Jasper Rees | The Arts Desk

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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

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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