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After the yellow brick road: Renée Zellweger plays a fading icon in Judy
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After the yellow brick road: Renée Zellweger plays a fading icon in Judy

Here are the top 10 events worth checking out this Bookshop Day
Man looks at books in bookshop
Books

Here are the top 10 events worth checking out this Bookshop Day

The Big Issue’s top 5 books about bookshops
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Books

The Big Issue’s top 5 books about bookshops

"It's a game to them": Sean Bean talks Twitter and volatile world leaders
Sean Bean
TV

"It's a game to them": Sean Bean talks Twitter and volatile world leaders

Gerald Scarfe: How my childhood loneliness led to my grotesque cartoons
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Gerald Scarfe: How my childhood loneliness led to my grotesque cartoons

Tom Mole: Bookshops are here to stay, they're machines for serendipity
Books

Tom Mole: Bookshops are here to stay, they're machines for serendipity

Why books matter to The Big Issue
Books

Why books matter to The Big Issue

Big Issue ambassador Sabrina Cohen-Hatton appears on Desert Island Discs
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Big Issue ambassador Sabrina Cohen-Hatton appears on Desert Island Discs

Big Issue vendor Lavinia has starring role at Wales Film Festival
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Big Issue vendor Lavinia has starring role at Wales Film Festival

Top 5 books about archaeology
Mike Pitts
Books

Top 5 books about archaeology

Welcome to Emerge!
Music

Welcome to Emerge!

Constitution Street, Jemma Neville; Rusty Brown, Chris Ware
Illustration by Joe Boyd
Books

Constitution Street, Jemma Neville; Rusty Brown, Chris Ware

Harry Connick Jr: “Nothing was going to stop me from making records”
Harry Connick Jr
Music

Harry Connick Jr: “Nothing was going to stop me from making records”

A great vintage: Getting older is rich with opportunity
Illustration by Joseph Joyce
Books

A great vintage: Getting older is rich with opportunity

Susan Lynch: Faith, Hope and Charity shows the vulnerability of our times
Culture

Susan Lynch: Faith, Hope and Charity shows the vulnerability of our times

Ashley Walters: 'Some people feel left out of the worlds on their doorsteps'
TV

Ashley Walters: 'Some people feel left out of the worlds on their doorsteps'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Susan Neiman: the Brexit lessons we can learn from postwar Germany
Susan Neiman: author
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Susan Neiman: the Brexit lessons we can learn from postwar Germany

Mark Radcliffe still hasn’t given up on cracking the music business
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Music

Mark Radcliffe still hasn’t given up on cracking the music business

The sky's the limit for Brad Pitt in Ad Astra
Film

The sky's the limit for Brad Pitt in Ad Astra

Succession highlights family values for Sam Delaney
TV

Succession highlights family values for Sam Delaney