PROUST’S FAMOUS NOVEL IS CALLED IN SEARCH of Lost Time, and isn’t that the key to why we love history? It’s the urge to recover the lost past. Can we get beyond the mysterious veil to real events and

A critic with ‘an almost devout passion for good poems’

A composer’s idiosyncratic guide to western classical music

How the young Dylan Thomas repeatedly stole from others

In defence of the libretto and the librettist

Leigh Lawson has embraced acting and poetry with the same determination that sustained Marie Lloyd, the music-hall queen whose memorabilia he collects, as Carla Passino discovers