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Keep an eye out for this poverty battling badge at London DJ sets
DASP DJs against street poverty
Music

Keep an eye out for this poverty battling badge at London DJ sets

250 years after his birth, it's still worth celebrating Beethoven
Beethoven
Music

250 years after his birth, it's still worth celebrating Beethoven

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Books
Books

Need books? The Big Issue can help

Event cinema: a growing pot of gold
Phoebe Waller-Bridge in Fleabag
Film

Event cinema: a growing pot of gold

What links Orwell, the Ukrainian famine, Animal Farm, fake news and Trump?
Books

What links Orwell, the Ukrainian famine, Animal Farm, fake news and Trump?

Parasite is industrial-strength social satire
Film

Parasite is industrial-strength social satire

Joseph Mawle: seeing through Orwell's eyes changed my views
Joseph Mawle Orwell Signature Entertainment
Film

Joseph Mawle: seeing through Orwell's eyes changed my views

Strangers rally round to gift boy his lost Pratchett books collection
Freddie Findlay Pratchett Big Green Books
Books

Strangers rally round to gift boy his lost Pratchett books collection

“It is what it is”: there's no denying Love Island
TV

“It is what it is”: there's no denying Love Island

Ann Dowd wants to "get down on knees to praise Handmaid's Tale protestors"
Ann Dowd Lambs of God
TV

Ann Dowd wants to "get down on knees to praise Handmaid's Tale protestors"

David Bowie: the man who sold the world wide web
Music

David Bowie: the man who sold the world wide web

Richard Jewell is a decent portrait of an unfairly maligned everyman
Richard Jewell Film 1394
Film

Richard Jewell is a decent portrait of an unfairly maligned everyman

Rachel Parris: "I perform with a smile. Some like it, it drives others mad"
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Culture

Rachel Parris: "I perform with a smile. Some like it, it drives others mad"

Ivor Cutler and the collapse of legacies
Music

Ivor Cutler and the collapse of legacies

Band of Brothers really makes you grateful for our peaceful times
TV

Band of Brothers really makes you grateful for our peaceful times

Top 5 books featuring teenage friendships
Books

Top 5 books featuring teenage friendships

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UK’s first radio station run by homeless youngsters launches today
Accumulate homeless radio station
Radio

UK’s first radio station run by homeless youngsters launches today

Nicholas Parsons: 'I took every opportunity to entertain'
TV

Nicholas Parsons: 'I took every opportunity to entertain'

Not slow, frail, or dim-witted: railing against ageist stereotypes
Books

Not slow, frail, or dim-witted: railing against ageist stereotypes

The Shadow King elevates 20th century conflict to the level of Greek myth
books review 1394 Ollie Hirst
Books

The Shadow King elevates 20th century conflict to the level of Greek myth

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