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From Blacklist to Oscar Shortlist

Colin Thomas on the director Paul Turner and political blacklisting within the BBC
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Intermission

A review article of Owen Martell's new book by Daniel G. Williams
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Simon Brooks examines the census 2011 figures and focuses on Welsh language use
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Craig Owen Jones on Lance Armstrong's 'confession' and his media machine
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Hywel Dix reviews Gwenlyn Parry's tortuous play, Saer Doliau, performed in Welsh with subtitles at London's Finborough Theatre
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Machynlleth is currently experiencing a sharp rise in poverty and the ‘restructuring’ of the Centre for Alternative Technology. Helen Pendry argues that the town offers an insight into a disturbing conflation of neo-liberal austerity measures with an ethos of sustainability.
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Ellen Bell on Helen Sear's solo exhibition, Lure, at Oriel Davies in Newtown
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‘I’ll fight the very devil to paint pictures of Life’
Peter Lord on the lost work and life of Maurice Sochachewsky
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Focus

MusicArtPoliticsOpera Anthony Brockway Sara Rees Mike Parker Steph Power
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Do We Need an All-Wales Police Force?

Huw Evans details the argument for an all-Wales force in a post-devolution era: ‘the professional policing community is now saying that the current structure is unsustainable’
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Sian Howys on the Assembly's bilingual policy
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‘Germany, my Beloved Land’:
Gareth Jones and the Nazis


Teresa Cherfas examines revelations about the young Welsh journalist, Gareth Jones, who was killed in mysterious circumstances, a couple of years after exposing the famine in Soviet Ukraine.
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A review of Welsh National Opera's Jeptha