EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
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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
Blacklisted
Directed by Tom Wood
5/5
CONSPIRATORIAL bosses, undercover police, rigged courts, telephone tapping, victimisation, bullying, appallingly dangerous working conditions, workers dead and injured. Not a pretty list, is it?
But it’s a real one, because all these shocking factors and their consequences were part of the blacklisting which was practiced for decades against British workers. And all are laid bare in this new short documentary produced by Reel News, now available free on YouTube.
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