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Armistead Maupin on trans rights and growing up gay in a homophobic household
Author Armistead Maupin is a pioneer – writing about AIDS and HIV for a mass audience and daring to include gay, lesbian, trans and queer lives when few others were. His ‘Tales of the City’ series, which started as a newspaper column in 1974, became worldwide best-selling novels and a Netflix series. It chronicles the…
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Kate Middleton says she edited Mother’s Day royal photo
It was supposed to counter the many conspiracy theories about the health of the Princess of Wales, but it did the opposite. The photo of Kate Middleton and her three children, sent out yesterday, was the first to be issued since her abdominal surgery – but it was withdrawn by international picture agencies hours later…
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Afghan Youth Orchestra to tour UK after Home Office visas U-turn
Musicians in the Afghan Youth Orchestra have said it is a “fantastic experience” to play in the UK after initially being denied visas to enter the country. The Home Office had refused the orchestra entry but after a public backlash reversed the decision. The musicians fled Afghanistan after the return of the Taliban, and currently…
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Tom Odell on mental health and social media
The Brit award-winning musician Tom Odell’s best known song Another Love has racked up more than a billion streams – and formed the soundtrack to countless social media videos, including many about Russia’s war in Ukraine. Now the British singer songwriter’s released his new album – Black Friday.
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First ever biopic of Bob Marley to hit cinema screens
The first ever biopic of Bob Marley will finally hit cinema screens later next month.
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Guerilla Girls: Anonymous art collective on calling out sexism and inequality in the arts
“We’re the conscience of the art world.”
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Kim’s Convenience: hit sitcom comes to London stage
Behind every worker in a convenience store is a “life full of dignity, joy and dreams”.
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Drugs UK: Cities taking radical approach to addiction and recovery
Middlesbrough is the UK’s first member of the Inclusive Recovery Cities programme
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Groundbreaking Scottish ballet keeps audiences on their toes
Scottish Ballet audiences are being kept on their toes this Christmas by a groundbreaking new version of Cinderella.
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Olympian-turned director Savanah Leaf discusses new film Earth Mama
From the Olympics to the big screen, former Team GB volleyball player Savanah Leaf has won critical acclaim for her first feature film at Sundance – and this week she also picked up ‘best debut director’ at the British Independent Film Awards.
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Billy Porter on being a queer Black man in the music industry, the actors’ strike & Trump’s America
Billy Porter tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy about the challenges he faced due to homophobia in the music industry in the ’90s, the harsh reality of being an actor in the golden age of streaming and what success means to him, in this episode of Ways to Change the World.
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A special performance of Puccini’s Tosca is set against the backdrop of the Russia-Ukraine war
Ukraine is seeking to build closer ties with Europe – from trade to culture.
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Artist David Shrigley turns 6000 unwanted Da Vinci Code books into George Orwell’s 1984
When the artist David Shrigley discovered that there were so many returned copies of Dan Brown’s thriller the Davinci Code, that an Oxfam shop in Swansea was refusing to accept any more – he set out on a challenge. Mr Shrigley managed to gather about six thousand rejected copies of the Da Vinci Code. He…
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Former gang leader charged with Tupac Shakur murder
It’s almost 30 years since the 25 year old star of the hip-hop music scene, Tupac Shakur, was murdered by a gunman firing into the window of the car the rapper was travelling in. Now, a former gang leader has been charged with his murder. Duane ‘Keefy D’ Davis has been arrested and is in…
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Pioneer of Black British Arts Movement finally recognised
Claudette Johnson is one of the founding members of the Black British Arts Movement formed in the 1980’s, and is best known for her large scale portraits of Black people.