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

Breathing Friday, 20 April 2012 Read more...	Chariots of Fire is coming! Wednesday, 18 April 2012 Read more...
The Bad and the Beautiful Wednesday, 18 April 2012 Read more...	Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Monday, 16 April 2012 Read more...
Captain Scott's Desert Island Discs Wednesday, 11 April 2012 Read more...	DVD: Hugo Friday, 30 March 2012 Read more...
Wild Bill Friday, 23 March 2012 Read more...	Bach Cantatas: celeb seeks crowd-funding Tuesday, 20 March 2012 Read more...
In Darkness Friday, 16 March 2012 Read more...	My Phone Sex Secrets, Channel 4 Tuesday, 13 March 2012 Read more...
A Spoonful of Sugar: Robert Sherman, 1925-2012 Tuesday, 06 March 2012 Read more...	Empire, BBC One Tuesday, 28 February 2012 Read more...
Kidnap and Ransom, Series 2, ITV1 Friday, 24 February 2012 Read more...	Captain Scott: South for Science, National Museum Wales Friday, 24 February 2012 Read more...
Sport and classical music: they should hang out more Wednesday, 22 February 2012 Read more...	CD: Nanci Griffith - Intersection Saturday, 18 February 2012 Read more...

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