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Amar Bose: Pioneer of high-end audio technology
Wednesday 17 July 2013
By his own account, Amar Bose was an inventor first, a teacher second and a businessman third. But the company he created not only revolutionised audio technology but made his surname alone a shorthand for high-end sound systems around the world.
Passions that spark crimes: Louise Doughty on infidelity, revenge and the feminist revival
Thursday 20 June 2013
Interview: Doughty's thrilling novel of adultery and murder captures the zeitgeist in women's fiction.
Music review: Laura Marling is sylph-like and glowing translucently at her Secret Cinema gig
Monday 17 June 2013
The Grand Eagle Hotel, East London
TV review: The White Queen is less historically plausible than Game of Thrones (despite being ostensibly true)
Monday 17 June 2013
The White Queen, Sun, BBC1 // Goodbye Granadalan, Sayt, ITV
Vatican to spend millions on new churches... and on artists to furnish them
Sunday 02 June 2013
Cardinal says Holy See must reclaim role as patron of the arts
Grey matters when it comes to bringing out the best of the Dutch masters at the Rijksmuseum
Saturday 20 April 2013
Plus: New film The Gatekeepers is a gate through the granite wall and the secrecy surrounding John le Carré's latest
Baroness Thatcher funeral timetable
Wednesday 17 April 2013
Here is the timetable for events surrounding the funeral of Baroness Thatcher today.
Thatcher funeral: Timeline
Tuesday 16 April 2013
07:30 Road closures are implemented along the route from Whitehall to St Paul’s Cathedral
Margaret Thatcher's body to be moved to Westminster chapel for private family service ahead of funeral
Tuesday 16 April 2013
George Galloway and Dennis Skinner object to plans to delay start of Commons, which would cause the cancellation of Prime Minister's Questions
David Cameron to read a lesson at Margaret Thatcher's funeral
Saturday 13 April 2013
David Cameron is to do a reading at the funeral this week of Baroness Thatcher, it has emerged.
Margaret Thatcher's body will lie in Parliament chapel on night before funeral
Friday 12 April 2013
MPs and peers will be able to pay their private respects in St Mary Undercroft
TV review: The High Art of the Low Countries, BBC4
Friday 12 April 2013
Tomorrow's World: a Horizon Special, BBC2
Funeral will be a 'ceremonial' service in line with Baroness Thatcher's wishes
Monday 08 April 2013
Baroness Thatcher’s last act of political choreography will be her funeral, which was agreed with her before her death.
Pope Francis meets Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in first for Vatican in 600 years
Saturday 23 March 2013
Present and former Pope wore similar white clerical garb at Castel Gandolfo
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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