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Newman Seen Through Freudian Spectacles
Newman’s Unquiet Grave BY JOHN CORNWELL CONTINUUM, £18.99 Newman the Priest BY GERARD SKINNER, GRACEWING, £12.99 W hat prompted John Cornwell, author of Hitler’s Pope and other......
Bluebeard
15 CERT, 80 MINS Released late last year in France and premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, Bluebeard opens in the 1950s with Catherine (Marilou LopesBenites)......
Beethovenathon 2010
QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL, SOUTH BANK This Beethovenathon is a mammoth undertaking for any listener, taking in all nine of Beethoven’s symphonies in a day. And yet it is also an......
Enron
NOEL COWARD THEATRE It may not have succeeded in New York, but it has been a big success here. Final weeks. Don’t miss Lucy Prebble’s fictionalised account of the largest......
Who Killed Caravaggio?
BBC FOUR, JULY 18, 9PM “After a fortnight’s work he will swagger about for a month or two with a sword at his side and his servant following him, from one ballcourt to the next,......
Britain On The Bottle
BBC RADIO FOUR, JULY 19, 3.45PM In this 10-part series, presenter Mark Whitaker examines the history of the politics of alcohol. The first episode focuses on King James I, who,......
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Should this adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s best-selling thriller have been called Men Who Hate Women, since the men in this story are nearly all monstrous? Mikael Blomkvist......
Books In Brief
London Stage in the Nineteenth Century by Robert Tanitch (Carnegie, £24.99) This beautifully illustrated guide to the London stage in the 19th century shines a light on a......