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EDMUND DE WAAL'S UNFINISHED BUSINESS

Fiammetta Rocco — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:00:13 +0000

"The Hare with Amber Eyes" has become an international phenomenon. Fiammetta Rocco follows the author to Vienna and finds the saga continuing ... read more »

THE 60-YEAR JOB: FRANK NAISH

Charles Nevin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:12:29 +0000

In the last in our series, a cider farmer who has never left Britain tells Charles Nevin that if you give up, you've had it ... read more »

THE 60-YEAR JOB: JENS RISOM

Charles Nevin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:16:08 +0000

The furniture designer Jens Risom tells Charles Nevin why he still enjoys working ... read more »

THE 60-YEAR JOB: BRIAN GLANVILLE

Charles Nevin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:20:11 +0000

He began work as a sports journalist in his teens. Aged 80, Brian Glanville tells Charles Nevin that you need to persist and not exaggerate your influence ... read more »

THE 60-YEAR JOB: THE QUEEN

Charles Nevin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:47:18 +0000

Since the age of 25, hers has been a life of meeting, greeting, touring and red boxes. Six decades on, the Queen is busier than ever. As Charles Nevin explains, you can put it down to her sense of duty ... read more »

THE 60-YEAR JOB: FREEMAN DYSON

Charles Nevin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:38:22 +0000

The distinguished quantum physicist, who worked with Einstein at Princeton, tells Charles Nevin three things he's learnt ... read more »

THE 60-YEAR JOB: DAPHNE SELFE

Charles Nevin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:11:05 +0000

Charles Nevin meets a model who is more successful in her 80s than she was in her 20s ... read more »

THE FLUSH TOILET IS THE GREATEST INVENTION

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:23:40 +0000

Elizabeth I was too embarrassed to use it, but, as Nick Valéry argues, it has saved billions from a far worse fate ... read more »

THE TRANSISTOR RADIO IS THE GREATEST INVENTION

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:25:22 +0000

The entrepreneur Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu argues that for millions in rural Africa, the transistor radio improves farming, protects health and reduces poverty ... read more »

FIFTY YEARS ON: 1962

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:07:32 +0000

The Sixties as we know them began in 1963, which tends to leave 1962 in the shade. But this was a year of seismic events and cultural firsts. Matthew Engel travels back in time ... read more »