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Film

How we made Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

Michael Palin and Terry Jones recall the hilarity on the set of their 1983 classic – and reveal what Mr Creosote's vomit was made of
Television

Jennifer Saunders: 'People tell me I'm frightening'

Interview: The star of Absolutely Fabulous talks about Dawn French and Joanna Lumley, performing in front of militant audiences in the 80s – and why she wanted to write an 'all right' memoir
- Dexter finale: a betrayal of the characters we knew
- Atlantis: 'Think of this as the Greek A-Team'

Art and design

Under the hammer: a history of attacks on art

Interactive: Here are 26 examples of assaults on art, from a statue of Christ beheaded by Reformation zealots to a Leonardo drawing blasted with a shotgun
Television

Breaking Bad recap: season five finale

Richard Vine's episode blog: So it's over. And what a story: tension, pathos, brutality, humour and shocks. Contains spoilers
Music

Watch Pixies play live in Paris tonight

Live stream: From 8pm tonight, BST, see Pixies opening their world tour at L'Olympia in Paris, courtesy of the music streaming service Deezer
Books

What is Bridget Jones like in 2013?

Blog: She won the hearts of millions as the archetypal thirtysomething singleton and now she's back – in her 50s
- Suzanne Moore: Why I hate Bridget Jones

Is an arts degree worth the tuition fees? - five-minute video debate

Belinda Parmar, of tech agency Lady Geek, and art critic Adrian Searle debate whether an arts degree is worth the time and money

Stonehenge prepares to open visitor centre after decades of rows and delays

30 Sep 2013: Construction of museum, cafe and shop 1.5 miles from stones follows series of scrapped plans and missed deadlines
Man dies after taking 'bad' ecstasy at Warehouse Project event in Manchester

30 Sep 2013:
Organisers 'devastated' by clubgoer's death and illness of at least five others at show featuring DJs Axwell and Armand Van Helden
Elbow announce new album, tour and debut live release

30 Sep 2013:
Band put out recording of Jodrell Bank show on their website, with followup to Build a Rocket Boys! scheduled for March
Three Stooges film discovered in garden shed

30 Sep 2013:
Comedy legends' missing 1933 film restored after negative found by Australian collector
Hugh Jackman hints at Wolverine exit

30 Sep 2013:
Promoting new film Prisoners in San Sebastian, Hugh Jackman has confirmed his role in Chappie and suggested he may be hanging up his X-Men claws
Atlantis grabs 1m viewers from X Factor

30 Sep 2013: BBC1 fantasy drama attracts nearly 6 million viewers, helped by following Strictly Come Dancing, as ITV show draws 7.8 million. By John Plunkett

Max and Ivan: welcome to the standup slamdown

30 Sep 2013:
Their wrestling show put Edinburgh in a chokehold, their latest play hits London soon – and they've only been at the comedy game a few months. Brian Logan meets Max and Ivan
Sarah Lucas at the Whitechapel: more than the sum of her parts

30 Sep 2013:
Breasts, bums, blokes and their bits – Sarah Lucas's riotous new show lets it all hang out. And the result is strangely disturbing, writes Adrian Searle
Venice - the city that created opera

30 Sep 2013:
In the early 18th century, Venice, a city of some 160,000 inhabitants, boasted seven full-time opera houses. John Julius Norwich looks at the Italian city's great cultural history
Damian McBride and the real meaning of Foo Fighters' Best of You

30 Sep 2013:
Perhaps it's fitting that, far from being the motivational anthem of grunge, the song is really about a bitter breakup
Why I took up the cello in my 60s

30 Sep 2013: Learning to play a musical instrument at any point in life is good for the brain, it turns out. Who cares if I sound like a 'sick cow'?

- Fifty years of Doctor Who: how I fell in love with a timelord
  
  As Doctor Who celebrates its half-century, superfan Jenny Colgan kicks off our special

A theatre is a huge barrier for a lot of people. I work outside and if people come up and ask what it is we're doing when we are setting up a show a sure-fire way of getting rid of them is mentioning the word theatre
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