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From Michelle de Swarte in to the revival of the franchise and a new series celebrating the largely ignore heroics of female participants in : Women On The Front Line – our top picks for this week’s TV & Radio
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The German composer Robert Schumann in 1856, aged 46. Last year, David Mellor gave ⭐⭐⭐⭐ to Beatrice Rana's album of Robert and his wife Clara's Piano Concertos https://buff.ly/3y1Yp76
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Strewth! It’s Miriam Down Under - : A New Australian Adventure is on BBC Two, Friday at 9pm
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‘Great gags – but there isn’t much else to this mash-up.’ Film critic Matthew Bond on why he was left feeling short-changed by Deadpool And Wolverine
‘This is often silly, and wonderfully so.’ This week, Deborah Ross reviews ’s The Decameron. Pick up today’s Mail On Sunday to find out what she thought and much more.
Miriam Margoyles defies doctors’ orders to tour Down Under on her mobility scooter in offbeat travelogue A New Australian Adventure. Plus, our top and picks for the week ahead. And Matthew Bond reviews the latest film. Pick up today’s Mail On Sunday for all this and more.
This week's must-reads include a warm and engaging take on Jane 's Mansfield Park and a debut with a compelling but distressing premise:
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in 1890, the painter shot himself in the chest. He died two days later, aged just 37. In 2022, Alastair Smart gave a perfect ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ to an exhibition of the artist's self-portraits at the in London
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Patricia Nicol reviews Mishal Husain’s Broken Threads: ‘Husain movingly recounts the lives of her grandparents, children of Imperial India.’
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US therapist Jeff Guenther sets out the new rules of , step-by-step, in his book, Big Dating Energy:
WHATEVER happened to flying cars? For decades, in pop culture depictions of the future, from The Jetsons, the 1960s animation series, to Ridley Scott’s film Blade Runner and beyond, they were ever present.
Pierre and Marie Curie were married in 1895. The couple, famous for their research on radioactivity, were married for nearly 11 years before Pierre's death. In 2020, Jim White revealed details of Marie's incredible life ahead of the release of a biopic starring Rosamund Pike. https://buff.ly/4faQdSx
Marie Curie died in 1934, aged 66, of anaemia brought on by exposure to high levels of radiation; she was ultimately a victim of the discovery she had made
Leaf Arbuthnot reviews Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Nearer, about the future of technology: ‘Kurzweil fires out a dizzying array of new predictions, and if even half turn out to be true, the next few decades should turn out to be the most transformational in human history.’
WHATEVER happened to flying cars? For decades, in pop culture depictions of the future, from The Jetsons, the 1960s animation series, to Ridley Scott’s film Blade Runner and beyond, they were ever present.
Read David Mellor’s ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ review of Il Segreto Di Susanna/ Pagliacci at Opera Holland Park, London:
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Happy Birthday Matt LeBlanc! The actor and presenter turns 57 today. In 2021, Deborah Ross reviewed on Sky. https://buff.ly/4bQCKMN
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Check out Robert Gore-Langton’s ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ review of Hello, Dolly! at The London Palladium, starring Imelda Staunton. ‘Stanton smashes it with sincerity and sass.’
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Music Tim De Lisle gives American country singer Brandi Carlile’s concert at Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London five stars: ‘She sings so naturally, so powerfully, so effortlessly, that she can take a dull song and make it better.’
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in 1567, was forced to abdicate the throne in favour of her one-year-old son James. In 2019, historian Suzannah Lipscomb revealed the extraordinary true story behind Josie Rourke's biopic, starring as Mary and as her cousin, Elizabeth I. https://buff.ly/4bShTJc
Josie Rourke’s sumptuous new film, Mary Queen Of Scots, has set a cat among the historical pigeons. In many ways, the film is Elizabeth’s fearful fantasy of what her rival was like
Looking for your next binge-watch? Here’s our pick of this week’s on demand , including a fantastic Time Bandits reboot (starring ’ Lisa Kudrow), a gung-ho new Guy Ritchie movie and a documentary about Cirque De Soleil:
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Matthew Bond passes an enjoyable couple of hours in the company of Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell and, of course, some tornadoes. is in cinemas now https://buff.ly/3zTXiXC
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in 2011, aged just 27. Earlier this year, Matthew Bond gave ⭐⭐⭐⭐ to Sam Taylor-Johnson's biopic starring as the troubled singer. https://buff.ly/3zOnYZH
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‘It has its moments. It has one or two decent twists. But ultimately it is confused and self-sabotaging and has an ending that is as unsatisfying as it is self-defeating.’ – it’s ⭐⭐⭐ from Deborah Ross for starring https://buff.ly/3Sh8pA0
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The best TV & Radio of the week from the start of to the conclusion of and a look at The Hay Wain by on Radio 4.
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Happy Birthday ! The composer, best known for his work with Disney, turns 75 today. Last year, Matthew Bond reviewed the live-action starring Halle Bailey and featuring new and reworked songs by Menken.
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‘Jason Watkins wears the Dodds anorak effortlessly, and Tala Gouveia is a perfect foil for him as McDonald’ – the odd couple crime show, returns to our screens for series four.
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‘Imelda Staunton smashes it with sincerity and sass’ – Robert Gore-Langton gives his verdict on the new production of at the – pick up today’s to find out more
‘Luminous Jenna drowns in a wave of toe-curling cliches’ Discover which new thriller kept TV reviewer Deborah Ross shuddering … only in today’s
More crime-solving in gorgeous Georgian Bath as returns to our screens. Plus our top picks for this week’s TV and radio and Tim de Lisle reviews – the superstar you’ve never heard of.
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‘Miodownik’s lucid, enjoyable book provides an introduction to the ways in which have changed our world.’ Nick Rennison on It’s A Gas by Mark Miodownik
THE author published a collection of short stories at the age of 80 in 2022. They were so well received that her work was compared to Edna O’Brien and Muriel Spark.
French artist was in 1834. In 2017 - the centenary of his death - Alastair Smart reviewed two exhibitions dedicated to the Impressionist.
The Parisian painter Edgar Degas wasn’t really one for the countryside. ‘If I were the government, I’d have a special brigade of gendarmes keeping an eye on artists who paint landscapes,’ he said.
‘The Friday Afternoon Club, written with immediacy and laced with anger, is the tale of a high-profile clan, a fledgling performer, and of course a brutal death’. Roger Lewis reviews Griffin Dunne’s riveting
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THE author published a collection of short stories at the age of 80 in 2022. They were so well received that her work was compared to Edna O’Brien and Muriel Spark.
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