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Thursday August 28, 2008
With a new film on the way and pop singer Duffy its No 1 fan, a dancehall sound of the Seventies is a hit once more
The First Lady of France's live debut on British TV could be overshadowed by Sir Paul McCartney’s new venture
Edinburgh-based composer and pianist Max Richter has recorded an album of original music for mobile phones
The star talks to Hugh Canning about his new tribute to British folk song, pleasing the Proms and those Ring no-shows
The BBC's abandonment of the single television play is a spineless betrayal of the playwright, the art and the public
Whether television can tell you anything genuinely new or not is a moot point - at its best, it can confirm suspicions you’d always held
Paddy Considine excels as zealots and madmen. But getting drunk with Uma Thurman was tougher, he tells Ed Potton
Once king of the primetime chat show, can Terry Wogan work the old magic hosting a quiz, asks Hugo Rifkind
Britain's most prolific major artist hopes to clear a mountainous backlog from his production line and pocket £65m
Making a pompom may appear frivolous but it touches people in a profound way. Craft connects us to our human need to create
His new show about religion and art focuses on 10 paintings. Here the broadcaster explains which ones made the final cut
An enlarged Polaroid of Tracey Emin in a state of undress has been stolen from the Edinburgh bar it was being exhibited in
The dancing, while certainly adroit, seems supplementary to the music, which, written by Blake and Burch, dovetail perfectly
Just 20 minutes into her festival set, her voice began to crack up and her lyrics were becoming difficult to decipher
David O'Doherty, a stand-up comedian from Ireland, won £8,000 and praise for 'utterly delightful' Fringe festival show
Szymanowski's music sucks you in, iridescent and mysterious, filled with the perfumes of east and west
How exiled European artists reacted to the energy and freedom of the US
The poetry and music of the Alexandria Quartet
Casual brutality and fairy-tale endings in postwar London
We do not yet fully understand the rainforest's glacial past – but we may soon be dealing with the legacy of the warmer future
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Author will not claim damages despite false allegations made against him in book serialised by The Mail on Sunday newspaper
The writer, 47, recalls the ‘glamorous’ tenement flat where she fell in love with Edinburgh and where, despite the cold and damp, she began her career
The Sunday Times review by Christopher Hart: a surprisingly engaging history of Scotland, Edinburgh's most celebrated former milkman
Barry Forshaw recounts the swift rise and early death of Steig Larsson, author of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo