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ANGUS REID urges us to understand the persecution of Jason Arday from a political and historical perspective, and to see the victim in human terms
Heart-warming seasonal sentiments
Susan Darlington reviews White Christmas at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
Re-releases of the classics Gypsy Rhumba and Buena Vista Social Club, and a stunning album by Palestinian artist Faris Ishaq
Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
JAMIE BRITTON invites readers to visit 3,500 locals as part of a marathon artistic pub crawl
JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
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White Christmas may be as traditional as mince pies and mulled wine but this Nikolai Foster production takes a far from standard approach.
His musical respects the 1954 film starring Bing Crosby but his starting point is the 2004 Broadway production currently being staged in London’s West End.
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