Anarchy in Manchester, a new series produced by Illuminations, starts tonight on Sky Arts 1 HD at 10.30pm. Producer LINDA ZUCK and editor TODD MACDONALD introduce the programmes. LINDA: In six half-hour programmes, we bring you the very best of more
Picturegoing is a splendid online resource compiled and curated by the estimable Luke McKernan, who also runs another richly interesting blog under his own name and in his spare time is the British Library's more
To Clapham Picturehouse for Saturday night's Metropolitan Opera Live in HD broadcast of Puccini's La bohème. And "live" it most certainly was, for only around five hours earlier soprano Kristine Opolais replaced flu-stricken Anita Hartig in the main role more
Each time I return grumpily to the topic of today's post I feel the need to apologise to regular readers. I know that I have taken on several times before the vandalism represented by forcing 4:3 archive footage into contemporary more
Best show on TV? Easy. The Good Wife. But now that Broadchurch has finished, the second-best show (at least on a non-subscription channel) is most definitely Nashville, a series from ABC in the States that More4 more
Listen up. Let's talk about The Sound and the Fury, the final part of which remains on BBC iPlayer until 9 March. Let's talk about it because it has been one of the best BBC arts and music offerings of more
Thanks to the eclectic and extraordinarily extensive DVD releases from Network we can now see a remarkable range of ITV programmes from the past forty or so years. Who would have thought that the obscure serial more
Time was in our house when the Advent calendar was the centre of the world right through December. But now our eldest, Nicholas, is studying at Ningbo in China (and blogging his time there), his brother Ben is more
Today we film for Sky Arts the first of four (and, we hope, more) Rosenblatt Recitals from Wigmore Hall. The American bel canto tenor Lawrence Brownlee, accompanied by painist Iain Burnside, is giving more