adams conducting "The Gospel According to the Other Mary" with the Orchestra and Chorus of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
INTERVIEW
Composer John Adams: ‘Wealthy tech people have no interest in culture’
Classical & Opera
Collage of various fish species around a coral reef.
REVIEW
ENVIRONMENT
‘If farm animals were treated like fish there would be an outcry’
Books
Collage of various fish species around a coral reef.
REVIEW
ENVIRONMENT
‘If farm animals were treated like fish there would be an outcry’
Books
INTERVIEW
Philip Pullman at 79: ‘When I write, nothing bad can happen’

After 30 years the author has completed his bestselling epic series The Book of Dust with The Rose Field. He talks politics, endings and his next chapter

Blonde woman with light blue eyes and a floral dress smiling.
Q&A
MY CULTURAL FIRSTS
Sophy Ridge: I didn’t have a TV growing up — I felt sorry for myself
TV & Radio
Two women in a room with a large image of a woman with blue hair projected on the back wall, in a scene from "The Maids" at Donmar Warehouse.
REVIEW
FIRST NIGHT
The Maids — like being locked in a cupboard with Katie Price
Theatre & Dance
Collage of a woman on a staircase and a man resting his head on his hand.
INTERVIEW
Philip Pullman at 79: ‘When I write, nothing bad can happen’
Collage of a woman on a staircase and a man resting his head on his hand.
INTERVIEW
Philip Pullman at 79: ‘When I write, nothing bad can happen’
Blonde woman with light blue eyes and a floral dress smiling.
Q&A
MY CULTURAL FIRSTS
Sophy Ridge: I didn’t have a TV growing up — I felt sorry for myself
TV & Radio
Blonde woman with light blue eyes and a floral dress smiling.
Q&A
MY CULTURAL FIRSTS
Sophy Ridge: I didn’t have a TV growing up — I felt sorry for myself
TV & Radio
Two women in a room with a large image of a woman with blue hair projected on the back wall, in a scene from "The Maids" at Donmar Warehouse.
REVIEW
FIRST NIGHT
The Maids — like being locked in a cupboard with Katie Price
Theatre & Dance
Two women in a room with a large image of a woman with blue hair projected on the back wall, in a scene from "The Maids" at Donmar Warehouse.
REVIEW
FIRST NIGHT
The Maids — like being locked in a cupboard with Katie Price
Theatre & Dance
John Adams conducting "The Gospel According to the Other Mary" with the Orchestra and Chorus of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
INTERVIEW
Composer John Adams: ‘Wealthy tech people have no interest in culture’
Classical & Opera
Collage of various fish species around a coral reef.
REVIEW
ENVIRONMENT
‘If farm animals were treated like fish there would be an outcry’
Books
Collage of a woman on a staircase and a man resting his head on his hand.
INTERVIEW
Philip Pullman at 79: ‘When I write, nothing bad can happen’
Blonde woman with light blue eyes and a floral dress smiling.
Q&A
MY CULTURAL FIRSTS
Sophy Ridge: I didn’t have a TV growing up — I felt sorry for myself
TV & Radio
Two women in a room with a large image of a woman with blue hair projected on the back wall, in a scene from "The Maids" at Donmar Warehouse.
REVIEW
FIRST NIGHT
The Maids — like being locked in a cupboard with Katie Price
Theatre & Dance
John Adams conducting "The Gospel According to the Other Mary" with the Orchestra and Chorus of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
INTERVIEW
Composer John Adams: ‘Wealthy tech people have no interest in culture’
Classical & Opera
Collage of various fish species around a coral reef.
REVIEW
ENVIRONMENT
‘If farm animals were treated like fish there would be an outcry’
Books
Collage of a woman on a staircase and a man resting his head on his hand.
INTERVIEW
Philip Pullman at 79: ‘When I write, nothing bad can happen’
Collage of a woman on a staircase and a man resting his head on his hand.
INTERVIEW
Philip Pullman at 79: ‘When I write, nothing bad can happen’
Blonde woman with light blue eyes and a floral dress smiling.
Q&A
MY CULTURAL FIRSTS
Sophy Ridge: I didn’t have a TV growing up — I felt sorry for myself
TV & Radio
Blonde woman with light blue eyes and a floral dress smiling.
Q&A
MY CULTURAL FIRSTS
Sophy Ridge: I didn’t have a TV growing up — I felt sorry for myself
TV & Radio
Two women in a room with a large image of a woman with blue hair projected on the back wall, in a scene from "The Maids" at Donmar Warehouse.
REVIEW
FIRST NIGHT
The Maids — like being locked in a cupboard with Katie Price
Theatre & Dance
Two women in a room with a large image of a woman with blue hair projected on the back wall, in a scene from "The Maids" at Donmar Warehouse.
REVIEW
FIRST NIGHT
The Maids — like being locked in a cupboard with Katie Price
Theatre & Dance
John Adams conducting "The Gospel According to the Other Mary" with the Orchestra and Chorus of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
INTERVIEW
Composer John Adams: ‘Wealthy tech people have no interest in culture’
Classical & Opera
John Adams conducting "The Gospel According to the Other Mary" with the Orchestra and Chorus of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
INTERVIEW
Composer John Adams: ‘Wealthy tech people have no interest in culture’
Classical & Opera
Collage of various fish species around a coral reef.
REVIEW
ENVIRONMENT
‘If farm animals were treated like fish there would be an outcry’
Books
Collage of various fish species around a coral reef.
REVIEW
ENVIRONMENT
‘If farm animals were treated like fish there would be an outcry’
Books
Collage of a woman on a staircase and a man resting his head on his hand.
INTERVIEW
Philip Pullman at 79: ‘When I write, nothing bad can happen’
Blonde woman with light blue eyes and a floral dress smiling.
Q&A
MY CULTURAL FIRSTS
Sophy Ridge: I didn’t have a TV growing up — I felt sorry for myself
TV & Radio
Two women in a room with a large image of a woman with blue hair projected on the back wall, in a scene from "The Maids" at Donmar Warehouse.
REVIEW
FIRST NIGHT
The Maids — like being locked in a cupboard with Katie Price
Theatre & Dance
Collage of a woman on a staircase and a man resting his head on his hand.
INTERVIEW
Philip Pullman at 79: ‘When I write, nothing bad can happen’
Collage of a woman on a staircase and a man resting his head on his hand.
INTERVIEW
Philip Pullman at 79: ‘When I write, nothing bad can happen’
Blonde woman with light blue eyes and a floral dress smiling.
Q&A
MY CULTURAL FIRSTS
Sophy Ridge: I didn’t have a TV growing up — I felt sorry for myself
TV & Radio
Blonde woman with light blue eyes and a floral dress smiling.
Q&A
MY CULTURAL FIRSTS
Sophy Ridge: I didn’t have a TV growing up — I felt sorry for myself
TV & Radio
Two women in a room with a large image of a woman with blue hair projected on the back wall, in a scene from "The Maids" at Donmar Warehouse.
REVIEW
FIRST NIGHT
The Maids — like being locked in a cupboard with Katie Price
Theatre & Dance
Two women in a room with a large image of a woman with blue hair projected on the back wall, in a scene from "The Maids" at Donmar Warehouse.
REVIEW
FIRST NIGHT
The Maids — like being locked in a cupboard with Katie Price
Theatre & Dance
John Adams conducting "The Gospel According to the Other Mary" with the Orchestra and Chorus of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
INTERVIEW
Composer John Adams: ‘Wealthy tech people have no interest in culture’
Classical & Opera
Collage of various fish species around a coral reef.
REVIEW
ENVIRONMENT
‘If farm animals were treated like fish there would be an outcry’
Books

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Reading for fun transforms lives, but we’re losing the habit. A stellar group of authors — from Ian McEwan to Marian Keyes — agree with us: it’s time to act

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Gallery’s pulsating exhibit turns your heartbeat into art
British Museum ‘pink ball’ risked safety of Elgin Marbles, says Greece
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WALDEMAR JANUSZCZAK
The forty million dollar man who made painting fashionable again

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Jack Whitehall: ‘I thought fatherhood would mature me a bit more’
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A LIFE IN THE DAY
GK Barry: ‘Richard Coles was ten times more inappropriate than me’
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Grayson Perry: Are You Good? — an art outsider turns grumpy old man

Gaming

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Hollow Knight: Silksong — a spellbinding upgrade that’s worth the wait
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Puzzles and punch-ups — Indiana Jones gains a fun new chapter
Meet Schlep, the Roblox grooming survivor turned paedophile hunter

Photography

Sir Winston Churchill memorial in The Times newspaper with photos of the funeral procession.
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How Churchill’s death led to The Times’s first front-page picture
‘Whale-watcher’s dream’: humpback double breach captured in Sydney
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Dazzling space scenes capture aurora dragons and bursting sunspots

Art

Illustration of a black background with a pattern of horizontal wavy lines on the left side.
Gallery’s pulsating exhibit turns your heartbeat into art
British Museum ‘pink ball’ risked safety of Elgin Marbles, says Greece
REVIEW
WALDEMAR JANUSZCZAK
The forty million dollar man who made painting fashionable again

Comedy

Jack Whitehall lying across black folding chairs.
INTERVIEW
Jack Whitehall: ‘I thought fatherhood would mature me a bit more’
INTERVIEW
A LIFE IN THE DAY
GK Barry: ‘Richard Coles was ten times more inappropriate than me’
REVIEW
FIRST NIGHT
Grayson Perry: Are You Good? — an art outsider turns grumpy old man

Gaming

Illustration of the Knight from Hollow Knight wielding a long, sharp weapon amidst fiery ruins.
REVIEW
Hollow Knight: Silksong — a spellbinding upgrade that’s worth the wait
REVIEW
Puzzles and punch-ups — Indiana Jones gains a fun new chapter
Meet Schlep, the Roblox grooming survivor turned paedophile hunter

Photography

Sir Winston Churchill memorial in The Times newspaper with photos of the funeral procession.
ARCHIVE PHOTOGRAPHY
How Churchill’s death led to The Times’s first front-page picture
‘Whale-watcher’s dream’: humpback double breach captured in Sydney
PHOTOGRAPHY
Dazzling space scenes capture aurora dragons and bursting sunspots
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