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Malthus: The Prophet Who Keeps On Failing
Peoplequake BY FRED PEARCE EDEN PROJECT BOOKS, £13 F red Pearce tells us that the slowing down of the Japanese economy as a result of an ageing population was forecast as long......
Radio
Raymond Chandler season RADIO 4 What a fantastic treat for Raymond Chandler fans: this year Radio 4 is dramatising every single one of his Philip Marlowe novels. The hardboiled......
Cinema
Rabbit Hole CERT 12A, 91 MINS Rabbit Hole , adapted by David Lindsay-Abaire from his stage play and directed by John Cameron Mitchell, is a remarkable film about surviving......
Concert
Borodin Quartet WIGMORE HALL, FEBRUARY 5 This concert performed at Wigmore Hall by the Borodin Quartet opens with Nikolai Myaskovsky’s powerful Quartet No 13, packed with lively......
Theatre
Children’s Hour WYNDHAMʼS THEATRE, LONDON The reputation of two teachers is ruined when a neurotic pupil falsely accuses them of being lovers. American playwright Lillian......
Ballet
Giselle ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, VARIOUS DATES Sir Peter Wright’s classical adaptation of Marius Petipa’s choreography of Giselle for the Royal Ballet, makes this a ballet worth going......
Television
American Idol: Reagan BBC FOUR, FEBRUARY 6, 9PM Ronald Reagan was born on February 6 1911 and to mark the 100th year since his birth the BBC has produced American Idol: Reagan......
Books In Brief
Priests of Jesus Christ, Vol II by Pope Benedict XVI (St Paul, £14.95) Following the Year of St Paul, Pope Benedict XVI called the Year for Priests, which was to be a year......
A Utopian Dream Destroyed By Bickering
Fruitland BY RICHARD FRANCIS YALE, £25 N ineteenth-century New England was home to many Utopian experiments. Some (like the establishment at Brook Farm in West Roxbury) were......