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The week in TV: Brian and Maggie; Idris Elba: Our Knife Crime Crisis; Paradise; Mo – review

Harriet Walter and Steve Coogan star as Margaret Thatcher and her friend turned foe; Idris Elba fronts a harrowing study of street crime; there are riddles aplenty in a new US thriller; and art echoes life in the bittersweet Mo

The Guardian - UK

Steve Coogan shines in Brian and Maggie, a love letter to the political interview

4/5 In his latest TV show, writer James Graham turns his attention to the 1989 showdown between journalist Brian Walden and Margaret Thatcher

The Independent UK

How you can watch the real interview that inspired Channel 4's Brian and Maggie

In 1989 Brian Walden interviewed Margaret Thatcher, find out how you can watch the real interview that inspired Channel 4's Brian and Maggie.

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TV tonight: Steve Coogan and Harriet Walter go head to head as Walden and Thatcher

James Graham’s new drama recreates their famous last interview. Plus: Idris Elba’s urgent campaign to stop knife crime. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Brian Cox returns to Scottish stage as Sherwood writer tackles RBS scandal

Succession star will play ghost of Adam Smith in James Graham’s ‘operatic’ drama about the 2008 financial crash

The Guardian - UK

Succession star Brian Cox to return to Scottish stage this summer

The Scottish-born actor will star in Make It Happen at the Edinburgh International Festival.

Evening Standard

‘She was a fiend!’: how the interview that destroyed Thatcher became an intense TV drama

In 1989, an on-camera head-to-head triggered the then PM’s demise. Harriet Walter, Steve Coogan and James Graham discuss their gripping take on the bombshell broadcast

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Uncle arrested after young nephew starved to death weighing just 7 pounds

Jeremy Graham, the uncle of Deonte Atwell, is the sixth family member to be arrested in connection with the little boy’s death

The Independent UK

Elton John’s “Misguided West End Import” Announces Closure Five Days After Opening Night

Elton John's musical Tammy Faye, based on the life of the famous televangelist, has failed to connect with US audiences. The post Elton John’s “Misguided West End Import” Announces Closure Five Days After Opening Night first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Elton John’s musical Tammy Faye to close on Broadway less than a month after opening

Despite Olivier awards success and a sold out run in the West End, the show received unfavourable reviews from US critics and performed poorly at the box office

The Guardian - UK

Coles unfairly targeted by ‘politicised’ attacks, chair says, while calling illusory discount allegations ‘significant’

James Graham defends alleged illusory discounts, saying suppliers had asked for higher prices and then supermarkets discounted them

The Guardian - AU

Miners dig a hole for ASX again as commodities fall

The local bourse has ended 0.1 per cent lower as falling commodity prices hit energy and materials stocks.

AAP

Coles calls out 'politicisation' of cost of living

Politicians are unfairly attacking supermarket chains to provide answers to difficult questions about inflation, grocery giant Coles says.

AAP

‘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

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When pubs and restaurants close, our culture is a casualty

Hospitality jobs have long kept struggling artists, actors and musicians going. When those gigs go, the arts are diminished too

The Independent UK

Elton John turns the saga of televangelist Tammy Faye into song for Broadway

When Elton John was on tour in America during the 1970s, there was someone on TV who caught his eye

Evening Standard

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

The Guardian - UK

Creators of new drama The Hardacres decry lack of working-class TV

Dominant demographic among viewers ‘don’t feel like they are represented on screen’, say Amy Roberts and Loren McLaughlin

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WhatToWatch

Sherwood season 3: everything we know

Sherwood season 3 is on its way

The Guardian - UK

‘Our Romeo even impressed the school bullies’: stars of stage on the power of drama in schools

Being taught drama can transform your life. Actor David Oyelowo, writer James Graham, set designer Es Devlin and more recall their own awakenings – and their inspirational, unforgettable teachers

WhatToWatch

BBC announces huge news about the future of hit drama Sherwood

The BBC has confirmed Sherwood will be returning for a third season.

The Guardian - UK

David Edgar: ‘If you can only think yourself into the shoes you’re wearing it makes creating fiction impossible’

With two new plays opening this autumn, the veteran playwright talks about the risks of writing about real events and the threats to leftwing drama and politics

The Guardian - UK

Create ‘universal library card’ to democratise the arts, says UK thinktank

Fabian Society also wants a ‘culture pass’ for children to help break the ‘class ceiling’ in the sector

The Conversation

The psychology of retirement: why do so many athletes struggle to call time?

Think back to when you met someone for the first time. One of the first questions you asked, or were asked, was likely: “what do you do for work?”

The Independent UK

Colorado mass shooting survivor testifies the gunman repeated 'This is fun' during the attack

A pharmacist who survived a 2021 mass shooting at a Colorado supermarket says she heard him say “This is fun” at least three times during the shooting

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