Inbee Park, of South Korea, stands on the Old Course at St Andrews, where she will begin her attempt at a fourth major this year

The South Korean has won three majors this year. At St Andrews she starts her quest for a fourth – a feat no pro golfer has achieved

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The one-man plays of Simon Callow

The actor Simon Callow is set to star in a new one-man show exploring the life and work and the German composer Richard Wagner. However, it is not the first time that Callow has taken on a one-man role.

Simon Callow says he is fascinated by Wagner’s ‘monstrous personality’

Simon Callow gets inside the ‘anti-Semitic, psychotic’ head of Wagner for one-man show

The actor Simon Callow has promised to take audiences to a “dark, murky, unsettling place”, with a new one-man stage show that explores the composer Richard Wagner’s “toxic” and “disgusting” anti-Semitism.

'The Confessions of Gordon Brown' - a one-man play starring Ian Grieve as the former prime minister - will open at the Edinburgh Fringe next week

The Confessions of Gordon Brown fringe play: Tony Blair? Don’t worry about him, Gordon, it’s a one-man show

Show is a chance to reassess Britain’s least loved PM, writes Jonathan Brown

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Overall ranking: Came 115th out of 124 in the Complete University Guide for 2014.

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Campaigners celebrate as Bank of England takes concerns of women in history into account

Global reach: Shakespeare's Globe

All the world's a stage: Shakespeare's Globe to take Hamlet to every country

Tour will finish on the 400th anniversary of The Bard’s death

What's the mutter?: Tony Hall wants actors in BBC dramas to speak more clearly

BBC boss Tony Hall says actors should mutter less

Hall says: 'You have to remember that you have an audience'

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Cultural life: David Harewood, actor

'I went to see Lenny Henry in August Wilson's Fences. It's a fabulous play'

Book of the week: The Divine Comedy, By Dante, translated by Clive James

A lifetime's practice of poetry equips James, as translator and interpreter, to scale this summit

Charlie Hunnam and Rinko Kikuchi in Pacific Rim

'Toy franchise with a deafeningly loud movie attached': Pacific Rim film review

Director: Guillermo del Toro, Starring: Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, 131mins

Album review: Ksenija Sidorova, Fairy Tales (Champs Hill)

One of my favourite albums of recent years has been Teodoro Anzellotti's accordion version of the Goldberg Variations, and elsewhere, Scandinavian and Baltic practitioners seem able to wrest more interesting effects from the instrument.

Star Wars has been rewritten as a Shakespearian drama in a bid to get more children interested in the Bard

Alas, poor Yoda, I knew him, Han Solo: Star Wars rewritten as Shakespearean drama

Star Wars has been rewritten as a Shakespearian drama in a bid to get more children  interested in the Bard. It’s a new hope that’s surprisingly inspired, discovers John Walsh

Court artist sketch by Elizabeth Cook of moors murderer Ian Brady appearing via video link at Manchester Civil Justice Centre

Moors murderer Ian Brady breaks his silence after 47 years: 'I killed for the existential experience'

75-year-old breaks 47-year silence as he tells mental health tribunal of mixing with criminals from Krays to Great Train Robbers and IRA terrorists

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New book claims child-catchers kidnapped boys for the Elizabethan stage

Children forced to perform under threat of whipping

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