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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Joe Boyd's Recording Heaven
When it comes to making records, I love deadlines. Embarking on an open-ended project, particularly with the infinite number of overdubs made...
Wonderland, Hampstead Theatre online review - a major play a...
The talk is of an “economy in ruin [with] unemployment through the roof”: a précis of Britain in lockdown? In fact, this is one of the many eerily...
Mark Townsend: No Return review - a masterclass in journalis...
When Amer Deghayes departed for Syria in a truck leaving from Birmingham, a worker from a youth arts organisation in Brighton had been trying to...
The Rake's Progress, Complicité online review - well-pr...
One way to look at Stravinsky's celebrated collaboration...
Return to Belsen, ITV review - Jonathan Dimbleby retraces hi...
When the notorious Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northern Germany was liberated by the British 11th Armoured Division on 15 April...
The Iron Mask review - preposterous multi-national fantasy
Director Oleg Stepchenko’s follow-up to his 2014...
Album: The Strokes - The New Abnormal
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Cyprus Avenue, Royal Court Theatre online review - a mind in...
One of the most blistering stage performances in recent memory gets a renewed lease on life with the streaming of the 2019 screen version, aired...
Colors performance stream on YouTube review - vocalists on l...
The Colors studio in Berlin has quietly created one of the biggest new brands in music from filming back-to-basics performances with laser-focused...
It’s True, It’s True, It’s True, Breach Theatre online revie...
Artemisia Gentileschi has definitely had a hard time. Although she was an outstanding Renaissance painter in the style of Caravaggio, and the...