The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from February 2009:
Opera has something for everybodytragedy, drama and the odd swan
Feb 01, 2009; ... It's a sign of the times that I have been listening to a woman who is already dead singing anaria about dying. It's a neat trick if you can do it, and with thewonders of modern technology anything is possible. The Italiansoprano Renata Tebaldi (born today in 1922) went off to the ...
my perfect sunday Cecelia Ahern author
Feb 01, 2009; ... I'd probably get up between 12 and one. I love my bed, I can justlie there for hours and be very, very happy. No radio, just silence.Sometimes I listen to my iPod so that it sounds like there's musicin my head. There's a lot of daydreaming involved with my job, soit's a great place to ...
addendum whatever happened to... Musical Youth
Feb 01, 2009; ... I t was the answer to that age-old problem: when giving a dutchieto somebody, which way does one pass it, to the left or the right? The reggae song Pass the Dutchie (On The Left-hand Side) was anumber one for Musical Youth in the winter of 1982 and eventuallysold 4 million copies ...
the list Riotous parliamentary scenes
Feb 01, 2009; ... UK, May 1976. Infuriated by a rendition of 'The Red Flag' byWelsh Labour MPs, Michael Heseltine grabbed the Commons' ceremonialmace and flailed it around his head. Italy, April 1998. A session of the Italian parliament wassuspended after a brawl between two MPs, the climax of a ...
EVERYBODY LOVES LIONEL Gaddafi invited him to Libya. Mandela asked him for style advice. He brings out the hopeless romantic in Sunni and Shi'ite alike. Even ex-wives won't bad-mouth him. Paul Kendall meets the world-dominating Mr Richie and reaches the following conclusion
Feb 01, 2009; ... By the end of the Eighties, the decade that still defines him,the singer Lionel Richie had done some pretty impressive things. Hehad won five Grammys and an Oscar (for the slushy ballad Say You,Say Me); performed his hit All Night Long at the Olympics for aworldwide television audience ...
Northern exposure In 1954, a young photographer from Lyons was sent to Leeds to 'meet girls and learn English'. But as these recently unearthed photographs show, what he found was an unexpected affinity with a crumbling city
Feb 01, 2009; ... During the five weeks or so he spent in Leeds in March and April1954, the photographer Marc Riboud liked to rise early to shoot thecity emerging from the morning mist. In the decades that followed hewould take iconic pictures of North Vietnam and China (he was one ofthe first Europeans ...
Meet Bessie, a rising star in Australia's pounds 150m per year Aboriginal art industry. Her paintings will set you back at least pounds 4,000 each. SO why isn't she rich? As Will Storr discovers during an enlightening trek into the Outback, the answer is as mysterious as the paintings themselves...
Feb 01, 2009; ... We stop for lunch at a remote filling station. There are Eightiesarcade games, jam jars filled with scorpions and, pinned to thewall, yellowing satellite maps of the territory. The only othercustomer is a besuited Asian man. 'Uranium,' whispers Peter after wepass him in a corridor ....
On the Road to nowhere Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet light up the screen in a tale of frustration and unfulfilled dreams; while Michael Cera puts the fun back into romance
Feb 01, 2009; ... Revolutionary Road (15) 119 mins ????? Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (12A) 89 mins ????? Sam Mendes's Revolutionary Road, the film based on RichardYates's 1961 novel, is a terrible fable of what happens when twostubborn romantics without any singular talent get ...
No stone left unturned Andrea Palladio's influence on 16th-century architecture and beyond is revealed in a remarkable survey of his life
Feb 01, 2009; ... Andrea Palladio: His Life and Legacy ????? Royal Academy,London W1 (020 7300 8000) to Apr 13This show has arrived just too late to mark the 500th anniversaryof the great architect's birth, in 1508. But as every exhibitionorganiser secretly knows, centenaries (even ...
The comeback King The Liverpool run put him in hospital and was panned by critics; now Pete Postlethwaite is ready to unleash King Lear on London
Feb 01, 2009; ... Pete Postlethwaite has grown a beard he hates (the head on hisGuinness always ends up on it, he says), but it's a suitably craggylook for his King Lear, which comes to London after a highlycontroversial run in Liverpool last year. Don't expect to see Stonehenge or anything mythic ...
MUST BOOK Ibsen it certainly isn't A sitcom of sorts at the National; plus - gosh! - a homosexual plotline
Feb 01, 2009; ... Mrs Affleck ????? National Theatre: Cottesloe, London SE1(020 7452 3000) to Apr 29 Be Near Me ?????Donmar Warehouse, London WC2 (0870 060 6624)to Mar 14 I once did an interview with Simon Callow on the stage of the OldVic, and, when it was over, the convivial ...
Dead city stirs into life ... but Korngold's strongest opera remains flawed
Feb 01, 2009; ... Die tote Stadt ????? Royal Opera House, LondonWC2 (020 7304 4000) to Feb 17 The Gambler ????? Opera de Lyon (0033 4 72 0045 45) to Feb 5 It has taken 88 years for Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Die toteStadt to reach Covent Garden, a wait that ...
Sample the delights Sadler's Wells' bite-size tasters for the coming season prove an appetising selection
Feb 01, 2009; ... Sadler's Wells Sampled ????? Trial offer! Irresistible, isn't it? It's one of the oldest andmost cost-effective marketing tools. You need to use it sparingly -give your product away too freely and you risk devaluing it - butthere is not a more direct or compelling way to win over a ...
Sample the delights Sadler's Wells' bite-size tasters for the coming season prove an appetising selection
Feb 01, 2009; ... Sadler's Wells Sampled ????? Trial offer! Irresistible, isn't it? It's one of the oldest andmost cost-effective marketing tools. You need to use it sparingly -give your product away too freely and you risk devaluing it - butthere is not a more direct or compelling way to win over a ...
BOOK OF THE WEEK HISTORY Hitler's Private Library: The Books that Shaped his Life By Timothy W. Ryback BODLEY HEAD, pounds 18.99, 278 pp What do Hitler's reading habits tell us about his thinking, wonders Richard Overy
Feb 01, 2009; ... In the Rare Books Division of the Library of Congress there canbe few greater oddities than the remnants of Adolf Hitler's privatelibrary, some 1,200 volumes out of the 16,000 he is said to haveamassed during his lifetime. They have been sitting on shelving eversince they were filed away ...
TRAVEL The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy By Rachel Cusk FABER, pounds 16.99, 219 pp Harriet Paterson is intrigued by a traveller's determined refusal to be seduced by Italy's charms
Feb 01, 2009; ... The title and subtitle of this book mislead, so don't jump toconclusions. The Last Supper implies Christianity or, at a stretch,food; the book is about neither. The subtitle, A Summer in Italy,meanwhile, brings visions of the middle-class move-to-the-Med book,with a cast of caricatures ...
Literary Life
Feb 01, 2009; ... John Grogan certainly started something with Marley & Me, inwhich he described his life with a recalcitrant mutt. It has soldmore than five million copies in the United States and been turnedinto a blockbusting movie. Publishers are inveterate, ahem, copycatsso there are numerous titles ...
BIOGRAPHY THE STRANGEST MAN: THE HIDDEN LIFE OF PAUL DIRAC, QUANTUM GENIUS BY GRAHAM FARMELO FABER, pounds 22.50, 539 pp For the Nobel laureate Paul Dirac, it wasn't people but antimatter that mattered, finds Emma Crichton-Miller
Feb 01, 2009; ... Paul Dirac was a man about whom everyone who knew him had afavourite anecdote. The greatest British physicist since Sir IsaacNewton, acknowledged as an equal by Einstein and a Nobel Prizewinner at the age of 31 (for his outstanding contributions to atomic theory), Dirac was as ...
TRAVEL The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy By Rachel Cusk FABER, pounds 16.99, 219 pp Harriet Paterson is intrigued by a traveller's determined refusal to be seduced by Italy's charms
Feb 01, 2009; ... The title and subtitle of this book mislead, so don't jump toconclusions. The Last Supper implies Christianity or, at a stretch,food; the book is about neither. The subtitle, A Summer in Italy,meanwhile, brings visions of the middle-class move-to-the-Med book,with a cast of caricatures ...
Bibliotherapy What to read when you're... on a diet
Feb 01, 2009; ... Even if you've never heard of Frances Cornford, you may have come across her most frequently anthologised poem, To a FatLady Seen from a Train, originally published in 1910, with itsmemorable opening lines: 'O why do you walk through the fields ingloves,/ Missing so much and so ...
CRIME The Goliath Bone By Mickey Spillane with Max Allan Collins QUERCUS, pounds 17.99, 274 pp His creator has died but PI Mike Hammer is still on the case, finds Ian Thomson
Feb 01, 2009; ... Mike Hammer, an ace private eye in the Raymond Chandler mould,encountered just about every shakedown artist, freelance bouncer,payola shark and underworld palooka in New York City. When hiscreator, Mickey Spillane, died in 2006, fans were bereft. Who couldreplace ...
FICTION Mr Toppit By Charles Elton VIKING, pounds 12.99, 352 pp Holly Kyte follows the dark effects a fictional children's fable has on the adults who come into contact with it
Feb 01, 2009; ... Take a peek under Mr Toppit's dust jacket and you're suddenlyholding a Narnia-like book called The Hayseed Chronicles. It's not apublishing blunder. Charles Elton's debut novel revolves around thisfictional series of children's books and takes its name from one ofthe characters. It's a ...
HISTORY The English Civil Wars, 1640-1660 By Blair Worden WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, pounds 12.99, 202 pp Malcolm Gaskill marvels at a short and lucid unravelling of the the complexities of the Civil War
Feb 01, 2009; ... When in January 1642 Charles I entered the Commons to arrest fiveMPs, Speaker Lenthall declared: 'I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House is pleased to direct me.' How times have changed - for which weshould be grateful. Lenthall may ...
Crime Fiction
Feb 01, 2009; ... We've been here before. Kyle McAvoy - the clever, sexy hero ofJohn Grisham's The Associate (Century, pounds 18.99) - has a greatfuture ahead of him. The superstar student at Yale has job offersfrom all the best law firms in Wall Street, but hopes to help thoseat the bottom of the food ...
CRIME The Goliath Bone By Mickey Spillane with Max Allan Collins QUERCUS, pounds 17.99, 274 pp His creator has died but PI Mike Hammer is still on the case, finds Ian Thomson
Feb 01, 2009; ... Mike Hammer, an ace private eye in the Raymond Chandler mould,encountered just about every shakedown artist, freelance bouncer,payola shark and underworld palooka in New York City. When hiscreator, Mickey Spillane, died in 2006, fans were bereft. Who couldreplace ...
TITLE DEED HOW THE BOOK GOT ITS NAME Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There By Lewis Carroll
Feb 01, 2009; ... The model for Alice in Alice in Wonderland is well known. She wasAlice Liddell, the daughter of Charles Dodgson's boss at ChristChurch, Oxford, and the subject of some of Dodgson's dodgierphotographs. It is less well known that the heroine of Through the Looking-Glass drew on a ...
the sunday project No.46 Kit out your kitchen
Feb 01, 2009; ... Nutriscales There's nothing more miserable than looking at a menuand trying to count up the calories - somehow it doesn't seem sobad, however, to think about nutritional matters while you'recooking. At a very reasonable price, these scales will tell you howmuch fat, ...
Honda Insight SE Price to be announced Bhp 87 0-62mph 12.5 seconds Top speed 113mph Average fuel consumption 64.2mpg CO2 emissions 101g/ km Insurance group to be announced Honda's new, inexpensive hybrid family car ticks all the green boxes, but having to drive it slowly leaves Neil Lyndon seeing red
Feb 01, 2009; ... A clutch of firsts was achieved at the recent launch in Valenciaof the new Honda Insight but the most extraordinary of them all wasthe sleeve for the press pack - which came in the form of a seedpacket. We were invited to take this wrapper home, lay it in a seed tray,nurture it ...
RBS banker in job talks
Feb 01, 2009; ... JOHNNY CAMERON, the Royal Bank of Scotland executive who led thespectacular growth of its corporate lending arm, is in detaileddiscussions about taking on a senior role at Greenhill, theinvestment bank. Mr Cameron, who formally leaves RBS at the end of February, is intalks about ...
Rio close to pounds 10bn Chinese capital injection
Feb 01, 2009; ... RIO Tinto is close to agreeing a capital injection worth up to$15bn ( pounds 10.3bn) with the Chinese government as part of anambitious plan to reduce its debt burden. The dual-listed Anglo-Australian mining group has drawn upcomplex plans that include a direct investment from ...
Lloyds lines up new directors
Feb 01, 2009; ... TONY WATSON, one of Britain's leading corporate governanceexperts, and a former American Treasury official are this weekexpected to be named as directors of the part-nationalised LloydsBanking Group, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. Mr Watson, who ran Hermes Pensions Management ...
Glaxo to axe 6,000 workers
Feb 01, 2009; ... GLAXOSMITHKLINE, Britain's biggest pharmaceuticals company willannounce it is cutting thousands of jobs when it announces full-year results this week, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. Glaxo is putting the finishing touches to plans which will see inthe region of 6,000 positions ...
Davies acts to dispel gloom
Feb 01, 2009; ... MERVYN DAVIES, the new trade minister, has ordered officials todraw up plans for a campaign to champion British companies outsidethe stricken banking sector. Lord Davies, who was parachuted into the Government last month,wants to launch a drive through UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), ...
Royal seal can't halt Uniq sell-off
Feb 01, 2009; ... PINNEYS, the supplier of salmon to Her Majesty The Queen, is oneof several businesses that have been put up for sale by Uniq, theLondon-listed food group that employs some 6,500 people in the UKand Europe. Uniq, which supplies food to Marks & Spencer and othersupermarkets, has ...
Deephaven fund set for demerger
Feb 01, 2009; ... ONE of the City's top hedge funds is to be spun off by itsAmerican owners. Knight Capital, a Nasdaq-listed trading group, wants to demergethe London-based Deephaven European Event Fund, which last week wonthe EuroHedge award for best performance in 2008. The Deephaven ...
White House finalises financial rescue plan
Feb 01, 2009; ... PRESIDENT Barack Obama's fledgling administration was last nightfinalising the details for a comprehensive financial recovery planaimed at kick-starting America's economy, while drawing a line underthe era of big bonuses for bank bosses. The plan, which could be announced as early ...
Ennstone crumbles
Feb 01, 2009; ... BELEAGUERED British quarries group Ennstone, which last week sawits shares suspended after management signalled it was running outof cash, is set to be put into a pre-pack administration by lenderBarclays. The East Midlands firm, which employs more than 1,000 people inthe UK and ...
Rates to hit new low
Feb 01, 2009; ... Economists are expecting a half a percentage point reduction to1pc as the MPC responds to evidence that the UK economy is shrinkingmuch more sharply than policymakers and economists predicted. Minutes from the last meeting revealed the committee discussedthe possibility of leaving ...
Site cashes in on friends members Facebook plans to profit from the private data of its 150m members, write Rupert Neate and Rowena Mason
Feb 01, 2009; ... FACEBOOK is planning to exploit the vast amount of personalinformation it holds on its 150m members by creating one of theworld's largest market research databases. In an attempt to finally monetise the social networking site,once valued at $15bn ( pounds 10.4bn), it will soon ...
JJB chief heads for the exit
Feb 01, 2009; ... CHRIS Ronnie, the chief executive of JJB Sports, is expected tobe dismissed from the sportswear chain within days following aninvestigation into a controversial share sale. The retailer's board ordered the investigation last month afterit transpired that a company jointly ...
FSA chairman seeks bank talks
Feb 01, 2009; ... THE financial crisis is fuelling the risk of a new phenomenon ofbanking nationalism that should be addressed by high-levelinternational talks, according to Adair Turner, chairman of theFinancial Services Authority. Lord Turner said the intention of governments to direct banks ...
US must focus on banks, fiscal stimulus can wait
Feb 01, 2009; ... Having failed to receive a single Republican vote in the House ofRepresentatives for his $825bn ( pounds 579bn) fiscal stimulus,Barack Obama's bi-partisan dream looks shattered. The new President will have to push hard in the Senate,emphasising that a third of the package is ...
Waking up to a pension apartheid
Feb 01, 2009; ... As regular readers will know, for years I've been going on aboutthe fast-growing costs of public sector pensions. I'm delighted tosee others now joining the fray. It's amazing how recession focusesminds on what we can and can't afford. Of all the excessive government spending that ...
In Davos, the dirty word on everyone's lips is protectionism
Feb 01, 2009; ... THE beggar-thy-neighbour phase has begun in earnest. "BuyAmerican" legislation has advanced from a barely credible threat toimminent reality on Capitol Hill in just weeks. The House has voted for a bill that prohibits the use of foreignsteel in most infrastructure projects funded ...
Little room for optimism in the snow
Feb 01, 2009; ... FOR much of last week, the 2,500 people who paid anything up to$40,000 ( pounds 27,000) for the privilege of attending the WorldEconomic Forum in the Swiss town of Davos must have wondered whythey had bothered. Much of the debate about the global financial crisis was eitherso ...
STAYING POSITIVE
Feb 01, 2009; ... THE mood in the Congress Centre, the hotels and the bars was sopessimistic that I set out in search of anybody who was determinedto look forward and identify opportunity in the midst of recession. It was a tough assignment. Even Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, theeasyJet founder and ...
CONSPICUOUS ABSENCE
Feb 01, 2009; ... WHERE was Alistair Darling at Davos? Gordon Brown was there withShriti Vadera, his own de facto Chancellor. Lord Mandelson wasthere, charming guests at Friday's British Business Lunch. DavidCameron turned up with George Osborne. Boris Johnson, the LondonMayor, completed a top Tory ...
RAKE'S PROGRESS
Feb 01, 2009; ... WORD reaches me that Sir Michael Rake, who is about the best-respected accountant in the country, is to become the next chairmanof Barclays' boardroom audit committee. If it turns out to be the case, it will be a smart move, andshould provide further evidence that there is no ...
AIRING DIRTY LAUNDRY
Feb 01, 2009; ... PETER CHAMBERS' testimony before the House of Commons Treasuryselect committee last week was important. As the chief executive of Legal & General Investment Management,Chambers controls what happens to billions of pounds of pension fundmoney. He is therefore a significant figure ...
UK plc goes fishing for cash Companies are in desperate need of new capital, but will they be able to hook the money they need? asks Louise Armitstead
Feb 01, 2009; ... A FREEZING wind whipped off Lake Zug in Switzerland on Wednesday,pulling temperatures in the eponymous market town far belowfreezing. On Bahnhofstrasse, in the global headquarters of London-listed mining giant Xstrata, the company's boardroom was warm but,as Xstrata's chief executive ...
Tables are turned as banks make the shorts suffer Lenders are not out of the woods but the bail-out has helped, writes Philip Aldrick
Feb 01, 2009; ... WAS it one short too many? Last week, short sellers who have madea killing on crumbling bank shares had to stomach hundreds ofmillions of pounds of losses as banks staged a recovery like no blue-chip has ever seen. Barclays, Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank ofScotland all doubled in ...
BRIGHT IDEAS Are pre-packs good, bad or simply ugly?
Feb 01, 2009; ... I FIND myself among the growing number of people who have hadtheir fingers burned by pre-pack administrations. This technique,used by the likes of Whittard of Chelsea and celebrity chef TomAikens, involves companies in financial trouble calling inadministrators who then sell back most of ...
Panasonic KX-MC6260 Laser Printer pounds 799 www.panasonic.co.uk ***** techbyte
Feb 01, 2009; ... THIS multi-function printer is designed to give highlyprofessional results, so that small businesses can deliver colourdocuments that look as good as something a larger competitor mightcome up with. This is partly because it's a laser printer, withhigher quality printing possible than ...
Clippykit's Rose goes from bags to riches
Feb 01, 2009; ... It took a whole six weeks before Calypso Rose realised that thegeography degree she was studying for was not for her. After barely more than half a term she dropped out of King'sCollege London, leaving behind her ambition to become a weathergirl, and began a course in technical ...
interview Master of a now gloomy universe Carlyle co-founder tells Mark Kleinman how the titans of the private equity industry will weather the financial crisis
Feb 01, 2009; ... These are inopportune times to be one of the Masters of theUniverse. Global markets are in turmoil, the financiers who shapedthe architecture of the modern banking industry are facing intensevilification and the mood at the World Economic Forum in Davos,traditionally a hotbed of ...
Solid growth prospects make SSL a good buy
Feb 01, 2009; ... SSL International 504p Questor saysBUY THIS week's trading update from condom and footwear group SSL wasvery strong and it has reinforced Questor's buy stance. The shares were last recommended as a buy on October 15 at 427pand they are up ...
interview Sorrell, the sweet and sour sage The WPP founder's gloom about western economies is deepening, he tells Mark Kleinman in Davos
Feb 01, 2009; ... PROFILE SIR MARTIN SORRELL, CHIEF EXECUTIVE, WPP GROUP Age: 63 Personal wealth (estimated): pounds 100m Other roles: member, Mayor of Shanghai International AdvisoryCouncil; chairman, Mayor of London International Business AdvisoryCouncil Recent ...
Lord Carter looks to heavens for a broadband solution
Feb 01, 2009; ... SPACE technology will be called on in a bid to provide universalbroadband coverage in Britain by 2012. Speaking to The Sunday Telegraph following the publication of hisDigital Britain green paper, Communications Minister Lord Cartersaid his team would talk to companies including ...
SAVERS REDISCOVER JOYS OF BRITISH SAFETY NET Having dabbled overseas, risk-averse savers see home-grown banks as a more attractive option, reports Emma Simon
Feb 01, 2009; ... More than half a million Post Office account holders are beingsent letters telling them their savings are no longer protected bythe United Kingdom's statutory protection scheme.That means theirmoney is no longer covered by the Financial Services CompensationScheme (FSCS), instead it is ...
Dear Jessica FINANCIAL TROUBLESHOOTER Nationwide's comedy of errors
Feb 01, 2009; ... I COMPLETED an application form for a one-year fixed-rateindividual savings account (Frisa) at 6.15pc at my local Nationwideearly in 2008. This was to be financed by a transfer of my existingvariable-rate member's Isa funds of about pounds 33,000. I was toldthat, as this was only an ...
Dear Jessica FINANCIAL TROUBLESHOOTER Trouble while in Africa
Feb 01, 2009; ... I WAS travelling to Malawi a few months ago and knew some directdebits would be due for payment while I was travelling. To ensure anadequate amount was in my current account, I made two electronictransfers from my savings account via the internet. There was morethan enough in the savings ...
About time insurance money-spinner was binned
Feb 01, 2009; ... THIS week's announcement from the Competition Commission onPayment Protection Insurance brought a predictable amount of wailingand gnashing of teeth from lenders. The insurance, known as PPI, issuch a wonderful money-spinner for the companies involved that theycan make up to an extra ...
BEWARE LOW MORTGAGE PROMISES
Feb 01, 2009; ... If you fancy a mortgage rate of 2.29pc then you might be temptedto jump at a new product from the Woolwich, which boasts the lowestrate the bank has offered. However, as always, it is better to lookbefore you leap. Woolwich (which is now part of Barclays) isoffering the headline-grabbing ...
FOLLOW THE STAR?
Feb 01, 2009; ... Those with money tied up in New Star Asset Management mightwonder what will happen after Friday's announcement that thebusiness will be bought by Henderson. John Duffield's fund management group became famous when 50 ofits staff became paper millionaires overnight when the ...
Investment trusts worth a closer look There are bargains around but take care to avoid the lemons, reports Richard Evans
Feb 01, 2009; ... How would you like to buy pounds 1 of shares for 80p? That isthe bargain being offered to anyone brave enough to buy investmenttrusts now that these pooled funds stand at an average discount of20pc to their net asset value (NAV). While prices could fall further - and discounts ...