They (usually) don’t make them like this anymore. The History Of Sound, directed by Living’s Oliver Hermanus, spans most of the 20th century, its prologue set in 1910 and epilogue in 1980. But even ...

The Sony LinkBuds Clip are the latest pair of open earbuds to beg the question, “What if you could enjoy great sound without having to stick a bunch of silicone in your ear canal?” While these types ...

The story opens in rural Kentucky in 1910, where Lionel Worthing (Paul Mescal) grows up on a farm dutifully following in his family’s commitment to physical labour, finding release through song. “It ...

Timothy Busfield In Legal Freefall As Prosecutors Unveil Chilling Charges The case against Timothy Busfield is intensifying as prosecutors reveal disturbing details tied to the charges now confronting ...

A forbidden romance and a passion for song fuel this film from South African director Oliver Hermanus (Living), pairing men of the moment Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor. Based on Ben Shattuck’s short ...

Lionel’s exceptional voice – and Mescal does sing quite well; remember, Hermanus got Bill Nighy to sing in Living – is noted by a teacher and in 1917 he goes to the New England Conservatory in Boston ...

Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor are two of the most avidly watched actors of the moment, but their interplay doesn’t quite ...

Singer-songwriter Sam Amidon had just three weeks to make the two stars sound like seasoned balladeers. He recalls their charged harmonies in the little shed at the bottom of his garden I was brought ...

When a nuclear programme threatens Eileen Kampakuta Brown's traditional land in Australia, she brings together a group of Aboriginal women to resist. Their campaign across the country in a two-door ...

There are a lot of movies about the transformative power of music. There are few that take it to such literal and metaphysical heights as The History of Sound. A triumph of metaphor and screen ...

Max Pearson presents a collection of the week's Witness History interviews from the BBC World Service. Our guest Sugandhi Jayaraman, lecturer in air transport management at the University of ...

The opening line of L.P. Hartley's seminal coming-of-age novel The Go-Between reads, "The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there." That sentiment resonates throughout writer and ...