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Billy Budd review – Clayton’s Vere is the devastating heart of vivid staging

Glyndebourne, SussexThis revival of Michael Grandage’s atmospheric production of Britten’s opera has numerous fine performances: Thomas Mole and Sam Carl are persuasive as Billy and Claggart, and Allan Clayton’s luminous Vere is a standoutBrutalist grey, its deck gently curved, H

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Penelope Keith – a life in pictures

The actor, best known for her posh comic roles as Margo Leadbetter in The Good Life and Audrey fforbes-Hamilton in To the Manor Born, has died at the age of 86. We celebrate a British greatPenelope Keith, star of The Good Life and To the Manor Born, dies aged 86 Continue reading.

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To mischief born: Penelope Keith was a class comic act both on and off stage

The actor’s sophisticated sense of humour and natural ability to make everyone laugh were there long before her famous sitcom rolesA life in picturesPenelope Keith: the most spectacular sitcom snob ever to grace our screensPenelope Keith, who has died aged 86, became justly famou

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Love Island contestant reportedly leaves show over link to stabbing

Gabriel Garland, 24, was involved in New Year’s Eve altercation but not charged with any offenceA Love Island contestant has reportedly left the programme over his connection to a stabbing in London.Gabriel Garland, 24, was removed from the ITV2 dating series after briefly featur

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Penelope Keith: the most spectacular sitcom snob ever to grace our screens

In The Good Life, To the Manor Born and beyond, the star played domineering snobs with pinpoint comic timing – yet she still made them feel like old friends. No one will do it betterAt their broadest, and most audience-friendly, sitcoms thrive on stock characters: chancers, jobsw

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Quincy Jones emailed saying, ‘Hey man, I need to have a word’: how Jacob Collier made In M

‘Stevie Wonder and Prince played all the instruments on their albums, but in recording studios. I did it all in a back room at home – and then it won two Grammys’I grew up as one of the YouTube generation, with the idea that you could create your own fanbase by making videos. So

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‘He’d been wounded deeply’: the wild photographic life of Ed van der Elsken – in pictures

The Dutch photographer believed mastering colour was the sign of a truly skilled artist – and pioneered an influential style best described as ‘organised chaos’ Continue reading...

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Never mind the Bayeux! Here’s some other great medieval art – and it’s free

Want to see some old wonders but don’t fancy forking out £33 for 40 minutes with a tapestry? Our critic celebrates the British treasures you can see all year round – from monstrous crypt carvings to the vaulting glory of our cathedralsThere’s a carved stone character grimacing fu

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Show me the funny: essential comedy at Edinburgh fringe 2026

Elf Lyons mixes humour and heartbreak, Frank Skinner works the crowd, Kristen Schaal returns with a secret – and one man sings the same song over and over againNo fringe festival has been complete in recent years without some oddball clown confection – usually animal-based – from

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TV tonight: tense times with biscuits in the Bake Off tent

The humble digestive is elevated to ancient wonder status in the competition. Plus: the US version of Doc Martin. Here’s what to watch this evening8pm, Channel 4With a place in the final six at stake, the four remaining teams must produce two dozen perfectly executed savoury mill

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Queenie Is Working On It by Candice Carty-Williams review – a smart sequel to a breakout b

Queenie’s ticking biological clock drives her chaotic misadventures in this sage and funny follow-upA gynaecological examination is a good analogy for the kind of painful self-inspection at which Queenie Jenkins excels. The heroine of Candice Carty-Williams’s 2019 debut Queenie m

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Grand Theft Auto workers seek union recognition after mass firings

Exclusive: Staff at Rockstar Games hope move can be completed before release of GTA VI scheduled for NovemberThe makers of Grand Theft Auto are attempting to gain official union recognition after mass sackings last year.Video game designers and other employees at Rockstar Games a

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