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Jasper Rees

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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

Cold Feet, Series Finale, ITV

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Loudon Wainwright III, London Palladium

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Ordinary Lies, Series 2, BBC One

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Inferno

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Divorce, Sky Atlantic

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Victoria, Series Finale, ITV

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A World Without Down's Syndrome?, BBC Two

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theartsdesk Q&A: Playwright Katori Hall

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Crisis in Six Scenes, Amazon Prime

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DVD/Blu-ray: Love & Friendship

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Swiss Army Man

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Paranoid, ITV

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CD: John Prine - For Better, Or Worse

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Who's afraid of Edward Albee?

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Ben-Hur

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Cold Feet, ITV

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