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MARS TO WITHIN A METRE

In his new column, The Music of Science, Oliver Morton looks forward to a new era of exploration on Mars, the only other planet on which humans might plausibly live ...

BEEF STROGANOFF WITH DEPTH

Stove notes: Simon Hopkinson recommends a dusting of paprika, a spoonful of sour cream and some fresh tomatoes ...

THE 60-YEAR JOB: BRIAN GLANVILLE

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 ...

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 ...

SEDUCED BY BERLIN

Robert Walser's "Berlin Stories", translated into English for the first time, have humble subjects and fabulous images, writes Simon Willis ... read more »
MADRID TAKES STAMINA

Being There: Fiona Maharg-Bravo reports on life in a city that never sits down to a meal until it has to ... read more »
HOW TO WRITE LIKE SHAKESPEARE

In the ninth in our series Notes on a Voice, Robert Butler takes on the world's most famous dramatist ... read more »
THE 60-YEAR JOB: FREEMAN DYSON

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 meets a model who is more successful in her 80s than she was in her 20s ... read more »
THE 60-YEAR JOB: SIR PETER HALL

On February 6th, Queen Elizabeth II reaches her diamond jubilee – 60 years in the same job. Charles Nevin tracks down six others who have lasted as long ... read more »
THE PLAYLIST: 1972

As a gem of a year for music reaches its ruby anniversary, Tim de Lisle digs out some old LPs ... read more »