10 most influential mobile phones Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email From Motorola’s oh so 80s DynaTAC brick to the Nokia 3310 with its changeable covers and Samsung’s explosive Galaxy Note 7 – these are the phones that matter the most
Samuel Gibbs
Main image: Snake, long SMS messages and changeable covers …the Nokia 3310. Photograph: Science & Society Picture Librar/SSPL via Getty Images Fri 10 Feb 2017 08.
The relaunched Istanbul-Sofia overnight service ready to depart from Halkalı station. Photograph: Angel Petrov/ShutterstockThe relaunched Istanbul-Sofia overnight service ready to depart from Halkalı station. Photograph: Angel Petrov/ShutterstockIstanbul holidaysThe overnight service from Turkey to Bulgaria started running again this year and was voted one of the world’s best journeys for 2023 by Lonely Planet
Last week Lonely Planet’s annual Best in Travel list included the Istanbul-Sofia Express as an essential journey for 2023.
TV reviewTelevisionReviewFonteyn’s story of Panamanian revolution puts Bussell in the shade. Plus, Inside the Christmas Factory, with shouty Gregg Wallace and Cherry Healey
Towards the end of Darcey Bussell: Looking for Margot (BBC1), the Strictly judge and retired ballerina, finds herself in a remote cattle farm in Panama wearing one – a Panama hat. This is where fellow ballerina Margot Fonteyn lived towards the end of her life. “Margot wrote that this was the happiest time in her life,” says Darcy, looking around at the cows in a way that suggests she doesn’t spend a lot of time on farms.
The Week in PatriarchyWomen This article is more than 8 months oldDo people actually regret not having children? Possibly notThis article is more than 8 months oldArwa MahdawiNew research suggests people who are childfree by choice are pretty happy with their decisions, while some parents are not
You’ll regret it if you don’tYou’ll be lonely. Nobody will look after you when you get old. You’ll miss out on life’s greatest joy.
Folk album of the monthFolk musicReview(Smithsonian Folkways)
Subtitled Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick 1958-1971, this 66-song set is full of gripping storytelling and arresting instrumentals from the American south
This invigorating 66-song set of broadside ballads, blues, spirituals and other field recordings from the mid-20th century American south comes with a telling title. It reveals the power dynamics at play when songs performed by African Americans were taped by white male folk collectors.