PAUL DONOVAN is chilled by the contemporary resonance of Harper Lee’s coming of age tale amidst racism and white supremacy in this excellent production
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Virtues and vices of the Tories’ biggest beast ever
Gary Cox reviews The Churchill Factor by Boris Johnson (Hodder & Stoughton, £25)
GEOFF BOTTOMS recommends the unashamedly light-hearted escapism on offer in this stage version of the 1963 film
Full of mysterious religious references and radical sound design, the Scottish duo’s new offering is candidate for album of the year, suggests SIMON DUFF
MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
Winston Churchill died at the age of 90 on January 24 1965 and, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of the Tories’ biggest big beast, Mayor of London Boris Johnson has written this entertaining and balanced biography of his hero.
He takes a thematic rather than a chronological approach in jumping around the vast Churchill territory but the ones Johnson has chosen are apt and imaginative and the whole is neatly held together by his chatty prose.
All the usual Churchill factors are there — a glamorous mother, a disappointed father who died young, public school capers and catastrophes, workaholism, prolific journalism and the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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