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Observations: Literary lessons from N F Simpson - an absurdly good playwright
Saturday 26 May 2012
Theatre
Shakespeare's Restless World Radio 4, Monday-Friday / Shakespeare's Playlist, Radio 4, Saturday
Sunday 22 April 2012
Shakespeare – the hoodie with the headphones
Invisible Ink: No 120, Elizabeth Jenkins
Sunday 22 April 2012
To modern readers, many 1930s writers might as well be using Shakespearian English, such is the grace and complexity of their language. Is this why Elizabeth Jenkins has disappeared from bookshops?
How We Met: Julian Ovenden & James D'Arcy
Sunday 22 April 2012
'Maybe one day we could be the English Matt Damon and Ben Affleck...'
The pick of Christmas television: How to make the most of your holiday viewing
Friday 23 December 2011
It's not just the return of Edina and Patsy – there's Downton, the Doctor, and Dickens. Gerard Gilbert presents his pick of the seasonal small screen
Man About Town: A party straight out of The Great Gatsby
Saturday 30 July 2011
The invitation had arrived, we had made the journey up the M1, we even had a glass of champagne. But we still weren’t quite sure what we were doing there.
Arias and Austen in an ambitious mix
Wednesday 27 July 2011
A new operatic version of Mansfield Park is setting off on a tour of the country's stately homes. Jessica Duchen reports
Jane Austen draft novel fetches £1m
Friday 15 July 2011
The earliest surviving Jane Austen manuscript, a hand-written draft of a novel she never finished, sold for £993,250 at auction in London.
Jane Austen manuscript fetches £993,250
Thursday 14 July 2011
The earliest surviving Jane Austen manuscript, a handwritten draft for a book that was never published, sold for £993,250 ($1.6 million) at Sotheby's today.
Rare Austen work for sale
Tuesday 24 May 2011
The earliest surviving Jane Austen manuscript, a heavily corrected draft of the unfinished novel The Watsons, is expected to fetch up to £300,000 when it is auctioned in July.
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Man and woman arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder victim of Woolwich machete attack, named as Drummer Lee Rigby
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'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London’s streets
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Grace Dent: I’m not sure how these people can avoid being called ‘bigots’. And the more ‘civilised’, the worse they are
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Woolwich murder: They killed, then they performed - these men should be starved of our attention
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Woolwich attack: The EDL will seek to exploit this evil crime for their own evil ends
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