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Your evening longread: Why people love Line of Duty
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Sitdown Sunday: Can less praise help you be a better parent?
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Your evening longread: The forgotten medieval fruit
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Your evening longread: Why animals don't get lost
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Your evening longread: The 'only openly gay defector' in North Korea finds love
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Your evening longread: Cold water swimming cured my broken heart
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Sitdown Sunday: He asked me, 'Do you think I'm a monster?'
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Your evening longread: Why eating disorders are rife in pop music
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Your evening longread: How social media stars are changing the beauty industry
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Your evening longread: Back to the Future's Christopher Lloyd on love, life and acting
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Sitdown Sunday: Why did some countries get dealing with Covid-19 right, and some get it wrong?
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Your evening longread: Author Paul Auster on the question 'why write?'
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Your evening longread: St Patrick versus the goddess
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Your evening longread: Meet Syria's rebel librarians
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Your evening longread: 'I'm trying to get my mom out of QAnon'
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Sitdown Sunday: Listening to vinyl got me through lockdown
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Your evening longread: The influencers monetising every aspect of their lives
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Your evening longread: 'I wanted to get rid of all of my possessions'
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Your evening longread: The search for the shooter in the hills
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Your evening longread: Meghan, Harry and the Royal Family
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Sitdown Sunday: 'His position seemed to be that I must have children, that it was incomprehensible that I did not'
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Your evening longread: Meet the 'life extensionists'
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Your evening longread: The serial cat killer
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Your evening longread: The legend of Bunny Wailer
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Your evening longread: Kazuo Ishiguro on his incredible career
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Your evening longread: Rediscovering neglected female Hollywood filmmakers of the 1970s
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Sitdown Sunday: My week in frozen Texas hell
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Your evening longread: Alice Cooper on making rock n'roll in Detroit
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Your evening longread: 'We was treated by the ruling class as second class citizens'
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Your evening longread: Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins on the legacy of The Silence Of The Lambs
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Your evening longread: The North Korean defector who vanished... then reappeared
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Your evening longread: Britney Spears and the 'trap' of fame
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Your evening longread: The big business of celebrity pregnancy
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Your evening longread: A 'bad dog' named Jack
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Your evening longread: Why 'morning pages' are said to change people's lives
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Your evening longread: The trouble at Hillsong, the celebrity megachurch
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Sitdown Sunday: The world's most dangerous cosmetic surgery
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Your evening longread: A rare interview with Hollywood icon Shelley Duvall
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Your evening longread: The untold story of Irish post-punk
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Your evening longread: Instagram's accidental gossip queen
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