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Alfie Packham

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 13, 2026
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Jul 5, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 13, 2026 · Alfie Packham

    ‘The show choir definitely helped me’: the dos and don’ts of joining student societies (opens the original)

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    Signing up for university clubs and societies is a surefire way to meet like-minded people, boosting your social life and your CV at a stroke Clubs and societies are a huge part of student life, though many miss out on them. According to a recent survey by Savanta, 67% of students, particularly those who live at home while studying at university, did not take part in societies, clubs or social activities at least once during term. But if you ask the students and graduates who did benefit from ex

  2. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Alfie Packham

    ‘You’re fired!’ The TV shows you can’t stomach any more (opens the original)

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    Hating The Apprentice? Bored silly of House of the Dragon? Given up on your favourite soap opera after 50 years? Guardian readers share the shows they can’t bear to watch We loved this show for the first four or five seasons. It had a really good mix of candidates, different ages and walks of life. I think it was after season nine that we started to feel the programme was losing its authenticity. Contestants started to look like homogenous Love Islanders, all the same demographic – 20-30 age

  3. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Alfie Packham

    ‘Baggage reclaim was pandemonium’: passengers hit by airport IT chaos in UK recount their ordeals (opens the original)

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    From hours stuck on planes awaiting takeoff, to sleeping the night on the floor at Heathrow. Here are some travellers’ experiences More than 2,000 flights have been cancelled after an air traffic control system failure that has thrown airports across the UK into chaos. Nats, the air traffic control provider, fixed the problem within hours on Tuesday, but hundreds of thousands of passengers were hit by further delays and cancellations on Wednesday. Martin Rolfe, the chief executive of Nats, has

  4. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · Alfie Packham

    ‘Intoxicating mix of humour, high camp and danger’: Tim Curry remembered (opens the original)

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    Guardian readers share memories of actor best known for roles in The Rocky Horror Show and Stephen King’s It I first saw him in the 1978 series Will Shakespeare, where he played Shakespeare alongside Nicholas Clay. Two very classy actors who, whatever the value of the programme, made me want to know more about the man and his work. Tim Curry always had a glorious glint in his eye which drew you in as if you were the only person who understood. Margaret Carradus, Lancaster My best friend lives

  5. Article · Aug 26, 2026 · Alfie Packham

    ‘It destroyed me’ – your top true-crime TV shows of all time (opens the original)

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    From influencers gone (really, really) bad and the outrageous Joe Exotic to the greatest reveal in television history – here are Guardian readers’ favourite real-life documentaries and whodunnits I watched the BBC’s Unsolved: The Boy Who Disappeared when it came out and Damien Nettles, its subject, still pops up in my mind sometimes. It’s a comprehensive, empathetic and gripping investigation into a case I had never heard of. The Serial/Making a Murderer-style approach of showing the inv

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