wed 06/12/2023

william ward

Bio
William has lived between London and Rome for 30 years, writing and broadcasting in Italian and English as a political analyst and cultural commentator. He is author of Getting it Right in Italy and wrote and presented La Mia Italia on BBC Radio 4. He is London correspondent of Il Foglio and Panorama.

Articles By William Ward

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Blu-ray: Blackhat

The Boxing Day release of Michael Mann’s first feature in eight years, Ferrari, finally follows up Blackhat, a Chris Hemsworth-...

The Homecoming, Young Vic Theatre review - Pinter's dis...

As the audience enters, thick mist envelopes the thrust stage and jazz music fills the theatre. The set,...

Kin, BBC One review - in Dublin's not-so-fair city

Folklore tends to depict Dublin as a convivial and picturesque city, with a bar on every corner full of revellers on wild stag weekends, but that’...

Voces8 Foundation Choir and Orchestra, Smith, Voces8 Centre...

There’s a game called Whamageddon, where people see how deep into December they can go without hearing “Last Christmas”. I’m like that, but with...

Infinite Life, National Theatre review - beguiling new comed...

A sun deck with seven pale-green padded loungers is the latest setting for the latest...

Rodelinda, The English Concert, Bicket, Saffron Hall review...

If ever a marriage was made in heaven, it would have to be the one between Lucy Crowe’s beleaguered Queen Rodelinda and Iestyn Davies’ King...

£1 Thursdays, Finborough Theatre review - dazzling new play...

It’s 2012 and the London Olympics might as well be happening on the Moon for Jen and Stacey. In fact, you could say the same for...

Album: Neil Young - Before and After

Down memory lane, taking us back some six decades to the Buffalo Springfield, the latest Neil Young album's almost 50 minutes of continuous music...

First Person: Natalia Franklin Pierce, Executive Director of...

Despite my double-barrelled surname (my parents weren't married when I was born – so I was given both their names), a career within contemporary...