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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

Articles By Jasper Rees

Leslie Phillips: 'I can be recognised by my voice alone'

Thursday, 10 November 2022 Read more...

'The first thing I do when I wake up is write.' Hilary Mantel, 1952-2022

Friday, 23 September 2022 Read more...

10cc, London Palladium review - still firing rubber bullets 50 years on

Monday, 04 April 2022 Read more...

William Hurt, great Hollywood contrarian, has died at 71

Sunday, 13 March 2022 Read more...

The Men They Couldn't Hang, Powerhaus Camden review - raucous farewell to the fallen

Tuesday, 14 December 2021 Read more...

Antony Sher: 'I discovered I could be other people'

Monday, 06 December 2021 Read more...

Remembering Henry Woolf, Harold Pinter's oldest friend

Tuesday, 16 November 2021 Read more...

Helen McCrory: 'If there's one interesting thing about acting it's trying to lose your ego'

Monday, 19 April 2021 Read more...

'I loved being a dresser': Sir Ronald Harwood, Oscar-winning writer, dies at 85

Wednesday, 09 September 2020 Read more...

Ian Holm, British film's best supporting actor

Saturday, 20 June 2020 Read more...

Larry Kramer: 'I think anger is a wonderful useful emotion'

Thursday, 28 May 2020 Read more...

Elizabeth Kay: Seven Lies review - can big-money debut match the hype?

Sunday, 19 April 2020 Read more...

Remembering John Prine, one of the great American singer-songwriters

Wednesday, 08 April 2020 Read more...

Roy Hudd: 'I was just trying to make 'em laugh'

Monday, 16 March 2020 Read more...

Country Music by Ken Burns, BBC Four review - grand history of fiddlers on the hoof

Saturday, 23 November 2019 Read more...

'By the end I’d lost me': Joe Simpson, mountaineer and writer - interview

Saturday, 16 November 2019 Read more...

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