I’m always being accused, sometimes by readers of this very column, of living too much in the past. And this is not a totally unfair aspersion. TV is – still – such an ephemeral medium that people raise an eyebrow, sometimes two, when you are...
“A lovely idea, but it’s never going to happen.” For years, this was how colleagues at Normandy’s Bayeux Tapestry Museum responded whenever English medievalist Michael Lewis suggested the 11thcentury embroidery should return to Britain for...
Charade, the 1963 film where the character Audrey Hepburn plays is perhaps closest to who she really was, has just been reissued by the Criterion Collection, the DVD company that specialises in restoring the classics. An image persists of...
The posthumous reputation of Herbert Howells rests mainly on his vast output of church music – somewhat paradoxical, given his apparent agnosticism and possible atheism – and on his monumental Hymnus Paradisi, on which I have reflected...
