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• Pamela Anderson razzle dazzles 'em in Chicago on Broadway

  The 'Baywatch' star's musical skills are a work in progress, only her acting is surprisingly skillful and she'due south certainly pulling the crowds

  

• Noughts + Crosses, series 2, review: a drama designed to provoke classroom debate

  This fast-paced accommodation of Malorie Blackman's novels will go immature people thinking, but the plots are muddled and the dialogue is wooden

• U.k.'southward civilised tolerance of Second World War careful objectors should make united states all proud

  Tobias Kelly's book Battles of Conscience reminds us that Britain was nigh alone in enshrining in law the correct to refuse military duty

• Barry Humphries live: the irreverent former wizard of Oz remains a wonder, possums

  This 'audience with' isn't the revelation is promises to be, but an evening with the homo backside Matriarch Edna Everage is still not to be missed

• Maud Martha review: an American classic finally lands in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland – vii decades belatedly

  Finally out in the UK, Gwendolyn Brooks's 1953 novel follows a woman whose pare colour becomes a wall between herself and her lover

Comment and analysis

• How Alan Dein is connecting strangers to brand the most electrifying radio

  A new series of Alan Dein's Don't Log Off explores the things that enliven and inspire people all around the world

  

• How Orwell's stab at socialist propaganda concluded up as an attack on 'the stupid cult of Russia'

  Showtime published in 1937, The Road to Wigan Pier is a masterpiece – then why did many leftists detest information technology?

  

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• Deplorable, Oscar-hungry auteurs – the Netflix 'passion project' party is over

  The streaming giant'due south plummeting subscriber numbers can just mean one matter for cinema: more films like The Adam Project, and no more Romas

  

Reviews

• Hungry for more Tiresome Horses? Endeavour Mick Herron's vivid new Jackson Lamb novel

  Gary Oldman is superb on TV, only for existent Herron addicts only a new novel will do – and the eighth, Bad Actors, has a spooky Russian twist

  

• Pamela Anderson razzle dazzles 'em in Chicago on Broadway

  The 'Baywatch' star's musical skills are a work in progress, merely her acting is surprisingly proficient and she's certainly pulling the crowds

  

• Alexei Navalny: a riveting spectacle of Putin's curvation enemy solving his own attempted murder

  Blending activism and gripping procedural, this documentary hones in on the titular opposition leader 'due south near-fatal poisoning with Novichok

  

• Barry Humphries alive: the irreverent erstwhile wizard of Oz remains a wonder, possums

  This 'audience with' isn't the revelation is promises to be, but an evening with the man behind Dame Edna Everage is still not to be missed

  

• Maud Martha review: an American classic finally lands in the UK – seven decades late

  Finally out in the UK, Gwendolyn Brooks's 1953 novel follows a woman whose pare color becomes a wall betwixt herself and her lover

  

• The Tate'southward Walter Sickert prove is a foggy panorama of Victorian dirt and vice

  Tate Uk's exhibition is saturated with likewise many similar paintings and misses an opportunity to explore Sickert's acting

  

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• What'due south on Tv tonight: Human City v Existent Madrid, Noughts + Crosses and more than

  Your complete guide to the week'south boob tube, films and sport, across terrestrial and digital platforms

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• Hungry for more Slow Horses? Try Mick Herron's vivid new Jackson Lamb novel

  Gary Oldman is superb on TV, but for real Herron addicts but a new novel volition do – and the eighth, Bad Actors, has a spooky Russian twist

  

• Noughts + Crosses, series 2, review: a drama designed to provoke classroom debate

  This fast-paced adaptation of Malorie Blackman's novels will get immature people thinking, only the plots are muddled and the dialogue is wooden

  

• Maud Martha review: an American classic finally lands in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland – 7 decades late

  Finally out in the United kingdom, Gwendolyn Brooks'south 1953 novel follows a woman whose skin colour becomes a wall between herself and her lover

  

• From chinoiserie to Fu Manchu: how Britain's Oriental romance turned sour

  Poet Hannah Lowe scooped this yr's Costa Prize for The Kids. In two new books, she tries to solve the riddle of her Chinese beginnings

  

• Why the 1990s were the last golden age of culture

  Ahead of a BBC season, our critics prove that the happiest decade fabricated the best art

  

• The Tate's Walter Sickert show is a foggy panorama of Victorian dirt and vice

  Tate Uk'due south exhibition is saturated with too many similar paintings and misses an opportunity to explore Sickert's interim

  

• In from the cold: ethnic Sámi artists debut at the Venice Biennale

  The native people of the Arctic Circumvolve are highlighting their controversial past from this weekend

  

• At the Venice Biennale, surreal joys are in, Putin is out – and the stale males are hanging on

  The 59th edition of the art extravaganza pays tribute to Ukrainian heroism while delving brilliantly into the weirder corners of our minds

  

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• Why the 1990s were the last gilded historic period of culture

  Ahead of a BBC season, our critics prove that the happiest decade made the best art

  

• Bullhooks, beatings and a trail of dead animals: the reality of Michael Jackson's Neverland zoo

  An ITV documentary, presented by Ross Kemp, goes in search of the animals from Jackson's Neverland zoo - and finds a grim story of abuse

  

• Hungry for more Tedious Horses? Endeavor Mick Herron'south vivid new Jackson Lamb novel

  Gary Oldman is superb on Tv, but for existent Herron addicts only a new novel will do – and the eighth, Bad Actors, has a spooky Russian twist

  

• How Alan Dein is connecting strangers to brand the most electrifying radio

  A new serial of Alan Dein'southward Don't Log Off explores the things that enliven and inspire people all around the world

  

• Noughts + Crosses, serial 2, review: a drama designed to provoke classroom debate

  This fast-paced adaptation of Malorie Blackman's novels volition get young people thinking, but the plots are muddled and the dialogue is wooden

  

• Pamela Anderson razzle dazzles 'em in Chicago on Broadway

  The 'Baywatch' star'due south musical skills are a work in progress, but her acting is surprisingly adept and she's certainly pulling the crowds

  

• Barry Humphries live: the irreverent old wizard of Oz remains a wonder, possums

  This 'audition with' isn't the revelation is promises to be, but an evening with the man backside Dame Edna Everage is still not to be missed

  

• Obituary: Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham

  A champion of great British morals and aristocratic hauteur who presided over Downton Abbey – both TV drama and stately domicile

  

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