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Carol Morley‘s Dreams of A Life documentary film explores the life of Joyce Carol Vincent, a young women whose skeleton was found in her flat three years after she died. The film starts in 2006 with a reconstruction of the discovery of Vincent’s skeleton by bailiffs seizing possession of her Wood Green flat. It then…

Am I the only one tiring of Sky Atlantic’s Steven Spielberg produced dinosaur adventure Terra Nova? It’s admittedly still early days but the show is scarily short on ambition and has a growing list of issues I’m struggling to get past: Other than consistent series branding, why is the camp called Terra Nova? It’s a…

ITV has confirmed that it’s on-off special An Audience With Barry Manilow will air on Friday, 28 October 2011 on ITV1 and ITV1 HD. With 80 million records sold worldwide, including Mandy and Copacabana, the singer is one of most successful singer songwriters of our time and earlier this year released his latest album, 15…

iPad users can now download the Guardian’s new app for Apple’s bestselling tablet. Available free for a limited time, the app will support Apple’s subscription service with a monthly cost of £9.99. Features include offline reading for all articles and pictures, the ability to share stories via Facebook, Twitter and email and access to related…

Richard Jobson’s The Somnambulists is for the most part powerful and moving insight into the experiences of British military personnel serving in Iraq. The film uses a succession of testimonies told against a black backdrop to tell the stark realities of life on the front line of a war many back home don’t support. The writing…