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Perspective: Nick Grimshaw Shares His Honest Playlist

Executive context: The presenter reflects on his musical journey and the songs that shaped him.

Perspective: Fill that Glasto-shaped hole! The 40 best UK festivals you can still book

Executive context: Who needs Worthy Farm? From woodland raves and psych freakouts to fell walks and barbecue hoedowns, there’s a festival for everyone this summer.

Editorial Staff Mar 29

Entertainment

Perspective: ‘I was in the pit of despair’: Non-speaking autistic novelist Woody Brown on his journey from write-off to writer

Executive context: Woody Brown, once underestimated, now shares his story through an acclaimed debut novel that amplifies the voices of those like him.

Editorial Staff Mar 28

Entertainment

Perspective: I thought I’d been coping with my sister’s death – a Taylor Swift song showed me I hadn’t

Executive context: A Taylor Swift song helped me confront the grief I had been suppressing for years.

Editorial Staff Mar 28

Entertainment

Perspective: Pop maverick Robyn on sleaze, snobbery and dating during IVF: ‘When there isn’t as much at stake, sex becomes more fun’

Executive context: The Swedish musician decided to pursue motherhood alone, and found it came with a surprising sexual awakening – a story she lays out on her new album, her first in eight years.

Editorial Staff Mar 28

Entertainment

Perspective: ‘How can a TV show make you feel such emotions?’ The Bluey composer shares the trick to music that ‘hits you in the feels’

Executive context: As the new Bluey album, Up Here, arrives – complete with chamber orchestra – Joff Bush describes how he ‘seeds’ musical elements to draw out powerful emotions.

Editorial Staff Mar 27

Entertainment

Perspective: Add to playlist: the coffee-shop pop of Gianna and the week’s best new tracks

Executive context: With her acoustic guitars and trip-hoppy beats, the London musician recalls a particular era of polished 00s boho-pop.

Editorial Staff Mar 27

Entertainment

Perspective: Flea: Honora review – Chili Pepper turns piper, taking up trumpet for a soulful jazz odyssey

Executive context: Imaginative interpretations of Funkadelic and Frank Ocean sit alongside starry collaborations and gorgeous instrumentals on the bassist’s brassy side project.

Editorial Staff Mar 27

Entertainment

Perspective: ‘A broken heart can turn somebody into a bad Casanova’: breakout R&B star Leon Thomas on defiance, D’Angelo and his ‘doggie’ persona

Executive context: Winning two Grammys last month cemented the New Yorker’s transition from producer for the likes of Drake to guitar-soloing superstar.

Editorial Staff Mar 27

Entertainment

Perspective: Alexander Kluge, author and key film-maker in the New German Cinema movement, dies aged 94

Executive context: A winner of the Golden Lion at Venice, Kluge was a committed pacifist and one of the last living torchbearers of the Frankfurt school of neo-Marxist cultural criticism.

Editorial Staff Mar 26