One of the hallmarks of Benjamin Britten's music is his use of boys' voices. Interweaving discussion of the music he wrote for & about children with interviews with the boys whom Britten befriended, this book deals with the subject of the composer's obsessional, yet strangely innocent relationships with adolescent boys. ...

This collection of eight "lectures" by pianist, Graham Johnson, is based on a series of concert talks given at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama as part of the Benjamin Britten festival in 2001. The focus of the book is on Britten's songs, starting with his earliest compositions in the genre. ...

Benjamin Britten's haunting & sinister opera, composed in 1954, is based on the famous novella written by Henry James in 1898. This film release of the popular opera returns to the late 19th Century setting of the original story, Fulbeck Hall in Lincolnshire. ...

Peter Kosminsky writes & directs this television drama about two young British Muslims, brother & sister, whose experiences post 9/11 drive them in opposite & conflicting directions. Sohail (Riz Ahmed), an undergraduate law student, joins MI5 & is soon undercover investigating a possible terrorist cell. Meanwhile, his sister Nasima (Manjinder Virk), a Leeds medical student, soon becomes disillusioned & bitter at the state's constant targeting of her local Muslim community. ...