Jasper Rees
Bio
Jasper has written about the arts, books, the media and sport for many broadsheets and magazines. He currently writes for the Telegraph and the Spectator. In the 1990s he also wrote about football for The Independent on Sunday. He is the author of I Found My Horn and co-author of the play of the same name. Bred of Heaven, his book on Wales and Welshness, was published in August 2011 and read on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week. His latest book is a biography of Florence Foster Jenkins
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Rimini review - crooner without a conscience
The cartoonist Gerald Scarfe – or his equally mordant forebear George Cruikshank – couldn’t have drawn a seedier Eurotrash excrescence than the...
Batiashvili, Philharmonia, Shani, RFH review - Nordic myster...
Sibelius and Mahler so often figure as the irreconcilable chalk and cheese of turn-of-the-century orchestral writing that it can be a salutary...
Harry & Meghan, Netflix review - at home with the Harkle...
There’s no stopping Harry and Meghan. Logic, reason and facts can’t stand in the way of their “war on oppression and injustice” and determination...
Mandela, Young Vic review - baffling bio-musical
As bio-musicals continue to have their heyday, it makes sense for the...
Hold Me Tight review - Vicky Krieps mesmerizes
Mathieu Amalric's Hold me Tight (Serre moi fort) keeps springing surprises. Perhaps the first is the title. It sounds like...
The Silent Twins review - the tragic story of the Welsh tee...
The fascinating story of the silent twins, June and Jennifer Gibbons, who were incarcerated in Broadmoor for 12 years for minor crimes, has been...
Album: Macy Gray & the California Jet Club - Christmas w...
It’s nice to come across a Christmas album that more-or-...
Sarah, Coronet Theatre review - a one-man whirlwind
The American author of The Sarah Book, on which the monologue Sarah is based, is called Scott McClanahan, as is his...
George & Tammy, Paramount+ review - alcohol, violence an...
Some may consider country music to be corny, sentimental...
Album: Neil Diamond - A Neil Diamond Christmas
Oy vey. Where to start. This is essentially painful – and I write that knowing that Neil Diamond is a genuinely nice guy and that he is now...