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27/11/2020 10:46:27 PM

Clive Barker interview: ‘I woke up from a coma, and everything I owned was gone’ The former bad boy of British horror on the perverse origins of Hellraiser, prejudice in publishing, and his battle with real life demons

How bestselling YA novelist Alex Wheatle went from prison to an MBE

Audrey, review: a polished picture of stardust and suffering that leaves you itching for more

Lockdown is killing small arts venues – I see it on my street

Tristram Fane Saunders

Bill Bailey's Strictly Diary: ‘First Janet, now Joan – this show amazes me’

‘The events sector may not last the winter’: the O2 Arena on why re-opening isn’t enough Even a venue as large and significant as the O2 is being crushed by lockdown rules. The next month will be crucial, says the man who runs it

‘We weren’t even told to close in the war!’: can a vaccine save Britain’s amateur theatres? The am-dram world is often dismissed, but its worth millions to the British economy. How are its most devoted practitioners staying afloat?

‘By March, we’ll have lost 60 concerts’: the young orchestra fighting against lockdown ruin The Aurora Orchestra is a small British gem, renowned for the quality of its sound and experimentation. What are their plans for survival?

‘Theatres need timelines based on evidence – you can’t turn it on and off like a tap’ Eleanor Lloyd, new president of SOLT, on lockdown damage, theatres resilience and how no-one understands what freelancers are

Lockdown is killing small arts venues – I see it on my street The coronavirus lockdown, and constantly changing guidlines, have put small venues like the Bridge House Theatre in an impossible position

Tristram Fane Saunders

Ofcom is right – the BBC’s shameful ‘yoof’ obsession is repelling viewers with brains The Corporation ignores its critics who say it shuns its core viewers and makes virtue-signalling fluff but here is the proof

Johnny Depp was hopeless – thank goodness Mads Mikkelsen is here to save Fantastic Beasts Depp's Grindelwald was both boring and bizarre: think Bowie meets Hitler. Mikkelsen's skill and gravitas is the tonic the franchise needs

The arts need to start supporting the Festival of Brexit The Remain-supporting arts sector needs to get over itself. This festival will breathe new life into the bruised industry

Possessor, review: Cronenberg Jr serves up a sleek, eerie sci-fi thriller

Audrey, review: a polished picture of stardust and suffering that leaves you itching for more

Les Ombres, Une Nuit à Madrid review: take a trip to 18th-century Spain

Noelle, Disney+ review: Anna Kendrick’s cutesy window into a Christmas before Covid

Gary Barlow, Music Played by Humans, review: enough showstoppers to make Frank Sinatra turn green

Happiest Season, review: a doleful Kristen Stewart makes Christmas a vale of tears

‘Vulgar, crass, and loud’: why AC/DC were at their best when nobody liked them

‘He went through women like water’: Leonard Cohen, the unlikely lothario

‘An absolute ad-lib from the start’: the birth of Tom Petty’s masterpiece Wildflowers

Phil Lynott: how addiction destroyed Ireland’s forgotten rock genius

Can rock music not even muster a good feud any more?

Letters: Lockdown should not be the primary method to control coronavirus

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What’s on TV tonight: Saving Britain’s Pubs with Tom Kerridge, The Fall of Anne Boleyn, and more Your complete guide to the weeks television, films and sport, across terrestrial and digital platforms

Mike Bassett: England Manager – how Boris’s bungling and Martin Bashir made him relevant again

A visit from Michael Jackson and Macaulay Culkin’s difficult father: the hell of making Home Alone

How Hattie Jacques's frustrated sex life led to the greatest clinch in British cinema

‘Britain still has a repressive strain’: David Cronenberg on his ‘depraved’ classic, Crash

Whatever happened to Diana Dors, Swindon’s Marilyn Monroe?

What if Mick and Keith ran a shop? Phil Cornwell on John Sessions and the making of Stella Street

The Kerridge effect alone won’t save our pubs

Bill Bailey's Strictly Diary: ‘First Janet, now Joan – this show amazes me’

The best John Lewis Christmas adverts: Watch them all, from The Long Wait to Give a Little Love

ByTelegraph Reporters 26 Nov 2020, 5:28pm

Clive Barker interview: ‘I woke up from a coma, and everything I owned was gone’

The 30 best Christmas movies of all time From have yourself a merry little Christmas to yippee-ki-yay! we round up 30 of the silver screens festive crackers

ByTelegraph Reporters 26 Nov 2020, 5:25pm

Possessor, review: Cronenberg Jr serves up a sleek, eerie sci-fi thriller

Clive Barker interview: ‘I woke up from a coma, and everything I owned was gone’

Audrey, review: a polished picture of stardust and suffering that leaves you itching for more

‘Cancel culture is a form of neo-Stalinism’: the writer defending France from woke zealots David Doucet, a journalist and author, is chronicling the assault upon free speech in France and has experienced the nightmare himself

Sobbing over Jordan Peterson’s ideas? Publishing is full of cancel-happy children Reports of an internal meltdown at Penguin Random House suggest that some editors dont understand the value of free thought

The mysterious case of the library thieves: who stole Charles Darwin's priceless notebooks? Twenty years ago two priceless notebooks disappeared from Cambridge University Library. Now, the librarian wants answers

BySusannah Goldsbrough 24 Nov 2020, 2:56pm

Can I go to a museum? What the tier system means for art lovers

Alien artefact or sculptural homage – has the mystery of Utah’s monolith been solved?

The singing sharks of Hackney: a roguish architect versus a ‘humourless’ council

Bill Bailey's Strictly Diary: ‘First Janet, now Joan – this show amazes me’

‘Online gigs aren’t the same’: one comedian’s journey from stage to supermarket tills

‘To call arts freelancers “lazy” is dangerous’: the comedian packing Amazon boxes

The 100 best Christmas songs of all time

Are gigs cancelled? What the new tier system means for live music

Les Ombres, Une Nuit à Madrid review: take a trip to 18th-century Spain

Lockdown is killing small arts venues – I see it on my street

Can I go to the theatre? What the tier system means for panto season

The arts need to start supporting the Festival of Brexit

Ariodante, Royal Opera House online, review: splendid and buoyant

The ‘Arts After Brexit’ report is troubling – why won’t Remainers help us face the future?

‘Diana would have identified with The Phantom of the Opera - she also yearned to be loved'

A robustly un-BBC telling of Ghislaine Maxwell’s grisly tale

Claudia Winkleman is a fine replacement for Graham Norton – but is the BBC short on options?

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The Kerridge effect alone won’t save our pubs

Bill Bailey's Strictly Diary: ‘First Janet, now Joan – this show amazes me’ In his exclusive weekly report, the comedian talks about his new A-list fans and missing his beloved birdwatching

Tristram Fane Saunders 26 Nov 2020, 6:20pm

The 30 best Christmas movies of all time From have yourself a merry little Christmas to yippee-ki-yay! we round up 30 of the silver screens festive crackers

ByTelegraph Reporters 26 Nov 2020, 5:25pm

The 100 best Christmas songs of all time From Mariah to Bubl, here's our pick for the very best tunes for the festive season

ByTelegraph Reporters 26 Nov 2020, 5:09pm

Possessor, review: Cronenberg Jr serves up a sleek, eerie sci-fi thriller

‘This is the worst thing I’ve ever seen’: how The Only Way is Essex warped our reality Hungover tantrums, walk-outs, vajazzles The original TOWIE cast reflects on the 'scripted reality' experiment that changed their lives

Can I go to a museum? What the tier system means for art lovers Many postponed exhibitions are due to reopen. But what impact will new restrictions have on galleries and museums in tiers 1, 2 and 3?

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Daily Mail
27/11/2020 10:46:11 PM

MUSIC: If you don't mind a few cliches, Music Played By Humans by Gary Barlow is good fun and it should make for a memorable gig... one day

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FICTION: From Jonathan Lethem's eerily timely tale to The Swallowed Man by Edward Carey, an inventive novel by Kikuko Tsumura and Michael Connelly's latest, this week's best new fiction

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NON-FICTION: Historian Ian Mortimer is bringing a mix of telling anecdote and pithy research to The Time Traveller's Guide To Regency Britain

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PIERS MORGAN: I was with Gareth Southgate three days before his positive test... Why didn't he tell us?  It's emerged that Gareth Southgate tested positive for Covid-19.