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 ...

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

Sweating in my lair, there’s no trip to the mecca this year. If the festival was on, I'd be there right now, but it’s a ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

There was so much to be thankful for throughout the three days I spent at the Aldeburgh Festival this year. First, of course, ...