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The Day the Wall Came Down

Life is a constant puzzle to the genial presenter

Performance review

How to stay cheery in the face of management-speak

The people's champion

Listeners have a passionate supporter in Eddie Mair

Latest Reviews

Westwood goes AWOL in Magaluf

BBC music journos can’t help getting territorial when let loose abroad

Censorship? Tee hee!

The Dalai Lama has more in common with a teenage girl than you'd expect

He’s just not that into you, Miss Eyre

How would the great romances of literature have fared in the self-help era?

NS interview - Tessa Jowell

Macho politics has had its day: it's time for a new type of politician. Mary Riddell talks to Tessa Jowell

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

Pop art

The end of irony?

End of the  irony age

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Classical music

Alfred Schnittke

Alfred Schnittke Archive

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Jason Cowley

On Philip Roth

The Humbling

Slavoj Žižek

Lenin was right

“I am a Leninist. Lenin wasn’t afraid to dirty his hands. If you can get power, grab it”

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