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What pops into your head when you think of sitcoms? Middle-class households filled with Ikea furniture? Acne-dappled teenagers slumped on sofas delivering withering put-downs to their parents? Neighbours with personality disorders who don't knock before coming into the house? Scripts so rotten that their terrible stench lingers in the memory for years to come?
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Yayoi Kusama brings colour to Tate Modern
Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama was in London yesterday to open a retrospective of her work at Tate Modern.
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Fear and loathing in London: The Death of Klinghoffer is staged in the capital for the first time
It's a major risk for English National Opera, says Jessica Duchen.
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'Cathedral' barn is saved
Britain's greatest surviving ancient wooden building, a huge medieval barn dubbed "the Cathedral of Middlesex" by John Betjeman, has been rescued for the nation after years of neglect at the hands of an off-shore property developer who bought it for £1.
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