MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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Mission: save the world
MARIA DUARTE recommends documentary How to Change the World on Greenpeace’s environmental activism
MATTHEW HAWKINS rakes through un-fancy words and flair-free summaries to find who and what might be flamboyant
PETER MASON is exhilarated by an exciting, well-considered and historically minded tribute to the great Trinidadian instrument
Reducing historical lives to ‘male’ and ‘female’ roles, we lose the nuance of those lives and a clearer understanding of past societies, suggests CLAIRE ISABELLA GILMOUR
CHRIS SEARLE relishes the genius of pianist Alexander Hawkins, his many ensembles, and his new album
How to Change the World (15), directed by Jerry Rothwell
4/5
FOR many it may be incredible fathoming how a group of young hippy activists in an old fishing boat in 1971 gave birth to a global environmental movement and its poster child Greenpeace.
Their mission, as they set sail from Vancouver, was to stop the US’s atomic bomb tests in Amchitka, a small island off the west coast of Alaska.
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