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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

Austenland

Thursday, 26 September 2013 Read more...

Being Paul Gascoigne, ITV

Wednesday, 25 September 2013 Read more...

Listed: Jane Austen provides

Tuesday, 24 September 2013 Read more...

RIPD

Friday, 20 September 2013 Read more...

Preview: Arnold Wesker's Roots

Thursday, 19 September 2013 Read more...

CD: Elton John - The Diving Board

Wednesday, 18 September 2013 Read more...

Rigoletto, LSO, Noseda, Barbican

Monday, 16 September 2013 Read more...

What Remains, Series Finale, BBC One

Sunday, 15 September 2013 Read more...

theartsdesk Q&A: Actress Sheridan Smith

Sunday, 15 September 2013 Read more...

The Guilty, ITV

Friday, 06 September 2013 Read more...

Bald on blondes: what makes Terry Johnson tick?

Wednesday, 04 September 2013 Read more...

David Frost, giant of the small screen, dies

Monday, 02 September 2013 Read more...

Listed: Freudian Analysis

Saturday, 31 August 2013 Read more...

My Hero: Ben Miller on Tony Hancock, BBC One

Wednesday, 28 August 2013 Read more...

Field of Blood: The Dead Hour, BBC One

Friday, 09 August 2013 Read more...

CD: Glen Campbell - See You There

Tuesday, 06 August 2013 Read more...

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Semele, Royal Opera review - unholy smoke

Poor, slightly silly Semele fries at the sight of lover Jupiter casting off his mortal form, but in Congreve’s and Handel’s supposedly happy...

Sudan, Remember Us review - the revolution will be memorised

In 2019, French-Tunisian journalist and documentary filmmaker Hind Meddeb flew to Sudan after the overthrow of hated dictator Omar al-Bashir,...

Le nozze di Figaro, Glyndebourne review - perceptive humanit...

Over 100 years ago, John Christie envisaged Wagner’s Parsifal with limited forces in the Organ Room at Glyndebourne. He would have been...

Quadrophenia, Sadler's Wells review - missed opportunit...

The red, white and blue bull’s-eye on the front curtain at Sadler’s Wells tells us we are in the familiar territory of Pete Townshend’s...

Fidelio, Garsington Opera review - a battle of sunshine and...

Sometimes, as the first act of Beethoven’s Fidelio closes, the chorus of prisoners discreetly fade away backstage as their brief taste of...

Summer Laugh review - five comics gear up for the Fringe

Appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe has long been an expensive gig for comics. But while stand-ups may need only a microphone to ply...

Album: Brìghde Chaimbeul - Sunwise

The first five-and-a-half minutes of Sunwise’s opening track “Dùsgadh / Waking" are taken up by a drone. Played on the Scottish small...

Music Reissues Weekly: Rupert’s People - Dream In My Mind

Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale” was an instant phenomenon. Recorded in April 1967 and issued as a single on 12 May after pre-release play...

Intimate Apparel, Donmar Warehouse review - stirring story o...

The corset is an unlikely star of the latest Lynn Nottage play to arrive at the...