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Friday 4 July 2008

 

The latest culture as recommended by our staff

Liz Anderson

Liz suggests


Foreign folly

Lloyd Evans

16th April, 2008

Wedding Day at the Cro-Magnons
Soho

The Internationalist
Gate

The Black and White Ball
King’s Head

Blame Quentin

Deborah Ross

16th April, 2008

In Bruges
18, Nationwide

Jet set

Kate Chisholm

16th April, 2008

Journey into Space (BBC Radio 4); Broadcasting House (BBC Radio 4)

Doctor’s dilemma

James Delingpole

16th April, 2008

Dr Who (BBC1)

In Scarlett’s shoes

Lloyd Evans

9th April, 2008

Lloyd Evans on the extraordinary story behind Trevor Nunn’s ‘Gone with the Wind’

Take your pick

Andrew Lambirth

9th April, 2008

Robert Dukes (born 1965) is one of our finest younger artists.

Weightless babblefest

Lloyd Evans

9th April, 2008

Bliss
Royal Court

Peter Pan, El Musical
Garrick

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
Almeida

Self-confident Royal

Carolyn Bartholomew

9th April, 2008

Carolyn Bartholomew meets Kate Royal

Oh, George, how could you?

Deborah Ross

9th April, 2008

Leatherheads
PG, Nationwide

Screen test

Peter Phillips

9th April, 2008

Why is it so difficult to make engaging television programmes about classical music?

Road to nowhere

Michael Tanner

9th April, 2008

Lost Highway
Young Vic

Aci, Galathea e Polifemo
Middle Temple

IPods for idiots

Charles Spencer

9th April, 2008

It is three years since I last wrote about my iPod.

Wealth of ideas

Kate Chisholm

9th April, 2008

The relentless downgrading of the News to a series of shocking revelations about child abuse, bearded terrorists and the ghastly incompetence of our Olympic pretensions sent me straight to the World Service where even the shortest of hourly bulletins contains enough information to remind us that life goes on beyond our own limited horizons.

Liberating Shakespeare

Mary Wakefield

2nd April, 2008

Mary Wakefield talks to the RSC’s Michael Boyd and learns how he scared the Establishment

Crowded out

Andrew Lambirth

2nd April, 2008

Cranach
Royal Academy, until 8 June

Two little boys

Deborah Ross

2nd April, 2008

Son of Rambow
12A, nationwide

Family ructions

Lloyd Evans

2nd April, 2008

God of Carnage
Gielgud

Never So Good
Lyttelton

Into the Hoods

Novello

Sugar rush

Marcus Berkmann

2nd April, 2008

Marcus Berkmann buys a Take That album

Damp squib

Michael Tanner

2nd April, 2008

Carmen
Royal Opera House

Violent deaths revisited

Kate Chisholm

2nd April, 2008

4.4.68 (BBC Radio 4); A Long Way From Home (BBC Radio 3)

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