Jasper Rees | The Arts Desk

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Jasper Rees

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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

theartsdesk Q&A: Playwright Ayub Khan Din Sunday, 11 January 2015 Read more...	The Last of the Unjust Saturday, 10 January 2015 Read more...
The Super-Rich and Us, BBC Two Friday, 09 January 2015 Read more...	Listed: The Facts about Factual TV in 2014 Saturday, 27 December 2014 Read more...
Downton Abbey: 2014 Christmas Special, ITV Friday, 26 December 2014 Read more...	Album of the Year: Roddy Frame - Seven Dials Thursday, 25 December 2014 Read more...
The Missing, Series Finale, BBC One Wednesday, 17 December 2014 Read more...	The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies, ITV Thursday, 11 December 2014 Read more...
theartsdesk Q&A: Playwright Nina Raine Saturday, 06 December 2014 Read more...	The Legacy, Sky Arts 1 Thursday, 27 November 2014 Read more...
24 Hours in Police Custody, Channel 4 Tuesday, 18 November 2014 Read more...	Downton Abbey, Series 5 Finale, ITV Monday, 10 November 2014 Read more...
Broadmoor, ITV Thursday, 06 November 2014 Read more...	The Missing, BBC One Wednesday, 29 October 2014 Read more...
Grayson Perry: Who Are You?, Channel 4 Thursday, 23 October 2014 Read more...	Serena Wednesday, 22 October 2014 Read more...

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