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Soundcheck: Musicians invading new genres

23.10.09
Pop can no longer contain Sufjan Stevens, whose latest album, The BQE, is a multi-format extravaganza. And now there is a fresh ambition among musicians... more

McQueen of the jungle prints and towering heels

07.10.09
God bless Alexander McQueen: he can always be relied upon to up the ante - with what must be the highest heels ever seen on a catwalk... more

Soap opera science in Creation

25.09.09
Darwin's life was eventful enough without the added clichés that Creation director Jon Amiel couldn't resist in the retelling of a fascinating story.... more

British movie heaven - the Brit flicks heading our way

18.09.09
John Lennon, Charles Darwin, John Keats and Heath Ledger are all coming soon in a bumper crop of homegrown releases... more

Banning heels is the height of stupidity

17.09.09
This week the TUC said it would like to see high heels, which it terms “sexist” and “inappropriate”, outlawed in the workplace... more

It’s in the genes: daughter of Wire star lands Darwin film role

11.09.09
The daughter of The Wire star Dominic West will get her own taste of stardom when she walks the red carpet for her film debut on Sunday... more

The Von Frisch Cabinet of Peculiarities failed to create a buzz

07.09.09
If ever there was an evening for which the phrase “curate’s egg” was appropriate it was The Von Frisch Cabinet of Peculiarities... more

Sea the world on a cheap cruise

20.08.09
Cruising, and all the trappings of sheer luxury that it offers, has never been more affordable. We look at the best deals around ... more

Museums and zoo take pole position for tourist awards

19.08.09
London Zoo, the National Maritime Museum and the Natural History Museum lead the way in the capital's top tourism awards... more

First sight of the Proms ... and not a flagwaver around

17.07.09
The vast space of an empty Royal Albert Hall fills with the stirring sounds of a symphony orchestra in full flight... more

Darwin's £78m cocoon breaks open

16.07.09
Natural History Museum unveils its £78million 'concrete cocoon' dedicated to Charles Darwin... more

Hot Tickets: London's going out guide

29.06.09
Inherit The Wind is coming to the Old Vic, visit Portobello Film Festival for free and book Into The Hoods at Southbank now.... more

BBC brings Symphony Orchestra to the masses with first look at the People's Prom

25.06.09
Members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra are playing at railway stations and hospitals, in museums and libraries across the city to show commuters what they can do... more

Spacey meets Darwin at Old Vic as clash over evolution hits the stage

05.06.09
Kevin Spacey will return to the Old Vic stage this autumn to star in Inherit The Wind, a drama inspired by a courtroom clash over the ideas of Charles Darwin... more

Revealed: Ruth Padel’s email that smeared her Nobel rival

26.05.09
Details of the email sent by Ruth Padel, who quit as Oxford Professor of Poetry after smearing her opponent, are revealed for first time... more

The surprise candidate and the household name still left in the race

12.05.09
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Darwin's ship journal to be auctioned at Sotheby's

29.04.09
A journal from Charles Darwin's ship the Beagle is to go under the hammer... more

There are no holds barred with poets in a prize fight

06.03.09
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Soil and toil with Darwin and Jamie

04.03.09
You wouldn’t think you could lose a hand trowel in a 20ft by 30ft back garden but I did on Saturday and it still hasn’t turned up. It’s a blow because not only is it my favourite tool but it’s got history... more

Darwin's world is poetry in motion

11.02.09
Tomorrow is the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Darwin, arguably one of our Greatest Britons, who transformed the way we see the world... more

Forget the icy winter ... warm up at Kew’s tropical extravaganza

05.02.09
The city may be in the grip of the worst winter weather for 18 years but there is a tropical oasis to which Londoners can escape... more

Darling, you’ve changed your sums so fast...

08.01.09
Alistair Darling says the Treasury will abandon its forecast that the economy will start growing again in the second half of 2009... more

Vodka hangover for Waterford Wedgewood

06.01.09
The demise of Waterford Wedgwood is a sorry tale. There is red ink everywhere, the Stoke pottery operation is pointing fingers at the Irish glassmaking side, while there's much brouhaha about moving the whole manufacturing process to Indonesia... more

What’s to love this year?

02.01.09
Some simple but satisfying things that will help you embrace 2009 (with a cheeky bit of optimism)... more

'Evolutionary' birds go on show

13.11.08
Two mockingbirds which prompted Charles Darwin's theory of evolution go on show for the first time at the biggest exhibition into his life... more

Darwin's Beagle sails again

11.11.08
The ship that carried Charles Darwin to the Galapagos Islands nearly 180 years ago, enabling him to make his breakthrough on the theory of evolution, is set to sail again... more

Big bug idea

02.09.08
The Natural History museum's £78 million new darwin Centre has a giant cocoon research and exhibition space, suspended behind a wall of glass ... more

Girl sought to play Darwin's daughter

14.08.08
A young girl is being sought for the chance of stardom in a new British film on the life of the naturalist Charles Darwin... more

A Curious Wellcome

10.09.07
Haphazard and lacking academic rigour, the medical curios of the revived Wellcome Collection display a wayward urge to amuse rather than inform, says Brian Sewell.... more

Put Kate and Kylie 'in museum'

17.05.07
Kate Moss, Kylie Minogue and the iPod should be preserved in museums as icons of our time, according to a new survey.... more

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