Derek Jarman
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When Anthony Clare met ‘calculating, disturbing’ Jimmy Savile
- Books
- October 25, 2020, 06:00
In August 1996, BBC Radio 4 broadcast an interview with Uri Geller, the Israeli magician, psychic and spoon-bending illusionist. Geller had done thous(...)

Seán Hillen: ‘The oxygen of publicity is everything for an artist’
- Visual Art
- September 19, 2020, 05:00
The artist talks about his famous collages involving John Hinde postcards, growing up in Newry during the Troubles, and being the subject of new do(...)

Kirkos Ensemble: Bringing a whole new meaning to ‘outsider’ music
- Music
- August 31, 2020, 05:00
It’s not exactly easy to describe the musical world of Sebastian Adams, who co-directs the ensemble Kirkos with fellow composer Robert Coleman. One of(...)

This jewel of a gravel garden needs weeding just once a year
- Gardens
- July 11, 2020, 00:00
It was back in 1993, as a young goldsmith recently arrived in Stuttgart to take up an apprenticeship with the master goldsmith Gerald Heinrich, that K(...)

Annabelle Comyn: On My Culture Radar
- Culture
- March 14, 2020, 05:00
Current favourite book? Recently, I read The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro, which was published a few years ago. It invites you in from the start. I(...)

Todd Haynes: ‘All my movies are critical and financial disappointments initially’
- Film
- February 20, 2020, 06:00
The American auteur Todd Haynes, who has presided over such intriguing pictures as Safe (in which Julianne Moore’s housewife retreats from contemporar(...)

Eat better fruit without it costing the earth
- Gardens
- November 16, 2019, 00:00
In a world where supermarket shelves are piled high with a huge amount of imported produce all year round, it seems strange to think that my elderly p(...)

Joanna Hogg: Back to the 1980s – without the rose-tinted lens
- Film
- August 23, 2019, 06:00
Golly, it’s been nearly a decade since I last met Joanna Hogg. In 2010, I hosted an enthusiastic Q & A after the screening of her film Archipelago(...)

There’s no place like home: The Wizard of Oz, 80 years on
- Film
- June 19, 2019, 09:35
Eighty years ago, in the summer of 1939, 16-year-old Judy Garland appeared on cinema screens as the orphan Dorothy Gale, dreaming of escape from bleak(...)

A few weeks ago, the distributors of Josie Rourke’s workmanlike historical drama embarked on one of the era’s more ill-considered social-media c(...)