Richard Bratby
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Daša Drndić: Belladonna review - a tragicomic journey into E...
Daša Drndić, the Croatian author who died in June aged 71, has posthumously won the second Warwick Prize for Women in Translation for her...
Reissue CDs Weekly: Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Faithfull’s recent album Negative Capability featured a new version of “As Tears go by”, the Jagger-Richard song which had been...
CD: David Attenborough - My Field Recordings from Across the...
David Attenborough must be among the most universally liked Englishmen. There are those who’ve recently criticized him for sweetening the pill...
War Requiem, English National Opera review - a striking spec...
We’re not good at lack these days. Just look at the concert hall, where increasingly you turn up to find not just an orchestra and soloists but a...
The Price of Everything review - the madness of the art mark...
What an intelligent and cleverly structured film this is. By...
CD: Cliff Richard - Rise Up
Cliff Richard has been the butt of many jokes down the years, but he’s always looked the other way, true to himself. But he couldn’t look the...
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald review - mischie...
Two years after the release of Fantastic Beasts and...
Kolesnikov, BBCSO, Brabbins, Barbican review - rethought mas...
Forget the latest International Tchaikovsky...
Natalie Palamides, Soho Theatre - challenging show about con...
The #MeToo movement is barely a year old, but it is already prompting some clever and insightful...