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Jasper Rees

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Jasper has written about the arts, books, the media and sport for many broadsheets and magazines. He currently writes for the Telegraph and the Spectator. In the 1990s he also wrote about football for The Independent on Sunday. He is the author of I Found My Horn and co-author of the play of the same name. Bred of Heaven, his book on Wales and Welshness, was published in August 2011 and read on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week. His latest book is a biography of Florence Foster Jenkins

Articles By Jasper Rees

'I were crap at school': Jodie Whittaker, the new Doctor Who

Sunday, 16 July 2017 Read more...

10 Questions for Adeel Akhtar: 'The first form of defiance is to laugh'

Saturday, 15 July 2017 Read more...

GLOW, Netflix review - not quite comedy or drama

Thursday, 13 July 2017 Read more...

Broken, BBC One series finale review - Seán Bean's quiet immensity

Wednesday, 05 July 2017 Read more...

10 Questions for George Stiles and Anthony Drewe: 'we are optimistic people'

Wednesday, 28 June 2017 Read more...

Okja, Netflix review - joyous assault on the meat industry

Tuesday, 27 June 2017 Read more...

Murdered For Being Different, BBC Three review - unbearable but unmissable

Monday, 19 June 2017 Read more...

Churchill review - Winston has smallness thrust upon him

Friday, 16 June 2017 Read more...

Fearless, ITV review - Helen McCrory lights up dense conspiracy thriller

Tuesday, 13 June 2017 Read more...

Lord Lucan: My Husband, The Truth review - the coldest case of all

Tuesday, 06 June 2017 Read more...

The Shepherd review - quiet but stirring David v Goliath fable

Saturday, 03 June 2017 Read more...

Paula, BBC Two review - Denise Gough's the real thing

Friday, 26 May 2017 Read more...

Three Girls, BBC One review - drama as shattering public enquiry

Friday, 19 May 2017 Read more...

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword review - Guy Ritchie's deadly weapon

Thursday, 18 May 2017 Read more...

DVD/Blu-ray: La La Land

Tuesday, 16 May 2017 Read more...

Miss Sloane review - Jessica Chastain lobbies hard for your vote

Friday, 12 May 2017 Read more...

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