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• Tammy Faye, review: Elton John's new musical near a famous Us televangelist is past-the-numbers

  It isn't a hell of a evidence, more surprisingly purgatorial at too many points, struggling to find a stiff dramatic pulse

  

• Medico Martin's finale was an irresistible hour of mild peril – and one big decision

  During its xviii years on air, Martin Clunes's Medico has proven Television needn't be all murder and doom and gloom – will the bigwigs take note?

• The Repair Shop: A Royal Visit, review: the King's visit to the barn was perfect feelgood TV

  Watching the team restore such treasures as an 18th-century clock and a Victorian vase, personally selected by the Male monarch, was a delight

• How white noise took over the music industry – and put musicians out of pocket

  Songs fabricated upward of ambient dissonance have exploded on YouTube and Spotify, with creators making a killing. But where does this leave real music?

• Move over, Comic Con – the Cats cosplayers are here

  The Britain'southward inaugural Musical Con gave thousands of theatre fans a safe space to sing, trip the light fantastic toe and wear furry unitards

Annotate and analysis

• How TV has abandoned truthful culture

  Showing acts of cultural vandalism on Aqueduct 4's Jimmy Carr Destroys Fine art legitimises the mob mentality that has hijacked the arts

  

• Radio 4's Feedback has lost its seize with teeth without Roger Bolton

  One time again, the BBC'southward pandering to younger viewers rather than its eye-aged core demographic is a misguided approach

  

• The best female film-maker in 1950s Hollywood was an Englishwoman. How did nosotros forget her?

  Ida Lupino's The Hitch-Hiker (1953) was the get-go American film noir directed by a woman – and a towering cinematic achievement

  

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Reviews

• The Waste Land by Matthew Hollis review: how TS Eliot wrote his masterpiece

  Faber poetry editor Matthew Hollis's 'biography of a poem' captures the whirl of literary life in the 1920s – despite some strange omissions

  

• Barbarian, review: an Airbnb booking has never been and so terrifying

  Georgina Campbell and Bill Skarsgård star in this craftily-structured and frighteningly tense horror-thriller out in time for Halloween

  

• The Practiced Nurse: Eddie Redmayne excels as the killer who stalked hospital wards

  In this dramatisation of the existent-life case of Charles Cullen, Redmayne and Jessica Chastain weave a magnificently tense spell

  

• Rina Sawayama, pop'southward newest chameleon, line-dances her style to the top

  This was a loftier-energy set from the young British-Japanese star, and if its sentiments were sometimes drippy, its exuberance was wonderful

  

• Tammy Faye, review: Elton John's new musical about a famous U.s.a. televangelist is by-the-numbers

  It isn't a hell of a show, more surprisingly purgatorial at as well many points, struggling to find a potent dramatic pulse

  

• How 4th-century Christianity radically reinvented itself from a marginal sect to a world ability

  In his new volume Christendom, Peter Heather charts the rise of 'a pocket-sized near Eastern mystery cult' into a world-straddling establishment

  

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Stone'due south untold stories, from band-splitting feuds to the greatest performances of all time

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• The Waste Land by Matthew Hollis review: how TS Eliot wrote his masterpiece

  Faber poetry editor Matthew Hollis'due south 'biography of a poem' captures the whirl of literary life in the 1920s – despite some strange omissions

  

• How 4th-century Christianity radically reinvented itself from a marginal sect to a world power

  In his new volume Christendom, Peter Heather charts the ascension of 'a pocket-sized about Eastern mystery cult' into a world-straddling institution

  

• Alcoholic jihadi hunters and TV stars in the bath – confessions of a ghostwriter

  Often seen as the publishing world's 'dirty little secret', an bearding author reveals what the industry is really similar

  

• Is Mother Expressionless past Vigdis Hjorth review: a thrilling novel almost child-parent obsession

  A female parent goes missing in this uncanny Norwegian legend, which reminds us that every kid will attempt and neglect to know, truly, their own mother

  

• How Television set has abandoned true civilisation

  Showing acts of cultural vandalism on Aqueduct four'southward Jimmy Carr Destroys Art legitimises the mob mentality that has hijacked the arts

  

• Jimmy Carr Destroys Fine art, review: moronic, pathetic and a waste of our fourth dimension

  No doubt the creators wanted to be 'provocative', just this was not in any meaningful way

  

• The Horror Bear witness!, review: An intriguing trawl through the nightmares of youth culture

  Featuring art from Spitting Image to Siouxsie Sioux, this new Somerset House exhibition is equally fun, anarchic and disturbing equally punk itself

  

• Strange Clay: a garden of weird and wonderful delights at the Southbank

  With contributors ranging from household names to relative unknowns, the Hayward's show of contemporary ceramics is both smart and great fun

  

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More stories

• The Love Box in Your Living Room, review: Harry Enfield'due south bewildering BBC transport-up veered close to genius

  Viewers not familiar with Adam Curtis'southward documentaries may have been slightly baffled by Enfield and Paul Whitehouse'south spoof

  

• Is Kanye West finished?

  The talented, troubled rap mogul's anti-Semitic rants have already toll him dearly. How tin his career recover?

  

• The Waste product State by Matthew Hollis review: how TS Eliot wrote his masterpiece

  Faber poesy editor Matthew Hollis's 'biography of a poem' captures the whirl of literary life in the 1920s – despite some foreign omissions

  

• Barbarian, review: an Airbnb booking has never been so terrifying

  Georgina Campbell and Bill Skarsgård star in this craftily-structured and frighteningly tense horror-thriller out in time for Halloween

  

• The Good Nurse: Eddie Redmayne excels as the killer who stalked hospital wards

  In this dramatisation of the existent-life case of Charles Cullen, Redmayne and Jessica Chastain weave a magnificently tense spell

  

• What billionaires really get up to on their superyachts

  Ruben Östlund'south Triangle of Sadness sees a yacht get a floating hell – but how accurate is his depiction of the luxury cruise industry?

  

• Peter Capaldi: 'Every Doctor Who gets backlash'

  The Thick Of It star on Scottish independence, why he's leaving Doctor Who behind, dealing with fans, and his rare excursion into horror

  

• Rina Sawayama, popular's newest chameleon, line-dances her way to the top

  This was a high-energy ready from the young British-Japanese star, and if its sentiments were sometimes drippy, its exuberance was wonderful

  

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Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/

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