Susan’s Bookshelves: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
First, two David Copperfield-related anecdotes: When I was teaching part-time in the English department of a girls’ boarding school, our Head of...
First, two David Copperfield-related anecdotes: When I was teaching part-time in the English department of a girls’ boarding school, our Head of...
Love, Conflict, Renaissance Monteverdi, Strozzi and Jonathan Dove Directed by Sir Thomas Allen Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music Some might...
Over the years I have read many books by actors describing their adventures with, and thoughts about, Shakespeare: Michael Pennington, Antony Sher,...
Famous, respected and popular as he is I had never, until now, got round to reading any Robert Harris. It did occur...
Of course I grabbed this book as soon as it was published. I interviewed Sheku Kanneh-Mason shortly after he won BBC Young...
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor Antonello Manacorda Violinist Johan Dalene Cadogan Hall 29 May 2025 A pleasing concert, which spanned 120 years...
I read The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and was moved by it, soon after it was published in January 2013. It...
Maidstone Symphony Orchestra Maxim Calver Brian Wright Mote Hall, Maidstone 17 May 2025 Elgar’s last major work, the 1919 cello...