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In praise of the CD…
With sales unexpectedly increasing, writer
@tomlamont
reflects on a much maligned format that kickstarted his musical coming of age
+
@Bashy
,
@KDandL
&
@metronomy
on what CDs mean to them
Russell T Davies: ‘I looked away for years. Finally, I have put Aids at the centre of a drama’
The screenwriter recalls his life during the 1980s Aids crisis, and how it inspired his new Channel 4 TV series It’s a Sin
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🔸 EXCLUSIVE
@pevchikh
, right-hand woman to imprisoned Putin critic
@navalny
, talks to
@carolecadwalla
🔸 Our critics' picks for the Oscars
🔸 How the science of Covid vaccines may aid the fight against cancer
Plus
@WainBright
, director Simon Stone & more
Rachel Clarke: ‘'The most soul-destroying aspect of this second wave is to a very large extent this could have been prevented.’
@LisaOKelly
interviews
@doctor_oxford
EXCLUSIVE
‘We do our work because we are angry’: Maria Pevchikh, right-hand woman to imprisoned Putin critic Alexei Navalny’s colleague talks to
@carolecadwalla
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Award-winning actors Jodie Comer and
@StephenGraham73
on friendship and their hard-hitting new care home drama set at the start of the pandemic
Interview by
@carmitstead
Photos by Pål Hansen
Staged's Anna Lundberg and Georgia Tennant: 'Scenes with all four of us usually involved alcohol'
On the eve of the second series of the BBC's hit lockdown sitcom,
@michaelhogan
talks to Michael Sheen and David Tennant's scene-stealing partners
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@TimAdamsWrites
talks to the hosts of Parkinson's podcast Movers & Shakers
@moversand6
- including Jeremy Paxman, Gillian
@LaceySolymar
and Rory Cellan-Jones - about challenging attitudes to the condition
📸
@AOlmosPhotos
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Meet Julie K Brown (
@jkbjournalist
), the Miami Herald reporter who brought down billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
Interview by Andrew Anthony
Cherry Valentine remembered by
@biminibabes
The drag queen and star of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK recalls the performer’s bravery in challenging preconceptions
This Sunday's cover:
@beastieboys
talk to
@msmirandasawyer
- about their long awaited memoir: ‘being in a band… it’s an absurd comedy’
Photo: Mike McGregor
‘Being trans is not something you put on and take off. It’s part of who you are’
@RowanMoore
and his son
@felixmooreactor
discuss the main challenges facing trans people today. 📸 Gabby Laurent
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Poet
@lemnsissay
, with the help of London’s
@FoundlingMuseum
, has brought together 59 athletes, artists, CEOs and others who, like him, spent part of their childhoods in care
Introduction by
@carmitstead
Interviews by
@killianfox0
“Lovers Rock is my musical, but it’s a different kind of musical"
Steve McQueen opens up about his musical influences - and discusses the tracks that are the very essence of his film
#loversrock
#smallaxe
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@TracyBrabin
on becoming mayor for West Yorkshire, her friendship with Jo Cox, and how she hopes to "bring back northern pride"
Interview by
@TimAdamsWrites
Photos by
@garycaltonphoto
Obituaries special: those we lost in 2021
‘She was too young. You can’t help but think of all the amazing roles she would have had’: Helen McCrory remembered by Cillian Murphy
‘Who am I kidding? I’m a showboat!’
@florencemachine
talks to Kate Mossman about the ‘monster of performance’, the conflict between career and motherhood, and sounding like ‘Nick Cave at the club’
📸 Lillie Eiger
Feast your eyes, feed your soul.
It’s day one of our January art diet - a daily work selected by
@LauraCummingArt
The Skating Minister by Sir Henry Raeburn (c1795)
“…poised on one red-ribboned skate, the ice incised with his elegant arabesques…”
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'If it's not a risk then it's nothing': Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux on her unapologetic career
Interview by
@aliceblackhurst
📸
@ed_alcock
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@florencemachine
talks about the irresistible ‘monster of performance’, the conflict between career and motherhood, and sounding like ‘Nick Cave at the club’
✍️ Kate Mossman
📸 Lillie Eiger
The Observer's obituaries of 2020:
- Diana Rigg remembered by
@Markgatiss
- Sean Connery remembered by Jackie Stewart
- Little Richard remembered by
@Bootsy_Collins
- Chadwick Boseman remembered by
@iamRuthECarter
+ Juliette Gréco, Lynn Shelton, Diego Maradona, RBG & more
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‘I love the perversity of it’: Bad Seed
@warrenellis13
on how Nina Simone’s gum inspired a book
Interview by Sean O’Hagan
📸
@cyrilzed