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Classical composers help grapes grow

Paula Goddard’s Wines of the Week starting 8th April 2019 Vines just love Vivaldi, it seems. Italian scientists have discovered his music helps grow healthier vines. Relayed from an iPod to vines thro ...

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Big on talent, big on laughs, with a big flaw in the story

Joyce Glasser reviews Little (April 12, 2019), Cert. 12A, 109 min. Little is a film from director Tina Gordon whose script (with Tracy Oliver) is based on an idea pitched by the film’s 14-year-old co- ...

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Male seahorses give birth, and in this intimate portrait, so does writer/director Jason Barker

Joyce Glasser reviews A Deal with the Universe (April 12, 2019) Cert. 15, 87 min. Is there any limit to what we are ready to watch on our cinema screens? We’ve seen it all in terms of sex and violence ...

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Have things improved for women since the 1980s?

Robert Tanitch reviews Top Girls at National Theatre/Lyttelton Caryl Churchill’s 1982 play about the price women pay for competing in a man’s world has always been grossly overrated. It is not, as has ...

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