Roderic Dunnett
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It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.
It followed some...
Best of 2024: TV
They say cinema is dying (you never know, they may be wrong), but you can’t help noticing the stampede of movie stars towards TV and streaming....
Best of 2024: Music Reissues Weekly
A reissue can be an aide-mémoire, a reminder that a record which has been off the radar for a while needs revisiting, that it deserves fresh...
Albums of the Year: Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown
Beth Gibbons’s latest album touched me more deeply than most of...
Gavin & Stacey: The Finale, BBC One review - hilarious h...
The most hyped special of the season came to a...
Best of 2024: Opera
Ireland takes the palm for best of 2024, with Wexford hitting comic heights among its three rarities in Donizettian let’s-make-an-opera, while...
Jamie Foxx, Netflix Special review - doctors and divine inte...
In April 2023 the actor and comic Jamie Foxx had a stroke and was lucky to survive. In his latest Netflix Special, What Had Happened Was......
Best of 2024: Theatre
It's the images that linger in the mind as I think back on a bustling theatre year just gone. Sure, the year fielded excellent productions (and...
Albums of the Year 2024: Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets D...
From the iconic Pop anthems that dominated this Summer, to the Pop Punk resurgence that is still going strong, it’s been an exciting twelve months...