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Best podcasts of the week: Serial tells the true tale of Free Willy’s titular whale

In this week’s newsletter: For its 13th season, the investigative titan explores the complicated story of Keiko. Plus: five of the best podcasts to dip into

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The secret benefits to an age-gap friendship

LET’S UNPACK THAT: Friendships between people from different generations are surprisingly common. Lydia Spencer-Elliott explores why hanging out with someone much older or younger than you can banish loneliness, challenge your perceptions of ageing and even help you live longer

The Independent UK

Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light: which actors are playing famous characters from history?

Time to brush up on your half-remembered knowledge of Tudor history

Evening Standard

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Victoria Beckham, Sophie Turner and Ambika Mod: Inside the Harper's Bazaar Women of the Year Awards

Industry titans and rising stars were out in force to celebrate females who have inspired, entertained and impressed us over the past 12 months

Evening Standard

Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light – Who’s who in the cast of the new Hilary Mantel adaptation?

‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Succession’ stars join the cast for the new episodes of the BBC One historical drama

The Independent UK

‘You get more confident as the parts run out’: Harriet Walter on her stage career, Succession and Shakespeare’s women

In her new book the acclaimed actor imagines what the Bard’s female characters might have said if they had had the chance

The Guardian - UK

She Speaks! by Harriet Walter review – new words for Shakespeare’s women

An actor’s collection of supplementary speeches for Shakespeare’s female characters offers fresh insights into his work

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First look at ‘Brian and Margaret’, a Channel 4 drama depicting former PM Thatcher's final ever TV interview

The two-part drama will air on Channel 4 next year

Evening Standard

‘Black Mirror’ season 7 is official with stacked cast — and USS Callister is back

Off the back of a well-loved sixth season, Netflix’s ‘Black Mirror’ is back to inject even more fear into the worlds of ever-evolving technology and it’s employing quite the cast.

Tom’s Guide

Silo season 2: Apple TV Plus release date, trailer, cast, story rumors, and more news about the sci-fi show's return

Here's the latest news and rumors surrounding Silo season 2, which will air on Apple TV Plus in November.

TechRadar

And Mrs review – love never dies for Aisling Bea in barmy Brit romcom

This Richard Curtis-like comedy sees Bea on fine form as she tries to marry her her dead boyfriend, supported by a knockout cast including Harriet Walter and Susan Wokoma

The Guardian - UK

Atonement by Ian McEwan audiobook review – secrets and lies

Succession actor Harriet Walter narrates this unsettling portrait of class, memory and the nature of fiction

The Guardian - UK

Brian and Maggie: release date, cast, plot, trailer, interviews and everything you need to know

Brian and Maggie on Channel 4 features Steve Coogan and Harriet Walter as TV interviewer Brian Walden and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

WhatToWatch

The best theatre to stream this month: David Suchet’s Poirot secrets, Oklahoma! and more

This month’s roundup includes the versatile actor’s 75th birthday show, Succession’s Harriet Walter playing Lorca’s matriarch and supreme showman Hugh Jackman in the classic musical

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Black Mirror season 7: release date, recaps, episode titles, trailer, cast and everything we know

Black Mirror season 7 is on the way and we now have casting, plus teases from Charlie Brooker...

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‘He has no understudy’: Rachel Weisz, Bill Nighy, Judi Dench and more remember Tom Wilkinson

The directors of The Full Monty, In the Bedroom and Michael Clayton pay tribute to the actor, who died on Saturday, along with David Hare, Richard Eyre, John Madden, Jonathan Pryce, Jay Roach, Justin Theroux, Harriet Walter, Cathy Tyson, Christopher Eccleston, Peter Webber and Marion Bailey

The Guardian - UK

‘What is it about life that’s sacred?’: Harriet Walter backs change in law on assisted dying

The actor, who has played characters on both sides of the debate, says the UK needs a conversation about euthanasia and assisted suicide

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Macbeth; The House of Bernarda Alba – review

Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma are magnetic murderers in Simon Godwin’s bleakly immersive warehouse production, while Harriet Walter commands the stage in Rebecca Frecknall’s stylish, if underheated Lorca

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The House of Bernarda Alba review – Harriet Walter rules as Lorca gets a refurb

Adapted by Alice Birch and directed by Rebecca Frecknall, this is a stylised study in control and daughterly disobedience

Evening Standard

The House of Bernarda Alba at the National Theatre review: a study of repression horribly relevant to today

Harriet Walter cleaves through the teeming action like a dreadnought

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Chris Bush’s cultural highlights

The award-winning playwright on one of pop’s most extraordinary voices, role-playing drag queens and the scathing wit of her favourite foodie website

The Guardian - UK

Richard Wortley obituary

Other lives: Prolific radio drama producer who directed plays and readings for the BBC

The Guardian - UK

Maggie Smith, Miriam Margolyes, Harriet Walter … I can’t get enough of the new fashion icons

Middle age can be a bit rubbish. But if this is what your 70s and 80s look like, at least there’s something to look forward to, writes Emma Beddington

The Guardian - UK

Alice Birch: ‘When I’m writing, the banalities of motherhood such as head lice disappear’

The Normal People screenwriter talks about growing up in a commune, heartbreaking plays, and the rumours that she’s collaborating with Taylor Swift

The Independent UK

Charles and Camilla treated to Shakespeare performances at Windsor Castle event

Celebrations are being staged this year to mark the 400th anniversary of the first printed edition of Shakespeare’s collection of plays.

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