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Stephen Fry

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  My feelgood movie

  ‘What a magic trick’: why Gosford Park is my feelgood movie

  The latest in our series of writers fondly sharing their go-to mood-lifting films is a journey to the countryside with Robert Altman in charge

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  Move over, Claudia: how Jonathan Ross became a Traitors style icon
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  Harry and Meghan join AI pioneers in call for ban on superintelligent systems
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  Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

  From the archive (season 2): Stephen Fry

  Podcast48:46
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  The Importance of Being Earnest review – Stephen Fry’s Lady Bracknell presides over merrily queered comedy

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  Stephen Fry and Theo James to star in film about marine bottom trawling

  Launch comes as charities call on UK government to ban ‘destructive’ fishing industry practice in protected areas

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  Stephen Fry’s ‘vocal double’ to be used in AI installation at Hay festival

  The actor, who has spoken about artificial intelligence on multiple occasions, said the installation ‘reveals both the wonders and pitfalls of AI’

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  Time Travel is Dangerous review – likable mockumentary is Back to the Future meets Bargain Hunt

  Real-life vintage shop owners Ruth Syratt and Megan Stevenson raid the past for sellable trinkets in this charmingly funny, quintessentially British comedy
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  ‘Stain on this country’: celebrities condemn cuts to UK disability benefits

  Actors including Stephen Fry and Brian Cox criticise plan that will remove support for more than 1 million people
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  Michael Sheen, Jameela Jamil and Hanif Kureishi join packed Hay festival lineup

  Yulia Navalnaya, widow of Russian opposition leader, is also due to appear, in a festival dedicated to activism and an exploration of the impact of AI

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  AI systems could be ‘caused to suffer’ if consciousness achieved, says research

  Experts and thinkers signed open letter expressing concern over irresponsible development of technology

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  Paul McCartney says change in law over AI could ‘rip off’ artists

  Former Beatles member says government should protect creative workers as consultation on copyright continues

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  Sadiq Khan, Stephen Fry and Emily Thornberry make new year honours list

  Mayor of London ‘truly humbled’ to be made a knight as authors, actors and sporting stars receive honours

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  ‘We recognise it in this very primal way’: Stephen Fry, Brie Larson, Chris Ofili and more on why we can’t get enough of Greek mythology

  Love, death, grief, power, revenge: Greek tragedies get to the essence of the human experience. Here, writers and artists select their favourite plays, music and films inspired by ancient classics, from The Hunger Games to a Santana hit

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  Audiobook of the week

  Odyssey by Stephen Fry audiobook review – one hell of a trip

  With his distinctive narration, the author-actor brings warmth and humour to his retelling of Homer’s epic, the last in his Greek myth series
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  Alvin Rakoff, veteran director of British TV and film, dies aged 97

  The much-loved director gave an unknown Sean Connery his first leading role as well as overseeing some of the biggest TV dramas of the 1970s and 80s
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  Book of the day

  Odyssey by Stephen Fry review – a jaunty version of Homer

  The last in Fry’s four-book retelling of the Greek myths is relatable and full of humour

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  In brief: Odyssey; Good Nature; Listen for the Lie – review

  Stephen Fry is at his best in the last of his quartet of Greek myths; new insights into how the natural world boosts our health; and a suspected killer is the subject of small-town gossip

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  Slashed painting owned by Stephen Fry’s mother tells chilling story of fleeing from Nazis

  1920s canvas of Dutch woman, to be shown for first time at Holt festival, has slit from border guards’ bayonets

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  Stephen Fry likens removing Parthenon marbles to Nazi Germany taking the Arc de Triomphe

  Actor and comedian says it would be ‘classy’ move if British Museum returned the ancient sculptures to Greece