EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
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A noble enterprise
MARIA DUARTE recommends a biopic on an inspirational charity worker
BENJAMIN POTHIER suggests that Palaeolithic cave paintings in Spain point to the ceremonial use of hallucinogenic flora
The bard confirms that the right has a humour bypass, and replays the English Revolution on period instruments
MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
Noble (15)
Directed by Stephen Bradley
4/5
THE remarkable story of humanitarian Christina Noble, who overcame personal adversity to go on to help hundreds of thousands of impoverished children in Vietnam, is the focus of this powerful and impassioned drama.
Awe-inspiring and inspirational don’t seem adequate adjectives to describe this extraordinary Irish woman, whose early life reads like a Dickensian horror story and who has worked relentlessly for children’s rights and care.
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KEVAN NELSON reports back from a delegation to the epic celebrations for the anniversary of Vietnam’s 1945 revolution, where British communists found a thriving, prosperous socialist country, brimming with ambition and well-earned national pride