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Our roundup of what to watch at home includes Rambert’s prequel to the hit TV series, Jodie Comer reprising the legal drama and Roald Dahl’s The Magic Finger

From David Sedaris’s comic diaries to Maya Angelou’s poem Amazing Peace, count down to Christmas with our Advent calendar of festive reads

(1) CLASSIC CAR WITH AN SFF PEDIGREE. J. Michael Straczysnki told Facebook readers he needs a taker for the late Harlan Ellison’s 1947 Packard. For the last six months, we’ve talked to just about every vintage car company in existence about buying Harlan’s 1947 Packard, to no avail. It’s not an especially collectible car, not

The actor’s controlled inner outrage reels us in with this eerily prescient tale from 1977 of a dystopia in which art is criminalised

Art becomes an offence in this adaptation of a 1977 tale

Kay Dick’s novel They was almost forgotten – but its dark predictions are eerily prescient. Perfect fodder for Peake and her new company to bring to life in Manchester

The five-time Grammy winner talks about fleeing a communist dictatorship, the pre-eminence of African music – and being labelled a ‘diva’

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Lost for 40 years, this dystopian novel is written in deceptively simple prose but the short, sharp sentences build, layer upon layer, a terrifying and menacing atmosphere in a world

“Her conversion was absolute.”