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Jasper has written about the arts, books, the media and sport for many broadsheets and magazines. He currently writes for the Telegraph and the Spectator. In the 1990s he also wrote about football for The Independent on Sunday. He is the author of I Found My Horn and co-author of the play of the same name. Bred of Heaven, his book on Wales and Welshness, was published in August 2011 and read on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week. His latest book is a biography of Florence Foster Jenkins

Articles By Jasper Rees

theartsdesk Q&A: Writer David Storey, pt 2

Monday, 27 March 2017 Read more...

Syria’s Disappeared review - 'must-watch can't-look record of Assad's atrocities'

Friday, 24 March 2017 Read more...

The Lost City of Z

Tuesday, 21 March 2017 Read more...

War Child, Channel 4

Monday, 13 March 2017 Read more...

Mutiny, Channel 4

Tuesday, 07 March 2017 Read more...

Kong: Skull Island

Monday, 06 March 2017 Read more...

Viceroy's House

Friday, 03 March 2017 Read more...

Prime Suspect 1973, ITV

Friday, 03 March 2017 Read more...

10 Questions for Director Gurinder Chadha

Monday, 27 February 2017 Read more...

The Swingers, Channel 4

Friday, 24 February 2017 Read more...

Patriots Day

Thursday, 23 February 2017 Read more...

The Great Wall

Friday, 17 February 2017 Read more...

CD: Vera Lynn - Vera Lynn 100

Friday, 17 February 2017 Read more...

Life of a Mountain: A Year on Blencathra, BBC Four

Wednesday, 15 February 2017 Read more...

10 Questions for Actor Conleth Hill

Monday, 13 February 2017 Read more...

The private life of Stefan Zweig in England

Thursday, 09 February 2017 Read more...

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