MAYER WAKEFIELD applauds Rosamund Pike’s punchy and tragic portrayal of a multi-tasking mother and high court judge
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FIONA O CONNOR recommends an unflinching depiction of child sexual abuse and its aftershocks, set in a working-class Liverpool family
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PAUL DONOVAN relishes the spectacle of a 1950s detective in pursuit of a 500-year-old murder mystery
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
The Sixteen
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IN A series of concerts around Britain over the past seven months The Sixteen, led by their founder and conductor Harry Christophers, have been showcasing and contrasting the works of two great English composers, William Cornysh and Benjamin Britten, who were prolific writers of choral music but whose work was separated by more than four centuries.
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