Charlie Swinbourne
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The Crown, Series 3, Netflix review - if you want binge TV,...
Although it conforms to a realistic chronology of events, this third season of Peter Morgan’s remarkable voyage around the House of...
The Best Films Out Now
There are films to meet every taste in theartsdesk's guide to the best movies currently on release. In our considered opinion, any of the titles...
Ted Gioia: Music: A Subversive History review – an informati...
People who derive comfort from Classic FM’s strapline that European classical music is “The World's Greatest Music" are going to have a major...
Reissue CDs Weekly: The Clash - London Calling
In a first for this column, what’s cropping up is a cassette...
Jazz Voice, Royal Festival Hall - engulfing beauty and hidde...
Jazz Voice unfailingly supplies a gigantic sugar-rush of auditory pleasure, and this year’s edition was no exception. Arranged, scored and...
Orphée, English National Opera review – through a screen dar...
Like almost everything that it touches these days, English National Opera’s autumn season of shows rooted in the Orpheus myth has enjoyed a fairly...
'By the end I’d lost me': Joe Simpson, mountaineer...
In Peru in 1985, Joe Simpson - then 25 - and his 21-year-old climbing partner Simon Yates were descending the remote Siula Grande, which was hard...
The Report review - searing political drama
It should come as no surprise that the writer of Side Effects...
Craig David, BBC Radio 2 review - what's your flava?
My friend, let’s call her Kit, is having a rubbish time. Kat (that’s me) is too. If life’s got a flavour, it’s a shade darker than 99% cocoa. Kit...
