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How the moon affects all our lives
The man who makes miniature houses
Pug tails: why they’re the connoisseur’s dog
The return of the Moke and the secrets of Crossrail

The urban village

Once a swathe of bucolic landscape desired by London’s elite, Hackney is now one of the city’s most cosmopolitan and diverse boroughs, finds Carla Passino

5 mins

DIG DEEP

The team behind Europe’s largest construction project is building new tunnels beneath London’s roads every week, but another group is working with them, too. Harry Wallop talks to the Crossrail archaeologists about woolly mammoths and Roman roads

5 mins

THE CAPITAL ACCORDING TO...Jackson Boxer

Rob Crossan talks to the dynamic chef behind Brunswick House Café and Orasay about custard tarts and feeding London’s masses

2 mins

Beautiful Britain: Blackdown Hills

Kate Green highlights the quiet charms of one of the least-known West Country AONBs

2 mins

Rupert Uloth's Favourite Painting

The Master of the Worshipful Company of Grocers chooses a Cecil Aldin scene that holds family connections for him

2 mins

History and modernity

A house that might have vanished beneath London’s spreading suburbs has been lovingly returned from institutional use and forms the heart of an estate within the capital. John Goodall reports

8 mins

That'll do, pug

Game and gutsy, you dismiss the jovial little pug as a lapdog at your peril, finds Flora Watkins, although do beware the snoring

7 mins

Dancing in the moonlight

Long thought to influence our behaviour, as well as that of the sea and all flora and fauna, the mystical power of the moon continues to exert a hold on us, observes Jeremy Hobson

6 mins

Life in Lilliput

In a room in West Sussex, magic is being created from pieces of cardboard, plastic bottles, pen lids, crayons and glue. Mark Palmer meets William Davies, film animator turned miniature-home maker

4 mins

Nanny knows best

Norland nannies have cared for the children of the great and good for almost 130 years, but behind the white gloves and starched uniforms lies a most progressive institution, finds Flora Watkins

4 mins

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