Arts
Family ties
One of the many delightful aspects of having children is that you can get them to do things you are…
Four years of war
Kate Chisholm on the BBC’s ambitious new radio series
Sheer delight
British folk art has been shamefully neglected in the land of its origin, as if the popular handiwork of past…
Voice of enchantment
Some of my most enjoyable evenings, when I reviewed opera weekly for The Spectator, were spent at the Royal College…
Pitch perfect
To go from the second day of the England v. India Test match at Lord’s to the Albert Hall for…
Triumphant Tannhäuser
Seventeen years ago the Norwegian National Opera staged two cycles of the Ring in Norwich’s Theatre Royal, performances that have…
There will be blood
Carrie Cracknell’s new version of Medea strikes with overwhelming and rather puzzling force. The royal palace has been done up…
All whimsied out
Your enjoyment of Michel Gondry’s Mood Indigo may entirely depend on how much visual whimsy you can take, what your…
Trigger happy
Channel 4’s Kids and Guns (Thursday) began with an American TV advert in which a young boy’s eyes shone with…
Commonwealth connections
What’s been missing from the schedules during the Commonwealth Games has been a straightforward reminder about who makes up the…
We will remember them
One fight that seems to have been won is that spearheaded by the War Memorials Trust to preserve the thousands…
We will remember them
One fight that seems to have been won is that spearheaded by the War Memorials Trust to preserve the thousands…
We will remember them
One fight that seems to have been won is that spearheaded by the War Memorials Trust to preserve the thousands…
Pitch perfect
To go from the second day of the England v. India Test match at Lord’s to the Albert Hall for…
Pitch perfect
To go from the second day of the England v. India Test match at Lord’s to the Albert Hall for…
Knights of the baton
Matthew Stadlen talks to three conductors about growing old very gracefully
Summer viewing
Was Kate due a grounding after the awards extravaganza of Revolutionary Road and The Reader? Because Labor Day (12A) slipped…
Living dance
Giannandrea Poesio talks to Natalia Osipova about her ballet-based philosophy
North and south
Torben Betts, head boy at Alan Ayckbourn’s unofficial school of apprentices, has written at least a dozen plays I’ve never…
Spiritual sensations
Kazimir Malevich (1879–1935) is one of the founding fathers of Modernism, and as such entirely deserves the in-depth treatment with…
High hopes
One of the highlights of last year’s Glyndebourne Festival was the revival of Richard Jones’s Falstaff, spruced up and invigorated…
The trying game
The trouble with Believe is that, unless you are ten years old or under, which I’m assuming you are not,…
Laugh a minute
If there’s one thing everyone knows about BBC comedy it’s that it’s going downhill. According to Danny Cohen, now Director…
Staying in tune
Where next for Radio 3? Last Friday was the First Night of this year’s Proms season but it was the…
The art of celebrity
‘The Picture of the Prime Minister hangs above the Chimney of his own Closet, but I have seen that of…
