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by Maggie Baring In 1939, red-headed 28-year-old Viola Hogg embarked on a yearlong tour of Australia and New Zealand with the Australian Gilbert and Sullivan

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by Sophie Holcroft Talking to Tom O’Sullivan leaves you feeling truly inspired because his passion for music is so infectious. He has been playing the

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By Cosmo Adair. There is a building somewhere in Alexandria. Once, in 1919, an ageing, if elderly man — the poet, C.P. Cavafy — stood

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By Cosmo Adair. Martin Amis (1949 – 2023) was an English novelist.  I once went to a van Gogh show at the Tate with a

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By Cosmo Adair. Spare a thought for Carlo Kureishi. After his father Hanif Kureishi’s collapse in Rome on Boxing Day, Carlo has transcribed his father’s

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By Izzie James. Bee Movie, released in 2007, was easily one of my favourite childhood movies. The silly puns always made me giggle, and for

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By Leo Dagianti. When I listen to The Doors, I feel like I am transported to a desert with a half-drunk bottle of whisky. Everything

By Elizabeth Marney. Leonora Carrington, most famous for her ground breaking additions to surrealist painting and literature, steadfastly maintained that she was never born, she

By Maddy Harlow. For most people reading this, the 1st of December is just another day, perhaps an exciting one as advent calendars are opened

By Thea Opperman. On the 14th November, The Art Newspaper confirmed that the British street artist Banksy has created seven new murals in various locations

A sit down with Freddie Graham is about as insightful a conversion as you can get. Born and bred in Hampshire, now studying Music at Manchester University, the list of his talents are about as long as his Jesus-like hair, but because of his impeccably broad musical knowledge, when chatting, you get the sense that he is far more mature than his years.

By Henry Worsley. They passed us in groups of ten or a dozen. Convoys of armoured trucks – blocky, khaki-green, fitted with glass so thick

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By Maggie Baring. In May 1693, one of the most famous witch trials in history came to an end, having caused the executions of 14

By Emily Mahoney. Years ago, on one of my 4-hour voyages through the black hole of Spotify’s recommended for you section, I stumbled across an

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By Grace Marshall. Imagine you are in a silver box surrounded by dancing men and women in dagger collared shirts and PVC trousers. Imagine flashing

By Tom Sykes. Emanating from a forgotten corner of the American South East, the blues is the foundation upon which modern popular music has been built.

By Ed Merson. Spotify can lead to many different places. The rabbit-hole of music which I embarked on during lockdown opened my eyes to the

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