Arts
Grave goods
There’s a folder in my computer’s external hard drive in which you’ll find 24 complete recordings of the Bach Cello…
Box of tricks
Travesties is a multi-layered confection of art, song, literature and pastiche. Tiny snippets of it are true. In Zurich, in…
Box of tricks
Travesties is a multi-layered confection of art, song, literature and pastiche. Tiny snippets of it are true. In Zurich, in…
Sinful treat
Shiny swags of gold cloth hang in front of the curtain before David McVicar’s production of Der Rosenkavalier, and that’s…
Sinful treat
Shiny swags of gold cloth hang in front of the curtain before David McVicar’s production of Der Rosenkavalier, and that’s…
It’s (still) a man’s world
When Jane Garvey announced to the audience who had just ‘taken part’ in the 70th birthday celebrations of Radio 4’s…
It’s (still) a man’s world
When Jane Garvey announced to the audience who had just ‘taken part’ in the 70th birthday celebrations of Radio 4’s…
Revenge of the robots
The other day James Lovelock, the sprightly 97-year-old inventor of Gaia theory, told a mildly surprised Guardian interviewer that he…
Kate Tempest
Kate Tempest, a 30 year old dramatist and poet, has an appeal that’s hard to fathom. Is it all in…
Hole in the heart
Richard Jones’s new production of Don Giovanni at ENO bears some passing resemblances to the opera as envisaged by its…
Question time
At my wife’s first 12-week scan, I was expecting — and duly got — that much-documented sense of thrilled wonder…
Top of the Pops with silk tights
Here are three roles all actors love to play. The drunk (no need to learn your lines), the dementia victim…
Yes, he Khan
Giselle endures in the collective imagination as a charming, sorrowful, supernatural love story. Premièred in Paris in 1841, this keystone…
Wrong side of the tracks
You will surely have seen the posters for The Girl on the Train with Emily Blunt staring from a train…
Kids’ stuff
When a new TV channel calls its flagship food show Fuck, That’s Delicious, we might surmise that the Reithian ideals…
All things bright and beautiful
For much of the Middle Ages, especially from 1250–1350, ‘English work’ was enormously prized around Europe from Spain to Iceland.…
Head ache
Quite how one person is expected to oversee not just radio but also ‘arts, music, learning and children’s departments’ was…
David Hockney
Born in Yorkshire 79 years ago, he fell in love with the idea of California as a child via Hollywood…
Kids’ stuff
When a new TV channel calls its flagship food show Fuck, That’s Delicious, we might surmise that the Reithian ideals…
Wrong side of the tracks
You will surely have seen the posters for The Girl on the Train with Emily Blunt staring from a train…
Yes, he Khan
Giselle endures in the collective imagination as a charming, sorrowful, supernatural love story. Premièred in Paris in 1841, this keystone…
All things bright and beautiful
For much of the Middle Ages, especially from 1250–1350, ‘English work’ was enormously prized around Europe from Spain to Iceland.…
Kate Tempest
Kate Tempest, a 30 year old dramatist and poet, has an appeal that’s hard to fathom. Is it all in…
Kate Tempest
Kate Tempest, a 30 year old dramatist and poet, has an appeal that’s hard to fathom. Is it all in…
Top of the Pops with silk tights
Here are three roles all actors love to play. The drunk (no need to learn your lines), the dementia victim…
