MARIA DUARTE is swept along by the cocky self-belief of a ping-pong hustler in a surprisingly violent drama
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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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STEVE ANDREW recommends a lively and often moving guide to once vibrant spaces that have been abandoned or swept away
GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production whose design and cartoonish acting overwhelms the close scrutiny of characters
SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys the raucous familiarity of a traditional topsy-turvy pantomime
RON JACOBS introduces the latest novel by the best writer of US working-class fiction writing today
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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