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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

The Bridge, BBC Two, series 4 review - Scandi saga is darker than ever

Saturday, 12 May 2018 Read more...

The Split, BBC One, review - Abi Morgan’s densely packed divorce drama

Wednesday, 25 April 2018 Read more...

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society review - artery-furring whimsy

Friday, 20 April 2018 Read more...

Milos Forman: 'The less you know about yourself, the happier you are'

Tuesday, 17 April 2018 Read more...

Lifeline, Channel 4 review - Spanish sci-fi drama on speed

Monday, 16 April 2018 Read more...

Arcade Fire, Wembley Arena review - sensational spectacle

Friday, 13 April 2018 Read more...

Law and Order, BBC Four review - not a fair cop

Friday, 13 April 2018 Read more...

DVD: Blood and Glory

Friday, 13 April 2018 Read more...

Civilisations: First Contact, BBC Two review - David Olusoga goes for gold

Friday, 06 April 2018 Read more...

Ordeal by Innocence, BBC One, review - Agatha Christie goes nuclear

Monday, 02 April 2018 Read more...

Journeyman review - Paddy Considine wins on points

Friday, 30 March 2018 Read more...

Mum, BBC Two, series 2 finale review - the perfect way to go

Wednesday, 28 March 2018 Read more...

Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words, BBC One review - emotional nomad with a fragile gift for joy

Tuesday, 27 March 2018 Read more...

Crowhurst review - plucky indie wins race with rival

Saturday, 24 March 2018 Read more...

Unsane review - Claire Foy in bonkers horror satire

Thursday, 22 March 2018 Read more...

13 Commandments, Channel 4 review - murder most Flemish

Monday, 19 March 2018 Read more...

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Album: Mocky - Music Will Explain (Choir Music Vol. 1)

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Semele, Royal Opera review - unholy smoke

Poor, slightly silly Semele fries at the sight of lover Jupiter casting off his mortal form, but in Congreve’s and Handel’s supposedly happy...

Sudan, Remember Us review - the revolution will be memorised

In 2019, French-Tunisian journalist and documentary filmmaker Hind Meddeb flew to Sudan after the overthrow of hated dictator Omar al-Bashir,...

Le nozze di Figaro, Glyndebourne review - perceptive humanit...

Over 100 years ago, John Christie envisaged Wagner’s Parsifal with limited forces in the Organ Room at Glyndebourne. He would have been...

Quadrophenia, Sadler's Wells review - missed opportunit...

The red, white and blue bull’s-eye on the front curtain at Sadler’s Wells tells us we are in the familiar territory of Pete Townshend’s...

Fidelio, Garsington Opera review - a battle of sunshine and...

Sometimes, as the first act of Beethoven’s Fidelio closes, the chorus of prisoners discreetly fade away backstage as their brief taste of...