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Don't miss: Rebuilding the past, Xmas orbiting the moon and AI art

18 December 2018

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Based on a true story, Robert Zemeckis’s Welcome to Marwen (pictured above) tells the tale of a damaged man, played by Steve Carrell, who sets about literally rebuilding the past. It opens in UK cinemas on 1 January 2019.

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There have been more than 320 instalments of the Australian podcast Science on Top. According to the last one we caught, there is a tornado of dark matter hurtling towards us – though it being dark matter, this doesn’t really, er, matter.

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This year’s Royal Institution Christmas Lectures examine human uniqueness. They start on BBC4 at 8…

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