Terry Friel

Articles By Terry Friel

Mad Dog: Gaddafi's Secret World, BBC Four Tuesday, 04 February 2014 Read more...	Syria: Across the Lines, Channel 4 Thursday, 18 April 2013 Read more...
Walking Wounded: Return to the Frontline, Channel 4 Thursday, 21 February 2013 Read more...	Chateau Chunder: When Australian Wine Changed the World, BBC Four Wednesday, 14 November 2012 Read more...
theartsdesk in Tripoli: Photographing a Revolution Sunday, 26 August 2012 Read more...	theartsdesk in Kuala Lumpur: Culture as a Weapon Sunday, 24 July 2011 Read more...
theartsdesk in the Emirates: A Cultural Arms Race Sunday, 29 November 2009 Read more...

It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.

It followed some...

Since its revival in 2020, All Creatures Great and Small has drawn big audiences internationally and become Channel 5’s biggest hit, even...

Though Death in Paradise is an Anglo-French production filmed in Guadeloupe, in the French West Indies, the Frenchness seems to have...

Enough is as good as a feast, they say. But sometimes, especially at Christmas, you crave a properly groaning table. At the Wigmore Hall, The...

A suitable place to find yourself out for the winter solstice, buttoning up for the longest night of the year, was at the Cadogan Hall off Sloane...

There are some years where my pick for album of the year is obvious; something stands out so...

One of last year’s major joys was the box set version of Hawkwind's Space Ritual, an 11-disc extravaganza which made the great live album...

It is not just Twelfth Night, it’s Twelfth Night, or What You Will in The Folio,...

There's a tension in Alfred Hitchcock’s early films between misogyny and condemnation of...

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