Jasper Rees
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- Bio
- Jasper has written about the arts, books, the media and sport for many broadsheets and magazines. He currently writes for the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph and Intelligent Life. In the 1990s he also wrote about football for The Independent on Sunday. He is the biographer of Arsène Wenger, the author of I Found My Horn and co-author of the play of the same name. Bred of Heaven, his book on Wales and Welshness, was published in August 2011 and read on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week.
Articles by Jasper Rees
Thatcher: We are an impersonator
Tuesday, 09 April 2013
Mrs Thatcher famously presided over a huge rise in unemployment, but down the years she kept a large sorority of impersonators (and one male one) off the dole. She was lucky with her mimics, who... Read more... |
A Late Quartet
Thursday, 04 April 2013
Two’s company, three’s a crowd, four’s a string quartet. Classical music movies tend to focus on the cost of individual brilliance. See David Helfgott in Shine, Jacqueline du Pré in Hilary and Jackie... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Florence: The Springtime of the Renaissance
Sunday, 31 March 2013
It’s an instinct of curators to put the pieces back together, to reintroduce works of art which time and market forces have scattered to the four winds. In recent memory, exhibitions have reunited in... Read more... |
Gallery: The Springtime of the Renaissance
Sunday, 31 March 2013
The images in this gallery illustrate some of the links and juxtapositions made in The Springtime of the Renaissance. Classical statues which influenced Florentine artists, works reunited for the... Read more... |
Richard Griffiths, 1947-2013
Friday, 29 March 2013
Richard Griffiths, who has died at the age of 65 from complications during heart surgery, will be remembered above all for three performances, two on screen and one onstage. In Withnail & I (1987... Read more... |
In the House
Friday, 29 March 2013
There is an arresting moment towards the start of In the House when a character looks the camera – and by extension, the audience - directly in the eye. A warm trusting face and a slight squint hint... Read more... |
Wodehouse in Exile, BBC Four
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
One of the weapons deployed by Blighty in World War Two was humour. Stoical, deflating, relentlessly making light of the darkness, British wit refused to take the Third Reich as seriously as it took... Read more... |
DVD: Tess
Friday, 22 March 2013
When Tess was released in 1979 much was made of the fact that Hardy’s western England had become Polanski’s northern France. Also, that he had cast a German actress in the title role with a wobbly... Read more... |
The Challenger, BBC Two
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
When the NASA space shuttle Challenger fell out of the Florida sky on the morning of 28 January 1986 after 73 seconds, killing all seven astronauts, the Nobel-winning theoretical physicist Richard... Read more... |
10 Questions for Actor James McAvoy
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
There has always been a keen air of propulsion to the career of James McAvoy. He made his name on television in State of Play and Shameless, while early film roles in Starter for 10 and Inside I’m... Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: Writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson
Thursday, 14 March 2013
Is Steptoe and Son the platonic ideal of the British sitcom? Two men trapped in eternal stasis, imprisoned by class and bound together by family ties as if by hoops of steel, never to escape: it’s... Read more... |
The Mimic/Anna & Katy, Channel 4
Thursday, 14 March 2013
It’s a truism of the impersonator’s art that those who can do other voices have none of their own. On Parkinson, Peter Sellers couldn’t even come down the staircase as himself. When at the end of the... Read more... |
DVD: Amour
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
For all the brilliance of its leads – Jean-Louis Trintignant back in the cinema after many years, Emmanuelle Riva cruelly pipped for an Oscar – it’s easily forgotten that Amour is a zeitgeist film.... Read more... |
10 Questions for Playwright James Graham
Monday, 11 March 2013
Coalitions make for drama, and for comedy. We know that from, respectively, Borgen and the final series of The Thick of It. It is little wonder therefore that soon after the 2010 election delivered a... Read more... |
Mayday, BBC One
Monday, 04 March 2013
A drama that opens with the disappearance in the woods of a beautiful blonde teenage girl is going to evoke memories of Nanna Birk Larsen racing away from her murderer in The Killing. A drama set in... Read more... |
Mary and Martha, BBC One
Saturday, 02 March 2013
It is now part of the fixtures and fittings on British television. Its original stars, once alternative comedians, have become leathery gerontosaurs of the establishment. And yet on Comic Relief the... Read more... |
How to contact Jasper Rees
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