The BBC’s Macca mystery: what went wrong at Glastonbury?
Paul McCartney's Saturday night headlining set was a triumph in all but one respect – the ludicrous wait to watch it at home. What happened?
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Glastonbury 2022: The best moments as the festival comes to a close
Glastonbury returned after a two-year hiatus. Our team reported live from Worthy Farm as Kendrick Lamar took to the Pyramid Stage
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Physically tough, boring in person and dangerous when cornered: lessons from a new Putin biography
Philip Short’s Putin, the result of hundreds of interviews, is illuminating – but with a subject this volatile, it already feels out of date
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My Life as a Rolling Stone, review: come on BBC, we’ve heard this all before
While satisfying die-hard fans who will do anything to hear the Stones go down memory lane, this BBC four-parter contains few revelations
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Aids: The Unheard Tapes, review: voices from beyond the grave bring the devastation to life
BBC Two's excellent, heartbreaking documentary series vividly recreates both the era and the tragedy that came with it
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Comment and analysis
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How long before Mozart’s Così Fan Tutte is cancelled?
Garsington’s production of the composer's Carry On-like opera is top-class – but feminists may struggle with its fickle women
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Can TV game shows point the way out of our post-pandemic malaise?
This week, Victoria has been watching Taskmaster: Champion of Champions and One Question on Channel 4
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Prince William and Kate have never looked so conventional
Jamie Coreth’s portrait offers a pair of good likenesses in dutiful style – but shouldn’t our future king aspire to more energetic things?
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Elvis is a pack of lies – not that it matters
Baz Luhrmann’s new biopic takes huge liberties with the facts, but if it introduces a new generation to the King's music then it's worth it
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Behind the music
Rock's untold stories, from band-splitting feuds to the greatest performances of all time
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What’s on TV tonight: Only Murders in the Building, the Sherwood finale, and more
Your complete guide to the week’s television, films and sport, across terrestrial and digital platforms
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Screen Secrets
A regular series telling the stories behind film and TV's greatest hits – and most fascinating flops
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Woody Allen tells Alec Baldwin ‘the thrill has gone’ – and we know the feeling
What did we learn from Baldwin's Instagram chat with the embattled director? That he likes staying home, plans to retire, and has bad wi-fi
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Woody Allen tells Alec Baldwin ‘the thrill has gone’ – and we know the feeling
What did we learn from Baldwin's Instagram chat with the embattled director? That he likes staying home, plans to retire, and has bad wi-fi
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‘Almost everything to do with George Michael pointed back to his father’
James Gavin's new biography of the troubled star shifts blame away from the tabloids and onto the strict father whose approval he craved
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'The success of The Miniaturist overwhelmed me but I couldn't let go of the characters'
Jessie Burton reveals what it's like to become an overnight success – and the conversation that finally persuaded her to write a sequel
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Physically tough, boring in person and dangerous when cornered: lessons from a new Putin biography
Philip Short’s Putin, the result of hundreds of interviews, is illuminating – but with a subject this volatile, it already feels out of date
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The first English-language biography of Zelensky reveals what Ukrainians really think of him
Serhii Rudenko's new biography Zelensky reminds us that, before the war, very few Ukrainians regarded their leader as St Volodomyr of Kiev
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In the Black Fantastic, review: upsetting, entertaining and intoxicating
The Hayward Gallery’s new exhibition reveals 11 artists from the African diaspora exploring bleak territory with defiance and brilliance
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Africa Fashion, review: an exhibition that thrillingly opens your eyes to something new
The 250 objects in the V&A's new show add up to a sparkling picture of the continent’s multifarious fashion scene
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Why modern culture is dying
McCartney is playing Glastonbury, Kate Bush is number one and Top Gun 2 is the year's big film. Have original ideas fallen out of fashion?
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Prince William and Kate have never looked so conventional
Jamie Coreth’s portrait offers a pair of good likenesses in dutiful style – but shouldn’t our future king aspire to more energetic things?
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Woody Allen tells Alec Baldwin ‘the thrill has gone’ – and we know the feeling
What did we learn from Baldwin's Instagram chat with the embattled director? That he likes staying home, plans to retire, and has bad wi-fi
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LCD Soundsystem: a brilliant gig that felt more like a banging club night
The influential Brooklyn collective launched their Brixton Academy residency with a shuddering evening of electro-rock
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Patrick Kielty: Borderline: reflections on Northern Ireland that are too cosy by half
Kielty is a stand-up uniquely qualified to speak on the topic of his homeland and its borders, but this set, though polished, lacks bite
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How Maroon 5 became the most annoying band in rock
Twenty years since their debut, we still can't escape Maroon 5's insufferably ubiquitous pop and punchable, egomaniacal frontman Adam Levine
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The Fellowship: incendiary material that doesn’t quite ignite
Roy Williams's latest, at Hampstead, dares to hold a mirror up to prejudice within the black community, but the drama doesn't entirely gel
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In the Black Fantastic, review: upsetting, entertaining and intoxicating
The Hayward Gallery’s new exhibition reveals 11 artists from the African diaspora exploring bleak territory with defiance and brilliance
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What’s on TV tonight: Only Murders in the Building, the Sherwood finale, and more
Your complete guide to the week’s television, films and sport, across terrestrial and digital platforms
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‘Almost everything to do with George Michael pointed back to his father’
James Gavin's new biography of the troubled star shifts blame away from the tabloids and onto the strict father whose approval he craved
