💥Goodbye, Royal Opera House! As the 24/25 season is announced, Covent Garden's Alex Beard tells Richard Morrison why he's changing his company's name. Plus, important details about curtains. 👇🏼thetimes.co.uk/article/f6ac78…

‘Everyone’s sick of Ken’: Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt on life after Barbenheimer

The pair talk typecasting, taking risks and why family comes first👇
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Can Britain’s museums remain free for much longer? Excellent, thought-provoking piece by ⁦Richard Morrison⁩

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Please share widely - the second year of the Martha Mills Young Writers’ Prize. We’re thrilled to have the wonderful Philip Pullman as a judge - Martha was such a fan of his books

🤍These chemicals hit me like whiiiiite wiiiiine 🤍

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Thousands dead, 40 years of cover-up, no one has ever been held to account. It's time for justice for the infected blood victims. The Sunday Times is campaigning for action. Now. #bloodydisgrace
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Meet the superstar auctioneer going viral: ‘I push people to the limit’

From Banksy to Botticelli, Sotheby’s boss Oliver Barker has banged through £16 billion of sales. He reveals his secrets

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Spoke to Johnny Flynn about difficulties on the Ripley set, eating pasta with Andrew Scott and his son’s shock at seeing him kiss Tuppence Middleton on stage in The Motive and the Cue

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Dominic West: ‘My wife says I’m not very good at upper-class parts’. A lively interview by ⁦⁦Dominic Maxwell⁩
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I had such a nice time reading You Are Here by ⁦⁦David Nicholls⁩ - and he told me more about it here:
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Interviewed David Nicholls about his new novel You Are Here (it's ace) and of course One Day
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I 💕the Mappa Mundi - and other highlights from a lovely weekend in Herefordshire National Trust
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Never has Salman Rushdie used so few words so effectively. Knife is a rich, immersive, feisty account of his journey from darkness back to the light. Part thriller, part love story, part celebration of literature, it’s an incandescent book.

Me on Knife.

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'In England everything is so well organised, yet we’re walking on thin ice — you feel it could break really easily.' I had a sneak preview of a rich, raw new work from Hofesh Shechter Co. coming to Southbank Centre and spoke to its creator about Israel and identity. thetimes.co.uk/article/24d9c0…

‘I was stalked for 4 years’

People laughed when Richard Gadd got an admirer, but the comedian’s Netflix show tells a dark story | ✍️ Susannah Butter

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How the Park Theatre raised a laugh as it raises money in its star-fuelled Whoddunit [Unrehearsed] 3
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This week’s Culture: Jon Bon Jovi, a brilliant piece on how cats changed the course of art, choreographer Hofesh Shechter and more thetimes.co.uk/article/248057…

Baby Reindeer is on Netflix now - it's Richard Gadd's drama about how he was stalked. It was a brilliant show at Edinburgh and it's a pacy adaptation with dark humour. I spoke to him about it, read here!
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Monocle on Culture: Toby Earle 🇺🇦 Threads tobyontv, Susannah Butter and natty kasambala join Robert Bound to discuss the best upcoming releases of this season in TV, books and music bit.ly/4aovoA9

Lovely interview - Rachel Chinouriri on why she pulled out of SXSW, the fight to be classified as indie and why she doesn’t need to drunk message Lewis Capaldi anymore