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Wednesday 9 July 2008

 

The latest culture as recommended by our staff

Liz Anderson

Liz suggests


Between the lines

Kate Chisholm

18th June, 2008

The Afternoon Play: Address Unknown (BBC Radio 4)

Breathless approach

Simon Hoggart

18th June, 2008

Britain's Lost World (BBC1); How the West Was Lost (BBC4); Last of the Dambusters (Five); Dickens's Secret Lover (Channel 4)

Morality takes to the stage

Henrietta Bredin

11th June, 2008

Henrietta Bredi joins in the preparations for Vaughan Williams's 'The Pilgrim's Progress'

Mixed blessings

Andrew Lambirth

11th June, 2008

Summer Exhibition
Royal Academy, until 17 August

Concrete and carbuncles

Alan Powers

11th June, 2008

Alan Powers on architecture

Verdi’s riches

Michael Tanner

11th June, 2008

Don Carlo
Royal Opera House

Dylan obsession

Charles Spencer

11th June, 2008

Charles Spencer on turning into a Bob Dylan obsessive

Unappealing characters

Lloyd Evans

11th June, 2008

Rosmersholm
Almeida

Love — The Musical

Lyric

Fat Pig
Trafalgar Studio

Drawing a blank

Deborah Ross

11th June, 2008

Irina Palm
15, Barbican and key cities

It’s so unfair

James Delingpole

11th June, 2008

Margaret Thatcher - the Long Walk to Finchley (BBC4) 

Campaign trail

Kate Chisholm

11th June, 2008

Classic Serial (BBC Radio 4)

China’s piano fever

Petroc Trelawny

4th June, 2008

Petroc Trelawny visits the world’s largest piano factory in the country where under Mao it was dangerous to play the instrument

The savvy Mr Perry

Andrew Lambirth

4th June, 2008

Unpopular Culture
De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea

Hip-hop hell

Marcus Berkmann

4th June, 2008

Marcus Berkmann doesn't enjoy hip-hop

Replica idols

Lloyd Evans

4th June, 2008

Never Forget
Savoy

Life Coach
Trafalgar Studio

The Common Pursuit
Menier

Stifling the Egyptians

Michael Tanner

4th June, 2008

Aida
Wales Millennium Centre

Saved by the horses

Deborah Ross

4th June, 2008

Mongol
15, Nationwide

Confucian confusions

Kate Chisholm

4th June, 2008

The Reith Lectures (BBC Radio 4)

Top women

Simon Hoggart

4th June, 2008

Queen Victoria's Men (Channel 4); Florence Nightingale (BBC1); How TV Changed Britain (Channel 4)

Drama at the opera

28th May, 2008

Stephen Pettitt celebrates the new wave of masterful British productions

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