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Why 'Today' should watch its guest list
Saturday 01 January 2011
It was the week the Radio 4 programme handed over control of the airwaves. Jane Thynne replays the highs – and lows
Sam Taylor-Wood has baby girl
Friday 09 July 2010
The artist and director Sam Taylor-Wood, 43, has had a baby girl with her fiancé, the actor Aaron Johnson, 20.
Baby girl for director Sam Taylor-Wood and fiance
Thursday 08 July 2010
Artist turned film-maker Sam Taylor-Wood has had a baby girl with her 20-year-old fiance Aaron Johnson.
YBAs: the next generation on show
Monday 26 April 2010
The line-up of the prestigious British Art Show 7 is revealed today by 'The Independent', write Arifa Akbar and Jonathan Brown
The British film industry has lost its edge, says BFI boss
Friday 02 April 2010
Artists, not movie directors, are the only ones now willing to push the boundaries
Kathryn Bigelow wins battle of 'exes' as 'Hurt Locker' storms Baftas
Monday 22 February 2010
Carey Mulligan takes Best Actress while Colin Firth awarded Best Actor
Rock and reel: Rockbiopics go lo-fi
Wednesday 06 January 2010
From Ian Curtis to John Lennon, musical heroes have long fascinated film-makers. As a raft of new biopics hits our screens, Geoffrey Macnab explains the eternal love affair
Tim Walker: 'Sam Taylor-Wood and Steve McQueen always had an eye on the screen'
Monday 04 January 2010
The Couch Surfer: A well-known YBA is now almost as commercial a proposition as a pop promo director
Britrock on film
Tuesday 22 December 2009
'A Hard Day's Night', 'Control', 'This Is Spinal Tap' and beyond...
Nine, Rob Marshall, 118 mins, (12A)<br/>Nowhere Boy, Sam Taylor-Wood, 97 mins, (15)<br/>Sherlock Holmes, Guy Ritchie, 128 mins, (12A)
Sunday 20 December 2009
'Nine' is not the only disappointment. Sam Taylor-Wood's biopic of a young John Lennon is more drab than fab
The Weekend’s Television: How Do You Solve A Problem Like Lolita? Sun, BBC4<br/>Sam Taylor-Wood's Nowhere Boy, Sat, E4
Monday 14 December 2009
Magnificent obsession
Tom Sutcliffe: Let's be clear about what we're eating
Tuesday 03 November 2009
It hasn't really been a good few days for this Government, when it comes to the relationship between simple scientific facts and public health. Their commitment to giving the people the facts doesn't apparently extend to giving them facts that might contradict current political orthodoxies. But they do have a modest opportunity this week to show themselves to be on the side of useful scientific intelligence. Tomorrow, the House of Commons debates a 10-Minute Rule Bill put forward by the Labour MP Helen Southworth, in which she calls for a legal requirement for a uniform system of food labelling on the front of packaged food.
In her life: Sam Taylor-Wood
Saturday 24 October 2009
A film about the young John Lennon is another unexpected departure for an artist who has known pain and success in equal measure
Parties: All you need is love, Trace
Sunday 07 June 2009
A queue of eager guests snaked around Jay Jopling's White Cube in Mayfair last week for the private view of Tracey Emin's exhibition, Those Who Suffer Love – her first London show in four years.
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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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