A reissue can be an aide-mémoire, a reminder that a record which has been off the radar for a while needs revisiting, that it deserves fresh attention.

Except that I almost wanted Ruth Jones and James Corden to put a bomb under their famous creation and blow it apart with key ...

From the iconic Pop anthems that dominated this Summer, to the Pop Punk resurgence that is still going strong, it’s been an ...

It's the images that linger in the mind as I think back on a bustling theatre year just gone. Sure, the year fielded ...

In April 2023 the actor and comic Jamie Foxx had a stroke and was lucky to survive. In his latest Netflix Special, What Had ...

Another “complete piano works” and anniversary crossover was Lucas Debargue’s 4 CD set of Fauré (Sony) marking the centenary of his death. It charts the composer’s progression from mid-19th century ...

Ireland takes the palm for best of 2024, with Wexford hitting comic heights among its three rarities in Donizettian ...

Beth Gibbons’s latest album touched me more deeply than most of what I heard in 2024. She’s true to herself and honest in a way that’s extraordinarily disarming. Her vulnerability matches, in a ...

Since its revival in 2020, All Creatures Great and Small has drawn big audiences internationally and become Channel 5’s ...

There are no white-sheeted ghosts in this year’s A Ghost Story for Christmas. The BBC’s annual adaptations of MR James’s best ...

French production filmed in Guadeloupe, in the French West Indies, the Frenchness seems to have mysteriously leaked away.

Robert Eggers' strength as a director is his ability to bring historical periods alive with gritty, tactile realism. He does ...