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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

Code of a Killer, ITV

Monday, 06 April 2015 Read more...

The Ark, BBC One

Monday, 30 March 2015 Read more...

Why everyone should see The Mysteries from Cape Town

Monday, 30 March 2015 Read more...

DVD: Leviathan

Friday, 13 March 2015 Read more...

'Most of the time I play complete losers'

Tuesday, 10 March 2015 Read more...

Banished, BBC Two

Friday, 06 March 2015 Read more...

Wolf Hall, Series Finale, BBC Two

Thursday, 26 February 2015 Read more...

The Casual Vacancy, BBC One

Monday, 16 February 2015 Read more...

Fifty Shades of Grey

Sunday, 15 February 2015 Read more...

Gruff Rhys, KOKO

Thursday, 12 February 2015 Read more...

We Made It: The Bogányi Piano

Friday, 06 February 2015 Read more...

Inside the Commons, BBC Two

Tuesday, 03 February 2015 Read more...

DVD: Gone Girl

Tuesday, 03 February 2015 Read more...

Timeshift: Battle for the Himalayas, BBC Four

Friday, 30 January 2015 Read more...

Wolf Hall, BBC Two

Thursday, 22 January 2015 Read more...

Cockroaches, ITV2 / Crims, BBC Three

Tuesday, 13 January 2015 Read more...

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