Film Of The Week Film Of The Week Stranger than fiction MARIA DUARTE sees Judi Dench delivers an outstanding performance as a Soviet spy in an improbable story based on fact
Live Music Review Wednesday 17th Apr 2019 Live Music Review Keith Tippett and Dartington Improvising Trio, Vortex London Brilliant sense of adventure and invention from jazz veterans
Live Music Review Wednesday 17th Apr 2019 Live Music Review Sona Jobarteh, Kings Place London Sona Jobarteh demonstrates why she's one of the most exciting kora players around
Fiction Review Wednesday 17th Apr 2019 Fiction Review The Holy Man and Other Stories by Alexander Trocchi Works by a neglected Scottish avant-garde writer reveal an acute eye for detail and formidable intelligence
Live Music Review Wednesday 17th Apr 2019 Live Music Review Talvin Singh, Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester The virtuoso percussionist takes tabla-playing to another exhilarating level in Manchester
Theatre Review Tuesday 16th Apr 2019 Theatre Review The Secret Garden, Salford Arts Theatre Classic children's novel gets an excellent adaptation by Salford Theatre Company
Book Review Monday 15th Apr 2019 Book Review A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee by Victor Grossman Informed by lived experience, an insider's view challenges stereotyped cold-war perceptions of the GDR
Musical Review Monday 15th Apr 2019 Musical Review Seven Drunken Nights: The Story of The Dubliners, King’s Theatre Glasgow/Touring Cliched tribute to 'Ireland's favourite sons' disappoints
Book Review Monday 15th Apr 2019 Book Review Slumboy from the Golden City by Paul Joseph An activist's autobiography is an excellent everyman’s account of the anti-apartheid struggle
Book Review Monday 15th Apr 2019 Book Review The Knowledge Economy by Roberto Mangabeira Unger Challenging alternatives to the concentration of power in the hands of the few who tightly control the knowledge economy
Live Music Review Monday 15th Apr 2019 Live Music Review Kate Rusby, Kings Place, London The ‘Barnsley Nightingale’ delivers a joyous set of songs, old and new
