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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

An encounter with John Richardson, Picasso's biographer who has died at 95

Thursday, 14 March 2019 Read more...

After Life, Netflix, review - Ricky Gervais's grief emoji

Friday, 08 March 2019 Read more...

Curfew, Sky One, review - belt up for a budget-price Mad Max

Saturday, 23 February 2019 Read more...

Q&A Special: Actor Bruno Ganz on playing Hitler

Saturday, 16 February 2019 Read more...

Catastrophe, Channel 4, series 4 finale review - sitcom saves the best till last

Wednesday, 13 February 2019 Read more...

Les Misérables, BBC One, series finale review - more moving than revealing

Monday, 04 February 2019 Read more...

Camping, Sky Atlantic, review - Lena Dunham's tentative British export

Friday, 01 February 2019 Read more...

theartsdesk Q&A: Composer Michel Legrand

Saturday, 26 January 2019 Read more...

'I'll show the lot of you!' Richard E Grant's Oscar nomination

Wednesday, 23 January 2019 Read more...

Cold Feet, Series 8, ITV, review - mortality lite

Tuesday, 15 January 2019 Read more...

Brexit: The Uncivil War, Channel 4 review - Benedict Cumberbatch gets the best tunes

Tuesday, 08 January 2019 Read more...

Escape at Dannemora, Sky Atlantic review - Ben Stiller's breakout drama impresses

Wednesday, 02 January 2019 Read more...

The ABC Murders, BBC One, review - John Malkovich's dark reboot of Poirot

Thursday, 27 December 2018 Read more...

The Long Song, BBC One, series finale review - a stirring adaptation

Friday, 21 December 2018 Read more...

Papillon review - a not very great escape

Thursday, 20 December 2018 Read more...

The Little Drummer Girl, BBC One, series finale review - Le Carré drama comes to the boil at last

Monday, 03 December 2018 Read more...

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