The joy of listening to old pianists
As he gets older, Barenboim has become more and more keen on recording Beethoven sonatas in front of audiences
Books and Arts
Friday
Songs of freedom
Remain unmoved to the songs on Lifeline and you’re made of much sterner stuff
Monday
Pod-ology
You will find yourself coming back to this podcast like a favorite book
Saturday
Oracles of the Sybille
Sybille Bedford: A Life by Selina Hastings reviewed
Wednesday
Make the audience happy
Mike Nichols: A Life by Mark Harris reviewed
Tuesday
Bridgerton to nowhere
The storyline is Jane Austen with all the plot and nuance and character sophistication removed
The travels of Robert D. Kaplan
How an American outsider wrote the history of our future
Monday
Epic of gossip
The Lives of Lucian Freud: Fame 1968-2011 by William Feaver reviewed
Sunday
The king is dead
It’s like rock ’n’ roll never happened
Saturday
Kurt Vonnegut: atheist, socialist, trad
Vonnegut did plenty to offend the conservative Christian sensibilities that characterized my educational institutions
Lullaby in Birdland
Life is still a cabaret
Friday
Peake practice
An artist with the soul of a pirate
Tuesday
Heroine problem
Female antiheroines — at last
Monday
Wish you were there
On the joys of armchair travel
Sunday
The man who hunted himself
Graham Greene needed peace of mind and escapist thrills
Sunday
Hungry like the rabbit
Eighty years ago, Bugs Bunny first launched himself on an unsuspecting Elmer J. Fudd
Wednesday
Charles Brown’s Christmas
’Tis the season for collectible vinyl
Mrs Badgery
A short story
It’s good for your elf
A history both naughty and nice
Tuesday
Pawn show
The Queen’s Gambit overcomes its hackneyed ‘girl power’ message
