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To Sea and Back, By Richard Shelton

Reviewed by Christopher Hirst

'Son of a Lion': Shooting with the enemy

Jerome Taylor tells the extraordinary story of the nurse-turned-director who ventured into Pakistan's lawless tribal lands armed only with a camera and a beard

Portrait of the artist: David Paul Gleeson's agitated, unresolved 'Self'

Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Exhibition, Painters' Hall, London (Rated 3/ 5 )

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Ghosts, Octagon Theatre, Bolton (Rated 3/ 5 )

For his second production at Bolton Octagon, David Thacker has returned to Ghosts, Ibsen's scathing commentary on 19th-century morality. His earlier production, in the 1980s, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Tom Wilkinson, won an Olivier. This latest revival – sometimes fascinatingly watchable yet also frustratingly mediocre – is unlikely to win it many new admirers, far less awards.

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Sonny Rollins, Barbican, London

The legendary Sonny Rollins played to a sell out Barbican last night. At 79-years old he’s outlived the other players that shaped the jazz genre, yet when we spoke he was philosophically flippant about the thought of death.