Rebecca Franks

An eagle-eyed Aussie has sparked a heated debate after calling out a “sneaky” tripod-mounted camera she claims was hidden in bushes to catch speeding

An Aussie snake catcher has captured the moment two angry male pythons were caught in a vicious brawl in a skylight, before they were released and carried on fighting on a family's lounge room carpet.

Carousel is Rodgers & Hammerstein’s greatest achievement, says conductor John Wilson. He’s even likened it to Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, a fellow masterpiece in which music and drama are integrated so brilliantly that it’s impossible to separate them. After hearing his superb new complete recording for Chandos, it’s easy to see why Wilson makes this claim. Who wouldn’t be swept along by this performance, the scene set with the opening Carousel Waltz and its old-school sound, luscious strings and delicious swing, carrying us all the way through to the stirring finale as the ‘Carousel Ensemble’ voices swell.

As a new musical based on her memoir, Coming to England, tours the UK, the Play School presenter talks about why children have lost their ‘sense of play’

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The contralto Jess Dandy and the pianist Keval Shah combine classical music traditions and religions in a profound way at the Oxford International Song Festival

The wildly popular composer has clocked up three billion streams and soundtracked dozens of films. Now he fears for the future of creativity

Kirill Gerstein showed athletic stamina and musical vision as the indefatigable soloist in this concert at the Barbican

This hearty programme from 19th-century Europe at the Barbican conducted by Daniele Rustioni was always beautifully played but didn’t consistently surprise

The Arditti Quartet and Crash Ensemble opened the festival in solid style but it was Lina Lapelyte’s fascinating Study of Slope that broke new ground