Lise Davidsen is the most talked-about young soprano around and she does nothing to harm her cause in this second Decca album By David Mellor for Event Published: 22:00 BST, 1 May 2021 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 1 May 2021 Lise Davidsen Beethoven, Wagner, Verdi … Read more
The Harmonious Echo is a thoroughly entertaining album… Congratulations to the always innovative Chandos team for issuing it By David Mellor for Event Published: 22:01 BST, 24 April 2021 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 24 April 2021 The Harmonious Echo: Songs By Sir Arthur Sullivan Chandos, out Friday Rating: Sullivan and W. S. Gilbert’s comic operas … Read more
A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life And Epic Journey Of The World’s Smartest Bird Of Prey Jonathan Meiburg … Read more
NETFLIX, SKY, DISNEY+, APPLE TV+ Nomadland Nomadland has just won four Baftas, including best film, best director for Chloe Zhao and best actress for its star, Frances McDormand, and no one will be surprised if it enjoys similar success at the Oscars. This is very much the right film at the right time. But … Read more
Try before you buy: The twinkle hasn’t left Tom Jones and neither has his voice, which is still a force of nature that can suddenly turn to finesse By Tim De Lisle for Event Magazine Published: 22:01 BST, 17 April 2021 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 17 April 2021 Tom Jones … Read more
Sunday, April 11 Prince Philip’s death has prompted an avalanche of anecdotes about the great man’s legendarily waspish tongue. When I first met him, I didn’t even get to that stage before being brutally removed from his orbit. Our encounter took place during Prince Charles’ 50th birthday party in 1998 at Buckingham Palace. Prince Philip’s … Read more
In The Thick Of It: The Private Diaries Of A Minister Alan Duncan William … Read more
From Saima Mir’s debut novel to My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley, an uplifting tale by Julietta Henderson and Jessie Greengrass’s latest, this week’s best new fiction By John Williams and Madeleine Feeny and Hephzibah Anderson and Anthony Gardner Published: 22:01 BST, 17 April 2021 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 17 April 2021 The Khan Saima Mir … Read more
Line Of Duty BBC1, Sunday Rating: Too Close ITV, Monday-Wednesday Rating: Leonardo Amazon Rating: I was not, apparently, the only one to faff about playing and pausing and pausing and playing – too far, go back, now a millisecond forward – to freeze the final frame of this week’s Line Of Duty. I thought I … Read more
NETFLIX & ACORN TV Stowaway His harrowing 2018 film Arctic was about survival at the North Pole. Now director Joe Penna turns his attention to survival in space. Launch support engineer Michael (Shamier Anderson) is accidentally caught on a three-person two-year mission to Mars when the spaceship takes off early. The life-support systems won’t … Read more