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Set your sights on the Cutty Sark

Set your kids' sights on the Cutty Sark – or maybe invertebrates, surgery and war games to bank notes, cityscapes and sea tales – it’s anyone’s guess what’ll turn the kids’ heads this half term...just one of our must-do holiday suggestions

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Carrie Cracknell, from the Royal Court Theatre, makes her opera-directing debut with English National Opera’s new Wozzeck at the Coliseum...
Adam Kelly Morton’s dramatic monologue The Anorak sees Felix Brunger deliver a shocking, dark exploration of the life and mind of Marc Lépine...
We are embracing the sky in Robert Calvert’s play on the genesis of Jimi Hendrix, rock god and guitar legend...
Graham Greene’s books usually deal with such dark and troubled themes that his time spent writing Travels With My Aunt must have felt like something of a holiday
The 50th anniversary of Kennedy’s assassination is the perfect time to analyse the Cuban Missile Crisis, says Professor Mark White. Dan Carrier reports
Victoria Brittain talks to Tom Foot about the forgotten women of the war on terror, the subject of her latest book...
Seb Emina’s book The Breakfast Bible is just one of those discussed at the London Literature Festival. Dan Carrier learns about the full English...
Michael Rosen’s We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, is now a puppet show at the Little Angel Theatre. Amy Smith reports
F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic is about the corruption of Modernity, how under the shining metal exterior of a mechanised age lies a hardcore of rottenness.
While the name Ginger Baker might not be on the lips of contemporary musicians in the way it was three decades ago, he made an immense contribution to a critical period in...