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WATCH: Something Special #98 – Not being the hero

Every Monday on Global Comment, we share Something Special you don't want to miss. To fit with the six core pillars of the magazine, these will alternate between the themes of watch / listen / read / see / taste / place. It will be something...

“A high-voltage socket of pure, unadulterated 1980s chaos”: Rik Mayall: Magnificent B’Stard review

To watch Sky Documentaries’ Rik Mayall: Magnificent B’Stard is to plug your wet brain directly into a high-voltage socket of pure, unadulterated 1980s chaos, only to realise with a sickening jolt that modern culture has completely lost its...

Great Adaptations: Alias Grace on screen

This month, over at Five Books For, we've been looking at books that reimagine the Victorians - a selection of modern novels that revisit the nineteenth century from fresh and often unexpected perspectives. Rather than presenting the polished,...

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