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The Moral Maze Of Occupied France
Americans in Paris BY CHARLES GLASS HARPER PRESS, £20 T his absorbing book is subtitled: Life and Death under the Nazi Occupation 19401944. Its author, a wellknown American......
The Gnostics Would Have Been As Bad
A New History of Early Christianity BY CHARLES FREEMAN YALE, £25 A nother year, another attempt by Charles Freeman to prove that the enforcement of politically sanctioned......
Ballet
Romeo and Juliet ROYAL BALLET, COVENT GARDEN The Royal Opera House brings Kenneth MacMillan’s graceful choreography back to the stage in the Royal Ballet’s revival of......
Cinema
It’s Complicated 15 CERT, 118 MINS As the developed world gets older it’s natural that rom-coms should reflect the lives of ageing babyboomers. After 10 years apart divorcees......
Theatre
Enron NOEL COWARD THEATRE If you were to ask me what is the best new play in town I would say it was Lucy Prebble’s fictionalised account of the largest corporate bankruptcy in......
Television
Panorama: A Walk in the Park BBC ONE, 8.30PM, MONDAY JANUARY 11 The conflict surrounding Jerusalem will almost certainly outlive everyone alive today, but while the holy city......
The British Family: Our History
BBC TWO, 9PM, MONDAY JANUARY 11 Kirsty Young, presenter of Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs , begins a four-part series on how British families have changed since the Second World......
Dvd
Creation ICON, £10.99 Paul Bettany plays troubled Charles Darwin in Jon Amiel’s film Creation , based on a biography of the great scientist by his greatgreat-grandson. The film......
Books In Brief
Marked for Life by Richard Deats (New City Press, £9.95) Richard Deats writes an engaging biography of the Austrian nonviolence pioneer Hildegard GossMayr. Goss-Mayr, an......