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December 10, 2024Andy and Tracey stand in the cold night outside the Brighton Centre with the slightly furtive look of recently escaped convicts. They don’t want their children to know where...
September 16, 2024So here is Michel Houellebecq. The author of eight novels, several volumes of poetry and innumerable controversies stumbles out of the first day of autumn rain in Paris towards this...
September 10, 2024In Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing a playwright leaves the actress he is married to, who is acting in his play as a wife suspected of cheating on her husband, and goes...
August 2, 2024The comedic set-up could be a movie. One day a beloved Hollywood megastar e-mails an eccentric British writer seeking to collaborate on a tie-in novel based on an ultraviolent comic...
March 14, 2024Listeners to the Today programme on the morning of 11 March had their porridge interrupted by frightening news. The House of Windsor, already facing down illnesses and...
