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DEBORAH ROSS: Oh, Julian. It's the same old, lame old bonnety nonsense

This week not one but two new series from Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford, and you do wonder if he can be stopped




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From Sorry We Missed You to The Palm Beach Story: The best DVDs to enjoy at home

Just when you thought life couldn't get any worse, along comes the new Ken Loach movie. Sorry We Missed You (15, ★★★) tells of Ricky (Kris Hitchen), a labourer with plans to set up on his own.




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Mark Bebbington album review: The performances are first class

Igor Stravinsky, not a great one for dishing out prizes to his colleagues, declared that Poulenc had the greatest melodic gift of any 20th-century composer.




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The diagnosis that turned Blue Peter star Janet's world upside down

Janet Ellis did what many people dream of doing: while on holiday she stopped to have a 'what if' browse in an estate agent's window and came home having bought a cottage




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Ren Harvieu album review: Most of these 12 songs are still gorgeously uplifting

For a music lover, there's nothing better than putting on a debut album by an unknown and realising that you've found a new favourite.




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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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DEBORAH ROSS: It's the most moving show on the box... I was in pieces

The one show we all really need right now, at this most difficult time, has to be one of my personal favourites, The Repair Shop




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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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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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Lucy Atkins, Matthew Hall and Joe Thomas: Thrillers of the week 

Magpie Lane is where an Oxford college master lives in a grand house with his pregnant second wife, his disturbed daughter from his first marriage and a nanny, who is rather more than she seems.




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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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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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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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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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The most serious story of my lifetime - and I looked like a human pumpkin...

'How bad is it?' I whispered to Susanna Reid. 'It's not great,' she giggled. 'There are some… blending issues.'




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On The Road by James Naughtie review: A sublime tapestry of the USA in all its glory and complexity

As a young student with journalistic ambitions, the broadcaster and former Radio 4 Today programme presenter James Naughtie spent the summer of 1970 in America.




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A carefree glass of Rosé is a great way to take off the pressure

Rosé days are just around the corner.




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Why not try some red wines beyond the usual suspects

The classic reds to pair with lamb are Rioja, southern French reds, Chianti or Bordeaux. With Easter next weekend and roast lamb set to sizzle, rummage beyond the usual suspects.




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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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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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Austrian wines are of wonderful value for the quality that's on offer

I've been banging the drum for Austrian wine so loudly for so long that I sometimes worry my enthusiastic zeal for their liquid loveliness turns me into Animal, the drummer from the Muppets.




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TOM PARKER BOWLES: Sunland cuisine in the heart of London

Sola is a new Soho restaurant from chef Victor Garvey, a man who was born in New York. But moved west, to Los Angeles, at just one month old




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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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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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DEBORAH ROSS: The book? Irritating. The TV drama? Just gorgeous

Normal People is terrific, absolutely gorgeous, up there with the best TV dramas of recent years, like Patrick Melrose and My Brilliant Friend, but possibly not Belgravia




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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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Event's tips on how to make the lockdown work for you

Look on the bright side. Self-isolation can be an opportunity for self-improvement. The internet can help you learn almost anything and can connect with talented teachers in the virtual world




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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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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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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 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 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 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 shares throwback snap with sister Kendall even though they're fighting

The two reality stars were pictured cuddling up to one another in matching white cropped tops and full glam.




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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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Kylie Jenner gets into full makeup for mirror selfie as she sits 'bored in the house' in isolation

She is the head of a global cosmetics empire. And Kylie Jenner got into full makeup to pose for a casual mirror selfie she posted to Instagram this Saturday. She lounged in the floor in sweats.




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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 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.




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Kylie Jenner would rather have partner be 'completely silent' during sex than 'have a weird accent'

Kylie Jenner put her star power to good use on Friday afternoon, when she appeared on BFF Stassie Karanikolaou's #DoYourPart Instagram Live series.




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Kylie Jenner and her mother Kris reenact Kourtney Kardashian's 'ABCDEFG' speech from KUWTK

Kylie Jenner had some fun while social distancing at home with her mother. The two enacted Kourtney Kardashian's infamous 'ABCDEFG' speech from an early Keeping Up With The Kardashians season.




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Kylie Jenner enjoys a boogie with daughter Stormi, 2, and mother Kris in her EPIC shoe closet

The make-up mogul, 22, jumped on the TikTok trend as she danced with daughter Stormi, two, mother Kris Jenner, and her parent's partner Corey Gamble on Monday.




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Kylie and Kendall Jenner make the odd move of crediting their retouch expert

In the caption, the power sisters even credited the man who did the retouching for the photograph in a rare move.




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The eight best-selling lipsticks across Australia - and they WON'T break the bank

Beauty giant Mecca has revealed the best-selling lipsticks across Australia - and why women are still buying makeup despite working from home during the coronavirus pandemic.




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Kylie Jenner, 22, is Forbes' youngest 'self-made' billionaire for the SECOND year in a row

Kylie Jenner is Forbes' youngest 'self-made' billionaire for the second year in a row, it was revealed on Wednesday.