EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
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Shooting the messengers
MARIA DUARTE recommends a film on the shackling of journalists who exposed George W Bush’s draft dodging before he became president
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
Truth (15)
Directed by James Vanderbilt
4/5
AFTER the Oscar-winning Spotlight comes another powerful newsroom drama, this time about the overwhelming pressures from the authorities, financial interests and 24-hour news that have been stifling and slowly killing off investigative journalism.
Truth outlines the 2004 CBS 60 Minutes report investigating president George W Bush’s military service record in the run-up to his second presidential election.
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