Laura de Lisle
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Book extract: Second-Hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich
Between 1991 to 2012, Belorussian journalist and oral historian Svetlana Alexievich travelled the countries that constituted the former USSR...
Gold Digger, BBC One review - Julia Ormond tackles those mid...
A tip of the hat to Julia Ormond for boldly going where many an actress might have chosen not to. In this new six-parter by Marnie Dickens, she...
CD: DJ Shadow - Our Pathetic Age
DJ Shadow, made famous in 1996 With Endtroducing…, an album made entirely of samples, and the originator of a sound that was...
Ant Middleton and Liam Payne: Straight Talking, Sky 1 review...
“What is wrong with us? What are we doing here?” Liam Payne asked the camera, as we neared the end of his jaunt round picturesque...
'The Academy and I': composer and viola-player Sal...
I was 13. It was a Saturday, and Mum was working. On this occasion she asked if I’d like to come along and bring a book. I was wearing a dress I’d...
Vampire Weekend, O2 Academy, Birmingham review – clean-cut A...
By the time Vampire Weekend reached Birmingham on their latest UK jaunt, they had unfortunately managed to mislay their support band, the...
Roméo et Juliette, LSO, Tilson Thomas, Barbican review - sur...
So much was fresh and exciting about Michael Tilson Thomas's years as the ...
World on Fire, BBC One, series finale review - may this fine...
A bit like all those people on the home front in 1940 (but only a little bit), we sit and nervously wait for news. Is World on Fire (...
Williams, LPO, Alsop, RFH review - sleek lines and pastoral...
The London Philharmonic’s Isle of Noises, a...