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TO PARAPHRASE Timmy Mallet, the new series of Prisoners Wives (BBC 1, 9pm, Thursdays) is subtley brilliant. Mar 21 2013

The BBC currently makes a big fuss about original British dramas. Anything which involves a change of facial expression at the moment gets the tag original British drama.Read

CLASSICAL REVIEW: Classical Spectacular, Echo Arena, Liverpool Mar 21 2013

THE formula for Classical Spectacular could hardly be simpler. Take some of the most well loved pieces in the classical music canon, have them played by a world-class orchestra, and add a liberal helping of lights, lasers, and fireworks.Read

CLASSICAL REVIEW: Petrushka, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall Mar 21 2013

It’s hard, sometimes, to understand quite what a musical maelstrom is represented by the first quarter of the 20th century.Read

THEATRE REVIEW: Heart and Soul, Epstein Theatre Mar 21 2013

IT’S Liverpool in the mid-1990s and wannabe singer-songwriter Cathy is desperate for her big break.Read

Music curator announced for new Liverpool Inernational music festival Mar 21 2013

THE Liverpool International Music Festival has announced its music curator.Read

What's on in Liverpool - our picks for March 18 - March 22 Mar 18 2013

Wild Nothing at the Kazimier - Monday March 18, 7.30pm-11pmRead

JAMIE BOWMAN: The return of Suede has made me forget about my broken boiler Mar 15 2013

A FRIEND of mine recently told me I was the kind of bloke who gets nostalgic about what he eat for breakfast that morning.Read

TV Review: Countryfile - By Royal Appointment Mar 14 2013

GROWING up in a house with a staunch royalist as a Mum, it’s only to be expected that when I see a member of the Royal Family, it’s hard to supress the desire to say something republican, or pull out my ears and start mumbling about talking to flowers.Read

LAURA DAVIS: Artists studios bring out my inner curtain-twicher Mar 14 2013

THERE’S something about a painter’s studio that brings out my inner curtain-twitcher. I want to run my fingers through the piles of paint tubes, rolling the names of the colours around my tongue.Read

INTERVIEW: Derren Brown on creating his new stage show Infamous at the Liverpool Empire Theatre Mar 14 2013

There’s more to a great illusion than simply pulling off a trick, Derren Brown tells Laura DavisRead

INTERVIEW: Liverpool Cathedral to hold city’s first Passion Plays in Holy Week Mar 14 2013

Liverpool Cathedral is telling the story of Christ’s crucifixion in the city’s first Passion plays, Laura Davis reportsRead

DANCE REVIEW: Phoenix Dance Theatre presents Particle Velocity at the Liverpool Playhouse Mar 14 2013

LIKE a box of liquorice allsorts, the Leeds-based Phoenix Dance Theatre offers variety but with a single element, not liquorice but contemporary dance.Read

CLASSICAL COLUMN: Chester Music Society Choir at Chester Cathedral Mar 14 2013

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THEATRE INTERVIEW: Playwright Esther Wilson on Tony Teardrop at St Lukes Bombed Out Church Mar 14 2013

Working on her new play about people living in a residential support centre has given Esther Wilson a new perspective, she tells Laura DavisRead

SPOTLIGHT: Scott Murphy, writer Mar 14 2013

Scott Murphy, playwrightRead

THEATRE REVIEW: Hope, Royal Court Liverpool Mar 14 2013

IN A Blundellsands house, an insomniac author sits in front of a typewriter, bathed in the glow of a TV set upon which Laurel and Hardy are singing the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.Read

JAMIE BOWMAN: NME readers should stop criticising One Direction Mar 07 2013

CAST your mind back to your first experience of pop music. If like me you’re a child of the early 80s, the chances are it will have happened while watching Top of the Pops. Mine was seeing Adam Ant – still one of the finest pop stars these islands have ever produced. But I was lucky. Very lucky.Read

DAVID HIGGERSON: Being Eileen is heart-warming but not very good Mar 07 2013

WHAT sort of “heart-warming comedy” gets put on the telly on a Monday night, just after the regional news?Read

LAURA DAVIS: No writing about sex please, we’re British Mar 07 2013

MAN Booker winner Julian Barnes has admitted to feeling awkward when writing about sex. Well I should think so too.Read

INTERVIEW: Michael P Aust on curating The Art of the Pop Video at FACT Mar 07 2013

Laura Davis meets the man who has spent 17 years collecting pop videos from across the globeRead

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