Arts

Simple pleasures

7 August 2014 1:00 pm

According to some textbooks, one thing the fathers of Soviet choreography hastened to remove from ballet was that awkward-looking language…

Family ties

7 August 2014 1:00 pm

One of the many delightful aspects of having children is that you can get them to do things you are…

Family ties

7 August 2014 1:00 pm

One of the many delightful aspects of having children is that you can get them to do things you are…

Home Front: Radio 4's first world war drama will fight out the full four years

2 August 2014 9:00 am

Kate Chisholm on the BBC’s ambitious new radio series

‘Goose Woman’, c.1840, by George Smart

Why did it take so long to recognise the worth of British folk art?

2 August 2014 9:00 am

British folk art has been shamefully neglected in the land of its origin, as if the popular handiwork of past…

I think I’ve found the new Maria Callas

2 August 2014 9:00 am

Some of my most enjoyable evenings, when I reviewed opera weekly for The Spectator, were spent at the Royal College…

Was Elgar’s The Kingdom an attempt to write a religious Ring Cycle?

2 August 2014 9:00 am

To go from the second day of the England v. India Test match at Lord’s to the Albert Hall for…

In Norwich, a director is caught trying to murder Wagner’s Tannhäuser

2 August 2014 9:00 am

Seventeen years ago the Norwegian National Opera staged two cycles of the Ring in Norwich’s Theatre Royal, performances that have…

Terribly, terribly English: Helen McCrory as Medea

Let’s face it, Greek tragedy is often earnest, obscure or boring. Not this Medea

2 August 2014 9:00 am

Carrie Cracknell’s new version of Medea strikes with overwhelming and rather puzzling force. The royal palace has been done up…

Moon Indigo: an all-you-can-eat buffet for the eyes - but your brain will feel famished

2 August 2014 9:00 am

Your enjoyment of Michel Gondry’s Mood Indigo may entirely depend on how much visual whimsy you can take, what your…

The Terracotta Army Museum: the warriors were built to protect Quin Shi Huuang, China’s first emperor

Barbie dolls? This girl aims for the head

2 August 2014 9:00 am

Channel 4’s Kids and Guns (Thursday) began with an American TV advert in which a young boy’s eyes shone with…

Glasgow and the Commonwealth go back a long way; Radio 4 explores a murky past

2 August 2014 9:00 am

What’s been missing from the schedules during the Commonwealth Games has been a straightforward reminder about who makes up the…

A history of remembrance

2 August 2014 9:00 am

One fight that seems to have been won is that spearheaded by the War Memorials Trust to preserve the thousands…

We will remember them

31 July 2014 1:00 pm

One fight that seems to have been won is that spearheaded by the War Memorials Trust to preserve the thousands…

We will remember them

31 July 2014 1:00 pm

One fight that seems to have been won is that spearheaded by the War Memorials Trust to preserve the thousands…

Pitch perfect

31 July 2014 1:00 pm

To go from the second day of the England v. India Test match at Lord’s to the Albert Hall for…

Pitch perfect

31 July 2014 1:00 pm

To go from the second day of the England v. India Test match at Lord’s to the Albert Hall for…

Neville Marriner: still going strong at the age of 90

How conductors keep getting better at 90

26 July 2014 9:00 am

Matthew Stadlen talks to three conductors about growing old very gracefully

The Lunchbox: a love story based on food and free postage

26 July 2014 9:00 am

Was Kate due a grounding after the awards extravaganza of Revolutionary Road and The Reader? Because Labor Day (12A) slipped…

Natalia Osipova in the Royal Ballet’s ‘Connectome’, choreographed by Alastair Marriott

Natalia Osipova interview: ‘I'm not interested in diamond tiaras on stage’

26 July 2014 9:00 am

Giannandrea Poesio talks to Natalia Osipova about her ballet-based philosophy

When Mr and Mrs Clever-Nasty-and-Rich met Mr and Mrs Thick-Sweet-and-Poor

26 July 2014 9:00 am

Torben Betts, head boy at Alan Ayckbourn’s unofficial school of apprentices, has written at least a dozen plays I’ve never…

Malevich: Are Tate visitors ready for this master of modernism?

26 July 2014 9:00 am

Kazimir Malevich (1879–1935) is one of the founding fathers of Modernism, and as such entirely deserves the in-depth treatment with…

I can’t see the point of Glyndebourne’s La traviata

26 July 2014 9:00 am

One of the highlights of last year’s Glyndebourne Festival was the revival of Richard Jones’s Falstaff, spruced up and invigorated…

Obstacle on the footballing front: Natascha McElhone as Georgie’s mother

The problem with Believe is you simply won’t believe any of it - unless you’re a child

26 July 2014 9:00 am

The trouble with Believe is that, unless you are ten years old or under, which I’m assuming you are not,…

In which James Delingpole gets down with the kids, finds they’re sex-obsessed…

26 July 2014 9:00 am

If there’s one thing everyone knows about BBC comedy it’s that it’s going downhill. According to Danny Cohen, now Director…