Reviews

The renowned composer John Rutter reviews the third Bar Choral Society concert, performed in Temple Church on 10 June  

If the Bar Choral Society didn’t exist, you would have to invent it.  

And another thing...  

... asked Tony Hancock – “Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you?” From maps and letters to extracts from Hancock’s Half Hour, the British Library’s Magna Carta exhibition has something for everyone. Melissa Coutinho attends a private viewing and sees that it does, in fact, mean a great deal 

Great stuff  

Intended as a theatrical contribution to the Magna Carta celebrations, the Read Not Dead’s final production of its series was of The Troublesome Reign of King John of England  by George Peele. David Wurtzel was there 

The Children Act  

By Ian McEwan 

The Final Charge  

By Dawood Ali McCallum 

The courageous advocate  

David Wurtzel reviews Taken at Midnight  by Mark Hayhurst, a Chichester Festival Production at the Theatre Royal Haymarket 

The Life of Thomas E. Scrutton  

Author: David Foxton 

Publisher: Cambridge University Press 

September 2013 

Hardback £65 

ISBN: 9781107032583 

Andrei Szerard on his decision to leave London life for the fields of deepest Devon.  

It’s now difficult to remember when the idea of leaving the Bar properly crystallised. 

David Wurtzel reviews the January production in Temple Church of T S Eliot’s work.  

2015 is Magna Carta year with its theme of conflict between the king, the law and the Church.