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Jasper Rees

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Jasper has written about the arts, books, the media and sport for many broadsheets and magazines. He currently writes for the Telegraph and the Spectator. In the 1990s he also wrote about football for The Independent on Sunday. He is 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. His latest book is a biography of Florence Foster Jenkins

Articles By Jasper Rees

Death and Nightingales, BBC Two, review - slow, lyrical, slightly dull

Thursday, 29 November 2018 Read more...

The Girl in the Spider's Web review - Claire Foy leathers up

Thursday, 22 November 2018 Read more...

WW1: The Last Tommies, BBC Four review - Great War stories

Thursday, 08 November 2018 Read more...

Don Quixote rides again, and again

Wednesday, 07 November 2018 Read more...

The Little Drummer Girl, BBC One, review - latest Le Carré just passes audition

Monday, 29 October 2018 Read more...

Press, BBC One, series finale review - scarcely credible but highly entertaining

Thursday, 11 October 2018 Read more...

Wanderlust, BBC One, series finale review - you can't have your cake and eat it

Wednesday, 10 October 2018 Read more...

Bodyguard, BBC One, series finale review - gripping entertainment of the highest calibre

Monday, 24 September 2018 Read more...

theartsdesk Q&A: Chas and Dave

Sunday, 23 September 2018 Read more...

The Little Stranger review - the wrong sort of chills

Saturday, 22 September 2018 Read more...

'You won't be able to handle this lady': remembering Fenella Fielding

Wednesday, 12 September 2018 Read more...

Keeping Faith, BBC One, series finale review - we need to talk about Evan

Friday, 31 August 2018 Read more...

Yardie review - Idris Elba shoots straight in his directorial debut

Friday, 31 August 2018 Read more...

Bodyguard, BBC One, episode 2 review - a wild ride to who knows where

Tuesday, 28 August 2018 Read more...

Neil Simon: 'I don’t think you want it really dark'

Monday, 27 August 2018 Read more...

P.E.Caquet: The Bell of Treason review - the sacrifice of Czechoslovakia

Sunday, 26 August 2018 Read more...

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