Arts
Why I'm switching to Danish radio
Out there in the great ether there’s a whole new world of radio beyond the stations of the BBC and…
Seeing London afresh, one bridge at a time
Bridges aren’t necessarily something you think of as being beautiful, particularly if you consider them primarily as the means to…
Points of view
Bridges aren’t necessarily something you think of as being beautiful, particularly if you consider them primarily as the means to…
Points of view
Bridges aren’t necessarily something you think of as being beautiful, particularly if you consider them primarily as the means to…
The Wright stuff
Roger Wright’s precipitate departure from both Radio Three and the Proms came as a surprise. At first the news was…
The Wright stuff
Roger Wright’s precipitate departure from both Radio Three and the Proms came as a surprise. At first the news was…
Glorious Glastonbury
‘Charlie. E. Powder,’ said the friendly, helpful man working his way through the crowd during the mindblowing Friday-night headline set…
Glorious Glastonbury
‘Charlie. E. Powder,’ said the friendly, helpful man working his way through the crowd during the mindblowing Friday-night headline set…
John Bishop interview: ‘My dream was to be Steven Gerrard, but he got there first’
Stand-up comedian John Bishop tells Matthew Stadlen about the depression that triggered his career
Mark Benton’s Hobson spares us nothing in his journey from rooftop to gutter
Nice one, Roy. Across the West End secret toasts are being drunk to the England supremo for his exquisitely crafted…
Oceans and forests in kaleidoscopic flow – discovering Keith Grant
For decades I’ve been aware of the work of Keith Grant (born 1930), but it is only in recent years…
A comic drawn by Bob Monkhouse in which a superhero battles giant penises? Yes, it’s all here
Fwoooosh! That, were someone to write a strip about it, would be the sound of a thousand comic books going…
A swan to die for at Sadler’s Wells
Swans, swans, more swans. If the lifespan of a dance critic were calculated by the number of performances of Swan…
Manon Lescaut: Puccini’s Anna Nicole?
This season has already seen Manon Lescaut appear in several different operatic guises across the UK, but it was Covent…
Walking on Sunshine: the feel-ennui musical of the year
As far as ‘jukebox films’ go, Mamma Mia! was a riot, Sunshine on Leith was tolerable, just about, while Walking…
Looking for a Game of Thrones substitute? Vikings is the closest you’ll get – but it ain't close
Did you know that the 8th-century Kingdom of Northumbria was the epicentre of an international exotic reptile trade? I only…
The gardener-soldiers of the First World War
First, a confession. Even an ardent radio addict can enjoy a fortnight away from the airwaves, disconnected, switched off, unlistening.…
Has the rake progressed?
Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress has been a rich resource for artists. Film-makers recognise his modern moral subjects as an ancestor…
Modern manners
Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress has been a rich resource for artists. Film-makers recognise his modern moral subjects as an ancestor…
Modern manners
Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress has been a rich resource for artists. Film-makers recognise his modern moral subjects as an ancestor…
No laughing matter
Swans, swans, more swans. If the lifespan of a dance critic were calculated by the number of performances of Swan…
Alex Jennings interview: the new Willy Wonka on Roald Dahl’s ‘child killer’
Alex Jennings, the new Willy Wonka, tells Lloyd Evans why Dahl’s ‘misanthropic world’ is fascinating to inhabit
Tilting at metronomes: Massenet's Don Quichotte opens at Grange Park Opera
To suggest that the ageing Jules Massenet identified himself with the title character of his Don Quichotte is nothing new…
A funny weepie that paints itself into a contrived corner
The Fault in Our Stars, which is based on the bestselling young-adult novel by John Green, is about two teenagers…
The girl who had sex with dolphins
BBC4’s The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins (Tuesday) began with the overstated-sounding claim that it would be tackling ‘perhaps the…
