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Red-hot party DJ Mark ronson will pump up the volume on new cruise ship scarlet Lady by curating the party music and spinning vinyl on several sailings when she launches on april 1, 2020.

To highlight Virgin Voyages’ homage to British music and heritage, the ship will call into Liverpool and Dover in February 2020, so cruise fans can have a sneak preview before she crosses the pond to her home port of Miami. Get on board by visiting virginvoyages.com. Much more Munch arT lovers inspired by the Edvard Munch Love and angst exhibition at the British Museum can see 28 of his original works on Viking Cruises’ ocean ships.

The cruise line has links with the Munch Museum in oslo and guests can join a behindthescenes tour during Viking sky’s ‘Majestic Fjords & Vibrant Cities’ cruise. Twelve nights from £4,340pp departing Copenhagen on July 28 (0800 319 66 60, vikingcruises.co.uk). Tenzing in Tromso CLIMB on board exploration yacht rV kinfish with guest guide Tashi Tenzing, grandson of Tenzing norgay, who with Edmund Hillary was the first climber to scale Mount Everest.

Tashi will be on the 12-passenger, ten-night ‘norway’s orca Highway’ cruise, which departs Tromso on november 27. Cruise- only from £8,655 pp (0117 369 0696, swoop-arctic.com). All-inclusive Italy Book online to secure Marella Explorer’s ‘Idyllic Italia’ seven-night cruise from £1,017pp with stop-offs at Civitavecchia for rome, naples for Pompeii, as well as Taranto, and Messina in sicily. The all- inclusive sailing includes flights from London Luton on June 21 (0871 230 2800, tui.co.uk).