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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

Marshland

Wednesday, 05 August 2015 Read more...

Partners in Crime, BBC One

Monday, 27 July 2015 Read more...

10 Questions for Broadcaster Bettany Hughes

Sunday, 26 July 2015 Read more...

Witnesses, Channel 4

Thursday, 23 July 2015 Read more...

Dispatches: Escape from Isis, Channel 4

Thursday, 16 July 2015 Read more...

13 Minutes

Tuesday, 14 July 2015 Read more...

theartsdesk Q&A: Actor Roger Rees

Sunday, 12 July 2015 Read more...

theartsdesk in Aix: Dreaming on

Friday, 10 July 2015 Read more...

Sinatras on Sinatra: 'He was a lonely soul'

Wednesday, 08 July 2015 Read more...

theartsdesk Q&A: Director Michael Longhurst

Monday, 06 July 2015 Read more...

Terminator Genisys

Friday, 03 July 2015 Read more...

Keeping up with the Joneses

Thursday, 25 June 2015 Read more...

CD: Rickie Lee Jones - The Other Side of Desire

Thursday, 25 June 2015 Read more...

Black Work, ITV

Monday, 22 June 2015 Read more...

Thomas Chatterton: The Myth of the Doomed Poet, BBC Four

Tuesday, 16 June 2015 Read more...

Arise, Sir Van, Sir Lenny and Sir Kevin. Dame who?

Saturday, 13 June 2015 Read more...

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