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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

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

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Brian Friel, the private playwright of Ballybeg

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

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Swimming with Men review - Rob Brydon and co sink

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

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Leave No Trace review - intense off-grid drama

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The Happy Prince review - Wilde at heart

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Studio 54 review - boogie wonderland

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

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

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Edie review - Sheila Hancock gets summit fever

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

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

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DVD: All the Money in the World

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

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Succession, Season Four, Sky Atlantic review - powerful begi...

How much more is there left to be said about the excellence of Succession? It’s back for a final season, and devotees will pore over...

Inspiral Carpets, Concorde 2, Brighton review - a raucous ca...

As Inspiral Carpets play “She Comes in the Fall”, a great song and one of their signature tunes, its martial drumming drags me into my own past....

Great Expectations, BBC One review - modernised, muddied and...

There’s no point in being upset with the writer Steven...

The Dead City, English National Opera review - strong dream...

Is Korngold a second-rank composer with some first-rate ideas? Most performances of the 23-year-old Viennese prodigy's Die tote Stadt...

Things to Come, LSO, Strobel, Barbican review - blissful vis...

Last night at the Barbican was my first experience of a...

Antidote review - two films in one that lose sight of their...

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Bavouzet, Manchester Camerata, Takács-Nagy, Stoller Hall, Ma...

It was very much the formula as before, as Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and Gábor Takács-Nagy moved their edition of the...

Album: Sissoko Ségal Parisien Peirani - Les Égarés

This is an enchanting album which brings together four outstanding musicians, brilliant in their own right, but also adept at the kind of...

Music Reissues Weekly: The Barracudas - Drop Out With The Ba...

From around July 1977, Jeremy Gluck began contributing to the UK music weekly Sounds. Amongst his pieces were features on The Lurkers,...

Blu-ray: Kamikaze Hearts

Last month’s Storyville: Sex on Screen (available on BBC iPlayer) was a slick, speedy (and repetitive) canter through the...