Arts
Rules of engagement
The BBC foreign correspondent Hugh Sykes was meant to be talking about how music has shaped his life with Sarah…
Rules of engagement
The BBC foreign correspondent Hugh Sykes was meant to be talking about how music has shaped his life with Sarah…
Impaired vision
With the Shannon Matthews story, it’s not easy to accentuate the positive — but BBC1’s The Moorside (Tuesday) is having…
Hull’s a poppin’
In early January, lastminute.com recommended its top 15 destinations for 2017. In 12th spot, just above Montreal, Croatia and Japan,…
Metal fatigue
‘All that glisters is not gold,’ wrote Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice), and you have to hand it to the…
Seeing everything in black and white
Two divergent approaches to printmaking are on view in an exhibition of graphic work by Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud…
Notes on a scandal
Kids: who’d have them? Certainly no one who has ever been to the opera. If they’re not murdering you, they’re…
Sign of the times
As if on cue, The World At One on Monday (Radio 4) ended with a short (too short) interview with…
The real George III
Before he died aged 44 (probably of a pulmonary embolism, poor chap), Frederick, Prince of Wales, compiled a list of…
Playing dead
It could be the nuttiest idea ever. The protagonist of this American musical is Death, who secretly reprieves a beautiful…
Jason Chong & Mark Leonard Winter in Chimerica
This is one for the brighter kids in the class. Chimerica by British playwright Lucy Kirkwood was first produced by…
Hull’s a poppin’
In early January, lastminute.com recommended its top 15 destinations for 2017. In 12th spot, just above Montreal, Croatia and Japan,…
Metal fatigue
‘All that glisters is not gold,’ wrote Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice), and you have to hand it to the…
Seeing everything in black and white
Two divergent approaches to printmaking are on view in an exhibition of graphic work by Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud…
Playing dead
It could be the nuttiest idea ever. The protagonist of this American musical is Death, who secretly reprieves a beautiful…
Playing dead
It could be the nuttiest idea ever. The protagonist of this American musical is Death, who secretly reprieves a beautiful…
Notes on a scandal
Kids: who’d have them? Certainly no one who has ever been to the opera. If they’re not murdering you, they’re…
Notes on a scandal
Kids: who’d have them? Certainly no one who has ever been to the opera. If they’re not murdering you, they’re…
Sign of the times
As if on cue, The World At One on Monday (Radio 4) ended with a short (too short) interview with…
Sign of the times
As if on cue, The World At One on Monday (Radio 4) ended with a short (too short) interview with…
The real George III
Before he died aged 44 (probably of a pulmonary embolism, poor chap), Frederick, Prince of Wales, compiled a list of…
Wall eyed
Any impressively long wall is bound to cause us to recall the midfield dynamo and philosopher John Trewick. In 1978…
The only way is up
Michael Andrews once noted the title of an American song on a scrap of paper: ‘Up is a Nice Place…
Sloppy seconds
Danny Boyle introduced T2 Trainspotting at the screening I attended and said that, throughout filming, he’d seen the cast looking…
Bruckner by numbers
It used to be said that Bruckner composed the same symphony nine times, whereas, thanks to the comparative frequency of…
