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Bent Coppers: Crossing the Line of Duty, BBC Two review - wh...
As Line of Duty aficionados debate the identity of H and wonder who DCI Joanne Davidson shares her DNA with, this new three-part series...
The Master Musicians of Joujouka - a 4000 year-old rock...
The Master Musicians of Joujouka, described by William Burroughs as a “4000 year-old rock’n’roll band”, and recorded by Brian Jones of the Rolling...
DVD/Blu-ray: Catch Us If You Can
Catch Us If You Can, the 1965 road movie starring Barbara Ferris and the eponymous drummer and guiding force of the Dave Clark Five,...
Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott: Failures of State re...
Almost a year ago, in the midst of the first national lockdown, The Sunday Times broke the news that Boris Johnson had failed to attend...
Too Close, ITV review - capable cast struggles with unreward...
What may have happened here is that an intriguing book has been turned into a not so great TV series. Too Close was Natalie Daniels’s...
Benjamin Grosvenor, Barbican online review - black magic and...
I can’t deny that it’s great to be able to experience a recital...
Polly Barton: Fifty Sounds review - what is lost in translat...
Fifty Sounds is translator Polly Barton’s first novel...
Album: Imelda May - 11 Past the Hour
11 Past the Hour opens with its title song, a delicious, twangy, string-laden Nancy Sinatra Bond theme that never was. The album closes...
Singer-songwriter Peggy Seeger: still in the vanguard of her...
If American music has a royal family, it’s surely the Seeger clan. Charles, the patriarch, the composer, musicologist and teacher who could be...
Album: Lady Dan - I Am the Prophet
There’s a line in “No Home”, the staggering centrepiece of Lady Dan’s debut album, that perhaps sums up the project. “Wolves will never...