Recently added articles from The Sunday Telegraph London:
So you wantto be a ballet dancer... They were once the toast of society. But modern-day corps de ballet endure punishing working hours, crippling injuries, terrible pay and little job security. Then why do it? Richard Johnson spent a day with the Royal Ballet's finest to find out
Jun 28, 2009; ... Rupert Pennefather, a principal dancer at the Royal Ballet, lights a cigarette andholds it - self-consciously - in his right hand. He mutterssomething about ballet being 'a different kind of fitness' -anaerobic rather than aerobic - but, clearly, he isn't convinced.'Actually,' ...
Embarrassing canine capers; and why homeless people dont have cats
Jun 28, 2009; ... I've DIY to do this weekend, which brings St Vitus Cathedral inPrague to mind. The Cathedral was started in 1344 and finallyfinished in 1929, which is roughly the timetable I have in mindmyself - start about quarter to two and finish just in time forsupper. If you are given to a ...
Imagine that Why do so many people feel the presence of a loved one after their death? And what links these 'spirits' to children's imaginary friends? In this second extract from his extraordinary new book, John Geiger explores the science that could explain all
Jun 28, 2009; ... The opening to the underwater cave was barely wider than hershoulders. When she slipped through, Stephanie Schwabe entered a world ofabsolute darkness now brilliantly illuminated by her lights. Bone-white stalactites and stalagmites reached out towards her as sheswam deeper and ...
call him old fashioned Barry Humphries, who as a tearaway young man declared war on niceness, is now a nagging parent who shuns 'smelly pubs'. Never mind Dame Edna Everage: is he turning into his mother?
Jun 28, 2009; ... Barry Humphries's parents used to call him Sunny Sam and the 75-year-old Dadaist cross-dresser is, the morning we meet, in a benignmood. Which is a relief, because an old friend of his told me, 'Inreal life, he's always a mixture. When he's Barry, he's charming,erudite and delightful ....
What lies beneath One of Westminster Abbey's finest features is undergoing restoration
Jun 28, 2009; ... Grainy black-and-white footage of Elizabeth II's coronation showsthe young queen enthroned, amid the panoply of state, before thealtar of Westminster Abbey. But a key element of the ceremony, whichhas been carried out in the same place and according to the sametraditions since the 13th ...
DVD of the week
Jun 28, 2009; ... Belle de Jour/Belle Toujours ICA, 18, pounds 19.56 ????? Belle Toujours is a sequel to Belle de Jour. Luis Bunuel made theoriginal in 1967 with Catherine Deneuve and Michel Piccoli. Piccolireprises his role, and nowadays he's an elderly roue, who catchessight of his old flame (now ...
Time to get down and dirty As they clean up their lives, two sisters come close to their wits' end
Jun 28, 2009; ... Sunshine Cleaning (15) 91 mins ????? Rudo & Cursi (15) 103 mins ????? Director Christine Jeffs' last film, 2003's Plath-pic Sylvia,ended with the doomy poetess sticking her head in a gas oven. Herlatest opens with a man walking into a hardware ...
Right said Sir Fred and Mr B A heart-breaker from Birmingham and the ENB marks a centenary
Jun 28, 2009; ... Birmingham Royal Ballet: Sir Fred and Mr B ????? ENB: Ballets Russes Centenary ????? Say what you like about children and animals but the ballet stagewould be a far poorer place without them. Both are essential toBirmingham Royal Ballet's splendid Sir Fred and Mr B double ...
Away with the fairies An evening of enchantment marks Henry Purcell's anniversary year
Jun 28, 2009; ... The Fairy Queen ????? Glyndebourne Festival (01273 813 813) toAug 8 Mirandolina ????? Garsington Opera (01865 361 636)to July 5 At last, halfway through Henry Purcell's 350th-birthday year,comes a production worthy of the composer's genius. Glyndebourne'snew ...
pop Blur's clearer vision Age gives new resonance to Britpop's favourite sons
Jun 28, 2009; ... Blur ????? Memory invariably flatters to deceive us. Despite theirundeniable popularity during the Nineties, it is still a surprisethat Blur's reunification this year has caused so much excitement.But with forthcoming gigs at Hyde Park selling out in minutes, andheadline ...
theatre Children of the war Nina Bawden's affecting tale of evacuation is irresistible
Jun 28, 2009; ... Carrie's War ????? Apollo Shaftesbury, London W1 (020 7432 4220) to Sep 12 I was struck, when I talked to Nina Bawden after her husbandAusten Kark was killed in the Potters Bar rail crash - in which shewas herself seriously injured - by her quiet resilience ....
BOOK OF THE WEEK The pandemic that killed half the population left opportunity as well as misery in its wake, says Noel Malcolm
Jun 28, 2009; ... The Scourging Angel: The Black Death in the British Isles ByBenedict Gummer BODLEY HEAD, pounds 25, 512 pp Try as one might, it's impossible to read a book about the BlackDeath without thinking about the approaching 'swine flu' epidemic.The underlying psychology of fear ...
MAKING LOVE WAS NOT NEW, BUT ENJOYING IT WAS. IN LIBERATED CIRCLES, IT WAS GOOD MANNERS TO SLEEP WITH SOMEONE IF ASKED The 1960s ... Jenny Diski was there, she can remember them and, what's more, make sense of them too, says Andrew Lycett
Jun 28, 2009; ... SOCIAL HISTORY The Sixties By Jenny Diski PROFILE, pounds 10.99, 143 pp The Sixties was a decade of two halves - the swinging London ofmods and boutiques (an extrovert, indigenous moment), and thecounter-culture of hippies and revolution (a more ...
What to read when you... can't move on Bibliotherapy
Jun 28, 2009; ... As anyone will know who has suffered loss - and in this, most ofus share common ground - there is a simple piece of advice that ishanded out with irritating regularity: 'You must move on.' To whichone might feel tempted to reply, 'Why?' or, 'How?' or even ruderexpletives. It is ...
The KGB's infiltration of America started earlier and went deeper than we thought, finds Andrew Lownie
Jun 28, 2009; ... ESPIONAGE Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America By John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev YALE, pounds 25, 650 pp A common perception is that, both before and after the SecondWorld War, the British Establishment was ...
SHORT STORIES David Robson believes that Irvine Welsh has found the balance between earthiness and artistry
Jun 28, 2009; ... Reheated Cabbage By Irvine Welsh JONATHAN CAPE, pounds 18.99, 275 pp The title is disarmingly modest: a warning to readers that mostof the stories in this collection have already appeared in printbefore, albeit in little-known publications. Only the last story, Iam ...
FICTION This encounter between a disgraced soldier and a disgraceful satanist is not devilish enough for Roger Perkins
Jun 28, 2009; ... The Devil's Paintbrush By Jake Arnott SCEPTRE, pounds 15, 298 pp Jake Arnott is expert at mining the darkly glittering seam wherethe louche merges with the criminal. His first two novels, The LongFirm and He Kills Coppers, were sharply detailed might-have-beentales ...
FICTION Suzi Feay admires a novel that captures the messiness and contingency of modern family life
Jun 28, 2009; ... To Heaven by Water By Justin Cartwright BLOOMSBURY, pounds 16.99, 305 pp The title comes from Ulysses. Venerable Bede provides theepigraph, about the sparrow flying from darkness through a lightedhall into darkness again, symbolising human life. Within the firstfew ...
TITLE DEED HOW THE BOOK GOT ITS NAME Romeo and Juliet By William Shakespeare
Jun 28, 2009; ... It is well known that Shakespeare didn't invent any of his plots:King Lear existed previously as King Leir, Hamlet was Amleth, and soon, in treatments by previous hacks, deriving often from centuries-old myth and legend. Romeo and Juliet is no different. Two semi-legendary star-crossed ...
whatever happened to... Erika Roe
Jun 28, 2009; ... 'A woman's just run on the pitch and she's got your backside onher chest!', exclaimed scrum-half Steve Smith to his captain duringthe half-time team-talk at Twickenham's 1982 England v Australiarugby match. The woman in question was Erika Roe, the first female to streakat a ...