Joan Bakewell’s Diary: Poems for prisoners, a virtual send-off, broadcasting from home and comfort in blooms
Routines that once seemed inevitable are giving way to imaginative and comforting forms of contact.
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Joan Bakewell’s Diary: Talking to centenarians about death
The broadcaster on George Orwell, Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool, and making the theatre accessible.
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Diary: The summer’s musical promise, the withering of the BBC, and universities after Brexit
"Ahead of us, the summer is thick with musical promise."
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Fabbest of the four
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Labour cannot let the coalition ruin the NHS.
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Murdoch could have “media power unheard of in British history”
As the News Corporation takeover of BSkyB hangs in the balance, Joan Bakewell grills Mark Thompson,
ByPromises, promises for one and all
With old loyalties gone, politicians must satisfy consumer appetites
ByDon’t mess with our history
Theme parks and films can't really tell us what it was like to be alive in the past
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