RITA DI SANTO draws attention to a new film that features Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn, and their personal experience of media misrepresentation
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Killing me softly
BEN LUNN decodes the misleading rhetoric by which the BBC masks a philistine Tory agenda in the arts
The closure of the BBC Singers is a heinous act of cultural vandalism
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JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
ON March 7, the BBC announced their New Strategy for Classical Music. Following a year of review, which they say explores the culture sector as a whole, while investigating the BBC’s role within it, the new strategy supposedly will “strengthen its public purpose for classical music, delivering the best music to a wider audience, with a significant new investment in music education”.
The five key points of this strategy are:
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