Bernice Rubens was born in a working class area of Cardiff.
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Bernice Rubens won the 1970 Booker prize for her novel, The Elected Member, and is the only Welsh person to have ever won the prize.
Nintendo
Nintendo doesn’t have the best track record of turning their games into successful screen iterations.
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The musical has become a singalong sensation harking back to a day when cinema was more of a communal experience.
The Doctor (David Tennant) and Donna Noble (Catherine Tate).
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Doctor’s companions need to be open to new experiences, keep going in the face of adversity and be resilient.
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A surprising romantic comedy, a sci-fi classic turns 50, the Booker noms reviewed and more
Tom Baker as Doctor Who.
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Set firmly within the BBC’s public service broadcasting ethos of informing, educating and entertaining, Doctor Who quickly became a mainstay of Saturday evening viewing
Activist Sair Smedlja stands in front of the Crimean Tatar self-governing assembly (the Mejlis) which was closed down when the Russians occupied Crimea.
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A spokesman claims that Crimean Tatars who are arrested by their Russian occupiers are beaten and tortured.
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Irish writers have benefited from structural factors in recent years. However, ask them in person and Irish writers are more likely to highlight impediments to producing work.
Cary Grant in 1935.
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Cary Grant’s films offer complicated and contrasting visions of what it means to be a man.
Josephine with her hair in the coiffure à la victime style in Napoleon.
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A shorn haircut known as the coiffure à la victime, paid tribute to guillotined prisoners whose hair was loped off before execution.
The Hesitant Fiancée by Auguste Toulmouche (1866).
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Why this 1866 painting by French artist Auguste Toulmouche has become an online sensation.
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From a longlist of 12, six novels have been shortlisted for the 2023 Booker prize.
Region of Mordor on the map of Middle-earth.
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Tolkien was far more concerned that we take his novel on its own terms as a work of art than that we arrive at some correct interpretation.
Vanessa Kirby and Joaquin Phoenix as Josephine and Napoleon.
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A historian explains what the relationship between one of the most famous couples in history was really like.
John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy in the limousine in Dallas minutes before the assassination.
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The event shocked the world. But it also sparked the minds of filmmakers, authors, artists and conspiracy theorists.
A scene from Outlander.
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Productions such as Braveheart and Outlander present a narrow version of Scottish cultural identity.
Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon.
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Here are the truths behind some of the major scenes from Ridley Scott’s new Napoleon biopic.
Marcus Aurelius was a Roman emperor and one of TikTok’s favourite Stoics.
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Can you be happy by simply accepting your fate? TikTok seems to think so
The Beatles wave to fans after arriving at New York’s Kennedy Airport in 1964.
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Both bands have remained commercially and culturally significant since the 1960s.
Netflix
Pluto follows German robot detective Gesicht as he traces the mysterious killings of robots and humans.
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The tale lamenting the loss of a mythical British upper class is as sharp now as ever.
Pete Doherty performing in 2017.
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Doherty’s life features many of the characteristics experts know increases vulnerability for drug use.
News media companies are starting to use AI tools, but not all of them are making it clear to the public.
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Media companies should set up guidelines for how they are using AI.
The Succession finale had fans carefully avoiding spoilers.
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A series of psychological experiments found that knowing the end of a story did not diminish readers’ enjoyment.
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It is unusual to find a tomb so intact and so well preserved.