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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

On the Edge, Channel 4, review - fast and furious new dramas

Wednesday, 15 August 2018 Read more...

Murder in Soho: Who Killed Freddie Mills?, BBC Four review - cold case solved?

Thursday, 02 August 2018 Read more...

Brian Friel, the private playwright of Ballybeg

Wednesday, 25 July 2018 Read more...

Picnic at Hanging Rock, BBC One review - camp girls' school gothic

Thursday, 12 July 2018 Read more...

Swimming with Men review - Rob Brydon and co sink

Friday, 06 July 2018 Read more...

Duran Duran: There's Something You Should Know / A Night In, BBC Four, review - chaps on film

Saturday, 30 June 2018 Read more...

Leave No Trace review - intense off-grid drama

Wednesday, 27 June 2018 Read more...

The Happy Prince review - Wilde at heart

Friday, 15 June 2018 Read more...

Studio 54 review - boogie wonderland

Monday, 11 June 2018 Read more...

Line of Separation, All 4, review - handsome if soapy epic

Saturday, 02 June 2018 Read more...

Peter Kay's Car Share: The Finale, BBC Two review - happy ever after?

Tuesday, 29 May 2018 Read more...

Edie review - Sheila Hancock gets summit fever

Wednesday, 23 May 2018 Read more...

Manchester: The Night of the Bomb, BBC Two review - devastating account of the lottery of terror

Wednesday, 23 May 2018 Read more...

Ian Rickson: 'I'm an introvert, I want to stop talking about myself' - interview

Tuesday, 22 May 2018 Read more...

DVD: All the Money in the World

Tuesday, 15 May 2018 Read more...

Mario Vargas Llosa: The Neighbourhood review - a surprisingly sketchy telenovela

Sunday, 13 May 2018 Read more...

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