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How Pope Leo XIV is quietly reshaping the Vatican

Damian Thompson has narrated this article for you to listen to. On the afternoon of Easter Sunday last year, Pope Francis was driven through St...

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Rome / How Pope Leo XIV is quietly reshaping the Vatican

On the afternoon of Easter Sunday last year, Pope Francis was driven through St Peter’s Square in an open-topped Popemobile. A few weeks earlier he...

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High note / My addiction to playing the piano is driving everyone mad

Damian Thompson has narrated this article for you to listen to. From time to time, I’ve given some famous pianists a bit of a kicking in the arts...

13.03.2026 20

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Movie theater / Ann Lee deserves better than her biopic

Ann Lee was a sharp-tongued woman from the back streets of 18th–century Manchester, celebrated for put-downs worthy of Coronation Street’s Bet...

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The problem with the new Shakers biopic

Ann Lee was a sharp-tongued woman from the back streets of 18th–century Manchester, celebrated for put-downs worthy of Coronation Street’s Bet...

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Cinema / The problem with the new Shakers biopic

Ann Lee was a sharp-tongued woman from the back streets of 18th–century Manchester, celebrated for put-downs worthy of Coronation Street’s Bet...

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Cinema / The problem with the new Shakers biopic

Ann Lee was a sharp-tongued woman from the back streets of 18th–century Manchester, celebrated for put-downs worthy of Coronation Street’s Bet...

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Cinema / The problem with the new Shakers biopic

Ann Lee was a sharp-tongued woman from the back streets of 18th–century Manchester, celebrated for put-downs worthy of Coronation Street’s Bet...

16.02.2026 60

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CInema / The problem with the new Shakers biopic

12.02.2026 10

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The Neapolitan Horowitz

29.01.2026 10

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My unofficial music teacher

06.11.2025 10

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How the occult captured the modern mind

30.10.2025 20

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The mind-bendingly creative works of Louis Couperin

09.10.2025 10

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Beast mode / The Antichrist is back

25.09.2025 10

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The Antichrist is back

25.09.2025 10

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No filter / The unsettling rise of DeathTok

29.08.2025 10

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The Listener / A new Beethoven cycle to keep – but hide

22.08.2025 10

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A new Beethoven cycle to keep – but hide

21.08.2025 20

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Classical music / Alfred Brendel was peerless – but he wasn’t universally loved

01.07.2025 20

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Alfred Brendel was peerless – but he wasn’t universally loved

26.06.2025 10

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Classical music / Astonishing ‘lost tapes’ from a piano great

24.06.2025 10

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Classical music / Astonishing ‘lost tapes’ from a piano great

24.06.2025 10

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Astonishing ‘lost tapes’ from a piano great

19.06.2025 10

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Holy welcome / Leo XIV’s papacy is off to a surprisingly promising start

15.05.2025 10

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The knives are out for the conclave front-runner Parolin

07.05.2025 10

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The extraordinary scale of the crisis facing the next pope

27.04.2025 10

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‘I’ve seen controllers come and go’: Radio 3’s Michael Berkeley interviewed

24.04.2025 20

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The extraordinary scale of the crisis facing the next pope

24.04.2025 10

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Justin Welby has cemented his reputation – for having a tin ear

02.04.2025 9

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The Manchurian candidate / Does China have Vatican City in its sights?

26.03.2025 20

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The Manchurian candidate / Does China have Vatican City in its sights?

26.03.2025 10

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The Manchurian candidate / Does China have Vatican City in its sights?

21.03.2025 10

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Classical music / The filthy side of Dame Myra Hess

19.03.2025 10

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Classical music / The filthy side of Dame Myra Hess

13.03.2025 10

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The filthy side of Dame Myra Hess

13.03.2025 10

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Fascist shaman / Jonathan Bowden: my eccentric school friend who became a far-right hero

10.03.2025 10

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Fascist shaman / Jonathan Bowden: my eccentric school friend who became a far-right hero

06.03.2025 30

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Are these performances of the Bach cantatas the best on record?

13.02.2025 20

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After life / My YouTube rabbit hole

13.01.2025 20

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After life / My YouTube rabbit hole

13.01.2025 10

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My YouTube rabbit hole

12.01.2025 10

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After life / My YouTube rabbit hole

09.01.2025 20

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