Reviews of the Neil Charles Quartet, the Freddie Hubbard Quintet, and the Olie Brice Quartet
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MARIA DUARTE recommends a film on the women whose actions triggered the demise of the global beauty-contest industry
GLENN BURGESS suggests that, despite his record in Spain, Orwell’s enduring commitment to socialist revolution underpins his late novels
CHRISTOPHER POLLARD explains how and why neoliberalism adopted the racist agenda common to the populist right of today
SYLVIA HIKINS recommends a sweeping survey of the world's biggest desert and the people who live there
GUILLERMO THOMAS is persuaded by a scathing critique of the Church of England and its embeddedness in imperialism
MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Materialists, Unmoored, Together, and Bambi: A Tale of Life in The Woods
TONY BURKE revels in the publication of previously unreleased tracks by the great US folksinger
Misbehaviour (12A)
Directed by Philippa Lowthorpe
THE 1970 Miss World protest by the newly formed Women’s Liberation Movement, which put them on the global map overnight, is immortalised and celebrated in this wonderfully entertaining yet poignant comedy drama.
The protesters, who infiltrated the televised beauty pageant as audience members, disrupted the proceedings live on air. They hurled flour bombs and fired a water pistol at the show’s host, the womanising “comedy legend” Bob Hope (Greg Kinnear), following his appalling sexist jokes and in protest at the demeaning way the competition treated and portrayed women.
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