From Liz Hurley on My Wardrobe Malfunction to the entertaining The Reality Tea, New Scientist Weekly and RHLSTP, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 GMT, 7 March 2020 | Updated: 16:29 GMT, 13 March 2020 My Wardrobe Malfunction Every week on this fun new podcast by Susannah Constantine (of Trinny fame), a … Read more
From Louise Erdrich’s beguiling latest to English Monsters by James Scudamore and Louise Hare’s timely debut, this week’s best new fiction By Jeffrey Burke and Anthony Gardner and Simon Humphreys For Event Magazine Published: 22:00 GMT, 14 March 2020 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 14 March 2020 The Night Watchman Louise Erdrich … Read more
MONDAY, MARCH 2 Back to the Good Morning Britain studios after three weeks in America, to find Susanna Reid in full-blown coronavirus alert mode. She has declared herself strictly non-contact. ‘No hugging, no kissing, no touching me whatsoever!’ she exclaimed when I entered her dressing room at 5.45am for our usual pre-show briefing and asked … Read more
Alanis Morissette Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London Touring September 28 to October 4 Rating: Mention 1996 to a music-lover and they will probably think of Oasis or the Spice Girls. But those bands, huge though they were, … Read more
Though the Aubrey Beardsley exhibition at Tate Britain is richly enjoyable, it’s best enjoyed in a comfortable chair with the catalogue By Philip Hensher for Event Published: 22:01 GMT, 14 March 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 14 March 2020 Aubrey Beardsley Tate Britain, London … Read more
These headphones sound brilliant but they do make you look like a Teletubby! By Rob Waugh Event for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:01 GMT, 14 March 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 14 March 2020 ‘You look like a Teletubby!’ These are words no man wants to hear. I suppose at least they didn’t say … Read more
The Gatekeeper Kate Fall HQ £16.99 Rating: Discretion may be the better part of valour, but it is the worst part of a memoir. Kate Fall was David Cameron’s deputy chief of staff for 11 years, first in opposition and then in Government. Her desk was positioned outside Cameron’s door so she became known as … Read more
From the haunting and compelling Blackwood by Michael Farris Smith to Malcolm Pryce’s riotous new Jack Wenlock novel, thrillers of the month By John Williams Published: 22:01 GMT, 14 March 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 14 March 2020 Blackwood Michael Farris Smith … Read more
Pure, not prissy: Indian at its best By Tom Parker Bowles Event for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:01 GMT, 14 March 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 14 March 2020 Opheem 65 Summer Row, Birmingham Rating: Birmingham’s finest Balti, Al Frash, closed a few months back. No one’s entirely sure why, but we’re all united … Read more
There is no surer way of appreciating the full extent of Beethoven’s genius than hearing, acquiring or downloading Maurizio Pollini’s album By David Mellor for Event Published: 22:01 GMT, 14 March 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 14 March 2020 Maurizio Pollini … Read more