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大象传媒 National Short Story Award Winner

We announce the winners of the 2018 大象传媒 Short Story Awards live from Cambridge University

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The art of physical comedy, Damien Hirst, Andre Aciman, The impact of the arts on mental health

The art and history of physical comedy: why is the unfortunate mishap hilarious?

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Alice Walker, Yayoi Kusama and a poem for National Poetry Day from Sean Street

Alice Walker, artist Yayoi Kusama and a new poem for National Poetry Day from Sean Street

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Jodie Whittaker on Doctor Who, Quentin Blake, Haruki Murakami's Killing Commendatore

Jodie Whittaker on regenerating as the 13th Doctor, and the dark art of Quentin Blake

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Bernard Cribbins, Claire Foy and Ryan Gosling on First Man, Butterfly

Bernard Cribbins on his autobiography and Ryan Gosling and Claire Foy discuss First Man

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The swimming pool in art, Kwame Kwei-Armah's Twelfth Night, Poet Jean Sprackland

The role that the swimming pool plays in film and art.

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Reading and Mental Health

A special on how reading improves mental health, with Marian Keyes and Russell Kane.

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Desiree Akhavan, Bad Times at the El Royale, 2018 RIBA Stirling Prize, Mother Courage

Desiree Akhavan on the challenges of writing, directing and starring in The Bisexual.

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Paul Greengrass on 22 July, Lisa Hammond and Rachael Spence, How can arts organisations thrive?

Paul Greengrass on 22 July, his film about the Norwegian terrorist attack on a summer camp

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#MeToo one year on - what's changed in the arts?

One year on from the beginning of the #MeToo movement, what's changed? Daniel York Loh

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Playing Linda Loman, Informer, Geology-inspired art, Ciar谩n Hodgers

Playing Linda Loman, Informer review, art inspired by geology, Ciar谩n Hodgers

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Gerard Butler, Male body in movies, Novelist Olga Tokarczuk

Gerard Butler and the male body in movies - is bigger always better?

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Eric Idle, Halloween, Cicely Berry remembered, The House of Commons library

Python Eric Idle on his autobiography. The 11th film in the Halloween franchise reviewed.

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The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Billboard art and US politics, Emma Rice and Wise Children

Author Heather Morris on her novel The Tattooist of Auschwitz, based on a true story

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Author Luke Jennings on his Killing Eve trilogy, Disgusting artworks, Maggie Gyllenhaal on The Deuce

How have artists used disgust in their work to both enthral and repel the viewer?

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Mike Leigh on Peterloo, CJ Sansom, The rise of adult gaming

Mike Leigh discusses his latest film Peterloo, about the 1819 massacre in Manchester

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The Hate U Give, House of Cards, Measure for Measure

Angie Thomas on her novel and film The Hate U Give, and its roots in Black Lives Matter.

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Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, Composer Howard Blake, Hepworth Prize for Sculpture

Biopic of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, Bohemian Rhapsody, reviewed

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Thom Yorke, Audiobooks and reading, Beetlejuice at 30

If you've listened to an audiobook, can you say you've read the book?

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Florence Pugh and Alexander Skarsg氓rd in The Little Drummer Girl, Darkness and writing, Tom Odell

Florence Pugh and Alexander Skarsg氓rd discuss the TV adaptation of The Little Drummer Girl

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Dark Heart, La Traviata, Parks and concerts

Chris Lang's new TV drama Dark Heart reviewed, and Chris Addison on La Traviata.

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Wilfred Owen Commemoration, Markus Zusak, Sarah DeLappe

Wilfred Owen's life and work remembered through art, 100 years since his death.

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Cecelia Ahern, The world's tallest statue, Pansori opera, Homecoming TV adaptation

Best-selling Irish novelist Cecelia Ahern discusses her new short story collection, Roar

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Boy George, Colourisation of film, John Cooper Clarke

Boy George on Culture Club's first album for nearly two decades.

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Steve McQueen, Erica Whyman on Romeo and Juliet, Gender-swapped theatre

Steve McQueen on heist thriller Widows.

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Paul Dano, Venice floods and the impact on its cultural heritage, the department store in art

Actor Paul Dano on turning director, and protecting Venetian arts and heritage from floods

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Danny Boyle's Armistice Day tribute, White Teeth the musical, singer-songwriter and poet Emily Maguire

White Teeth, the musical, Danny Boyle's Armistice Day tribute, singer Emily Maguire

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Marin Alsop, Russell Howard, Political cartoonists

Conductor Marin Alsop on Brahms's A German Requiem, and comedian Russell Howard.

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Helena Bonham Carter, Ben Schott, 11-11: Memories Retold video game

Helena Bonham Carter on how she drew on her own experience of depression for film 55 Steps

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The Coen Brothers, stage fright, The Interrogation of Tony Martin

Joel and Ethan Coen on their homage to the western The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

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