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Loїs Williams obituary

Other lives: Actor in rep and at Stratford who qualified as a social worker and was a longtime human rights campaigner

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Oscar Best Picture winners ranked: all 96 winning movies

There have been 96 Oscar Best Picture winners so far, and we're ranking them all right here. Take a look.

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Joss Ackland obituary

Veteran British actor known for his many and varied film, TV and stage roles in a career that spanned more than 70 years

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Is King Lear a mountain or molehill? How to play the tragic monarch and ‘stupid old fart’

Paul Scofield, Ian McKellen and Glenda Jackson have all redefined Shakespeare’s unpredictable ruler – a role in which actors usually succeed

The Guardian - UK

Appreciation: Glenda Jackson, formidable English talent who helped change contemporary acting’s tone

There was never anything shrinking about the confidence Glenda Jackson projected on stage and screen in her heyday. Afflicted with an uncommon common sense, her characters were defined by their sharp intelligence, independence and, yes, irritability. They were nobody’s fool, even when they wound up with the short end of…

Los Angeles Times

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NHS Scotland | Peter Brook | Suprematists

The Guardian - UK

‘The greatest director the world has ever seen’ – actors salute Peter Brook

Adrian Lester stripped back Hamlet with him, Janet Suzman can still hear the audience gasp, Glenda Jackson dug deep for the director and for Frances de la Tour he was incomparable

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Peter Brook: Visionary theatre director who brought plays to life

From post-war wunderkind of the West End to avant-garde interpreter of other dramatists’ work, Brook spanned seven decades of experimental stagecraft in a quest to bring modernism into 20th-century theatre

The Independent UK

Peter Brook dead: Legendary theatre director dies aged 97

Legendary theatre director Peter Brook has died at the age of 97.

Evening Standard

Peter Brook obituary

Revered and influential theatre director who took drama out of the auditorium to stages and spaces all over the world

The Guardian - UK

Peter Brook: the great seeker of British theatre

The esteemed British director, who has died aged 97, inspired each new generation of theatre creatives to be more daring and experimental

The Guardian - UK

Peter Brook, influential theatre visionary, dies aged 97

The director’s landmark achievements include a nine-hour Mahabharata, putting Shakespeare on trapezes and directing Olivier, Gielgud and Scofield at the RSC

The Guardian - UK

Changing South: Our mysterious national bird

The kiwi is our national icon but few of us have ever seen one. That hasn’t stopped us being fascinated by this unique and mysterious bird and investing in its survival.

Newsroom.co.nz

How Loch Ness Monster should really look after mystery of beast debunked

A study of a fossilised elasmosaurus – a type of plesiosaur – has turned the idea of what we think is Nessie upside down.

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Loch Ness Monster sightings get simple detail wrong as probe sheds new light on mystery

Nessie is often depicted looking like a plesiosaur with a long neck and a head emerging from the water but a recent study of a fossilised elasmosaurus - which is a type of plesiosaur - has revealed they didn't hold their heads that way

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