The Sunday Times - UK (2022-04-03)

JULIAN BARNES WHY CHRISTIANITY IS EUROPE’S GREATEST MISTAKE RICHARD MORRISON OPERA IS TIRED — CAN IT WAKE UP? CONFESSIONS OF A S ...

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l Ozzy Osbourne once boasted to a journalist that he could score drugs within 15 minutes of landing anywhere in the world. “I be ...

J ulian Barnes is a month out. There has been an innocent mix- up with our interview and I am waiting in a pub near his north Lo ...

primary agents of public shaming. Today most authors will tell you (pri- vately) that what they really fear is becoming the targ ...

‘T hat cemetery is where I’ll end up one day,” Alexander Skarsgard says, looking out to the yellow Katarina Church in Stockholm. ...

depressing? “Absolutely,” he says. “I was questioning why I was in the indus- try.” It was not until 2008 that things changed, w ...

B ritish musicians have never had it so tough, according to Rob Stringer. It’s a bold state- ment, but Stringer, a revered indus ...

‘I t was wild,” says Hester Cham- bers, a musician from the Isle of Wight, talking about a gig she recently played in Paris. “Pe ...

W hen Nicola Walker was in her twenties she was given a warning. “Older actresses would put a kind hand on my knee and say, ‘Wor ...

OOK’ after Harry from Spooks, and it is now on her Wikipedia page. “He doesn’t mind, he has never seen Spooks.” When Harry was a ...

JAMES COWEN TELEVISION The spy who came in from the khazi Slow Horses Apple TV+ The Oscars Sky Max, Mon Edward VIII: Britain’s T ...

Bahamas he kept in touch with the enemy, a move for which he should have been “executed” for treason. It is a measure, however, ...

FILM manner and a smile suggesting that he knows just how this is going to turn out. So do we. And probably so does Kate. She is ...

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ART Once a year at Tate Britain the most imposing galleries in the building, the Duveen Galleries, are turned over to a contempo ...

OPERA W hatever your preconcep- tions of opera, prepare to shed them. Like a dam bursting, a flood of new operas appear this spr ...

POP & ROCK CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE WEEK They’re back on fire Red Hot Chili Peppers Unlimited Love HHHH Warner Anthony Kiedis ...

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LITERATURE Kathryn Hughes Circus of Dreams Adventures in the 1980s Literary World by John Walsh Constable £25 pp432 In 1989 John ...