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63. Radio: One Year Out: The PopMaster Story

A feast for fans of pop, quizzes and the great Ken Bruce, as the most fiendish quiz on radio received
a long-overdue celebratory retrospective. Read the full review.

62. Opera: Falstaff

Bryn Terfel sang a classic Falstaff in Verdi’s vernal opera for Grange Park Opera, effectively staged
by Stephen Medcalf. Read the full review. Read the full review.

61. Television: Starstruck

A sweet, goofy comedy starring the talented Rose Matafeo as a young woman who accidentally falls
for a Hollywood star. The millennial answer to Bridget Jones. Read the full review.

60. Comedy: Wooden Overcoats

This Ealing-ish audio sitcom – about two feuding funeral parlours on a fictional channel island –
proved equally delightful on stage at the London Podcast Festival.

59. Film: Zola

Adapted from a viral Twitter thread, this electrifying underworld caper about two strippers on a
chaotic road trip captured the zonked surreality of modern online life. Read the full review.

58. Theatre: Cinderella

A stalwart in holding the Government to account, Andrew Lloyd Webber then gave the West End a
fairytale fillip with his lush and friskily subversive new musical. Read the full review.

57. Classical: Hallé Orchestra

Mark Elder conducted a thrilling performance of the brand-new Second Symphony by Huw
Watkins, which proved a modern symphony can be optimistic, easy to grasp – and subtle.

56. Art: Frans Hals: The Male Portrait

The Wallace Collection’s display of 13 portraits of rich and powerful men by the Dutch Golden Age
master Frans Hals – not very ‘woke’, but thoroughly magnificent. Read the full review.