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Hay Festival 2024: our guide to this year’s highlights

Judi Dench talking Shakespeare, conversations with bestsellers Marian Keyes and David Nicholls, and a deep dive into the day’s news with Independent journalists and leading thinkers – this year’s Hay Festival programme is fit to burst with unmissable events. Jessie Thompson picks the highlights

The Independent UK

Hay Festival 2024: our guide to the top events at this year's 'Woodstock of the mind'

With a programme rammed-full of performances, panels and talks, we pick some of this year’s best events

Evening Standard

Sunderland may not be like London, Cynthia Erivo, but neither is it like the Britain of old

Challenging racism wherever it expresses itself is not the same as disparaging a place because it is too white

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TV tonight: a remarkable story about abducted Ukrainian children

A staggering account of the families who travelled to Russia to find their loved ones. Plus: the return of MasterChef: The Professionals. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Plan to 'retain and explain' controversial statues is flawed – why we should always question our monuments

The long-awaited government guidance on the official “retain and explain” policy suggests the UK’s contested statues and monuments be retained as long as additional context is provided. But given their controversial past, how do we go about that?

The Conversation

TV tonight: Jamie Oliver returns with five essential ‘hero’ ingredients

The inventive chef offers a series of simple hacks that actually work. Plus, Panorama’s Challenging Putin – Moscow and the Mutiny. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: Boiling Point; Partygate; Beckham; Bargain – review

The film-spinoff restaurant drama is all about people not plates. Elsewhere, a Partygate docudrama is painful viewing and David Beckham bares little

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OPINION - David Olusoga: levelling up rhetoric is nothing new – the rest of the UK has always resented London’s allure

One of Britain’s most pre-eminent historians on how the capital’s gravitational pull for talent and investment has been regarded as a weakness for the Union

Evening Standard

Union With David Olusoga review – finally! A history show that’s not deathly dull

Most history documentaries are so drearily simplistic they make you cross-eyed with boredom. Thank goodness then for this fascinating, first-rate effort about how our septic isle came to be

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: a fascinating dive into the creation of a unified Britain

David Olusoga takes us on a journey that begins in 1707 with the creation of a new nation. Plus, a grim dramatisation of the Yorkshire Ripper’s reign of terror. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Union on BBC Two review: a complex look at what it means - or not - to be British

Union won’t necessarily draw the type of viewers that do not already watch history programmes. But it is a fascinating look at the UK’s dark past

Evening Standard

‘We live in a complicated country’: David Olusoga on the UK’s contested union, then and now

The historian’s new TV series, Union, exposes the contradictions and conflicting identities that have beset the United Kingdom from its earliest alliances to our present divisions

The Guardian - UK

Too often learning 'British history' means learning 'English history' – but overburdened schoolteachers are not to blame

How much do you really know about the history of the United Kingdom? What passes for “British history” is, all too often, merely the history of England with bits of the histories of Scotland, Wales and Ireland tacked on when they affected events in England.

The Conversation

Top TV historian calls for UK schools to teach all four nations' histories

A TOP historian has called for schools in the UK to teach the history of all four nations.

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The Guardian - UK

UK schools should teach all four nations’ histories, says David Olusoga

Historian says ignorance and indifference between UK nations could pose biggest threat to future of union

The Guardian - UK

Our politicians are cowards on the environment

We cannot afford for both Conservatives and Labour to renege on international commitments to implement net zero

The Guardian - UK

David Harewood on Blackface review – a shocking, deeply moving piece of television

In a personal look at the shocking origins of minstrelsy, the actor speaks truth to power on the same channel that showed blackface in his living room when he was growing up

The Guardian - UK

Should we confront the toxic legacy of blackface … or just forget it?

Racist 19th-century minstrelsy survived into 1970s Britain. David Olusoga has developed a TV show on its long, shameful history but wonders if he should have

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Windrush at 75: books that shaped the black British experience

David Olusoga, Bernardine Evaristo and David Lammy are among the leading writers, artists, politicians and broadcasters who have chosen 75 books to mark the 75th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush

Bristol Post

FORWARDS 2023: David Olusoga and Munroe Bergdorf among speakers at festival this summer

The agenda-setting stage concept is also heading to Glastonbury this year

The Guardian - UK

National Trust working on policy on return of colonial loot, chair says

René Olivieri tells Hay festival the charity is in process of deciding what to do about stolen objects in its properties

The Guardian - UK

Meera Syal calls for more diversity in TV industry as she wins Bafta award

Star of Goodness Gracious Me thanked Bafta for ‘seeing us’ as she accepted lifetime achievement award

Bristol Post

BAFTAs 2023: Bristol's David Olusoga OBE awarded Special Award for outstanding contribution to TV

The award is one of the BAFTAs highest honours and recognises an outstanding contribution to film, games or television

The Independent UK

Diverse coronation represents new era in British history, guest says

For many the day showed how much Britain has changed in the years since the late Queen was crowned in 1953.

Bristol Post

David Olusoga to get Bafta Special Award for ‘outstanding’ TV contributions

He will receive the award at a ceremony in London later this month

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