Jasper Rees | The Arts Desk

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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

The Man Who Could Upstage Dame Judi At The Prom Monday, 26 July 2010 Read more...	Amish: World's Squarest Teenagers, Channel 4 Sunday, 25 July 2010 Read more...
theartsdesk Q&A: Actress Julianne Moore Saturday, 24 July 2010 Read more...	Baarìa Friday, 23 July 2010 Read more...
Vuvuzela: a final note from Berlin Thursday, 22 July 2010 Read more...	Verbier Festival: an Alpine symphony Monday, 19 July 2010 Read more...
Keep your clothes on for this mass photoshoot Friday, 16 July 2010 Read more...	Site-specific theatre goes commercial Friday, 16 July 2010 Read more...
London River Monday, 12 July 2010 Read more...	Fab Two Alert! Thursday, 08 July 2010 Read more...
Whoopi for you Wednesday, 07 July 2010 Read more...	Imagine: Tom Jones - What Good Am I? BBC One Wednesday, 07 July 2010 Read more...
Now Newsnight is at it... Tuesday, 06 July 2010 Read more...	Singing for Life, BBC Four/ Gazza's Tears, ITV1 Monday, 05 July 2010 Read more...
theartsdesk Q&A: Writer Willy Russell Saturday, 03 July 2010 Read more...	White Material Friday, 02 July 2010 Read more...

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