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Dec 17, 2020

Regé-Jean Page on Bridgerton: 'We’re seeing this Regency romance through a feminist lens'

“As an artist, you have to constantly ask yourself: ‘Why this story? Why now?’”, says Regé-Jean Page. The 30-year-old actor is video-call...

Nov 7, 2020

Dance like a butterfly, sting like a bee: why Akram Khan embraced MMA

"I’ve never felt so intimidated in my life,” the choreographer and dancer Akram Khan says. “I was in a room with all these alpha males wh...

Nov 7, 2020

'Fill the room with love': the stress-busting jazz of Alabaster dePlume

Uncertainty has been the only constant of this strange year. For Gus Fairbairn, AKA multi-instrumentalist Alabaster dePlume, the anxiety ...

Aug 6, 2020

'You need to lower your expectations': top tips from Indian Matchmaking

“Compromise and adjustment is what I tell all my clients – you need to lower your expectations,” says Sima Taparia. Speaking over video c...

Jul 16, 2020

'I’ve seen how uprisings have come from pain': Idris Elba on Black Lives Matter

“History maketh the man,” says Idris Elba. The actor is quoting his late father, a man who he has spent the past two years playing a vers...

Jul 7, 2020

'What if my kids are scared of me?': Alex Brooker on life as a disabled dad

Last year, Alex Brooker was swimming in the cold waters of Lake Windermere, struggling to reach the shore. The comic and TV presenter beg...

Jun 30, 2020

‘It’s like we just fell on to this planet’: the rise of psych-rockers Khruangbin

Onstage, the Texan trio Khruangbin are a strange sight to behold. At their sold-out show at London’s near-5,000 capacity O2 Academy Brixt...

Jun 16, 2020

Bootsy Collins: 'We're all funky, just not all of us know it'

At the age of 17, William “Bootsy” Collins packed up his homemade bass guitar and left home to tour the world with James Brown. He was he...

Apr 10, 2020

Lockdown with Limmy: Trucking, tweeting and the joy of Mrs Brown's Boys

Brian Limond is coping remarkably well with the coronavirus lockdown. “I don’t like going out, so I never really leave the house,” he say...

Mar 13, 2020

‘History needs to be set alight’: Shabaka Hutchings on the radical power of jazz

Shabaka Hutchings has been thinking about the end a lot. “For there to be a change, there needs to be the end of what we want changed,” h...

Feb 29, 2020

On “Dark Matter,” Moses Boyd Proves Free Jazz’s Dancefloor Potential

Since its emergence in the mid ’60s, free jazz has maintained a reputation as not so much a musical style as an academic institution—a pl...

Jan 12, 2020

Motsi Mabuse: ‘People didn't expect black people in ballgowns’

Motsi Mabuse is remembering the rough dance halls of apartheid-era South Africa and the shocking sights she would see as she took her fir...

Dec 14, 2019

Alex from Glastonbury: ‘I still get recognised all the time’

Of all the events at this year’s Glastonbury festival – Stormzy’s headline set, David Attenborough giving a speech on the climate crisis ...

Dec 3, 2019

Sax, riots and racism: the radical jazz of Soweto Kinch

It’s rare to see Soweto Kinch without his saxophone. Six foot tall and most often dressed in black, he can usually be found, sax in hand,...

Nov 18, 2019

Treating mental health with an app: Chips with Everything podcast

I spoke on the Guardian's flagship technology podcast, Chips with Everything, about the growing market in digital therapy apps. You can l...

Aug 31, 2019

Gary Crosby: 'Young, black men had to be intimidating – they were terrified'

If you find yourself lost in the catacomb-like basement of London’s Southbank Centre on a weekend, you’ll probably stumble across Gary Cr...

Jul 28, 2019

Anglo-Indian musician Sarathy Korwar: 'There's no singular brown voice'

Sarathy Korwar likes to define himself as an “outsider”. Outside popular music, outside the British Asian experience, outside Indian cult...

Jul 28, 2019

Hip-hop horseman: Fab 5 Freddy gallops through Renaissance art

There’s something of the Renaissance man about Fred Brathwaite, AKA Fab 5 Freddy. A graffiti artist turned film-maker, producer and curat...

May 20, 2019

Troy Deeney: 'It got too exhausting being the tough guy'

Troy Deeney would like you to know that he is a “nice guy”, despite his reputation as one of the most intimidating players in English foo...

May 20, 2019

Blue Note boss Don Was: 'Jazz can't become synonymous with pop again'

'Journeyman' is a term often used to describe Don Was. At 66, the Detroit-born bassist and producer charted in the 1980s with his funk-fu...

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