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Perky Thriller With A Shaky Grasp Of History
Heresy BY SJ PARRIS HARPER COLLINS , £12.99 G iordano Bruno is often lionised as a bold thinker but, by my calculation, he was a woefully unsystematic philosopher and, frankly,......
Fifteen Centuries Of Catholic Priesthood
The Catholic Priest of Christ BY STEEN HEIDEMANN GRACEWING, £40 A s the Year for Priests comes to a close – in what has been an incredibly difficult and painful year for the......
Glyndebourne
LEWES, EAST SUSSEX, FROM JUNE 2 This season’s Glyndebourne opener is Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd , directed by the acclaimed theatre director Michael Grandage. The project is......
Brothers Bloom
12A CERT, 114 MINS A pair of brothers who have been con men since their childhood, Stephen and Bloom spend their time swindling millionaires and planning heists. When Bloom, the......
The Crucible
OPEN AIR THEATRE, REGENTʼS PARK The season opens with Arthur Miller’s 20th-century classic, which shows a frightening world, a world gone mad, a world ridden with guilt and......
Dunkirk: The Soldiers’ Story Little Ships
BBC TWO, 7.25PM – 9.15PM, SAT JUNE 5 Seventy years after the infamous defeat that became a famous moral victory, veterans of the Battle of France share their memories of spring......
Bach Cantatas: Volume 11
SDG, £19.99 These cantatas, for the 20th and 21st Sunday after Trinity were recorded in 2000 in the Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa. They are performed by the Monteverdi Choir......
A Prophet
18 CERT, 150 MINS The sensitive anti-hero of Jacques Audiard’s sensational thriller A Prophet is Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim), a French-Arabic 19-year-old. He cannot read or......
Books In Brief
The Kindest Thing by Cath Staincliffe (Robinson, £7.99) A novel that makes a case for assisted suicide, The Kindest Thing chronicles the story of a wife who kills her terminally......