Two couples meet up for an apparently convivial meal, except that there’s a minefield under their feet. And when they trigger ...

Bengali pianist Zoe Rahman, because it evokes themes – voyage, migration and family – which resonate strongly with her. The composition was commissioned at short notice by the Hull Jazz Festival (as a ...

The relationship between the two starts as a take-no-prisoners battle of obdurate wills. As the film progresses, the grandson finds that there are ways to face up to life, whereas the grandmother ...

It was an awesome start, those three notes from the cellos even before the famous "Tristan" chord inspiring more deep emotion ...

Terrorists are monsters. Or so we are told – pure evil. Well, it makes a good story. Even if it isn’t completely true.

One sometimes finds oneself wondering whether Harlan Coben is an author or a set of AI procedures designed to manufacture ...

Ben Ockrent’s Relics had me hooked from the moment the safety curtain started rising: a metal number with a banner of packing ...

Judging from her second album, young country singer Willow Avalon has kissed her fair share of frogs. She doesn’t let them ...

It’s a big ask of an audience to watch a film which for most of its two hour running time, focuses just two actors, even when they are doing their best work. It’s impossible to fault Woody Norman, the ...

Recorded over four intense weeks of work and play in a little studio in Chiswick – on the periphery of their old London stomping grounds – and folding four songs from the Hackney Diamonds sessions ...

Hot from its successful run at the Old Vic, Carrie Cracknell’s Olivier-nominated revival of Tom Stoppard’s 1993 masterpiece has made a particularly sweet landing in the West End. For opening night was ...

Fifty years since Benjamin Britten died, and his operas are still in repertory: half a dozen of them at least. It’s a tribute ...