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Command and Control: the nuclear war video inspired by Eric Schlosser's new book (4min 26sec)
Ender's Game: watch Harrison Ford and Sir Ben Kingsley in the trailer for the space adventure - video (1min 58sec)
For Those in Peril: watch the trailer for Paul Wright's feature debut - video (1min 40sec)
Roman skulls found at Crossrail site in London - video (1min 46sec)
The Guardian Film Show: Sunshine on Leith, Filth, Thanks for Sharing and How I Live Now - audio (20min 53sec)
Simon Armitage, water and the ocean's rising tide – books podcast (40min 26sec)
Jhumpa Lahiri on Unaccustomed Earth – books podcast (26min 47sec)
The Guardian Film Show: Blue Jasmine, Runner Runner and Prisoners - audio (18min 53sec)
Tristram Kenton's week on stage – in pictures (13 pictures)
Pictures of the week: Badgers, by James Warwick (8 pictures)
Graphic music scores - in pictures (12 pictures)
Art Sheffield, Dorothy Cross, Kara Walker: the week's art shows in pictures (8 pictures)
Typography - your favourite fonts
The month in photography – audio slideshow
Share your art - your chair artworks
Bros or hoes? What the data from rappers' lyrics shows
Waterstones predicts the Smiths frontman's forthcoming Autobiography will be a top seller at Christmas
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The wine-quaffing French deep-house hedonist empties the contents of his psychic record bag
Lena Jakat: Each year, a quarter of a million Germans come to Cornwall, lured by the books of a British author largely unknown in her own country – and the gorgeous locations in German TV adaptations of her work
Buster Keaton, the great comic actor of the silent era, was born on this day in 1895. He is seen here with his parents Joe and Myra with whom he performed from the age of three in the vaudeville act The Three Keatons
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City life meets nature studies in this week's roundup of reader reviews
Jonathan Jones: The king of street art starts a month-long takeover of New York city and Geoffrey Farmer reimagines Zappa's life – in your art dispatch
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Vertiges has a fascinating premise but is too forbiddingly abstract to sustain an hour-long performance, says Judith Mackrell
Claudio Abbado and Martha Argerich bowed out to doughty substitutes Bernard Haitink and Maria João Pires who, with Diego Matheuz, provided two very fine evenings, writes Martin Kettle
The opera of Iain Banks's surreal thriller has the power to fascinate and disturb, writes George Hall
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