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...Soft greys and browns represent the wool trade; the brighter pinks and blues were based on an 18th-century Spitalfields silk dress at the V&A....
...Between them, the V&A and the National Gallery and the Wallace Collection composed the only map of the place that I had in my head....
...Tessa Jowell: “I don’t think he comes across as tedious on TV, he is earnest, he’s passionate and he is eloquent.” Labour insider on Murphy v Alexander: “There is history between them....
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...To Arthur’s energetic, hand-wagging stage direction, I did Crispin Crispian from Henry V, or “All The World’s a Stage” in the living room while my mother fried the gefilte fish....
...This year’s most bizarre location, for composer Merlijn Twaalfhoven’s The Air We Breathe (City of Desire V), was the dank basement of a disused waterfront grain silo peopled with strangely solemn guards....
...Upstairs, E.V. Crowe’s Doris Day illuminates the challenges facing two young policewomen....
...Tessa Ross, controller of drama, Channel 4. Graham Sheffield, artistic director, Barbican centre, London. Adrian Shooter, chairman, Chiltern Railway Company. Margaret Tyzack, actress....
...famous names including Colin Reid (ruggedly organic pieces resembling rocks), Bruno Romanelli (incorporating casts of body parts and so comparatively figurative), Neil Wilkin (inspired by plant forms) and Tessa...
...With the boos ringing in his ears from last night’s appearance, there’s still more discussion on the prime minister’s recent ”boo v boom” throwdown with the south London schoolkids....
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