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Entertaining, idiomatic Simenon adaptation, brilliantly cast Review by Graham Rickson

The BBC's Maigret, starring the legendary Rupert Davies, is being made available in its entirety for the first time

Peter Zinovieff, composer and synthesizer innovator, dies at 88 EMS Synthi AKS. (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- Peter Zinovieff, a composer and inventor whose pioneering synthesizers shaped albums by Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Roxy Music and Kraftwerk, died on June 23 in Cambridge, England. He was 88. His death was announced on Twitter by his daughter Sofka Zinovieff, who said he had been hospitalized after a fall. Zinovieff oversaw the design of the first commercially produced British synthesizers. In 196...

Jeremy Bowen writes powerfully and sensibly, as always (“The war that cannot be won”, 28 May). I only met Benjamin Netanyahu once over breakfast in Israel shortly before he became prime minister, and I took an instant dislike to him – bombastic, vain, and histrionic. As he faces serious criminal charges, the outside world must hope that Yair Lapid succeeds in building an alternative coalition government, however doubtful that looks. When I was a student in the late Fifties, many spent th...

CBBC to present week of classical music programmes by BBC Ten Pieces CBBC to present week of classical music programmes by BBC Ten Pieces As part of CBBC’s ‘Get Creative Week’, BBC Ten Pieces will host a week of classical music programmes for 7-14 year olds Published: May 20, 2021 at 4:06 pm CBBC is set to host a week of classical music programming as part of the BBC Ten Pieces scheme. Music by composers including Ravi Shankar, Hans Zimmer, Bacewicz, Brah...

Caroline Catz BBC Four docu-drama explores the life of musical pioneer Delia Derbyshire.

ITVs Tales of the Unexpected brought inky-black humour to small screen Credit:  ITV/Shutterstock Roald Dahl’s Tales of the Unexpected is remembered not only for its “twist in the tale” endings, but also its opening sequence: the eerie fairground waltz theme tune; the quasi-Bond titles, with the silhouette of a naked woman (well, she looked naked) dancing with fate itself – a gun, a roulette wheel, tarot cards, faces of death; and lastly Roald Dahl, sat at a crackling fireside, introduc...

; narrated by Laurie Anderson Technological development not only improves our scientific understanding and productive capacities, it also creates new possibilities for the arts. The emergence of electronic oscillators and magnetic audio tape was crucial to the development of electronic music, one of the artistic innovations of the 20th century. The documentary Sisters with Transistors (2020) examines the contributions that women have made, as performers and composers, to this art form. Suzann...