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A Tough And Violent Era Of Political Christianity
The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages BY CHRIS WICKHAM PENGUIN, £25 T hough The Inheritance of Rome does not specifically focus on Christianity and the Latin......
Alexander Borgia, The Reformist Pope
The House of Borgia BY CHRISTOPHER HIBBERT CONSTABLE , £18.99 A ccording to the blurb of this, his last book, the late Christopher Hibbert was a “prolific and highly acclaimed......
Music
The Gambler ROH, FROM THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11 Prokofiev’s opera, adapted from a novella by Dostoevsky, was written in 1917 but was only performed in Britain in the 1960s and......
Astro Boy
PG CERT, 94 MINS Stars including Donald Sutherland, Bill Nighy and Nicolas Cage provide the voices for this 3D animated film, based on a Japanese manga series popular since......
Jerusalem
APOLLO THEATRE The Royal Court is on a high at the moment and has two successes in the West End: Lucy Prebble’s Enron (which you must on no account miss) and Jezz Butterworth’s......
Generation Jihad
BBC2, 9PM, MONDAY FEBRUARY 8 Peter Taylor, whose documentaries on Northern Ireland were the gold standard of terrorism documentaries, investigates the threat of terrorism from......
Rolando Villazón: Tenor
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON, £8.95 Rolando Villazón, best known to the British public as the enthusiastic curly haired judge on ITV’s From Popstar to Operastar , offers a guided tour of......
Up
BUENA VISTA, £19.99 The hugely popular animation film Up tells the story of a 78-year-old widower who, on being told he’s to go to a retirement home, attaches thousands of......
Books In Brief
The Cracked Bell by Tristram Riley-Smith (Constable, £8.99) Tristram Riley-Smith, a British civil servant and anthropologist, was posted for years at the British embassy in......