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Southampton docks to Brixton Beach

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Interview with artist and novelist Roma Tearne. For The Oxford Times.

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The Essentials

Thursday, July 23, 2009

– for Excellence in Vocational Training for Performing, Production and Technical Careers. Big hoo-ha. Small pamphlet. For The Oxford Times.

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Seing Oasis live – 15 years late

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Oasis at Wembley Stadium. For The Oxford Times.

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Is it because you is black?

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Prospect interview, in which I give best-selling aid economist Dambisa Moyo a little of the old Smyth charm.

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Celebrating Orwellianism

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Orwell – a celebration, at the Trafalgar Studios, London. For The Oxford Times.

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A little night reading

Friday, May 29, 2009

Nocturnes Five Stories of Music and Nightfall Kazuo Ishiguro faber and faber £14.99, 221p ISBN 978-0-571-24498-0 ‘Their talk was no longer just about music – though everything always seemed to come back to it.’ Whether as opening subject or illustrative decoration, music seems to be a recurring theme for Kazuo Ishiguro. The Unconsoled told of […]

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Alphabetical Order (2)

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Chatting to Michael Frayn and Jonathan Guy Lewis about Alphabetical Order. For The Oxford Times.

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Alphabetical Order (1)

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Alles in Ordnung (isch) in Hampstead Theatre’s revival of Michael Frayn’s farce. For The Oxford Times.

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After Dido

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

The Young Vic’s Purcell update is terribly clever… and largely pointless. For The Oxford Times.

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Temper, temper

Monday, December 1, 2008

How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care) Ross W. Duffin W.W. Norton, £9.99, p196 . When William Gardiner lamented in 1832 that ‘the Deity seems to have left music in an unfinished state’ he was referring to a seeming paradox of tuning: if you start from C and keep adding fifths, twelve […]

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