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  • Philip Quast Australian actor and bass-baritone singer photographed in the street in Redfern, Sydney, Australia. 1 August 2024.

    Walk with ...
    Philip Quast: ‘I don’t have anything left to say in theatre, it’s not my turn any more’

    The three-time Olivier award winner, and ‘voice of Playschool’, on why musicals have been a curse and love, and why it’s now time to leave
  • Ben Gibbard (second left) with Death Cab for Cutie.

    The Postal Service’s Ben Gibbard: ‘You write things when you were 21 that you wouldn’t write today’

    The frontman of Death Cab for Cutie and the Postal Service is playing shows to celebrate the 20th anniversary of both acts’ breakout albums. Is he still happy to be the poster boy for 00s teenage angst?
  • Matt Johnson of the The in London last month.

    ‘Fame is like inhaling a toxic substance’: the The’s Matt Johnson on pop, politics and his death-defying return

    After some big 80s hits, success went to his head – and his life fell apart. Johnson explains how he came back after grief, illness and 24 long years
  • Sadiq Khan seen at Chelsea Football Club, 8 August 2024

    Sadiq Khan on the riots: ‘Like a lot of people of my generation, I felt triggered’

  • Gillian Welch performs during the 2024 Newport Folk Festival in Newport, Rhode Island

    The reader interview
    Americana icon Gillian Welch: ‘Bob Dylan walking on to our version of Billy put a smile on my face’

  • ‘People say my music changed their life’ ... Atkins live in London in 2019.

    Techno godfather Juan Atkins: ‘There were 5,000 white kids going crazy to my music’

  • Ilana Glazer

    Broad City’s Ilana Glazer on her new pregnancy comedy: ‘I had no idea how effortful having children is’

  • ‘There’s a search for who we are as a nation’ … Moin Hussain and Faraz Ayub.

    Sky Peals director Moin Hussain and star Faraz Ayub: ‘People want to identify in one way – but our culture is mixed’

  • Halla Tómasdóttir

    ‘It’s in our DNA’: Iceland’s president on the quest for gender equality

  • Mondo Duplantis celebrates with his family and friends after winning pole vault gold, then setting a new world record.

    Mondo Duplantis: ‘Pole vaulting is a strange sport but it’s so special’

  • D‘Why are people shocked? Do they not have the same thoughts?’ … Ireland.

    ‘I went straight to whisky at 14’: David Ireland on tackling booze on stage

  • Tim Martin smiles for a photo while leaning on a table in a pub, while two young men photobomb him with gestures behind him

    Observer business profile
    Tim Martin of Wetherspoon’s: ‘For a while I was hated based on false information’

  • Remi Allen

    ‘I’m proud of my journey’: Remi Allen on becoming Southampton’s manager at 33

  • Bayer Leverkusen’s Nathan Tella: ‘I look at a picture of my medal every day’

  • ‘This isn’t going to be sensible!’ Olaf Falafel, Edinburgh fringe’s king of one-liners

  • How we survive
    A bolt of lightning struck my plane – and I plunged 3,000m into a rainforest

  • Harvey Barnes

    Harvey Barnes: ‘Eddie Howe is always there for players but he didn’t furnish the house’

  • Emily Campbell pictured at Team GB’s weightlifting team announcement in London last month, with the City of London skyline in the background.

    Weightlifting pioneer Emily Campbell: ‘As women our body is always a journey’

  • Sam Neill at home in Central Otago, New Zealand.

    The G2 interview
    The second act of Sam Neill: ‘The truth was, I didn’t know how long I had to live’

  • A mere three … Ian McKellen in Henceforward (1988); Michael Gambon in A Chorus of Disapproval (1985); Jane Asher in The Things We Do for Love (1997).

    ‘My first play was terrible!’ Alan Ayckbourn on his dazzling career – and writing his 90th play

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