Simon Munk
Bio
Award-winning specialist journalist in videogames, technology, cycling and outdoors products. Experienced copywriter. Competent videogame script editor and writer. Half-finished novelist. Mediocre tea maker.
Articles By Simon Munk
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Roméo et Juliette, LSO, Tilson Thomas, Barbican review - sur...
So much was fresh and exciting about Michael Tilson Thomas's years as the ...
World on Fire, BBC One, series finale review - may this fine...
A bit like all those people on the home front in 1940 (but only a little bit), we sit and nervously wait for news. Is World on Fire (...
Williams, LPO, Alsop, RFH review - sleek lines and pastoral...
The London Philharmonic’s Isle of Noises, a...
Jack Dee, Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage review - now he re...
Jack Dee has made a career out of being a grumpy old man, even though he started on the...
Book extract: Second-Hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich
Between 1991 to 2012, Belorussian journalist and oral historian Svetlana Alexievich travelled the countries that constituted the former USSR...
Caroline Moorehead: A House in the Mountains review – the wo...
In September 1944, a heavily pregnant Resistance activist in the north of German-occupied Italy was arrested on a visit to Milan. Lisetta Giua, a...
Music for Youth's Judith Webster: '91% of the youn...
Music resonates with everyone. It plays a powerful and evocative role in people’s lives; it punctuates our memories and changes our mood. We can...
Irenosen Okojie: Nudibranch review - twisted and funny
Visceral, gaudy, alien, otherworldly to the point of being almost improbably imaginative, the nudibranch serves as an appropriate figure for...