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How I escaped my anxiety and depression through architecture and poetry

Social anxiety led him to introversion and silence. The brutalist architecture of London’s Barbican Estate inspired his liberation in poetry.

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The joys and failures of audio description

Audio description enhances the experience of watching a film or TV show for people with a visual impairment, but it's not widely available in the UK. Alex Lee explains why.

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  • The waterfalls at Liancourt. Etching by I. Silvestre.
  • Les Eaux-Bonnes, Pyrénées: waterfalls. Lithograph by J. Jacottet.
  • The castle of Liancourt seen from the waterfalls. Etching by I. Silvestre.
  • Eshowe, South Africa: waterfalls (The Umlalaas). Albumen print by J. Wallace Bradley.
  • Geography: petrified waterfalls in North America. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.
  • Geography: the comparative height of various waterfalls. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1846, after himself.
  • Geography: the comparative height of various waterfalls. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1846, after himself.
  • Umbilo Falls, South Africa: waterfalls near Durban. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • Geography: a grouping of the highest mountains and waterfalls, and the longest rivers. Coloured mixed method engraving after C. V. Monin.
  • Geography: a grouping of the highest mountains and waterfalls, and the longest rivers. Coloured mixed method engraving after C. V. Monin.
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