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Will Our Civilisation Survive The End Of Oil?
W hen one reads about the world’s dependence on oil it is usually framed in context of the West’s unhealthy reliance on the motor car, and the manner in which our obsession with......
Keep An Open Mind On The Gunpowder Plot
H ugh Ross Williamson was a versatile writer: essayist, dramatist and historian. In this last occupation he loved to ferret out, through careful research and clever speculation,......
Books In Brief
The Body of This by Andrew McNabb (Warren Machine Company, £18.50) The publicity flyer that accompanies Andrew McNabb’s collection of short stories says he has ignored the......
Music
A Celebration of Christmas LPO, ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, DECEMBER 5 The London Philharmonic Orchestra try to get into the Christmas spirit early with pieces by Mendelssohn, Vaughan......
Cinema
Me and Orson Welles 12A CERT, 114 MINS In 1937 in New York 17-year-old Richard Samuels, bored with school and looking for a shot at Broadway, has a chance encounter with a......
Theatre
Jest End JERMYN STREET THEATRE, LONDON SW1 This indifferent revue (with a terrible title) attempts to do for West End musicals what Forbidden Broadway does so brilliantly for......
Television
Being Alan Bennett BBC2, 9.30PM, SATURDAY, DEC 5 It’s back-to-back Alan Bennett on BBC Two, which screens the writer’s 1980s works, Dinner at Noon and An Englishman Abroad ,......
Cd
Plácido Domingo: Amore Infinito DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON, £10.88 The Spanish tenor describes this album, subtitled “Songs inspired by the poetry of John Paul II”, as one of the most......
Dvd
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince WARNER BROS, £16.99 The penultimate film of the Harry Potter novels finds the wizards Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron (Rupert Grint) and......