This thrilling page-turner digs into history of a tunnel beneath the ‘death strip’ and marks 60 years since the Berlin Wall was builtIt was a plan that seemed to defy not just caution but geography: to build a tunnel to help East Germans escape to the …
‘Chipageddon’: how a global tech crisis came to sound quite tasty
First chickens, and now a worldwide shortage of microprocessors … the word ‘chip’ is the latest word to gain an Armageddon flavourAs if there weren’t enough disasters happening simultaneously, people are now speaking of the present “chipageddon”: the w…
The Toll review – toll booth man with no name fights back in jokey Welsh western
Michael Smiley is the toll operator facing up to his murky past in this fusion of western and black comedyFather Ted meets the old west in this entertaining black comedy set in rural Pembrokeshire – “where English people come to die”, according to graf…
A new start after 60: ‘I always dreamed of being a writer – and published my first novel at 70’
In her thirties, Anne Youngson wrote a book in her lunch breaks at work. It stayed in a drawer. Then she retired, wrote her debut and was shortlisted for a major awardWhen Anne Youngson’s agent told her a publisher had made an offer for her first novel…
Cirque Berserk review – big thrills from the big top
Garrick theatre, LondonKnives, flames and adrenaline aplenty lift this daredevil circus show. The stunts impress but the overblown presentation needs an updateA basic circus truth: everything is better with flames. Whether it’s alimbo bar, a barrel bei…
Elizabeth Holmes stands trial – podcasts of the week
The acclaimed Dropout podcast returns to chronicle legal proceedings against the Theranos founder. Plus: good cops go bad in a new series with shades of The WireThe Dropout (available from 31 August)The polo neck wearing, deep voice-imitating, Stanford…
‘It was the happiest time’: The Beach Boys on their strange second coming
They helped define the 60s, but were hopelessly uncool as the 70s began – and Brian Wilson was unravelling. The band discuss the masterpieces they made against the oddsIn the 1960s, the Beach Boys staked their claim as the US’s most popular band, as th…
【詳報】10/13-15開催決定！“リジェネラティヴな未来”を問う3日間「WIRED CONFERENCE 2021」
今年も開催決定となった『WIRED』日本版による大型イヴェント「WIRED CONFERENCE」。「FUTURE : re-generative」というテーマのもと、「CITY」「NEW COMMONS」「SELF+CARE」という3つの領域から未来の“再生”に向けて、多彩な登壇者とともに議論を繰り広げる3日間となる。このオンラインカンファレンスの全貌を、6つのポイントから紹介する。
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Sixteen: Class of 2021 review – what it’s really like to be a teen today
High marks for this emotionally pulverising documentary about a gang of teenagers starting their GCSEs mid-pandemicJust about any documentary set in a school, among the scramble of children bulging this way and that and the tensile network of teachers …
This Is Paradise review – gender relations tell a mesmeric story of Northern Ireland
Traverse theatre, EdinburghActor Amy Molloy delivers an elegant monologue that reveals itself as something greater in this supremely thoughtful showKate Regan is a woman defined by the men in her life. There’s her gentle old Belfast dad, disappointed b…