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ARENA NEWS WEEK: 100 Years of The Panama Canal, Big Ben cleaned and Jazz Legends In New York
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Arena news week - 100 years since the opening of the Panama Canal, Big Ben's clock face given a clean and Woodlawn cemetery, home of jazz legends, is open to the public
ARENA NEWS WEEK: Frank Maloney, George Orwell Museum and Giant Panda Tian Tian
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Arena Gazette - Frank Maloney reveals gender reassignment, George Orwell's Indian birthplace turned into Museum and Edinburgh zoo's giant panda Tian Tian suspected pregnant
ARENA NEWS WEEK: Assisted dying bill, conflict in Gaza and Dylan Thomas's love letters
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Arena Gazette 14th - 18th July: Assisted dying bill debated in the House of Commons, conflict in Gaza escalates and Dylan Thomas's early love letters sold at auction
AN ASTRONAUT'S GUIDE TO LIFE ON EARTH
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Canadian astroanut Chris Hadfield releases memoir after his version of Bowie's 'Space Oddity' went viral on youtube. Arena meets Russian cosmonauts as they discuss their choice of music whilst on the MIR space station.
SIR ALEX FERGUSON RELEASES AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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Following the release of Sir Alex Ferguson's much anticipated autobiography, Arena looks back at a rare interview with the influential manager where he disucsses the influence of Jock Stein on his early days of football management and his notorious 'hairdryer' treatment.
SNOWDEN LEAKS WORSE THAN CAMBRIDGE SPY RING
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MI5 warns of damage done through leaking GCHQ documents. Arena interviews Kim Philby, former head of MI6 and part of the Cambridge spy ring on his encounter with writer Graham Greene, who was posted to the Secret Service after signing up for National Service aged 36
Obituary: Carolyn Cassady (1923 - 2013)
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Writer and photographer Carolyn Cassady, born on the 28 April 1923, died last week on 20 September 2013. The American writer was associated with the Beat Generation through her marriage to Neal Cassady and relationship with Jack Kerouac.
STEPHEN KING PENS SEQUEL TO 'THE SHINING'
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After 36 years, Stephen King has at last relented and written a sequel to his 1977 novel, The Shining. Doctor Sleep revisits the character of the young son in The Shining, Danny Torrance - now a middle-aged man struggling to come to terms with his psychic powers.
