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BBC pulls Miriam Margoyles Dickens comment from radio: ‘It should have been challenged at the time’

The actor made the remark during a live recording of Radio 4’s Front Row

The Independent UK

10 unmissable day trips from London to see historic wonders — all less an hour by train

From Tudor era stately homes to the site where the Magna Carta, Londoners just need to hop on the train for a historic adventure says historian Alice Loxley

Evening Standard

Miriam Margolyes on her new Fringe show, Nicola Sturgeon, and Gaza

I SPEAK to Miriam Margolyes over Zoom the morning after England’s defeat to Spain in the final of the Euros.

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Oliver! review – divine yet danger-averse revival could be renamed Fagin!

Chichester Festival theatre New staging of classic has perfect singing, cute choreography by Matthew Bourne, but rather too little daring – and one show-stealing performance

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s put so many families in poverty’: people on the impact of the two-child benefit cap

As Labour backbenchers call for Keir Starmer to scrap the cap, families reveal their struggles as a result of the two-child limit

The Guardian - UK

The values of family in space (op-ed)

The frontier culture of space will enhance and revitalize the concept of family, even as it has seemed to fade in the societies that are launching this new era.

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Miriam Margolyes tells Queen’s festival Charles Dickens would have been ‘pro-Palestine’

Actor reflected on Jewish identity, antisemitism and Gaza during the talk

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What links Dolly Parton with Charles Dickens? The Saturday quiz

From Barbie to bestiarius, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

The Guardian - UK

Oscar Isaac To Portray Jesus Christ In Animated Family Film

Oscar Isaac and Forest Whitaker lead the star-studded voice cast in Mofac Animation's upcoming family film, The King of Kings, inspired by a Charles Dicken...

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Pets that inspired Charles Dickens lionised in London exhibition

Raven that terrorised writer’s children and later caught attention of Edgar Allan Poe among animals celebrated

The Guardian - UK

The original 'Harry Potter' book cover art is expected to break records at auction

Sotheby's June 26 auction of Thomas Taylor's watercolor illustration for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is estimated to sell for $400,000-$600,000.

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London Tide's Bella Maclean on making her National debut, Sex Education and starring in Jilly Cooper's Rivals

The actor on how her family has inspired her ‘feisty and zesty’ character in this stage adaptation of Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend

Evening Standard

How the great US writer James Baldwin still influences Londoners today... from Little Simz to Ian Wright

Ahead of a season of films related to one of the 20th century’s most influential writers and thinkers, the programme’s curator looks at Baldwin’s relationship with the capital

Evening Standard

CoSN & ASU-GSV: A Tale of Two Conferences

This year's CoSN and ASU-GSV conferences supported innovation in education, but in very different ways

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The Guardian - UK

London Tide review – Dickens and PJ Harvey team up for a melodrama as murky as the Thames

With its heavy mood and gnomic song lyrics, this updated reimagining of Our Mutual Friend is like a 19th-century noir

Evening Standard

London Tide at the National Theatre review: all tension washes away in this leaden Dickens retelling

PJ Harvey’s ceaselessly repetitive songs don’t make their case for being in the show

Evening Standard

OPINION - London has changed in so many ways since Dickens' time - but the appalling inequality remains

The celebrated author’s book Our Mutual Friend has been adapted for a new National Theatre show – and it’s a story that resonates strongly with the London we live in today

The Canberra Times

Harry Potter and the Gripes of the Curmudgeons

Are Harry Potter, Star Wars and other stories for children only?

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Dickens! Hendrix! Johnson! Inside London's most historic houses

Author Alice Loxton uncovers some of the capital’s historic gems — like the townhouse that was home to both Handel and Hendrix

Evening Standard

Move over modern British: How stodgy food got sexy

It’s time to reclassify the word for traditional British comfort food, says Joanna Taylor

The Guardian - UK

Chris Bryant: ‘I’m quite an old-fashioned gay, in a way’

The author and Labour MP on his book about the last men in Britain to be hanged for their sexuality, his misgivings about the Church of England and the novel he always goes back to

The Guardian - UK

Author Peter Ackroyd: ‘You eat a great deal of knowledge. You sick it up. And then you start again’

The great biographer and novelist, now 74, shows no sign of slowing. Now he’s produced a history of the English soul, and declares himself ‘eager to go on’

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on ending destitution: an essentials guarantee is needed

Editorial: The extent of poverty in the UK is shameful and so is the silence surrounding it. Gordon Brown’s challenge to ministers is timely

The Guardian - UK

‘The destruction was intense’: the photos which capture Gaza’s humanitarian crisis

In 2010, a trio of photographers travelled to Gaza to capture the lives of devastated families in the region following an Israeli incursion. With the territory mired in conflict again, the charity project is being revisited

Evening Standard

Best Charles Dickens books to get into one of Britain's greatest novelists

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