Scotland's principal prima donna
The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama's new head envisages it becoming a cultural powerhouse for Scotland. Olga Wojtas reports. "I've never had a job before," says John Wallace, the new...
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A theme park for the Brits behaving badly
In the second in our summer series on tourism, Hazel Andrews looks at how much of the lewd, boozy, seemingly fancy-free behaviour of many tourists in the area of Majorca known as 'Shagaluf' is...
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A right to be Mr and Mrs
The European Court of Human Rights has just ruled that a British transsexual can marry. Adam James spoke to Stephen Whittle, the lecturer fighting for UK transsexual rights Transsexual people have...
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Challenge to age-old conviction
Australia was settled as a penal colony, right? Ex-policeman Dan Foley disagrees, arguing that deportees were in fact the victims of a far more ambitious scheme. Caroline Davis reports. Paddington...
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Not so jolly hockey sticks
The bias towards the masculine displays of competition, strength and speed in the PE curriculum is alienating girls, Jim Denison writes. From disheartened sideline spectators - or worse, uninvited...
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Helping Kyrgyzstan make the news
Angela Thomae reports on a project by a British university that aims to help would-be journalists in a former Soviet republic distinguish opinions from facts. "Sorry, where did you say?" I asked my...
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Spinning yarns with silk road storytellers
Central Asia has a huge hunger for cultural expression and exchange. The UK should do more to satisfy it, says Sally Pomme Clayton. On tour in April with the British Council Literature Department to...
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The ABCs of HIV/Aids
Fran Balkwill does not let her 'day job' leading cancer research keep her from her passion - conveying the stories of science to children. She spoke to Claire Sanders. For Fran Balkwill, a prominent...
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Moral? Maybe. Double edged? No doubt
The sacking of two Israeli scholars from the boards of journals as part of an academic boycott highlights the question of whether such actions work and whether they do more harm than good. Caroline...
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Derring-do of the DNA diva
Rosalind Franklin
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Freedoms threatened - let's go shopping
British Cultural Studies - A Companion to Cultural Studies
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Two shirts, one arm, three wings
Greenwich
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An illuminating space for those wayward pleasures
John Ashbery and American Poetry
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Piecing together the archaeologist
Arthur Evans's Travels in Crete 1894-1899
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a book that ends with the escape of a pterodactyl: "Mr Hungerton, her father, really was the most...