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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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For Mother's Day, Olly Smith recommends looking for taste not price when buying your bubbles

Mother's Day is here and what better way to show her you care than with a bottle of something fabulous? Kick off the celebrations by bagging her a bubbly so brilliant she'll order a dozen




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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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The Hairy Bikers on how they lost so much weight

Today the Hairy Bikers are both fully signed up to healthy eating. Myers has oat milk on his morning muesli and King made a non-dairy rum sauce for his Christmas Dinner




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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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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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Dressed For War review: A meticulously detailed and fascinating book

Having owned every issue of Vogue published since September 1977, as well as having devoured numerous books on the subject, I had thought I was an expert.




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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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Ludicrously good value wines to kick off British Summer Times

British Summer Time kicks off today and there are plenty of wines to cool and crack. Even better, I've found bunches of them that are ludicrously good value




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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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Adrian Edmondson speaks to Event about Rik Mayall, coronavirus and playing monsters

'I've no idea what I am,' Adrian Edmondson says. 'I'm not saying that for effect. All I do know is that if people hope I'll be funny away from the screen they are usually disappointed.'




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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Pin-sharp satire from a modern-day Dorothy Parker. What a pity it curdles into agitprop...

With this, her first novel, Naoise Dolan proves she is a wonderfully sharp, comic writer, adept at making wisecracks in the caustic, knock-'em-off, knock-'em-down tradition of Dorothy Parker




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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Kylie Jenner accused her of trying to look like Beyoncé

It's her latest selection of snaps that's causing a stir on social media as her followers - and fans of Beyoncé - have noticed how strikingly similar the reality star looks to Beyonce.




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Lori Loughlin's daughter Olivia Jade parties with Kendall and Kylie in LA

Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli's daughter Olivia Jade looked carefree as she partied the night away with her famous Hollywood friends on Thursday night.




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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 shows some leg as she shares snaps with Kendall from inside birthday bash 

Kylie, 22, posted a variety of snaps from the party including one where she's posing with sister Kendall and flashing her leg in her tasseled two-piece dress bandana-print dress.




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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 shares tribute to her daughter Stormi Webster, 2, in honor of International Women's Day

The 22-year-old 'self-made billionaire' posted several snaps of her tiny toddler modeling outside their $12M eight-bedroom Hidden Hills mansion