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Word processing
‘Comedy is like music,’ said Edwin Apps, one of the characters in Wednesday afternoon’s Radio 4 play, All Mouth and…
Word processing
‘Comedy is like music,’ said Edwin Apps, one of the characters in Wednesday afternoon’s Radio 4 play, All Mouth and…
His dark materials
So: Game of Thrones. Finally — season six — the TV series has overtaken the books on which it is…
BBC Proms
BBC Proms 2016 is about as exciting as my sock drawer. But it’s unclear who exactly is to blame. The…
BBC Proms
BBC Proms 2016 is about as exciting as my sock drawer. But it’s unclear who exactly is to blame. The…
This year's must-see Shakespeare? Four hours of history in Dutch
James Woodall talks to the Belgian director Ivo van Hove, who has brought a swathe of Shakespeare’s history plays to the stage in Dutch (four hours of it)
Was there a cover-up over Shakespeare’s death?
How did Shakespeare kick the bucket? Lloyd Evans considers the evidence
The Heckler: the Shakespeare anniversary has stripped the Bard of his beauty
The feeding frenzy over the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death has reached its peak. Recently we’ve had Shakespeare’s complete…
A Handel opera that isn't by Handel, and a Mozart opera composed in 1990, reviewed
Disguises and mistaken identities are a staple of opera, but usually as part of the onstage, not the offstage, action.…
The British are leaders in graphic novels so why do we not take the art form more seriously?
Art Spiegelman, the American cartoonist behind Maus, the celebrated Holocaust cartoon, dreamt up a good definition of graphic novels: comics…
Does Tamara Rojo really think female choreographers are being stifled by sexism?
Tamara Rojo programmed three female choreographers for her English National Ballet spring bill because, she said, she had never danced…
Jane Got a Gun is about as feminist as my cat Daphne, who barely moves
Jane Got a Gun is being sold as a rousing feminist Western although the truth is that it’s about as…
The time when Putin seduced Corbyn in an East Berlin nightclub
Corbyn the Musical feels like it comes from the heart. Did the writers live through the 1970s when the hard-left…
How trauma is passed down through the generations in our DNA
Sue Armstrong’s programme on Radio 4 All in the Womb (produced by Ruth Evans) should be required listening for anyone…
Downton Abbey with epidurals: BBC2's Five Star Babies reviewed
Five Star Babies: Inside the Portland Hospital won’t, I suspect, have been a hard sell to BBC2’s commissioning editors. Childbirth…
Helen Garner
True crime is the genre of literature based on actual crimes and the real life perpetrators. Initially popularised in the…
Death and the Bard
Listen http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/260046943-the-spectator-podcast-obamas-eu-intervention-the-pms.mp3 How did the Bard kick the bucket? The 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death reignites interest in a great…
All the world’s a stage
In this much-heralded Shakespeare anniversary year, one might expect a certain respect for the works to prevail. In Holland it’s…
There may be trouble ahead
Jane Got a Gun is being sold as a rousing feminist Western although the truth is that it’s about as…
The female gaze
Tamara Rojo programmed three female choreographers for her English National Ballet spring bill because, she said, she had never danced…
Picture books for grown-ups
Art Spiegelman, the American cartoonist behind Maus, the celebrated Holocaust cartoon, dreamt up a good definition of graphic novels: comics…
Death and the Bard
Listen http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/260046943-the-spectator-podcast-obamas-eu-intervention-the-pms.mp3 How did the Bard kick the bucket? The 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death reignites interest in a great…
Death and the Bard
Listen http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/260046943-the-spectator-podcast-obamas-eu-intervention-the-pms.mp3 How did the Bard kick the bucket? The 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death reignites interest in a great…
Shakespeare400
The feeding frenzy over the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death has reached its peak. Recently we’ve had Shakespeare’s complete…
Shakespeare400
The feeding frenzy over the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death has reached its peak. Recently we’ve had Shakespeare’s complete…
