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James Rampton

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James writes on television and comedy for the Daily Telegraph, Independent, The Times and The Scotsman.

Articles By James Rampton

Three Miles North of Molkom

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Album: Snow Patrol - The Forest is the Path

Contrary to popular belief, not all music journalists get off on being snide about the same old easy-to-slate bands. When something like this...

Prom 68, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Garsington Opera re...

Some operas shine in the vasts of the Albert Hall, others seem to creep back into their beautiful shells. Glyndebourne’s Carmen blazed,...

Album: Tindersticks - Soft Tissue

It has to be hoped that Stuart Staples’ songs for Tindersticks aren’t a reflection of his actual life experiences. No-one really deserves that...

The Mad Hatter's Tea Party, ZooNation, Linbury Theatre...

The Mad Hatter gets it about right when he tells Alice: “You’re entirely bonkers… but all the best people are.” Kate Prince takes this line and...

La traviata, Royal Opera review - a charismatic soprano in a...

Later this autumn Richard Eyre’s La Traviata celebrates its 30th birthday. Not bad going for the director’s first ever foray...

Red Rooms review - the darkest of webs

A woman sits at her computer. She copy-pastes an address into a search engine. She goes to street view. She zooms in. Click. Opens...

Sambre: Anatomy of a Crime, BBC Four review - satisfying nov...

Like the BBC’s documentary series The Yorkshire Ripper Files before it, the French six-part drama Sambre on...

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice review - a lively resurrection

Sometimes love never dies and the dead never rot. A lot of water has flowed down the River Styx since...

Blu-ray: Floating Clouds

Once regarded as highly as Kurosawa and Ozu, Japanese director Mikio Naruse’s star has fallen in recent decades, with few of his films readily...

Starve Acre review - unearthing the unearthly in a fine folk...

Blame the high cost of city housing, or killer smog. What else can explain a bright young couple’s move from 1970s...