Arts
Shall we dance?
‘Blimey! How on earth did they think of that?’ is unlikely to be anyone’s response to Our Dancing Town (BBC2,…
Drama queen
God, what a dusty old chatterbox Schiller is. Like Bernard Shaw, he can’t put a character on stage without churning…
Julia Baird
In 2015, Queen Elizabeth II became the longest reigning sovereign in British history surpassing Queen Victoria who is the subject…
Caveats be damned
You will have registered the buzz surrounding La La Land and clocked its seven Golden Globe wins and 11 Bafta…
The Bourne identity
From a film about ballet to a ballet about film. In reworking the 1948 Powell and Pressburger classic The Red…
Shape shifter
Victor Pasmore once told me how he greeted Pablo Picasso at Victoria station. The great man had come to Britain…
Drama queen
God, what a dusty old chatterbox Schiller is. Like Bernard Shaw, he can’t put a character on stage without churning…
Drama queen
God, what a dusty old chatterbox Schiller is. Like Bernard Shaw, he can’t put a character on stage without churning…
Word perfect
All that’s needed for Radio 4’s One to One series (Tuesdays) to succeed is a sharp-eyed interviewer, ready with the…
Word perfect
All that’s needed for Radio 4’s One to One series (Tuesdays) to succeed is a sharp-eyed interviewer, ready with the…
Shall we dance?
‘Blimey! How on earth did they think of that?’ is unlikely to be anyone’s response to Our Dancing Town (BBC2,…
Haus of ill repute
Here in Munich, in the gallery that Hitler built, this year’s big hit show is a spectacular display of modern…
Munchkins and mischiefs
Arthur Rackham shouldn’t have lived in anything as conventional as a house. It should have been a gingerbread cottage, like…
Long suffering
Silence is Martin Scorsese’s film about Jesuit priests in 17th-century Japan whose faith is sorely tested, just as your patience…
Ways of seeing
‘Radical’ is like ‘creative’, a word that has been enfeebled to the point of meaninglessness. Everybody seems to want to…
Giving it both barrels
In Joseph Roth’s The Radetzky March, the ageing Emperor Franz Joseph regrets the drab field-grey that has replaced his army’s…
Joining the dots
A new website, radio.garden, lets us browse radio stations across the globe. Nothing new about that. That’s been a key…
Holmes spun
One of the few intelligent responses from the liberal-left to our radically altered political landscape was an essay published last…
Hedda Garbler
Hedda Gabler is one of the most influential plays ever written. It not merely illuminated an injustice, the enslavement of…
Jim Maxwel
Two of the ABC’s most admired radio presenters have published books that are perfect holiday reading: Richard Fidler’s Ghost Empire…
Munchkins and mischiefs
Arthur Rackham shouldn’t have lived in anything as conventional as a house. It should have been a gingerbread cottage, like…
Long suffering
Silence is Martin Scorsese’s film about Jesuit priests in 17th-century Japan whose faith is sorely tested, just as your patience…
Ways of seeing
‘Radical’ is like ‘creative’, a word that has been enfeebled to the point of meaninglessness. Everybody seems to want to…
Hedda Garbler
Hedda Gabler is one of the most influential plays ever written. It not merely illuminated an injustice, the enslavement of…
Hedda Garbler
Hedda Gabler is one of the most influential plays ever written. It not merely illuminated an injustice, the enslavement of…
