culture
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Twenty years ago, the 16-year-old vanished on a night out on the Isle of Wight. There have been no sightings of him, and his body has never been found. Now a new documentary is sniffing around – and turning up new leads
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As Peter Rabbit and friends return in a brand new tale and on Royal Mail stamps, Nicholas Tucker remembers the writer, illustrator and sheep farmer
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Making any film in the Mojave desert would be difficult – never mind with a wine-swigging, naked Depardieu in tow. Valley of Love director Guillaume Nicloux explains how he did it
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news
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The long-running British comedy series is being revamped for the US by Eli Jorne, the co-creator of Fox’s buzzed-about animated sitcom Son of Zorn
reviews
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Biehl, an American ANC supporter, was killed by a group of young men in a South African township in 1993. This first book on the famous case turns it upside down
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Kathryn Mewes rolls up in her Mini to sort out more troublesome kids, but first there’s a parent who needs a telling-off
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The violinist and cellist capture every detail of some extremely demanding writing with energy, engagement and virtuoso precision
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‘I thought that little girl’s only chances were suicide or murder.’ This is a powerful, devastating account of a childhood without boundaries on New York’s Upper East Side
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The Cumbrian veterans turned down the volume and turned up the heat in a pertinent performance that revealed their edgier, muscular side
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Lights flicker, shelves gather dust and cables twist like snakes – all that’s missing from this high-tech workspace are workers, leaving you feeling like a lab rat in a maze
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Anthony Payne’s 80th birthday commission is a substantial, beautifully crafted symphonic poem and choral work in the tradition of Bax and Bridge
people
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This is no Bechdel test-brandishing diatribe – Hollywood simply needs to do better if the best part it can find for the fabulous actor is 007’s latest squeeze
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As her first solo show opens in New York, the Qatari-American artist talks about Gulf pop culture, gross veil fetishes – and why she’s not playing the ‘native informant’
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The Belgian singer-songwriter dwelt fearlessly on love, death and desperate emotion in works that inspired countless artists, and spawned covers that only rarely matched his intensity
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The prolific podcaster has another show. With help from Broad City’s Ilana Glazer, it offers interviews with talents from marginalized communities
talking points
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As plans for the Garden Bridge teeter, behold Boris’s most public design disasters, from Thomas Heatherwick’s mobile sweatbox to an Olympic white elephant
critics' picks
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The curly haired crusader comes for your coffee cups; four become three in the MasterChef kitchen; and mundane life goes on in Zaatari
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There’s a bewildering number of productions at the Edinburgh festival – remove the guesswork with our guide to shows we already know are brilliant
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Simon Callow explores the history of putting your hands together, and Marc Riley unearths archived interviews with Marc Bolan and Joni Mitchell
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From Womad and The BFG to Billie Piper and Matt Smith treading the boards, it’s your cultural guide to the next seven days
pictures & video
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At Comic-Con on the weekend, it was revealed that The Woods, Adam Wingard’s new horror, is in fact a sequel to found footage classic The Blair Witch Project (1999)
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From the streets of Los Angeles to the beaches of Rio, here’s our pick of the most memorable videos depicting urban life in cities around the world
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Colombian sculptor Doris Salcedo takes us on a tour of Bogotá and her studio
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Breaking Bad’s Anna Gunn stars as a successful investment banker threatened by financial corruption in the film
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A clip from Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 cold war satire Dr Strangelove, featuring Peter Sellers as mild-mannered US president, Merkin Muffley, and the creepy ex-Nazi scientist, Strangelove
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Twenty-one years after the release of his breakthrough hit, director Danny Boyle reunites with the cast of Trainspotting for T2
Shakespeare Solos
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Samuel West speaks Henry V’s soliloquy on the night before battle, in which he reflects upon the public’s expectations of the king
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Adrian Lester performs Hamlet’s soliloquy in which the prince considers taking his own life
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Daniel Mays speaks Macbeth’s lines from Act II, Scene 1, in which he sees a murder weapon in a hallucination
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Laura Carmichael speaks Portia’s lines from the courtroom scene in The Merchant of Venice, in which she tells the moneylender Shylock to be merciful
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In a speech taken from the first scene of All’s Well That Ends Well, Sacha Dhawan’s Parolles stresses the importance of losing one’s virginity
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Ayesha Dharker plays Titania, the queen of the fairies, in a scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
lists & playlists
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Ahead of the release of their ninth album Going, Going … David Gedge of the indie veterans also picks Cocteau Twins, Serge Gainsbourg and Parker and Lily
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From Miles Franklin to Bruce Chatwin, these writers show how tightly this spectacular but dangerous territory is bound up with the country’s identity
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culture webchats
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The historian and author of a new blockbuster take on Rome joined us live – and answered your questions on her desert island book pick, whether Ted Hughes got Ovid right and if she thinks the Romans civilised ‘savage’ Brits
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The bearded surrealist joined us to answer questions on everything from the odds of being torn apart by a badger to the best way to drink tea, via the refugee crisis and Bobby Crush
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The singer, author and crowdfunding advocate answered your questions – and played a song in the office
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Are you a Stoke fan? Were you worried about playing Captain Mainwaring in Dad’s Army? Do you know how to operate a metal detector? Toby Jones answered all of these questions and more. See below
you may have missed
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Two-time winner JM Coetzee’s latest book is on list along with little-reviewed crime thriller by Graeme Macrae Burnet
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Alongside artists like Christine And The Queens and Years & Years, electropop singer Shura is challenging stereotypes and helping to ‘queer the mainstream’
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The Exterminating Angel is a surreal classic about the dinner party from hell. Now Thomas Adès has turned Buñuel’s film into an opera stuffed with stars – and live sheep
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In the terrible new dawn of dating shows, desirability is judged by genitalia alone. Is this it: the death of all civilisation?
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Comic-Con is merely the first taste of everything you won’t be able to shut up about for the next year or two, from Wonder Woman to Rihanna in Bates Motel
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From the new film of Swallows and Amazons to Harry Potter, Britain is obsessed with a past that never existed. What is this endless Downtonisation all about?
what we're reading
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Empathy and Orange Is the New Black
Marta BausellsIn its smartest move, this season of the Netflix show interrogates compassion, instead of treating it as a cure-all. -
The savagely clever feminist behind UnREAL
Gwilym MumfordInspired by her time as a ruthless producer on “The Bachelor,” Sarah Gertrude Shapiro created a darkly comic TV drama. -
How Silicon Valley nails Silicon Valley
Kate AbbottThe absurdly deep research underlying HBO’s satire. -
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the big picture
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The Fitzwilliam Museum has brought together some dazzling, intricate manuscripts, whose colours foreshadow modern art … in the middle ages
Whatever happened to Hollywood's really evil villains?
The Joker, Nurse Ratched and Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear – Peter Bradshaw’s 10 favourite movie villains