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Industry, BBC One review - bold, addictive saga about corpor...
All three seasons of Industry are now on iPlayer, and after watching the most recent one and then backtracking for another...
Dr Strangelove, Noël Coward Theatre review - an evening of d...
Even by Stanley Kubrick’s standards, Dr Strangelove went through an extraordinary evolutionary process. After starting it off as a...
Album: Peter Perrett - The Cleansing
That Peter Perrett is still alive after the decades of bad habits that he inflicted on himself must be something of a surprise to those who’ve...
Jonathan Coe: The Proof of My Innocence review - a whodunnit...
Anyone who has been on a British train in the last ten years will have been irritated to distraction by the inane and ubiquitous “See it, say it,...
The Room Next Door review - Almodóvar out of his comfort zon...
Towards the end of the last century, the Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar made a run of screwball comedies, starting with Women on the Verge...
Book Extract: Where Songs Come From - The Lyrics and Origin...
For a few months a couple of years ago, when you googled the name Jim Bob, although you’d get a lot of information about me, Jim Bob, the lead...
Blu-ray: The Outcasts
This other major work by the writer of the English folk horror landmark The Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971), Robert Wynne-...
Hallé, Wong, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester review - Bruckner’...
Kahchun Wong’s third Bridgewater Hall concert with the Hallé in his inaugural season as principal conductor consisted of just one work: Bruckner’s...
Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Brighton Dome review - a foster carer...
Kiri Pritchard-McLean has spoken on stage before about her interest in helping young people – including in her 2017 show, ...
Reykjavik, Hampstead Theatre review - drama frozen by waves...
“Don’t take a piss in the house of a woman you have made a widow.” The mixture of earthy comedy and tragic pain in this piece of parental advice...