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Churchill in Moscow review – the British bulldog’s gripping meeting with Stalin

There are laugh-aloud gags and spiky dialogue as Roger Allam and Peter Forbes share the stage in Howard Brenton’s play about the 1942 encounter

The Guardian - UK

Jack Bond obituary

Film director and producer who worked with Salvador Dalí and the Pet Shop Boys

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Controversy over Match Of The Day star Gary Lineker’s top salary

Lineker is the only star paid more than £1 million at the corporation.

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James Joyce’s glorious lists and pop’s place at the Proms

Letters: Mary Adams says nobody compiled lists in literature quite like the Irish novelist. Plus a letter from Dr Richard Carter

The Guardian - UK

BBC arts chief hits back at accusations from Dimbleby and Bragg

Suzy Klein defends BBC’s ‘incredibly strong and passionate’ commitment to culture programming

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‘They were all talking about dying, but they were telling us how to live’

In this weekend’s magazine: Sven-Göran Eriksson and others with terminal illnesses give Simon Hattenstone their life advice

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The week in TV: Art Matters; Surviving the Post Office; The Decameron; Time Bandits – review

Melvyn Bragg makes an impassioned plea to save the arts in Britain; wronged subpostmasters tell their story; a medieval romp channels Covid and The White Lotus. Plus, a time-travelling Lisa Kudrow

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Art Matters With Melvyn Bragg review – a shallow, unenlightening waste of time and money

This chummy, ineffective look at the arts crisis offers no solutions. And by featuring only one contributor aged under 50, it is itself part of the problem

The Guardian - UK

‘The quality of the writing was clear as a bell’: the astonishing talent of Dennis Potter

The trailblazing dramatist, who died in 1994 at 59, was celebrated for his extraordinary creativity, but also had work banned by the BBC. His peers discuss his legacy – and that extraordinary final interview

The Guardian - UK

‘I’d been fired once; it didn’t hurt’: Melvyn Bragg on breakdowns, bust ups and 1,000 episodes of In Our Time

The broadcaster’s Radio 4 programme has been running for 25 years, was the first ever BBC podcast and is its most downloaded ever weekly show. Not bad for being stuck in the ‘death slot’…

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: The Woman in the Wall; David Hockney: A Celebration; The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies; Starstruck – review

A blazing Ruth Wilson elevates a turbulent drama about Ireland’s Magdalene laundries; Hockney and Bragg make a classy double act; and a female revenge fantasy goes to the dark side

The Guardian - UK

David Hockney says he is ‘just getting going’ in Melvyn Bragg’s new Sky Arts documentary

Bragg is concluding 45 years of The South Bank Show with four-part series Celebrating David Hockney

Evening Standard

Melvyn Bragg to step down from South Bank Show after 45 years

Broadcaster says ‘it’s about time’ after launching series in 1978

The Guardian - UK

David Beckham, Bear Grylls and Lord Bragg among stars at day three of Wimbledon

Several stars were pictured in the royal box on centre court at the All England Club.

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David Beckham: red card in World Cup 1998 made me a ‘cold person’

Beckham also spoke about welcoming Lionel Messi to Inter Miami

The Independent UK

Sir Salman Rushdie and Prima Facie among winners of South Bank Sky Arts Awards

The awards celebrate a range of artistic genres including dance, theatre, music, TV and film.

The Guardian - UK

Melvyn Bragg: ‘At 83, time goes round too quickly’

The broadcaster and writer on revisiting childhood for his nostalgic memoir, the genius of George Orwell, and his love of dancing

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LGBT+ History Month: Top photographs from The Independent archive

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My father’s films changed how British cinema saw the poor. Today, they repay a second look

With films such as 1960’s Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Karel Reisz was a pioneer in reshaping perceptions of ordinary Britons. I think there’s still lots to learn from them

Manchester Evening News

It's time for London to stop moaning and let Greater Manchester have its time - the future of the arts depends on it

News that English National Opera could be moving to Manchester has met with anguish in the national press. They're out of touch

The Guardian - UK

Art pioneer Kurt Schwitters’ Lake District retreat to be sold for development

Followers of the German modernist give up hopes of preserving his working studio, the Merz Barn after funding cut

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Country diary: We must fight for this young peregrine, and all of Britain’s wildlife

Beeston Tor, Staffordshire: This government’s hostility to our fellow residents is extraordinary and must be opposed

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Diana makes explosive revelations and Partridge devours the hand that feeds him: 100 years of the BBC, part eight

Steve Coogan’s alter-ego appears, as does Ricky Gervais’s in The Office, while Panorama rocks the royals

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: coronation day for an empress who’s ahead of her time

Peter is still under house arrest as Catherine takes the throne in The Great. Plus: Melvyn Bragg interviews ballet genius Carlos Acosta on The South Bank Show. Here’s what to watch this evening

Evening Standard

It’s A Sin triumphs at Sky Arts Awards

Channel 4’s drama of gay life in 1980’s London It’s A Sin was among the winners at this year’s South Bank Sky Arts Awards.

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