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      Ben East

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      Ben East is an award-winning arts, culture, travel and sports journalist based in Manchester. He’s been covering the best books, television shows, artists and musicians for The National since 2009, and also works for The Observer, Metro and Monocle.
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      Articles

      The Comet is Coming in Texas in March.
      How England's jazz scene is changing the way we look at the genre

      “A scene comes when you can put on music from very different artists and you get a room saying ‘we love everything’,” says Shabaka Hutchings

      MusicApril 27, 2019
      Kit Harington as Jon Snow and Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen in season eight of 'Game of Thrones'. Courtesy HBO / OSN
      'Game of Thrones': everything you need to remember for season 8

      Make sure you're armed with essential 'Game of Thrones' knowledge ahead of the final series premiere

      TelevisionApril 15, 2019
      Lena Headey as Cersei Lannister in season 8 of Game of Thrones. Courtesy HBO / OSN
      How 'Game of Thrones' almost never existed

      How did we get to the point where the show is not only one of the most popular television dramas of all time, but probably the most influential too?

      TelevisionApril 14, 2019
      Author and investigative journalist Holly Watt. Bloomsbury
      Review: 'To the Lions' is a thriller that explores the potential pitfalls of journalistic thinking

      Holly Watt's debut novel was born out of a fascinating career in journalism

      BooksApril 03, 2019
      A photograph by Meiselas shows the mass grave of the friends and family of those pictured being exhumed. Susan Meiselas / Magnum
      Susan Meiselas's three decades long journey photographing the Kurds

      We hear how a trip photographer took to Kurdistan in 1991 became a 28-year project on the conflict-stricken region

      ArtMarch 26, 2019
      Jamil Jan Kochai set his debut novel in Logar.
      Jamil Jan Kochai reflects on Afghanistan's beauty in new novel

      Author Jamil Jan Kochai tells us how war and family history inspired a magical tale about life in the Afghan village

      BooksMarch 03, 2019
      Sarah Lund, played by Sofie Grabol, in Danish police drama ‘The Killing'. Courtesy Tine Harden
      Review: Scandinavian crime king returns with taut Nordic Noir

      The author returns to fertile ground in his gruesome debut novel

      BooksFebruary 03, 2019
      Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium home. Getty
      How did the English Premier League become the richest business in sport?

      Football clubs are now entertainment brands, through and through

      BooksJanuary 18, 2019
      Author Rajeev Balasubramanyam admits that he, like his protagonist, has also been to the Esalen Institute in California
      Book review: 'Professor Chandra Follows his Bliss'

      There's enough heart and soul here to win over readers of all ages

      BooksJanuary 11, 2019
      Actor John Malkovich says it was the chance to play Hercule Poirot in a phase of his life that is not usually shown that interested him the most. Courtesy BBC.
      How the BBC reinvented Agatha Christie’s classic ‘The ABC Murders’

      'It’s a very different Agatha Christie. The brutality and ugliness perhaps isn’t something people consider when they think of her,' says Rupert Grint

      TelevisionJanuary 06, 2019
      Dominic West, Lily Collins and David Oyelowo star in BBC's modern adaptation of 'Les Miserables'. Courtesy BBC/Lookout Point
      Dominic West: New Les Miserables nothing like the musical

      We go behind the scenes of the new six-part BBC series to grill the cast about getting into character for this modern retelling of the famed epic

      TelevisionJanuary 02, 2019
      Picture Shows: DCI John Luther (IDRIS ELBA)
      Idris Elba confirms a 'Luther' movie is in the making

      Season five of ‘Luther’ is about to hit screens. We meet its star, Idris Elba, and discover the film version will echo classic movies such as 'Se7en' and 'Along Came A Spider'

      TelevisionDecember 19, 2018
      Robin S. Sharma, one of the world's top leadership experts. Alamy Stock Photo
      Robin Sharma's new book is both valuable and completely bizarre

      Rather than walk us through the benefits of ‘The 5am Club’, the best-selling author of 'The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari' cloaks them in a perplexing work of fiction

      BooksDecember 11, 2018
      Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai. Ehsanullah Ehsan became the face of Pakistan's bloody Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan insurgency after announcing the militants' involvement in notorious attacks such as the shooting of female education campaigner Malala Yousafzai.AFP
      Book review: Ziauddin Yousafzai's 'Let Her Fly' is a moving memoir

      This book doesn’t just underline what Malala has been able to achieve growing up in a family celebrating opportunity and equality, but the difference she might be able to make in the future

      BooksNovember 26, 2018
      The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World by Peter Frankopan. Courtesy Bloomsbury
      Book review: Peter Frankopan’s ‘The New Silk Roads’

      As the West loses it way, the historian says all roads to the East

      BooksNovember 21, 2018
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