Natalie Haynes: A new season of shows on Radio 4 is inspired by dark tales of future dystopias. Meanwhile, zombies are marauding in the multiplexes.
Review They’ve been reinventing the pop concert as a modern art spectacle for decades - but Pet Shop Boys still manage to pack more ideas into these two hours than this venue usually sees in two months
Review In all, the exhibition is painting in pursuit of a definition of character, a searching which sees through the outward likeness to the defining characteristic...
Nick Clark: The banker John Studzinski is helping to nurture young theatre directors. He's a living example of how commerce and culture can sit comfortably together
Adam Sherwin: Tinie Tempah, Ed Sheeran and Emeli Sande are among the big names who have added their weight to raising much-needed funds for the trust set up in 1999 following the aspiring architect's murder
Review People said it was crazy, that the wind would drown the singers, that everyone would freeze – but there wasn't one spare place in the improvised 1800-seat auditorium on the shingle
A new exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery demonstrates how unpromising materials made of paper, such as old fast-food bags and stained newsprint, can be transformed into art works of breathtaking beauty, says Adrian Hamilton
Adam Sherwin: Tribute band The Bootleg Beatles will go head-to-head with Sir Mick Jagger and co during the Somerset festival in two weeks' time
Gallery Muggles can new enjoy seeing original props from JK Rowling's wizard franchise on display at a London gallery
Review “This sure does remind me of the New Jersey shoreline,” Jon Bon Jovi remarks, peering surely myopically at the thousands watching him close the Isle of Wight festival last night in the island's very much inland capital
Benjamin Britten’s 1953 opera was a Coronation tribute that went badly wrong – but perhaps a revival at the site of its disastrous premiere could rescue it yet, says Jessica Duchen
They were care-free lovers. Now, Céline and Jesse are care-worn parents. Hugh Montgomery worries about the other couples of Nineties film…
Paul Blezard has written a book about a genteel magazine with a bold new boss
Simon Price: The women of Wales turned out 65,000-strong in Cardiff and raised the roof – what a pity that Rihanna had little to bring to the party
Review An exhibition of startling images of the cosmos looks at the development of telescopy, photography, and our place in it all
The protaganists in Polly Courtney's new novel are poor, abandoned and fighting back. Katy Guest met their champion
Martin Amis talks to Boyd Tonkin about the state of England and his book 'Lionel Asbo'
Essay Brian Morton hails the final novel by the Wasp Factory author and salutes his incredible journey
Just out of drama school when she was cast as Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones, now she is the hottest young British actress since Carey Mulligan, says James Mottram
Review The Harry Potter star nails the acting - if not the Irish accent
Children's author Sally Gardner says new national curriculum would stifle classroom creativity
Pink Floyd are the latest rock giant to strike a deal to put their music on Spotify. So where to start with a band that has produced so much monumental music over the past 40-plus years?
Michael Volpe continues his monthly dispatch on staging a world premiere
Samsung tie-up ensures Jay-Z's new album will go platinum before it is even released
Review Daisy Donovan explores the bizarre Brazilian beauty pageant in The Greatest Shows on Earth, Channel 4
Review Marling holds the assembled quasi-toffs and fake flappers rapt with a Cohen-esque calm
Review BBC1’s new Sunday-night costume drama provokes a sinking sense of déjà vu
Review Alexi Kaye Campbell's new play is set in 1937, with Britain struggling to emerge from the Depression
British love of shows such as The Bridge, Borgen and The Killing shows no sign of fading
Catherine Bennett is an alternative to the sexualised music aimed at tweens
The actor-son of Jeremy Irons and Sinead Cusack knows the pressure of having famous parents
The late leader had 20,000 Hollywood DVDs – but then North Korea loves cinema, a fascinating new documentary reveals
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Teen Beach Movie, Snakes on a Plane, Scary Movie: This is an article about generic and humourless film titles
Among the sillier genre films of the 1960s were the beach party movies: they depicted attractive young people in abbreviated swimwear beguiling the summer months with flirty horseplay and otiose bursts of song.
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Tom’s telling: Father of Odell, 22, puts in angry call to magazine over review
The ‘poor, misguided’ singer’s no-star strike-out prompted a strong paternal response
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At the tender age of 35 Katie Price is to release her fifth autobiography
Katie Price has revealed she is planning to release her fifth autobiography later this year - at the age of just 35.
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Radio comes alive with the sound of musicals
A new station plans to play just showtunes, with its presenters drawn from the cream of London’s talent
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Dundee, Hull, Leicester or Swansea Bay? Dylan Thomas takes on Philip Larkin in a battle to become City of Culture
Dundee, Hull, Leicester and Swansea Bay have been named as the four cities left in the running to become the UK’s next City Of Culture. They are competing to receive the title for 2017, following this year’s chosen city, Londonderry.
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Radio comes alive with the sound of musicals
A new station plans to play just showtunes, with its presenters drawn from the cream of London’s talent
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Classica review: Die Walküre, Longborough Festival Opera
Magic fire is being kindled in the Cotswolds. Its source? The conductor in Longborough Festival Opera’s orchestra pit, plus some of the singers on its stage. Longborough – country-house opera at its most bijou – is marking Wagner’s bicentenary with the complete Ring cycle, having built it up over the past few years with each of the tetralogy in turn. It may sound overambitious, but it proves you can do anything if you try.
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Comedy review: Parks and Recreation star Aziz Ansari's Buried Alive set is good, but not great
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RIBA Awards 2013: Educational buildings dominate this year's Stirling prize longlist
One third of the 52 buildings longlisted by the Royal Institute of British Architects for this year’s coveted Stirling prize are schools, nurseries, universities and other educational facilities.
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Kan you believe it? Kim Kardashian and Kanye West reportedly name baby daughter 'Kaidance Donda'
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Film review: World War Z - Brad Pitt's zombie action flick is surprisingly infectious
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Theatre review: Daniel Radcliffe gives an admirably honest performance in Michael Grandage's The Cripple of Inishmaan - but his Irish accent isn't quite there
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Anger Management? Charlie Sheen fires Selma Blair as his onscreen therapist with expletive-filled text
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Vice pulls 'breathtakingly tasteless' fashion shoot glorifying the suicides of famous female authors from Sylvia Plath to Virginia Woolf
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Serena Williams apologises after comment that rape victim 'shouldn't have put herself in that position'
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Disability campaigners celebrate 'victory' after government rethink over plans to make it more difficult to claim disability benefits
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Bankers could face jail after report urges the Government to introduce new criminal offence for reckless management
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Breaking the Silence: In the reality of occupation, there are no Palestinian civilians – only potential terrorists
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We never knew Nigella Lawson - and we still don’t
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