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The Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason follows up Godland with an equally striking film, this one about a moribund marriage. It’s a living…

My walk through Hyde Park was an absolute joy. Spring is in the air, the weeping willow is in leaf (pictured below right: photo by S.K),…

Fans of Call the Midwife (which is currently “taking a break” after the conclusion of Series 15) will no doubt recall, with a nostalgic…

For anyone to create a whole, new, recognisable – and kick-ass – musical style in this day and age is no small achievement. To do so as you…

My last St John Passion arrived during the Proms in the vast hanger of the Royal Albert Hall, where the impeccable, discreet musicianship…

To watch Martin Hayes play the Irish fiddle is like watching a man possessed by his music. As his bow flickers across the strings the…

The Middle East is on fire – again. So Ryan Craig’s brilliantly provocative play, The Holy Rosenbergs, is more relevant than ever. Near the…

In recent years, noisy Canadian experimentalists, New Age Doom have shown themselves to be unafraid to engage with musical genius from all…

Search “black ballerinas” online and you will be offered shoes, which doesn’t say much for the racial diversity of classical dance in today…