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Janet Street-Porter is so unashamedly honest, witty and entertaining that you wish you could spend days, not hours in her company. Described on her own website as “the nation’s favourite pissed-off pe

In 1976, the revolutionary singer-songwriter LAURA NYRO returned from self-imposed exile. But her comeback confounded expectations, shifting away from the impassioned intimacies of her early albums to embrace more radical perspectives. Fifty years on, Nyro’s collaborators revisit her striking second act. “She was a hip American from the Bronx,” one friend and producer tells Rob Hughes. “But her soul was old.”

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→ What has been your standout moment of 2025? Going on tour again in Europe. I can’t remember the last time we went out as a band and we had such an amazing time. It was like a busman’s holiday, we al

→ What have been your cultural highlights of 2025? At the David Lean Cinema we’ve been doing All of Us Strangers walks this year. So there is a sort of pilgrimage walk to all the locations. And there’