Category: Features

The Wharf Revue, the satirical institution that for two decades has been the prelude to mistletoe and Mr Claus, has not so much been hibernating during the pandemic, as incubating. Now Jonathan Biggins, Drew Forsythe and Phil Scott have clambered back to their feet, peered behind them, and discovered that…

Had I died in my sleep? The clock radio clicks on Classic FM one summer morning in 1994, and what awakens me sounds like the song of angels. Then, in that rapid-fade moment when sleep recedes and the music comes fully into focus, I recognise the saxophonist: Norway’s idiosyncratic Jan…