Leigh Lawson has embraced acting and poetry with the same determination that sustained Marie Lloyd, the music-hall queen whose memorabilia he collects, as Carla Passino discovers

Turner is on our banknotes, Constable in our hearts

Exhibition of the week William Nicholson Pallant House ...

No chance to travel? No problem: from Italy with Pompeo Batoni to the US with Edward Hopper, you can tour the world with artists instead, suggests Maev Kennedy

Celebrating 100 years of the BBC Shipping Forecast, Jane Russell takes us on a series of coastal cruises through the forecast sea areas, exploring some of the special places on offer in each of them

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