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  • Alison Hammond

    Television
    ‘My laugh is like a horn. A foghorn’: how Alison Hammond became TV’s most joyful presenter

  • Taylor Kitsch.

    Film
    ‘I’d rather be in the wild chasing animals than going to Hollywood parties’: Taylor Kitsch on fame, flops and Friday Night Lights

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  • ‘Grumpy in the face of joy’ … Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman, stars of The Roses.

    Film
    ‘Love is great. But then one of you will be dog-tired and doing the bins’: Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman on how to survive a marriage

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    Books
    Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

  • Earl Sweatshirt.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Earl Sweatshirt: Live Laugh Love review – a head-spinning trip with rap’s great rulebreaker

  • Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater.

    Games
    ‘Even after 20 years, I still cry’: the enduring brilliance of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

Edinburgh festival 2025

  1. Kiell Smith-Bynoe in Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Friends: Kool Story Bro at the Edinburgh fringe 2025

    Review
    Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Friends: Kool Story Bro – eccentric improv antics

  2. Maleah Rendon as Ophelia in Hamlet by New York Circus Project.

    Review
    Hamlet by New York Circus Project – a flashy, dreamy spin on Shakespeare

  3. Faustus Operated by two puppeteers.

    Review
    Faustus in Africa! – William Kentridge’s devilishly clever twist on damnation

  4. Comedian Jamali Maddix.

    Review
    Jamali Maddix: Aston– bursts of brilliance and a wicked sense of humour

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News

  • Kathryn Bigelow in silver dress clutching an Oscar and smiling.

    Film
    Going nuclear: Kathryn Bigelow back in geopolitical territory with atomic thriller

  • Lil Nas X

    Music
    Lil Nas X arrested and hospitalized after altercation with police

  • Millie Bobby Brown and Jake Bongiovi.

    Television
    Stranger Things actor Millie Bobby Brown adopts ‘sweet baby girl’

  • a man with guitar

    Music
    Brent Hinds, former lead guitarist of Mastodon, dies in motorcycle crash

  • Jodie Whittaker and Ncuti Gatwa on the set of Doctor Who

    Television
    Doctor Who will continue, BBC reassures fans

  • Kristian Nairn head and shoulders photo

    Television & radio
    Game of Thrones actor Kristian Nairn pulls out of Strictly Come Dancing

In pictures

  • Andy Goldsworthy’s Oak Passage and Dock Drawing at the National Galleries of Scotland exhibition.

    Cultural trips
    The art of the city: a walking tour of Edinburgh’s best landscape sculptures

  • A photograph of animal bones on a rock by Michael Lundgren from his book, Glass Mountain.

    Photography
    Psychedelic rock! Formations that mess with your mind – in pictures

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TV & streaming

  1. Netflix ready: the Empire actor in a scene from The Truth About Jussie Smollett?

    Review
    The Truth About Jussie Smollett? – this TV show is bold, shocking … and utter nonsense

  2. Incredible cast … (from left) Lisa Edelstein as Naomi Schwartz, Max Greenfield as Yoshi Schwooper and Paul Reiser as Elliot Cooper in Long Story Short

    Review
    Long Story Short – TV so funny and clever it could run for ever

  3. This image released by Netflix shows Claire Foy, center, and Matt Smith, right, in a scene from "The Crown." (Robert Viglasky/Netflix via AP)

    Feature
    From The Crown to Blackadder: TV kings and queens – rated bad to best

More TV

  • Miriam Margolyes Discovers New Zealand

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Miriam Margolyes in New Zealand is a guaranteed hoot

  • New Orleans has still not recovered from Hurricane Katrina.

    The seven best shows to stream this week
    From Katrina: Come Hell and High Water to KPopped

  • Suranne Jones and Julie Delpy in Netflix thriller, Hostage.

    TV review
    Hostage review – five hours of fast, furious fun, featuring Suranne Jones as prime minister

  • Randy and Stan Marsh in the South Park episode Sickofancy.

    Opinion
    Satire at its finest: South Park takes on Trump’s martial takeover, AI and tech bros

Books

  • James Rebanks

    Interview
    James Rebanks: ‘I was a closet reader for years’

  • Raymond Antrobua in his flat in Margate.

    Book of the day
    The Quiet Ear by Raymond Antrobus – growing up between two worlds

More books

  1. ClimateBooks

    Feature
    Blue sky thinking: why we need positive climate novels

  2. Detail from A 19th-century postcard of African Anglican bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther (center) and missionaries at the Emancipation Oak in Keston

    Audiobook of the week
    Yorùbá Boy Running by Biyi Bándélé – from enslaved teenager to celebrated preacher

  3. Arthur Christopher Benson.

    Review
    The Benson Diary by AC Benson – musings of an Edwardian elitist

  4. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o at home in California in 2022.

    The long read
    Take away our language and we will forget who we are: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the language of conquest

Film

  1. Celia Imrie, Ben Kingsley, Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan in the film The Thursday Murder Club.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    The Thursday Murder Club review – Richard Osman bestseller provides solid, star-stuffed entertainment

  2. Karl Glusman and Samara Weaving in Eenie Meanie

    Review
    Eenie Meanie – middling comedy thriller has its moments

  3. Film Review - Honey Don't!<br>This image released by Focus Features shows Margaret Qualley in a scene from "Honey Don't!" (Focus Features via AP)

    Review
    Honey Don’t! – Ethan Coen returns with another amusing, throwaway queer comedy

More film

  • Teacher Wang holding up her phone in Mistress Dispeller.

    Feature
    If your husband’s having an affair, this woman will get rid of her: the gripping film about China’s ‘mistress dispellers’

  • David Lynch

    Ranked
    The strangest David Lynch facts

  • Fatima Hassouna in Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk.

    Review
    Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk – shattering memorial to Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona

  • The Regulars

    Review
    The Regulars – charming and funny workplace comedy at a the Prince Charles cinema

Stage

  • Gloria Obianyo (left) and Amber James in As You Like it at Theatre Royal Bath.

    Review
    As You Like It – Ralph Fiennes’ sombre, stately directorial stage debut

  • The actor Olisa Odele in Fat Ham, a production Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.

    Review
    Fat Ham – Hamlet becomes a booty-shaking barbecue in glittery Pulitzer winner

More stage

  • Einstein on the Beach

    Tribute
    ‘I’d never seen anything like it’: Lucinda Childs on the extraordinary worlds of Robert Wilson

  • People walk past posters in Bristo Square, Edinburgh.

    Feature
    The Edinburgh fringe has almost 4,000 shows – what does it take for a standup to stand out?

  • Twelfth Night Or What You Will at the Globe theatre.

    Review
    Twelfth Night Or What You Will – knockabout comedy eliminates the anguish

  • Emily Woof in Revolver at Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh.

    Review
    Revolver – Beatlemania gets a captivating feminist rethink

Music

  1. From left: Clara Cecilie Thomsen, Jasmin White, Issachah Savage and Adam Pałka at the Royal Albert Hall.

    Review
    Danish National Symphony Orchestra – punchy Prom reaches a triumphant conclusion

  2. Marcus Brown AKA Nourished By Time

    Review
    Nourished By Time: The Passionate Ones – committed, full-hearted post-R&B

  3. Nina Saeidi of Lowen.

    Feature
    ‘Israel and Iran’s governments aren’t good. Neither is ours’: Lowen, the metal band confronting a troubled Middle East

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Pop, rock and more

  1. Chino Moreno performing with Deftones in 2024.

    Interview
    Deftones singer Chino Moreno: ‘I’ve got hundreds of drawings of myself in my house’

  2. For Those I Love, AKA David Balfe, stands against a stone wall

    Review
    For Those I Love: Carving the Stone review – bracing anger at Irish social stasis

  3. Kevin Rowland in brown suit and hat against green background

    The Q&A
    Kevin Rowland: ‘If I could bring something extinct back to life it would be the Labour party’

  4. Tristwch y Fenywod stood on a small mound.

    Music
    ‘The Welsh language has been aggressively oppressed’: Tristwch y Fenywod, the gothic trio communing with a mystical Wales

Classical and opera

  1. Yunchan Lim.

    Review
    Tchaikovsky: The Seasons album – exemplary playing but Yunchan Lim’s take is strangely sombre

  2. An outstanding occasion … Mark Elder conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra, massed choirs and four star soloists in Delius's A Mass of Life.

    Review
    A Mass of Life – magical and ecstatic Proms performance of Delius’s magnum opus

  3. Hervé Niquet conducts Le Concert Spirituel at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

    Review
    Le Concert Spirituel review – a sumptuous musical journey to late Renaissance Florence

  4. Transfixing audiences … the Aurora explore Shostakovich’s fifth, with flautist Jane Mitchell carried above Max Revell as Shostakovich at the BBC Proms.

    Review
    Aurora Orchestra/Collon – high impact and high intensity as Shostakovich’s fifth is brought to life

Games

  • A still of the shop floor in Discounty.

    Review
    Discounty – cozy shop life simulator takes satisfying approach

    Don’t be fooled by the graphics, there is no twee, relaxing vibe in this intense and work-heavy game where you are taken in by your aunt and put to work in her supermarket
  • A scene from the game All Will Rise

    All Will Rise, the game empowering players to tackle real-world problems

  • Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 game

    Call of Duty
    Is Black Ops 7 just another ‘lazy’ addition to the franchise?

Art and design

  • A man with deep scars on his chest sits on a stool … Shayan Sajadian’s best photograph.

    Photography
    A man from Shiraz bares his scars: Shayan Sajadian’s best shot

  • Outside a sandwich shop, Bridlington, June 2017.

    Photography
    An outsider’s view: a portrait of post-Brexit Britain

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More art and design

  1. He was part of my dream, of course-but then I was part of his dream, too by Linder Sterling, 2025.

    The week in art
    Deller’s Welsh visions, rollicking Rubens and an Edinburgh extravaganza

  2. Andy Goldsworthy, Edges made by finding leaves the same size. Tearing one in two. Spitting underneath and pressing flat on to another. Brough, Cumbria. Cherry patch. 4 November 1984.

    Review
    Andy Goldsworthy: Fifty Years – a wild walk between life, death and sheep-shearing

  3. ‘A powerful reminder of what’s at stake’ … Mustapha looks down a well, in a picture from the series Before It’s Gone.

    My best shot
    A sacred moment at a dried-up oasis: M’Hammed Kilito’s best photograph

  4. a screen on a container panted yellow and black

    Feature
    ‘Pretty revolutionary’: a Brooklyn exhibit interrogates white-dominated AI to make it more inclusive

Radio and podcasts

  • Man wearing a beanie and headphones points a microphone towards a construction site in rural Alaska

    US news
    ‘Rural America costs a lot of money’: Trump cuts are decimating a radio station at the edge of the world

    KSDP brings vital information – from tsunami warnings to salmon levels – to an Alaskan town of 600 people. Can it survive losing 70% its budget in federal support?

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    Music
    ‘The King Lear in I Am the Walrus? That came from John Cage’: Paul McCartney on the Beatles’ debt to great avant-garde composers

  2. Rie Qudan

    Books
    Author Rie Qudan: Why I used ChatGPT to write my prize-winning novel

  3. ‘I’m gonna be famous’ … David Gedge at a Wedding Present gig in 1991.

    Stage
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