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Performance

"Muddy Waters, or Keeping Politics out of Music"

Hecklephone exposes the politics behind the figure of Mendelssohn and other celebrated Classical composers

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A Janus-Faced Tragedy:
The Persians

Carl Lavery responds to National Theatre Wales's production of The Persians

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

Hecklephone on the record producers craft and the Musical Professoriat

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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.

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The Year of the Great Composers

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

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Wales en fête

Hecklephone reviews the music festivals of summer 2009

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Romantics, Revolutionaries and Camp-Followers

Hecklephone on the Welsh Proms July 2009

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Ancestral Voices Prophesying War

Hecklephone on Mendelssohn's Elijah

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The Welsh Beckett

Gwen Ellis on Wil Sam Jones

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Billy Bragg in Concert

Sue Fortune

Sport

Two Jockeys

Dilwyn Roberts-Young

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Coming Out and Going Out - Gareth Thomas and Mark Hughes

Dilwyn Roberts-Young

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Ryan Giggs

Dilwyn Roberts-Young

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Arthur Linton - Champion Cyclist of the World!

Dilwyn Roberts-Young

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Mac is Back - Boxing

Dilwyn Roberts-Young

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WWII POW magazine

Dilwyn Roberts-Young

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Celtic Crusaders

Dilwyn Roberts-Young

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Remembering
Tomos Owen

Dilwyn Roberts-Young

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Lions 2009

Dilwyn Roberts-Young

Art

Frederick J Fredericks Project

Lyndon Davies reports on an artist-led journey around caves at Craig y Cilau nature reserve for an event encompassing installation, performance, music and poetry.

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Choosing Art for Children

Peter Wakelin, the curator of Art for Children at MOMA Wales, writes about his experience of staging the exhibition.

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Memory and Function

Stuart Evans on the ceramics exhibition Gathered World

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Deconstruction, Reconstruction and Reclamation

Anne Price-Owen on the art of Tim Davies

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Planet Winning Essay - War Declared!

Huw David Jones

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Space/Gofod

Stuart Evans

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David Rees Davies at the Eisteddfod

David Greenslade

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Reinventing the Familiar

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

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Mapping the Welsh Group

David Moore on The Welsh Group at Sixty

Assembly + Politics

Fate of the Language

As a companion piece to the republished 'Fate of the Language' article in Planet 203, Huw Lewis looks at the direction and shape of the Welsh language in 2011.

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Queen of Camouflage

Tim Richards looks at the UK and the Rule of Law

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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

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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

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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

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Towards Compassionate Journalism?

Owain Wilkins reviews Newspeak in the 21st Century

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Planet Winning Essay - A Maze of Muck and Murder

David Greenslade

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"Predict and Provide"

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

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

Interview with Nick Bourne by Alan Sandry

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Democracy, Language and Rosé Wine

Teleri Williams on the Païs Nòstre debate

Literature

So Small it Slips Between the Cracks

Holly Howitt on Microfiction

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"There's Nothing New Under the Sun"

Niall Griffiths on the New Narratives conference

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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!

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Vicarious Travellers

Hywel Dix on the 2010 Wales One World Film Festival

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The Hacio'r Iaith Community

Carl Morris on web technology in the Welsh language

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Road Movies that Stay at Home - Wales One World 2009

Hywel Dix on the 2009 Wales One World Film Festival

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Letting the Images Tell the Story

Owain Wilkins on the film sleep furiously