Planet Extra

Performance

"If the Trumpet Shall Sound an Uncertain Note..."

Hecklephone on the record producers craft and the Musical Professoriat


Wales and the Great Composers

Hecklephone on why Wales counted for so little during "The Age of the Great Composers", and is still overshadowed by English music.


The Year of the Great Composers

Hecklephone's first 2010 entry - the BBC's celebration of the "continent's" finest composers


Wales en fête

Hecklephone reviews the music festivals of summer 2009


Romantics, Revolutionaries and Camp-Followers

Hecklephone on the Welsh Proms July 2009


Ancestral Voices Prophesying War

Hecklephone on Mendelssohn's Elijah


The Welsh Beckett

Gwen Ellis on Wil Sam Jones


Billy Bragg in Concert

Sue Fortune

Sport

Two Jockeys

Dilwyn Roberts-Young


Coming Out and Going Out - Gareth Thomas and Mark Hughes

Dilwyn Roberts-Young


Ryan Giggs

Dilwyn Roberts-Young


Arthur Linton - Champion Cyclist of the World!

Dilwyn Roberts-Young


Mac is Back - Boxing

Dilwyn Roberts-Young


WWII POW magazine

Dilwyn Roberts-Young


Celtic Crusaders

Dilwyn Roberts-Young


Remembering
Tomos Owen

Dilwyn Roberts-Young


Lions 2009

Dilwyn Roberts-Young


Art

Memory and Function

Stuart Evans on the ceramics exhibition Gathered World


Deconstruction, Reconstruction and Reclamation

Anne Price-Owen on the art of Tim Davies


Planet Winning Essay - War Declared!

Huw David Jones


Space/Gofod

Stuart Evans


David Rees Davies at the Eisteddfod

David Greenslade


Reinventing the Familiar

Osi Rhys Osmond on the Picasso exhibition held at the National Gallery in London.


Mapping the Welsh Group

David Moore on The Welsh Group at Sixty


Assembly + Politics

Queen of Camouflage

Tim Richards looks at the UK and the Rule of Law


Making a Cacophony Sing in Tune: a Fragmented Election and Electoral Reform

The third piece in our series on the General Election makes the case for electoral reform in the context of Wales

Labour in Wales: Down But Not Out

The second piece in our series on the General Election evaluates the condition of the Welsh Labour Party


The Tory Coalition: Why Wales Matters

As part of a series of articles responding to the General Election 2010, Iain Lewis analyses the Tory party in coalition and the role of Wales


Towards Compassionate Journalism?

Owain Wilkins reviews Newspeak in the 21st Century


Planet Winning Essay - A Maze of Muck and Murder

David Greenslade


"Predict and Provide"

Chris Groves on the UK Govt Roads to Prosperity report of the '80s and its implications today


People Don't Care if You're on the Left or on the Right

Interview with Nick Bourne by Alan Sandry


Democracy, Language and Rosé Wine

Teleri Williams on the Païs Nòstre debate


 


Literature

So Small it Slips Between the Cracks

Holly Howitt on Microfiction


"There's Nothing New Under the Sun"

Niall Griffiths on the New Narratives conference


Adrian Mitchell 1932-2008) and Wales

A memoir by Nigel Jenkins

Media + Film

Time-Travelling Troubadour

Owain Wilkins on Gruff Rhys's new film Separado!


Vicarious Travellers

Hywel Dix on the 2010 Wales One World Film Festival


The Hacio'r Iaith Community

Carl Morris on web technology in the Welsh language


Road Movies that Stay at Home - Wales One World 2009

Hywel Dix on the 2009 Wales One World Film Festival


Letting the Images Tell the Story

Owain Wilkins on the film sleep furiously

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