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Home truths: literature’s enduring love affair with landlords

From Orwell’s ‘horribly observant’ Mrs Wisbeach to Andrea Levy’s benign Queenie – how writers portray landlords tells us much about about changing society through the ages

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Emily to Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Emma Mackey is excellent in a smart biopic of the Wuthering Heights author, and Emma Thompson and Lashana Lynch will have you toe-tapping non-stop

The Guardian - UK

The people who rejected or gave back their honours including Prince Philip, two Beatles, and Michael Sheen

Some big-name celebrities have turned down knighthoods and peerages for a number of reasons

Wales Online

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Are you Daddy Pig or Logan Roy? A Father’s Day celebration of dads

The annual event has been hijacked by online stores flogging merchandise, but there’s more to being a dad than beer and hot sauce

The Guardian - UK

Wes Anderson says Netflix was ‘perfect’ place to release forthcoming short as it’s ‘not a real movie’

‘Do you think Wes knows how much he just insulted Netflix?’ one person asked

The Independent UK

Nancy Mitford novel The Pursuit of Love to be reissued with new ‘trigger warning’

New edition of the 1945 book warns readers of ‘prejudices’ depicted within its pages

The Independent UK

Edinburgh getting free open air cinema showing classic films and new releases

Following immense popularity the first time around, Square Cinema's free open air cinema is set to return to St Andrew Square in Edinburgh at the end of this month.

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New Quentin Blake art trail is set to draw half-term visitors to WWT Washington

The wildlife centre has launched a trail featuring some never-before-seen drawings by the famous Roald Dahl artist

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The Enormous Crocodile among latest Roald Dahl books to be adapted for stage

Roald Dahl Story Company announces new shows, including a large-scale circus and a reading of The Magic Finger

The Guardian - UK

The 100 greatest children’s books of all time, according to the BBC

Philip Pullman, CS Lewis and Roald Dahl feature in top 10

The Independent UK

BBC names 100 greatest children’s books of all time

Philip Pullman, CS Lewis and Roald Dahl feature in top 10

The Independent UK

Wonka: An Updated Cast List For Timothée Chalamet's Charlie And The Chocolate Factory Prequel

Timothée Chalamet will star in Wonka as the titular candy maker, leading an impressive cast for the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory prequel.

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Mem Fox's book Guess What? reportedly included in controversial 'book ban' in Florida

Renowned children's author Mem Fox says a message from her literary agent that one of her books had been banned in the US state of Florida made her "howl with laughter".

ABC News

Tom Hanks slams the ‘woke’ trend of rewritting classic books for ‘modern sensitivities’

The Forrest Gump ctor said he will boycott the edited copies

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Ricky Gervais has 'worst 8 hours of his life' as he's struck by severe illness

Ricky Gervais has taken to Twitter to complain of the worst illness of his life, and in his classic style explicit style, sharing the details of his ordeal with his millions of followers

The Independent UK

‘Unproblematic people don’t age’ reflects the stupidest kind of beauty standard

No, Anne Hathaway doesn’t look eternally ageless because she’s ‘morally pure’, writes Eloise Hendy, and saying so is just more proof that – when it comes to ageing in the public eye – we still don’t know what we’re talking about

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: how to watch (or avoid) the coronation of King Charles III

Kirsty Young is on hosting duties for a full day of coverage. Plus: more than one mystery is solved in Magpie Murders. Here’s what to watch this evening

Wales Online

Review: I took my five-year-old to watch Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in Cardiff and she was blown away by a world of pure imagination

Roald Dahl's fantastical story has come home to it's authors birthplace

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Still: A Michael J Fox Movie to Matilda: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

The Back to the Future star is funny, engaging and incredibly candid about living with Parkinson’s. Plus the classic tale of the girl who moves things with her mind

The Independent UK

40 best books to read before you die, from Wolf Hall to Wuthering Heights

Losing yourself in a great novel is one of life’s joys. Here our critics Ceri Radford and Chris Harvey pick the books you need to read

The Guardian - US

Texas school district scraps James and the Giant Peach trips over cross-gender casting

Trips to see play at Houston’s Main Street Theater cancelled over ‘concerns raised about age-appropriateness of the performance’

The Independent UK

Tim Minchin says editing texts is a ‘slippery slope problem’ in wake of Roald Dahl debate

Musician composed the stage adaptation of ‘Matilda’, originally based on Roald Dahl’s children’s book

The Guardian - UK

Tim Minchin: ‘Politics affects my mental health … I feel gaslit’

He’s the anarchic comedian behind the musicals Matilda and Groundhog Day. He talks about dashed Hollywood hopes, the dangers of modernising Roald Dahl and feeling out of step with his progressive fanbase

The Guardian - UK

Tim Minchin says editing Roald Dahl’s books ‘a slippery slope’

Comedian behind Matilda musical says texts would need to be repeatedly updated to keep up with modern sensibilities

Wales Online

Jacob Rees Mogg 'destroyed' by Marina Purkiss in interview where 'threshold for bulls**t couldn't be lower'

'Do you believe your lies? You never say 'Do you know what, I told you everything would be ok and it's not'

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