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Edward Seckerson

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Edward is a writer and broadcaster. A one-time actor and musician, he is currently Chief Classical Music Critic for the Independent. He wrote and presented the long-running BBC Radio 3 series Stage and Screen and has been on Gramophone magazine's reviewing panel for many years.

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It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.

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Best of 2024: Visual Arts

I thought I might never be able to say it’s been a great year for...

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...