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Joanna Scanlan reads ‘Now’ by Robert Browning in memory of her childhood friend for Celebration Day

Scanlan pays tribute to her childhood friend Sarah with a reading for Celebration Day

The Independent UK

Joanna Scanlan on the death of her childhood friend: ‘At boarding school, emotions were packed into a small, tidy box’

The Bafta-winning star of ‘The Thick of It’ and ‘After Love’ has dedicated a poem to her friend Sarah to mark Celebration Day, an annual moment dedicated to remembering those who have died

The Independent UK

‘Poetry helped me find my feet again’: Joanna Scanlan and Ophelia Lovibond perform readings in memory of loved ones for Celebration Day

Works by Samuel Johnson, Wendy Cope and Robert Browning are read aloud in a series of poignant short films about grief

The Independent UK

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Beyond Keane’s stick-it-up-your-bollocks, there isn’t much else to Saipan

Why is the film of Ireland’s 2002 World Cup falling-out not a documentary but a drama that takes liberties with events?

The Guardian - UK

10 places to stay in the UK and Europe where you can travel back in time

From a Tudor manor in Wales to a swinging 60s hotel in Prague, these hotels and guesthouses are steeped in history

The Guardian - UK

Ronald Corp obituary

Conductor and prolific composer of choral pieces and songs who founded the New London Orchestra

The Guardian - UK

This peaceful Italian mountain town is just one hour from Venice – but completely crowd-free

If planning a Venetian break, consider adding another delightful dimension to your trip and explore nearby, writes Ben West. With overtourism an issue, now is the best time to seek out the peaceful town of Asolo

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“I planned to go out with Ministry. But then Madonna said, ‘I want Monte here – even if he’s just standing and holding a guitar’”: Monte Pittman on his crazy journey from Guitar Center to Ministry via Prong and Madonna – and his band with Adam Lambert

It might seem strange that a dude best known for playing guitar lines for pumping, thumping dance songs is now blowing eardrums with industrial metallers Ministry. But Pittman says he’s right where he belongs. This is his remarkable story

Guitar World

Poem of the week: To Robert Browning by Walter Savage Landor

A warm and generous-minded tribute from an older poet to the ‘brighter plumage, stronger wing’ of his younger colleague

The Guardian - UK

In The Marriage Portrait, Maggie O'Farrell distorts the historical record to suit modern sensibilities

In her latest novel, The Marriage Portrait, Maggie O'Farrell takes readers to Renaissance Italy. Lush metaphors and minute description of life in ducal palaces abound in her reimagining of the life of Lucrezia de’ Medici, daughter of the Grand Duke of Florence, Cosimo I de’ Medici, and his Spanish wife,…

The Conversation

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell review – a dark Renaissance fable

Inspired by Robert Browning’s poem My Last Duchess, this follow-up to Hamnet mingles fact, portraiture and poetic fantasy for the simple tale of a girl forced into marriage

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