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Seven years ago Mary Pierce cut off all ties with her father, whose brutal training methods and foul-mouthed courtside behaviour made him the original dad from hell. Now there's been a reconciliation. Well, sort of

Theres more to good sex than complicated positions or wild lust. The authors of a groundbreaking study explain what really makes it great Far from what films and TV shows might tell us, truly magnificent sex has very little to do with daring feats of seduction or screaming orgasms. In fact, according to the latest

The actor Vonetta McGee, who has died aged 65 after a cardiac arrest, was a heroine of 1970s blaxploitation movies, but I pursued her because she had also appeared in the greatest of all Italian westerns, Sergio Corbucci's Il Grande Silenzio (The Great Silence). The year was 1983, and I was in the fortunate position

Maesbrook, Shropshire, is a beautiful, well-to-do village on the Welsh borders. The houses are vine-covered Georgian mansions. The cars parked in the driveways are Range Rovers and Porsches. The people of Maesbrook are, by and large, self-made millionaires from Birmingham and Wolverhampton, entrepreneurs who've made it big.

Royal Court, LondonAlice Birchs radically experimental play, directed by Katie Mitchell, tests the theory that trauma can pass across three generations of women What determines our character? Nature or nurture? Genetic inheritance or social environment? It is an age-old debate, and Alice Birch now adds to it with this startling theatrical triptych about three generations