Arts
Last week's all-female Today proved women make for a more uplifting show
Boy, we’ve had to wait a long time for this. But last Thursday morning something unusual happened on Radio 4;…
Dreaming in the Renaissance
The exhibition The Renaissance and Dream at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris (until 26 January 2014) explores how artists…
The stuff of dreams
The exhibition The Renaissance and Dream at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris (until 26 January 2014) explores how artists…
The stuff of dreams
The exhibition The Renaissance and Dream at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris (until 26 January 2014) explores how artists…
Ta-ra, Dame Edna — Barry Humphries bids goodbye to his chattier half
Robert Gore-Langton talks to Barry Humphries, alter ego of the gigastar Dame Edna
Four good reasons not to watch The Fifth Estate
Just how interesting you find The Fifth Estate may entirely depend on how interested you are in the whistle-blowing site…
Talk Talk bears repetition
First impressions always count, and they are almost always wrong. This is particularly pertinent if you review albums for a…
Frank Holl: a forgotten talent much admired by van Gogh
The Watts Gallery, just outside Guildford off the Hog’s Back, is a delightful place to visit at any season, with…
A Fledermaus worth seeing for all its inadequacies
Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus (but if it’s given in English, why not The Bat? Does that somehow sound too unglamorous?)…
An audience with the Queen and Mrs Thatcher
A feast of pleasures, and some annoyances, at the Trike. Handbagged, by Moira Buffini, is a fictional account of the…
Introducing the celebs of Victorian reality TV
Did Dr Jekyll turn into Jack the Ripper? Besides becoming evil Mr Hyde, did Robert L. Stevenson’s fictional creation morph…
Sometimes Radio 3 tries to be too clever by half
Why are we still listening to the radio in 2013, to an outdated technology that has hardly changed in manufacture…
BFI has got carried away with its live broadcasts
Live broadcasts into cinemas have become something of a commonplace, and a welcome one: operas, theatre performances, even radio programmes.…
Red carpet attraction
Live broadcasts into cinemas have become something of a commonplace, and a welcome one: operas, theatre performances, even radio programmes.…
Red carpet attraction
Live broadcasts into cinemas have become something of a commonplace, and a welcome one: operas, theatre performances, even radio programmes.…
The false paradise of Metroland
William Cook has moved to Metroland. He contemplates John Betjeman’s vision of it
Is the best Australian art yet to come?
Astonishingly, the last major survey show of Australian art in this country was mounted more than half-a-century ago. Then it…
Does London really need another concert hall?
Does London need another concert hall? Or, to put it more precisely, does London need another chamber music hall? The…
The peril with Brecht is that he will always be Brecht
Brecht in the West End? Quite a rarity. Jonathan Church’s zippy and stylish version of The Resistible Rise of Arturo…
Carlos Acosta’s Don Quixote lacks the wow factor
Superstar Carlos Acosta makes little or no reference to Don Quixote’s established history in his programme note about the genesis…
A sensational week for opera: sensationally good and sensationally bad
It’s been a sensational week for opera in London, with a sensationally good performance of Strauss’s Elektra at the Royal…
I watched Filth from behind my hands. It's ghastly and unpleasant, but what I saw of it was brilliant
People are generally saying Filth fully fulfils the promise of its title and is not for the faint of heart…
Can you trade love for wealth? The economics of Breaking Bad
The acclaimed television series Breaking Bad has ended. Steffen Huck on what it can teach us about economics
'Atlantis' shows our civilisation is doomed
This week saw the final episode of possibly the greatest television series ever. Breaking Bad wasn’t made by the BBC,…
Autumn shake-up in Radios 2 and 3 scheduling
This time round in the autumn shake-up of the schedules it’s Radios 2 and 3 who are on the frontline…
