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On The Road script goes on show

The original manuscript of Jack Kerouac’s classic novel On The Road is on display outside North America for the first time. Full published article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/england/west_midlands/7767025.stm

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Cranford writer ‘predicted death’

The writer Elizabeth Gaskell foretold her own death months before suffering a fatal heart attack, it has been revealed in letters acquired by Manchester University. Full published article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/7763716.stm

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Review: Edward Scissorhands

It’s not so easy to high-five with knives, but the scything gestures and cutting shapes of hand movements in Matthew Bourne’s glorious fairytale suggest a communal dance relationship between the hand-sheared boy and the suburban […]

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Review: Hamlet

There are some things even Time Lords can’t fix. So, the bad back that forced David Tennant to miss the previous night’s performance meant that he missed the press night too – and instant fame […]

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Review: The Little Prince

One year before he was lost in an air-bound spying mission in 1944, the French writer and adventurer Antoine de Saint-Exupery published his extraordinary children's story, The Little Prince, in which a pilot crashes in […]