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Peter Needham obituary | Theatre

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TheatreObituaryPeter Needham obituaryThe Cheek by Jowl theatre company's two world tours of their celebrated all-male As You Like It in the 1990s launched the careers of several young actors, including Mark Benton, Tom Hollander and Adrian Lester. They were in their early 20s; Peter Needham, who has died aged 76, was entering his 60s, and played the clown Touchstone. His other roles with Cheek by Jowl included Polonius to Timothy Walker's Hamlet (1990), and Pompey and Friar Peter in Measure for Measure (1994), and his time with the company was memorable for the fresh view it took of the classics and its desire to take them on the road. Read More...

Summer Science: Clothes Keep You Cool, More Or Less

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The cool weather in London is good news for the Olympic athletes because their bodies won't need to put as much energy into cooling off. But most of us aren't lucky enough to be headed to London, and we could use some help keeping cool. When you get hot you sweat — but it's not enough to just sweat. To cool off, you need that sweat to evaporate. It's evaporation that drains the heat from your body. Read More...