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The bald facts: hair loss could be the first sign you have heart disease
Wednesday 03 April 2013
Losing your hair could be the first visible sign of heart disease – but only if it is from the top of your head.
Jumping the badger? Archers fans don't want anyone sexing up their favourite soap
Thursday 28 March 2013
The editor who brought modernity to Ambridge has been criticised by listeners
Paperback review: Ashenden By Elizabeth Wilhide
Friday 22 March 2013
The many lives of a country house that spans the centuries
Norman Bates's mother finally gets her chance on screen
Friday 15 March 2013
Alice Jones' Arts Diary
Michael Cera, Sarah Silverman, and friends found a new YouTube channel
Friday 15 March 2013
Alice Jones' Arts Diary
The Living Room, Jermyn Street Theatre, London
Tuesday 12 March 2013
In the imaginative world of Graham Greene, “Leaving the miraculous out of life is rather like leaving out the lavatory or dreams or breakfast,” wrote Kenneth Tynan in a 1953 profile of the author.
Book of a lifetime: The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
Friday 08 March 2013
When I first read The Transit of Venus, I was rather underwhelmed. I was in my twenties then and recently back in Australia after a period when I had thought I would make my life in France. I came to Shirley Hazzard's third novel by way of The Bay of Noon and The Evening of the Holiday. These ravishing early novels, both set in Italy, fed my nostalgia for Europe. I identified intensely with their young female protagonists whose private dramas were lifted into grandeur by the antique backgrounds against which they played out.
Isabella Blow's life to be dramatised by Sex Addict playwright Tim Fountain
Thursday 07 March 2013
Alice Jones' Arts Diary
Trip to Mars: That’s one giant leap for a middle-aged couple from Sunningdale
Thursday 28 February 2013
The first humans to visit Mars could be a married couple, after organisers said that only a “tried and tested” partnership could cope
Silvio Berlusconi's younger model AC Milan face ultimate scrutiny from Barcelona in the Champions League
Tuesday 19 February 2013
Reshaped Milan side aim to 'sterilise' Catalans at San Siro – and boost president's election aims
Victory against Workfare proves a point my generation has known all along - the system is taking advantage of us
Tuesday 12 February 2013
A day's work for a day's pay is a simple democratic right
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What, let gays get married? We must be bonkers
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Rocky Horror star Tim Curry 'suffers major stroke'
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Exclusive: How MI5 blackmails British Muslims
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Lord of the Sings: Sir Christopher Lee, 91, to release heavy metal album
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Exclusive: Woolwich killings suspect Michael Adebolajo was inspired by cleric banned from UK after urging followers to behead enemies of Islam
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