BBC diversity hiring now includes the dead

Shocking survey laid out in the Church Times by the The Royal School of Church Music. Most music in churches in England is unpaid: 92 per cent of choirs, 50 per cent of piano/keyboard players, […]

Studiolo – Met Museum Writer Amor Towles  finds inspiration in a visit to one of his favourite places in The Met, the magical Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio. This is a little cubbyhole in […]

In The Bleak Midwinter – Wigmore Hall Why is this the world’s most popular Christmas carol? Its message (thanks to Christina Rosetti) is miserable and, what’s more, inaccurate. Assuming that Jesus was in fact born in […]