Handel was 24 years old when Agrippina premiered in Venice in 1710. The opera is a popular mixture of gorgeous music, political satire and bedroom farce; and it’s very, very funny. David McVicar’s mod ...
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My Lover, My Donkey and I (March 5, 2021 on Curzon Home Cinema) 87 mins. One of the most unexpected literary adaptations of the year, My Lover, My Donkey and I is based on the humorous travel memoir f ...
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Jump brings us three programmes investigating the journey of a virus from one species to another and is presented by Dr Chris van Tulleken. Chris is a doctor frequently seen on TV investigating health ...
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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (BBC iPlayer). The Hollywood 1940 Greer Garson-Laurence Olivier version is not for admirers of the novel. It doesn’t look like Jane Austen. It doesn’t feel like Jane Austen. It doe ...
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