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The Week Unwrapped: Will Europe beat China and India to the North Pole?
Podcast Plus, is the man who designed the iPhone going to kill his own creation? And what's going on at the equalities watchdog?
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Ancient India: living traditions – 'ethereal and sensual' exhibition
The Week Recommends Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism are explored in show that remains 'remarkably compact'
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Things in Nature Merely Grow: memoir of 'harsh beauty' after loss
The Week Recommends Chinese-American novelist Yiyun Li's 'devastating' memoir explores the deaths of her two sons
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Sirens: entertaining satire on the lives of the ultra-wealthy stars Julianne Moore
The Week Recommends This 'blackly comic affair' unfurls at a 'breakneck speed'
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Mrs Warren's Profession: 'tour-de-force' from Imelda Staunton and daughter Bessie Carter
The Week Recommends Mother-daughter duo bring new life to George Bernard Shaw's morality play
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'Less is more' in The Fifth Step
The Week Recommends Jack Lowden from Slow Horses is 'staggeringly good' in this new production at London's @sohoplace
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The top period dramas to stream now
The Week Recommends Heaving bosoms and billowing shirts are standard fare in these historical TV classics
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The cinematic beauty of Sicily's Aeolian Islands
The Week Recommends These scattered islands have inspired film directors since the 1950s
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How the civil service works – and why critics say it needs reform
The Explainer Keir Starmer wants to 'rewire' Whitehall, which he has claimed is too 'comfortable in the tepid bath of managed decline'
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Brexit 'reset' deal: how will it work?
In Depth Keir Stamer says the deal is a 'win-win', but he faces claims that he has 'surrendered' to Brussels on fishing rights
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Earl Grey roast salmon recipe
The Week Recommends Aromatic and zesty, this flaky fish is a perfect centrepiece on any dinner table
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Donald Trump's foreign policy flip in the Middle East
Talking Point Surprise lifting of sanctions on Syria shows Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar are now effectively 'dictating US foreign policy'
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Andrew Norfolk: the journalist who exposed the grooming scandal
In the Spotlight The Times reporter, who has died aged 60, was the only journalist willing to pursue incendiary reports of organised child abuse
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry: a musical with 'foot-stomping soul'
The Week Recommends Katy Rudd transforms Rachel Joyce's novel into a moving show about a modern everyman
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Hallow Road: a 'a lean, mean, tension-filled ride'
The Week Recommends Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys face a parent's worst nightmare in Babak Anvari's gripping film
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Laura Bates shares her favourite feminist books
The Week Recommends The writer and campaigner chooses works by Malorie Blackman, Louise O’Neill and Madeline Miller
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Properties of the week: scenic houses in Scotland
The Week Recommends Featuring homes in Argyll and Bute, Perthshire and the Outer Hebrides
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The Week Unwrapped: Will the Enhanced Games change how we see doping?
Podcast Plus, how will autonomous weapons change warfare? And are Reform supporters more datable than Tories?
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The Wonder of Art: the National Gallery's rehang – masterpieces galore
In the Spotlight The museum has isolated its 'biggest stars to let you savour their drop-dead genius'
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Is a River Alive? – a 'powerful synthesis of literature, activism and ethics'
The Week Recommends Robert Macfarlane's latest book centres on his journeys to four river systems around the world
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Good One: an 'intensely compelling' coming-of-age tale
The Week Recommends India Donaldson's 'quietly devastating' debut feature about a teenage girl's life-changing camping trip
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Best films of 2025: from Mission Impossible to The Brutalist
The Week Recommends A gangster-vampire mash-up, a superb documentary and Ethan Hunt's last mission, these are the movies worth a watch
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Who is winning the war in Ukraine now?
The Explainer Vladimir Putin continues to stall on ceasefire agreement, even as Russian advance slows
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What are the impartiality rules for BBC presenters?
The Explainer News presenters and hosts of 'flagship programmes' must adhere to tougher guidelines than other staff and freelancers
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