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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind takes the stage
18+ hour, 24+ min ago (1362+ words) Find out more about how your personal data is processed and set your preferences in the'details section. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind has been made into a West End musical production by the Royal Shakespeare Company William Kamkwamba recalls…...
Live Comedy Day: No Last One Laughing without open mic nights
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (621+ words) Live comedy generates more than "1 billion for the UK economy each year, yet it still isn't recognised as an art form Image: Lana Sham / Shutterstock; Amazon MGM Studios; MATT STRONGE "That circuit is essential. They are the lifeblood of our…...
The Delusions by Jenny Fagan book review
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (290+ words) Fagan's satirical novel The Delusions takes place in a vast waiting room to the afterlife Foulmouthed and infinitely lovable, Edi acts as an avatar for the dispossessed, fighting to survive. A working-class, queer Scottish woman reflecting on a lifetime of…...
BBC drama Babies reveals the heart-breaking pain of miscarriage
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (982+ words) This is a series clearly written from lived experience; there is almost too much painful truth in Babies Paapa Essiedu and Siobhan Cullen in Babies. Image: Des Willie / BBC / Snowed In New BBC One series Babies might break your heart....
Denholm Spurr: From homelessness to independent theatre
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (554+ words) Denholm Spurr, who runs OffWestEnd, on his journey from homelessness to champion of independent theatre ahead of the 2026 Offies Denholm Spurr. Image: supplied Denholm Spurr is the executive producer of OffWestEnd, the organisation behind the Offies " the awards that have…...
Meet the winner of Big Issue's Spring Kids Cover Competition
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (472+ words) Find out more about how your personal data is processed and set your preferences in the'details section. Our post box was crammed with brilliant designs. Judge Axel Scheffler had a tough job to pick just one winner April Floyer with…...
Inside the Big Issue: Our legendary Kids Cover Competition!
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (228+ words) Out of hundreds of entries we received for this year's Spring Kids Cover Competition, six-year-old April Floyer from Northampton has been chosen as our winner. Inside the Big Issue How do you make peace " or at least try to draw…...
Top 5 books on the London Underground, chosen by Rishi Dastidar
5+ day, 17+ hour ago (322+ words) The underground keeps London moving every day. It's unsurprising that it provides the backdrop for so many books Rishi Dastidar's latest poetry collection, Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak, has been voted as poetry book of the month for March 2026 by'The Observer....
Orwell 2+2=5 director Raoul Peck on Orwellian lessons learned
6+ day, 17+ hour ago (755+ words) Filmmaker Raoul Peck's new documentary depicts an almost overwhelming cavalcade of horror "The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude." So wrote George Orwell in his 1946 essay, Why I Write. Two years…...
UK electronic music library is making the synthesiser accessible
6+ day, 17+ hour ago (679+ words) Glasgow Library of Synthesised Sound is demystifying the geekiest of instruments Living in synth: a GLOSS learning session Sleek black boxes covered in banks of knobs, dials and switches like the control panels of a spaceship: to most of us,…...