"There have been some cultural adjustments."

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People Has it really been five years since Claire Danes graced the cover of The Guardian ? Then she was publicising The Family Stone and ...

“Would you say that to Tom Petty?”

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Music Definitely not Film . The AV Club highlights some notoriously difficult interviewees introducing me to this clip of Billy Bob T...

Shakespeare: Upstart Crow to Sweet Swan: The Evolution of His Image: 1592-1623 (Arden Shakespeare Library) by Katherine Duncan-Jones.

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Ask any musician, author, artist or producer of a television science fiction franchise and they’ll tell you that some of their biggest fans ...

who

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TV Well, it's beginning: here's the first long trailer for the next series of Doctor Who. As ever, there's probably a wide va...

Rachel McAdams is playing Mia.

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Film The trailer for Woody's next film, Midnight in Paris , the one with Carla Bruni, is online: Some notes: (1) There aren...

William Shakespeare (Usborne Young Reading Series 3) by Rosie Dickens.

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The challenge of producing biographies of complex figures to younger audiences is demonstrated when writer Rosie Dickens has to tackle subje...

a junior Target novelisation of John Mortimer’s Will Shakespeare

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Books The challenge of producing biographies of complex figures to younger audiences is demonstrated when writer Rosie Dickens has to ta...

Any Douglas Adams fans reading should sit down now.

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Radio Another Ariel article surveys the soft launch of BBC Four Extra with Mary Kalemkerian, head of programmes. Any Douglas Adams fans ...
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"getting more food out"

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Radio I can't remember when I began reading the BBC's internal magazine Ariel online, but its letters page is a marvel which demo...

keep track of who’s who

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Books All attempts to reproduce the plays in prose for a younger audience owe a debt to Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare . Somewhat archai...

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet and Macbeth (Usborne Young Reading: Series Two)

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All attempts to reproduce the plays in prose for a younger audience owe a debt to Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare . Somewhat archaic now, the...

stomach curdling recipes

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Books The conceit behind this handsome volume is that in 1613, Shakespeare having written his final play, The Tempest, has decided to re...

The Life and Times of William Shakespeare (Notebook Series) by Ari Berk and Kristen McDermott.

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The conceit behind this handsome volume is that in 1613, Shakespeare having written his final play, The Tempest, has decided to return to th...

no literary version of the Star Wars Holocron

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Theatre Having bored a friend senseless tonight (probably) (sorry Ian) on the subject of canonicity in science fiction franchises, or rath...

What is canon?

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Having bored a friend senseless tonight (probably) (sorry Ian) on the subject of canonicity in science fiction franchises, or rather what do...

"then generated a suitable response"

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AI What proof do you have that the user who @'s you on Twitter is a human being? A team of scientists let some bots loose on the net...

Shakespeare Matters by Geoff Spiteri.

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Geoff Spiteri begins this Shakespeare miscellany with the first of many questions. Does Shakespeare matter? He’s asking if the bard’s work...

and Babylon 5 a paragraph

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Geoff Spiteri begins this Shakespeare miscellany with the first of many questions. Does Shakespeare matter? He’s asking if the bard’s wo...

"London's more bogus claims"

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Geography Julian Barnes reviews Paris as some people might review a restaurant or piece of literature . The result is fascinating: ...

Batsford's Heritage Guides: Shakespeare's London by Malcolm Day.

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When I visited London a couple of years ago, one of my escapades was to visit the two churches that were important to Shakespeare , Southwar...