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Joan Baez: ‘It feels good to have changed the world’

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Colm Toibin’s sequel to Brooklyn is a lesson on regret and ageing

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How textile artist Ptolemy Mann fell in love with paint

<p>Play with fire: Marlon Richards, son of Anita Pallenberg and Keith Richards, explores his mother’s story with directors Alexis Bloom and Svetlana Zill in ‘Catching Fire’ </p>

Secrets and lies of The Rolling Stones, according to Anita Pallenberg

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27 actors who confessed to hating their own movies

<p>Grylls said being at the baptism was a ‘privilege’ </p>

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Why Bear Grylls ended up at Russell Brand’s Thames baptism

<p>‘The blood started to run in my veins again’: Martin Scorsese and Michael Powell on the set of ‘The King of Comedy’ </p>

How Scorsese helped rescue two of our best filmmakers from anonymity

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Still Life in Britain turns ordinary items into cutting edge art

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<p>‘As a Black person in a white space, I’m breaking the mould’ </p>

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The Repair Shop’s Jay Blades: ‘I’ve had sleepovers at the King’s house’

<p>‘I learnt about classism from a very young age – that my circumstances weren’t good enough for some people’</p>

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Hilary Swank: ‘I take the high road on a lot of things, but not that’

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Talk to Me breakout Sophie Wilde: ‘I don’t mind being a scream queen’

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<p>‘Everybody tries to do the Derry accent’ </p>

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Jamie-Lee O’Donnell on being skint, Derry Girls, and prison show Screw

<p>Going her own way: Vasan says that ‘like any immigrant parents’, hers were ‘a little bit concerned’ about her choice to go into acting </p>

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Black Mirror’s Anjana Vasan: ‘I’ve been underestimated. I’m small, brown and foreign’

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<p>Baftas 2024: Steve Coogan opens up on controversy playing Jimmy Saville in The Reckoning.</p>

Baftas: Steve Coogan opens up on controversy playing Jimmy Saville

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<p>Kim Kardashian shares behind-the-scenes footage of son Psalm’s Ghostbusters-themed birthday party.</p>

Kim Kardashian throw’s son Psalm Ghostbusters-themed birthday party

<p>Eurovision’s Olly Alexander’s reaction as UK receives null points from public vote.</p>

UK’s Olly Alexander receives null points from Eurovision public vote

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