He wasn’t the very model…

Lockdown on the edge in Our Truth, Their Lies

GROOVES: Independent Venue Week; Brand New Heavies

Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: Telling Tales; Sherlock Holmes online; The Poltergeist

Michael White’s classical & jazz news: Fresh Horizons; Black History Month; Stravinsky

Separate lives

Gripping drama Dear Comrades! revisits Soviet massacre

Slavery heroines

The Pointy Birds: rock bottom

The pick of a salute to fruit and veg

Graining champion: winning riffs on rice

Michael White’s classical & jazz news: Classics Explained; Gresham College; Anti-heroes

Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: The Red Shoes; Dancing Nation; Press Play Here; Lungs; Public Domain

Virtual: the new reality

Give peace no chance: how Hoover hunted Martin Luther King

The Grand Old Man of India

Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: The Girl and the Raven; Waiting for Obama; Overflow; Faith Healer

Tome time

Michael White’s classical & jazz news: Sir Simon Rattle; Stephen Hough; Raymond Yiu