MARIA DUARTE recommends the true story of the remarkable woman who sued Donald Trump for sexual assault not once, but twice
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Longstaff lives memorably again
NEIL MUDD recommends a brilliant musical tribute to a previously unsung working-class hero
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KENNY MacASKILL is disappointed by a polemical, rather than factual, account of the Lone Star State and its political path since the civil war
PAUL DONOVAN is fascinated by the lives of Charles and Mary Bagot, and the insight this biography shines on the morals of pre-Victorian society
GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
The Young’uns
The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff
Hull University
LIKE contemporaries The Unthanks and Cornshed Sisters, Teesside’s The Young’uns are evidence of a thriving song-based tradition in England’s north-east folk scene.
Politically charged: The Young'uns
Lively and politically charged, the trio’s repertoire is a mix of outrage and deep-felt compassion, whether singing about the suicide of a young gay Muslim man or the historic Battle of Cable Street.
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