Veronica Lee
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Veronica is an award-winning writer and critic who contributes on theatre and comedy to the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Observer and London Evening Standard.
Articles By Veronica Lee
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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...
Reissue CDs Weekly: Wes Montgomery - The NDR Hamburg Studio...
Speaking to America’s Hit Parader magazine in August 1967...
Night in Paradise review - lukewarm bloodbath
Since launching his directing career in 2011 with The Showdown, Park Hoon-jung has established himself as a promising devotee of the...
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,...