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TV Review: The Boris Johnson expose was anything but Mar 28 2013

Boris Johnson: The Irresistable Rise (Monday, BBC 2, 9pm) was entertaining as far as it went, and it was certainly unique in the sense that politicians rarely allow such free-range access to their friends and family for a documentary.Read

Laura Davis: Behind every child learning to play a musical intstrument there is at least one tortured parent Mar 28 2013

BEHIND every child learning to play a musical instrument there is at least one parent whose patience is strained to breaking point.Read

THEATRE INTERVIEW: Graham Seed on life after The Archers and starring in Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap at the Liverpool Empire Mar 28 2013

There’s life after The Archers, Graham Seed tells Laura Davis as he stars in the first UK tour of Agatha Christie’s The MousetrapRead

MUSIC INTERVIEW: Nigel Kennedy on playing Bach and Fats Waller at the Philharmonic Hall Mar 28 2013

There’s no one way to be a great musician, violinist and rebel Nigel Kennedy tells Laura DavisRead

In the Orange Juice days Toxteth was like a second home says Edwyn Collins Mar 28 2013

After battling back from a near death experience, Edwyn Collins tells Jade Wright why he’s celebrating every dayRead

PETER SPAULL ON CLASSICA: RLPO play Gorgeous Gershwin at the Philharmonic Hall Mar 28 2013

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Dr Who is back: Matt Smith on the new series and working with Jenna-Louise Coleman Mar 28 2013

Doctor Who’s Matt Smith tells Sarah Morgan about exciting new episodes, working with new sidekick Jenna-Louise Coleman and being part of a legacyRead

Liverpool photographers invited to join Look/13 through competition Mar 28 2013

LIVERPOOL-based photographers are being invited to show their work at the city’s international photography festival.Read

THEATRE REVIEW: Tony Teardrop by Esther Wilson, St Lukes ‘ Bombed Out’ Church, Liverpool Mar 28 2013

THERE were clumps of frozen snow on the stage, not created by a set designer but Mother Nature.Read

CLASSICAL REVIEW: Mahler’s 10th Symphony, Philharmonic Hall Mar 28 2013

BEING unable to get to the first performance of the eagerly-awaited Mahler Tenth Symphony might have been a good thing, in retrospect.Read

What's on in Liverpool - our picks for March 25 - March 30 Mar 25 2013

Sleeping Beauty at Epstein Theatre - Monday March 25, £9Read

What's on in Liverpool - our picks for March 22 - March 24 Mar 22 2013

John Smith at the Epstein Theatre - Friday March 22, 7pmRead

Liverpool music fans given chance to vote on Merseyside's best act of the year Mar 22 2013

Liverpool music fans can vote for GIT Award artists in People's Choice PrizeRead

THEATRE INTERVIEW: The Royle Family’s Ralf Little on starring in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg at the Liverpool Playhouse Mar 21 2013

Peter Nichols’s 1967 play about parents coping with a severely disabled child is just as shocking today, its star Ralf Little tells Laura DavisRead

Wirral musician and former Coral guitarist Bill Ryder-Jones tells Jade Wright why he’s happy to go it alone Mar 21 2013

Wirral musician and former Coral guitarist Bill Ryder-Jones tells Jade Wright why he’s happy to go it aloneRead

ART INTERVIEW: Liverpool Art Prize 2012 winner Robyn Woolston on her Walker exhibition Strangers in a Strange Land Mar 21 2013

Robyn Woolston is placing nine giant bails of plastic waste in The Walker and calling it art, she tells Laura DavisRead

THEATRE REVIEW: I Was a Rat! at the Liverpool Playhouse Mar 21 2013

PHILIP PULLMAN’S tale of the little boy in a footman’s uniform, who turns up on the doorstep of a shoemaker and his washerwoman wife with no memory except that he used to be a rat, is a perfectly composed children’s story.Read

PETER SPAULL ON CLASSICAL: Mahler’s 10th Symphony at the Philharmonic Hall Mar 21 2013

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My own movies? I never watchthem Mar 21 2013

Five years after his departure from Skins, Nicholas Hoult has emerged as one of Hollywood’s most exciting young actors. Susan Griffin catches up with the rising starRead

I probably hit Jason in the throat 732 times Mar 21 2013

Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy have risen from supporting acts to leading stars. Shereen Low tries to keep a straight faceRead

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