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OLLY SMITH: Let's celebrate female winemakers

Today is International Women's Day and there are plenty of talented women creating brilliant wine around the world, so let's celebrate them




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ROB WAUGH: A ludicrous, lovely toy for the rich and childless 

So I regard the Philips OLED+984 Ambilight with wistful longing. There's little point in bringing such a majestic device into a home where the biggest workout it's going to get is Paw Patrol binges




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From Nicola Roberts in City Of Angels to Romesh Ranganathan's tour and an Andy Warhol show, 7 Events

A revival of Josie Rourke's Olivier-winning production of the Hollywood musical, featuring the stage debut of Nicola Roberts.




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Bryan Ferry review: He's so relaxed, he almost takes off his jacket

Like Bob Dylan, whose songs he sings so well, Bryan Ferry has gone from being a bit of a recluse to an unstoppable old trouper. At 74, he is on the road for the eighth year in a row.




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Ronan Keating on being insecure about how 'relevant' he is

For a man who has sold 45 million records and performed to stadiums full of fans since the age of 17, Ronan Keating is surprisingly anxious about his new album, Twenty Twenty




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These headphones sound brilliant but they do make you look like a Teletubby!

'You look like a Teletubby!' These are words no man wants to hear. I suppose at least they didn't say I looked like the one with the handbag. I'll admit that Grado's headphones are on the large side




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Michael Farris Smith and Malcolm Pryce: Thrillers of the month

Smith is emerging as one of the great chroniclers of America's dispossessed. Blackwood starts with a family of vagrants pitching up in a small Mississippi town and ends in inevitable tragedy.




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Shoe Lady review: Katherine Parkinson delivers a vivid and enjoyable performance

What is it with women and shoes?




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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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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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Angela Rippon discusses equal pay, staying fit at 75 and how she stays unflappable

At 75, Angela Rippon is in remarkable shape: slim, quick, light on her feet. She maintains her fitness by playing tennis with singer Elaine Paige, doing Pilates and taking ballet classes




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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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No boring theory or intellectual snobbery. Just poems awash with well-loved lines

John Carey is a welcoming host, full of enthusiasm, and the opposite of crusty. He can throw sparkling light on a poet's method in a handful of words




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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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Noel Fitzpatrick on why he gets invited to celebrity events, pet therapy during lockdown and

Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick has seen a lot of people weep for the creatures they love. 'Prince or pauper, it's a universal truth that they are always naked in front of their dog or their cat.'




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The Nanny State Made Me review: It could not be more timely

The first child born in an NHS hospital arrived a minute after midnight on July 5, 1948. She was named Aneira after Aneurin Bevan, the architect of the health service.




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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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François Leleux album review: Secures a suitably exuberant and boisterous performance

Georges Bizet was 17, and a student working on a piano reduction of Charles Gounod's symphonies, when he wrote his own solitary Symphony.




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JACI STEPHEN: The Nest is a compelling show with a tight script

I was all set to move to Loch Long, where The Nest is filmed, but unless I could live in Cape Cove, home to Dan (Martin Compston) and Emily (Sophie Rundle), I'll stay put




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'Your self isolation is easy,' said Geldof. 'No one wants to be near you anyway!'

Bob Geldof said he would never be interviewed by me because, as he put it in his typical fruity language: 'You're too f****** good a journalist and will get me to say stuff I don't want to say!'




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Dua Lipa album review: It feels like a minor classic of effortlessly likeable pop 

As if to demonstrate that pop is a game of fine margins, New Rules , Dua Lipa's excellent three-point manifesto for heartbroken girls, was the sixth single to be pulled from her debut album.




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Eat Pray Love author Elizabeth Gilbert talks about grief, love and female sexuality

Eat Pray Love author Elizabeth Gilbert discusses losing the love of her life and rediscovering joy through writing her new book City Of Girls




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DEBORAH ROSS: Quick work, Jamie. But how did you find a delivery slot?

Jamie Oliver's Keep Cooking And Carry On is a concept that was turned around in record time, specifically for the Covid-19 era, but even so, we're all watching in a new way. Aren't we?




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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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Anne Tyler is a magician. You finish her delightful new novel feeling closer to life

Anne Tyler's prose style is clear and unshowy. Her sentences have no flourishes. You could almost say that their only identifying feature is their lack of an identifying feature




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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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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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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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Daniel Hope review: New album Belle Epoque 'will bring rich rewards to the curious'

We don't see much of Berlin-based Daniel Hope these days, but an album like this shows us what we are missing.




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Try these apps and games to get you through self-isolation

Like many people, I'm now facing the possibility of several weeks confined with my four-year-old, a prospect only marginally less alarming than being cooped up with Frankenstein's monster




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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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Woody's fightback... from self-lacerating gags to a howl of pain

What a bizarre book this is: three parts funny to one part stark, staring horror




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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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Valkyrie review: Johanna Fridriksdottir makes the Vikings feel far closer to us than ever before

When we think of Vikings, we immediately conjure up a vision of hairy men in pointy helmets with nothing but pillage and slaughter on their mind. But what about the women?




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Joan As Police Woman album review: A light in the middle of the tunnel

Out of this strange suspended spring, patterns are emerging. If an album isn't postponed, it's quite likely to be special. Music, like the sky on a sunny day, seems brighter, sharper, deeper.




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Kylie Jenner starts her 'good morning' off right by helping herself to a margarita at 9:43 am

It's certainly the weekend when alcohol is made available before noon, and this young mother and social media superstar is taking full advantage.




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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 gets caught using beloved drugstore sunscreen brand instead of her $32 luxury SPF

Kylie Jenner's swanky Kylie Skin brand sells a $32 sunscreen oil. But the cosmetics CEO traded her spendy SPF for a more wallet-friendly drugstore option during her recent vacation to Palm Springs.




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Kylie Jenner admires her figure in full length mirror as she models tight little black dress

'A vision' the 22-year-old captioned the snap of her posing up a storm in a room with floor to ceiling mirrors.




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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 urges her fellow millennials to 'self quarantine'

Kylie Jenner, 22, urged her fans to 'self quarantine' adding that we all need to pull together to not 'endanger' ourselves or others. She pointed out we have to be careful after over 100 deaths in the US.




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Kylie Jenner says she didn't leave house for months when pregnant as she encourages self-isolation

On Wednesday, the reality star, 22, shared with her Instagram followers that she got used to staying home all the time while expecting her daughter Stormi.




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Surgeon General appeals to Kylie Jenner to tell her millennial followers to stay at home

In an appearance on Good Morning America, Surgeon General Jerome Adams said the country needed social media influencers like Jenner to use their platforms to get through to young people.




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Kylie Jenner tells her followers to stay home and do PUZZLES during the coronavirus pandemic

On Thursday afternoon, Jenner, 22, shared a video to her Instagram Stories, saying that she had heard Surgeon General Jerome Adams' appeal.




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Kylie Jenner asks for movie suggestions as Britney Spears offers to help fans

And Kylie Jenner and Britney Spears are doing their best to stay busy as they hang out indoors. Kylie, 22, asked her fans for film suggestions as she relaxed by herself inside her opulent house.