Is opera dying? Do people care? What does it need to survive? Where will new audiences come from? Our experts assess the state of opera in the UK.
- Professor of Children's Literature & Childhood Culture, Queen Mary University of London
The show manages to be positive and heartwarming, championing kindness and generosity without being schmaltzy or saccharine.
The Moomins inspire great affection in their relish of life, wanderlust, kind natures and their inclusive community spirit.
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Fiction offers precious and sobering insights into the impact of alcohol in the lives of women and children.
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Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are, was an ardent defender of children’s literature, believing the works of Beatrix Potter to be equal to “the greatest English prose writers that have…
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