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Poetry, AI and Stephen Fry: New app Ode prescribes verse to lift your mood

Launched by the editor of The Poetry Pharmacy books, Ode is part of a drive to use AI for positive effects on mental health

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TV tonight: Emilia Clarke’s stylish, fun cold war thriller

Haley Lu Richardson, Adrian Lester and Harriet Walter also star in Ponies. Plus: inside the world’s biggest curry restaurant. Here’s what to watch this evening

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Shakespeare’s Sisters review: brilliantly unexpected songs and prose give voice to the voiceless

Combining words devised for Shakespeare’s female characters with music from composers old and new this was a Bardic treat with teeth

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Dame Harriet Walter among stars in new series of Who Do You Think You Are?

The Bafta-winning genealogy show will return to BBC One this spring.

Evening Standard

Dame Harriet Walter to star in all-female production of Julius Caesar for RSC

The play will be part of a new season of shows, which includes an all-male production of As You Like It starring Jonathan Groff.

Evening Standard

‘We were swimming in the mind pool of Tom Stoppard!’ – actors salute the great playwright

Rufus Sewell, Christine Baranski, Susan Wokoma, Toby Jones and Harriet Walter share their unforgettable encounters with a theatrical giant

The Guardian - UK

Playing Gracie Darling review – derivative occult mystery series fails to cast a spell

Miranda Nation’s new series is well-acted but overall feels fusty and antiquated

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‘The best screen Thatcher yet?’: the art (and craft) of playing the former PM

Harriet Walter’s acclaimed portrayal is the latest of many screen versions. So how do you create the Thatcher persona?

The Guardian - UK

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

Brian and Maggie on Channel 4 review: Thatcher as object of affection? Really?

3/5 Steve Coogan and Harriet Walter are a captivating double-act in this effective period piece, but it plays it a little cosy to the Iron Lady

Evening Standard

Brian and Maggie review – it’s a real worry when Margaret Thatcher seems this admirable

You can tell how corrupt our recent politicians have been by how attractive Harriet Walter’s portrayal of the ex-PM seems alongside Steve Coogan in this drama based on a scorching TV interview

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

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

The interview that shook Thatcher: ‘Brian and Maggie’ revisits a turning point in Britain’s political history

The interview is now seen as the beginning of the end for Thatcher’s premiership

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‘Thatcher would have hated me’: Harriet Walter on playing Maggie as a ‘360-degree human’

INTERVIEW: The star of new docudrama ‘Brian and Maggie’ sits down with Helen Coffey to talk modern politics, playing ‘horrible’ women, and why the roots of misogyny are set to dictate what we see on screen for a while yet

Evening Standard

‘Mask-like’ Thatcher difficult to portray, says Dame Harriet Walter

The actress plays the former prime minister in Channel 4 drama Brian And Maggie.

The Independent UK

Steve Coogan reveals he asked for one scene to be cut from Thatcher drama

Mancunian actor described himself as ‘very anti-Thatcher’

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Harriet Walter never felt like a 'typical woman'

Harriet Walter has never felt like a "typical woman" and believes she would be "dressing a a boy" if she was a teenager now.

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The Independent UK

Harriet Walter reflects on choosing her career over having kids

‘I ran away from the responsibility of having a family’ shared the 74-year-old star

The Guardian - UK

‘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

The Independent UK

Harriet Walter’s impressive transformation into Margaret Thatcher revealed in new series

New drama depicts the 45-minute showdown interview between former prime minister and journalist Brian Walden in 1989

The Guardian - UK

From Edvard Munch to Central Cee: Observer critics choose their cultural highlights for 2025

From Thom Yorke’s Shakespearean score to 25 years of Tate Modern, Bridget Jones to Leigh Bowery, our writers anticipate the most exciting shows, releases and events of the year

The Guardian - UK

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in November

Authors and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month

Total Film

Silo season 2 stars discuss how the hit Apple sci-fi series changes things up from the books: "I was like, I’m going to die"

Exclusive: The Silo season 2 cast says receiving the scripts felt "like Christmas" as they realized their characters have much bigger roles compared to the books

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Lend me your ears: great Shakespearean actors given hi-tech talking portraits

A radical new exhibition celebrates stars including Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart by combining subtly moving artworks with their own voices. The results are uncanny

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