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CultureDame Judi Dench: 'I can't do a play, a film or read any more'
Dame Judi Dench tells BBC Radio 4's Today programme about how her eye condition has affected her life.
22 Oct 2026
Cultureأسرار باريس | هل تعرفون أن تمثال الحرية ولد في باريس ؟
في باريس كل تمثال له قصة وحكاية وبعضها أغربُ من الخيال. فهل تعرفون أن مئات التماثيل اختفت خلال الحرب العالمية الثانية؟ وأن تمثال الحرية صنع في باريس ولم يكن في الأصل معدا للولايات المتحدة؟ وأن داخل بعض التماثيل كنوزا دفينة؟ في هذه الحلقة من أسرار باريس، تعرفوا إلى تاريخ أشهر التماثيل الباريسية واكتشفوا قصصها وخباياها. أسرار باريس برنامج من إعداد وتقديم تاتيانا الخوري.
22 Oct 2026
Cultureماذا تكشف أشهر تجربة عن الطاعة العمياء؟
كيف يمكن لأشخاص عاديين أن ينصاعوا لأوامر تتعارض مع ضمائرهم وقيمهم الأخلاقية؟ تعيد تجربة ميلغرام الشهيرة، بنسخة حديثة، طرح هذا السؤال المثير، كاشفة العوامل التي تدفع إلى الطاعة العمياء، والسبل التي تُمكن الإنسان من مقاومتها.
22 Oct 2026
CultureLegendary video game studio BioWare closed after 31 years
The influential studio that made Mass Effect and Dragon Age announces it is closing its doors.
22 Oct 2026
Cultureمن بينها أبو ظبي: 5 مدن سياحية رائعة تستحق الاستكشاف
اخترنا من بين القائمة خمس مدن، وتحدّثنا إلى أشخاص يعرفون تلك المدن الخمس جيداً ليكشفوا لنا عمّا تواكبه من تغيرات - وعمّا يجعلها جديرة بالاستكشاف.
22 Oct 2026
CultureCanadian publisher cuts ties with best-selling writer Orelien over AI use
Publisher Boreal says investigations confirmed the Haitian-Canadian Thelyson Orelien used AI in his breakthrough novel.
21 Oct 2026Mission blasts off for Mars to grab a piece of its moon
A spacecraft is set to launch on an ambitious mission to bring 10g of Martian moon dust back to Earth.
21 Oct 2026Storm Austen to bring severe gales to UK as weather warning issued
The first named storm of the season - Austen - will bring damaging winds and heavy rain to parts of the UK on Friday.
21 Oct 2026Woman deceived ex-partner that she had given birth to his babies, judge rules
The man paid his ex-partner around £30,000 over two years believing she had given birth to his children.
21 Oct 2026Meta fined $25bn for 'lies' over user data privacy
The fine is the largest to date against Facebook's owner, larger than an $18bn deal with California.
21 Oct 2026Aspiring Reform MP who said ‘you cannot be Muslim and British’ suspended
Jason Powell also backed concentration camps as Reform councillors talk of executing grooming gang membersAn aspiring Reform UK MP who advocated the use of concentration camps and said “you cannot be Muslim and British” has been suspended from the party.The activist is one of a number featured in an ITV documentary, which will be broadcast in full on Sunday night and has already resulted in fresh
21 Oct 2026From strife-torn France to the UK, rightwing populists win when they stir chaos while promising order | Rafael Behr
Marine Le Pen and Donald Trump are arsonists who play at being firefighters. Nigel Farage is finding that act harder to pull off in Andy Burnham’s BritainAn election where one side represents chaos will nearly always be won by the party that promises order instead. Public fatigue after years of turbulent Tory rule accounted for Labour’s 2024 landslide victory more than any policy in Keir Starmer’s
21 Oct 2026As Miatta ignites the speaker’s gas-fuelled inferno, Reform show up as snowflakes | John Crace
The energy secretary’s trip north provokes Hoyle’s futile rage, while ITV’s Reform exposé leaves Zia Yusuf immensely sadWhen is a licence not a licence? When it’s a new licence that is an old licence. After months of faffing around – there were the small matters of a party conference and a byelection to negotiate first – the government finally gave the go-ahead to drilling in the Jackdaw gasfield
21 Oct 2026Labour will not have the courage to cut spending, says Badenoch
Speaking ahead of next week's Budget, the Conservative leader says her party would make £70bn of cuts.
21 Oct 2026Reform UK fined for failing to declare it was publisher of campaigns material
Party given additional penalty by Electoral Commission for not paying original fine on timeReform UK has been fined more than £2,000 for failing to declare it was the publisher of campaign material seen by voters – including an additional penalty for failing to pay on time.Nigel Farage’s party was sanctioned by the Electoral Commission after four items of election material were missing an “imprint
21 Oct 2026Former Tory election candidate suspended over contract killing claims
Jack Ross was filmed allegedly discussing with an undercover reporter violent options to deal with enemies A former Conservative election candidate has been suspended from the party after he was seemingly filmed discussing the cost of hiring contract killers and offering to “broker” the services of a far-right activist with alleged paramilitary links.Jack Ross was filmed apparently asking an under
21 Oct 2026Are free-scoring Brighton genuine title contenders?
Brighton's start to the season has surprised many outsiders. But how high could they finish?
21 Oct 2026Weird Baile: Collected Rips 2004-2024 review – a hallucinatory trip to baile funk’s outer limits
(TraTraTrax)Two decades of work from producers JLZ, VHOOR, Mu540 and DJ RaMeMes strips the Brazilian genre to its essential parts until it chimes with grime and drillOriginating in 1980s Brazil, baile funk began as a bass-heavy blend of syncopated folk rhythms and hip-hop-influenced sampling, and has since developed into regional styles ranging from the hyperpop freneticism of D.Silvestre to DJ K’
21 Oct 2026Ali G is back. But is the character past its sell-by date?
Borat and Bruno creator Sacha Baron Cohen returns as Ali G, more than two decades after the release of Ali G Indahouse.
21 Oct 2026Author Helen Fielding launches award to find the next Bridget Jones's Diary
The Bridget Jones Prize will go to the author of the funniest 1,000-word diary-style piece of writing.
21 Oct 2026
CultureBelfast comedian criticised for rape 'joke' about assault victim
Vittorio Angelone referred to content creator Rebecca Goodwin in a remark about rape.
21 Oct 2026
CultureBBC Three, BBC Scotland and Radio 4 Extra broadcast channels to close
The closures are announced as the corporation continues to try to save £500m over two years.
21 Oct 2026
CultureClayface review – flesh-stretching DC body horror is very gory but not very good
Liverpool makes for an unconvincing Gotham City in this effectively gross but otherwise middling attempt to milk money from a lesser-known Batman villainA sense of desperation is understandably in the air over at DC, the company, like Marvel, slowly realising that the mass superhero fever has finally broken. There’s still interest there, of course (this summer’s Spider-Man is now the biggest film
21 Oct 2026
Culture‘A vehicle to expose prejudice, bias, and stupidity’: Sacha Baron Cohen defends Ali G as satire
The actor defended his new film, Ali G: Who Iz I?, saying his aim is to bring people ‘face-to-face with the danger of fanaticism and conspiracy theories’Sacha Baron Cohen has launched an impassioned defence of satire, the right to offend, and his Ali G character on in a lengthy article for Time magazine.On the eve of the release of his new film, Ali G: Who Iz I?, Baron Cohen described satire as “m
21 Oct 2026