by Lynn White

CHRIS SEARLE speaks to saxophonist and retired NHS orthopaedic surgeon ART THEMEN

PAUL FOLEY picks out an excellent example of theatre devised to start conversations about identity, class and belonging

SYLVIA HIKINS casts an eye across the contemporary art brought to a city founded on colonialism and empire

ANGUS REID applauds the ambitious occupation of a vast abandoned paper factory by artists mindful of the departed workforce

GORDON PARSONS joins a standing ovation for a brilliant production that fuses Shakespeare’s tragedy with Radiohead's music

Reviews of More, Remembering Now, and New Vienna

ALEX HALL is thrilled by a grassroots history of of Swindon’s stunning industrial and creative past

RON JACOBS welcomes a book that tells the story of the far right in Greece from the perspective of migrants

The bard and his muse urge you to support and replenish the people’s history

When a couple moves in downstairs, gentrification begins with waffles and coffee, and proceeds via horticultural sabotage to legal action

SAM WHEELER applauds a visceral, thoughtful interrogation of radicalisation and national identity in contemporary Britain