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Spectator Play: what’s worth – or not worth – watching, listening to or going to this weekend
I’m So Excited is the latest offering from Pedro Almodóvar who, Deborah Ross says, she would usually love. But is I’m So Excited quite so, well, exciting? The trailer, which… Continue reading
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Benedict Cumberbatch takes over the world
What do you do if you wake up to discover your colleagues implying that you have it easy? If you’re Benedict Cumberbatch, you just stick to your Star Trek script… Continue reading
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This Britain: Maria Miller confuses economics with pleasure and beauty.
Is it possible for a government minister to give a speech that is not a “keynote address”? That was my first thought upon reading Maria Miller’s speech at the British… Continue reading
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Spectator Play: what’s worth watching, listening to or going to this weekend
Perched at number 3 in The Times’ ‘30 Richest under 30’ list this week were Fawn and India Rose James, aged just 27 and 21 respectively and with an estimated… Continue reading
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Maria Miller and Britain’s creative industries need to talk
Everyone seems to like talking about the ‘creative industries’ these days. For arts folk, it gives the impression that what they do is hard-edged and economically viable, it makes geeky… Continue reading
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Maria Miller tells the luvvies to take their easels off her lawn
Something had to give for Culture Secretary Maria Miller. She’s not had an easy time since the Leveson report and the subsequent battle over state regulation of the press. Harangued… Continue reading
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Spectator Play: what’s worth watching, listening to or going to this weekend
In a week where the news has been filled with stories about a certain ‘strong woman’, Kate Chisholm has found another strong woman to write about. In this week’s radio… Continue reading
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Spectator Play: what’s worth watching, listening to or going to this weekend
When Lara Pulver hit our screens brandishing a whip and wearing little more than a pair of high heels in the BBC’s Sherlock Holmes-influenced drama Sherlock, she became something of… Continue reading
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Spectator Play: Audio and video for what we’ve reviewed this week
If you succumbed to Downton fever, then the BBC’s latest period-drama, The Village, might have attracted your attention. But if it was Downton Revisited that you were after, you might… Continue reading
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Introducing Spectator Play: Audio and video for what we’ve reviewed this week
Did you catch Dr Who over the weekend? Clarissa Tan, who wrote our latest TV column, was surprised that the Dr had to contend with ‘something in the wi-fi’. How’s… Continue reading
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The Creative Employment Programme: a genuine ‘what works’ policy
Around the country, a roadshow is taking place that could transform the way young people are employed in this country. Bear with me, we are about to enter the strange… Continue reading
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Arts cuts? What arts cuts?
Luvvies have never really liked Tory governments. Poor Tracey Emin was nearly lynched by the arts crowds when she had the audacity to let David Cameron hang one of her… Continue reading
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Out of the deep
It is a pretty toothy jaw of hell that Philip II of Spain, the Doge of Venice, and the Pope kneel before in prayer in a famous El Greco painting of… Continue reading
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