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There’s no place like home, and no one knew that better than Benjamin Britten. He began composing folksong arrangements in 1941, when he was homesick in the US. Those songs brought him back to Suffolk – to the people and landscape he loved. Accepting the inaugural Aspen award in 1964, Britten said: “I belong at […]

‘Me and Dad met there!’Kerry Godliman: If I had to pick just one theatre then it’s the White Bear in Kennington. For the purely romantic reason it’s where I met my husband. We were doing a play called A Picture of Voices and I played his psychiatric doctor. We used to have illicit snogs backstage. […]

Stephen ColbertOn the Late Show, Stephen Colbert recapped one of the more bizarre and rambling interviews from a president known for bizarre ramblings, when Donald Trump sat down with the Fox News host Chris Wallace last weekend. “They talked about – and I’m rounding down here – everything,” Colbert said. At one point, when Wallace […]

In the quest to find a perfect spot for her router, Tiwa Savage has to disrupt her four-year-old son Jamil’s TV time. He puts up a mild protest but soon moves on to another engagement. “He’s so understanding about the nature of my job,” she says. “At least now I get to spend more time […]

David Byrne overwhelms the image of Talking Heads. With his herky-jerky mannerisms, loopy persona and arch lyrics – not to mention his command of the songwriting credits through much of their catalogue – he eclipsed the efforts of every other member of the band. Yet according to a new memoir by Talking Heads’ co-founder and […]

When the director and artist Derek Jarman began making his garden on the great shingle expanse outside his cottage in Dungeness, local fishermen feared something occult was afoot. “People thought I was building a garden for magical purposes,” Jarman said at the time, “a white witch out to get the nuclear power station.” It’s not […]

Christopher Nolan’s new film Tenet, hailed for weeks as a key release to revive cinemagoing after the coronavirus shutdown, has been delayed yet again due to uncertainty over cinemas reopening in the US. Deadline reports that Tenet’s backers Warner Bros have taken the film off their release calendar, with no confirmed date, though studio chair […]