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Sitdown Sunday: The holiday village run by spies
Your evening longread: What it's like to move to France to become a boulangerie apprentice
Your evening longread: How antiperspirants became a billion-dollar industry
Your evening longread: How MySpace changed the face of music
Sitdown Sunday: 'I live-streamed every second of my life'
Your evening longread: What it's like living on the remote Faroe islands
Your evening longread: Meet the godfather of fake news - and the factchecker
Your evening longread: The strange and dangerous world of big cat breeding in the USA
Your evening longread: Harry Houdini and the art of escape
Your evening longread: How the site Cameo makes cash from D-list celebrities
Your evening longread: My life as a quiz obsessive
Your evening longread: A family story told through a recipe for seaweed soup
Sitdown Sunday: The oldest person who ever lived... or a fraud?
Sitdown Sunday: 'Did this happen? Or did I just have a really, really bad dream?'
Sitdown Sunday: The incredible life and tragic death of Lyra McKee
Sitdown Sunday: New clues in the case of the Isdal Woman mystery
Sitdown Sunday: How a trip on a lesbian cruise changed my life
Sitdown Sunday: We need to talk about Michael Jackson
'We beat Le Tissier's Southampton. Lawrie McMenemy shook my hand and said: 'Listen kid, sensational f*****g goal''
Sitdown Sunday: Doctors told her she was 'just fat' - she actually had cancer
Sitdown Sunday: The Japanese women stealing so they can go to prison - and not be lonely
Sitdown Sunday: Can the internet be detoxified?
Sitdown Sunday: Is bacon killing us?
Sitdown Sunday: The life and tragic death of Philip Seymour Hoffman
Sitdown Sunday: 'I wasn't supposed to love this man, or his work'
Sitdown Sunday: Harvey Weinstein's accusers tell their stories
Sitdown Sunday: 'How fake news turned a small town upside-down'
Sitdown Sunday: 'She's 98. He's 95. They met at the gym'
Sitdown Sunday: Fashion’s 'inherent snobbery' about plus-size clothing
Sitdown Sunday: Wrongly prosecuted over her mother's murder
Sitdown Sunday: Why aren't more women CEOs?
Sitdown Sunday: 'I was trapped in an underwater cave with oxygen running out'
Sitdown Sunday: Meet the people who sell their sex lives to websites
Sitdown Sunday: Hillary Clinton is furious
Sitdown Sunday: 'I said I was never going back' - the first look at The Last Jedi
Sitdown Sunday: Meet the witnesses to prison executions
An award-winning short story before bedtime: The Taking of Mrs Kennedy
Sitdown Sunday: Milo Yiannopoulos and the 'lost boys' of the new right
Sitdown Sunday: Solving the murder of Peter Falconio
Sitdown Sunday: Murder, mystery and greed - the bizarre case of Pam Hupp