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The Great Amazon Heist: New doc exposes inconvenient truths about world’s biggest online retailer
Documentary maker Oobah Butler in Channel 4's The Great Amazon Heist.
Documentary

The Great Amazon Heist: New doc exposes inconvenient truths about world’s biggest online retailer

Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford review – a rich detective noir
Cahokia Jazz cover
Review

Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford review – a rich detective noir

'Love is the fing': IDLES frontman Joe Talbot on what's at the heart of new album TANGK
Joe Talbot

'Love is the fing': IDLES frontman Joe Talbot on what's at the heart of new album TANGK

Greed, betrayal and exploitation: The cruel true story behind Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon
Scorsese, with DiCaprio, Gladstone and De Niro
Film

Greed, betrayal and exploitation: The cruel true story behind Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon

Steve Lamacq: 'This music venue changed my life... it's now a carpark'
Venue Watch

Steve Lamacq: 'This music venue changed my life... it's now a carpark'

Joshua Luke Smith: Meet the rapper helping prisoners process their past through poetry
rapper/ joshua luke smith
Music

Joshua Luke Smith: Meet the rapper helping prisoners process their past through poetry

Cost of living crisis stopping people accessing mental health benefits of live music
Ed Sheeran performs for Channel Seven's morning program Sunrise and Nova969 in Sydney 2013. He voiced his support for the new initiative which will give money to grassroots live music venues.
Venue Watch

Cost of living crisis stopping people accessing mental health benefits of live music

Soul II Soul's Jazzie B: 'By 16, I had already been stopped by the police 10 times'
Jazzie B from Soul II Soul
Race

Soul II Soul's Jazzie B: 'By 16, I had already been stopped by the police 10 times'

Adrian Edmondson on family, fatherhood and break-up with late comedy legend Rik Mayall
Adrian Edmondson
Letter to my younger self

Adrian Edmondson on family, fatherhood and break-up with late comedy legend Rik Mayall

How a life-long obsession with lighthouses led to a book of beauty and adventure
An illustration of a white lighthouse and the blue sea
Books

How a life-long obsession with lighthouses led to a book of beauty and adventure

From Queer as Folk to Doctor Who: How Russell T Davies gave voice to a generation of queer people
Illustration of tardis on a television
TV

From Queer as Folk to Doctor Who: How Russell T Davies gave voice to a generation of queer people

Bex Burch: Jazz musician compares building her own xylophone with Ant-Man in the Quantum Realm
Bex Burch with a xylophone
Jazz

Bex Burch: Jazz musician compares building her own xylophone with Ant-Man in the Quantum Realm

Interview with the Vampire star Jacob Anderson on Game of Thrones, racism and living forever
Jacob Anderson as Louis de Pont Du Lac in Interview With The Vampire. Image: BBC / AMC
Interview with the Vampire

Interview with the Vampire star Jacob Anderson on Game of Thrones, racism and living forever

How iconic London music venue The Windmill made Brixton a mecca for the best new bands
Members of Black Midi and Black Country, New Road in front of the gold curtain at the Windmill Brixton
Venue Watch

How iconic London music venue The Windmill made Brixton a mecca for the best new bands

The Rolling Stones' Hackney Diamonds review – a strident sense of purpose in their twilight years
Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood: The Rolling Stones
Music

The Rolling Stones' Hackney Diamonds review – a strident sense of purpose in their twilight years

It's a Sin star Nathaniel Hall on abuse, finding humour in dark places and powerful new show Toxic
Nathaniel J Hall close up
Theatre

It's a Sin star Nathaniel Hall on abuse, finding humour in dark places and powerful new show Toxic

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Adrian Edmondson: 'Rik Mayall and I were in love with each other’
Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall in Bottom
Comedy partners

Adrian Edmondson: 'Rik Mayall and I were in love with each other’

The Last Siren: This dementia-friendly night at the opera is making arts more inclusive
The audience at the dementia-friendly opera
Opera

The Last Siren: This dementia-friendly night at the opera is making arts more inclusive

Remarkable way Terry Pratchett's lost stories were found by fans: 'A million-to-one-chance'
Terry Pratchett standing in a field, wearing a black hat
Books

Remarkable way Terry Pratchett's lost stories were found by fans: 'A million-to-one-chance'

Are big-budget horror movies becoming more conservative?
THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER (from left) Angela Fielding (Lidya Jewett) and Katherine (Olivia Marcum)
Horror

Are big-budget horror movies becoming more conservative?

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