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There's now a science to writing great books

01.07.09
Judging the Samuel Johnson Prize began as an over-enthusiastic book club - each of us had 40 books to read in three months - and ended in personal transformation... more

Stately gastrodomes

12.06.09
What recession? say London's punchiest chefs. Are Michel Roux, the Galvin brothers and John Torode pushing their luck?... more

New Doctor Who assistant unveiled

29.05.09
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Ancient Rome's Spanish outpost

10.05.09
The Extremadura region is off the beaten track yet is full of conquistador riches and also home to Mérida, the best-preserved Roman city in Spain... more

Stalwart TV star Wendy Richard dies of cancer aged 65

26.02.09
Wendy Richard, the much-loved television actress who played matriarch Pauline Fowler in EastEnders for more than 20 years, has died... more

Don’t let the towers take over

10.02.09
A new art gallery conversion is a lesson in how to revitalise Spitalfields — the ugly block next door shows how not to.... more

Oh my gods!

11.04.08
Tate Britain’s exhibition of Neoclassical sculpture is both serious and scholarly. If only the works were displayed as their creators had intended, says Brian Sewell. ... more

Up Pompeii: Tate and Tennant head for ancient Rome as nine million viewers watch series opener

07.04.08
Doctor Who and exuberant sidekick Donna team up following their successful series opener - which attracted nine million viewers - to battle it out in ancient Rome next week. Newly released pictures show the Doctor and Donna squaring up to a series of outrageous baddies in notorious volcano hotspot Pompeii. This week's show will include cameos from Peter Capaldi - of satire The Thick of It - and Quadrophenia's Phil Davis. The series four opener on Saturday wiped the floor with the competition, attracting nine million viewers, 300,000 more than episode one of series three last year ... more

Coming to the outside of the Tate this summer

02.04.08
The work of six acclaimed street artists is to transform the outside of Tate Modern... more

How I survived force-nine gales, vermin and spaghetti hoops in prison, by Andy Kershaw

01.03.08
BBC DJ Andy Kershaw left jail on Friday after serving six weeks for breaching a restraining order relating to his ex-partner Juliette Banner, the mother of his two children. Here his sister and fellow DJ Liz Kershaw introduces his upbeat and frank prison diaries ... more

Pornography for the prude

12.10.07
It is daft to restrict the Barbican's new exhibition, Seduced, to over-18s, says Brian Sewell.... more

Barbican show is posing a most seductive question

10.10.07
The Barbican has insisted their Seduced exhibition, a new survey of 2,000 years of sex in art, is a most serious academic show.... more

Educated Waters proves pigs can fly

14.05.07
Roger Waters proves he has learned a thing or two about putting on a big show with an audio-visual extravaganza at Earls court.... more

The cheek of it!

11.12.06
The latest exhibition on at Somerset House's Hermitage Rooms titillates with its promise of sex and scholarship - but leaves the visitor wanting much more, says Brian Sewell.... more

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