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Between Two Worlds: The Secrets of the Shaman of Bad Dürrenberg
On a recent trip to Germany, Mike Stuchbery came across the remains of a woman who lived some 8,500 years ago – astonishing, not only for the impressive manner in which she was buried, but the secrets that her bones contained.
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PESSIMISM IS FOR LIGHTWEIGHTS: Celebrating Others
Salena Godden with an excerpt from the new book Others, published by Unbound, about her sister Jo-Ann who has Williams Syndrome. Others is published this week. This tremendous anthology celebrates how words can take us out of the selves we inhabit and show us the world as others see it. Fiction writers and poets make…
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Odeon of Death Review of the Week: Old Mr Corbyn’s Fudge Shop
The Odeon of Death takes a look at the week’s events through the medium of cinema.
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How Englishness was Created – A Culture, Not an Ethnicity
The Count of the Saxon Shore continues exploring the origins Englishness through the ‘game of thrones’ of seven kingdoms and the ‘Norway plus’ model of the time.
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‘THE BRINK’: Steve Bannon Doc is Scariest Movie of the Summer
Alison Klayman’s new documentary follows the right-wing media executive and one-time Trump confidante Steve Bannon on his mission to create a populist US and Europe.
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MOOD-BASED TRAVEL: Havana Ooh Na Na
In the latest in his series exploring how to experience travelling as a antidote to your mood, Kyle Taylor sets out the hotspots of Havana.
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Living with Attention Deficit Disorder
Mike Stuchbery on his recent ADD diagnosis and why this has provided the breakthrough he needed.
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Brexit and Empire: Nostalgia for a Nation that Never Was is Driving Britain over a Cliff
With the likely next Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, praising Britain today as the ‘Greatest Place on Earth’ all the unlearned lessons of Empire are coming back to haunt us.
