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Sex Actually With Alice Levine: no other presenter is this good at bizarre intercourse

From VR brothels to synthetic wives, Levines fun and empathic presenting style is just perfect. If were ever to grasp the dizzying world of tech-inspired sex, shes a must Sex! Ah, youve gone all uncomfortable, havent you. Blushing and wriggling in your chair. Is someone watching you read this? What if what if they

Country diary: What sights were seen from this magnificent cairn?

Mochras, Gwynedd: This is a dramatic spot, and the nearby abundance of dog-whelk perhaps gives a clue as to what commerce thrived here If ever youve splashed and slogged your way to Bryn Cader Faner, the finest bronze age monument in Britain according to the archaeologist Frances Lynch, then as you were sitting in the

Daphne's unruly passions

'Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again', the opening of Rebecca, is Daphne du Maurier's most quoted line. And from 10 May, the centenary of her birth, we should all be prepared to revisit Manderley repeatedly, as in a recurring dream. For du Maurier is about to be comprehensively celebrated.

Final Cut (Coupez!) review Hazanaviciuss silly, splattery zombie horror meta-farce

The Artist directors remake of the Japanese cult film One Cut of the Dead is an undemanding, easygoing way to kick off the Cannes film festival Lets do the wacky metafictional zombie film right here! That is the rationale behind this unassuming knockabout comedy-farce - in which more or less everyone gets splattered with blood

The Google Killer engine has arrived ... er, no it hasn't | John Naughton, the networker

Sometimes, ignorance is bliss. We saw two examples of this last week. The first came when a new search engine - Cuil (www.cuil.com) - was unveiled. The launch was an old-style PR operation. Some influential bloggers and mainstream reporters had been briefed in advance, and whispers were circulating in cyberspace that this would be Something