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Enugu to host BON Awards in November
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Enugu to host BON Awards in November

Pete Edochie, actress and filmmaker Ruth Kadiri, actress Peju Ogunmola, and filmmaker Steve Sodiya would receive Special Recognition Awards at the ceremony.

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Aberfan: From Darkness to Light review – Mealor’s requiem offers hope amid the tears
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Aberfan: From Darkness to Light review – Mealor’s requiem offers hope amid the tears

Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff A thoughtful and moving concert – with Paul Mealor’s new choral work its centrepiece – commemorated the 60th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster A concert requiem of hope is how composer Paul Mealor describes his new choral work Aberfan: From Darkness to Light, commemorating the 60th anniversary of the disaster that killed 116 children and 28 adults. Heard first in the Aberfan Community Centre with the voices of children from today’s junior schools – Ynysowen Primary School and Ysgol Gymraeg Rhyd y Grug – joining the Ynysowen Male Voice Choir, the BBC National Chorus…

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I used to think I had impeccable taste in music. My kids taught me to stop being a snob
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I used to think I had impeccable taste in music. My kids taught me to stop being a snob

I used to think I had impeccable taste in music. Music may not define them in the way it defined many of my generation, but my children still know a good tune when they hear one There was a moment, some years ago in a St Kilda summer, when our family was driving along a busy street, the car windows down, belting out Eric Carmen’s Make Me Lose Control.

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‘I laughed so hard my Tampax fell out’: Michael Gambon’s pranks revealed by the stars he cracked up
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‘I laughed so hard my Tampax fell out’: Michael Gambon’s pranks revealed by the stars he cracked up

He made Daniel Radcliffe’s Harry Potter fart, left Judi Dench unable to control herself and told a fry-up fantasy about Helen Mirren. A new biography details the star’s mischief Jasper Rees’s authorised biography of Michael Gambon, published three years after the great actor’s death, has nuanced accounts of his performances in Shakespeare, Beckett and Pinter as well as The Singing Detective and the Harry Potter films.

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‘Vicarious wish-fulfillment’: why That Thing You Do! is my feelgood movie
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‘Vicarious wish-fulfillment’: why That Thing You Do! is my feelgood movie

The latest in our ongoing series of writers explaining their most rewatched comfort films is a journey back to the 90s for Tom Hanks’ heartfelt 60s-set music comedy “How did we get here?” That’s the question Steve Zahn’s character in That Thing You Do! asks his bandmate with bemusement right before they perform on live television.

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‘People think songwriters go around crying all the time’: Jimmy Webb on his epic hits – and wild drinking days
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‘People think songwriters go around crying all the time’: Jimmy Webb on his epic hits – and wild drinking days

From Wichita Lineman to MacArthur Park, he penned masterpieces. As Jimmy Webb resurrects his unheard numbers, he recalls writing for Dolly, Frank and Glen – and the night Richard Harris stripped off and disappeared ‘Flat for 50 miles,” recalls Jimmy Webb, remembering the desolate stretch of Oklahoma that inspired his classic song, Wichita Lineman.

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Ever Since I Knew Myself review – confronting the scars of childhood
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Ever Since I Knew Myself review – confronting the scars of childhood

Maka Gogaladze’s debut feature looks at generational differences in the context of Georgia’s education system and emphasis on collectivism The scars imprinted on impressionable young minds can never fully fade away. Aiming her lens at a rocky beach thrashed by crashing waves, Maka Gogaladze opens her intimate film with a painful anecdote from her adolescent years.

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Igor Levit: Resistance album review – essential listening in a time of bullies and despots
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Igor Levit: Resistance album review – essential listening in a time of bullies and despots

The German pianist performs these works by Beethoven and Schoenberg – linked by Napoleon – with his characteristic exquisite touch, in interpretations full of poetry Resistance is one of the inaugural offerings on Igor Levit’s own label, No Silence Records, released in collaboration with Sony Classical. Never afraid to stick his head above the parapet, the German pianist has chosen two works exploring ideas of human resilience in the face of political power, with Liszt’s transcription of Beethoven’s Symphony No 3, the Eroica, rubbing shoulders with Schoenberg’s Ode to Napoleon.

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Sandra Amarquaye wins PR Professional Practitioner of the Year at IPR Excellence Awards 2025
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Sandra Amarquaye wins PR Professional Practitioner of the Year at IPR Excellence Awards 2025

Sandra Amarquaye, Corporate Communications Manager at Karpowership Ghana Company Limited (KGCL), was named PR Professional Practitioner of the Year at the 2025 Institute of Public Relations (IPR) Ghana Excellence Awards. At Karpowership Ghana, Sandra contributes to corporate communications, media relations, stakeholder engagement and CSR initiatives, helping strengthen the company’s reputation and relationships with employees, institutional stakeholders and communities.

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Roads Ministry wins PR Organisation of the Year for the second time
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Roads Ministry wins PR Organisation of the Year for the second time

The Ministry of Roads and Highways has won the Public Sector PR Organisation of the Year award for the second consecutive time at the Institute of Public Relations (IPR) Ghana Excellence Awards. The Institute commended the Ministry’s Public Relations Unit, led by Alhaji Nasir Ahmad Yartey, a public relations practitioner and development communication professional with more than 17 years of experience in Ghana’s public sector, for its strategic and professional work.

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The Pianist review – Władysław Szpilman’s Holocaust memoir retold with his own music
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The Pianist review – Władysław Szpilman’s Holocaust memoir retold with his own music

Park theatre, London This adaptation is perhaps too smooth but is well-staged and performed, and draws strong feeling from the pianist’s compositions The idea of turning the survival story of the Polish pianist Władysław Szpilman into a musical might, on paper, seem distasteful given the stark subject matter of the Holocaust. There is risk of triteness, too, in the light of Roman Polanski’s acclaimed film, starring Adrien Brody, based on Szpilman’s celebrated memoir.

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