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Maurizio Pollini album review: There is no surer way of appreciating Beethoven's genius than this

Hats off to Deutsche Grammophon. Not only is it the producer of the finest complete Beethoven set in this, his 250th anniversary year.




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Which is the right on demand streaming service for you?

It wasn't so long ago that we all just paid £154.50 each year for a television licence. Now more than 14 million of us fork out monthly subscriptions for at least one other TV service




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Anton Du Beke on why he's so happy it makes him cry

Anton Du Beke, 53, is happily married to businesswoman Hannah Summers and they have two-year-old twins, George and Henrietta. He is so happy, he says, that he is often moved to tears




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From a Titian exhibition to Belgravia on TV and the Glasgow International Comedy Festival, 7 Events

For the first time in over 400 years, the Renaissance master's Poesie will be on show together as the centrepiece of the National Gallery's new exhibition.




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Misbehaviour review: This is a film that raises complex questions 

We live in seismic times for the women's movement.




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From Sue Perkins: An Hour Or So With... to Happy Mum, Happy Baby: This week's top podcasts

Comedian Perkins rustles up a celebrity guest and indulges in 'good old-fashioned conversation' for an hour or so. Her interviewees range from podcast king Adam Buxton to economist Tim Harford.




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From Julian Fellowes' The English Game to Mrs Fletcher and Spooks: The best on demand TV this week

Not content with writing terrestrial TV's big show of the week with Belgravia, Julian Fellowes is also behind this six-part drama series charting the origins of football.




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'Every pub is closed. As an Irishman, I can safely say this denotes the Apocalypse is truly upon us'

James Blunt messaged me. He owns a pub in Chelsea and wasn't sure if he should close it after the Prime Minister said he was 'suggesting', not ordering, people to avoid pubs




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From Star Wars spin-off The Mandalorian to Big Little Lies: The best on demand TV to watch this week

'Is it true that you guys never take off your helmets?' a prisoner asks his captor, the eponymous Mandalorian in the first episode of this eight-episode Star Wars spin-off.




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From Jo Brand on Table Manners to the eight-part drama Blackout: This week's top podcasts

Every week on this big-hearted podcast, singer Jessie Ware and her mum Lennie invite a celebrity guest to Ware's home in east London to chew the fat and tuck into a three-course meal.




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From Mel and Sue in Hitmen on Sky One to Casino Royale, 7 Events

Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins star as hitmen in their first ever scripted comedy. Weds, Sky One, 10pm




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Maggie O'Farrell, Evie Wyld and Anakana Schofield: This week's best new fiction 

This radiant, immersive novel is anchored in its author's fascination with Hamlet . It begins one summer's day in 1596, when 11-year-old Judith comes down with a fever in Stratford-upon-Avon.




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From the useful new Coronavirus Global Update to Mel Giedroyc Is Quilting: This week's top podcasts

Covid-19 may have come from China but its spread has been horrifyingly global.




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Polly Samson, Sarah Butler and Nazanine Hozar: This week's best new fiction

To a teenage girl from England, in mourning for her dead mother, the Greek island of Hydra seems like an earthly paradise.




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From Wallander to The Honourable Woman: The best on demand TV to watch this week

It's set in Sweden and is based on books by a Swedish author, but can this version of Wallander really be described as Scandi-noir?




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Kate Elizabeth Russell, Annalena McAfee and Nicolas Mathieu: This week's best new fiction

At 60, Eve Laing is a famous artist in crisis. She's working on what she believes is a masterpiece, but her marriage has ended in divorce.




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Gary Lineker gives his first exclusive interview after the coronavirus lockdown

Even in isolation, Gary Lineker is looking for the positives. Is it his job to help keep our spirits up? 'I am not sure it is part of my job, but I feel it is something I would love to be able to do,' he says




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From The Anthill to Coronavirus: What You Need To Know and BudPod: This week's top podcasts

Why are conspiracy theories so hard to suppress? What is the meaning of nothing? These are some of the questions raised in brainy podcast The Anthill.




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From Flesh And Blood to new Ride Upon The Storm and Flo & Joan: The best on demand TV this week

Broadcast across four nights a few weeks ago, this domestic drama can now be binge-watched in its entirety. An all-star cast bring to life an intriguing story involving love and jealousy.




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Hidden Valley Road review: Grippingly told

With 12 children, the Galvin family of Colorado were always going to be notable.




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From Nobody Panic to Matt Lucas' Bitch Bitch Bitch and Popmaster: This week's top podcasts

Each week, peppy comedians Stevie Martin and Tessa Coates offer advice about how to thrive as a millennial adult.




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A. L. Kennedy, Nikita Lalwani, Carmel Harrington and Ingrid Persaud: This week's best new fiction

Connoisseurs of short stories that pack an emotional punch will find plenty to admire in this fine new collection. The leitmotif is desperation but Kennedy is mistress of many moods.




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From Jodie Comer in Killing Eve to Michael Palin In North Korea: The best on demand TV this week

International hitwoman Villanelle and MI6 operative Eve did not exactly part on the best of terms at the end of last series, and things are not going particularly well at the start of Series Three.




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Benjamin Grosvenor album review: His playing is entirely devoid of shallow point-scoring

Sometimes hype is just that; hype. But occasionally it's true.




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From Tanya Byron's How Did We Get Here? to The Rachman Review: This week's top podcasts

For better or worse, the pandemic has sent many of us back to our family units, and this podcast could be a lifeline to those looking to detoxify dynamics at home.




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Stephen King, Beth O'Leary, Michael Arditti and Martin Edwards: This week's best new fiction

The title piece in King's latest collection of supernatural tales serves up a vivid metaphor for the media's unhealthy relationship with violent crime.




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Laura Marling album review: This strange period has found its first classic album

Quite a few albums that should have come out now have been postponed till the autumn. You can understand why, but it's no use to the fans who have time to kill and a thirst for new music.




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The Ratline review: Switching between the distant and recent past only makes it more compelling

Like the Führer he served with unblinking loyalty, Otto Wächter was an Austrian.




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DEBORAH ROSS: If you like violence, you'll love this. Me? No thanks...

I've given this (a generous) three stars because I know those who like this sort of thing will like this, so it works in that sense, but there's nothing new here




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Clothes... And Other Things That Matter review: Alexandra Shulman's new book is both wry and candid

Alexandra Shulman is British Vogue's longest-serving editor. Between 1992 and 2017 she oversaw the magazine's rise to a record circulation.




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Robert Webb, Adele Parks, Ilaria Bernardini and Stephanie Scott: This week's best new fiction

Comedian and memoirist Webb tries his hand at fiction in this romance about a widowed tech expert who travels back to 1992 to warn her future husband about his fatal brain tumour.




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From Katherine Ryan: Telling Everybody Everything to The High Low, This week's top podcasts

Comedian Katherine Ryan admits to being a late adopter who didn't think podcasts would take off. Now she's launched her own, and it's kookily addictive.




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Fiona Apple album review: Fetch The Bolt Cutters is one hell of an achievement

In a fascinating, fitful career, Fiona Apple has often felt like a one-woman band - singing, playing the piano, perhaps throwing in some rudimentary percussion.




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From Rafe Spall in Trying to new Medici: The Magnificent & The Bill: The best on demand TV this week

The streaming service's first British series looks like being one of its best shows to date. The series' pedigree is certainly impressive.




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From Grounded With Louis Theroux to Her Spirit, This Is Money and Babbage: This week's top podcasts

In his new podcast series, the cult documentary-maker Louis Theroux calls up people that he finds interesting and wouldn't necessarily get to interview in normal life.




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Lionel Shriver, Caroline Hulse, Adam Macqueen and Ellen Alpsten: This week's best new fiction

Identity politics, extreme exercise and tattoos are among the fads skewered in Shriver's tale of ageing Boomers. It centres on Serenata and Remington, whose marriage is rock-solid.




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Our critic has always loved The Kinks. But he despairs at this joyless history

Doyle follows an ever-increasing line of academics who attempt to sanctify pop music with stuffiness. In so doing, they extinguish its fire in a great whoosh of homogenous jargon




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Kylie Jenner pose in her lavish restroom with 'mini me' daughter Storm in matching designer outfits

Kylie Jenner took to Instagram on Friday afternoon to share a slew of snaoshots of herself and daughter Stormi, 2, rocking the exact same Marine Serre outfit. Jenner labeled Stormi her 'mini.'




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Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott are 'together romantically' and waiting to 'title' their relationship

The 22-year-old billionaire isn't quite ready to 'put a title on their relationship,' but the couple have been spending a lot of time together and don't see other people, according to TMZ sources.




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Kylie Jenner shows off her sister Kim Kardashian's Skims robe before being treated to In N Out

Kylie Jenner closed out International Women's Day by modeling her sister Kim Kardashian's Skims robe while hitting In N Out.




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Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner wear bikinis in Palm Springs

She spent the weekend soaking up the sun with her siblings and their families in Palm Springs.




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Kylie Jenner appears to flout the law by filming Instagram Story while driving in Los Angeles rain 

Kylie Jenner appeared to flout the law on Tuesday, by filming while at the wheel of her moving vehicle.




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Kylie Jenner and her daughter Stormi keep busy while self-isolating

Kylie Jenner made a good example of herself Saturday as she found ways to have fun and stay sane with her daughter Stormi Webster, two.




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Kylie Jenner shows off her short and lighter hair as she gets 'bored' while hanging out at home

She's recently become an advocate for social distancing, encouraging her 167 million followers to stay safe at home.




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Kylie Jenner reveals she missed Paris Fashion Week show last year due to severe strep throat

The 22-year-old reality TV star spoke about her serious illness in a comment she made on a fan account on Wednesday.




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Kim Kardashian accuses Kendall, Kylie and Kourtney of not having the same work ethic

The 39-year-old mother-of-four was seen accusing her sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner as well as Kourtney of not having the same work ethic as she and Khloe in a new explosive trailer.




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Khloe Kardashian hits back at a fan accusing her of forgiving Tristan Thompson but not Jordyn Woods

Khloé Kardashian claimed she has forgiven both Tristan Thompson and Jordyn Woods, though she disputed Jordyn's claims that the NBA star kissed her at a party without her consent.




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Kim Kardashian calls Kylie Jenner her 'twin' after they both make lemon cakes in self-isolation

Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner still found a way to bond on Monday through some good baking. The two Keeping Up With the Kardashian stars each made an iced lemon bundt cake.




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Kylie Jenner sets temperatures rising as she shares sultry snap in high cut bodysuit while at home

She has donated a million dollars to doctors fighting the novel coronavirus and just will be have her Kylie Cosmetics factories producing hand sanitizer.




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Kylie Jenner is 'tuned in' with daughter Stormi as they enjoy Keeping Up With The Kardashians

Kylie Jenner took to Instagram to share footage of herself and daughter Stormi tuning into the highly anticipated second episode from the comfort of their Calabasas mansion.