Film of the Week: Thursday 02nd May 2024 Film of the Week: Seeking solace in surrealism The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE recommends a moving depiction of an unusual response to horrors of war and imminent displacement
Theatre review Wednesday 01st May 2024 Theatre review Struggles with identity problems GORDON PARSONS highly recommends a delightful production of the classic novel that emanates a sense of warmth and love
Theatre Wednesday 01st May 2024 Theatre A play openly proud about working class identity PAUL FOLEY speaks with JADE LEWIS, the director of SWEAT at Royal Exchange Manchester
Theatre review Wednesday 01st May 2024 Theatre review Time to pause and reflect SIMON PARSONS recommends a play which questions the perceived ubiquitous and concealed nature of the intrusive Prevent Strategy apparatus
21st Century Poetry Tuesday 30th Apr 2024 21st Century Poetry Poets are not born but made ALISTAIR FINDLAY recommends a collection of interviews with 15 award-winning poets discussing how their initial drafts became the finished poem
Album reviews Tuesday 30th Apr 2024 Album reviews Album reviews with IAN SINCLAIR: April 30, 2024 New releases from Kamasi Washington, Ruth Theodore, Christian McBride & Edgar Meyer
Books Tuesday 30th Apr 2024 Books Little time left IAN SINCLAIR recommends a book that points to ‘deep societal transformation’ as the only way to arrest climate change
Books Monday 29th Apr 2024 Books Hell on Earth SUE TURNER recommends a book that pulls back the veil on historic treatment of black mental health patients in the US
Wednesday 01st May 2024 May 1st: aspiration solidarity, hope ON February 8 1840 London-born carpenter Samuel Duncan Parnell landed in Port Nicholson, New Zealand.