Isolation Stories Monday-Thursday, ITV Rating: Grayson’s Art Club Monday, Channel 4 Rating: Jeff Pope’s Isolation Stories is a great technological achievement but not so much a dramatic one. Made about lockdown during lockdown, it’s intended to reflect what’s going on while it’s going on, which is mostly staring out the window wondering if you’ll ever … Read more
Louis Lortie’s new album, In Paradisum – A Fauré Recital, makes apparent the importance of the composer’s piano works to 20th Century music By David Mellor for Event Published: 22:01 BST, 9 May 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 9 May 2020 Louis Lortie In Paradisum – A Fauré Recital … Read more
A gig on your laptop sounds like a contradiction in terms. It won’t be the same consuming thrill, but it can still be a treat of a different kind – cooler, calmer, more intimate. And easier to get to. There are now so many virtual shows that the Gigs And Tours website publishes a daily … Read more
From Rick Gekoski’s witty latest to new stories by Richard Ford, Elisabeth Thomas’ debut and a satire by Jessica Anthony, this week’s best new fiction By Simon Humphreys For Event Magazine and Hephzibah Anderson and Eithne Farry For Event Magazine and Gwendolyn Smith For Event Magazine Published: 22:01 BST, 9 May 2020 | Updated: 22:01 … Read more
Joan As Police Woman Cover Two Out now Rating: Out of this strange suspended spring, patterns are emerging. If an album isn’t postponed, it’s quite likely to … Read more
Shostakovich’s Symphony No 11 is a remarkable piece with a powerful statement and it’s brilliantly orchestrated by the BBC Philharmonic By David Mellor for Event Published: 22:02 BST, 2 May 2020 | Updated: 22:02 BST, 2 May 2020 Shostakovich: Symphony No 11 ‘The Year 1905’ BBC Philharmonic, conducted by John Storgårds Chandos, out now … Read more
Valkyrie: The Women Of The Viking World Johanna Katrin Fridriksdottir Bloomsbury Academic £20 Rating: When we think of Vikings, we immediately conjure up a vision of hairy men in pointy helmets with nothing but pillage and slaughter on their mind. But … Read more
From Grounded With Louis Theroux to Louise Minchin and Annie Emmerson on Her Spirit, This Is Money and Babbage, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 BST, 2 May 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 2 May 2020 Grounded With Louis Theroux In his new podcast series, the cult documentary-maker Louis Theroux calls up … Read more
Sunday, April 19 I made my comeback on CNN today, six years after leaving the network, and passionately ripped into President Trump and Boris Johnson for both failing to react fast enough to the coronavirus crisis. The interview created quite a stir. Actress Mia Farrow messaged me from Los Angeles to say: ‘Your moral outrage … Read more
The best bottles on UK shelves for under ten quid: It’s clear that raising a glass or two has brightened some of our days during the lockdown By Olly Smith Event for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:00 BST, 30 April 2020 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 30 April 2020 With many of us experiencing uncertainty … Read more