Wales
A Child's Christmasses in Wales, BBC FourFriday, 18 December 2009
“One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days... Read more... |
Gavin and Stacey, BBC OneFriday, 27 November 2009When is enough? The template usually cited as the perfectly proportioned lifetime for sitcom is Fawlty Towers. It ran for two series, 12 episodes - in and out, no mucking about. The Office deliberately kept the same hours, give or take the odd... Read more... |
Imagine: Dame Shirley Bassey, BBC OneWednesday, 25 November 2009
The mechanism for securing a publicity still from the BBC is as follows. Go to the relevant website, log in, look for the photographs that illustrate the programme, then take your pick. For Dame Shirley Bassey: The Girl from Tiger Bay there wasn’t... Read more... |
Bryn Terfel, Royal Festival HallWednesday, 11 November 2009
Bryn Terfel is a good guy. I know; he never forgets a face, and I’ve seen him making the tea for the entire team at a recording session – no one-off, they assured me. Yet the nature of the bass-baritone beast is given over to more villains than... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Cardiff: Birth of a National TheatreSunday, 08 November 2009
From seat 17 of Row 8, Block M35, Stair 14, Level 4, in a gathering of 75,000 spectators, almost all of them Welsh, it’s difficult to argue with the idea that Wales already has a national theatre. It’s called the Millennium Stadium (picture below).... Read more... |
Tim Davies, Glynn Vivian Gallery, SwanseaSunday, 08 November 2009
Wales doesn’t figure high on the UK charts of art awareness, but one of its leading contemporary artists, 43-year-old Tim Davies, represents a generation who are producing significant, original work without approbation from the Hoxton or Shoreditch... Read more... |
Meeting Katherine JenkinsFriday, 04 September 2009
It’s pretty well understood that talent, good looks and hard work are not enough to guarantee you safe passage through the celebrity jungle nowadays. But for five years it looked as though they might be enough for Katherine Jenkins. Until recently... Read more... |
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