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We’re spoiled for choice with this year’s Christmas TV schedule – see our highlights for the shows you don’t want miss.

We’re spoiled for choice with this year’s Christmas TV schedule – see our highlights for the shows you don’t want miss.

From an empty King’s College chapel to a treble duo with a cause, domestic Elizabethan music to the balm of vocals and kora, small-scale is beautiful

My Christmas Album of the Year is In The Bleak Midwinter: Christmas Carols From Kings.

The Christmas choir service will commence from the candlelit chapel of King’s College, Cambridge and will air on BBC Two.

Paintru's true goal is to paint every fallen servicemember.

The Vaughan Williams, which sets lines from The Merchant of Venice, was the perfect opener for the occasion, its wistful melodiousness just joyous enough, and showcasing four distinctive soloists. The BBC Singers, high up in the choir stalls, added to the moonlit atmosphere with disembodied voices off that belonged more to The Tempest. Poulenc’s Organ Concerto was the work that you won’t hear anywhere else – every good Proms programme has one. It’s a curious piece, gothic and severe one...

29 July, 2021 — By Michael White The Royal Albert Hall “WE’VE got as many Plan Bs as will fit into our heads,” the director of the Proms, David Pickard, told me last week. And he probably wasn’t exaggerating. When the world’s greatest music festival opens this Friday July 29, it will be welcomed with open arms as a return to normality after last year’s ghost season – running for six weeks, with 61 concerts, real live audiences, and a proper Last Night on ...

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Sunak might copy Bidens capital gains raid – but it wont solve his problem Some Americans will be paying tax rates of more than 50pc, the highest since the 1920s 29 April 2021 • 10:00am Where American goes, the world follows. Does this mean President Joe Biden’s plans to raise income and capital taxes to pay for the pandemic will be replicated on this side of the pond? The President arguably has less of a battle on his hands than Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak would. For starters, Mr Bi...