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How the Question Time panellists performed

23.10.09

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US asks Swiss to extradite Polanski

23.10.09

United States has formally asked Switzerland to extradite film director Roman Polanski, who fled sentencing in California on child sex charges in 1977... more

Excerpts from George Sodini's blog

05.08.09

Excerpts from George Sodini's blog:... more

Chris Moyles hits out at 'boring' BBC following Sachsgate scandal

14.07.09

Chris Moyles has hit out at BBC red tape and the lengths that the corporation goes to not to cause upset... more

Sporting Miscellanies

13.07.09

That legendary Michael Owen Brochure has already spawned its spoofs... more

Barack Obama is a ray of hope for Africa

10.07.09

For one writer of Ghanaian descent, Barack Obama’s visit to West Africa is hugely symbolic for the continent... more

Hollywood marketing man is donor in first male face swap

22.05.09

A Vietnam War veteran has become the first man in the world to have a face transplant... more

Gordon Brown visits Auschwitz

28.04.09

Gordon Brown was today visiting the former Nazi death camps at Auschwitz... more

Germans try to overturn US reprieve for Nazi camp guard

15.04.09

German prosecutors are pressing American authorities to extradite an accused Nazi concentration camp guard... more

Sea of stories in Forced Voyages

27.03.09

A survey of the paintings of Jewish artists who came to Britain after fleeing Nazi Germany tells of tragic journeys and rich inner lives in Forced Voyages.... more

Boss says: That is snow excuse to miss work

05.02.09

TIMES are tough at Merton council. It’s ordered council employees who weren’t able to make it into work because of the snow, to account for the time from their annual leave.... more

Moyles adds listeners in spite of Auschwitz gaffe

29.01.09

Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles has increased his listening figures despite controversial remarks about Auschwitz he made on his breakfast show... more

Jonathan Ross sneaks back to work at Beeb

22.01.09

Jonathan Ross slipped out the back of his north London home today as he returned to work for the first time since a three-month suspension.... more

BBC regrets Moyles jokes on Auschwitz

21.01.09

The BBC expressed regret over jokes by DJ Chris Moyles about Auschwitz concentration camp and gay singer Will Young... more

Holocaust chic or a true examination of good and evil?

18.12.08

As a controversial film starring Kate Winslet as a death camp guard opens in London in the new year, one cultural commentator considers the moral issues and ambiguities it raises... more

Winslet's a winner in The Reader

18.12.08

The Reader, Stephen Daldry's sensitive film of a controversial book about a former Auschwitz guard, gives Kate her best role in years.... more

My brave parents made the ultimate sacrifice

20.11.08

This Sunday Prince Charles will be at the 70th anniversary celebrations of the rescue of 10,000 children from Nazi Germany. Here one of them tells his extraordinary story ... more

Waltz with Bashir is landmark in animation

20.11.08

Waltz with Bashir, a remarkable creation by a former Israeli soldier, vividly captures the horror of the war he fought in.... more

Rich talent for Portait Prize

06.11.08

In the same gallery as some of the most expensive shoots in history are images by little-known photographers for the 15th Photographic Portrait Prize.... more

Don't forget Boy in the Striped Pyjamas book

17.09.08

If you want your children to learn more about the Holocaust, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas isn't going to help — but then that was never John Boyne’s intention.... more

'I love Anna Friel... I just won't marry her': David Thewlis' surprise confession

07.08.08

As David Thewlis plays his most haunting role, he makes a surprise confession about his relationship with Pushing Daisies star Anna Friel.... more

My five-year battle to exorcise the ghosts of Sarajevo

29.07.08

The recent arrest of Radovan Karadzic has brought back painful memories for former war correspondent Charlotte Eagar... more

7/7 was an MI5 plot, Holocaust denier claims in BBC film

10.06.08

The BBC paid expenses to a disgraced academic who has pestered families bereaved by the 7/7 bombs, claiming the attacks were an intelligence agency plot... more

Now Blues belong on the world stage after a night of raw drama

02.05.08

Whatever Moscow brings, Chelsea have written their name in gigantic capitals and the boldest of type into England's football history ... more

Special two seal Chelsea's destiny

01.05.08

Frank Lampard and Avram Grant put their troubles aside on a night of raw emotions to prove the real heroes for the successful Blues... more

A long, cool look at genocide

02.11.07

The Investigation achieves a chilling, contemporary resonance, providing a gruelling but unforgettable experience of genocide.... more

Confronting a genocide

23.10.07

Author and director Dorcy Rugamba tells Claire Allfree how he has used testimonies from Nazi war crimes trials to help a shattered Rwandan people make sense of their own genocide.... more

All hail Jesus, he's the new Bono

06.06.07

Abie Philbin Bowman's intermittently insightful in-character monologue Jesus: The Guantánamo Years is an intriguing assault on Bushism.... more

Brook heads Young Vic line-up

23.05.07

Five Beckett plays by veteran director Peter Brook and a Rwandan take on the Holocaust are two of the highlights in the Young Vic's new season.... more

Spinster gave away Ł5 million art collection

27.03.07

Staff at the Courtauld Institute of Art received a collection of more than 50 paintings valued at £5 million. Yet nobody at the gallery had heard of their owner, Dorothy Scharf.... more