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...The BBC’s peerless nature series returns for a third instalment full of breathtaking sights accompanied by the soul-nourishing sound of David Attenborough’s narration....
...Adkins reportedly said he scaled the instruments to the size “at which I thought angels would play them.” There is certainly something awe-inspiring and divine about their presence....
...But as he was crowned in 1377, Richard mantled himself in the aura of the god-king seen in the Wilton Diptych, his majestic election blessed by the Madonna and Child and a company of angels....
...And then there’s David Lynch’s Twin Peaks universe, in which otherworldly evil expresses itself via a father’s lust for his daughter....
...Today, the two are chatting over tea and coffee at Gormley’s David Chipperfield-designed studio at King’s Cross....
...“David and I have such similar tastes.” Grievson raises an eyebrow. “In everything apart from wallpaper,” he says. To which Stone rebuts. “David has terrible taste in wallpaper.” I ask who wins. “Me!”...
...“But — to my amazement — returned for Act III!!” Ramsay reported with glee....
...range from a loose, bold study of drapery by Sir Peter Lely to a highly finished gouache on vellum, a meticulous reduced version of Poussin’s “Hercules Between Virtue and Pleasure”, made by Bernard Lens III...
...Larry Gelbart, Cy Coleman and David Zippel....
...Blood Year: The Unraveling of Western Counterterrorism, by David Kilcullen, Hurst, RRP£9.99 David Kilcullen, an Australian military officer and academic, was deeply involved in the US counterinsurgency...
...It was Machiavelli, or Richard III, brought to football. The end justified the means....
.... ——————————————- Know your roses: What to plant where Recommended varieties for hot dry areas David Austin English Roses: Darcey Bussell, Jubilee Celebration, Lichfield Angel, Molineux, Skylark, The...
...Pope Benedict XV had asked early that first December “that the guns may fall silent at least upon the night the angels sang”....
...David Miles, an external member of the Bank of England monetary policy committee, has endorsed an equity ratio of 15 to 20 per cent....
...“Bronze salamanders in the corners; angels on the ceilings…In the foyer it’s as if you were in Versailles....
...Mr Hands’ returns were often startling: Angel Trains, bought for £690m in 1995, generated an internal rate of return of 528 per cent....
...Angel Gurria of the OECD thinks it should....
...Additional reporting by David Oakley...
...Other contributors include “Angel of the North” sculptor Antony Gormley, 1996 Turner prize winner Douglas Gordon, pop artist Sir Peter Blake and photographer David Bailey....
...To the abstract sculptors of the following generation – David Smith, Anthony Caro – this made him the end of an era....
...FICTION Angel Gurria-Quintana MOTHER’S MILK by Edward St Aubyn Picador ₤12.99, 288 pages There was an abundance of maternally themed fiction in 2006, but this sequel to St Aubyn’s Some Hope trilogy was...
...FICTION Compiled by Angel Gurria-Quintana Divisadero By Michael Ondaatje Bloomsbury £17.99, 288 pages FT bookshop price: £14.39 A new novel by the author of The English Patient is always worth the wait...
...It is possible to miss features of Boyd’s original version – I can say that David Oyelowo’s Henry VI and Aidan McArdle’s Richard Duke of Gloucester were slightly finer than the roles’ present incumbents,...
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