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Jane Lapotaire death: Tributes paid to ‘truly brilliant’ The Crown and Downton Abbey star

British actor won Tony and Olivier Awards during her prolific career on the stage and screen

The Independent UK

Paris launches lottery for burial plots near Jim Morrison, Édith Piaf and Oscar Wilde

Fancy having your final resting place next to the stars? Parisians are being offered the chance to win a burial spot among some of history's most famous artists, including the Doors' Jim Morrison, author Oscar Wilde and French singer Édith Piaf.

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People Discover Greta Thunberg’s Singer Sister Who Changed Name After “Suffering” From Backlash

Bea Ernman, who used to be bullied for her sister Greta Thunberg’s activism, is building her music career and said her “voice was built from pain.”

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Before the word ‘transgender’ existed, there was Bambi, the dazzling Parisian icon

The moment that changed queer history occurred on a sweltering day in early 1952 in Algiers

The Independent UK

The play that changed my life: Timberlake Wertenbaker on the joy of seeing four normal women on stage

Pam Gems’ revolutionary 1976 play Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi put ordinary, flawed, interesting women at its centre – a reversal of all the plays by men where women are ‘the problem’

The Guardian - UK

Piaf review – Audrey Brisson rises above the melee as the French singer

Pam Gems’s play with music loses focus with its small cast playing multiple characters – and musical instruments – but its star brings it all together

The Guardian - UK

Charles Dumont death: Composer of Édith Piaf’s ‘Non, Je ne Regrette Rien’ dies aged 95

Dumont died Monday following a long illness

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Charles Dumont, composer of Édith Piaf’s Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien, dies at 95

Singer-songwriter also composed melodies for stars including Dalida, Jacques Brel and Barbra Streisand

The Guardian - UK

‘Synthesisers can convey emotion too’: Zaho de Sagazan reinvents the French love song despite never falling in love

‘I like not knowing what I’ll do,’ says the 24-year-old who swept the board at the French Grammys and stole the show at Cannes film festival with her freeform dancing in socks

The Guardian - UK

Paris says goodbye to the Olympics with golden closing ceremony

Tom Cruise was the headline act in an evening enforcing the message about protecting the spirit of the Games

The Guardian - UK

Why Édith Piaf’s plaintive song was the perfect fit for Céline Dion at Paris Games

The melody for the first live performance since 2020 by the singer, who has suffered with ill-health, was suitably tragic

The Guardian - UK

Macron supports Aya Nakamura singing at Olympics after racist backlash

French president in favour of singer opening the Games amid racist backlash from far-right politicians

The Guardian - UK

Aya Nakamura hits back in new single at racist abuse over Olympics rumour

New track features lyrics ‘It’s them that don’t like me’ after far-right backlash against idea she could cover Édith Piaf song

The Guardian - UK

Aya Nakamura, the pop superstar at the centre of a Paris Olympic racism storm

Outrage from the far right over rumours of a performance at the opening ceremony has exposed deep divisions in France

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Racist attacks on pop star Aya Nakamura test France’s ability to shine at Paris Olympics

Rumours that French pop star Aya Nakamara may sing at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics have triggered a flurry of attacks from the French far right, questioning the host country’s ability to appreciate the globally acclaimed talent emerging from its neglected suburbs with large immigrant populations.

WhatToWatch

The New Look episode 5 recap: Catherine's heartbreaking return

The New Look episode 5 sees Dior make a horrifying discovery about Catherine.

The Guardian - UK

Édith Piaf’s voice re-created using AI so she can narrate own biopic

In-development film comes after controversy around the re-creation of late stars’ voices, such as Anthony Bourdain

Radio France Internationale

France bets on ‘mysterious, iconic, extravagant’ Quebecer to win Eurovision

Canadian-born La Zarra will sing a French "chanson" with an electro-disco vibe at the Eurovision final in Liverpool on Saturday. She's in the bookie's top five and, while not tipped to win, will definitely not go unnoticed.

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Dior goes back to the 1950s as Paris fashion week opens

Fashion house upturns decade’s retrograde image with aesthetic of French muses

The Guardian - UK

Einstein, Piaf, Twiggy: Marilyn Stafford’s extraordinary life behind the lens

The American photographer, who has died aged 97, was equally at home documenting war as she was shooting celebrity portraits

The Guardian - UK

Piaf review – Camille O’Sullivan fully inhabits the doomed chanteuse

Pam Gems’ play may have dated, but the tragic arc of Édith Piaf from street urchin to torch singer is still compelling, told through music that rings with drama

The Guardian - UK

Batteries, Beatles, boxing and Ron Mael from Sparks – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia plus a few jokes every Thursday – how will you fare?

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