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<p>Rebecca Hall as Claire, a schoolteacher who starts to hear the Hum in BBC drama ‘The Listeners’</p>

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This place on our phones knows all our thoughts and secrets

<p>Sarah Greene was six years old when she decided she wanted to act after seeing a production of ‘Cinderella’ </p>

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Sarah Greene: ‘Male-heavy film sets are not as safe as Bad Sisters’

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Eileen Walsh on Small Things Like These and religious control

<p>‘When I hear actors talking about range, it’s not something I necessarily relate to’</p>

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<p>Adeel Akhtar: ‘I hoped Four Lions was provocative in the right way’ </p>

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Adeel Akhtar: ‘People helped clear up after the riots – that’s what it means to be British’

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My Old Ass star Maisy Stella: ‘Justin Bieber had to approve my scene’

<p>Aniston and Donovan as Rachel and Joshua in ‘Friends’ </p>

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Tate Donovan on starring in Friends after split from Jennifer Aniston

<p>‘We all immediately erupted into laughter at the end of every take’ </p>

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Friends’ Aisha Tyler: ‘Matthew Perry gave me a moment of generosity’

<p>Ashley and Gordon, played by Dyer and Brammall, bond over a scruffy pup </p>

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Meet the real couple behind Colin from Accounts

<p>Goldberg as Chandler’s roommate who refused to leave</p>

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Adam Goldberg on Friends, Matthew Perry and playing Eddie

<p>The then 20-year-old was subject to intense scrutiny from the British press upon her return from a horrible, life-threatening ordeal </p>

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Inside the Chloe Ayling kidnapping story: why did no one believe her?

<p>Clockwise from top left: ‘Spent’, ‘Big Boys’, ‘Mr Bates vs The Post Office’, ‘Mr and Mrs Smith'</p>

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The best TV of 2024 so far, from Mr Bates to Big Boys

<p>Dublin sensation CMAT at Latitude 2024</p>

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CMAT and Future Islands bring the electricity at sun-drenched Latitude

<p>In the thriller ‘Severance’, employees’ memories of their work lives and personal lives are surgically divided</p>

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Are you an office chameleon? How having a ‘work self’ became essential

<p>Cyclists on the Superhighway in London </p>

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I bike to work and I’m sick of reckless cyclists ruining it for us all

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I watched my first horror film aged 12 and haven’t been the same since

<p>‘God wanted’ their show to happen, according to one half of the pair </p>

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Mr Bigstuff’s Danny Dyer and Ryan Sampson: ‘I don’t claim to be hard’

<p>‘I spent money like it was on fire’ </p>

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Spent’s Michelle de Swarte: How I went from modelling to homelessness

<p>‘Playing Richie allows me to live in a way that’s outside of polite society’ </p>

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The Bear’s Ebon Moss-Bachrach: ‘I subscribe to the Paul Rudd night-time moisturiser regime’

<p>‘We’re still living in Thatcher’s country’ </p>

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Playwright James Graham: ‘We’re still living in Thatcher’s country’

<p>When we listen to music, more than one part of the brain lights up</p>

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The incredible science explaining how our brains remember song lyrics

<p>‘Doing this show was weirdly healing’ </p>

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Geek Girl’s Emily Carey: ‘Teenage girls are very insecure people’

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<p>‘As a Black person in a white space, I’m breaking the mould’ </p>

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<p>‘Scoop’ gives a new perspective on one of the most famous interviews of the century</p>

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What’s fact and what’s fiction in Netflix’s Prince Andrew film Scoop?

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Giovanni Pernice: The Strictly star at the heart of a storm

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Domhnall Gleeson: ‘The notion of being attractive was alien to me’

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The Way’s Sophie Melville: ‘My idea of acting was people in frocks’

<p>When 55 Oscars went missing in 2000, a huge hunt began, with the FBI called in and a 24-hour tip line launched</p>

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In 2000, 55 Oscars vanished from an LA dock. What happened next?

<p>The government has announced plans to ban disposable vapes by the end of 2025 </p>

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<p>‘Traitors’ finalist Mollie: ‘Harry played a blinder’ </p>

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Traitors star Mollie: ‘People have this fantasy that I fancy Harry’

<p>Liam, who was conceived by sperm donor, with his mother Julie in Jersey</p>

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Born from the Same Stranger is the teariest show on TV

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<p>A scene from the finale of ‘Mr Bates vs the Post Office’ </p>

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The creators of the Post Office TV drama on its colossal impact

<p>Toby Jones as ‘unassuming bloke’ and ‘British hero’ Alan Bates</p>

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Inside the extraordinary ITV drama Mr Bates vs the Post Office

<p>Sowing seeds: so many grassroots teams – like Ellie’s – have been inspired by the Lionesses</p>

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Earps, Russo and... me: my journey into grassroots women’s football

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Murder Is Easy’s David Jonsson: ‘I’m no fan of colour-blind casting’

<p>Barry Keoghan’s Oliver Quick lounges on the grass in ‘Saltburn’ </p>

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Steve Coogan and The Reckoning creators on the BBC Jimmy Savile drama

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Hannah Walters on Boiling Point and her marriage to Stephen Graham

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Peep Show’s creators and stars on making the cult hit, 20 years on

<p>Jill Dando at the NTAs in 1998, the year before her death</p>

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Inside the making of Netflix’s Who Killed Jill Dando?

<p>Bobby Brazier is the youngest contestant on ‘Strictly’ this year</p>

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Bobby Brazier on Strictly, EastEnders and his mum Jade Goody

<p>‘Everybody tries to do the Derry accent’ </p>

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Jamie-Lee O’Donnell on being skint, Derry Girls, and prison show Screw

<p>Going her own way: Vasan says that ‘like any immigrant parents’, hers were ‘a little bit concerned’ about her choice to go into acting </p>

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Anjana Vasan: ‘I’ve been underestimated. I’m small, brown and foreign’

<p>The cast of ‘Friends’ watching traditional broadcast TV </p>

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<p>Daniel Rigby’s anti-police play will leave audiences entertained and enraged </p>

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Daniel Rigby: ‘Victoria Wood and I would watch MasterChef together’

<p>‘Anyone who says they love you but clips your wings can’t be telling the truth’</p>

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Sophie Ellis-Bextor: ‘I thought I was already a has-been at 20’

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Bel Powley: ‘That Diary of a Teenage Girl scene still sticks out’

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<p>‘Belfast has a complex history, but there’s hope’</p>

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Chris O’Dowd on the IT Crowd fallout, midlife crises and his new show

<p>‘Blackout Songs’ stars Humphries as a sweary, wise-cracking hot mess</p>

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Rebecca Humphries: ‘My idea of love has changed shape entirely’

<p>‘The Succession cast helped me through some really huge transitions in my life’ </p>

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Justine Lupe: ‘I sobbed when I found out Succession was ending’

<p>Jon Pointing in his local cafe in Lewisham</p>

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Big Boys star Jon Pointing: ‘Grief is a strange thing to bond over’

<p>Careless whispers: George Michael was subjet to relentless rumour and press intrusion </p>

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George Michael: Outed is astonishing but frustratingly incomplete

<p>‘It’s a very British thing to live for your holiday’ </p>

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The Golden Dregs’ Ben Woods on Truro, his new album and gentrification

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<p>McCormack’s ascent in the industry was given a rocket boost when he was hand-picked by double Oscar winner Emma Thompson</p>

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Daryl McCormack: ‘Before we knew it, the three of us were naked’

<p>‘There was a risk that if I’d just done “Grantchester” I’d have been known as the well-spoken floppy-haired guy’ </p>

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James Norton on A Little Life, Happy Valley, bullying and trauma

<p>‘In my job I get to ask questions that I think our audience wants to ask. And I will keep asking those questions’ </p>

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Naga Munchetty: ‘I don’t need more than five hours’ sleep on the trot’

<p>‘Method acting sometimes gets a branding that’s unhelpful’ </p>

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Harry Melling on Harry Potter fame and his new film The Pale Blue Eye

<p>‘You can’t flinch on telling a story about slavery. There’s no PG-13 in that’</p>

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Emancipation director Antoine Fuqua on his slavery film and Will Smith

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20 TV shows to look out for in 2023, from The Idol to Kaleidoscope

<p>Jennifer Coolidge’s millionaire Tanya is in trouble</p>

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Who snuffed it? The White Lotus finale theories

<p>Art imitates life as Kate Winslet and Mia Threapleton play a mother and daughter in ‘I Am Ruth’</p>

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Kate Winslet on making devastating drama I Am Ruth with her daughter

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Haley Lu Richardson on White Lotus, narcissism and her precious pet

<p>‘I’ve never been the face of something. It’s a lot of pressure’ </p>

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Lewis Gribben: ‘I know what it’s like to be an outsider’

<p>Nick Cave reaches out to the crowd at Øya 2022</p>

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The magic of Øya, the world’s greenest music festival

<p>‘I think we deserved a show that wasn’t about exploring Blackness’</p>

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Quinta Brunson: ‘Fans took to Abbott because it’s a true comedy’

<p>Tom Stourton plays Pete, a 31-year-old really struggling to enjoy his birthday weekend, in ‘All My Friends Hate Me’ </p>

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All My Friends Hate Me – a comedy horror that would terrify Hugh Grant

Etonians Tom Stourton and Tom Palmer tell Ellie Harrison why they’ve made an ‘evil Richard Curtis’ movie, where charming, floppy-haired English people bumble around, shooting pheasants and taking drugs

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All My Friends Hate Me – a comedy horror that would terrify Hugh Grant

Etonians Tom Stourton and Tom Palmer tell Ellie Harrison why they’ve made an ‘evil Richard Curtis’ movie, where charming, floppy-haired English people bumble around, shooting pheasants and taking drugs

<p>Suzie Miller with Prima Facie’s star Jodie Comer</p>

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Playwright Suzie Miller on her sexual assault play Prima Facie

<p>‘School can be a wonderful place but it can also be a not so wonderful place if you don’t happen to fit in properly’ </p>

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Joe Locke: ‘A lot of queer teens feel like they don’t deserve love’

<p>‘It concerns me that the imaginative aspect of acting seems to be underestimated at the moment’</p>

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Monica Dolan: ‘I’m not fond of the term character actor’

<p>‘People aren’t open about the intimate, gnarly details of their relationships’ </p>

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Will Sharpe: ‘One time Jennifer Coolidge wore a Russian hat at dinner’

<p>‘Having kids was a career knockback – it shouldn’t be’</p>

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Selin Hizli: ‘Having kids was a career knockback – it shouldn’t be’

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Erin Doherty: I had to fight to show I can do more than Princess Anne

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From Derry Girls to Catastrophe: how the Irish sitcom took over telly

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From Derry Girls to Catastrophe: how the Irish sitcom took over telly

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