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women into history and
keeping his jokes up to date
Northern Ireland
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Laura Hackett on two books
ALAMY
published 25 years after the
Interview Good Friday agreement
Metallica are keeping going l With the name Peter
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into their sixties and pumping O’Toole, the star of
up the noise Lawrence of Arabia was
History always regarded as a son
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From ballet dancers to trans of Ireland. He claimed he
pilots: the secret history of hailed from Galway, carried
Art the Second World War an Irish passport and once
Waldemar Januszczak gives it said his Irish identity was
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up for his favourite movement “almost the centre of my
being”. Actually the actor
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The Sunday Times came from Leeds and only
Bestsellers one parent was Irish.
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Hugh Grant has found his
happy place — as a villain l Britain’s songbirds
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over a million skylarks since
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COVER STORY
JOHANNA
THOMAS-CORR
A
ccording to Terry Deary, there
are three kinds of writers.
Artists like “your JK Rowlings,
Philip Pullmans and Julia
Donaldsons, who write for
the world”. Amateurs, such as
JRR Tolkien, who “write for themselves
and sometimes find an audience”. And
then there are “the artisans”. People
who write “for the trade”. This is the cat-
egory in which the creator of Horrible
Histories places himself. “The reason
why I’ll never be acknowledged as a
great author like Philip Pullman is
because I’ve written 338 books.”
Yet as Nasty Napoleon (or was it
Satanic Stalin?) said, quantity has a
quality all of its own. And Deary’s
achievements in the 30 years since the
first two books in his “history with the
nasty bits left in” are on a grand scale.
STICKING UP FOR
He has sold somewhere north of
35 million books, he tells me over a cup
of tea overlooking the River Thames,
where the Horrible Histories interactive
boat ride goes up and down (always
sold out whenever I try to get tickets
for my nine-year-old son). He has fed
an empire of spin-offs, including that
boat ride, a West End show and the
Horrible Histories CBBC show — the first
children’s show to win an adult com-
From Vile Victoria to Bolshy Boudica, Terry Deary has riled our rulers
edy award (the Romantic Poets boy-
band sketch is exquisite). Not bad for a stupid or cruel but most of them have Deary looks a little forbidding, with author pulled out, which he had to turn
boy from “a terribly poor background been both.” He scoffs when I ask him close-cropped hair and lean physique around in eight days. It was more of a
in Sunderland” who wanted to be a about our new king. And don’t get him — he is about to do his 25th Great North case of “Terry Deary’s just written a
country singer. started on politicians, teachers and Run — but he has a musical way of speak- Father Christmas joke book, let’s get
Deary, 77, who has travelled down Ofsted inspectors. He gets particularly ing that betrays his former career as a him in”.
for the day from his home in Co Dur- irate about the honours system. “Knight- drama teacher. His aversion to authority The first two books in the series —
ham, is quick to deflect credit: he ing people who’ve done bugger all, in all its forms is deep-seated. It comes Terrible Tudors and Awesome Egyptians
heaps praise on his long-term collabo- while the people who look after their “from being beaten, bullied and abused — were released in 1993, but sales
rator, the cartoonist Martin Brown, and ageing parents like carers or nurses get at school by the teachers — not the picked up with the 50th anniversary of
stresses that the series was not his idea. no recognition at all. It breaks my heart.” pupils”. He has described himself as a VE Day in 1995, when Blitzed Brits
Be that as it may, he has done what the very angry person (I wonder what he’d became a bestseller. He followed it up
best children’s writers do: created a be like if he didn’t run). But he tempers with Woeful Second World War and,
world that children want to return to this with bursts of kindness. When I well, it went on and on. He claims that
again and again. His gory stories — arrive with my son’s dog-eared copies he has only managed three weeks’ hol-
decapitations, massacres, torture and You need populist of Awful Egyptians, Groovy Greeks and iday in 45 years, something his “long-
all — have served as an entry point to Vile Victorians, as well as Deary’s latest, suffering” wife of 48 years, Jenny, has
countless history obsessions. And — authors and that’s The Worst in the World (The Best Worst had to endure (the couple have a
again, like the best children’s writers what I am Bits of History), he insists on signing daughter, Sara, and 11-year-old twin
— Deary knows whose side he is on, each one with a personal message (“To granddaughters).
and it is not the side of authority. Fight the power Terry Deary with the Terrific Teddy, to Terrible Teddy”). Indeed, he was so much at the cul-
When pushed to name his favourite cartoonist Martin Brown Horrible Histories came about, as he tural vanguard that he was having argu-
historical figure, he says: “Mr and Mrs tells it, because of a gap in the market ments about historical revisionism a
Peasant.” He believes a million peasants in the early 1990s. “There was this god- couple of decades ago. Barmy British
are more important than “one bloke awful national curriculum imposed on Empire (2002) did not shy away from
stuck on a column in Trafalgar Square”. schools, and publishers very sensibly revealing the horrors of the slave trade,
Deary is hard pushed to name the said, ‘Let’s fill this niche by doing or from presenting the British Empire
“worst” period in history. “How can something entertaining.’” as a bad idea. “I got a lot of abuse from
you say that people suffered more in Deary spent the early part of right-wing people,” he says. “I’m now
the Thirty Years’ War, allegedly the his career as a theatre-in- suddenly in fashion. People are saying,
worst war in history, than the education practitioner, writ- ‘Yeah, actually you’re right. The British
people in Ukraine today? All ing plays for schools, before Empire was one of the worst things
periods of history are horrible drifting into children’s pub- ever to happen to the world.’”
if you’re poor.” lishing. He reckons he wrote He believes history as it is taught in
He has no favourite mon- about 50 books before Hor- schools is too Anglocentric. “If we’ve
archs. “Every king and queen rible Histories, including one got people who are nationalistic and
in history has been either on sharks when the original Brexiteers, it’s because they’ve been
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updating his books or not? “That’s
their choice. If they want to update
Roald Dahl, they can. But they
shouldn’t be doing it because of the
pedants, you know?”
Having conquered the world of chil-
dren’s non-fiction, he is now seeking
new frontiers. “Do you know the Rob-
ert Service poem about you get to the
top of a mountain and what do you
see? Another mountain.” He is mulling
over an adult history book about “the
British Empire and where Britain sees
itself in the world and why, and what
we can do about it”.
He is also deep into a crime story.
“It’s called Actually I’m a Murderer.”
Later his publisher will ask him if he’s
sure he wants to reveal the title, which
is like a red rag to a bull because he only
doubles down. The book is set in 1973
and it has three narrators: a hapless
young actor, a policewoman (“I shouldn’t
say policewoman, should I? Police
©MARTIN BROWN
officer who happens to be female”) and
the killer. He reckons he might find
himself accidentally on trend again.
I
portal into that dark and tormented
am not sure how it happened, how time of our history when blackness was
I got suckered into watching The a virtue and the roads were full of mud.
Last Kingdom. One minute I barely Dreymon also puts his finger on why
watched television, the next — such the series was such a success: a terrific
are the sad depths of my fandom cast who worked together for seven
— I have an Uhtred beer mat and an years. David Dawson is rather wonder-
almost lifesize cardboard cutout of the ful as a pious, Machiavellian and per-
evil, but not unattractive, witch Skade petually sickly Alfred; Eliza Butter-
in my study. Next I’ll be going to con- worth stretches beyond her years to
ventions dressed in stinking furs with a portray Alfred’s frankly ghastly wife;
wolf ’s rib bone in my beard. and the fine Scottish actor Mark Rowley
It is true that my wife suggested we — one of the favourites of The Last King-
try a Netflix series because everybody dom’s vast fan club — is Uhtred’s BFF,
else was doing it and we might be miss- the Irishman Finan.
ing out — that was the start. We tried Rowley and Dreymond add a wel-
loads, almost all of them involving seri- come mischief to the characters as
ous, angst-ridden people going through depicted in Cornwell’s books. (By and
a time portal (everybody really hates large the series improves the more it
the present right now, don’t they? Can’t drifts away from those novels, and
say I blame them). They were all kind there are occasional winks to viewers
of awful and terribly self-important or, that the whole thing should not be
worse, boringly “edgy”. taken too seriously, just seriously
Then my sister-in-law, noting our enough that it holds your interest.)
despair, suggested The Last Kingdom. I Of course it is not without one or
MARCELL PITI
was doubtful. Lots of people fighting in two little problems. We watch in awe as
period costume? But we tried it and Uhtred wins a battle in Essex, then
from episode three we were hooked. turns up an hour or two later to kill
We watched all five seasons, bang, like someone in, say, Chester — and this all
that. Then we looked for another series Kingdom comely Alexander Dreymon somewhat portentously, as “I am took place before HS3. And Uhtred’s
to watch, couldn’t find one — so as Uhtred in Seven Kings Must Die. Uhtred, son of Uhtred” — who wins all fashionable disdain for the non
watched all five seasons again, all the Below: Thea Sofie Loch Naess as those battles for Alfred and even sequiturs of Christianity is undermined
way through. Every night, with a cup of Skade in the original series reminds him to get those cakes out of by his credulousness at Norse magic.
tea. And a Twix. the fire. Being an Angle brought up by But these are quibbles. It is a pleasure
The Last Kingdom has its cake and exist and is distantly related to Danes allows the principal character to to watch and, as Rowley testifies, the
eats it. Drawn from the novels of Ber- Cornwell, but lived 200 years after the straddle the political divide, and the actors loved it too: “It was so much
nard Cornwell, it supposedly depicts time in which The Last Kingdom is set winning thing is that it also brings into fun . . . you know we all go on holiday
real history — you know, facts and stuff. and probably didn’t have appealing what would otherwise be a rather hor- with each other? I took a bunch to Scot-
Principally King Alfred’s attempts to hair extensions like those sported by rible history, comprised of people land and we’re going to Scandinavia.”
unite our country and subjugate the the excellent German-American Alex- chopping off one another’s heads, a Series five ended with Uhtred stab-
irritating, hirsute but competent Dan- ander Dreymon. certain vulnerability and humour. bing people in the throat, throwing his
ish invaders, all of whom have bad This allows the series a certain lee- More to the point, though, we can feel nephew off a precipice and capturing
table manners. And so, up to a point, it way with the truth, for it is Uhtred — a little more comfortable identifying with the castle of his birth, Bebbanburg —
does this faithfully. Almost all of the who always announces himself, Uhtred. The Middle Ages, you better known to us as Bamburgh. But
characters existed, the battles men- see, were not especially woke. such was the disappointment at the
tioned took place roughly where histo- Those social justice warriors series ending that we now have a full-
rians believe they happened, and the who wish to cancel Winston length feature film to watch, entitled
outcomes are correctly rendered. Churchill ought to have a Seven Kings Must Die. Neither Dreymon
Except that into this compressed look at Sweyn Forkbeard’s nor Rowley would tell me what hap-
and bloody Anglo-Saxon chronicle We watched attitudes towards criminal pens (although I assume seven kings,
Cornwell drops an almost entirely ficti- all five seasons, justice, or King Alfred’s er, die), but that’s OK because I want to
tious, handsome, sword-wielding Geor- muscular brand of Chris- be on the sofa, with Skade, Twix in
die thug who is essentially politically every night, with tianit y. Uhtred, hand, enjoying every gory moment. c
unaligned and thus able to fight for
whomsoever he pleases. This is the
a cup of tea though, has a defi-
nite aversion to Seven Kings Must Die is on Netflix
central character, Uhtred — who did and a Twix slavery and from Friday
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MUSIC
A
say, ‘Come on, look how successful you
couple of weeks ago I listened are!’ But success doesn’t change you.
to the latest Metallica album For better or worse you carry formative
turned up to 11. The riffs years with you and I’m more aware of
are relentless. One track is the darkness than before. When
called You Must Burn! The younger I was in such a hurry — hell-
lyrics to another go: “Demon- bent on the next stimulation and the
ised, liquefied, tranquillised, prophe- next beverage. I never slowed down
sied!” So far, so heavy metal. But there enough to understand what was going
are also a lot of melodies and choruses.
You do not sell 125 million albums THE SINGER THE GUITARIST on around me. But, as you age, that
becomes more obvious.”
without being able to surprise — and James Hetfield, 59 Kirk Hammett, 60 Ulrich sips his tea. The heavy drink-
write a hook. Hetfield spends his spare time The oldest member of the band ing is over. He quit cocaine years back.
Later I meet Lars Ulrich, Metallica’s keeping bees, but kills animals too loves to snuggle up with a comic People change. Now Ulrich collects art.
drummer and band spokesman, given — loving to hunt “insane elk”. He is book or go surfing. Hammett owns Hetfield is a beekeeper. The drummer
that the singer James Hetfield is stage- a devoted collector of classic cars a ranch where he rides horses and, is at home in San Francisco, the band’s
loud but interview-shy. The pair turn and even does some carpentry. He when not playing riffs, finds respite base. Ulrich was born in Copenhagen,
60 this year, so I start by asking if their makes a good table. in his horror memorabilia. before he moved to California in 1980
pummelling, punishing music is not for to pursue a tennis career that soon lost
younger . . . “Let me confirm,” Ulrich out to a different kind of racket.
interrupts, laughing, “that the idea I’m All this seems a world away from
sitting here at 59, talking about our 12th Metallica’s 1983 debut album, Kill ’Em
record, 41 years after we started, is All (originally they wanted to call it
obviously preposterous.” Metal up Your Ass). Their ascent was
These days the band embrace age- fast and furious and studded with Spi-
ing. “Saggy skin? Double chins? What- nal Tap moments: Grammy-nominated
ever! None of this fazes me. I don’t have in the 1980s, they played the first open-
a need to put on a crazy tight leather air gig in the former Soviet Union in
jacket, dye my hair and convince the 1991. The cover art on their 1996 album
world I am 30. I’m comfortable in my Load was made from squishing blood
body and have no desire to chase the and semen between glass slides. They
fountain of youth,” Ulrich says. even went on to make albums with the
No wonder he feels settled. Metallica San Francisco Symphony.
are the 36th bestselling act in history, Then in 2004 the band had a docu-
above Prince and the Bee Gees. They
are a remarkably stable group, formed THE DRUMMER THE BASSIST mentary of their own: Metallica: Some
Kind of Monster. It focused on the band
by Ulrich and Hetfield in 1981, with the Lars Ulrich, 59 Robert Trujillo, 58 inviting a therapist to deal with issues
guitarist Kirk Hammett on board since The richest member of Metallica Roberto Agustín Miguel Santiago during the making of their album St
1983 and the bassist Robert Trujillo for filled his lockdown with hiking and Samuel Trujillo Veracruz was Anger. It is a riveting watch: a proto-
20 years. The so-called Black Album biking, but Ulrich is an avid art fan brought up on flamenco guitar. type for the Beatles’ Get Back, where a
(1991), with the single Enter Sandman, and businessman. His collection is Married with two kids, the Santa group falls apart in front of the cam-
TIM SACCENTI
was their monster hit, but that barely valued at $25.4 million and he sold Monica-born musician is a keen eras. Yet Metallica are still here. How?
scratches the surface. Master of Pup- a Basquiat for $13.5 million. hiker and a mean surfer and skater. “We all would rather be in Metallica
pets, their “eight-minute super-heavy than not,” Ulrich says. “Ultimately it’s
metal song from 1986” was recently a about preserving the mothership.
Spotify download topper after featur- a deeper bond with their fans. Sure, the ferocity of Metallica’s music nor their Think of what we’ve been through!
ing in Stranger Things on Netflix. The hair has changed — Ulrich and Hetfield penchant for singing about darkness We’ve played, what, 3,000 concerts?
band headlined Glastonbury in 2014 used to wear it below their shoulders, and depression. After a mellow(ish) Age helps, but it is pure love for the
and the millennial pop star Phoebe both now style it like a pair of edgy car phase at the turn of the century, the other fellows. We know each other’s
Bridgers covered them. salesmen — but that aside, if it ain’t band have returned to thrash metal trigger points so well. But none of us
Ulrich is the group’s celebrity. broke, don’t play it quieter. (heavy metal but faster). have the energy to make a record the
Friends with Bono and Noel Gallagher, “When we’re in a room together it’s Hetfield says that 72 Seasons — the way we did 30 years ago. I can still
he’s the prophet who first pointed out not radically different to 1981,” Ulrich number of seasons in our first 18 years wind James up in 12 seconds, but know-
that, maybe, giving away music online explains. “Are there better micro- — is about “sorting out childhood as an ing what it takes gives you the chance
was not a sustainable business model. phones? Newer cymbals? More ampli- adult”. Via email he says: “There are to stay clear of it.”
More on that later, but first the new fiers? Of course. But the enthusiasm some things you can’t unsee and are Being part of a heavy metal band
album, 72 Seasons. Few musicians have has not changed.” Neither has the with you for the rest of your life.” is a weird job. Any of us can have a
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ONSTERS OF MAYHE result was bankruptcy
for Napster. Music fans blamed
Ulrich for being very rich and
supporting, boo hiss, “the Man” and
the record labels.
He remembers the first time the
internet had an impact — it was 1995
and Metallica were in London. “The
day after a gig,” he says, “our tour man-
ager said, ‘Do you want to see what
people thought?’ He went to the com-
puter. You could hear that dial-up tone.
Half an hour later we were looking at
some forum where 20 fans were talk-
ing about the show the night before. I
went, ‘What the hell?’
“That changed everything. Back in
the day you’d put a song out and only
weeks later read a review. Today, after
five minutes you have 37,000 reviews.”
Times have changed so much that
Metallica previewed a recent single on
TikTok. But the question, raised by
Ulrich during the Napster furore, was
about the value of music. Why would
people happily spend £15 on three
beers, but quibble at spending that on
a CD with music that would last years.
“That is the core of the issue,” Ulrich
says. “What is it about music — more
than other intellectual property — that
made people think it could be free?
Maybe because we first listened to it on
the radio? Certainly, at the start of the
internet, there were so few laws that
everything online represented free-
dom. I don’t know if, 20 years on,
there’s any new clarity.”
I suggest it is simply that people
were happy not to pay for music just
because they could. Ulrich agrees. “We
all want to intellectualise it, but the
answer may just be, ‘It was there.’ More
than anything [music piracy] was
about the ease of it.”
The repercussions are still being felt.
The collapse of physical music sales
means that record labels do not have
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Modern Art. Same truth. dynamism and sensitivity. forced to race from location to
Different packaging. Why is all this different location, it never settles.
The beginning is truly from what came before? Why That said, the ending with
thrilling. The big guns of is modern art being invented? Picasso and Braque inventing
post-impressionism have been The catalogue huffs and puffs cubism and Mondrian’s
given a wall or two on which in the search for answers journey to abstraction is a
to impress us and some fine before finally settling on the lurch on to a higher plane. We
loans have been called in. divergence we are seem once again to be in the
Cézanne’s gorgeous witnessing here presence of artistic giants.
portrait of his wife in between art as So it’s a sandwich of a show.
a red dress, the one
in which he turns THE a vehicle for
description and
Good beginning. Good end.
A muddle in the middle. c
her into a modern
Madonna oozing
CRITICS art as a vehicle
for conveying After Impressionism: Inventing
quattrocento calm, attitudes and Modern Art, National Gallery,
has been borrowed emotions. Until the London WC2, until Aug 13
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MUSIC
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before the grand final on May 13. It
s first days at work go it was includes a “blue and yellow submarine
pretty good. No sooner had parade” and a sea-themed disco, involv-
Martin Green started as the ing British and Ukrainian designers and
BBC’s managing director of musicians and a glitterball jellyfish; the
the Eurovision Song Contest transformation of Liverpool Cathedral
than he found himself on into a railway carriage by the Ukrainian
The One Show, handing his hero, artist Katya Buchatska to replicate the
ANTHONY HARVEY/SHUTTERSTOCK, BRYAN BEDDER/GETTY IMAGES. INSETS: JAMES STACK, HARRY CARR/BBC
Graham Norton, the envelope that journey of escape from Izyum, in east-
revealed Liverpool as the host city. ern Ukraine, to the Polish border;
“If, like me, you are gay, Eurovision and a simultaneous rave in Liver-
is very much part of your cultural life,” pool and Kyiv.
Green, 51, says. He is a fanatic: 41 years However, it is unlikely that
after watching his first contest, he can President Zelensky or his wife,
still sing the British duo Bardo’s 1982 Olena, will attend because of how
entry and remembers how it was the European Broadcasting Union has
beaten by Nicole, who won Germany’s always run the contest. “The EBU are
first title with Ein bisschen Frieden. rightfully very committed to it being a
But Green isn’t just a Eurovision fan- neutral space, but also a fair competi-
boy — he’s the go-to man for organising tion for 37 countries. That’s very pre-
Britain’s biggest events: he transformed cious. We know that all our Ukrainian
the unloved Millennium Dome into the friends are very respectful of that too.”
buzzy O2 arena, was head of ceremo- Green’s 2012 Olympic ceremonies
nies for the 2012 Olympic and Paralym- were praised for bringing the country
pic Games, and turned Hull into the together. Since then politics has
UK’s City of Culture five years later. polarised the nation and the pandemic
He has just finished parallel stints has caused untold misery. “I think
running the Birmingham Common- we’ve been through quite a lot since
wealth Games cultural programme and 2012. What major events help you do is
Unboxed, the “festival of Brexit” that is get your mojo back,” Green says. “We
seen by most people as an expensive, love being outside, standing right next
taxpayer-funded failure. to someone and hugging them and
Isn’t it odd to go from overseeing cheering not only our team but
Theresa May’s much-maligned Brexit Signed on The hosts Alesha Dixon and time to put on a show that will be everybody else’s team too.
jamboree to hosting the most Europhile Hannah Waddingham. Below: Martin watched by more than 160 million “Eurovision is like those big global
party possible? “I don’t recognise that Green. Right: the UK entry Mae Muller people. After a lot of “chasing our own sporting events: you can plot your life
term,” Green says sternly when we meet tail”, he reckons they are on track. by it.” But given the UK’s dreadful
at the BBC’s White City headquarters. Everyone is at pains to emphasise recent record — coming last in two of
“I produced a festival called Unboxed.” that the UK is hosting it “on behalf of ” the past three contests —
That first day with Norton was the Ukraine. There is a Ukrainian flag in Green never thought he
easy bit for Green — in just five weeks’ the “V” of the Eurovision logo and the would have the chance
time he’ll be throwing the largest party colour scheme is all yellows and blues. to work on it.
and biggest TV event of the European Green says everything has been done “What is the Eurovi-
calendar. And that task is uniquely in collaboration with the Ukrainian sion Song Contest if it’s
challenging this year. public broadcaster UA:PBC and not 37 countries coming
For the first time since 1980 the It’s 37 countries Volodymyr Zelensky’s government. together and saying that
contest will not be held in the winning coming together Norton will be hosting alongside the we can all live together,
country of the previous year. Organis- Ted Lasso actress Hannah Waddingham live well together and
ers decided that Ukraine could not to say that and the singer Alesha Dixon, as well as enjoy each other? I
host the show because of the Julia Sanina, the frontwoman of the don’t see any differ-
Russian invasion. The BBC was
we can all Ukrainian rock band the Hardkiss. The ence in that space
asked to step in after the run- live well “postcards” — short videos showing the from this year to
ner-up, Sam Ryder, delivered host country’s culture — are expected any other year.” c
Britain its best result since together to be from Ukrainian cities, something
Katrina and the Waves won in and enjoy on which Green declines to comment. EuroFestival takes
1997. Green started in Octo- In his second week Green flew to place across
ber, giving him half the usual each other Warsaw to meet his Ukrainian counter- Liverpool, May 1-14
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TELEVISION
They owe it
all to Fleabag
The dramedy queens Lily Allen and Daisy May
Cooper deliver hot messes, toxic relationships and
smutty jokes — thanks to Phoebe Waller-Bridge
built up like sandbanks. Sharon and had to deal with being worth watching is that he’s
Horgan is the producer, and down in suddenly and extremely enormously, irresistibly funny.
although Dreamland isn’t as famous. All this was, He joked about the strains of
pitch black as Bad Sisters (her one go understandably, disorientating. living with his mum and dad:
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| RADIO & PODCASTS
So will Ken be a hit?
The Radio 2 favourite has gone — and taken his best assets
telephoned Mayo’s Drivetime national commercial radio
Saved by the
scoundrel
Forget Hugh Grant the rom-com king —
he’s at his best as a Cockney sleazebag
in Notting Hill also won the
to a feudal system
ruled over by WEEK and calculation.
Dan Cairns
IT’S A CLASSICAL C
Higher Than Heaven HH Blondshell HHHH
Polydor Partisan
Stravinsky String Quartet here. In the COGHLAN Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
Remarkably, the gala’s third soloist is
Benjamin
Grosvenor,
Violin Concerto, Chamber former, Faust and Les Siècles another Young Musician alumnus. The Nicola
T
Works HHHH combine to wondrous pianist Benjamin Grosvenor was a sol- Benedetti
Isabelle Faust (violin), effect, the sweetness and he cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason emn little boy of 11 in the 2004 final and Sheku
Les Siècles, cond sinuousness of the violin remembers the time he when Benedetti triumphed with shim- Kanneh-
François-Xavier Roth contrasting with the became aware of BBC Young mering soundscapes that never seemed Mason
Harmonia Mundi grain and depth of the Musician of the Year. He was to touch the ground.
accompanying strings in the only five, watching the compe- Talk about a classical supergroup.
A revelatory second aria. This is a stellar tition at home with his family, Where most concertos put a single
recording of and enveloping account. when a 16-year-old girl called Nicola artist in the spotlight, the glory is
the 1931 violin No less absorbing are the Benedetti dazzled everyone with Szy- shared in Beethoven. Far from another
concerto by Three Pieces, where the four manowski’s Violin Concerto No 1. battle royal, the three former Young
the supremely performers are more like “I don’t think I’d ever seen that level of Musician finalists will come together
gifted Stravinsky interpreter wilful individuals than a playing before,” he recalls. in a mutual celebration of their
Faust and Roth’s period- cohesive quartet — a It was Kanneh-Mason’s turn to make three instruments.
instruments players scenario Faust and her fellow history when aged 17 he became the The concerts will be a timely
is juxtaposed with the performers audibly relish. first black winner of the BBC title seven reminder of the cultural value of the
subversive and satisfyingly A variation from Apollo is as years ago. Now he is preparing to step biennial BBC Young Musician competi-
bizarre Three Pieces for tantalising as it is lovely. DC on stage alongside Benedetti for two tion at a moment when its future is
gala performances of Beethoven’s unclear. Launched in 1978, it has a list
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ONTEST WITH THE X-FACTOR
of alumni that reads like a Who’s Who of
British classical music. Stephen Hough,
Tasmin Little, Thomas Adès, Nicholas
whose reach and profile are just as
important as its content — perhaps
even more so. And it comes when the
route into classical music for many.
Benedetti herself launches her first sea-
son as the artistic director of the Edin-
Daniel, Alison Balsom, Jess Gillam: all BBC’s commitment to classical music is burgh International Festival in just a
started here, careers forged in real time in question — last month it announced When BBC4 goes digital few months.
as viewers watched, right across the closure of the BBC Singers, only to it will be a cliff-edge BBC Young Musician is woven into
the country. perform a U-turn after a public outcry. the fabric of UK classical music at every
A lot has changed since then. The Grosvenor says: “It’s not just about moment for musicians level, an engine of collaborations and
tailcoats and old-fashioned formality of giving a platform to the performers initiatives, a breeding ground for con-
the early shows have been swept away, who take part, it’s also a source of Harry’s wedding. Handpicked by certgoers and radio-listeners. And it
but so has the public visibility. The inspiration for so many young musi- Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, he needs no special pleading. Year after
competition started on BBC1, and even cians at home.” You don’t get the clas- played music by Fauré, Von Paradis year it delivers some of the most
regional heats were given valuable air- sical audiences — let alone the and Schubert, watched by millions. scream-at-the-television, edge-of-the-
time, but its coverage has shrunk — and performers — of tomorrow, without If pop’s many television competi- seat extraordinary moments — from a
shrunk again. It was pushed out to the first finding them and showing them tions are suffering from over-satura- soloist’s string snapping in the middle
smaller audiences of BBC2 in 1986, and what’s possible. tion, the same doesn’t hold for Young of a concerto to a hall suddenly
then banished to BBC4. Its viewing fig- Kanneh-Mason’s first encounter with Musician. Last year’s winner, the live- plunged into darkness (in both cases
ures have fallen from a peak of 13 mil- the competition led him to his local wire percussionist Jordan Ashman (still the performance continued).
lion in the competition’s first year to a concert hall in Nottingham, where win- only 18), is already becoming a visible The BBC insists it’s committed to the
measly 210,000 last year. ners would regularly perform. The champion for his instrument. Young Musician of the Year. But it could
Now there are plans for BBC4 to go cellist Guy Johnston made a particular And the BBC Young Musician com- do a lot worse than head up to Scotland
online-only in two years’ time. It’s a impression. “He played the Saint-Saëns petition doesn’t just generate perform- next month to hear some Beethoven
cliff-edge moment for a competition Cello Concerto, and I was in the front ing stars. Participants such as Adès and before it weighs the contest’s future. As
row, right underneath his spike. It was Mark Simpson have gone on to make rivals, Benedetti, Grosvenor and Kan-
incredible, and just had such an impact their name as composers, or like Steph- neh-Mason were powerful; as allies and
on me.” anie Childress become a conductor. It advocates they are unstoppable. c
A Top 20 album (all but unheard of has inspired future artistic and festival
The alumni list reads for a classical release), an MBE (aged directors as well as broadcasters like Royal Scottish National Orchestra’s
like a Who’s Who of just 22) and international fame fol-
lowed for Kanneh-Mason, climaxing in
the saxophonist Gillam, whose award-
winning radio show and podcast This
all-star gala concerts are at Usher Hall,
Edinburgh, May 26, and Glasgow Royal
British classical music a coveted slot to perform at Prince Classical Life offers an effortlessly joyful Concert Hall, May 27; rsno.org.uk
9 April 2023 17
Symphony
of the skies
A joyful appeal for
us to stop and listen
to the birdsong
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In search of
England’s soul
Stuart Maconie’s grumpy state-of-the-nation ramble
takes him from Stormzy in a Cotswolds tearoom
to 20-a-side football, sex shops and ‘potter’s rot’
It’s all grist to Maconie’s Bristol
BOOK OF THE WEEK not-so-dark or satanic mill.
Everything is copy.
fashion
Pride
Victoria Segal Everything is copied too — celebrations
at least structurally speaking. in the West
The Full English The Full English uses JB Country,
A Journey in Search of a Priestley’s 1934 travelogue 2019. From
Country and Its People English Journey as a guidebook, Photo
by Stuart Maconie Maconie following the London
HarperNorth £20 pp352 Bradford writer — a staunch 2023, Martin
liberal, with uncomfortable Parr: Recent
“When did every corner of lapses into anti-Irish sentiment Works, at
England start to reek of — to the Potteries and the Somerset
dope?” Stuart Maconie asks, Black Country, Newcastle and House,
wandering through Leicester Norwich. Maconie seeks May 11-14
town centre on one of the parallels between present-day
gentle fact-finding missions that turbulence and the “backdrop
make up The Full English. On of global recession and
other notebook-in-hand strolls menacing political
around towns and cities he demagoguery” of Priestley’s
betrays mild bemusement at time, testing the country’s
austere new vegan staples post-pandemic, Brexit-age
jackfruit and aquafaba, temperature through
entertains a small revenge conversations with strangers
fantasy of “[heaving] a brick” and the state of various high
at a kid racing around on a streets. Current affairs intrude own reasons, or is a fool, and absurd. (On the Birmingham impressed he has crowbarred
noisy trials bike and recoils in market towns and train very possibly all three.” Megabus, the man in front Love Island and Schoenberg
from “shrivellingly carriages: Ukraine, the nuclear Maconie is not unhappy in reclines his seat so far “he is into one paragraph he
anaphrodisiac” sex shops threat, an MP’s murder. the grey areas, ensuring this almost lolling in my lap like a praises himself in a lovably
on grim corners. In Bristol Maconie discusses book isn’t an I-Spy Book of courtesan in a Manet study of nerdish footnote.
Part of the writer and the fall of Edward Colston’s Easy Answers to Hard a Montmartre brothel”.) His Despite his enthusiasm for
broadcaster’s persona is that of statue and Black Lives Matter; Questions. Nor is it all cosy frame of reference underlines apparently unpromising
a slightly grumpy old flâneur, in Stoke-on-Trent, he talks observational comedy and his rangy curiosity: his locations, Maconie’s journey
his catalogue of punning pre-welfare state Britain and whimsical digression, even antennae twitch to Stormzy is rarely sentimental. He finds
British travelogues — Pies and the lives ruined by the lung if Maconie is such a funny, playing in a Cotswolds tokens of modern poverty in
Prejudice and Adventures on disease “potter’s rot”. Boston astute writer, alert to the tearoom, or a street that burning skips and detects “a
the High Teas among them triggers his deepest dive into evokes the postpunk band vague, grudging expectation
— raising what is traditionally immigration — “You will hear Sleaford Mods. Lightly worn that this is the way things are
known as a “wry eyebrow” at that most famous tenet of research directs his seemingly now”. He is no firebrand
England, at the things it values, cognitive dissonance, that casual roaming: not just his polemicist — in one tellingly
the things it lets go. A group of
Jewish boys playing 20-a-side
immigrants are both stealing
‘our’ jobs and ‘sponging’ on
He meets a commentary on Priestley, but
his information that Kenneth
English scene he huffs
under his breath at red-
football in Gateshead? A
homeless man called Cider in
benefits, and, not for the first
time, I think that anyone who
homeless man Clarke, Jake Bugg and Harold
Shipman were Notts County
trousered Cotswolds yeomen
talking stupidly about race
Stockton? Vegetarian curry claims to know the truth called Cider supporters, or the details of but avoids confrontation.
houses and pubs where a soft about all this is either a liar, Leicester’s Balloon Riot of Yet the fact he is not prone
drink order is suspect? has an axe to grind for their in Stockton 1864. At one point he is so to raging against the machine
20 9 April 2023
The lives of
Londoners How the rich really live
Diana Evans returns This tale of wealthy New York cliques is an ideal poolside read
with another strong parents would mind more are just the perfect thing for
but subtle novel FICTION about his race if he weren’t so
rich: a bad feeling. Georgiana
all kinds of bits and bobs —
off-season footwear, hats,
27 India Knight is in her mid-twenties and
naive; the only men she knows
anything with a brim that you
don’t want crushed.” The
Pineapple Street are the children of her parents’ house is full and there is no
by Jenny Jackson friends or the brothers of girls room for Sasha.
Hutchinson £14.99 pp320 she went to school with — a Things unravel. Sasha is
pool so small and familiar that troubled by Cord always
Here’s an unusual thing: a entering it feels akin to incest. putting his parents and sisters
novel about the one per cent She works for the kind of NGO first. Malcolm loses his job
that isn’t a satire or an insane that is based in a charming and Darley feels unable to tell
potboiler. It’s about the private house and run by anyone. Georgiana falls in
Stocktons, New York property people who play tennis a lot. love with her boss. Her friend
squillionaires. They are Everyone plays tennis a lot, Sebastian throws an “Oligarch
old money, discreet and except Sasha. Chic” party at a Russian dance
self-possessed: “They flew The family home is on hall, where the regulars are
coach unless the flight was Pineapple Street in Brooklyn not wearing their clothes as
really long, they drove their Heights, and as the book a joke. A fellow guest spells
cars until the clanking noise opens Tilda and Chip have it out for her: “You think it’s
became unbearable, and they downsized and given it to cool that a bunch of rich white
never, ever redecorated.” Cord and Sasha. It remains kids who met at private school
This doesn’t stop them saying fully and oppressively are dressed up in costumes to
such things as: “Oh no! I left furnished and crammed to ridicule an immigrant group
my Cartier bracelet in Lena’s the gills with ancient Stockton in their own neighbourhood?”
BMW and she’s leaving soon family memorabilia — tennis Georgiana, it turns out, is
for her grandmother’s house trophies, childhood art worth upwards of £30 million
in Southampton!” Although I projects, “high-school (“And you have two trust
am unfairly quoting the only ephemera”. Sasha and Cord accounts,” Chip says. “One
clunky line of dialogue in the sleep in his parents’ old from Geegee and Deedee and
PRIDE, BRISTOL, ENGLAND, 2019 © MARTIN PARR/MAGNUM PHOTOS/ROCKET GALLERY
book. But you get the idea. marital bed, making it hard one from Pip and Pop”).
Are they happy? Yes and for her to achieve orgasm. Pineapple Street, which is
no, partly because the When Sasha mentions often very funny, is about
younger ones are reasonably rejigging a tiny section of the more than simply “Are the
self-aware. They know, for bedroom wardrobe, Tilda rich not people? Do they not
instance, that very rich says: “Oh no, sweetie. You bleed?”, thank goodness: as
people stick together for two shouldn’t take those out. They well as class and money, it’s
reasons: because it avoids about family and love,
embarrassment — “they didn’t specifically married love, and
have to worry about the the particular guilt that comes
difference money made in from having everything and
their lives . . . Their friends
could all keep up” — and
The rich stick still not being happy.
The Stocktons are nice
because of “the secret lurking
worry that other people were
together; they people — perhaps too nice:
I could have done with more
using them. Using them for share a fear bite here and there — and easy
their weekend homes, their to like, as is this blissfully
good alcohol, their big of being used enjoyable novel. One to pack
apartments, their parties, for summer, whether you’re
their internships, their closets, On the money The author headed for the Hamptons or
makes the book’s coda more gleaming with steel. “It was their, well, their money”. Jenny Jackson in Brooklyn the Norfolk Broads. c
powerful, Maconie revealing holding Abba parties.” Both of these factors make for
he lost both parents during It echoes an unusually claustrophobic lives, smaller
the pandemic. They did not rousing passage earlier in the than they should be.
die of Covid, but his contact book. In Coventry’s transport The Stocktons are
with them was tragically museum a woman exclaims: exceptionally tightly knit.
limited by lockdown. “While I “Oh, this country used to Chip and Tilda have three
did all this, and maybe you be great! We could be great adult children: Cord (a man),
did too, Downing Street was again.” Anger breaks through Darley (a woman) and
having Wine-Time Friday,” he his fair-minded writing. Georgiana. Cord is newly
writes, his easy tone suddenly “How about forgetting about married to Sasha, a
being great?” he asks. “How normal person from Rhode
about being happy? How Island, which is a tough
about being competent? How gig in this setting. After
SARAH SHATZ, ANDREW CRIBB/ALAMY
for an account of what different languages and vote into a ghetto.” This is now a
followed. for different political parties. predominantly Catholic area,
Among Others is a splendid The shooting of an off-duty becoming more staunch the
sequel. Convinced that “more police officer is probably deeper you go. Memorial
than anything else . . . it’s the behind the recent raising of gardens and murals
other human beings in our the Northern Ireland-related proliferate. O’Doherty sums it
lives who make us who we terrorism threat from up: “Gruff, potentially violent
are”, Frayn assembles “substantial” to “severe” by sectarianism is working class.”
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an abandoned flat, with big
nights out the only reprieve
from their depressing
CHILDREN’S
existence. “You’re stuck in this BOOK OF THE WEEK
hole with the same three or
four faces for the rest of your NICOLETTE JONES
life, drinking, taking gear,
hanging around the local until
there’s no one left to talk to.”
Very quickly things get
worse. Sean gets in a fight and
is charged with assault and
given 200 hours of community
service and a £600 fine. He
gets fired, then the flat is
repossessed and he has to
move back in with his mother.
“I had done all the things I
was supposed to do. I had
stayed on in school, gone to
university. Got my degree.” It Adventure Mice:
doesn’t matter: with sucking Otter Chaos by Philip
inevitability Sean is drawn Reeve and Sarah McIntyre
back into a world he thought David Fickling Books
he had escaped. £6.99, age 5-7
Community service means
cleaning gravestones in the Stories for children aged five
rain with a ragtag group of to seven are usually short
other convicts. One graveyard and often slight, but this
has no headstones: it is the new series by a celebrated
poor ground, filled with team crams in a lot. It
80,000 people who couldn’t follows a mouse who seeks
afford to buy plots. A fellow adventure and finds a crew
worker, the terrifying Fra, dedicated to just that.
links the area to the plight Illustrated with precise,
of “the Disappeared” of the charming and expressive
Troubles: people killed by pictures worth poring over,
the IRA and buried secretly. it takes us into the detailed
“They wanna know where all dwellings of a delightful
those people are when they’ve mouse community.
been disappearing people Philip Reeve is an expert
themselves for years and storyteller and swiftly
years, and they’re right here,” involves us in his lively
Fra says. “They’re under this characters, who are
grass.” And in this strange practical and brave, as a
conspiracy theory lies a dangerous otter threatens
kernel of truth: the evil at the mouselets in a sailing
heart of sectarian violence is contest, and our hero
JEFF J MITCHELL/GETTY IMAGES
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Second World War a British service, Danton went off much of this approach to his
Army captain called Henry to train as a dancer and take on the war. Instead of
Danton became lost on ended up at Sadler’s Wells, lionising the “Captain Tom”
Salisbury Plain. Danton was performing throughout the generation as stoic, heroic
commanding a troop of men, war, even as V-1 flying bombs and vanilla, Turner argues presents a colourful cast
four lorries and several buzzed overhead. One of his that “even for the most selected to show wartime
artillery pieces. To lead them few gripes from this time superficially ‘normal’ white, Britain’s fighting men warts
all into the middle of nowhere
was not just an embarrassing
was being addressed as
“boy” by the choreographer.
heterosexual man in the
British military of the
One captured and all — or, rather, genital
warts and all.
mistake, it was the final
straw. Shortly afterwards
“I’d been in charge of a group
of four guns with men on each
Second World War, there was
no one way of being. They
pilot lost 50lb We meet, for example,
Colin Spencer, who joined
he was retired from active
service and later discharged
gun, you know.”
This unusual career is one
had their private lives, their
desires, their discomfort at
and survived the Medical Corps and
volunteered to treat
from the army.
Danton had already
of dozens compiled by the
journalist Luke Turner in
their physical selves, the
dread of shame, worry at not
by eating cats VD sufferers “because it
presented him, a bisexual
shown signs he was not cut Men at War, a blended work doing their best, a potential man, with the opportunity to
out for service. He hated of cultural history and for cowardice and bravery . . .” see ‘a lot of cocks’”. There’s
discipline, bayonet practice personal memoir that In pursuit of his thesis Turner Peter de Rome, whose war
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also, Turner writes, cigarettes with an oversexed
“encountered the usual
transvestitism and sexual
pal called “Wanker Bill”.
Turner weaves between
PAPERBACK
fluidity that so many these tales memories of OF THE WEEK
[PoWs] wrote about in their his own family members
memoirs”. (The running joke who served, worked or
was “home before Christmas conscientiously objected Good Intentions
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the first British vaginoplasty, Turner also writes about introducing
carried out in 1951, gave his own bisexuality and his Pakistani
Roberta the body she felt his loathing of games at parents to
matched her true self. school; of his lifelong his black
More heteronormative obsession with Airfix planes girlfriend,
but no less hair-raising is the and his squeamishness Yasmina, in this clever novel
career of JH Witte, the author at modern displays of about vulnerability and
and antihero of One That patriotism rooted in victimhood. Beneath the
Didn’t Get Away, a memoir wartime stereotypes. poignant romance it is a
describing Witte’s escapades Occasionally these “me” cautionary tale about what
was “not just a fight against Lathered up The 2nd Battalion after joining the Territorial passages are poignant, but happens when you get
Hitler, but a quest for the Dorsetshire Regiment Army in 1936 because he they are by far the least so caught up in your own
perfect cock”. De Rome enjoying a bath. They were in was bored. In Jerusalem interesting parts of Turner’s vulnerability that you forget
lathered up comrades in France in 1940 as part of the Witte frequented a brothel book, and when they lapse about others.
the showers and, during British Expeditionary Force called Madam Rose’s; in into Gen Z-facing solipsism Johanna Thomas-Corr
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naked in an orchard near
down over enemy territory,
captured and sent to the
under a sheet. Captured by
the Nazis and sent on a
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outliers and oddballs of the
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BOOKS
extroverts, they say. (If I make
Find your
to find and describe eight waves are bent away from the they are tormented by the
British birds known for the relatively warm air towards infinite inbox (tick!) because
songs they sing — and he does the cooling night ground). “every unanswered email feels
not shrink from the challenge. There is one character in like someone you’re letting
Skylarks are “a sense of
the air above the field
trembling”. The lapwing’s
“peewit” cry is “two
squeezed, desolate notes”.
the book: Lockhart’s great-
grandfather, the Scottish
naturalist Seton Gordon, who
would “be utterly dismayed
and shocked by the
superpower down”. Granneman and Sólo
suggest that when we sensitive
flowers are feeling angry,
stressed or deeply upset
we should “activate” our
And Manx shearwaters? acceleration in losses” of Does being a ‘sensitive person’ really “cognitive brain” with some
Lockhart hears “a muffled, Britain’s birds. The statistics make you a natural-born leader? facts to counterbalance the
coughing gurgle, like a thick are beyond dismaying. The message (and strength) of
soup bubbling and spurting nightingale: down 90 per cent our emotions. And we should
beneath me, as if the hill were in the past 40 years. The Powers of the mind Eleven “set healthy boundaries”.
releasing something gaseous”.
This is bravura prose. But
skylark: a population
diminished by half since the
PSYCHOLOGY and Mike in Stranger Things Apparently, it’s OK to say:
“That doesn’t work for me.”
just as in his debut, Raptor, a early 1980s — a loss of more Christina Patterson sensitive, they argue, makes Their aim, it seems, is to
refined study of Britain’s birds than a million pairs. The you more likely to be do for sensitive people what
of prey, Lockhart is never lapwing: down by 89 per cent Sensitive The Power of a empathetic and creative, Susan Cain did for introverts
self-indulgent. A literary agent since 1987 in Northern Thoughtful Mind in an gives you greater sensory with her global bestseller
in his day job, he may be the Ireland, and the numbers Overwhelming World intelligence and enables you Quiet. They want to “put
archetypal “lone enraptured elsewhere will be similar. by Jenn Granneman and to feel, and process, things sensitive people in leadership
male” (to quote Kathleen Wild Air is anything but a Andre Sólo more deeply. Sensitive people roles, and watch the problems
Jamie’s acerbic epithet about depressing read, though. It Penguin Life £18.99 pp272 “think like military strategists, solve themselves”. Their book
the sort of middle-class man is both joyful and mindful, a considering all the angles to will certainly help people
who has colonised nature powerful argument for being As a child, Andre Sólo used to maximise the chance of a win”. who have struggled with the
writing) but he comes across still and listening. Lockhart hide in a sewer pipe. He cried If, like me, you have often downsides of what they now
as a respectful guest. Lockhart doesn’t make the point when he saw other children been called “too sensitive”, know is a superpower.
is committed to understanding explicitly, but I think he being bullied and started “too emotional” or (an old Written with journalistic
each one in its habitat, and to would say that these songs, skipping school when he was favourite for women) verve, it’s a pacey, easy read.
capturing that sense of place and these creatures, are bullied himself. Years later “hysterical”, by now you But I question the concept,
in the song. Watching a dipper beautiful in themselves, he met a young woman, Jenn may be feeling a warm glow. or perhaps I should say the
GETTY IMAGES
on a rock in a Welsh stream, it and that beauty alone Granneman, who also skipped We’re the true leaders! Bring genre, where there is always
seems “like the dipper sang to justifies protecting them and school, hid from her friends on our quivering sensibilities, a “surprising advantage”
the river, and the sound and enjoying them and had to cut the straps from our deep hearts and our love that becomes a manifesto to
movement of the water — and writing her clothes so the fabric didn’t of nuance. If this is a club, spark a revolution.
inflected its about them. At the rub her skin. They fell in love. where do I sign up? Can’t highly sensitive
song”. close of the book, They started a website. And If it is a club, the rules aren’t people just be slightly different
Lockhart is he passes a fellow now they have written a book entirely clear. All sentient to other people, rather than
knowledgeable enthusiast in the about “the hidden power of beings are sensitive to a point, morally superior? Does every
too. Nightjars turn dark out listening the highly sensitive person in so where do you draw the newly identified and previously
their bodies with for nightingales. a loud, fast, too-much world”. line? At about 30 per cent of underrated group have to be a
It’s “just “We believe they [sensitive the population, apparently. special tribe that will now solve
Repertoire A extraordinary”, people] are the leaders, But you can’t be diagnosed as everything? Is everything, in
nightingale the man says. healers and visionaries that “highly sensitive”. And it isn’t other words, about identity?
has 250 The book is pretty our world needs the most the same as introversion; Or perhaps this is sour
distinct extraordinary right now,” the couple say in about 30 per cent of highly grapes because I didn’t tick
phrases too. c the introduction. Being sensitive people are actually quite enough of the boxes. c
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PICKS OF FILM OF
THE WEEK THE WEEK
FOR THE LOVE OF The Graduate
Monday, BBC2, 10.30pm
PAUL O’GRADY Mike Nichols’s 1967 comedy
about a 20-year-old (Dustin
Today, ITV1, 8pm Hoffman) seduced by an older
woman (Anne Bancroft) is a
FOR THE LOVE product of its era’s youthful
OF DOGS
artistic spirit, but it is too
smart to valorise its young
hero. He may resist the
Thursday, ITV1, 8.30pm consumer society — a world
(not STV) the film sums up in a famous
one-word line: “Plastics” —
Loved by dogs, loved by but he too has a touch of
humans — there can be few plastic in his soul.
better obituaries than that.
Paul O’Grady, who died on
March 28, once said that DEMAND PICK
letting him loose in Battersea
Dogs & Cats Home was like OF THE WEEK
“putting an ex-drug addict in The Marvelous Mrs Maisel
a cocaine factory” and as the Prime Video, from Friday
new series of Paul O’Grady And so the curtain falls on one
— For The Love Of Dogs of the true originals of the
again emphasises, the Peak TV era, Midge Maisel
comedian and presenter had (Rachel Brosnahan), hustling
a special bond with animals, for meaningful stand-up
able to win over the shyest comedy spots and taking to
chihuahua and calm the most the stage for the final time
boisterous terrier. in this fifth series. The end
Returning to his beloved begins with an astonishing
Battersea for an eleventh opening scene, before
series, this first episode switching to more familiar
follows O’Grady as he gently territory and an unconsidered
coaxes a nervy bichon frisé career opportunity for Midge.
out of her shell, falls in
love with Peggy, a giant
Newfoundland, above right, in RADIO PICK
need of major surgery and
desperately resists the lure of Palladium — you suspect he wig: social worker, gay OF THE WEEK
yet another canine adoption. would be quite happy to be rights activist and light Dementia — Unexpected
While O’Grady racked up a commemorated by these entertainment maven Stories Of The Mind
dazzling array of accolades as delightful visits. among them. Monday-Friday, Radio 4, 1.45pm
both himself and his Rightfully, however, Victoria Segal Neurologist Jules Montague
formidable old-school Sunday night also features a and William Miller (son of
“blonde bombsite” drag
alter-ego Lily Savage —
tribute documentary, For The
Love Of Paul O’Grady, where
THE WEEK AHEAD Jonathan, who died after
suffering Alzheimer’s) visit
stints on Blankety archive footage and testimony MasterChef people with rare dementias.
Blank and The Big from those close to him (Monday, BBC1, 8pm) In the first episode they
Breakfast, prime- promise to stand as a Stacey Dooley — meet Geraint and his wife
time chat shows, reminder of all the hats he Ready For War ? Jacqui, who live with his
panto at the wore on top of his famous (Wednesday, BBC3, 9pm) frontotemporal dementia.
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CRITICS’ CHOICE NATURE CHOICE
Last Woman On Earth It may be the end of the
(BBC2, 9pm) road for Wild Isles on BBC1
A travelogue in which the tonight, but that doesn’t
comedian Sara Pascoe larks mean this natural-history
about. Trying out unusual and journey needs to end for
increasingly rare jobs might you quite yet. Switch to BBC
seem like fun, but — much like iPlayer for Saving Our Wild
the Athenian bell-makers she Isles (from 8pm) narrated
meets here — it often strikes by David Attenborough, an
a dolorous note. In Greece, RSPB, WWF and National
a country struggling with Trust-commissioned show
the aftermath of economic sharing stories of people
crises, a declining birth rate across the nation working
and a brain drain, Pascoe to bring nature back from
meets those protecting the brink. Last month, this
disappearing traditions: the programme was at the centre
final monk in a monastery, a of a media storm when it
woman who “embroiders” was reported that a “sixth
bread for rural celebrations, episode” of Wild Isles had
an outdoor cinema manager been “pulled” from TV due
and the teacher of an island’s to fears of a political backlash
language of whistles. It’s — it turned out it was never
unclear if Pascoe is the ideal intended for BBC1, but those
keeper of this melancholy with an interest in climate
flame, but the scope for change, unsustainable fishing
comic mishap doesn’t cancel and the plight of species in
out the poignancy. peril should definitely watch.
Victoria Segal Earning her dough: Sara Pascoe with bread embroiderer Yiota (BBC2, 9pm) Tim Glanfield
Pompeii — The Discovery Saturday Night Takeaway — Tenebrae — Bach To The Sound Of Music (BBC1,
(C5, 9pm)
Pompeii doesn’t need a clever
Behind The Screens
(ITV1, 7pm)
MacMillan (BBC4, 8pm)
The BBC shows it loves choral
FILM CHOICE 1.50pm; Scotland 2.50pm)
Robert Wise’s film of the 1959
spin or dramatic new angle Facing the alarming prospect music after all — but overlooks Rodgers and Hammerstein
to be fascinating, but this of a gap between Ant and Dec its own choir, the doomed Eternal Beauty show will always have
documentary does take a series, ITV adds a postscript then reprieved BBC Singers (BBC2, 10pm) mockers, but it also keeps
slightly different route around to the recent Takeaway run. — with an Easter programme Sally Hawkins’s gift for winning fans. Its tale of a
its volcanically preserved Apparently inspired by F1 hit filmed in a London church. playing fragile souls makes governess ( Julie Andrews)
streets, showing how initially Drive To Survive, it promises to The Tenebrae Choir perform her a comforting presence shielding children from the
treasure-hunters, then “lift the curtain” on the highs three Bach motets and James for viewers, and she is on rise of Nazism is delivered
archaeologists, unearthed its and lows of making the MacMillan’s setting of a poem top form in this tale of a with incontestable flair. (1965)
wonders over 300 tumultuous Geordie duo’s live show. by Henry Vaughan. woman with schizophrenia. Edward Porter
years. Dan Snow and a cast of Craig Roberts’s movie
historians in blue linen shirts Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? describes serial changes in the
introduce viewers to each (ITV1, 9pm) character’s outlook, including
remarkable new urban Previously on BritBox, this an upswing inspired by a new
landmark — the house of Julia Easter treat is Hugh Laurie’s boyfriend (David Thewlis).
Felix, the gladiator barracks, adaptation of an Agatha This variety cues a jumbled
the “pain and suffering” Christie mystery. After Bobby film that ranges from useful
captured in casts of human (Will Poulter) spots a dying black humour to jarring
remains — and discuss the man beneath cliffs, he and cutesiness. The director’s
epiphanies and setbacks his old flame, Frankie (Lucy attention to style helps keep
that marked the city’s slow Boynton), try to solve the the whole thing together, but
re-emergence into the crime. Continues tomorrow. the most vital constant in the
modern world. VS Boynton and Poulter (ITV1, 9pm) John Dugdale mix is Hawkins’s skill. (2019) Sally Hawkins (BBC2, 10pm)
Gladden, a solar contractor Rev (BBC iPlayer) Hullraisers (All4) Cocaine Bear
ON DEMAND from San Diego, California — a
genuine member of the public
Make an early start on this
sublime comedy and before
Resting actress Toni (Leah
Brotherhood), housewife
(Buy as stream/download)
The box-office success of
who is unaware he is at the the evening you’ll reach the Paula (Sinead Matthews) and Elizabeth Banks’s violent
Jury Duty (Freevee) centre of a complete fiction. third series finale, which takes copper Rana (Taj Atwal) are a comedy no doubt owes a lot
It’s not unusual to see footage A cross between The Truman place on an Easter Sunday and raucous and spiky crew who to the film’s enticing up-front
from a courtroom in America, Show and The Office, this mirrors events within the New live, love and cause chaos concept: a drug-addled bear
but what’s different about this carefully crafted series is a Testament. Tom Hollander in Hull. Family life and on a rampage. The tale itself
docu-style comedy is that genuinely inventive concept (the show’s co-creator and motherhood may be testing, might not give you the
everyone involved in the trial in an age where it feels like co-writer) heads an impressive but instead of moping there nonstop, ever-rising buzz you
is an actor, except one juror. everything has been done — cast as Reverend Adam is an energetic zest for life’s would like: the movie is more
A high-concept experiment and is as fascinating in its Smallbone, with co-stars glorious messiness in this a series of highs and lows;
starring James Marsden, we construction as it is amusing including Olivia Colman and joyous comedy. still, those highs are good for
follow the fortunes of Ronald in its outcomes. TG Ralph Fiennes. Toby Earle several giggles. (2023) EP
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2.00 Jeremy Kyle Discussion. Barriers 7.00 British Superbikes 8.00 Radio 3, noon 10.00 David Lammy 1.00 Ali Miraj. The
together. (Last in series) Mountain Biking 8.30 Cycling. The day’s events 4.00 Ben Kentish 7.00
3.00 Friday Night With Nadine 9.00 Succession Connor tries to The BBC’s Russia editor
Paris-Roubaix 9.30 LIVE Cycling. Natasha Devon 10.00 Nick Abbot 1.00
4.00 The Best Of The Talk Steve Rosenberg, above,
make the most of his wedding Coverage of the Paris-Roubaix men’s Richard Spurr 4.00 Ian Payne
5.00-6.00 James Max Update. rehearsal dinner. (S4, ep 2) almost as well-known for
one-day race, which is run over a RADIO 3
Available on Sky 522; Freeview 237; 10.10 Dreamland Comedy series course of 256.6km from Compiègne to
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seaside town of Margate. (1/6)
Trans Sahara Marathon 7.00 Triathlon. music with Michael Berkeley. Lunchtime Concert. A recital by the
10.40 Big Little Lies Bonnie ponders
SKYMAX
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a solution to her mother’s
Cycling. The Paris-Roubaix 9.00 British 11.15am) brings together Kunal Lahiry (R) 2.00 The Early Music
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11.40 True Detective Cohle visits Marathon 11.00 Cycling. The Paris- people involved in 1998’s from Chester Cathedral on Easter Day
6.00pm A Discovery Of Witches preacher Joel Theriot for Roubaix 1.00 Cycling. The Basque Tour Good Friday Agreement, 4.00 Jazz Record Requests 5.00 The
Matthew is near death as information about the Tuttle 2.00 Cycling. The Paris-Roubaix 3.00 including Jonathan Powell, Listening Service. Music that reflects
he is slowly tortured by schools. (Series 1, ep 6) Athletics. The Paris Marathon 4.00- British wildlife and wilderness 5.30
6.00 Snooker. The world championship Monica McWilliams and Words And Music. Featuring works on
Benjamin. (Series 3, ep 7, R) 12.45 I Know This Much Is True
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Bertie Ahern. Groovemaster the theme of Eastertide, spring and the
BT SPORT 1 Passover (R) 6.45 Sunday Feature.
Pilkington travels to Africa to 2.00 Succession (Series 4, ep 3) 7.00am Reload 7.30 Joe Cole Cast
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the quarter-final match at Stade Marcel 10.00 The Archers (R) 11.15 The
a gunman targeting rehab by Roy Williams (R) 9.20 Record
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Viola — The Unsung Hero. New series.
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The violist Ruth Gibson champions
10.00 NCIS: Los Angeles Kensi and The French top-flight match at Stade The Food Programme 1.00 The World the overlooked and underestimated
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Fatima are drugged and
Europa League & Conference League A man who who spent the best part of 12.30 Through The Night
kidnapped. (Series 14, ep 12) Magazine 10.45 Immortals 11.00 20 years in and out of prison 2.00
11.00-12.50 TV’s Greatest Baseball Tonight 12.00 LIVE MLB: Gardeners’ Question Time (R) 2.45 CLASSIC FM
Gameshows Roy Walker is Atlanta Braves v San Diego Padres. The Opening Lines. Ian McEwan’s 1997
joined by celebs and past complex thriller Enduring Love 3.00 9.00 Aled Jones. Continuing the Hall
National League match. Start-time at
of Fame countdown 12.00 Lucy
competitors to explore what 12.08 3.30 ESPN Films Presents Drama: Enduring Love. Kate Clanchy’s
Coward 3.00 John Brunning 6.00
makes gameshows great. (R) Amy Powney (Sky Docs, 9pm) 5.00-6.00 ESPN Classic Boxing dramatisation of Ian McEwan’s novel.
Myleene Klass 9.00 David Mellor
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10.00 Karthi Gnanasegaram 1.00
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Bill Overton 4.00 Lucy Coward
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CRITICS’ CHOICE HOFFMAN’S BEST
MasterChef (BBC1, 8pm) Dustin Hoffman became a
Series 19 begins with the star in 1967 when he played
first of five batches of nine the anxious hero of The
contestants put through the Graduate (BBC2, 9.45pm).
“audition round” process All these years later, the film
introduced last year. The still has a claim to be his
initial task for tonight’s most enjoyable, but he has
hopefuls, who range from a also shone in plenty of other
chief executive to a delivery roles. You can see him on
driver and a supermarket boss Sky Cinema Greats tonight as
to an “anti-piracy manager”, a divorced dad in Kramer vs
is cooking a family favourite, Kramer (9.55pm) and facing
and Caribbean, Italian, Laurence Olivier’s villain in
Malaysian, Scottish, the thriller Marathon Man
Venezuelan and Yorkshire (1.40am). The bleak drama
dishes are on the menu. The Midnight Cowboy and
best three win aprons, and the cross-dressing comedy
then the so-so six remaining Tootsie (both available to
compete for four places rent or buy) are among his
in the “invention test”. well-known gems, and a
Worryingly, John Torode and newer film that deserves to
Gregg Wallace have to eat 15 be in that company is 2017’s
meals (most of them spicy The Meyerowitz Stories
mains) in just one heat. Is (Netflix), a Noah Baumbach
there a doctor — or at least a comedy with Hoffman as
digestion expert— in the a father to Adam Sandler
house? and Ben Stiller.
John Dugdale Batch cooking: John Torode and Gregg Wallace assess nine aspiring chefs (BBC1, 8pm) Edward Porter
Ross Kemp — Deep Sea B&B By The Sea Jamie’s £1 Wonders Emily The Criminal
Treasure Hunter
(Sky History, 9pm)
(BBC2, 6.30pm)
Businesswoman and veteran
(C4, 8pm)
The final episode of the
FILM CHOICE (Sky Cinema Premiere,
6.40am/10.10pm)
After earlier lives as an Dragon Deborah Meaden is millionaire chef’s generous Aubrey Plaza drops her
EastEnders hardman and the first well-known face to attempt to cook like common The Lavender Hill Mob usual deadpan style to give a
a risk-addicted reporter, check in to a Victorian villa people finds him once again (BBC2, 10am) more open performance in
Kemp is now a “qualified nestled on the wild Northern leaning heavily on chicken If you’re a believer in cosy old- this thriller. Her character, a
commercial diver”. This Irish coast, where host Sharon thighs for protein. Will he fashioned bank holidays, an would-be artist who turns to
equips him for the deeper ensures that all guests come persuade time-poor families Ealing comedy might appeal, crime to pay off her student
and longer dives required in away from the 19th-century to make their own barbecue and BBC2 has two on offer debt, is too beleaguered to
a series in which he explores B&B with new skills and a sauce? Or that onion shavings today. Passport To Pimlico stay cool. Dir: John Patton
historically significant fresh perspective. have any place in a coleslaw. (11.20am), the 1949 tale of Ford (2022) EP
shipwrecks around the world. Londoners creating their own
But first he visits Portsmouth Blue Lights (BBC1, 9pm) state, follows this endearing
harbour, where Henry VIII’s Writers Adam Patterson and version of a heist movie, the
flagship, the Mary Rose, sank Declan Lawn have been smart story of a bank clerk turned
in battle in 1545 and was to set this police procedural in robber. That character (played
raised on live TV in 1982. The their native Northern Ireland, by Alec Guinness) is a mild-
ship’s huge bow castle is still a place that endured the mannered gent who nurtures
on the seabed, however, and Troubles and is left with its big ambitions, and something
Kemp and his colleagues hope own unique tensions. Tonight, similar is at work in the film
to find bits of it buried in the an unforgettable opening itself. Within the form of a
silt. He also visits the Mary demonstrates just how nice little comic yarn, Charles
Rose Museum and meets idiosyncratic the setting is. Crichton’s movie shows all sorts
members of the 1982 team. JD Deborah Meaden (BBC2, 6.30pm) Helen Stewart of artistic finesse. (1951) B/W See Emily play (SCP, 6.40am)
when she rekindles a high- All Aboard! The Great Anna Mann — A Sketch Home (Netflix)
ON DEMAND school friendship with work
colleague Joel ( Jeff Hiller).
Reindeer Migration
(BBC iPlayer)
Show For Depressives
(ITVX)
This DreamWorks cartoon
about aliens colonising Earth
Through him she’s introduced A restful trot through the Colin Hoult, star of Murder in is not foreign territory for
Somebody Somewhere to a supportive, loving and Arctic Circle, this calming Successville and Being Human, children. It welcomes them by
(Now TV) often hard-partying Slow TV adventure is the plays an actor turned amateur offering zingy entertainment
There’s no wicked witch, but community. The show’s heart perfect antidote to the stresses therapist in this series of in a formulaic story: a girl
there is one tornado and is as big as the Kansas sky — of modern commuting. Bells sketches. The titular Anna, (voiced by Rihanna) befriends
many friends of Dorothy in full of understated mischief tinkle as Sami herders drive a self-regarding and passive/ a cute critter, and the two
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Stacey Dooley — Ready For In 2008 Stacey Dooley
War? (BBC3, 9pm) appeared as one of six young
Since the outbreak of the consumers who travelled to
war in Ukraine, the British India to work in the clothing
Army have been training industry for BBC3’s Blood,
Ukrainian civilians to become Sweat And T-Shirts (STV
soldiers, condensing six Player). The standout star,
months of instruction into Dooley was rewarded with
five weeks. Stacey Dooley her own show, Stacey
follows one intake of men in Dooley Investigates . . .
a film that underlines how (BBC iPlayer), where she has
completely their world has tackled topics from spycam
been wrenched from its sex criminals to whaling.
moorings as florists, welders Crossing the pond in 2012,
and masseurs are suddenly Stacey Dooley In The USA
forced to learn field skills, (UKTV Play) included shows
trench warfare and how on border wars and girls
to kill. It’s a film full of behind bars and preceded
poignant moments: phone Dooley tackling a number of
conversations with family, hard-hitting subjects, from
the new trainee gently domestic abuse in Beaten
admiring the nature around By My Boyfriend (YouTube)
him while holding a gun, and Yazidi women fighting
and most of all, the palpable Isis in Stacey on the
sense of duty to those at Frontline (BBC iPlayer). It’s
home — “who will protect hard to know how she found
them if not us?” the time to also win Strictly.
Victoria Segal Preparing for war: Dooley joins Ukrainians being trained by the British Army (BBC3, 9pm) Tim Glanfield
Designing The Hebrides Made Up In Belfast The Bay (ITV1, 9pm) Gnomeo & Juliet (Sky
(BBC2, 8pm)
The smokehouses and slabs
(BBC3, 8pm/8.30pm)
BBC3’s penchant for fun firms
Jenn Townsend (Marsha
Thomason) is focused on the
FILM CHOICE Cinema Animation, 4pm)
Despite its debt to a certain
of a fish store on the Isle Of with excitable young staff attack on her home, and love story, this tale of two
Mull may not seem like the (remember Breaking Fashion Tony Manning (Daniel Ryan) Hidden Figures garden gnomes is influenced
obvious place for directional or Big Proud Party Agency?) is on his improbable fling, yet (Film4, 6.30pm) more by Pixar than by
interior design, but that’s seen again as it spotlights a somehow all the unsolved Theodore Melfi’s film tells Shakespeare. Soundtracked
not stopping Banjo Beale. Belfast cosmetics company. In crimes get solved in the end. the true story of three with Elton John hits, it puts a
The Australian winner of tonight’s double bill, the team And there’s news on whether black women who were British spin on the comic style
Interior Design Masters has work with Love Island winner the Morecambe unit (an Nasa scientists during of Hollywood animated films.
lived on the Hebridean island Ekin-Su and open stores in unsubtle metaphor for The the space race: Katherine Dir: Kelly Asbury (2011)
for eight years and is opening Dublin and Ibiza. Bay itself?) has a future. Johnson (Taraji P Henson), Edward Porter
a design business targeting Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia
commercial premises. First Married, Sikh And Wanting Spencer) and Mary Jackson
up is family business The A Baby (BBC1, 10.40pm) ( Janelle Monáe). Although
Tobermory fish shop, who After two miscarriages, Sarina its calculations include
trust Beale and his wild talk and Vik explore whether IVF, Hollywood sappiness, they
of blackened timber, porthole surrogacy or adoption would produce a successful lift-off.
windows and reclaimed be the best way of becoming The tale’s chief power comes
marble. It’s an entertaining parents. For Sikhs “infertility from the characters defiance
spin on the classic Changing is a taboo subject”, they of racism in the 1960s but the
Rooms formula, the explain — but their faith and film also applauds scientific
picturesque backdrop pairing the community are also know-how. It has what it takes
well with Beale’s vivid pop of sources of solace. to inspire budding young
energy. VS Seeking solace (BBC1, 10.40pm) John Dugdale boffins. (2016) Henson, Costner (Film4, 6.30pm)
was nominated for an Oscar in The Eric Andre Show (All4) Zen Motoring (BBC iPlayer) Blue Jean (BFI Player)
ON DEMAND 2010 for his role in The Hurt
Locker and plays the Marvel
Five series in and the
ferocious anarchy of this
There’s a strong case viewing
this mellow glide along
Rosy McEwen gives an
affecting performance in this
superhero Hawkeye, teams up talk-show parody remains as Britain’s streets should be drama about Jean, a PE
Rennervations (Disney+) with mechanics to transform intense as when it first made a section of the driving teacher in 1980s Britain. Jean
The actor Jeremy Renner was decommissioned government appeared over a decade ago. test as it seeks to provide is also a lesbian who fears
hospitalised this year after he vehicles into “mind-blowing Surreal pranks and sketches harmony among all road being outed and McEwen lets
was crushed by a snowplough creations”. A construction smash between interviews users. Our guide in this us feel her exhausting terror.
on his ranch in Nevada. He aficionado, Renner not only with celebrity lookalikes and journey to enlightenment is We are also given a clear
suffered injuries to his chest showcases some highly Hollywood stars, with Andre’s Ogmios, whose soothing tones sense of what she is up
and broke more than 30 creative projects but gives chat-show host sending up provide a comic mysticism to against. The film does a good
bones. In his documentary us an insight into the people showbiz chumminess by discourses on roundabouts job of capturing time and
series (recorded before the behind the projects. asking outrageous questions and bin lorries. place. Dir: Georgia Oakley
accident) the 52-year-old, who Jake Helm and crossing boundaries. Toby Earle (2022) EP
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accused of assassinating a illuminating electricity Championship 2.00 Cycling. The Tour takes over their lives and Debate 10.00 Ben Kentish 1.00
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Tonight. A look back at all the key Goodbye. Axel Kacoutié attempts to
the arrival of a face from Intermedia perform at the Royal
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and kidnaps his teenage 4.30 Goals Reload 5.00-6.00 The Mind 2.00 The Archers (R) 2.15 discuss Hollywood icon Ginger Rogers,
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daughter. (Series 4, ep 4, R) Wedding Valley (W, 9pm)
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cool and collected at work — but her dancing, comic timing and her
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Peter O’Toole — Along The Saxondale (Sky/Now)
Sky Road To Aqaba Such has been the success
(Sky Arts/Now, 9pm) of Alan Partridge for
Ten years on from his death, Steve Coogan that some
the star of Lawrence Of of his other works can get
Arabia and much else is overlooked. Near the top
celebrated in a joyous of that list is this sitcom,
documentary by a splendid first shown on the BBC in
line-up of thespian grandees. 2006-07 and starring Coogan
Besides O’Toole’s wife as Tommy Saxondale, an ex-
Siân Phillips, they include roadie turned pest controller
Brian Blessed, Kenneth with anger management
Branagh, Brian Cox, Anthony issues living a life of rebellion
Hopkins and Derek Jacobi, in Stevenage. Thanks to his
who provide a mixture of more level-headed girlfriend
affectionate anecdotes and Magz (Ruth Jones), owner of
insights into what set his a T-shirt shop, Tommy just
acting apart. As Jim about manages to function
Sheridan’s film advances between outbursts that see
through his career, O’Toole’s him back in therapy. With
insistence on his Irishness appearances from Mark
(though he came from Leeds, Williams, Greg Davies, Ben
and only one parent was Miller and Matt Berry, this
Irish) is invoked throughout is a comedy with serious
to explain his private flaws, credentials in which Coogan
his rebellious streak and his again makes an unlikable
electric presence. character likeable.
John Dugdale Electric presence: Peter O’Toole’s life is celebrated by fellow thespians (Sky Arts, 9pm) Tim Glanfield
Rabbit Hole (C5, 10pm) Limitless With Chris Annika (Drama, 9pm) The Burnt Orange Heresy
Making a one-off appearance
on terrestrial TV, Paramount’s
Hemsworth (National
Geographic, 9pm)
It’s never a chore to watch
Nicola Walker at work, so this
FILM CHOICE (Film4, 9pm)
In this tasteful crime thriller,
thriller stars Kiefer Sutherland This series finds director repeat of 2021’s Scottish an art critic (Claes Bang)
as John Weir, a corporate Darren Aronofsky challenging adaptation of the lively Butch Cassidy And The and his girlfriend (Elizabeth
spy whose speciality is actor Chris Hemsworth to Radio 4 police show is a Sundance Kid (BBC4, 9pm) Debicki) try to steal a painting.
fabricating illusions. It walk across a narrow crane in welcome addition to the Before showing a full-blown Giuseppe Capotondi’s film
combines the twistiness of Sydney. The actor, who is said Drama schedule. Each episode cowboy comedy in the form is unsurprising in its overall
Sutherland’s counterterrorism to be taking on fewer roles is self-contained and this one of Mel Brooks’s Blazing layout, but it has diverting
saga 24 with the deep-fake after discovering he is more features Paul McGann, to Saddles (10.45pm), BBC4 splashes of colour, including a
conspiracy theme of BBC1’s likely to get Alzheimer’s, is whom our quirky heroine offers a western that adds role for Mick Jagger. (2019)
The Capture, and adds a sense eager to please. takes an immediate shine. flashes of humour to a tale of Edward Porter
of fun that those shows lack. rugged exploits. Glamorising
In this opening episode, Weir Taskmaster (C4, 9pm) its outlaw heroes, George Roy
gets up to his habitual tricks Canadian comedian Mae Hill’s film operates as a buddy
(simulating a stock market Martin continues a competent movie on horseback. It has
crash, falsely incriminating a run this week as the others rollicking action scenes, but
client’s rival) only to find the lose their minds collecting the duo’s nonchalant banter is
tables turned as enemies potatoes (and, crucially, not just as big a part of the myth-
hatch a plot to frame him for plastic animals) in specially making. Paul Newman and
murder(s), mimicking his own designed hats. Frankie Boyle, Robert Redford are the ideal
use of deception. A strong whose New World Order was stars for their roles. Not only
supporting cast includes cancelled by the BBC, involves do they both have high-grade
Charles Dance, Meta Golding his children, who beat him up. charisma, they also share a
and Enid Graham. JD Frankie Boyle (C4, 9pm) Helen Stewart smooth rapport. (1969) Elizabeth Debicki (Film4, 9pm)
There’s no reason to hold Betty Boothroyd — Call Me Between The Lines (Mubi) Moonage Daydream
ON DEMAND back in this thriller, where
disgraced ex-cop turned
Madam (BBC iPlayer)
A viewing of this documentary
There’s no one who doesn’t
want to see Jeff Goldblum
(Netflix)
Put together from a huge
Philadelphia gangland muscle from 2000 is in order, order, dancing and wearing a snazzy selection of footage, Brett
Florida Man (Netflix) Mike Valentine (Edgar after Boothroyd’s death in red and black bomber jacket, Morgen’s documentary on
Type “Florida man” into Ramírez) heads back south to February at the age of 93. One a scene in this 1977 comedy- David Bowie honours its
Google and the crime-related his home state to find his line from Boothroyd about drama forming a season of subject’s artistic methods in
news headlines which pop up boss’s missing moll Delly eschewing the Speaker’s films by director Joan Micklin its swirling arrangements of
seem to have been written by (Abbey Lee), only to be drawn traditional wig says much Silver. Centred around the clips. You don’t have to be
a random word generator into a hunt for a missing about her: “I think I have a staff of a Boston newspaper as a Bowie nut to enjoy this
losing its artificial mind. What fortune. Problem is, Mike and sense of humour, and I don’t it faces a takeover, there’s the passionate biography. That
a playground Florida is, then, Delly are sweet on each other feel you could have a good sense of a party coming to an said, the film is bound to
for a writer when anything, no and it’s not long before he’s, laugh if you’ve got a full- end. convert some casual admirers
matter how weird, is possible. well, swamped by trouble. bottomed wig on.” Toby Earle into worshippers. (2022) EP
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The Last Kingdom — Seven As the final season of The
Kings Must Die (Netflix) Marvelous Mrs Maisel
It’s time to find out if destiny begins today (see Demand
is all, as Uhtred, son of Pick of the Week) we say
Uhtred, tells his final tale. farewell to an award-winning
Bernard Cornwell’s book is comedy, but also a window
narrated by the elderly man, into the 1960s. The decade
but Netflix know better than has brought us the best of
to recast the preternaturally British from Morse prequel
beautiful Alexander Dreymon Endeavour (2012-2023,
so we find him with greying ITVX) and Jeremy Thorpe’s
dreadlocks and a flagon of dirty linen aired in A Very
ale, happily ensconced in his English Scandal (2018, BBC
Bamburgh home. A warlord’s iPlayer) to Heartbeat (1992-
gotta do what a warlord’s 2010, ITVX) and Call The
gotta do, however, so when Midwife (2012-, BBC iPlayer).
King Edward dies, he and his The Queen’s Gambit (2020,
motley crew ride out to save Netflix) made a star of Anya
England. Often compared Taylor-Joy as a 1960s female
to Game of Thrones, this chess master, while The
magnificent historical drama Wonder Years (1988-1993,
has more in common with Disney+) and Julia (2022, Sky/
the finest westerns in scale, Now) show us 60s USA. But
ambition, landscape and the greatest show set in that
old-fashioned masculinity. decade? Surely Jon Hamm
No dragons required. as Don Draper in Mad Men
See feature, page 6 (2007-2015, Prime Video)?
Helen Stewart On the warpath: Alexander Dreymon as Uhtred and Arnas Fedaravicius as Sihtric (Netflix) Tim Glanfield
Project Home (C4, 8pm) The Hunter (All4) Unreported World DC League Of Super-Pets
It’s not clear which certificates
former Radio 1 morning host
The third series of this Italian
crime drama begins in
(C4, 7.30pm)
In Lebanon, more than a
FILM CHOICE (Sky Cinema Premiere,
10.20am/6pm)
and Celebrity Gogglebox’s high-speed, engine-revving million people have been This animated movie is simple
Nick Grimshaw holds that style and doesn’t really locked out of their savings The Quatermass Xperiment fun, combining two staples of
qualify him for an interior- slow down from there as by new banking regulations — (TPTV, 9.05pm) children’s films: superheroes
design role in this new prosecutor Saverio Barone pushing ordinary citizens Professor Quatermass (Brian and cute talking animals.
property show, but his (Francesco Montanari) towards revolutionary acts. In Donlevy) is the organiser of Superman’s dog, Krypto, leads
smooth-tongued charm is battles with vicious finger- this brisk account of the crisis, an ill-fated rocket mission that a bunch of critters suddenly
required to broker a peace breaking mafioso Vito Vitale Krishnan Guru-Murthy meets returns an astronaut to Earth gifted with superpowers.
between Scott and Caroline, (Paolo Ricca). Think Line of top-level officials and the in the form of a monster. Part Dir: Jared Stern (2022)
who are struggling to agree Duty, Palermo-style. surprising bank raiders. of the appeal now possessed Edward Porter
on plans for their Edwardian by Val Guest’s film comes
house. The USP (though Have I Got News for You from it being a loveable British
hardly unique) is that (BBC1, 9pm) antique: here is your chance
homeowners are taken to Host Charlie Brooker presents to see Thora Hird and Gordon
a “virtual reality studio” to the opening episode of the Jackson in a sci-fi movie. Yet
experience the wall-smashing 65th series of this veteran there is still proper nerve-
options created for them by satirical panel quiz. As ever, tingling entertainment to
“property expert” Kunle it’s unlikely there will be a be had from the vivid, grisly
Barker. They’re too coy about shortage of political inanities, storytelling that made the
how the tech works, which is cruelties and outrages for Paul film a hit in its day. This was
a lost opportunity, but the Merton and Ian Hislop’s teams the movie that put the studio
results are undeniably to pull apart this week. Hammer on the path to its
spectacular. HS Charlie Brooker (BBC1, 9pm) Victoria Segal horror classics. (1955) B/W Pet power (SCP, 10.20am/6pm)
bag stuffed with cash in her The League Of Gentlemen Jane (Apple TV+) Knock At The Cabin
ON DEMAND school locker. Moodiness
abounds in this adaptation
(BBC iPlayer)
You never truly leave the town
Swimming-pool rules are clear
— no running, no diving, no
(Buy as stream/download)
M Night Shyamalan’s films
of Laura Dave’s bestselling of Royston Vasey if you’ve polar bears. Yet the local pool have to be judged mainly on
The Last Thing He Told Me 2021 novel, where Hannah visited before, so you may as of keen environmentalist Jane their sting-in-the-tail endings,
(Apple TV+) ( Jennifer Garner) and her well dive back into the three (Ava Louise Murchison) doesn’t and in that regard his latest
There is little more annoying standoffish stepdaughter chilling and devilishly funny count on her vivid imagination, movie is one of his shakier
than your husband vanishing Bailey (Angourie Rice) seek series of the award-winning which brings creatures to life efforts. Still, there is a lot to
when you’ve spent the day an explanation for the sitcom. Few comedies have in all sorts of places. Jane like in its build-up, which has
preparing a delicious meal, disappearance of Owen such a high bodycount, Goodall is the inspiration a group of mystifying oddbods
then discovering his place (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau). but then few comedies have for this children’s series (led by Dave Bautista) visit a
of work has been raided by In a cute touch, the first two such an array of dangerous that’s sure to inspire a new woodland house to terrorise
the FBI and your teenage episodes air on the same day grotesques, such as the two generation of eco-champions. the occupants with a bizarre
stepdaughter finding a duffel and month the story begins. murderous shop owners. Toby Earle request. (2023) EP
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The detail raids D’Angelo’s Middlesbrough v Norwich City. Kickoff Gambler 1.00 Steptoe And Son 1.30
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Curiosity 2.30 Trevor’s World Of Sport
10.00 The Best Of The Talk Show 12.00 LIVE NBA Basketball.
against the Levantes resumes. 3.00 Father And Son 4.00 Murder In
Debating the latest topics. Coverage of a match from the play-in
(Series 5, ep 1; Italian with Mesopotamia 4.30 No Place To Hide
11.00 Friday Night Nadine Dorries tournament 2.30 LIVE NBA Basketball.
subtitles) 6.50 Gomorrah 5.00 Jane Eyre 5.15 Curious Under The
Coverage of a match from the play-in
chats with topical guests. Stars 5.30 The Gambler 6.00 Steptoe
12.00 James Whale Opinion.
Genny and Ciro meet again.
7.50 Game Of Thrones Lord
tournament 5.00-6.00 News
The List Of And Son 6.30 Babblewick Hall 7.00
1.00 Vanessa Feltz Discussion.
2.00 Plank Of The Week Debate.
Eddard Stark is asked to
serve at the side of King
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Robert Baratheon. (S1, ep 1)
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Snooker — World Championship Final Everything That 8.30 A Good Read 9.00 The Curious
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5.00-6.00 Cristo Update.
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Austria as a liaison officer,
2021 10.00 Formula E 10.55 FIA World
Endurance Championship 11.55
Might Kill You Handmaid’s Tale 9.45 The Whisperer
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connected TVs and smart devices final stage of the Tour of Sicily 2.45
Matt Edmondson and Adam Club Interview 11.00 The East Coast
woman is beginning to
Cycling. The Paris-Roubaix 3.00 Kay list the everyday items Listening Post 11.15 Lenny Henry —
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Snooker. The world championship 5.00 that have proved fatal, from Rogue’s Gallery 11.30-12.00
German with subtitles) Arthur Smith’s Balham Bash
Triathlon. The Super League Arena lawnmowers to feather boas,
10.05 The Wire Carcetti makes a Games 6.00 Showjumping 7.00 World
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Surf League 8.00 Cycling. The Tour of
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1.20 FILM: The Next Karate Kid
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Racing Coverage of the George Clarke returns to a 6.55 News; Weather Reports.
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Mulhern sets challenges to 8.25 Fortress Britain Examining 8.25 Zara & Mike — The People’s
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Championship Coverage of 2.00 Women’s Six Nations: Wales 4.15 Cruising With Jane
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6.15 The Weakest Link With session on day one at the 10.25 Friends American sitcom. (R)
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Fern Britton, Owain Wyn Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. 7.15 The King Of Queens (R) 11.50 FILM: Cocoon Stars Wilford
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8.30 Carole King And Her Songs 10.35 Tad The Lost Explorer And The 4.45 Jumanji Fantasy. (1995, PG) 9.00 The Four Just Men Crime drama.
foot as her ex-husband.
At The BBC A collection of Curse Of The Mummy (2022, U) 6.55 Pacific Rim — Uprising A war 9.30 Tight Spot A key murder witness
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Ride Along. Stars Ice Cube and Kevin
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9.00 Lost — Those Who Kill 4.00 Claudia Liza The stories of (S4, ep 5) 3.10 Gomorrah The charred remains of a BBC Radio 4 Extra,
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Who Kill Another crime on the week’s top stories. shipment delay forces the sleuth tries to protect those
leaves Frederik is convinced
Pratchett’s birth, a Discworld
9.00 That Was The Woke That Forcella boys to resort to closest to him. (S6, ep 2)
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12.35 Restoring The Earth — The 7.30 Game Of Thrones The Night
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9.00 Saturday Live 10.00 Your Place
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10.25 Game Of Thrones the life of Mary Wollstonecraft 11.00
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