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Music
La Traviata ROH, FROM JUNE 18 The Royal Opera House’s classic production of Verdi’s most modern opera, La Traviata , features the world-renowned soprano Renée Fleming in the......
Cinema
The End of the Line TBC, 90 MINS Hollywood celebrity Ted Danson says this documentary will make us all angry about the over-fishing of the world’s oceans. It warns us that if......
Theatre
The King and I ROYAL ALBERT HALL, FROM JUNE 12 Siamese king, English governess, circa early 1860s. Impresario Raymond Gubby can usually be relied on to come up with a......
Television
Occupation BBC ONE,9PM, TUESDAY JUNE 16 A new drama from the makers of Life on Mars , Spooks and Hustle traces the lives of three British soldiers from the invasion of Iraq to......
The Price Of Life
BBC2, 9PM, WEDNESDAY JUNE 17 The NHS can’t afford to offer every possible treatment available on the market to its patients, so awful, heart-rending decisions have to be made......
Dvd
The Wrestler OPTIMUM HOME ENTERTAINMENT, £19.99 After the commercial and critical failure of Darren Aronofsky’s last film, the wunderkind has decided to make a film about......
A Disastrous Marriage That Horrified The Whole Nation
Wedlock: How Georgian Britain’s Worst Husband Met His Match BY WENDY MOORE ORION, £18.99 A t just 27 Mary Eleanor Bowes had everything except, temporarily, a husband. The good......
A Noble Soldier In ‘the Real Crusade’
CLASSIC CATHOLIC BOOK Diaries BY HUGH DORMER W hen, recently, I learnt that officers joining the Irish Guards are presented with a copy of Hugh Dormer’s Diaries , I immediately......
A Time To Every Purpose Under Heaven By Karl O.
Knausgaard (Portobello, £8.99) This novel by a Norwegian writer is set in 1560s Italy. A boy of 11 is wandering the woods near his home. The boy gets lost and disoriented,......
Anecdotes Of A Liverpool Missionary Priest In Peru By Fr
Michael Youell (to order telephone 0151 527 1521, suggested donation £3) Liverpool priest Fr Michael Youell spent nine years as a missionary in Peru, first from 1976 to 1983 and......
A Pure Heart Create For Me Edited By Robert Colquhoun
(Family Publications, £12.50) This book was inspired by a lecture series marking the 40th anniversary of Humanae Vitae at St Patrick’s, Soho – a church in the heart of an area......
Women Of Opus Dei Edited By M T Oates, Linda
Ruf and Jenny Driver (Crossroads Books, £14.99) A collection of essays and interviews of women from all different walks of life, this makes for an interesting read. The women......
Blood Royal By Vanora Bennett (harper Collins, £12.99)...
publishing machine continues apace with yet another novel in The Other Boleyn Girl vein, except this one is set a century earlier during the even more eccentrically attired......