Barney Harsent
Bio
Writer, editor, and author of Music Top 10s (Bounty), Barney is a music and television fanatic. He also hosts a radio show on boxfrequency.fm, and is a surprisingly capable barman.
Articles By Barney Harsent
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LFF 2018: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs review - Wild West ta...
The “portmanteau” form of film-making is almost guaranteed to deliver patchy results, and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, the Coen brothers...
There She Goes, BBC Four review - mining disability for fami...
What do you do after playing Doctor Who, the dream dad of the nation, quirky and compassionate, the adult who every child knows will be...
Informer, BBC One review - keeping tabs on terror
Thanks heavens not all police officers spend their time trying to find “hate crime” on Twitter, or not going to the assistance of colleagues in...
Measure for Measure, Donmar Warehouse review - Shakespeare t...
Shakespeare exists to be refracted and filtered...
Barneys, Books and Bust Ups, BBC Four review - the Booker Pr...
You had to keep your eyes skinned. Was that Iris Murdoch or AS Byatt, Kingsley Amis or John Banville, Margaret Atwood or Val McDermid – maybe,...
The Inheritance, Noël Coward Theatre review - tangled knot o...
Its roots are in an emotional truth: Matthew Lopez saw the film, then read the book, of Howards End when he was 15 and 11 years later...
Hallé, Gardner, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester review – drama...
Edward Gardner was back amongst friends when he opened the Hallé’s Thursday series concerts. This was the place where he made his mark, as the...
Ciarán Dowd, Soho Theatre review - terrific spoof swordsman...
The Edinburgh Fringe does throw up some...