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Documentary: 200 Years Of The National Gallery

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The National Gallery (November 8, 2024): The National GalleryEpisode 1 of ‘200 Years of the National Gallery’. Travel back through 200 extraordinary years of our history – from our origins in a private house in Pall Mall to our current home in bustling Trafalgar Square. ‘200 Years of Your National Gallery’ is a three-part documentary miniseries.

Stream for free exclusively on YouTube. Through the eyes of the staff, past and present, who care for the nation’s collection, and with rarely seen and newly digitised archive footage and images, we go exclusively behind-the-scenes to see the role the Gallery plays at the heart of cultural life of the UK.

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Current Affairs: Prospect Magazine – December 2024

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Prospect Magazine (October 30, 2024) – The latest issue features Francis Fukuyama sets out what is at stake if Donald Trump wins, an investigation reveals how much councils spend on temporary accommodation and Sarah Manavis examines why some women are drawn to misogyny

Make no mistake: Donald Trump is a demagogue

The Republican candidate has already damaged American democracy and the wider liberal order. Worse is to come by Francis Fukuyama\

‘You wouldn’t let a dog suffer like this’: should assisted dying be legal?

Temporary accommodation nation

Jack Shaw

The women who hate feminism

Sarah Manavis

The punch-up

Alona Ferber

The Glasgow doctor on the front line in Beirut

Imaan Irfan

My friendship with a robin works magic on my health

Sheila Hancock

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Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Nov. 1, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (October 30, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Scare Stories’ – On modern horror. Asked why he liked horror films, or terror films as he preferred to call them, Kingsley Amis wrote: “like Mark Twain on a dissimilar occasion, I have an answer to that: I don’t know”. He viewed horror as purely “harmless” entertainment. That explanation might satisfy teenage addicts, but moralists, psychologists and literary critics are inclined to examine the bloody entrails of the genre to divine deeper truths.

Dynamic, not doomed

Taking the British Revolution out of the Restoration’s shadow By Jonathan Fitzgibbons

Fiction for geeks and freaks

The decades before horror became respectable By Mark Storey

Married to amazement

How Mary Oliver ‘encourages us to believe’ By Rory Waterman

Green terror

An Australian vision of the eco-apocalypse By Tom Seymour Evans

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Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Oct. 18, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (October 16, 2024): The latest issue features ‘A world away from K-pop -The Nobel laureate Han Kang, Sylvia Plath’s final say; Alan Hollinghurst gets Brexit done; The dictotor’s treadmill; Keeping the Warburg weird…

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Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Oct. 11, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (October 9, 2024): The latest issue features ‘This English House’ – W.H. Auden’s changing view of home by Seamus Perry…

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Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Oct. 4, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (October 2, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Canon Fire’ – Emma Smith and Brian Vickers on authorship in the golden age of theatre…

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Current Affairs: Prospect Magazine – November 2024

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Prospect Magazine (September 25, 2024) – The latest issue features ‘A Year Of Darkness’ – Horror and trauma in the Middle East…

The humiliation of trying to survive

Looking back at 7th October and the start of the Gaza war, a Palestinian writer reflects on a year of horror and trauma

Gender and race won’t hold Kamala Harris back

Fragments: when reality falls apart

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Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Sept. 27, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (September 25, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Body and Soul’ – Noel Malcolm on Diamaid MacCulloch’s history of sex and Christianity; Jean Genet’s lost drama; Becoming Lucy Sante; Poor little kids and How the compass got its points…

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Arts/Books: Times Literary Supplement – Sept. 20, 2024

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Times Literary Supplement (September 18, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Autumn Fiction’ – Rachel Kushner, Olga Tokarczuk, László Krasznahorkai and Sally Rooney; Craig Brown on The Queen; A very Yorkshire horror; China’s Britain complex and The Looting of America…

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Lifestyles: Living On A Narrowboat In England

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DW Euromaxx (September 7, 2024): Paul and Anthony Smith-Storey sold their house to buy a narrowboat and travel the canals of North West England full-time.

Has radically changing their surroundings made them truly happier, and what can we learn from them? You’ll find out in our new series ‘Living Differently.’

CHAPTERS: 00:00 Intro 00:55 Inside Paul and Anthony’s narrowboat 02:36 How much does it cost them? 04:21 Tips for a lifestyle change

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