41 m. ago ‘Chipmunks were obsessed with my mics’: the man who recorded a tree for a year

Joshua Bonnetta spent 8,760 hours recording a pine – then honed it down into a four-hour album full of creatures, cracking branches and quite possibly the sound of leaves growingWhat does a landscape sound like when it’s not being listened to? This philosophical question was a catalyst for film-maker and artist Joshua Bonnetta, who has distilled a year of recordings from a single tree in upstate New York – that’s 8,760 hours – into a four-hour album, The Pines. As Robert Macfarlane writes in his accompanying essay, The Pines is a reminder of the natural world’s “sheer, miraculous busyness”, its “froth of signals and noise”. It is rich with poetic meaning, and resonant amid the climate emergency.“It started as a personal thing,” Bonnetta explains from his studio in Munich, where he relocated from the US in 2022. For over 20 years he has made sonic records of places as private mementos, but recent experiments with long-form field recording led him to push himself “to document this pla...

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49 m. ago Penn Badgley reveals alternative series ending You writers nearly used

Co-creator Greg Berlanti scrapped the idea due to one large flaw

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98 m. ago Parallel Lines by Edward St Aubyn review: An elegant skewering of the beautiful and the damned

Death, psychosis, apocalypse — it’s a strong mixture for a novel. In the hands of a writer less capable than Edward St Aubyn, it would probably add up to a fatal dose for a book that you were actually hoping to read and enjoy.

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1 hour ago Camping kit list: Tried and tested camping tech to take on your outdoor adventures

Consumer technology writer Gareth Butterfield has been camping for years, and these are the gadgets he likes to take with him every time he goes away

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2 h. ago 'I bought the Wonderskin lip stain's new shades to see if it lives up to my original favourite'

The cult-favourite Wonderskin lip stain has launched new shades, and Shopping Writer Meghan couldn't wait to try the new shades to see if it was as good as her favourite hues

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2 h. ago 'I love the original Wonderskin lip stain so much I bought the new shade to see if it's as good'

Shopping Writer Meghan is a huge fan of Wonderskin's viral lip stains, and she loved them so much that she bought the new shades as soon as they launched to see if they lived up to her original

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2 h. ago Cost of Edinburgh Fringe means comedy is becoming more elitist, says Matt Forde

Edinburgh Festival Fringe has helped to launch the careers of numerous comedians and writers.

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2 h. ago Philip Pullman announces The Rose Field, the final part of Lyra’s story

The acclaimed writer of His Dark Materials says the third volume in The Book of Dust series will portray a ‘dangerous, breathtaking quest’Philip Pullman has revealed he will tell the final part of Lyra Silvertongue’s story in The Rose Field, which will come out this autumn.It has been six years since a book about Lyra has been published – and 30 since readers first encountered her in Northern Lights, the first in Pullman’s His Dark Materials children’s fantasy trilogy. The bestselling novels, which have since been adapted into a TV series by the BBC, take place across a multiverse and feature “dæmons” – physical manifestations of a person’s soul that take the form of animals. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Best camping gear 2025: Our tech expert's tried and tested checklist for your summer getaway

Camping has never been more popular, but we’re a nation that likes our creature comforts so consumer technology writer and camping fanatic Gareth Butterfield has compiled a list of gadgets you might want to take with you

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5 h. ago Flood the zone: Trump’s shock and awe game plan to revolutionize America – and keep his enemies on the back foot

The chaos of Trump’s first 100 days is actually the result of a deliberately choreographed plan to damage any institution not explicitly aligned with the MAGA movement, writes Andrew Feinberg

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6 h. ago Top Gun 2 writer’s cousin sues Paramount saying he wrote ‘key scenes’

Shaun Gray seeks joint credit for screenplay and share of film’s profits

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6 h. ago Trump’s chaotic threats won Mark Carney the Canadian election – but only just | Colin Horgan

This was a vote against delusions of a ‘51st state’ and economic warfare, rather than an endorsement of the Liberals’ policiesYesterday, as Canadians went to the polls, US president Donald Trump suggested that if Canada became part of America, they could vote for him instead. But in truth, Canada becoming the 51st state wasn’t a prerequisite for Canadians to vote on Trump. It was Trump who set the stakes of this election anyway, beginning almost as soon as he took office. His threats against Canada, both economic and existential, were the backdrop of this campaign. An unexpected crisis on our doorstep.And now, the Liberal party, led by Mark Carney, has won a fourth term in office, a result that would have seemed unthinkable just a few months ago, before Trump’s unprecedented intervention.Colin Horgan is a Toronto-based writer and a former speechwriter for Justin Trudeau Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Arsenal dig deep in search of fine margins required to conquer PSG – and ‘write their own history’

Mikel Arteta has repeatedly encouraged his side to ‘write their own history’ but knows the players need to be ‘convinced’ they can do it

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8 h. ago Millions of Brits are forgoing travel insurance but my holiday nightmare shows you need it

My trip to Georgia in the Caucasus was a meant to be a thrill-seeking adventure, but one unfortunate incident sent me seeking medical assistance without being insured

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10 h. ago ‘You have to be taken inside Poirot’s brain’: Ken Ludwig on the secret to adapting Agatha Christie

The US playwright and anglophile behind much-revived comedies has a flair for crime and is following a crowd-pleasing Murder on the Orient Express with Death on the NileIf you ever face a quiz question about the most performed theatre writers in the world, likely to have a play on somewhere every day, William Shakespeare, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Agatha Christie are all reliable answers but a fourth may surprise you: Ken Ludwig. He also has intriguing connections with the other three.The popularity that made the American wealthy enough to have donated £1m to the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is partly due – apart from his own much-revived comedies, Lend Me a Tenor (1986) and Moon Over Buffalo (1995) – to Christie. Ludwig’s 2017 adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express has had hundreds of productions and is currently touring the UK. We meet when he is in London for a workshop on a second Hercule Poirot adaptation, Death on the Nile, which premieres in September. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Navigate choppy political waters with proper public affairs support

Politicians will be keen to engage with businesses in the run-up to the 2026 Holyrood election so be ready to harness the opportunites this will present, writes Jack Hope

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12 h. ago Bestselling novelist 'killed on houseboat': Murder probe launched after award

A bestselling novelist was found dead on a houseboat after being violently attacked.

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14 h. ago Experts find 'new and more accurate way' of detecting prostate cancer

The new technique is now the 'prime candidate' for potential clinical trials, raising hopes that for the first time, a routine screening could be possible.

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14 h. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews The Honesty Box on E4: To be honest, the lie detector twist's wasted on this third

According to E4's new matchmaking format The Honesty Box, 90 per cent of people on dating apps are lying - about their age, their earnings, their intentions and practically everything else.

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14 h. ago Blood cancer survival odds could be ‘doubled’ as bone marrow test trial is a success

Earlier detection will give health workers a bigger ‘window of opportunity’ to act, researchers say

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