MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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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
Under Milk Wood (15)
Directed by Kevin Allen
4/5
I REALLY enjoyed Kevin Allen’s funny and fascinating film of Dylan Thomas’s classic portrait of the lives and dreams of people in a small Welsh fishing village.
The BBC first broadcast Thomas’s inimitable radio play Under Milk Wood in 1954 and it triumphantly underlined the crucial creative quality of the medium in allowing listeners to create their own unique imagery, guided and inspired by words.
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