The Folio
No. 31Monday 5 October 2026Jess Entwistle
The Phantom of the Opera reaches 40 years at His Majesty’s on Friday.
Front page
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Weddings
Elle King marries Dan Tooker in an intimate forest wedding ceremony
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Culture · Film
Olivia Colman is now a Miu Miu runway model
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Culture · Theatre
The Phantom at 40
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Culture · Music
Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl returns to No. 1 after Encore reissue
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Culture · Music
Glastonbury 2027 tickets sell out in 42 minutes
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Culture · Film
Digger flops with $8 million opening, becoming the biggest bomb of Tom Cruise’s career
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Culture · TV
East of Eden boss Zoe Kazan on that devastating ending and Florence Pugh’s Cathy
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Home
A country retreat on the Stockholm archipelago, built against Nordic minimalism
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Travel · Hotels
Alone with the stars, lynx and wolves in Empty Spain
In this edition
Read and listen
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Listen · Kermode & Mayo’s Take
THREE FILMS OF THE WEEK? Is that even allowed? + Olivia Colman
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Listen · The Rest Is Entertainment
Is Marina Wrong About Hollywood A-Listers?
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Listen · Song Exploder
Key Change: Demi Adejuyigbe on The Strokes
Today’s playlists
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Wake up · 12 songs
First light, no rush
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Shower · 12 songs
Big chorus, hot water
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Work · 12 songs
Quiet hours at the desk
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Car · 12 songs
Thirty miles of chorus
Reading
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Fiction · read by Julia Whelan and Zachary Webber
Yours Truly
Ambience
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For this morning · 11:54:56
Warm Morning Jazz
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For this evening · 8:03:01
Cozy Country Cottage Ambience with Rain and Fireplace Sounds for…
And finally
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Something good
The music transported us to another planet