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Herbert Von Karajan album review: Some of his most enjoyable recordings here are of lighter stuff

Herbert von Karajan, who died in 1989, shifted 200 million albums - an astonishing figure for a classical musician.




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From Jennifer Saunders in Blithe Spirit to McDonald & Dodds and British Surrealism, 7 Events

A London transfer for Richard Eyre's entertaining production of the Noël Coward comedy starring a splendid Jennifer Saunders.




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DEBORAH ROSS: A new domestic thriller... that's just like five we've seen already

The latest domestic thriller is Flesh And Blood , and already it's getting mixed up in my head with Liar, Cheat, Trust Me, Trauma, Gold Digger , etc. Their formats are so similar




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Bryan Ferry review: He's so relaxed, he almost takes off his jacket

Like Bob Dylan, whose songs he sings so well, Bryan Ferry has gone from being a bit of a recluse to an unstoppable old trouper. At 74, he is on the road for the eighth year in a row.




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A tale of a wartime evacuee turned conjuror. A wizard twist at the end. But where's the magic?

Here We Are opens in a theatre in Brighton, 1959. A snazzy tap-dancing showbiz personality called Jack Robinson is waiting in the wings. The world of entertainment is on the cusp of change




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Going Dark by Julia Ebner review: Fails to bring her time undercover with extremists to life

By day, Julia Ebner worked for the London-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue, monitoring the online behaviour of extremist groups from Islamic jihadists to Neo-Nazis.




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Louise Erdrich, James Scudamore and Louise Hare: This week's best new fiction 

It's 1953 and Thomas Wazhushk leaves Turtle Mountain Reservation and travels to Washington, striving to defeat legislation that would abolish native tribes and relocate Native Americans.




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Aubrey Beardsley review: It's best enjoyed in a comfortable chair with the catalogue

Amazingly, this is the first exhibition of Aubrey Beardsley's work at the Tate since 1923.




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Shoe Lady review: Katherine Parkinson delivers a vivid and enjoyable performance

What is it with women and shoes?




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From Julian Fellowes' The English Game to Mrs Fletcher and Spooks: The best on demand TV this week

Not content with writing terrestrial TV's big show of the week with Belgravia, Julian Fellowes is also behind this six-part drama series charting the origins of football.




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From Jo Brand on Table Manners to the eight-part drama Blackout: This week's top podcasts

Every week on this big-hearted podcast, singer Jessie Ware and her mum Lennie invite a celebrity guest to Ware's home in east London to chew the fat and tuck into a three-course meal.




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No boring theory or intellectual snobbery. Just poems awash with well-loved lines

John Carey is a welcoming host, full of enthusiasm, and the opposite of crusty. He can throw sparkling light on a poet's method in a handful of words




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DEBORAH ROSS: Oh, Julian. It's the same old, lame old bonnety nonsense

This week not one but two new series from Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford, and you do wonder if he can be stopped




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From Sorry We Missed You to The Palm Beach Story: The best DVDs to enjoy at home

Just when you thought life couldn't get any worse, along comes the new Ken Loach movie. Sorry We Missed You (15, ★★★) tells of Ricky (Kris Hitchen), a labourer with plans to set up on his own.




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The diagnosis that turned Blue Peter star Janet's world upside down

Janet Ellis did what many people dream of doing: while on holiday she stopped to have a 'what if' browse in an estate agent's window and came home having bought a cottage




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Lucy Atkins, Matthew Hall and Joe Thomas: Thrillers of the week 

Magpie Lane is where an Oxford college master lives in a grand house with his pregnant second wife, his disturbed daughter from his first marriage and a nanny, who is rather more than she seems.




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JACI STEPHEN: The Nest is a compelling show with a tight script

I was all set to move to Loch Long, where The Nest is filmed, but unless I could live in Cape Cove, home to Dan (Martin Compston) and Emily (Sophie Rundle), I'll stay put




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From Flesh And Blood to new Ride Upon The Storm and Flo & Joan: The best on demand TV this week

Broadcast across four nights a few weeks ago, this domestic drama can now be binge-watched in its entirety. An all-star cast bring to life an intriguing story involving love and jealousy.




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Craig Brown loves 93-year-old Jan Morris's beguilingly dotty diary

Now aged 93 ('well past my sell-by date'), Jan Morris has taken to keeping a diary, or something like a diary, but more public, as it is clearly written for publication




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DEBORAH ROSS: Quick work, Jamie. But how did you find a delivery slot?

Jamie Oliver's Keep Cooking And Carry On is a concept that was turned around in record time, specifically for the Covid-19 era, but even so, we're all watching in a new way. Aren't we?




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From Jodie Comer in Killing Eve to Michael Palin In North Korea: The best on demand TV this week

International hitwoman Villanelle and MI6 operative Eve did not exactly part on the best of terms at the end of last series, and things are not going particularly well at the start of Series Three.




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On The Road by James Naughtie review: A sublime tapestry of the USA in all its glory and complexity

As a young student with journalistic ambitions, the broadcaster and former Radio 4 Today programme presenter James Naughtie spent the summer of 1970 in America.




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Benjamin Grosvenor album review: His playing is entirely devoid of shallow point-scoring

Sometimes hype is just that; hype. But occasionally it's true.




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DEBORAH ROSS: The book? Irritating. The TV drama? Just gorgeous

Normal People is terrific, absolutely gorgeous, up there with the best TV dramas of recent years, like Patrick Melrose and My Brilliant Friend, but possibly not Belgravia




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Our critic has always loved The Kinks. But he despairs at this joyless history

Doyle follows an ever-increasing line of academics who attempt to sanctify pop music with stuffiness. In so doing, they extinguish its fire in a great whoosh of homogenous jargon




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Valkyrie review: Johanna Fridriksdottir makes the Vikings feel far closer to us than ever before

When we think of Vikings, we immediately conjure up a vision of hairy men in pointy helmets with nothing but pillage and slaughter on their mind. But what about the women?




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Joan As Police Woman album review: A light in the middle of the tunnel

Out of this strange suspended spring, patterns are emerging. If an album isn't postponed, it's quite likely to be special. Music, like the sky on a sunny day, seems brighter, sharper, deeper.




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Kylie Jenner accused her of trying to look like Beyoncé

It's her latest selection of snaps that's causing a stir on social media as her followers - and fans of Beyoncé - have noticed how strikingly similar the reality star looks to Beyonce.




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Lori Loughlin's daughter Olivia Jade parties with Kendall and Kylie in LA

Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli's daughter Olivia Jade looked carefree as she partied the night away with her famous Hollywood friends on Thursday night.




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Kylie Jenner pose in her lavish restroom with 'mini me' daughter Storm in matching designer outfits

Kylie Jenner took to Instagram on Friday afternoon to share a slew of snaoshots of herself and daughter Stormi, 2, rocking the exact same Marine Serre outfit. Jenner labeled Stormi her 'mini.'




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Kylie Jenner shows some leg as she shares snaps with Kendall from inside birthday bash 

Kylie, 22, posted a variety of snaps from the party including one where she's posing with sister Kendall and flashing her leg in her tasseled two-piece dress bandana-print dress.




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Kylie Jenner starts her 'good morning' off right by helping herself to a margarita at 9:43 am

It's certainly the weekend when alcohol is made available before noon, and this young mother and social media superstar is taking full advantage.




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Kylie Jenner shares tribute to her daughter Stormi Webster, 2, in honor of International Women's Day

The 22-year-old 'self-made billionaire' posted several snaps of her tiny toddler modeling outside their $12M eight-bedroom Hidden Hills mansion




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Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott are 'together romantically' and waiting to 'title' their relationship

The 22-year-old billionaire isn't quite ready to 'put a title on their relationship,' but the couple have been spending a lot of time together and don't see other people, according to TMZ sources.




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Kylie Jenner shows off her sister Kim Kardashian's Skims robe before being treated to In N Out

Kylie Jenner closed out International Women's Day by modeling her sister Kim Kardashian's Skims robe while hitting In N Out.




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Kylie Jenner shows off her long legs in tight denim mini dress

Kylie's trip to her Kylie Cosmetics office featured a glamorous photoshoot in different locations around the corporate building in Oxnard, California.




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Kylie Jenner gets caught using beloved drugstore sunscreen brand instead of her $32 luxury SPF

Kylie Jenner's swanky Kylie Skin brand sells a $32 sunscreen oil. But the cosmetics CEO traded her spendy SPF for a more wallet-friendly drugstore option during her recent vacation to Palm Springs.




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Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner wear bikinis in Palm Springs

She spent the weekend soaking up the sun with her siblings and their families in Palm Springs.




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Kendall Jenner unbuttons her baggy plaid jacket after making a coffee run in West Hollywood

Kendall Jenner bundled up on a breezy day in West Hollywood with an oversize plaid coat and black sweatpants. She stopped by Alfred Coffee for a quick caffeine fix.




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Kylie Jenner removes waist-length hair extensions and dyes her roots... before eating nachos

It's been less than a month since the 22-year-old reality star originally lightened her short raven bob




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Kylie Jenner admires her figure in full length mirror as she models tight little black dress

'A vision' the 22-year-old captioned the snap of her posing up a storm in a room with floor to ceiling mirrors.




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Kylie Jenner appears to flout the law by filming Instagram Story while driving in Los Angeles rain 

Kylie Jenner appeared to flout the law on Tuesday, by filming while at the wheel of her moving vehicle.




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PIC EXC: Kylie Jenner's BFF Stassie launches first ever footwear edit with EGO with sizzling snaps

Anastasia Karanikolaou AKA Stassie, 22, looked sensational in a variety of figure-flaunting ensembles from top designers as she posed for the eye-catching photos for her new EGO campaign




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Kylie Jenner suits up in stripes and a Prada bucket hat for a stop at Kylie Cosmetics headquarters

Kylie Jenner proved to be a hands-on boss on Thursday, when she shared snapshots from her most recent visit to the Kylie Cosmetics headquarters in Oxnard. 'HQ Days,' she captioned.




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Jordyn Woods tries on Cartier diamonds as she remains in Abu Dhabi

She's stuck in Abu Dhabi and unable to get a flight back into the United States due to the coronavirus outbreak. And Jordyn Woods proved she was taking full advantage of her extended stay.




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Kylie Jenner urges her fellow millennials to 'self quarantine'

Kylie Jenner, 22, urged her fans to 'self quarantine' adding that we all need to pull together to not 'endanger' ourselves or others. She pointed out we have to be careful after over 100 deaths in the US.




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Kylie Jenner says she didn't leave house for months when pregnant as she encourages self-isolation

On Wednesday, the reality star, 22, shared with her Instagram followers that she got used to staying home all the time while expecting her daughter Stormi.




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Surgeon General appeals to Kylie Jenner to tell her millennial followers to stay at home

In an appearance on Good Morning America, Surgeon General Jerome Adams said the country needed social media influencers like Jenner to use their platforms to get through to young people.




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Kylie Jenner tells her followers to stay home and do PUZZLES during the coronavirus pandemic

On Thursday afternoon, Jenner, 22, shared a video to her Instagram Stories, saying that she had heard Surgeon General Jerome Adams' appeal.




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Kylie Jenner's friend Anastasia 'Stassie Baby' Karanikolaou poses in lingerie

Kylie Jenner urged her 166M followers to stay home after the Surgeon General of the US requested she do so. And now her friend 'Stassie Baby' is also taking to social media.