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Ode to Keats Simon Armitage reveals a new poem for the bicentenary It’s a fake! The Dutch forger, Goering’s dodgy Vermeer and a new movie

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My culture fix 10 Film 11 What the critics are watching and listening to Contents The actor Sanjeev Will Hodgkinson talks Bhaskar lets us into his to the war hero and bank Cover story 4-5 cultural life, from Harry robber Nico Walker, who Rachel Campbell- Potter to Elvis Presley sold the film rights to Johnston on a new his book while serving film about Han van a jail sentence Meegeren, the man who fooled the art world Books 12-21 with his fake Vermeers Princes of the Renaissance, the science Music 6 of debating, facing the SEACIA PAVAO/NETFLIX/THE HOLLYWOOD ARCHIVE The singer Sam Lee truth about Robert E Lee tells Will Hodgkinson and the Confederacy, and about working with the great generals of the English Heritage to First World War breathe new life into folk TV & radio 23-51 Ben Dowell 7 The hit crime “The dialogue feels as series Unforgotten if it has been written returns to ITV for a soft porn film”: Devils reviewed Puzzles 52-55 Crosswords, sudoku, Poetry 8-9 Scrabble and your The poet laureate Simon favourite brain teasers Armitage shares an ode to John Keats, 200 years Cover photograph after his hero’s death Alamy

Rosamund Pike gives a fearsomely committed performance as a ruthless scammer in the thriller I Care a Lot Film Housewives, and a lot more films, joyous wedding scene — is as close from The Favourite to Broadcast as we can get to the splendour of this I Care a Lot News. Disney+, from Tues 19th-century ballet, especially now Rosamund Pike is back with a venge- James Jackson that the pandemic has scuppered ance as Marla Grayson, a ruthless English National Ballet’s planned scammer who preys on senior Theatre full-length production. The Royal citizens, in this scintillating Boston Ballet offers a recording from 2019 thriller. J Blakeson, who also wrote Julie that showcases Petipa’s scintillating the wonderfully devious script, Strindberg’s Miss Julie gets a brash, choreography, a feast of nonstop clas- directs a fabulously unpredictable coke-snorting reboot in Polly Sten- sical and folk dances. Wonderful movie that is noir to its bones while ham’s 2018 National Theatre version music by Glazunov too. The cast is led making all sorts of delicious adjust- of the classic play about class, sex and by Natalia Osipova in the title role, ments to the surface. For her crimes transgression, transplanted to a well- with Vadim Muntagirov as the knight against the elderly, you will want to heeled party setting. Vanessa Jean de Brienne, but really the whole see Grayson punished. Yet Pike is Kirby, a memorably sharp-tongued ensemble shine. stream.roh.org.uk such a thrilling, invigorating screen Princess Margaret in The Crown, Debra Craine presence that it’s impossible not to plays a tycoon’s daughter who has her cheer for her. Amazon eye on her father’s Ghanaian chauf- Pop Kevin Maher feur, Jean. There’s loud music, sweaty dancing, racial politics and lashings Mogwai with Ian Rankin Television of 21st-century angst in Carrie Crack- Since 1995 Mogwai have been mak- nell’s production. Eric Kofi Abrefa ing mostly instrumental, deeply Pelé plays Jean, while Thalissa Teixeira atmospheric music that finds the Joining the recent roster of classy provides a hint of warmth as his sweet spot between gentle melody archive-led documentaries about fiancée. ntathome.com and horrible noise. The Scottish band global sporting greats is this adroitly Clive Davis would have made their new album As constructed tribute to the 80-year- the Love Continues in the US, but the old Brazilian, possibly the most Classical pandemic had them confined to accomplished footballer to lace boots, Worcestershire, with the American and certainly the only to lift three Stephen Hough/John Eliot producer Dave Fridmann on Zoom World Cups. There is some of the Gardiner hovering over the recording like “an usual reflection on his tough early life The Bournemouth Symphony Orch- Orwellian oppressor”. They discuss and a sense of Pelé’s role in shaping estra’s series of streamed concerts the latest stage of their weird music his country’s national story. But spark into life again with a combusti- odyssey with the crime writer and mainly this is a chance to relive sunny ble combination. It is, remarkably, superfan Ian Rankin, in an event that days of stunning gold-shirted goals the first collaboration between the includes an LP or CD of the new and to hear from the man himself as pioneering conductor John Eliot album in the ticket price. well as those who knew or played Gardiner and the mercurial pianist roughtrade.com, Mon, 7pm alongside him. Netflix Stephen Hough. They have come Will Hodgkinson Ben Dowell together for Brahms’s First Piano Concerto, a work that began life (in Exhibition Big Sky Brahms’s notebook) as a symphony Disney+ has been making a big noise and has a vast dramatic span. This V&A: Explore the Collections about Star, the streaming service’s masterpiece is prefaced by a work by The V&A, a fabulous assemblage of new section that expands the overall Brahms’s one-time mentor, Robert objects that together unfurl the histo- catalogue a bit beyond family- Schumann — the overture to his ries of art, craft and design, has just friendly fare. Leading the new series opera Genoveva. bsolive.com, Wed, launched a digital platform on which is Big Sky from David E Kelley, the and on demand to Mar 26 well over a million objects can be creative dynamo behind Big Little Neil Fisher viewed. Make the most of this lock- Lies. This Montana-set crime thriller down to find out about anything is less nuanced and more mainstream Dance from illustrated manuscripts of than Big Little Lies, but it isn’t averse Ethiopian homilies to peculiar glass to a dark, rug-pulling twist or two. Raymonda jellyfish and the first fashion thong. Star also has archive hits from a dis- Rudolf Nureyev’s opulent staging of vam.ac.uk/collections tant TV era, such as 24 and Desperate the third act of Raymonda — the Rachel Campbell-Johnston 4 saturday review 1GR Saturday February 20 2021 | the times cover story Faking it: how one man duped the art world The con artist Han van Meegeren’s counterfeit Vermeers made it into Hermann Goering’s art collection. As his biopic is released, Rachel Campbell-Johnston looks at a life in forgery

n May 9, 1945, just fake.fa The Last Vermeer, based on a after Germany had bbook by Jonathan Lopez (The Man signed its uncondi- WWho Made Vermeers) and directed tional surrender, bby Dan Friedkin, probes the hidden Reichsmarshall ccomplexities of people and markets Hermann Goering, aand perceptions as faith and integri- commander of the ty,ty beauty, value and truth are set Luftwaffe, architect of the Gestapo, ra- adrifta in a world of perfidy, skuldug- Opacious plunderer of property confis- ggery and doubt. cated from Jews, set about packing. Robin Hood meets the Scarlet Loading his wife, household staff and a PPimpernel and the Count of Monte few of his most treasured possessions CCristo in the protagonist, Van Mee- into a motorcade, he headed for ggeren (played by Guy Pearce, the Austrian border, where he hoped aalthough you might take a moment for a meeting with General Eisenhow- tto recognise him under that bohe- er. He had lost everything. The Third mmian grey bouffant). His is a pica- Reich had unravelled. Berlin lay in rresque story. Born in 1889 in the rubble. His beloved country estate DDutch provinces, he was 22 when he of Carinhall was a ruin. And his colos- mmarried his pregnant girlfriend and, sal art collection, amassed over years of hhaving always preferred painting to kleptomaniacal acquisition and study,s began an artistic career as an dispatched to Bavarian salt mines for impoverishedim drawing instructor in safekeeping, had been discovered and DDelft. It was to be the only steady ransacked. eemployment he pursued in his life. Yet there was one object, prized above allll caught out Han van While the First World War was raging others, that Goering appears to have been Meegeren in court in across Europe, Van Meegeren took off to determined to keep. Before handing him- 1947 and, right, the the Hague, the elite playground of a neu- self over to American forces he entrusted forger in his studio tral Netherlands where, like a caged ferret a canvas, removed from its stretcher and set free, he slipped into the circles of the wrapped round a stovepipe, to a secretary. creative, the aristocratic, the well connect- A year earlier, costing him an exorbitant ed, the opulent. Cultivating expensive tast- 1.65 million guilders, it was counted as not es and bad habits — scandalous women, only the most precious item in his massive fine wines and wild revelries among them collection, but probably the most expen- — he ditched the long-suffering mother of sive artwork that anyone, anywhere had his child, taking up with Johanna de Boer paid for up to that point. What he was (played by Susannah Doyle), the pleasure- about to learn was that, in reality, it was loving wife of an art critic whom he event- worth nothing. ually married, although not before several How can that happen? How can a paint- further dalliances. the critics had decided that he lacked true Museum directors and art historical ing, at one moment considered sublime Outgoing, amusing and ostentatiously vision. Van Meegeren was outraged. He experts were conned, cajoled or bribed in- and priceless, become all but worthless a open about his misdemeanours (the inco- had already started to dabble in forgery; to signing certificates of authenticity. minute later — and yet not one brush- herent drink-fuelled tirades that would the money was needed to finance immod- Disputes about paintings that Van Mee- stroke has changed? This is the question eventually scare off so many of his friends erate tastes. But now he resolved to take geren had “discovered” sometimes that lies at the heart of the story told in a had not yet started), with a flagrant charm, his deceptions further. He wanted to make dragged on for years, but the shape- new film, The Last Vermeer, out next a sly knack for flattery and, in an occupied a fool of the critics who had vilified him. shifting showman knew how to dodge month. It’s a question that draws you into country, a useful talent for being all things Van Meegeren perfected his duplicitous through his smoke-and-mirrors world. the heart of the art world: soaring towards to all men, he became a sought-after talents. Reusing period canvases to ensure Andrew Mellon, Joseph Duveen and pinnacles of lofty aesthetics, plummeting Improvising society portraitist as well as a coveted that his images would have the right “age Heinrich Thyssen were among the mega- into pits of squalid commerce. painter of landscapes and genre scenes. crackle”, he experimented with materials collectors who found themselves duped. The superficial answer is simple. The freely in the His paintings, however, although techni- that would stand up to the tests of experts. Dirk Hannema, the director of the Boij- painting was a fake. Goering thought he manner of cally impressive, were quintessentially He discovered that Bakelite, for instance, mans Museum in Rotterdam, stage- was the owner of a freshly unearthed derivative. Van Meegeren despised mod- was impervious to alcohol swabs. He managed a crowning moment when he masterpiece — Christ and the Adulteress — old masters, ernism. He described its practitioners as a improvised freely in the manner of old gave a false Vermeer (The Supper at by Johannes Vermeer, the Dutch virtuoso. “slimy bunch of woman-haters and negro- masters, then aged his confections with Emmaus) star billing in a show. Van Mee- But what he had in fact acquired was an he aged his lovers”, Lopez writes, and likened the rust and rotting leaves. Constructing false geren, much like a murderer who revisits ingenious counterfeit painted only a few confections markets that peddled them to a “Jew with provenances, stories of elderly widows and his crime scene, turned up at the opening. months previously by Han van Meegeren, a handcart”. beleaguered emigrants proved useful, he It gave him a thrill. the master forger. with rust and An art establishment that had fêted him placed them on the market, co-opting a Vermeer wasn’t the only one mimicked On a deeper level, however, this extraor- grew increasingly sceptical. By the time, in succession of dodgy middlemen and un- by Van Meegeren. Frans Hals was another dinary story is not just a question of real or rotting leaves 1922, he was staging his second solo show, derworld denizens to act as go-betweens. favourite; Van Meegeren loved his flash the times | Saturday February 20 2021 1GR saturday review 5

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Nazis and make fools of the cultural snobs. Piller, believing his story, was delighted to find the Germans duped. He saw Van Meegeren, Lopez suggests, as a sort of doppelgänger. Like a Resistance member he had put deception and subterfuge to the service of a noble cause. The forger emerged in Piller’s mind as a hero. His story, he was convinced, would in time be vindicated. Failing to acknowledge the warning signs — Van Meegeren was an expert at getting people to focus on the minutiae and thereby preventing them from seeing the bigger picture — Piller wilfully obstructed further official investigations. Van Meegeren had pulled off the “swindle of the century”, he would proudly claim, thereby shaping a myth to be snapped up by the public, turning the master forger Museum directors were cajoled into signing certificates of authenticity into a folk hero. Standing slim and erect in the dock, dressed in a tailored suit of blue serge, his silver hair swept back, Van Meegeren put on a theatrical performance at his trial. “He was like a master of ceremonies,” Piller said. His witty aperçus were pounced on by the newspapers. In France the spectacle was reported like a farce by Molière. Stories were enhanced and em- bellished at each retelling. “We may have lost a Vermeer, but we’ve gained a Van Meegeren,” one commentator declared. When the dramatics came to their end, gereng invented a cycle of supposedly lost ster. During the occupation he had Van Meegeren was escorted from the VVermeer paintings in which the master mastered the art of concealing his political courthouse by a cheering crowd of fans. tatackled biblical subjects, Christ and the allegiances, running with the hare and That year he was voted the second most AAdulteress and The Supper at Emmaus hunting with the hounds. In the company popular figure in the Netherlands, coming aamong them. of Nazis he had flaunted his long-held after the newly elected prime minster. To see the latter now, an item of popular fascist sympathies. He even presented a The judge was forgiving. Van Meegeren curiosityc in the Boijmans Museum, it book of his drawings to Hitler. “To my had to be imprisoned for forgery, but only seemss ludicrous that it could have passed beloved Führer in grateful tribute” for a year. He died of a heart attack, how- muster.m And yet at the time, Abraham the handwritten dedication reads. But ever, one day into his sentence, his public Bredius,B a respected art historian who had when mingling with Dutch patriots, an image frozen in time — perpetuated by the recentlyr excised some 200 spurious acquaintance recalled, “he talked all ‘anti’ dozens of newspaper obituaries that RembrandtsR from the canon, declared The and made it seem like he was no friend of followed. And there it might have SupperS at Emmaus not just a masterpiece, the Krauts”. remained were it not for Lopez’s book and but “the masterpiece” of Vermeer. Lopez Van Meegeren realised that simply to the film based on it. The Last Vermeer, even explains why. It has a magniloquent confess to forgery would not be enough. as it revels in the panache of this arch- solemnity, he writes, which, despite having People would want to know how his deceiver, conjures up the shadow side of little precedent in the work of Vermeer, painting had ended up, to his enormous his story: a tale littered with treachery and powerfully echoes the Aryan propagan- profit, in Nazi hands. For a long while, even betrayal, with trashed lives, ruined reputa- dist imagery of the era, capturing the völk- despite a spell in solitary confinement, he tions and suicides. isch ideal so beloved by the Nazis. Little refused to talk. Eventually, given one last What is the legacy of this tale? What can wonder that the canvas so appealed to chance to explain how Goering had got we learn from it — except that the art Goering. Here was his fascist dream vali- his Vermeer, the forger confessed. “He world is full of skulduggery? The lucrative dated by high culture. turned to me,” Piller recalled, and said: “I business of forgery continues, even despite The story told in The Last Vermeer did it. I painted it.” But he then added a ’s sophisticated technologies. Wit- unfurls against the tumultuous backdrop lie. Having completed the picture, Van ness the arguments that rage today around of the Dutch liberation. Retribution Meegeren said, he had passed it to a middle Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi. One positive and dazzle. De Hooch was another, and con job The Supper stalked the streets. Nazis and their sympa- man, never dreaming that it would end up development is that, after much careful Van Meegeren produced at least two for- at Emmaus, one of thisers were being rousted from their in hated German hands. and critical looking at Vermeer (it took 20 geries. But at that time, Lopez says, dealers Han van Meegeren’s homes, paraded through the towns, spat Van Meegeren never confessed to his years for Van Meegeren’s fabrications the world over were dreaming of hitting fake Vermeers, and, on and pelted with rocks before being long history of forgery. He did not volun- Smiling Girl and Lacemaker to move step by the Vermeer jackpot. It made the master a above right, the strung up or executed by firing squads. Van teer the fact that, at a time when fellow citi- step down the stair of esteem, from “real lucrative target. Between 1936 and 1943 painting in the film. Meegeren would likely have faced the zens had been so hungry that they had Vermeer”, to “follower of Vermeer”, to dis- Van Meegeren produced six fake Top: Guy Pearce as Van same fate had it not been for Joseph Piller, been reduced to tulip bulb gruel, he, as the credited basement storage), we have a far Vermeers. He sought, he later said, the Meegeren and Claes a humbly born Jewish tailor turned Resis- owner of 57 properties, not to mention a better understanding of the Dutch virt- greatest succès d’estime that a forger could Bang as Joseph Piller tance fighter now serving as an officer in hoard of great artworks, antiques and uoso. We also have a clearer knowledge of get. But more pragmatically, Vermeer in The Last Vermeer the newly reconstituted Dutch army. The precious gems, had revelled in luxury. (By our perceptions, how they can be moulded proved easy quarry because at the time he improbable relationship between Piller then he had safeguarded this ill-gotten and persuaded and perhaps falsified. And, was still a relative mystery. There were and Van Meegeren lies at the emotional fortune by divorcing Johanna, in name into the bargain, we get a rather gratifying blank patches in his painting career. heart of the film. alone, thereby placing his wealth outside picture of Goering, who, while awaiting his Van Meegeren set about creating pieces Piller (played by Claes Bang) had all the the reach of the law.) Nuremberg trial, learnt to his horror that that could fill these spaces. He realised, passion, purpose and principle that Van He gave no inkling of his fascist inclina- his prized Vermeer was false. Legend has it Lopez says, that a replica doesn’t necessa- Meegeren lacked. Charged in that imme- tions nor let it be known that the fleecing that he looked utterly appalled, “as though rily succeed or fail according to its fidelity. diate postwar era with investigating a of Goering had been purely a financial for the first time he had discovered that There are other ways to persuade the view- gallery through which looted art had alle- decision, not a political one. Instead, there was evil in the world”, as one observ- er. People respond intuitively to paintings, gedly been laundered, he found himself adopting the guise of a prankster, he er put it. searching out what looks familiar and so stumbling repeatedly across the forger’s presented himself as a put-upon artist The Last Vermeer is out on Apple, feels, on some subliminal level, more com- name. He had him arrested and jailed. who had only embarked on his duplicitous Amazon, Google and Sky Store on prehensible and more seductive. Van Mee- It was a perilous moment for the fraud- course so that he could outwit the March 1 6 saturday review 1GR Saturday February 20 2021 | the times music RICK PUSHINSKY; OLLIE DENTON

woodpecker. It marked the first time Brit- The singer Sam Lee Heritage ish birds cracked the top 20. It also coincid- made birdsong a hit. ed with Lee’s Singing With Nightingales project, in which he leads a group of people Now he’s working out into the woods at night in spring to harmonise with Britain’s most mellifluous with English Heritage avian. to bring folk music to tracks: the “I thought, why can’t this wood be a con- cert venue?” says Lee, who got the idea historic sites, he tells after hearing a famous 1924 recording of the cellist Beatrice Harrison duetting with Will Hodgkinson nightingales in her Surrey garden. “It was a way of inviting people into a world that e cannot cur- playlist tells the story of what we might lose in na- rently visit ture, because the nightingale is fast going Stonehenge, Ha- extinct in this country.” drian’s Wall or For the Singing With Nightingales festi- any other sites of val, Lee leads guest musicians and a small ancient wonder paying audience into the woods, in dark- that take us back for your ness and in silence so they adapt to the nat- through the mists of time. However, En- ural environment. “It gets to the point Wglish Heritage has found an unexpected where we’re 10ft away from the nightin- way to bring these places to life: folk songs. gales, and they’re singing so loud that our “In 2020 we were going to bring the ears are throbbing, like we’re standing next community and traditions of folk music to a speaker in a nightclub,” he explains. “At into English Heritage sites for the first day trip that point we start making music. The time,” says Sam Lee, 40, an ebullient Mer- birds will respond and collaborate with the cury prize-nominated singer from north musicians.” London who has made it his mission to cel- How come the birds don’t fly away? ebrate the British folk ballads that have “Because they’re trying to have sex,” he been passed down through the genera- replies. “ The male birds are doing a mating tions. “We were going to have campfire call. They are trying to call the females sessions in castles. We had 40 concerts and who are flying overhead at night, and two festivals in stately homes. When all when the females hear the musicians they that got shut down we thought, how do we think it is part of the conversation. There marry folk songs with local culture while are no other night birds that sing like that, celebrating the diversity that has always so when they hear another voice they go existed on these sites?” into correspondence.” The answer is Songs of , a collec- Nightingales are more like jazz musi- tion of 12 songs that relate to the sites, ac- cians than classical, rock or indeed folk companied by aerial footage and historical ones: sensitive, unreliable and given to narration by English Heritage’s head cura- flights of improvisation. “They don’t have tor, Matt Thompson, and Lee. For the a song by rote, so they adapt to the music Plantagenet castle Old Sarum in we make,” says Lee. “The guest musicians love it because they get a chance to impro- vise with a bird.” Not that it always goes to plan. On one of the early nocturnal excursions the nightingales refused to sing. “I thought, everyone will ask for their money back, they’ll decide I’m not really a folk singer, the whole thing will collapse,” he remem- bers. “We were standing in a wet thicket, everyone was cold, and in a panic I started to do Mongolian overtone singing. By some miracle a nightingale just happened to be right next to us and he burst into song. Everyone thought I had planned it that way, but inside I was going, ‘Thank you, nightingale.’ ” All of this feeds into Lee’s book The Nightingale, an illustrated miscellany on Britain’s songbird. It also fits in with Lee’s romantic approach to life, which saw him spend much of his twenties knocking on the singer Alice Zawadzki performs a devotion and ceremony, so John Barley- hats off Sam Lee, who nological and cultural development, the the doors of gypsy caravans up and down stark, moving rendition of the geographi- corn made perfect sense.” is leading the Songs of neolithic craftsmen who built Stonehenge, the country, searching for folk songs that cally relevant Salisbury Plain, an 18th-cen- A popular 12th-century theory by Geof- England project, and, or the Picts grumbling about Romans existed only in the oral tradition. He says it tury ballad about a young girl seduced by frey of Monmouth suggested the stones above left, playing live taking over the place as Hadrian built his all began when he got sent off on Forest a dashing highwayman shortly before he is came from Africa and were transported by wall, had the same hopes, fears and sense School Camps, inspired by the Woodcraft sent to the gallows. And Lee, charged with a giant to Ireland, where Merlin used his of life passing as we do today. Folk movement that sees mostly urban, finding the songs and the people to sing to rebuild them in England. A “A lot of these songs deal with perennial mostly middle-class kids hiking through them, took on John Barleycorn, a tale of recent discovery of a stone circle in ‘I thought, situations, and it became obvious which valleys, washing billy cans in streams, sing- barley personified as a symbolic figure, indicates that although Geoffrey was ones suited the sites,” says Lee, who ing around a campfire at night and com- who is variously cut down with scythes wrong on geographical detail and mode of why can’t worked on the project as an extension of muning with nature. and stabbed with pitchforks until living transportation, he could have been right his folk club the Nest Collective. “Sweet “Forest School Camps gave me a sense again in the form of beer. It may well have when it came to concept — these 25-tonne this wood Nightingale is a Cornish folk anthem and it of enchantment, which I think is necessa- pagan origins. That made it the perfect ac- monoliths may have been dragged 140 be a concert made sense for the folk singer Lisa Knapp ry in childhood,” says Lee. “It was a re-en- companiment to Britain’s most mystical miles from the Preseli quarry in Wales to sing it for Tintagel. Sweet Nightingale actment of a life in nature in some ways, beauty spot: Stonehenge. some 5,000 years ago. venue?’ feels very Cornish, but the tune was but I saw something magical in that and “Being the creative director of this “John Barleycorn begins with the line, brought back by Cornish miners working the folk songs we sang each night fitted in- project, I thought, ‘I’m going to have that ‘There were three men come out of the in Germany. It was imported from else- to its world. If we sat around the fire and one,’ ” says Lee of twinning John Barley- west’,” Lee points out. “There would have where, just as Tintagel would once have sang, say, Abba or Bananarama, it wouldn’t corn with Stonehenge. “I realised that John been more than three of them to get it been a site for traders from all over have been quite so powerful. Folk songs Barleycorn talks about death and regener- there, but it seems Stonehenge really did Songs of England is Europe.” are soundtracks to nature, and if you get it ation, the tale of beer as the flesh of the come out of the west.” available at english- Lee hasn’t only explored human life right they can transform a muddy field in- man. It is about worship of the land, but al- The project goes to the heart of Lee’s heritage.org.uk. The through song; he’s explored animal life too. to a place rich with thousands of years of so about how we have to destroy to bring lifelong quest to explore how folk songs Nightingale by Sam Lee In 2018 he brought in some unusual guest history.” Or, indeed, a Plantagenet castle, a new life. Stonehenge is the greatest mark carry with them eternal truths. Give or is published by Century stars for his single Let Nature Sing: a Roman wall, or the world’s most famous of humanity putting its energy into prayer, take a few thousand years’ worth of tech- on March 25 cuckoo, a nightingale and a great spotted stone circle. the times | Saturday February 20 2021 1GR saturday review 7 Ben Dowell on TV A high-finance thriller — with dialogue fit for a soft porn film

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Whirlybird: Live Above LA, which took us Sky Atlantic’s Anglo-Italian drama back to the launch of the 24-hour news Devils also started with a suited man revolution. In reality, though, it was a raw falling in listless slow-mo. Only this one and sombre portrait of a marriage. was flesh and blood and he landed smack When young Bob Tur first wooed on the marble slabs of the atrium of a swish Marika Gerrard he took her to the worst London investment house, his brains parts of Los Angeles, where they filmed spilling out on to the floor. Mad Men this crimes as they were happening, swiftly was not. For want of nuance, texture and a point, diabolical drama Talking of weird fantasies, it’s hard to talk turning this into a news business for net- Banking may be having something of a it piled on the plotting, which, in later Patrick Dempsey and about new drama Behind Her Eyes pro- works hungry to fill airtime. In time he TV moment these days thanks to the episodes, has Massimo getting hot under Alessandro Borghi perly without discussing its jaw-dropping got a helicopter and they were there when BBC’s naggingly addictive Industry, but his impeccably ironed white collar by in Devils. Below: final moments. You may have seen it by the city was rioting in 1992 and when OJ Devils won’t help the cause. While Industry fighting Dominic and the shadowy forces Simona Brown in now, but Netflix has asked us to refrain Simpson was evading police in 1994. nimbly felt its way into the brutal world of of global capitalism and protest. Or some- Behind Her Eyes from spoilers, so I won’t reveal the twist Marika was initially swept up in the excite- high finance through a group of interns thing. His stunningly beautiful wife that comes at the end of six long episodes. ment, which (psychoanalysts take note) fighting their way up from the bottom of — helpfully described by Dominic as a But I will say this: it was so bleak, frustrat- she compared to an “orgasmic rush”. the pile, Devils breezed straight through “bipolar drug addict” — hadn’t ingin and annoying it sent my wife to Being film-makers, they took their the boardroom door in the manner of a been seen for two years, but bedb in a furious mood. And we fin- camera everywhere, even on their rare spoilt child demanding to see its daddy. returned briefly to anonymously ishedis watching it on Valentine’s night. holidays, and the film’s judicious editing Here everyone was rich, talented and lure him to a hotel room Thanks,T Netflix. of hours of material allowed us to watch handsome, starting with our hero Massi- where she gave him a sexy All of which was a shame because a family disintegrate: Bob’s tetchy snaps mo (Alessandro Borghi), a financial veiled-up lap dance. We were thist drama started so promisingly. about Marika’s (frankly courageous) “shark” from the poor streets of Italy who meant to wonder who SimonaS Brown (an actress to look camerawork segueing to full-on violent thought nothing of trousering £250 mil- orchestrated it all, but I am pretty outo for) was hugely affecting as rage. The incredible wealth of footage lion for his employers by “shorting sure the producers simply thought Louise,L a single mum and secretary made it seem as if the smartphone era had Greece” during the 2011 financial crisis. He we’d enjoy her Arabian Nights whow starts an affair with her dishy been transplanted to the 1980s and 1990s, spent much of episode one (spoiler ahead) bottom waggle. boss,b Scottish shrink David (Tom which in turn helped us to reflect on where brutally plotting against old-school British Some of the casting — comedy Bateman),B after bumping into him all this constant filming we now take for banker Edward Stuart (Ben Miles), who actor Kevin Eldon as a biotech byb chance in a bar the weekend granted has left us today. was the favourite for the vice-CEO job magnate and British stand-up Paul beforeb they became colleagues. Yes, It also gave us a front row seat on Massimo wanted, until the snotty Brit died Chowdhry as a banker — felt odd. it was a somewhat implausible co- another sharply modern subject that was (Stuart was the falling man). “Just because However, Dempsey’s place in incidencein in London, a city of nine at the heart of this decades-old story — I didn’t grow up drinking tea and playing this show was the biggest tell. He’s millionm people, but we’ll let that Bob later changed gender. Bob is now Zoey cricket,” Massimo complained of Stuart in best known for playing Derek slides because it was just nice to see and lives in a remote cabin in northern a heavily accented hiss. “Yeah, he’s some- “McDreamy” Shepherd in the US peoplepeople ssocialising. David, despite his out- California, regretting how short-tempered thing of a racist,” his boss and mentor, medical drama Grey’s Anatomyomy, ward wealth and comfort, led a much she was in her former life and still wonder- Dominic (Patrick Dempsey), replied. the gentle brain surgeon who would whisk ItI bbreezed more tortured existence in the posher ing how much all that unwelcome testo- That two grown men managed to say all our heroine Meredith Grey to his cabin through the end of Islington, married to the beautiful, sterone affected her. this with a straight face is to their credit. In in the woods for sexy times, but persis- unhinged Adele (Eve Hewson, Bono’s Yet the best thing about this film was the fact, rather too much of the dialogue felt as tently left her unsure if he ticked all boardroom daughter), someone, we were meant to way that both these resilient and impress- if it had been written for a soft porn film or the right boyfriend-material boxes. This believe, he was either trying to help or ive people told their stories: without self- fed through a Google Translate sausage felt like a similar sort of luxuriant and door like a coercively control. pity, unsparingly and, above all, honestly. machine. And sheesh, the exposition. shallow fantasy, albeit one tacked on to a spoilt child Yes, women on the verge of a mental They could have tumbled miserably to There was a moment when two experi- moralising thriller. But hey, if you like this breakdown doesn’t make for a particularly earth, but in their own unusual and parti- enced financiers actually explained to sort of thing there’s every chance that you demanding to original premise these days, but the raw cular ways they soared. each other what “shorting” was. Even TV might lap dance it up. I’m afraid I made my ingredients here did at least promise to critics know what that is. excuses and left. see its daddy send us to satisfying places. Brown con- Hugo Rifkind is away 8 saturday review 1GR Saturday February 20 2021 | the times poetry Ode to my hero, Keats! Why he’s Poet laureate Simon Armitage tells Richard Morrison why Keats, who died 200 years ago, is still relevant, as he reveals a new poem

s you would hope, Brit- some melodious ain’s poet laureate sum- plot Keats marises the enduring Listening to a appeal of John Keats Nightingale on better in four sentences Hampstead Heath than some scholarly by Joseph Severn tomes running to hun- dreds of pages. “He had exactly the sort of Abiography you would expect a romantic poet to have,” Simon Armitage says. “Coughing blood from tuberculosis, pen- niless, despondent about the critical re- ception of his work, tormented by a per-

hapshaps unconsummatedunc t d lovel affair and dead at 25. Right through the Victorian period, and even after, he was the poster boy for that kind of melancholic lifestyle and per- sonality. And a lot of the writing about him, until quite recently, still bracketed him in those terms.” In Armitage’s eyes Keats was a great deal more substantial than a poster boy. Yet he admits that when he himself started to write poetry seriously, as a probation officer in his early twenties, he was first attracted to Keats not by his language or subject matter, but by that re- lentlessly dark life story. “This astonish- ingly frail and oversensitive character seemed to me like a small bird,” Armitage recalls. “A wren perhaps, but one that had a huge song.” Bay of Naples was imposed on the passen- This wren expired 200 years ago on Feb- ‘It’s tragic and ironic gers before they were allowed to go ashore. ruary 23, 1821. To commemorate the bi- This quarantine was the starting point centenary, Armitage has written a poem that Keats had gone for Armitage’s new poem. “It’s tragic and — “a sonnet with a bonus line”, he laughs. to Italy to get better ironic that Keats had gone to Italy to get Commissioned by the Keats-Shelley Me- better air in his lungs, but was then forced morial Association in Rome, it is published air in his lungs’ to spend ten days breathing this really here for the first time before being en- rank air below decks,” Armitage says. “By graved, appropriately enough, on a Gre- illness was advancing. In search of fresher the time he got off the boat and made the cian-style urn being created by the artist air he journeyed to Italy, leaving the home journey to Rome it was mid-November Dan Baldwin. by Hampstead Heath where he lodged, and the summer was over. The whole jour- Fittingly Armitage’s inspiration comes and also Fanny Brawne. She was the love ney was and actually detrimental from the last months of Keats’s life. A kind- of his life, but their relationship was the an- to his health. He died in Rome just a few ly publisher had brought out Keats’s third guished embodiment of that famous Face- weeks later.” and final volume of poetry in the summer book status, “It’s complicated”. Indeed so Armitage says his poem “speaks with of 1820. Even though it contained five of painful were his memories of her, it seems Keats’s voice”. Towards the end it even Keats’s six great odes (To Autumn was to be that he never wrote to her or read her let- contains a very Keats-like adage — “no life written in the last September of his life), ters during the remaining five months of without death, no death without life”. the publication was more an act of philan- his life. Perhaps its most telling lines, however, thropy than commerce. “My book is com- The sea voyage to Italy was a disaster. come when Armitage, always a poet with ing out with very low hopes,” Keats wrote Lulls and storms worthy of Coleridge’s The an eye for the contemporary, makes the truthfully to his friend Charles Brown. Rime of the Ancient Mariner dragged it out connection between Keats’s lung disease To make matters much worse, his fatal for weeks, then a ten-day quarantine in the and the fatal pandemic and quarantines the times | Saturday February 20 2021 1GR saturday review 9

the right poet for the 2020s

WARNER/PATHE; ALAMY; TIME LIFE PICTURE COLLECTION VIA GETTY IMAGES; VICTORIA JONES/PA I speak as someone . . . by Simon Armitage How to celebrate The poet laureate’s new poem, inspired his bicentenary by the last months of Keats’s life Writ in Water The epitaph on Keats’s grave in Rome — “Here lies one whose name was I speak as someone whose skin was thinner writ in water” — provides the title for than gold leaf, with a soul so porous the world Angus Graham-Campbell’s new radio play about Keats’s death, with Billy blew through him in a light breeze, whose coughing Howle (recently seen as Herbert landed his heart in his palm many times. Knippenberg in The Serpent) as the poet. Graham-Campbell has form And as someone who sailed the panicky seas on Keats. Twenty-five years ago he of his own blood. In Naples Harbour wrote a radio play to celebrate the bicentenary of his birth. the summer served its ten day quarantine Radio 4, Tues, 2.15pm below deck, till the air wasn’t fit to drink. Young Poets Challenge Now bats roost in the plush colonnades The Poetry Society’s Young Poets Network has devised a bicentenary of human veins, and naked arms are offered up project for young poets. “Write a to the dewy-eyed syringe; so my tired hand poem inspired by John Keats, illness must hover over the séance again to write poetry and the pandemic” is the no life without death, no death without life, instruction. Simon Armitage seems to have done exactly that. Go to just semaphore flags and fragile bottles bobbing ypn.poetrysociety.org.uk for details from coast to coast freighted with ink and breath. and tips for further exploration.

Gusto “Effectively I suppose I’m saying ’twas Shelley, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron A real visit to Rome might be tricky ever thus’,” Armitage observes. “The situa- and Blake? “In lots of ways he has most in at the moment, but happily the tion we’ve been in for the past year is common with Blake,” he replies. “There’s a Keats-Shelley House museum — in something humanity has faced many, naivety in Keats that is sometimes wilful. the building close to the Spanish many times.” At times he looked at the world with a Steps where Keats spent his last It’s not the first time Armitage has child’s eye, which Blake did as well. Both weeks — is putting an exhibition of written an overtly Keats-inspired poem. were able to see our existence in quite paintings inspired by the poet’s last “Keats discarded his initial first stanza for primitive and elemental ways. By compar- year online. Called Gusto, it is by Ode on Melancholy, and I reconfigured that ison, Byron and Shelley were more preten- the British-American artist Nancy into a little poem for a Keats anniversary tious and more bookish.” Cadogan, who depicts the “lanterns event in Rome 25 years ago,” he recalls. “In And more political? “More overtly polit- and windows, wine, letters and ical, although Andrew Motion’s biography books” that may have surrounded ‘Is Ode to Autumn reframed Keats as a radical, as a working- Keats at the time of his death. class poet, someone swimming against the ksh.roma.it/news/gusto-virtual- his finest poem? High-Tory tide.” exhibition Yes, wasn’t Keats denigrated as a “cock- It’s certainly ney poet” in his lifetime because he didn’t my favourite’ know how to pronounce classical words and names? “He was,” Armitage replies, fact it must have been for the bicentenary “and I’ve heard the poems read out in a of his birth.” Isn’t it jolting for Armitage to cockney accent, which seems really funny think that his career now spans Keats’s and incongruous. Somehow we associate entire life? “Worse than that — just my the language Keats used with a much more late career!” he says. “Yes, it’s quite a sober- educated and polished diction. ing thought to realise that Keats, Shelley “Andrew [Motion] also argues that To and Byron were all dead by an age when Autumn is not just an elegy for passing sweets unrest Abbie I was just starting to scratch around with seasons. Its context, written soon after the CCornish as Fanny Brawne a pen.” Peterloo Massacre, is really important. It’s KeKeatsats House,House HampsteadHampstead aand Ben Whishaw as What is Keats’s reputation today? “Well, also an elegy for the era and for human- Sadly, it’s temporarily closed during JJohn Keats in Bright Star the old criticism is that he wasn’t a thinker, kind. I read it again this morning and lockdown, but there is a virtual guide ((on Amazon). Left: he was a feeler — but there’s more space it felt so relevant to what we are going to the house and other anniversary KKeats’s death mask for that these days,” replies Armitage. “I through now.” articles on this website. think there was a downturn in interest in Despite the glorious poetry in Ode on a ourcitytogether.london romanticism generally between the 1960s Grecian Urn, Ode to a Nightingale, Bright and 1980s, when we were becoming a more Star and To Sleep, is To Autumn Keats’s Poems on the Underground urban and urbane nation. Now, though, we finest work? “It’s certainly my favourite,” Keats is being celebrated on the Tube are perhaps more open to expressions of Armitage replies. And if he had to choose with a set of posters featuring poems feeling and the search for spirituality than a less well-known Keats poem to re- by him, Shelley and contemporary we were a few decades ago, when science, commend, what would it be? “I love On poets “on themes dear to Keats”. If logic and reason were higher concerns. First Looking into Chapman’s Homer,” he you aren’t travelling at present the “Our renewed interest in nature writing says. “It wonderfully captures that mo- website reproduces them all. There and environmentalism has also put Keats ment of stepping into the daydream of a are also installations celebrating the back in the centre of the frame. And we live book, of embarking on a journey, and of poet at Hampstead Tube station, near we are enduring — andd allll withoutith t aaban-ban in an age when we find short axiomatic falling under the spell of an ancient piece to Well Walk where he lived for a doning the sort of language Keats used: statements summarising life — ‘truth is of writing that is itself a description of a while, and at London Bridge station, “Now bats roost in the plush colonnades/ beauty, beauty truth’ — very agreeable journey as well. It’s one of those poems next to Guy’s Hospital, where he of human veins,” Armitage writes, “and and networkable.” where you really have a sense of stepping trained in medicine for two years. naked arms are offered up/ to the dewy- Where would Armitage place Keats in over the threshold into the realm of poemsontheunderground.org eyed syringe . . .” relation to his great contemporaries — the imagination.” 10 saturday review 1GR Saturday February 20 2021 | the times

ALAMY; LMPC/NBC UNIVERSAL VIA GETTY IMAGES; DISNEY/PIXAR; NETFLIX/PA my culture fix The actor lets us into his cultural life

Sanjeevv The last movie that made me cry Bhaskarar I recently rewatched Pixar’s Up and the Carl and Ellie relationship sequence is one of the most perfect pieces of cinema, alongside the end of City Lights by Charlie Chaplin — I can get teary just talking about them. Luckily, Staged has me finding something new and hilarious My favourite author or book every time I watch it. As does Galaxy Quest by Grabthar’s Hammer. And thus begin the impossible questions. Authors-wise, I’d have to say Douglas The lyric I wish I’d written Adams, who wrote The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and Joseph Heller, “And in the end, the love you take is who wrote Catch-22, made the biggest equal to the love you make” from The impact on me, although I’ve read all of End by . Jon Ronson’s books and am always on the lookout for his next one. The song that saved me The book I’m reading I don’t think any bit of writing has saved me, but the beautiful song Waters of Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There: March by Art Garfunkel always reminds How a Few Skinny Brits with Bad Teeth me that life is a series of moments of all Rocked America by David Hepworth. I hues. It’s a package deal: the tragic, ugly also recently read the extended Beatles and challenging are part of the beautiful, I’m having a fantasy dinner party, book Tune In: The Beatles: All These loving and fun. I’ll invite these artists and authors Years by Mark Lewisohn, which was (living or not) . . . brilliant. The instrument I play I’m choosing “not living” because I The book I wish I had written I can strum a guitar a bit and compose don’t want to fall out with anyone. simple things on that and the piano, I’d want sparkling wit and great The Harry Potter books by JK Rowling. which I’ve done for some of my entertainment, so: Mahatma Gandhi, Great fun, great storytelling and I’d TV work. Oscar Wilde, Maya Angelou, Cole never have to work again. Porter, Douglas Adams, Jane Austen, The music that cheers me up , Ella Fitzgerald, The book I couldn’t finish Alexander the Great, Elvis Presley, Anything my kids play on the piano or JamesJ Baldwin, my much missed Shantaram by David Gregory Roberts, the guitar. friendf and co-writer Sharat Sardana a novel based on the author’s life as an anda Roger Moore. It’s a big table escaped Australian convict. I probably If I could own one painting anda there would be a different wasn’t in the right frame of mind. Twice. it would be . . . crowdc next week. Apart from myself Although I’m told it’s great. anda Sharat. I know it’s a cliché, but the Sunflowers The book I’m ashamed by Van Gogh. I’d seen it in so many AndA I’ll put on this music . . . I haven’t read books through school and regarded it as a pointless, boring painting with TheTh soundtrack to The Party by Anything by Leo Tolstoy. not even a particularly nice vase. HHenry Mancini. Then I saw it in the flesh and was My favourite film utterly blown away. TheThT show that I’m looking forwardfof to This changes on a weekly basis, but on The place I feel happiestappiest most weeks it’d be one from the fantasy- WeW had to cancel tickets to Bill Bailey’s romance film A Matter of Life and Death, Wherever my show,sho so still looking forward to seeing Monty Python’s Life of Brian, the Indian family are. Or that.ttha And anything at the Roundhouse Bengali-language drama Pather Panchali Italy. With my in Camden Town. I’m also really or Some Like It Hot. family in Italy bloom with a view looking forward to the second volume — result! Sunflowers by Van Gogh. of Tune In by Mark Lewisohn. My favourite play Top: David Niven and My guiltiest cultural pleasure Kim Hunter in A Matter I wasted an evening watching . . . Much Ado About Nothing, Jerusalem and of Life and Death. Left: the most fun I’ve had on stage, Spamalot. Eating crisps while spending the Elvis Presley. Below: A two-hour solo mime show in day in an art gallery. I’ve never done Anya Taylor-Joy in The Singapore in the mid-1990s. When The box set that I’m hooked on this, I imagine it’s forbidden, but it Queen’s Gambit, Up’s he asked if the 300-strong crowd sounds great. Carl Fredricksen, and wanted more, only one child responded, Most recently I binged on The Queen’s Charlie Chaplin who got a clip from his mother and Gambit, which was wonderful in every the mime continued for another way. Although I’ve binged Staged by 20 minutes. Simon Evans and starring Michael Sheen and (or the other The film I walked out on way around) three times so far. I’ve never walked out on a film, My favourite TV series in the hope that even the last few seconds will redeem it, but I Probably M*A*S*H. It could make you wish I had [walked out] of Young laugh and cry within a minute. Einstein and Beyond the Poseidon Incredible writing that manages to truly Adventure. merge comedy and drama within a TV half-hour. Overrated . . . My favourite piece I’m definitely overrated sometimes. of music Underrated . . . I don’t have just one, but if I had a I’m definitely, definitely underrated playlist of Mozart, all the time. the Beatles, Elvis Presley, Nitin Sawhney, Motown and Sanjeev Bhaskar appears in 1960s movie themes, I’d be Unforgotten on ITV from Monday a happy man. at 9pm the times | Saturday February 20 2021 1GR saturday review 11 film AMAZON STUDIOS/ALAMY

War hero, bank robber, movie man

whole thing is strange because before pris- quated fashion. I said, ‘Stop pretending joined a rock band called Safari, split from Nico Walker sold the on, I had never even thought of writing.” you’re writing with an ostrich feather quill. his wife — surely the inspiration for his film rights to his Cherry is an unsettling novel, with the Just write the way you talk.’ ” protagonist’s equally addicted girlfriend language conveying a cynical, resigned You wonder how easy it is to complete a Emily, although he doesn’t confirm it — book while serving a tone as the action drifts and meanders in a novel in prison. “The main problem is that and took OxyContin to help deal with jail sentence, he tells way that reflects the mindset of ititss yyouou don’tdo have any personal possessions,” PTSD-induced insomnia. Each night, the unnamed protagonist. “I sold drugs, butt it sayssays WWalker, who took four years to write most horrific scenes from his time in Iraq Will Hodgkinson wasn’t like I was bad or anything,” Walkerer CherryCher . “Everything is communal and played out in his head the moment he surmises of his pre-Iraq years. youyo have to take your turn on the type- closed his eyes, and drugs seemed the only lenty of people have writ- Then comes a depiction of war that writerw in a typing room. But then you way to block them out. Heroin addiction ten novels in prison. A few is as banal as it is brutal, from pointless don’td have to pay bills, you don’t have followed. In December 2010 he robbed his have had those novels rivalries — “We thought the B2s were a social life and you’re not going any- first bank. turned into films. Rare is decadent children . . . the B2s thought where,w so unless you’re trying to “It was very simple,” he says of his deci- the writer whose book is we were weird losers” — to soldiers researchre something [internet access sion to take up serious crime. “I realised published, optioned for wandering through desert towns, kick- beingbe severely limited] it’s easier to you didn’t have to plan anything: you could $1 million and turned into ing down doors and shooting stray dogs. writewri a book in prison than it is out in just go in, take the money, and not stay a Hollywood movie starring Spider-Man’s The protagonist returns home just as thehe thethe street.”s longer than three minutes. It honestly PTom Holland — while they’re still behind opioid crisis is taking root in the Midwest,est, WalkerWal learnt how to evoke the didn’t feel like a big deal at the time.” bars. and his new situation mirrors the one he atmosphereatmosp of the Iraq war while keeping When Walker ended up in jail, it did at Cherry is the debut novel by Nico just escaped from in Iraq: long periods ooff factualfactual details to a minimum. Scenes in least give him a chance to kick heroin. “It Walker, who was drifting through life as a boredom interspersed with flashes of in the can Nico Walker. Walker Cherry are variously comic — at one point was the worst three months of my life,” he college student and petty drug dealer chaos and destruction. Above: Tom Holland in our hero tries to administer morphine to a says of his initial spell. “I was dope-sick and when in 2005, aged 19, he decided to join The story of how the novel and the film the film adaptation of wounded man and ends up injecting his had two broken vertebrae [from the car the US army at the height of the Iraq war. came to be is as unlikely as the life that Walker’s book, Cherry own thumb — and horrific. On the after- crash during the arrest], but hey, you live After 250 missions as a barely trained inspired it. Matthew Johnson is the math of a roadside bomb: “Rodgers is in and learn.” medic and a severe case of PTSD, Walker founder of the Mississippi record label Fat the body bag. A shook-up sergeant named After leaving prison, Walker moved to returned to civilian life, developed a heroin Possum and a co-owner of the tiny Tyrant Edwards thinks there’s some more of him Oxford. After a spell working in Fat Pos- addiction, and in 2010 started robbing Books publishing house. He read about still in the truck. He points to a string of fat sum’s office, he’s been writing a second banks in his native Ohio. After a police Walker’s story in a BuzzFeed article and running along what’s left of the driver’s book and settling into domesticity with his chase that ended with Walker crashing his started writing to him in prison. “It was seat.” It is visceral to the point of night- new wife, the poet Rachel Rabbit White. car in a Burger King parking lot, he was completely out of the blue,” Walker says. mare-inducing. “You can walk the length of Oxford in a caught with $7,426 from that day’s bank “At first I didn’t know why this guy was “The biggest rule I had for myself was to couple of hours and it has a good bookstore, job. In 2012 he was sentenced to 11 years. writing to me, because he was in the music avoid the kind of blatant lies you see in war so I don’t mind living here at all,” he says. All of this shapes Cherry, named after business and it’s not like I’m going to be films,” says Walker, who spent a year in On Tom Holland playing his fictional- the US army term for a new recruit and re- able to get hold of a microphone or any- Iraq’s “Triangle of Death’’, an area south of ised self in Cherry, he says: “I’ve seen parts leased in 2019 to universal acclaim; The thing. But after a couple of letters going Baghdad clogged with IEDs — improvised of the film and it is an artistic interpreta- Washington Post described it as “Holden back and forth he said, ‘Maybe you should explosive devices. “I wanted to show how tion, shall we say. We didn’t have any input Caulfield goes to war”. Now it has been try and write a book.’ ” anti-climactic war actually is. Things like at all, but God bless them, they bought the made into a film by Anthony and Joe Rus- Johnson is used to dealing with unusual accidentally shooting morphine into my rights. They can do it their way.” As John- so, the brothers behind the Marvel block- characters. Fat Possum made its name in thumb did happen, but every time some- son points out: “The film has allowed Nico busters Captain America: Civil War and the 1990s by unearthing elderly, forgotten one got shot in Iraq, it was like the last time to become a writer. The publishers printed Avengers: Infinity War. Cherry is also about Mississippi bluesmen: one of their biggest someone got shot. IEDs went off all the 30,000 copies because of it.” war, albeit a more realistic kind. An initial successes was T-Model Ford, who had time. You get up each day and walk around I ask which of the episodes in Walker’s auction for the film rights was suspended been on a chain gang for murder and until you find a body that you can legally life have been the hardest to recover from. for a simple reason: Walker ran out of min- picked up a guitar for the first time aged 58 ‘Things like shoot. That’s the war.” “All of it has been the same,” replies Walker, utes on his prison phone. after his fifth wife left him. Another, RL Walker left Iraq with seven medals and who used money from book sales and film “I got out of prison on October 21, 2019, Burnside, shot a man in the head during an accidentally commendations for valour. You would rights to pay back the banks he robbed, right when they started filming,” says argument over a dice game. hardly guess to talk to him about it. “It was with a reflective sigh. “It’s a bit like the pan- Walker, 35, speaking from Oxford, Missis- “I’ve been around some pretty interest- shooting clear, about five minutes in, that I had been demic. It arrives one day and everyone is sippi, where he has lived since April last ing people and felt that if Nico didn’t write morphine rooked,” he says, of believing he was going told: ‘The world is over, go home, stay there year. A blond, bearded six-footer from a his story, he would be that guy at the end of to Iraq to help people. “It became obvious until we tell you the world is not over any well-to-do family in Cleveland with a the bar who wasn’t the star of his own life,” into my that some high-up people were making a more.’ People have adjusted. It’s been the Catholic private school education, he Johnson says. “The problem was, the pris- ton of money out of the situation, because same for me. War, prison, robbing banks, doesn’t seem like typical bank robber on library was filled with classics like War thumb did all we really had to do to stop the war was having a film made of your book . . . It’s your material. “I was released early because my and Peace and The Mayor of Casterbridge happen’ stop being there.” life and you just get used to it.” mother was dying from leukaemia. The and Nico tried writing in this stylised, anti- On returning to Ohio in 2006 Walker Cherry is out on Apple TV+ on March 12 12 saturday review 1GR Saturday February 20 2021 | the times books Power-hungry princes and the glory of the Renaissance

Este and the rest — were so entwined that not one could rise without another falling. It makes for a head-scrambling epoch that This vivid history Mary Hollingsworth, the author of books on the Medici and the Borgias, has done brings to life the wonders to make comprehensible. vices and virtues of Princes of the Renaissance brings a sense of order to the confusion by pairing ruling the feuding ruling dynasties: the Sforza in Milan and their ri- vals of the house of Aragon in Naples, who families of Italy, both won their realms by usurpation; the says Michael Prodger ancient families such as the Este of Ferrara and the Gonzaga of neighbouring Mantua; PrincesP of the and the monarchs Francis I of France and the Holy Roman emperor Charles V. RenaissanceR The papacy was every bit as covetous for byb Mary territory and power as any of the other HollingsworthH rulers and this was the period in which the keys of St Peter were used less for religion HeadH of Zeus, than to unlock immeasurable power and 512pp;5 £35 wealth for families such as the Borgias and the Farnese. Family was a flexible term and illegiti- macy no bar to becoming a ruler. As a s the history of the Italian pen- French visitor noted in the 1450s: “They insula in the 15th and 16th cen- make no great distinction at the Italian Being a model prince meant not just turies shows, had Machiavelli courts between a bastard child and a legiti- understanding diplomacy, but also pos- not existed he would need mate one.” Leonello d’Este, Marquis of Fer- sessing skill at arms, an instinct as to which to have been invented. The rara, and Sigismondo Malatesta, lord of way the political wind was blowing and a Aperiod may have been one of unparalleled Rimini, were illegitimate, but circumstan- cultured, humanist mindset. Most of her artistic fecundity, but it was also one of ces brought them to the top of the pile. figures fell short of the ideal. ceaseless political turmoil and, for at least Leonello, for example, was one of 30 Ludovico Sforza, for example, was ambi- 60 years, particularly vicious warfare. The children, but became heir when his elder tious and ruthless, but blundered by invit- issues faced by the rulers of every one of brother was found in bed with their step- ing Charles VIII of France into Italy to pur- Italy’s duchies, kingdoms, republics and mother by their father and beheaded. Fran- sue the French claim for the kingdom of fiefdoms were the same: survival and con- cesco Sforza, who took Milan by conquest, Naples. The incursion gave the French a solidation first, only then aggrandisement tried to smooth over the facts of his succes- long-lived taste for the peninsula, left and advantage. sion. After having starved his new domain thousands dead on the battlefield and The topics that Machiavelli thought all of Milan into submission he made his legiti- uncounted others courtesy of the syphilis rulers should understand — such as mate children sign themselves Visconti the soldiers introduced — “the French dis- cruelty, mercy, generosity, honour, con- after the family he had overthrown, while ease”. Sforza also had the legitimate heir to quest and prudence — were not abstract his illegitimate children remained Sforza. Milan poisoned and put it about that he principles, but practical tools on which not In St Peter’s the habit of appointing had succumbed from “excessive coitus”. only titles and wealth depended, but lives family members to high office became so Another Sforza, Galeazzo Maria, was no too. The riches on offer to these men may ingrained that “cardinal-nephew” became more savoury, at least in the eyes of his have been enormous, but their existences a recognised position: Sixtus IV (Della wife, who accused him after his death of, were spent with one eye open to the main Rovere) made two nephews cardinals; Paul inter alia, pillage, robbery, extortion, chance and the other looking out for what III (Farnese) made three sons and grand- simony and “carnal vices”. While Sigis- might cause their precipitous fall. sons cardinals; Alexander VI (Borgia) had mondo Malatesta was so loathed by Pius II The peninsula comprised some 15 states so many children — he sired six as a cardi- that he indicted him for a rich litany of per- and innumerable dependencies and each nal and another as pope — that he gave up versions — incest, adultery, debauchery et was affected not only by Italy’s internal on the “nephew” fig leaf altogether. The al — then excommunicated him and struggles, but also by the battle for ascend- benefits of being a papal nephew were par- added a further condemnation for his soul ancy between France and the Holy Roman ticularly clear when, in a stew of rage after in the afterlife: “Let him be enrolled a citi- Empire, which played out by proxy or oc- a tongue-lashing from Julius II, Francesco zen of Hell.” casionally face to face south of the Alps. Maria della Rovere ran a cardinal through Even one of the more benign rulers, Italy was a dangerous place, which called with his sword: his uncle nevertheless Alfonso I of Ferrara, a military command- for pragmatism above honour and where absolved him. The Italian for nephew is er fond of making pottery, chess sets and an aversion to blood was a disadvantage. nipote, hence nepotism. lutes in his spare time, had his brother It was also a world of tangled family rela- If the wider picture is a swirl of ever- bricked up in a tower for his part in an tionships, calculating alliances and shifting changing alliances made and broken, the assassination plot. At least most rulers dynastic fortunes. The great families — the book is at its most vibrant with Holling- were fond of their hunting dogs, while Sforza and Gonzaga, Della Rovere and sworth’s portraits of the main players. Ercole d’Este was so partial to feline com- the times | Saturday February 20 2021 1GR saturday review 13

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Conflicted Why Arguments Are Tearing Us Apart and How They Can Bring Us Together by Ian Leslie Faber, 286pp; £14.99

roductive disagreement”, the journalist Ian Leslie writes in Conflicted, is something “we have never been more in need of.” I agree — fervently. I nod- ‘Pded and underlined my way through the book’s nearly 300 pages of eloquent, thoughtful advice about how “productive capitol cosplay Many of last month’s mob acted like characters in a disagreement” might be achieved; how in arguments we should strive for emotional how thin the veil between the “real” and internet-radicalised fringes (the reason connection, how we should actually listen “virtual” worlds has grown. Everyone in 147 Republican members of Congress to what our opponents have to say, how we the mob was there because of a reality con- voted to overturn a democratic election). should be intellectually curious, humor- structed on the internet and many of them From another perspective, the kind of ous, aware of our cultural biases, ready to even acted as if they were in a video game, reasoned, polite debate promoted by Con- acknowledge our mistakes. I disagree with personalising themselves as “characters” flicted may seem the product of another Leslie in one matter only: his optimism. I with outlandish costumes, shouting excit- age — one in which public discourse was fear his project is doomed. I fear Conflicted edly about medics and flash bangs, and ex- carried by the tiny minority of wealthy is a water pistol aimed at the moronic pressing stupefaction when police fought metropolitan pundits who had access to inferno of the internet. back with real bullets and real tear gas. opinion columns, radio airtime and seats For the internet is the unavoidable sub- I’m not convinced that many people on political TV panels. Civility was poss- ject of this book, whether Leslie likes it or make the distinction between the “real ible because most of these people had little not. And you sometimes suspect he world” and the “virtual world”, especially at stake. Thanks to Twitter and Facebook, doesn’t like it — presumably because the those who have grown up online. Look up the public square has been flooded by the book’s tentative hope that we may all the video that went viral in 2015 of Yale poor and the marginalised. They have lit- achieve “productive disagreement” is students screaming at the academic tle interest in polite and patient debate — borgias and bastards pany that he had cat flaps cut into the almost impossible to sustain in the face of Nicholas Christakis after his wife, also a the arguments are simply too urgent. Nei- Alexander VI sired six doors of the ducal palace. an unillusioned appreciation of what the lecturer, sent an email innocently suggest- ther the Me Too nor Black Lives Matter children as a cardinal By far the most appealing characters in internet is doing to society. I think it’s hard ing they shouldn’t take the idea of cultural- movements proceeded according to Les- and another as pope. Hollingsworth’s telling are the women. to overstate this: in the course of the past ly offensive Halloween costumes too lie’s ideal of civilised debate, but both have Left: Isabella d’Este was a Daughters of rulers were little more than 20 years the internet has transformed the seriously. In the context of the real world won important victories. Neither cause, of discerning patron of the collateral in forming alliances, with no say way society talks to itself. It represents the course, is imaginable without social media. arts and an effective ruler about a choice of husband, but some made most important revolution of this kind Networked at vast Nonetheless, the overwhelming story of of Mantua in place of her the most of it. Isabella d’Este, for example, since Gutenberg. And it is not going well. social media is chaos. Victories for social- imprisoned husband was not just a discerning patron of art, but In his first chapter Leslie describes how, scale, humans justice causes, however important, will proved a steady ruler of Mantua when her in the early days of the internet, a theory turn out to be futile if democracy is lost or husband, Francesco Gonzaga, was impris- arose that “the more people are able to tend towards fury violent conspiracy theories destroy the oned by the Venetians, even regulating the communicate with others, the more and mob justice truth. The unreasoning fury of the inter- city’s brothels in his absence. The pair had friendly and understanding they will bec- net is in nobody’s interests, and is most det- a profound bond, as evidenced by some ome”. Human nature, we now know, isn’t this behaviour seems mad and terrifying. rimental to those who rage most inces- 3,000 surviving letters between them. like that. Networked at vast scale, humans But in the context of the internet it’s santly. However seductive their feelings of Most high-born Renaissance wives, tend towards fury — towards mob justice, unexceptional. I think it’s plausible the moral superiority, Leslie’s book shows however, could look forward to luxury, but conspiracy theories, political polarisation, students were responding in a way that their rage all too often leads only to failure also the dangers of producing an heir and public shaming, trolling and shitposting. was familiar and even normal to them and futility. the ignominy of spousal mistresses parad- In this they are egged on by companies from their lives online. I’m unconvinced that there is much ed before them. For some there were fur- such as Twitter and Facebook, who under- Meanwhile many of the institutions hope for society. But, on the personal level, ther sources of shame: Ferrante I, King of stand that public discourse can be mone- western societies have created to foster those of us who are able to argue well have Naples, was caught paying his grand- tised and is ruled by a simple equation: the and channel productive argument are much to gain from this increasingly rare daughter’s dowry in underweight gold angrier we are, the more we engage. The being twisted out of shape by the internet. skill. If you want to argue better, Leslie’s coins; while Federigo Gonzaga petitioned more we engage, the more ads we see. The Thanks to a social-media culture that vis- manual will be invaluable. As Leslie shows the pope to be allowed to divorce his wife more ads we see, the more money flows its fierce reprisals on those who deviate with examples from science, technology One of the and then petitioned him again to annul the into Silicon Valley. Leslie reports a study from the accepted groupthink, universities and the arts, productive disagreement annulment when she suddenly became by scientists at New York University that are becoming increasingly ideologically spurs on creativity and discovery and new more benign heiress to Monferrat. found that using moral and emotional homogeneous. Some newspapers suffer in thinking: Orville and Wilbur Wright rulers, These rulers, however flawed, under- words increased the diffusion of tweets the same manner. col- argued almost constantly, so did the Roll- stood that display was a necessary part of through Twitter’s networks by 20 per cent umnist Bari Weiss quit the paper, claiming ing Stones, so did Watson and Crick (the Alfonso I, their duties and, as Hollingsworth for each extra emotive word. that Twitter had become its “ultimate edi- rival team working on DNA, Wilkins and recounts, drove the cultural output of the While Leslie acknowledges social media tor”. It sometimes seems to me that the “no Franklin, kept a cool distance from each had his Renaissance (much of which is illustrated may be making society more polarised, he platforming” of speakers is so attractive to other after Wilkins mistook Franklin for a brother in this sumptuous book). So, for that at writes that “social media is not real life and some because it is a real-world substitute lab assistant on their first meeting). If it least, it is best to hold back on the tempta- there is little evidence people are replicat- for the “block” function, which so easily seems I have spent too long disagreeing bricked up tion to wish a plague on all their houses. ing these angry disagreements in person”. silences enemies online. Meanwhile, in the with this wise and useful book, perhaps Michael Prodger is art critic of the I don’t believe this is the case. The storm- world’s parliaments, democratic lawmak- Leslie will agree it is at least in the spirit of in a tower ing of the Capitol last month showed just ers are under pressure from their parties’ his cause. 14 saturday review 1GR Saturday February 20 2021 | the times

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language of Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, of “narratives” and “western colonial constructs”. Blaming it all Khan, as a pupil of Derrida, casts the Enlightenment as racist: “Let me explain what I mean by this. Race is a social con- struct. As a concept it was invented during the European Enlightenment to advance on the West the superiority of one group of people over others, namely the superiority of white people over everybody else.” How does he This book about being a Muslim in explain the racism against Jewish people for the past 4,000 years? Or the black Afri- Britain skates over real concerns by can tribal leaders who sold others into crying Islamophobia, says Ed Husain slavery before European colonialism? Or the Indian caste system dating back mil- lennia that still persists? The West, in the he Muslim Problem is an angry eyes of Khan, seems to be uniquely racist book. Yet the author’s anger is and awful. matched by so much denial. The book is further weakened by the Tawseef Khan writes about his absence of some of the most contentious personal struggle to find belong- issues for Muslims in western countries. Ting in “institutionally racist” Britain. His The author says nothing about blasphemy concern is how can young Muslims — laws or freedom of speech or whether in “products of the construct that is the ‘war a free society a cartoon of the Prophet on terror’ ” — develop “their identities in a Mohammed should be allowed to be pub- climate of unparalleled hatred, fear and lished, however much offence it causes. stigmatisation”. The author is silent on the obsession with Khan, a Manchester solicitor specialising The Muslim Israel and Jewish people that have pitched in immigration and asylum law, also sets Problem some Muslims against Jews in several out to challenge “oppressive beliefs and Why We’re Wrong northern towns and on university cam- practices that hold sway among a minority puses. Khan is mute too on the decades- of Muslims, including those that justify About Islam and long persecution and torture of Muslims in violence, oppression or the marginalisation Why It Matters suppression of gay people is a problem in dismissing the Prevent counterterrorism today’s Communist China and previously of vulnerable groups (women and sexual by Tawseef Khan most Muslim countries and communities programme as “Islamophobic” — about in the Soviet Union. minorities, for example)”. The book is best beyond blaming the West. “Early contact the fact that 43,000 people are deemed by Instead Khan is hypercritical of Britain’s when he confronts pre-modern interpreta- Atlantic, 280pp; £14.99 with the continent had led to the introduc- the government to pose a potential terror- history of empire and conquest. In a free tions of the Quran and other Islamic tion of western attitudes that saw sexual ist threat to the UK, and more than 90 per country, that is his right. Yet in his anger sources, to show that misogyny and homo- and gender diversity as indecent, even as a cent of threats are from Muslim extrem- against Britain’s past he fails to acknowl- phobia need not be part of the Muslim faith. faith in the future perversion. Then, when European coloni- ists. Khan, however, is convinced that “the edge that Muslims too engaged in slavery For his efforts to explain and claim an Friday prayers at the sation followed, these notions were forced theory of Muslim violence is ultimately a and colonialism. Muslims have a long his- Islam that is liberal and open, free from Islamia Primary School on to Muslim societies,” he writes. western construct, albeit one manipulated tory of conquest and invasion. At times the extremism and terrorism, he deserves in northwest London He comes closer to genuine introspec- by the likes of Isis to justify their violent book feels simply like propaganda for a commendation. If his fellow activists on tion when writing about the treatment of tactics”. Socialist-Islamist, Red-Green alliance the Left-Islamist nexus follow his intellec- women in Muslim communities in Britain This desire to deny reality is extended rather than a genuine attempt to probe tual lead, then Britain’s mosques and Mus- — “even today in our mosques, women are to foreign affairs: “Iran didn’t attack any- and unpack the issues and concerns that lim communities will be places of greater regularly excluded, conspicuously absent body; it simply ended western imperialism feed tensions between citizens in Britain. equality for women and gay people. But, if in all-male committees, their prayer and control of its oil resources by over- By labelling his opponents — “Islamo- Khan’s book is a guide to the future, those spaces an afterthought”. Yet he is quick to throwing the shah,” he writes, adding that phobe”, “racist”, “colonialist”’ — Khan communities will also become more sepa- pass the blame. It was “colonisers” who “the contemporary US-Iran relationship shuts down debate and critical thinking, rate, simmering with anti-British feeling. “choked” Muslim societies, “stopping them can also be viewed as an attempt to portray rather than starting a conversation. In The Muslim Problem Khan fails to from developing organic and indigenous Iran as violent and volatile simply because Khan is on a personal journey to find address a conundrum: how can he claim discourses on sexual equality”. The denial it resists US domination”. Perhaps the himself in Britain. “I belong,” he declares. “we belong” while loathing Britain’s past Britain and of responsibility and constant blame game author should talk to Salman Rushdie, the “We belong.” Of course, Muslims belong and present, seeing the country as irre- the West, gets tedious in chapter after chapter. target of an Iranian fatwa, or millions in — and many proved it the hard way by deemably and structurally anti-Muslim There is more denial in the chapter today’s Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Israel and dying in the trenches and on battlefields to from top to bottom? It is hard to find a posi- in Khan’s “Islam is violent”. Khan argues that “the Lebanon who live under Iranian state- defend Britain. Khan’s repugnance of Brit- tive word about Britain in these pages. telling, are longer the war on terror persists, the deep- sponsored violence. ish history prevents him from recognising Britain and the West, in Khan’s telling, er it ingrains the stereotype that Muslims There is no room for nuance: Khan ima- the sacrifices made by so many Muslims in are not only Islamophobic, but also res- responsible are violent”. Yet he barely addresses the gines a unified, monolithic “Muslim com- two world wars. Understanding that his- ponsible for most of the ills of the Muslim fact that every big act of domestic terror- munity” pitted against a single-minded tory and loving this land, its laws and liber- world. For instance in the chapter taking for most ism in recent years has been committed by British state that has “implicitly and ties are the route to belonging. aim at the idea that “Islam is homophobic” of the ills of Muslim men in the name of religion and explicitly endorsed anti-Muslim senti- Ed Husain is a visiting professor at he explains why “reclaiming of the sacred its merger with politics. He claims that ment to further its own goals”. For a book Georgetown University and author text allows me to believe in the potential the Muslim extremists are motivated only by politics about Islam, deeper notions of kindness, of Among the Mosques: A Journey for greater acceptance of sexual diversity”. or western foreign policy, never religion. forgiveness, love, mercy and reconcilia- Across Muslim Britain, which will Good. Yet he does little to explain why the world He has little useful to say — beyond tion are oddly missing. In its place is the be published in June

protons causing the destruction 1940 to his suicide in a Berlin bunker excellent on the perils of being of all atoms or the catastrophic in 1945. Ullrich establishes Hitler’s fiction undercover.” paperbacks destabilisation of the Higgs Boson direct responsibility for the particle. An “elegant” and Holocaust in spite of the fact he Execution by SJ Parris Cry Baby by Mark Billingham “fascinating” book, The Times’s never issued a direct order, as well as HarperCollins, 496pp; £8.99 Sphere, 560pp; £8.99 nonfiction science editor Tom Whipple the complicity of the German people. This is the sixth instalment of the Mark Billingham’s new Tom Thorne concluded, but one that “convinces “Ullrich is a fine writer,” David adventures of the monk-turned-spy detective novel jumps back in time to Until the End of Time: Mind, me of the sheer, quixotic futility Aaronovitch concluded, “and the Giordano Bruno. This time he’s in 1996. The plot follows the abduction Matter, and Our Search for of life”. book is well organised, but perhaps England disguised as a Jesuit priest of a seven-year-old boy from north Meaning in an Evolving Universe its most important characteristic is and trying to uncover a plot to kill London that soon leads to the by Hitler: Downfall Vol II that it is written by a German . . . Elizabeth I and put Mary, Queen murder of an adult. But throughout Penguin, 428pp; £10.99 by Volker Ullrich there is no hint of the revisionism of Scots on the throne. To do this this bleak tale, Billingham plays with “Some say the world will end in fire/ Vintage, 848pp; £18.99 that has allowed some historians to he must infiltrate a cabal of the humour inherent in hindsight: Some say in ice . . .” wrote the poet The second instalment of the try to absolve the German people Catholic plotters led by the sinister Thorne thinks a mobile is just “a Robert Frost. In Until the End of German historian Volker Ullrich’s from responsibility for Nazi crimes, John Ballard. “Execution has fancy toy for twats and the seriously Time, a book about how life will monumental biography of Hitler or that has permitted some military an atmospheric sense of place,” minted”. Mark Sanderson’s verdict: eventually cease, Brian Greene adds encompasses the last six years of his historians to portray wrote The Times’s historical fiction “The tense, double-edged ending that it will end with the eventual life, from the outbreak of war in 1939 as soldiers doing their duty, albeit on reviewer Antonia Senior. “The shows Billingham has become one explosion of , the decay of and his triumphal entry into Paris in the wrong side.” plot twists and turns. SJ Parris is of Britain’s best crime writers.” the times | Saturday February 20 2021 1GR saturday review 15

The Great War generals were not donkeys ALAMY This first-class history demolishes the myth of bone-headed, callous leadership, says Lawrence James

his is a bold book. Nick Lloyd has written a tour de force of schol- arship, analysis and narration to nail for ever the myth that the generals who waged war on the TWestern Front were “donkeys” who led millions to needless deaths. Lloyd, a professor of military history at King’s College London, begins with a pro- mise to reveal the war on the Western Front “through the lens of the senior com- manders” and discover how these officers faced “the reality of modern warfare in all its horror and complexity”. He keeps his word: we read their thoughts, share their secret hopes and anxieties, and eavesdrop on their conversations. Lloyd intertwines the voices of those who gave the orders with those who obeyed them. In July 1917 that paladin of the skies, Manfred von Richthofen, fretted about the latest British aircraft, the Sop- with Camel, which was “faster and climbs better than our planes . . . No one wants to be a fighter pilot any more.” Such fears general assembly 1918, when the Germans were slicing wilting: mass desertions and mutinies “The decisive battle” was imminent, wrote were universal during a war in which novel John Singer Sargent’s through the British line, the normally were the prelude to revolution. one officer, where “the fate of nations and terrifying machines and high explo- painting General Officers steady Pétain declared: “The Germans Significant external forces were slowly would be decided. What was at stake was sives dominated the battlefield and of World War I (1922) will defeat the British in open country after stacking the odds against Germany. Amer- the future of the world.” He was right and lessened the chances of survival. and, below, his depiction which they will beat us as well.” The ica’s entry into the war provided the Allies as German troops cut through the Allied The Red Baron was reacting to a new of trench warfare, French prime minister Georges “Tiger” with a vast reservoir of men earmarked for line and beyond into open country, it kind of war, unrecognisable to the fighting Gassed (1919) Clemenceau rebuked him: “Should a the Western Front. Germany’s U-boat seemed that the Allies were broken. Yet men of 1914. Mastery of the air was now general speak or even think in this way?” campaign failed to knock Britain out of the they rallied and the offensive petered out. vital; infantrymen manned defensive lines Professional pride mattered; so did war and the United States remained the The Allied counter-attack of the sum- many miles deep; shellfire was more patriotism. Allies’ banker and armourer. Famine beck- mer and autumn of 1918 never slackened. intensive and accurate; machineguns and Pétain should have known better. Two oned in Germany as the Royal Navy’s Overshadowed in our historic conscious- magazine rifles created impassable killing years before, when the Germans were blockade tightened. Only an outright vic- ness by its unsuccessful predecessors, this fields; attacking units advanced behind grinding their way towards the fortress of tory on the Western Front would stave off offensive broke both the German line and clouds of poison gas and were spearhead- Verdun, he took command of the defence defeat for Germany. the will of the men who held it: 385,000 ed by men with flame-throwers. From 1916 with a mandate to “hold the line whatever Germany’s last throw of the dice was surrendered in five months. This victory tanks roamed across no man’s land in the cost”. He phoned a subordinate gen- Operation Michael, which began in March was a triumph for the Allied command, growing numbers. As the war progressed, eral and told him: “Keep up your courage. 1918. It needed six weeks of meticulous which had at last found a formula for wireless communication replaced the I know I can depend on you.” “We shall planning by staff officers who were never, deploying and synchronising the new telephone. bear up. You can rely on us, as we rely on Lloyd reminds us, the drones of popular weaponry. Small, nimble tanks (the British What we now call industrial warfare you,” was the reply. Trust and morale were imagination lurking in chateaux far from ones were called Whippets) backed the forced commanders to create, adapt and as important as the ability of the brass hats the front line. Preparations included such infantry and knocked out machinegun test new tactics. Hitherto their only expe- to exploit modern weapons. essential and exacting chores as the nests while Allied aircraft dominated the rience of battle had been the one-sided The bonds of mutual confidence rem- arrangement of transport for hundreds of battlefields. The Germans fell back and by campaigns of imperial conquest. Now ained astonishingly strong despite the thousands of men, providing them with October their generals were seeking an Haig, Pétain, Foch, Ludendorff and their The Western losses of the great offensives at Verdun, the food and ammunition, setting up forward armistice. They had no bargaining chips. fellow generals had to incorporate their Front Somme and Passchendaele. However, the first-aid posts and producing up-to-date The ingenuity of the boffins and persever- ever-growing arsenal of lethal novelties A History of the First death toll of the Nivelle offensive in 1917 of the enemy’s defences. Above all ance of Allied generals had won a war that into a strategy that would secure total World War triggered mutinies by demoralised French there was the drawing up of precise orders had for so long seemed unwinnable. victory on the Western Front. They faced infantrymen who likened their lot to sheep for units, with details of targets and timeta- I was convinced by Lloyd’s case for the a task akin to that which confronted the by Nick Lloyd being driven to slaughter. Pétain saved the bles for advances. brass hats. He has looked into their minds government and the NHS at the onset of Viking, 657pp; £25 day with remedies that eased the lot of the German morale soared and the soldiers and the problems they faced and how they the coronavirus pandemic. Science had to poilu. By now the Russian will to fight was sensed this was the beginning of the end. overcame them. What emerges is that be mobilised. they were adaptable pragmatists feeling Discovering how to wage this war was their way in a war whose complexities not easy for military castes that were con- none could have imagined before 1914. Oh! servative by instinct and upbringing. Yet, What a Lovely War and Blackadder Goes as Lloyd demonstrates, French officers Forth were never history, merely good who had execrated Dreyfus, reactionary entertainment. Nor were Prussian junkers and the heartier alumni indifferent to the risks of war and its casu- of English public schools showed an unex- alties. Lloyd refers to “hundreds” of gener- pected flexibility of mind when it came to als killed in action and the many who lost solving the problems of trench warfare. sons in the fighting. General Allenby rea- Senior and junior commanders dis- cted to the death in action of his only son agreed on priorities and methods. Lloyd by reciting Rupert Brooke’s The Soldier. guides us through the many meetings The Western Front is the first book in a where generals and politicians proposed trilogy that will cover the Eastern Front and debated potential war-winning strate- and campaigns in the Middle East and gies. Accounts of these conferences make Africa. If this volume is anything to go by, lively reading, with egos clashing, nerves Lloyd is well on the way to writing a defini- snapping and tempers flaring. In March tive history of the First World War. 16 saturday review 1GR Saturday February 20 2021 | the times

JONAS GRATZER/GETTY IMAGES nonfiction Should we play God and dim the sun? Ben Cooke enjoys this account of the ingenious ways we are trying to save nature army has chosen to make its stand there. incredible lengths to which people go to bleached half of the Great Barrier Reef in t one end of the canal that con- The New Yorker journalist Elizabeth protect nature, and even featured an inter- recent years. Climate change is making nects the Chicago and Des Kolbert recounts the battle against Asian view with a woman whose job it is to jerk such heatwaves more common, reducing Plaines rivers the US army is carp at the beginning of Under a White Sky off an endangered and sex-averse crow. these marine metropolises to rubble and waging a war on fish. Of all the Under a White Sky as a parable of how one intervention in That humans can treat other creatures portending their extinction in coming weapons it considered bring- The Nature of nature can unexpectedly necessitate a with such care and attention, yet destroy decades. At the National Sea Simulator in Aing to this fight — blasts of ozone, barrels the Future string of further interventions. First, you them so carelessly, was the book’s dark iro- Queensland researchers subject corals to of poison, splurges of power-plant effluent introduce a foreign weed, then you try to ny. Under a White Sky continues along that water temperatures that they may have to — its corps of engineers chose to erect an by Elizabeth Kolbert control it with a foreign fish, then you stage theme, exploring the emergency interven- endure later this century, then encourage electric barrier, which is now being Bodley Head, 256pp; £18.99 a fluvial Thermopylae to keep the fish at tions people are staging to save the bio- the survivors to mate. bedecked with loudspeakers and bubble bay. She offers this and other such hapless sphere, and asking whether such interven- Describing the researchers waiting for machines. You would think the fish would struggles as vignettes of our treatment of tions might do more harm than good. the corals to release their clouds of not stand a chance, but like the other foes the natural world as a whole, which we Many of the characters Kolbert speaks to gametes — tiny eggs and sperm — Kolbert in America’s forever wars, they have have now damaged so badly that it needs are conservationists whose zeal for the notes that “everyone was wearing special proved surprisingly resilient. our emergency care. creatures in their care is inspiring, if a little red-tinted headlamps that gave off a lurid The fish the army is interested in killing Kolbert’s previous book, the Pulitzer- quixotic. Take, for instance, the wardens of glow. This seemed appropriate because are Asian carp, a group of four species with winning The Sixth Extinction, detailed the the Devils Hole pupfish, a tiny creature that what the crowd had come to watch was, we bulbous heads and eyes below their extent of that damage. Hailed as a Silent lives in only one cave, in Death Valley. This all hoped, an orgy.” Kolbert’s prose is pep- mouths that were introduced into the Spring for the 21st century, it opened read- cave is threatened by seeping toxic waste, pered with such mordant observations, Mississippi basin in 1963. Since then they ers’ eyes to the global collapse in biodiver- so the US Fish and Wildlife Service has which bring out the humanity (or animal- have proved a far more formidable invasive sity for which there are only five previous built the pupfish an almost exact replica. ity) in her subjects. “I can take your sperm species than the Eurasian watermilfoil, an episodes in the planet’s history — one Swimming about in this “fishy Westworld”, if you want,” she hears one researcher say- aquatic plant they were meant to control. meteor-induced. the pupfish are now a “Stockholm species”, ing to another as they swill the corals’ The carp have rampaged through Amer- under attack A green You might think that a treatise on such dependent on people for their survival. gametes around. “Yes,” her colleague ica’s waterways and driven local species to sea turtle on the Great a grim subject would come across as mis- Kolbert also speaks to conservationists replies, “have a bowl of my sperm.” extinction. The canal offers them a route Barrier Reef, where coral anthropic, but you would be wrong. The trying to breed hardy corals that could The researchers intend to save portions into the Great Lakes, which is why the bleaching is on the rise Sixth Extinction was also the story of the withstand the marine heatwaves that have of the Great Barrier Reef not only by popu- A dinner party with the bohemian bachelor boys

well, the genre is enormous fun. Don’t you Friends called them “the Crichel Boys”, ened damson”. Macaulay found Long This set are a bit Bloomsbury, a bit wish you were there? Guest of honour at a “the Bears” or “the Bachelors”. To others Crichel a refuge, a place where one could Oxford tweedy — with a few too many fantasy dinner party, with Paddy on your they were the “hyphenated gentlemen- “talk, and talk, and talk”. And write and left and Nancy on your right and Virginia aesthetes”. They were gay, or bi, or open- write or put off writing. Shawe-Taylor literary liggers, says Laura Freeman Woolf being wicked and bitchy within minded. Nancy Mitford called them “the complained that Mortimer, then chief eavesdropping distance. Done less well, Brontës” and the novelist Elizabeth Bowen book reviewer for The Times, you feel trapped at an endless country- the “dear old cissies”. When the Crichel would sit indoors, even in the finest wea- o you know the old musical hall house weekend listening to minor literary Boys became the increasingly elderly ther, and spend “24 hours stewing, sighing song: “I’ve danced with a man, liggers complain about the central heating. Crichel Crotchets, Eardley called his and smoking over his review all morning, who’s danced with a girl, who’s Simon Fenwick’s The Crichel Boys is a housemates “those old centipede crabs”. snoozing in the smoke-filled room all danced with the Prince of played-croquet sort of book. Sibyl Colefax There are nice sidelines. I was pleased to afternoon and all night”. Wales”? There’s a genre of book and Emerald Cunard turn up on page 2 Fenwick, archivist and biographer of Dthat makes me hum these lines, only with and Nancy, Cyril, Cecil et al on page 3. It’s Long Crichel was Joan Leigh Fermor (wife, eventually, of different lyrics. “I’ve played croquet with a a promising premise. In 1945 three Paddy), is a scrupulous researcher, but suf- chap, who’s played croquet with a chap, friends, Eddy Sackville-West and Des- a place where one fers a tendency to tell you everything he who’s played croquet with a Mitford girl . . .” mond Shawe-Taylor, writers for the New has found in every parish record. He Here come the usual (or should that be Statesman, and Eardley Knollys, an could ‘talk, and quotes entire letters — even the censor’s U-sual?) suspects: Nancy Mitford, wasp- administrator at the National Trust, talk, and talk’ label on the envelope — when a line or two ish, wasp-waisted, just back from Paris; bought Long Crichel, an old rectory in east would do. The heart sinks at the list of Patrick “Paddy” Leigh Fermor, bronzed with no electricity and disobliging learn that during the Second World War, entries from the Crichel anecdote book. and handsomely indolent; Lady Ottoline plumbing. the Special Operations Executive took Not one got a twitch of the lip. Perhaps you Morrell, splendid, ridiculous, roped in Here, Fenwick tells us, “the last English over so many country houses that the had to be there. pearls. Sonia Orwell will perch on the literary salon began”. The writer and critic initials SOE were said to stand for “Stately Guests come and guests go and the fender and there will be cameos by John Raymond Mortimer later made the trio a ’Omes of England” and that The Spectator names don’t necessarily stick. Partridge Betjeman, Cecil Beaton, Cyril Connolly, The Crichel Boys “string quartet”. James Lees-Milne, also a became known as “the Bugger’s Bugle” used to describe the younger generation as David “Bunny” Garnett and a glamorous Scenes from England’s National Trust man, and Frances Par- when it campaigned for homosexual law “fringe Bloomsburies”. I’m afraid that Guinness or three. Last Literary Salon tridge, known to posterity for her diaries, reform. Sackville-West with his pills and some of the boyfriends of boyfriends in the Evelyn Waugh will turn up at teatime were frequent guests. fad diets inspired Nancy Mitford’s Uncle book aren’t so much fringe, as fray. I found and be rude about everyone. It will be a bit by Simon Fenwick It was to be a “Bruderhof” — a brother- Davey in The Pursuit of Love. myself hooting, morose and owl-like: Bloomsbury, a bit Bright Young Things, a Constable, 354pp; £25 hood — or so Desmond put it to Eddy when I loved Lees-Milne’s description of the “Who? Who? Who?” bit BBC and a bit Oxford tweedy. Done the idea of taking a house was proposed. writer Rose Macaulay looking like a “wiz- Fenwick casts his net wider than Long the times | Saturday February 20 2021 1GR saturday review 17

lating it with heat-resistant corals, but by spraying seawater into the clouds above to reflect more sunlight and cool the waters below — a project that sounds like science Exorcising the ghost of Robert E Lee fiction. An even more grandiose idea is the subject of the penultimate chapter — dim- PATRICK SMITH/BUYENLARGE/GETTY IMAGES ming the sun to combat climate change. after he died in 1870, Lee for many The idea is to offload clouds of calcium A US colonel became a remained a symbol of Southern chivalry, into the stratosphere, where they would hate figure for telling untainted by the dirty business of slavery. reflect a portion of the sun’s rays. We know A portrait of him hung in Seidule’s child- this would cool the Earth because that’s the ugly truth about hood home. Statues honoured him; what plumes of volcanic ash do. The erup- schools and parks were named after him. tion of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines Confederate heroes, The school textbooks Seidule read as a boy in 1991 reduced temperatures by about says Gareth Russell assured him that: “Lee knew slavery was 0.5C, about half of the warming our green- wrong. He said it was bad for the slave and house gas emissions have inflicted on the worse for the man that owned him.” planet. It would also be rather cheap, cost- Robert E Lee Lee’s defection to the Confederate col- ing only $20 billion or so per decade. and Me ours in 1861 was traditionally presented as So what’s not to like? Why don’t we just A Southerner’s driven by his belief in states’ rights against correct our disruption of the atmosphere’s Reckoning with overweening federal power, rather than chemistry with even more disruption? the Myth of the support for “the peculiar institution”. Seid- Unfortunately, there is reason to think Lost Cause ule is devastating in dismantling his child- that doing so might be the equivalent of in- by Ty Seidule hood hero, indicting him as a racist and an troducing Asian carp to combat Eurasian upholder of white supremacy, before and watermilfoil. As well as whitening the St Martin’s Press, after abolition. He quotes Lee’s words with skies, it could disrupt weather patterns, 304pp; £20.37 meticulous and relentless vigour — how causing drought in Africa and Asia. Yet Lee thought the very idea of ending slav- n 2015 Ty Seidule, “wearing the blue ery was “savage and brutal”. He tells us Devils Hole pupfish uniform of a US Army officer, with the how Lee also persuaded the Confederate eagles of a full colonel and a comple- president Jefferson Davis to authorise the are a ‘Stockholm ment of medals”, recorded a five-min- South’s invasion of Maryland and Penn- species’, dependent ute video for a conservative website. sylvania, during which Lee allowed his sol- IWhat was originally intended as a short diers to kidnap free African-Americans, on people to survive lecture on the causes of the American Civil some of whom endured “torture, mutila- War between 1861 and 1865 went viral and, tion, and eventual death” rather than be equally it could buy us time to decarbonise like any good virus, it caused a spike in sent south. After slavery ended Lee did society and stave off climate catastrophe. temperature. Within 24 hours, one million not, as his defenders insisted, embrace the The risk assessment is incredibly difficult. people had watched Seidule state: “Slavery days of peace, but argued that Virginia As one scientist tells Kolbert: “We live in a was, by a wide margin, the single most would be better off if she rid herself of her world where deliberately dimming the important cause of the Civil War.” f***ing sun might be less risky than not Six years on, Seidule is still receiving ‘On a scale of 1 to 10, I doing it.” hate mail for it. He was accused of having Yet, Kolbert points out, “to imagine that prostrated himself at the altar of woke, of put Lee at 11 and Jesus ‘dimming the f***ing sun’ could be less being a secret communist, a “cuck” and, dangerous than not dimming it, you have particularly wounding for a Virginian, a at 5,’ he says of his to imagine not only that the technology Yankee. His son was heartily amused by boyhood hero-worship will work according to plan, but also that it the online comments informing his father will be deployed according to plan. And that he was ugly too. entire black population. that’s a lot of imagining.” We’re not going To British ears, what Seidule said is Very occasionally, Seidule’s attempt to to stop tinkering with nature, but we’ll either obvious or uncontroversial. Not so link this history to modern discontents can have to learn to do so less clumsily. in the US, hence why Seidule felt it neces- feel heavy-handed. Nonetheless, his case sary to write Robert E Lee and Me: A South- is persuasive. The myth of the Lost Cause erner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost — made solid in the countless statues and Crichel to take in the early years of the Cause. The waving of the Confederate bat- monuments erected across the south from National Trust, the Crichel Down Affair (a tle flag during the storming of Capitol Hill the late 19th century — was pushed to legal wrangle over land management and last month and the fury directed at statues uphold racial segregation in the Jim Crow tenant farming rights that led to minister- of monuments dedicated to Confederate era, not to commemorate the bravery of ial resignation), the trial of Lord Montagu soldiers during the Black Lives Matter pro- those Southerners who had fought. for “gross indecency” with two RAF ser- tests are reminders that the legacy of civil Revealingly, memorials were never vicemen, the Wolfenden report (unpleas- war smoulders on. erected to the Confederate general James antly called “the Pansies Charter” by the The “Lost Cause” of the Confederacy taking a stand ens of Confederate soldiers in which they Longstreet, who Lee called his “old war Sunday Express) and the Aids crisis. still has its defenders. However, rather A graffitied statue of unambiguously state how defending slav- horse”. After the surrender, Longstreet While the strands are individually inter- than acknowledge the ugly truth that General Lee, pictured ery prompted their enlistment, he opened joined the Republicans, the party of eman- esting, they don’t tie together and there isn’t Confederate soldiers died to keep other below, in Richmond, up the floor to questions. The first, deliv- cipation and Abraham Lincoln, earning enough of Long Crichel itself to sustain a men, women and children in chains, these Virginia ered in the mellifluous baritone of old him the nickname “the local leper”. single story. Fenwick touches on a fascinat- admirers of the old South have to engage Southern money, was: “Colonel, you have Nor does Seidule simply blame the usual ing theme: that between the 1930s when it in intellectual contortions, insistingg that pprovided no evidence that the War suspects for sustaining modern injustices was possible — at least in more bohemian anything and everything was the cause ooff BBetweenetween theth States had anything at all to by ignoring history. In 1963 President Ken- circles — for men to love and live together the war: we are supposed to believeve tthathat ddoo with slavery.”s nedy refused to attend ceremonies for the as an “open secret” and the end of the millions rallied to the flag in opposi-osi- SSeiduleeid grew up with similarly centenary of the Emancipation Proclama- Second World War there was a hardening tion to big government or becausese mmyopicyop beliefs. Aged 12 he read all tion because it was “too controversial”. of attitudes towards homosexuality and a of the heart-racing issue of tariffs.. 40400,0000 words of Margaret Seidule is a refreshing voice in this dis- rise in the persecution and prosecution of “The moonlights and magno- MMitchell’s Gone with the Wind, cussion about the legacy of the civil war. gay men. There’s the book I want to read. lias school,” as Seidule describes popopular culture’s most evocative He makes an intriguing case for why the It’s tricky too that Long Crichel is now a this strand of opinion, “makes roromanticisation of the old unique culture of the south should not be private home. It isn’t like Charleston in the plantation a rural fantasy of SSouth. When the 1939 film conflated with the Confederate cause, and Sussex, every room still imprinted with the the better, simpler life com- aadaptation was first broadcast this army veteran also shows it is neither presence of the Bloomsbury painters pared with the modern imper- oon television in 1976, he was one left wing nor “unpatriotic” to make a Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. Or sonal age of technology.” Slav- of the 162 million Americans hard-nosed reassessment of yesterday’s Sissinghurst in Kent, where you can imag- ery is downplayed or dismissed so wwhoh tuned in to NBC to watch. heroes; he is as open in his incredulity at ine Vita Sackville-West weeding beyond that the antebellum South can bee HHisis journey, emotional and intel- the affection still inspired for a republic the box hedging and Harold Nicolson still happily portrayed as the last gasp of lelectual,ctu away from this world view that “died fighting against the United at work in his study. You cannot visit Long picturesque feudalism. ininspiredspire Robert E Lee and Me, a mix of States” as he is about his own patriotism: “I Crichel, nor hear the echo of mallet on ball, Seidule, emeritus professor of hhistoryistory mememoirmoir aand historical truth-telling. chose to serve for so long because of my nor pace the lawn where Paddy Leigh Fer- at the military academy West Point,nt, isi s alivea live SSeidule’seidule’s account of his childhood ven- abiding belief in the United States of mor used to play “endless croquet in mid- to how the power of this myth ccanan blind eerationration fforor GGeneral Lee, the Virginian who America. I was willing to fight and die . . . I summer weather, glass-in-hand, with fellow Americans to historical reality.ality. He led the CoConfederate armies to some of love my country.” Robert E Lee and Me is pigeons and rooks overhead, and pretty records in Robert E Lee and Me how after their greatest victories, is by turns amusing one of the more unusual and interesting well non-stop cuckoo (thanks to its being delivering a lecture, which consisted of and touching. “On a scale of 1 to 10, I put recent reflections on the ever lingering May) seldom out of earshot”. quoting verbatim the testimonies of doz- Lee at 11 and Jesus at 5,” he writes. Long ghosts of the Confederacy. 18 saturday review 1GR Saturday February 20 2021 | the times Crime Club Sign up to our weekly email fiction for book recommendations, prizes and crime trivia thetimes.co.uk/newsletters

GETTY IMAGES Although the premise is slim, Barclay nimbly keeps the engine racing, particu- larly once Miles comes to know his sparky daughter, Chloe. Find You First has no Billionaires and more pretensions than a hot dog, but sometimes that’s exactly what you crave.

Serpentine by Jonathan Kellerman Century, 368pp; £12.99 black magic Remarkably this is the 36th mystery fea- turing Jonathan Kellerman’s sleuthing psychologist Alex Delaware, in a series that began in 1985. The events in Serpen- James Owen’s picks Thrillers tine start a few years before then, with the this month span discovery of the body of a woman in a burnt-out car below Mulholland Drive, the globe, from Latin Los Angeles. Decades later, her entrepreneur daugh- America to Syria ter wants to learn what happened to the mother she knows only from photographs. The Foreign Girls by Sergio Olguin, Delaware helps his usual partner, the trans. Miranda France police lieutenant Milo Sturgis, to thaw this Bitter Lemon, 400pp; £8.99 coldest of cases. Before long they are Following the traumatic events of the searching through fading memories for novel that first introduced her, The Fragil- traces of a string of young women who ity of Bodies, the Argentine investigative Book hoped to find a better life in the City of journalist Veronica Rosenthal takes off of the Angels. upcountry for a holiday. She falls in with month Kellerman does not stir far from his two European girls and finds herself usual haunts in Serpentine, but the ride is seduced by one of them. But at a party to stretch-limousine smooth and the evoca- which she brings the pair, they disappear tion of the Hollywood Hills of the Seven- and are later found murdered. en row with her wealthy husband, unusually close observation of minor ties affecting. A black magic ritual is blamed. How- Nina Rai is found dead in the dense forest characters. All together now: everybody ever, Veronica begins to uncover previous near her Auckland home. The evidence loves good neighbours. The Hunting by Stephen Leather killings of local women dating back suggests she died that same night. But who Hodder & Stoughton, 272pp; £12.99 decades that have gone unpunished, as was driving her car? And what has Find You First by Linwood Barclay A billionaire — two-a-penny in thrillers at all the while she is dogged by an assassin happened to the quarter of a million dol- HQ, 400pp; £20 the moment — Jon van der Sandt, loses his bent on revenge. With its social concerns, lars she grabbed from the family’s safe as Quality of writing counts in thrillers, but family to an attack by Isis terrorists in a The Foreign Girls is very much a literary she fled? there are many ways to achieve it. Linwood Cyprus resort. He avenges them by having novel rather than simply a thriller. It large- Her son Aarav, then 16, is now a thriller Barclay does it here by letting the reader in the jihadis nabbed by mercenaries in Syria ly overcomes the difficulties of being writer basking in the glow of a global hit. on the joke. You want one billionaire with and flown to his vast estate in America, translated from another language, but is Sociopath that he is, he snoops on the issues? Have two. And while we’re at it, where he plans to hunt them as he does often more slow-burning tango than brisk goings-on in the exclusive enclave where throw in a couple of subplots featuring big game. paso doble. he grew up and still lives. Convinced the professional hit persons, as we call them Only there’s been a mistake. One of the Yet the benefits of Sergio Olguin taking solution to his mother’s disappearance lies now. The end product fizzes along the group, Raj Patel, isn’t an Islamic fanatic but time to establish place and character pay close at hand, he begins delving into his entertainment highway without too much a British doctor who has been treating off as Veronica faces down men used to parents’ toxic marriage. But a car accident regard for the rules of the road. injured civilians. Previously he was a Royal taking what they want. The realities of life of his own seems to have affected his Miles, tycoon No 1, has an incurable dis- Marine commando. in Latin America offer little escapism memory — and others have secrets they ease and decides to track down all the Stephen Leather’s mash-up of Wilbur perhaps, but in the gutsy, raunchy Veroni- want to keep buried. children he might have fathered as a Smith’s books and the film Under Siege ca they have a contemporary heroine to Nalini Singh’s insights into Indian youthful sperm donor so he can leave with Steven Seagal doesn’t quite have the cherish. family values and the looming presence of them his fortune. But no sooner does he courage to do the truly unexpected. Yet, slow burn Sergio the New Zealand landscape hold the find them than they start disappearing while shooting first, it does ask a few ques- Quiet in her Bones by Nalini Singh Olguin’s latest is more attention throughout. Although there is without trace. How involved in this is tions as the extremists and Raj together try Gollancz, 384pp; £14.99 a literary novel than an overabundance of false trails, she has a tycoon No 2, Jeremy, who has an to outfox the hunter. Easy action, if not Ten years after she vanished after a drunk- a thriller gift for generating tension through unhealthy interest in young girls? perhaps solid gold. The consolations of Canadian kindness

imploding, he received the news that a she has set all her fiction to date, a place so Mary Lawson writes woman he vaguely remembered from his far north that the dodgy radio signal stories full of warmth boyhood had named him in her will and means bulletins about the Munich Olym- left him her house in Solace, a two-road pics attack and Watergate become so and empathy, says town in northern Ontario. So here he is. much static. It’s September 1972; he’ll stay for a couple Bad things happen here, certainly, but Siobhan Murphy of weeks, but at the first snowflake he’ll put when they do the comforts of community the place on the market and leave. wrap those sharp-edged revelations in a lara, almost eight years old, is an Mary Lawson’s fourth novel is a story of consoling blanket. Neighbours drop casse- anxious child at the best of hard childhoods and coming to terms with roles off on the front porch; there are blue- times, but now that her elder sis- the past. It deals with the weight of berry pies, homemade cookies, and ice ter, Rose, has run away she can’t repressed emotions and the terrible conse- cream so creamy you have to hack off bring herself to leave her post at A Town quences of too much or too little love. chunks with a chisel. Liam, an accountant, Cthe living room window, watching for her (Chapters given to Elizabeth Orchard, ends up relishing doing honest labouring return. It’s from this vantage point that she Called Solace lying in her hospital bed and recalling with the local builder. And if you’ve read sees a strange man let himself into old Mrs by Mary Lawson her difficult past, explain her tragic link to Lawson’s other books, there’s the sense of Orchard’s house next door. This is clearly Chatto & Windus, Liam.) It’s also another example of layers of fictional history being carefully wrong — Mrs Orchard was only going into 288pp; £14.99 engrossing storytelling from this Canadi- laid down, as with Anne Tyler’s novels set hospital for a few days and asked Clara to an author (living in Kingston-upon- in Baltimore, and Sebastian Barry’s linked look after Moses, her cat. Now this Thames), who was longlisted for the Irish tales. stranger is picking up the framed photos Booker prize for her 2006 novel The Other Lawson’s books are a pleasure to read — and dumping cardboard boxes of his Side of the Bridge. they conjure a space where quiet reflection belongings in the front room. She’d like to With spare, unembroidered strokes she and owning your past mistakes bring gen- tell someone, but there’s no one to turn to. summons up characters you want to spend tle rewards; they feel kind and wise and The man, Liam, is almost as confused as time with and a warmly enveloping sense brimful of empathy. And, good grief, isn’t Clara. Just as his life in Toronto was busy of the little patch of Ontario in which gentle rewards Mary Lawson that what we all need right now? the times | Saturday February 20 2021 1GR saturday review 19

DAN TUFFS/GUARDIAN/EYEVINE fiction Love at first bite — sexy and fun and a little weird This riot of carnal pleasures will make you laugh as well as gasp, says Melissa Katsoulis

tured her about dieting since she was a child) is herself. Rachel counts out her lonely days and nights in calories. She is so desperate for Milk Fed the comforting sensation of sweet, fatty by Melissa Broder food that she expends her tiny calorific allowance on the junkiest fat-free diet Bloomsbury Circus, goop she can find. Which leads her to the 304pp; £16.99 frozen yoghurt bar where Miriam works. When fictional characters fall in love at first sight we usually get a lingering look at t might seem impossible to write a the love object’s mysterious smile or funny book about eating disorders, but elegant hands. Here, Rachel’s starving literary merman erotica was incon- gaze locks on to the fattest, pastiest woman belly laughs Melissa troubled author of So Sad Today, an essay with the Rabelaisian Miriam she finds she ceivable too until Melissa Broder’s last in LA, who smells slightly of fags, pumping Broder, purveyor of collection about addiction, eating disor- wants to be not her own mother but her novel, The Pisces, showed us how fish- massive curls of frozen yoghurt and cara- merman literary erotica ders and sexual dysfunction. (Vomit fetish, own daughter, and Miriam (stay with me Itailed men do it in contemporary Califor- mel sauce into a paper cup, and knows anyone? No, I thought not.) Her popular here) to be her inner child’s sister, a fellow nia. And anyway Milk Fed is less about the she’s found her dream lover. and dark social media feeds about depres- Jewish baby, happy in her fat body. Got it? anorexia of its heroine than the rooting of Miriam is from a big Jewish Orthodox sion show that this strikingly glamorous Don’t be put off if Milk Fed sounds a bit adult sexual desire in our childhood expe- family who value food, babies and a sup- woman is no ditzy influencer or peddler of disgusting and weird. It is! But that’s love. riences. But before we page Dr Freud, let’s portive community above all else. Depri- chick-lit. She wears her learning lightly, That’s the point. Luckily, Broder’s deep meet Rachel. vation and starvation are, rightly, mere but Milk Fed continues the tradition of delving is leavened by a genuinely hilari- A secular Jew, skinny and stylish, Rachel ghosts of the past for these religious, happy psychoanalytic investigation into the ous turn of phrase and a wicked satirical works in the film industry, where women Jews. As the two women become friends, eroticism of mothers, breastfeeding and eye that will make you laugh out loud must be tiny and glossy and just a little bit Rachel’s carnal desire and her long- oral fixation. more than you gasp in horror. If, like me, spunky, and men must be buff and pay lip suppressed yearning to be properly fed Rachel wants not only to be nourished you are an accidental connoisseur of service to spirituality and feminism. Some result in an epic orgy of pleasure and con- by meals at Miriam’s table, but to be fed sexed-up Jewish Orthodox literature, of these people, mostly men, Rachel is summation. This book should have come from her body like a helpless baby. Her you’ll know what I mean when I say this is attracted to. Most of them she hates. How- with a napkin. self-care obsessed LA therapist tells her to Foreskin’s Lament meets Disobedience. If ever, the person she loathes most, even It’s sexy and fun, but remember this is be her own mother, to re-parent herself, not, get stuck in and find out. Just don’t for- more than her mean mother (who has lec- Melissa Broder, the viscerally honest, but in her sexual and gastronomic union get your napkin. Death (and police detection) in Venice

PETER PEITSCH/WRITER PICTURES in Death at La Fenice (1992). Crossing St corruption, the bureaucracy, the political Donna Leon’s Mark’s Square, for example: “He ambled, incompetence: “The country of Dante, Brunetti series is an delighting in the sight of the flags swirling Michelangelo, Leonardo, Galileo and about in the breeze, and the horses poised, Columbus, and 2,000 men competed for epic achievement, front legs lifted delicately, gazing down the jobs as garbage men. O tempora, o Piazza, as if pausing which way to go. How mores . . .” Tourism has long been the bane, says Mark Sanderson wonderful they were, even if only copies, and bread and butter, of the locals. Bru- how bold and excessive, like so much with- netti, in the deserted Piazza, reflects: “For in his line of sight.” It’s as if you’re there, the years we Venetians had wished the tourists wind in your face, the baroque splendour to disappear and give us back our city. Well, of La Serenissima all around. If only . . . we’d had our wish, and look at us now.” Transient The city, in Donna Leon’s novel, is as It’s enough to put him off Paola’s pump- Desires much a character as Guido and his family: kin soup, chicken stuffed with quinoa, by Donna Leon wife Paola, a well-born academic, and rosemary and thyme, and whipped per- children Chiara and Raffi. (“Suddenly, simmons and cream. Brunetti views it as a William Heinemann, Brunetti saw him with new eyes, and saw tragedy if he can’t make it home for lunch. 288pp; £20 that his son was handsome.”) Over the Leon’s special skill is to splice glimpses of la years — Transient Desires is the 30th novel dolce vita with acute analysis of moral and in the series — the reader has come to love ethical dilemmas. Here one of the boys hy would two young them, and Brunetti’s unconventional col- who dumped the girls has to decide whe- men dump two injured leagues. They include Signorina Elettra, ther or not to betray the friend with whom American girls outside a who has always “viewed a piece of infor- he is secretly in love. hospital in the middle of mation much in the way a shark viewed a “They are so fragile, young people,” Bru- the night and then dis- leg dangling from a surfboard”, and their netti reflects, “their self-assurance such a Wappear? This is the question facing Com- boss, Giuseppe Patta: “It was not usual for thin layer.” It is his humanity, and hard- missario Guido Brunetti in a tricky case trip — across the laguna — into the heart la serenissima sleuth the Vice-Questore to demonstrate interest won wisdom, that has made — and makes that requires the help of the Carabinieri of darkness. Donna Leon never in police matters unless they somehow — him such a boon companion in crime. and the Guardia Costiera to solve. The mystery is intriguing, but following overlooks the uglinesses called his authority into question or neces- The series that has shadowed Brunetti for What the Venetian detective and his col- the progress of Brunetti via canal and calle of her adoptive Italy sitated his making a decision.” three decades is an epic achievement — in leagues eventually discover is genuinely provides the real pleasure; this has been Leon has never overlooked the uglines- its own way quite the equal of Anthony horrific. The climax is nothing less than a the case since Brunetti’s first appearance ses that disfigure her adoptive Italy. The Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time. 20 saturday review 1GR Saturday February 20 2021 | the times

BAZMARK FILMS/WARNER BROS/KOBAL/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK fiction Before Gatsby was great Jonathan Bate gives half a cheer to this wartime prequel to F Scott Fitzgerald’s most celebrated novel he Great Gatsby came out of copyright this year — 95 years Nick after publication — clearing the by Michael Farris Smith way for sequels, prequels and all that jazz Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway in Baz Luhrmann’s 2013 film adaptation of The Great Gatsby spinoffs. There is even talk — or No Exit, 317pp; £12.99 Tis that a Twittersphere myth? — of a Mup- of Daisy Fay and at Yale was a classmate Paris, and then moves to a world of broth- misbranded. Predictably, it ends with Nick’s pet movie version with Kermit the Frog as of her husband, the rich but boorish polo- els and bar fights in New Orleans on the first glimpse of the Great Gatsby looking Gatsby and Miss Piggy as the beautiful, playing Tom Buchanan — this is what eve of Prohibition. Only very occasionally out over Long Island Sound towards the unobtainable Daisy Fay. First out of the enables Gatsby to use Nick as a way of does the style echo Fitzgerald’s romantic green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. But it blocks comes Nick by the American novel- reconnecting with Daisy, his lost love. He luxuriance. I found only one phrase that I has much more in common with Heming- ist Michael Farris Smith: an imagining of fought in the First World War. And he has could imagine Fitzgerald having written: way’s A Farewell to Arms, which doesn’t go the life of the novel’s narrator, Nick Carra- come east to New York to make a fresh “left them in the solitude of their own out of copyright for another four years. way, prior to his arrival at the cottage on start as a bond dealer after the break-up of havoc”. And just occasionally there is pass- The best part of the novel is the Long Island where he finds himself neigh- a relationship with a girl in the Midwest. able pastiche: “A date he took to a football sequence telling of the brief love affair bour to the mysterious Gatsby. Farris Smith latches on to one of these game and her thick and wavy blond hair with the French girl in Paris when Farris “A parasite,” the US Centers for Disease facts and completely forgets about the that fell over the collar of her fur coat and Smith’s Nick is on leave from the front. Control and Prevention reminds us, “is others. His Nick is the son of a man who her eyes that shined like polished dimes.” This reminded me very much of the best- an organism that lives on or in a host orga- runs a hardware business, which makes it Notice the number of “and”s in that selling novel of 1921. Entitled Simon Called nism and gets its food from or at the hard to see how he made it to Yale, bond description. “And” is Farris Smith’s favour- Peter, by one Robert Keable, it tells of a expense of its host.” Parasitical novels dealing and the high-class social circles of ite word. He writes in very short sentences. romance of just this kind. Fitzgerald was present a double challenge (I should know, It has much Daisy and Tom. There is no failed romance With longer ones made of “and” this “and” deeply jealous of its runaway success. So I wrote one): they must work as novels in with a Midwestern debutante of the kind that. And then another sentence begin- much so that he paid it the dubious honour their own right and they must repay their more in that Scott Fitzgerald experienced himself ning with “and”. The style is not that of of a mention in seedy circumstances in debt to the host novel by shining a new and imagined for Nick. Instead of fleshing Fitzgerald. It is learnt from his mighty The Great Gatsby: it is the book that Nick light on it. Nick is a success on the first common with out a backstory from these materials, opposite, Ernest Hemingway. As are the leafs through in a stifling New York apart- count, a notable failure on the second. Hemingway’s Farris Smith merely uses Nick as a hook bars and the brawls and the whores with ment while the vile Tom Buchanan makes In F Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece we on which to hang a war novel. hearts and the mud of the war and the love to his mistress in the room next door. are told four important things about Nick’s A Farewell Or rather, a Great War and its aftermath shellshock. All of which are done very Jonathan Bate is the author of Bright pre-history. He is from a prominent, well- novel. The action begins on the Western effectively. Star, Green Light, a parallel life of John to-do Midwestern family. He is a cousin to Arms Front, proceeds to a love affair in wartime Nick is eminently readable. It is merely Keats and F Scott Fitzgerald Rereading Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel the day, she believed, you have to suit the prepares for her shows. It’s these perform- minal, but Mantel is not precious, so her This novel about a public and give them what they think they ances, as well as the act of talking to the haunted landscape is one filled with ba- medium is funny want.” dead, that make the novel feel at least thos. Why should the dead be any more Communing with the dead is, of course, partly like a satire of Mantel’s job. dignified than the living? and disturbing, Mantel’s profession as a historical novelist. The description of Alison taking the You can interpret Alison’s fiends as In a 2017 lecture she explained: “We sense stage in a shabby hall sounds like nothing strictly subjective — one teasing manifes- says Sarah Ditum. the dead have a vital force still — they have so much as a literary festival turn. And the tation aside, they appear only when the It is also revealing something to tell us, something we need to description of Alison’s body, as seen story is being told from Alison’s perspec- understand. Using fiction and drama, we through her skinny assistant-cum-man- tive — and if you choose that reading, about its author try to gain that understanding.” That was ager Collette’s unsparing gaze — “She the novel becomes a confrontation delivered after she was the twice-Booker- was of an unfeasible size, with plump between a woman and her brutalis- s it vulgar to assume a novel’s central winning host for the spirit of Thomas creamy shoulders, rounded calves, ing childhood of violence, neglect character is a proxy for the novelist? Cromwell. But I like even better that thighs and hips that overflowed and abuse. Although it wouldn’t Yes, it is. Is it tempting to make this as- earthy, dirty description of the transaction the chair” — sounds like Mantel do to lean too heavily into the sumption anyway when the novel is describing herself in her memoir metaphorical potential; you Beyond Black and the novelist is Hilary Communing with Giving Up the Ghost. When I im- might miss the pure delight of IMantel? Yes, irresistibly so. Beyond Black is agine Alison, she has Mantel’s Collette and Alison attending her ninth novel and, published in 2005, it the dead is Mantel’s precise, ethereal manner and Princess Diana’s funeral proces- was the last she wrote before her Wolf Hall sharp eyes. The bitter joke is, Ali- sion, bickering over whether trilogy. It’s also her funniest novel, and — profession as a son is a real medium, who has to lie Diana’s shade might be able to all historical atrocities she has written historical novelist to make her communications palat- overhear Collette calling her a about taken into account — possibly her able to her audience. “slut”. cruellest, as well as being a sharp-eyed ac- between two worlds that she gives in Be- Alison and Collette make up a double However, I prefer to take the para- count of her craft, if you choose to read it yond Black. act of sublime, bristling tension — two normal here at face value. It’s hard to stay that way. In this earlier book there are no assur- women, opposed in physique and charac- sceptical about ghosts who talk like Morris The main character, Alison, is “sensi- ances that your guide to the beyond will be ter, locked in a disintegrating relationship does, complaining about the way his tive”. This means that “her senses were ar- a cultured, powerful Tudor statesman. If of mutual need as they work the venues of ghostwriting immaterial brethren duck their debts. ranged in a different way to the senses of you have the gift, you don’t get the choice, the M25. “This is marginal land: fields of Hilary Mantel “Bloody spirits is devious, innit? Always most people”. In other words, Alison is a and there is every chance that you will strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, some reason they can’t pay. ‘My pocket psychic. She communes with the dead. She be lumbered with a Morris, the most senior fridges dead on their backs, and starving vaporised. Holy Bloody Ghost got my sees into people’s minds. She can’t predict of Alison’s “fiends” who guide her beyond ponies cropping the mud.” These are wallet.’” Hilary Mantel, it turns out, the future readily, but her audiences de- the veil — a stump-legged, slouchy nowhere places — if you wanted to be can make me believe in anything, even the mand it and so she supplies. “At the end of grotesque who plays with his fly while she precious about it, you would call them li- afterlife. the times | Saturday February 20 2021 1GR saturday review 21 bestsellers

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Slowly, she introduce the father of zone 332 miles north of Tromso and on this magical place, once home to confides the sad story of her father’s microbiology Antonie van of the week 266 miles south of Svalbard. many polar bears, but now all-consuming grief and her own Leeuwenhoek and the Or rather, it takes 11-year-old unreachable to them thanks to longing to be mothered. legendary artist Vermeer April Wood there — and her melted ice caps. Sure, you have to suspend your (using his skills to depict This is a fine debut father, a mad scientist type She learns that, despite disbelief that a small girl would not the crime scene and a who has been charged its name, the island be eaten for an appetiser by a starving victim) as attractive of a writer to watch, with measuring the hasn’t been home to the bear. You have to quell the desire to characters, without it says Alex O’Connell temperature of the place. beasts for years — but get on the phone to social services, feeling clunky. 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He becomes her nature of grief and the hope that and energetic voice, just writer of tear-jerking April explores the frozen wastelands best friend and, in scenes reminiscent children might save the world, is one to as his character requires. animal stories in town. around their base in her waterproof of Lyra Belacqua and Iorek Byrnison’s submit to. I predict a roaring success. Christina Hardyment the times | Saturday February 20 2021 1GR saturday review 23 t v & radi o Full seven-day listings & previews Critic’s choice Radio choice Unforgotten Born in Mon, ITV, 9pm Bradford There are cold cases, then Tues, Radio 4, 4pm there are the ones in Unforgotten. The hit series This sociological study, which returns with the discovery of began in 2007, has been a dismembered body that has tracking 14,000 children and been locked in a freezer for their families to determine 30 years. It’s a grim start for how their health and wellbeing a show that succeeds with its are affected by their living feel of everyday realism and conditions and family personal storylines that backgrounds. The first gradually interweave. children who took part are This is the fourth series, but now teenagers and the no prior knowledge is really presenter Winifred Robinson necessary — it soon becomes here investigates the impact clear that DCI Cassie Stuart of life in lockdown on their (Nicola Walker) is a recovering emotional health. nervous wreck after the prior The researchers conducted series’ investigation. However, questionnaires with about she’ll be back on the beat with 2,000 of the families. As the partner DI Sunil “Sunny” Khan number of patients admitted (Sanjeev Bhaskar) to work out to hospital in Bradford rose, the truth behind the body, the results provided insight which turns out to be that of into the impact of Covid on a Millwall fan. some of the most vulnerable Naturally this throws up in society. A number of the problems for four disparate young people who speak to individuals secretly connected Robinson are worried their with the long-buried crime, families will lose their homes now each living complacent, and their jobs — for others that successful lives. As usual, has already happened. Some this is almost the opposite of complain of not having Scandi noir or bleak true-crime enough to eat, others of not drama — with its likeable Sanjeev Bhaskar having a winter coat. There central cop duo, it’s warm and Nicola Walker has also been an increase rather than chilly. Except for in Unforgotten in hospitalisation rates for the body, that is. self-harm during lockdown. James Jackson Professor John Wright, who leads the study, says that it’s important to chronicle BestBest of tthehe rrestest these experiences. “The challenge that policy-makers Bloodlands pressure heaped on his Universal channel (when The bestbest films Suspicion (PG) face is how to balance the Sun, BBC One, 9pm shoulders by Brazil. He shown in 2013) is this Psycho Sun, BBC Two, 3.40pm scales of clinical harm from in frowning responded pretty well at the prequel series, with Freddie I Care a Lot (15) Cary Grant is a married cad the virus on one side, against tough-guy mode (rather than 1970 World Cup. 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Frank versus the “baddest Technicolor thrills thief; more tribute It’s brilliantly done and, Tues, Netflix man on the planet” in the from 1939, with John viewing comes on if that wasn’t enough, A terrific sports doc that gives Bates Motel 1980s, and beyond to show Clements as the Fri: The Man Who there’s even a true-crime a sense of just how good Pelé Tues, BBC One, 10.45pm their fluctuating fortunes officer accused Would Be King subplot too. was in his heyday, and of the Little-seen here on the since. JJ of cowardice. (Film4, 2.15pm). JJ James Marriott 24 saturday review 1GR Saturday February 20 2021 | the times Saturday 20 | Viewing guide

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The Queen’s only daughter, experiment with commoners. probably the hardest-working Richard Meade was seen as royal, has for years been the potential husband material, ace in the Windsor pack: a but as with so many Windsor straight-talking, unfussy dalliances was scuppered by country lass who, if recently familial meddling. Things get released pictures of her living stickier with her romance with room are anything to go by, Andrew Parker Bowles, has little interest in the considering her older sybaritic perks that come with brother’s associations (some having blue blood. We’re also say romancing Prince Charles probably less familiar with her was Camilla’s revenge for love life than we are with Anne’s fling with her other members of her family; boyfriend at the time) before in fact, as one of the talking the princess married Captain heads in this new film Mark Phillips, allegedly suggests, many people nicknamed “Foggy” by probably think that she has Charles, right with Anne, on been married to the same account of his wetness and person all her life, such is the lack of intelligence. Anne skill with which she has and Mark were happy for fended off press attention. a while until she embarked Yet there have been many on a risky affair with her romances, as this greatest hits close protection officer run-down shows. The first before falling for her present bunch were mainly posh husband, a former equerry horsey types, but not being to the Queen Tim Lawrence. the direct heir to the throne It has been quite a ride. she found she could Ben Dowell The Wall Versus Ant & Dec’s : The Cure: Live Films of the day Celebrities Saturday Night At It Again in Hyde Park Mission: Impossible — Fallout (15, 2018) BBC One, 6.40pm Takeaway BBC Two, 9pm /Now TV, 9pm , 9pm A long-running and often erratic spy franchise soars back to Cockney sparra Danny Dyer ITV, 7pm The BBC and the public’s Remember live gigs? And stratospheric heights in this, the sixth and most satisfying returns for another celebrity appetite for the work of the summers? Well, you can relive instalment yet. The writer-director Christopher McQuarrie and edition of the risk and reward The Geordie duo are back with much-loved comedian who some of those aching joys with indefatigable leading man Tom Cruise deliver two and a half hours game show where the prize another series of madcap fun, died in 2016 shows little sign this Cure concert from July of cake-and-eat-it mayhem. There’s a plot, and it involves Solomon money is decided by a tricksy albeit with their audience of of abating. Tonight there is 2018, when the mascara- Lane (Sean Harris), the villain from the dreary Mission: Impossible sphere-dropping wall. Tonight’s 300 now watching remotely. another chance to see her drenched melodists headlined — Rogue Nation, and his plans, again, to end the old world order contestants are the former Highlights include Gary 2001 stand-up show at the the British Summer Time and bring terror to the blah blah blah. McQuarrie and Cruise have footballer and Barlow performing and a new Royal Albert Hall in London Festival at Hyde Park in administered a steroid injection to that hoary format, resulting in the football pundit Chris audience interaction segment recorded during her At It Again London. With temperatures a bestiary of backstabbing super-agents, including the White Kamara, who are teaming featuring the singer-songwriter tour and featuring Wood’s reaching 30C and the England Widow played by Vanessa Kirby, below with Cruise. The seventh up to win as much cash as Fleur East. The best skit is ruminations on everything football team doing well in the instalment is set for release in November. (148min) Kevin Maher possible for their chosen easily I’m A Celebrity Get Out from Disneyland visitors to her World Cup, the band opened a charities. The key to the game Of Me Ear, in which the hysterectomy. It’s preceded by hit-laden set with the aching is having, as Dyer is wont to presenters feed embarrassing the Bafta tribute (BBC Two, Plainsong. This was followed say, “the balls to beat the wall”, lines to celebrities in public 8pm) with Julie Walters, Lenny by such classics as Pictures of with their chances resting as situations. The courageous Henry, Richard E Grant and Jim You, Just Like Heaven, Close to much on the two men’s trust in volunteers are Harry and Jamie Broadbent paying tribute to Me, Killing an Arab, Lullaby, one another as on the vagaries Redknapp, Davina McCall and everything Wood in an Friday I’m in Love and In of the drop. BD Mo Farah. BD emotional back-slappy gala. BD Between Days. BD

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Peter Purves, Lesley Judd 8.00 Victoria Wood: A Bafta Tribute Sci-fi adventure based on the 8.00 Secrets of the Royal Palaces and Jane Tucker Julie Walters, Lenny Henry, original television series, A look at the Palace of St Richard E Grant and Jim starring Chris Pine, Zachary James, planned by Henry VIII 8.20 Casualty In a moment of crisis, Broadbent gather for a gala Quinto, Eric Bana, Zoe Saldana, for Anne Boleyn, but by the Fenisha realises that Ethan will honouring the entertainer, 8.35 The Voice UK Emma Willis Karl Urban and Leonard Nimoy time it was finished seven years be there to support her. offering an opportunity to hosts the first of this year’s later, he was on to wife number Meanwhile, Connie is shocked look back over her career. Battle Rounds in the singing four. Last in the series by Grace’s behaviour See Viewing Guide (r) contest. Coaches will.i.am, Tom Jones, Olly Murs and Anne - 9.00 Line of Duty Denton tells 9.00 Victoria Wood: At It Again The Marie all return to their 9.00 FILM Mission: Impossible 9.00 Princess Anne: The 7 Loves Fleming she had a relationship much-loved comedian performs infamous red chairs as the acts — Fallout (12, 2018) Ethan Hunt of Her Life The romantic with a high-ranking officer her award-winning stand-up they have chosen from the and the IMF team join forces relationships of the princess, who may have reason to want show in front of an audience at blind auditions go head-to-head with CIA assassin August from early partner and Olympic her framed. The team gains London’s Royal Albert Hall. and fight for their place on their Walker to prevent a disaster equestrian gold-medallist access to the files on the Recorded during her At It Again coach’s team. 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Jed Mercurio is the executive at best, so tread carefully.” producer of this tense four- However, there is more to part crime thriller, written by it than Brannick is letting on. the newcomer Chris Brandon A postcard taped to the wing and starring James Nesbitt, mirror of Keenan’s car is right, as the Northern Irish linked to an assassin, possibly police detective Tom Brannick. from inside the police, known The drama draws lines from as “Goliath”, who was active to the present during the Troubles and day as Brannick investigates murdered Brannick’s wife. a car found abandoned at Brannick is understandably Strangford Lough, a large sea keen to dig deeper, but his inlet in Co Down. The owner senior officer and old friend of the car — 48-year-old Pat DCS Jackie Twomey (Lorcan Keenan — had a past as a Cranitch) is wary of reopening senior member of the IRA old wounds and jeopardising and Brannick suspects that the fragile peace. So the scene whatever has happened to is set for a complex thriller him could be politically that, like everything Mercurio motivated. “Make no is involved with, has mistake,” Brannick tells the numerous plot strands. The investigating team. “The men premise is occasionally let Keenan was associated with down by dialogue that could in the past — the ones he’s come from any police involved with now — are an procedural, but Nesbitt is as unsavoury bunch. The lines intense as ever and it’s perfect between gang-related for Mercurio fans awaiting activities and political Line of Duty’s return in March. paramilitaries are blurred Joe Clay Antiques Chris Packham’s The Beatles: Margot Films of the day BBC Four, 10pm Roadshow Animal Einsteins Eight Days a Week Isle of Dogs (PG, 2018) BBC One, 8pm BBC Two, 8pm Sky Documentaries, 9pm This ambitious biographical Channel 4, 6.05pm drama, part of the BBC’s Don’t let the fluffy faces fool you. Wes Anderson’s animation does The roadshow has arrived on If there’s one thing we’ve learnt The director Ron Howard’s Women We Loved season from deliver talking dogs and cute scenarios, but it’s also bleak and Windermere in the Lake District from all those natural history dive into the Beatles’ touring 2009, stars Anne-Marie Duff as unsettling — a dazzling family movie with the darkest of hearts. Set for the first of two episodes. programmes it’s that to survive archive is uncontroversial Margot Fonteyn. Duff delivers in Japan 20 years into the future, it depicts the semi-totalitarian Rather than eulogising about in the animal kingdom you but enjoyable, with some a bravura performance in the city state of Megasaki. The canine-hating mayor has shipped all the serenity of the lake’s waters, need to be smart. Unless remastered live performances drama written by Amanda Coe, dogs off to nearby Trash Island, a post-apocalyptic rubbish-scape. the programme digs into you’re a lion. However, as Chris previously drowned out by which concentrates on her The mayor’s nephew Atari (Koyu Rankin) has other ideas and soon another side of its history — as Packham reveals in this new screaming fans. The band’s complex relationship with crash-lands the family plane on to the island to search for his the setting for many attempts six-part series, there is no end recording sessions, where a Rudolf Nureyev (Michiel beloved pet, Spots (Liev Schreiber). Along the way he befriends a at breaking water speed to nature’s ingenuity. Using the perfectly formed single was Huisman) and ends with her charismatic pack of scrappy hounds, dodges an ancient tribe of records. Fiona Bruce visits latest science and some clever knocked off in a morning in nursing her invalid husband, cannibal curs and prepares for a rousing final-act face-off with Windermere Jetty Museum to experiments, Packham and the Abbey Road studios, seem Tito Arias. (Fonteyn danced his heavily armed, megalomaniac uncle. (97min) Kevin Maher celebrate these feats and to a team of experts show how nothing short of miraculous. well into her sixties to pay his shine a light on some artefacts adept some animals are at Howard focuses on touring medical bills.) The strong cast connected to them, including problem-solving. Is a crow and the gulf between the includes Lindsay Duncan as a special wicker chair. Other smarter than a five-year-old Beatles’ dream image and their her “Madam” at the Royal items include a rare James child? Can bees do maths? And responses to reporters on tour. Ballet, Derek Jacobi as a camp Bond film poster, an acoustic do whales have “culture”? It’s “Culture?” Paul McCartney Fred Ashton, always with a guitar rescued from a skip and entertaining and educational says. “This isn’t culture. It’s just cigarette, and Penelope Wilton an Anwar Shemza painting. JC — the Reithian dream. JC a good laugh.” Kate Muir as her mother. JC

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6.00am Breakfast 7.50 Match of the 6.05am Meerkat Manor (r) 6.25 6.00am CITV 7.30 Scrambled! 9.25 6.05am Everybody Loves Raymond 6.00am Milkshake! 10.00 SpongeBob Day (r) 9.00 Meerkat Manor (r) 6.50 Meerkat ITV News 9.30 Cornwall and Devon (r) 6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond SquarePants (r) 10.15 The Loud House 10.00 The Big Questions 11.00 Lent Manor (r) 7.15 Britain in Bloom (r) 7.45 Walks with Julia Bradbury (r) 10.00 (r) 6.55 The Big Bang Theory (r) 7.15 (r) 10.25 Entertainment News on 5 Worship 11.30 Wanted Down Under (r) Glorious Gardens from Above (r) 8.30 Love Your Weekend with Alan The Big Bang Theory (r) 7.35 The Big 10.30 WWE Raw Highlights. Wrestling 12.15pm Bargain Hunt (r) 1.00 BBC Countryfile (r) 9.25 Weatherman Titchmarsh 11.55 Simply Raymond Bang Theory (r) 8.00 The Simpsons action with the superstars of WWE News; Weather 1.15 Songs of Praise Walking: The Welsh Coast 10.00 Blanc. The chef shares his favourite (r) 8.30 The Simpsons (r) 9.00 The 11.20 Friends. Rachel attends a job 1.50 Tennis: Australian Open Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 11.30 Rick classic French dishes (r) 12.55pm Simpsons (r) 9.30 Sunday Brunch interview (r) 11.50 Friends. Joey Highlights. Sue Barker presents Stein’s Cornwall (r) 12.00 Celebrity Love Your Garden. The team surprises 12.30pm A Taste of Italy (r) 1.00 competes against Ross’s son (r) action from the men’s singles final at Best Home Cook (r) 1.00pm Alfred the Cariazo family in Hackney. Last in The Simpsons. Bart fakes his own 12.20pm FILM The Alamo (PG, 1960) Melbourne Park 3.10 Garden Rescue. Hitchcock: Talking Pictures (r) 1.35 the series (r) 2.00 ITV News; Weather kidnapping (r) 1.30 The Simpsons. A small Texan volunteer force is From Trowbridge, Wiltshire (r) FILM The Lady Vanishes (U, 1938) 2.10 FILM Jurassic Park (PG, 1993) Same-sex marriage is legalised in charged with holding off a 3.55 FILM Cinderella (U, 2015) Alfred Hitchcock’s mystery with Genetically engineered dinosaurs Springfield (r) 2.00 FILM Puss in 7,000-strong invading Mexican army. A downtrodden girl’s fortunes are Michael Redgrave (b/w) 3.10 Joan escape from an eccentric tycoon’s Boots (U, 2011) The feline goes on a Fact-based Western, directed by and magically changed when she gets Fontaine: Talking Pictures (r) 3.40 safari park and go on the rampage. quest for a golden goose. Animated starring John Wayne. With Richard the chance to win the heart of a FILM Suspicion (PG, 1941) Alfred Steven Spielberg’s adventure starring comedy spin-off with the voices of Widmark 3.30 FILM Two Mules for handsome prince. Romantic fantasy Hitchcock’s thriller with Cary Grant Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek Sister Sara (15, 1970) A grizzled drifter starring Lily James and Richard (b/w) 5.15 Amazing Hotels: Life Goldblum 4.35 ITV News; Weather 3.45 FILM Ice Age: Collision Course rescues a nun from a gang of rapists Madden 5.35 Seven Worlds, One Beyond the Lobby. and 4.50 Regional News; Weather 5.00 (U, 2016) A cosmic blunder leaves and gets roped into escorting her Planet. David Attenborough looks Monica Galetti work at Swinton The Chase Celebrity Special. With Earth in the path of an asteroid. across the Mexican desert. Western at life in Asia (r) 6.35 BBC News Estate (r) 6.15 Cornwall: This Fishing Giles Coren, Rachel Johnson, Chris Animated sequel with the voice of starring Clint Eastwood and Shirley 6.50 BBC Regional News; Weather Life. Life in Cadgwith Cove (r) Packham and (r) Ray Romano 5.35 Channel 4 News MacLaine 5.45 5 News Weekend

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9.00 Bloodlands New series. 9.00 The Ranganation Topical 9.00 Finding Alice Roger decides 9.00 The Great Catherine’s political 9.00 Rich Holiday, Poor Holiday A detective is convinced a serial comedy show with guests Rosie to leave Sarah, and as Alice abilities are tested when she is Roger and Lisa swap their killer who was responsible for Jones and Guz Khan (3/6) needs to make enough money given an opportunity to travel lavish holiday for a trip to his wife’s death has returned to save the house, he becomes abroad. Leo wants to leave Wales in a campervan, while after a break of 20 years. Crime Ms Dillon’s latest uninvited court, but Marial tries to Sue, Genna and Ray enjoy thriller starring James Nesbitt. lodger. Last in the series keep him there (8/10) a trip to a Devon manor (6/6) See Viewing Guide (1/4) 9.45 The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan spends a week 10.00BBC News exploring Colombia, learning 10.00ITV News 10.05 Celebrity Gogglebox 2020 10.00Gibraltar: Brits in the Sun traditional methods of A chance to catch-up with some Documentary following life in 10.20BBC Regional News; Weather making coffee (4/5) (r) 10.20Bradley & Barney Walsh: of the best moments from last the British Overseas Territory, Breaking Dad In Italy (6/6) (r) year’s episodes, featuring critics which sits at the entrance to 10.30Match of the Day 2 Mark including Denise van Outen, the Mediterranean (1/6) (r) Chapman presents action from 10.45 Frankie Boyle’s Tour of 10.45 Harry Redknapp’s Sandbanks Rylan-Clark-Neal, Maureen the latest Premier League Scotland The comedian treks Summer With Joe Pasquale and Lipman and Gyles Brandreth (r) 10.50Greatest TV Moments of fixtures, including Arsenal v from Aberdeen to Oban (1/4) (r) Neil “Razor” Ruddock (1/4) (r) the 70s A trawl through the Manchester City and West Ham programmes of the decade , United v Tottenham Hotspur 11.00 FILM Ted 2 (15, 2015) The featuring clips of car-crash 11.15 FILM A Monster Calls (12, 2016) 11.10 Joanna Lumley’s Home Sweet foul-mouthed talking teddy interviews, terrifying children’s A boy trying to cope with his Home: Travels in My Own Land bear fights a court case for the dramas, hoaxes and baffling mother’s terminal illness is The final episode takes Joanna right to be legally recognised game shows (4/4) (r) visited by a tree monster. from North Wales to St as a person. Comedy sequel 11.40 Olly Alexander: Growing Up Fantasy drama starring Lewis Michael’s Mount and the West starring Mark Wahlberg Gay The singer explores MacDougall, with the voice of Country, ending in her home and Amanda Seyfried mental health issues faced Liam Neeson. See Film Choice (3/3) (r) by members of the LGBT+ community, as he opens up 12.55am Heroes. Angela reveals 12.10am Teleshopping 3.00 FYI Extra 1.10am Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares 12.50am Entertainment News 1.00 about his own long-term some dark secrets (r) 1.40 Heroes. 3.15 Motorsport UK. Richard John Neil USA. A restaurant in New Jersey (r) The 21.co.uk Live Casino Show 3.00 battle with depression (r) Sylar has an identity crisis (r) 2.20 presents action from Snetterton, 2.00 George Clarke’s Old House, New Entertainment News 3.10 Friends (r) Sign Zone: Question Time. Fiona featuring round 16 of the GT4 Home (r) 2.55 Fargo (r) 3.50 Couples 3.35 Friends (r) 4.00 Gypsy Kids: Bruce hosts the political debate (r) Supercup and round 14 of the Porsche Come Dine with Me (r) 4.45 Fifteen to Our Secret World (r) 4.45 Wildlife SOS 12.40am Weather for the Week (SL) 3.20-4.00 . Dom’s life Carrera Cup 4.05 ITV Nightscreen One (r) 5.35 Kirstie’s Fill Your House (r) (SL) 5.10 Divine Designs (r) (SL) Ahead 12.45 BBC News is hanging in the balance (r) (SL) 5.05 Tipping Point (r) (SL) for Free (r) 5.50 Countdown (r) 5.35 House Doctor (r) (SL) 30 saturday review 1GR Saturday February 20 2021 | the times Margot Anne-Marie Duff plays the 21 prima ballerina Margot Sunday | Primetime digital guide Fonteyn in the 2009 drama BBC Four, 10pm FV Freeview FS Freesat BBC Four ITV3 More 4 Sky One Sky Atlantic Sky Documentaries FV 9/24, FS 107, SKY 116, VIRGIN 107 FV 10, FS, 115, SKY 119, VIRGIN 117 FV 18, FS 124, SKY 136, VIRGIN 147 SKY 106, VIRGIN 110 SKY 108 SKY 114, VIRGIN 277 7.00pm The Many Faces of June 7.00pm Endeavour When a GP is 6.55pm Come Dine with Me The 7.00pm The Simpsons Bart saves 6.30pm The Sopranos Tony warns 7.00pm FILM The Bee Gees: How Whitfield The comedy found dead in a public final dinner party in Cardiff the life of a sickly calf (R) Janice about her new love. Can You Mend a Broken actress tells the story lavatory, the young Morse’s 7.25 A Taste of Italy Nisha 7.30 The Simpsons Abe is Adriana ends her friendship Heart (12, 2020) of her career outlandish theories see him Katona travels to the town accused of a crime (R) with Danielle (2/13) (R) Documentary exploring the 8.00 Ireland to Sydney by Any relegated to general duties. of Bari in the Puglia region 8.00 Rob & Romesh vs Drag The 7.45 The Sopranos Silvio and history of the group, Means A peaceful ride Shaun Evans stars (1/4) 8.00 Grand Designs Kevin duo dive into the world of Ralph try to ensure the featuring contributions from through Vietnam comes to 9.00 The Savoy The hotel hosts a McCloud follows the drag queens with the help of Columbus Day parade runs surviving member Barry an abrupt end when series of BAFTA-related progress of a dual-purpose Michelle Visage, the smoothly, while Father Phil Gibb as well as archive the team is left adrift events, which sees a family and wheelchair- Vivienne and Baga Chipz, hosts an Italian Pride interviews with his brothers on a small speedboat in multitude of famous faces friendly home built by a before performing in front ladies’ lunch (3/13) (R) Robin and Maurice rough seas (5/6) at the hotel (3/4) design engineer and former of an audience (3/3) (R) 9.00 ZeroZeroZero As Manuel 9.00 The Beatles: Eight Days a 9.00 Darcey Bussell: Looking for 10.00 Foyle’s War The son of a Paralympic swimmer 9.00 Magnum P.I A young man and his team face the Week — The Touring Years Margot The former ballerina high-profile Jewish 9.00 999: On the Front Line who needs emergency consequences of their Ron Howard’s documentary examines the life and businessman is attacked in Paramedics tend to a young surgery goes missing with choices, at the opposite side charting the brief but career of Margot Fonteyn the grounds of a university, mum having a panic attack a bullet in his chest and Dr of the world Chris and Don successful period the 10.00 Margot Biopic of ballerina leaving Foyle to consider while out with her son. Ethan Shah asks Thomas Minu have to face some Beatles spent on the road. Margot Fonteyn starring the possibility that the Cameras also focus on a and Higgins to find him dangerous and unexpected Contributors include Paul Anne-Marie Duff and attack was racially two-year-old who is running before it is too late (8/16) circumstances (3/8) (R) McCartney and Ringo Starr. Lindsay Duncan. motivated (2/3) a high temperature 10.00 NCIS: Los Angeles An old 10.15 FILM Nightingale (12, 2015) See Viewing Guide (R) See Viewing Guide 12.00-2.00am Foyle’s War The 10.00 24 Hours in A&E acquaintance becomes a A lonely war veteran suffers 11.00-1.00am FILM The Go-Go’s 11.25 Marguerite and Armand last-ever episode. When A 56-year-old man is put on prime murder suspect a psychological breakdown (15, 2020) A look at the Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Hilda is targeted by an life support following a 11.00 SEAL Team Bravo reunites ahead of an impending visit revolutionary journey of the Nureyev star in Frederick assassin, Foyle suspects the cardiac arrest (4/8) with Jason and Cerberus from an old friend. first successful, all-female Ashton’s ballet shooting may be connected 11.05-12.05am Emergency and then search for terrorist Psychological drama band to write their own 12.00-1.00am Prejudice and Pride: to a traitor within the Helicopter Medics A farmer leader Al-Hazred (2/16) (R) starring David Oyelowo songs, play their own The People’s History of Special Operations is pierced through the chest 12.00-1.00am The Blacklist 11.50-1.05am Six Feet Under Nate instruments and score LGBTQ Britain (1/2) (R) Executive (3/3) with a metal spike (3/10) Liz seeks vengeance (R) receives bad news (1/13) (R) number-one hits ITV2 ITV4 E4 Dave Drama Yesterday FV 6, FS 113, SKY 118, VIRGIN 115 FV 25, FS 117, SKY 120, VIRGIN 118 FV 13, FS 122, SKY 135, VIRGIN 106 FV 19, FS 157, SKY 111, VIRGIN 127 FV 20, FS 158, SKY 143, VIRGIN 130 FV 26, FS 159, SKY 155, VIRGIN 129 6.45pm FILM Mamma Mia! Here 6.15pm FILM Police Academy 4: 6.55pm FILM Percy Jackson: Sea 7.00pm Top Gear Freddie Flintoff, 7.00pm Call the Midwife Sister 7.00pm Abandoned Engineering We Go Again (PG, 2018) Musical Citizens on Patrol (PG, 1987) of Monsters (PG, 2013) The Paddy McGuinness and Chris Winifred promotes safe sex among The underground base with the sequel starring Amanda Seyfried Comedy sequel starring Steve modern-day demigod seeks the Harris test three company cars the local prostitute population power to destroy a nation 9.00 Family Guy Meg Guttenberg and Sharon Stone Golden Fleece. Fantasy adventure 8.00 Expedition with Steve 8.00 Death in Paradise 8.00 ’Allo ’Allo! The Resistance and Peter are sued 8.00 FILM The Italian Job (12, sequel starring Logan Lerman Backshall Steve and his team A meteorologist is found dead — arrange a parade to provide a 9.30 Family Guy Lois meets 2003) A crook double-crosses his 9.00 Gogglebox: The Best Bits venture into the heart of Suriname just as a storm is brewing diversion so they can steal a plane one of her former boyfriends partners, who devise a daring plan Memorable critiques delivered 9.00 Have I Got a Bit More Old 9.20 Zen The death of an aristocrat 9.00 ’Allo ’Allo! The airmen make 10.00 Family Guy Stewie falls to exact revenge and reclaim their by the armchair critics News for You Jo Brand hosts, with prompts Zen to investigate a another escape attempt in love with an old friend ill-gotten gains. Crime thriller 10.00 Temptation Island Ross Noble and Mona Chalabi secretive organisation — but 9.40 ’Allo ’Allo! Hans succeeds in 10.30 Family Guy Meg falls for remake starring Mark Wahlberg The couples have an opportunity 10.00 Hypothetical With Joe powerful figures seem determined vaulting over the perimeter fence an attractive medical student and Charlize Theron to communicate with their Wilkinson, Harriet Kemsley, Jessica to keep the truth hidden at the POW camp 11.00 Family Guy 10.15-12.20am FILM Coogan’s Bluff significant others (7/11) Knappett and Miles Jupp 11.20-1.20am Taggart The team 10.10 Bangers and Cash (2/10) 11.30 American Dad! (15, 1968) Crime drama with Clint 11.00 Gogglebox 11.00 QI XL With Bill Bailey investigates the death of a 11.10 Train Truckers (5/6) 12.00-12.30am American Dad! Eastwood and Lee J Cobb 12.00-1.05am Taskmaster (7/10) 11.40-12.20am QI XL youngster at an elite school 12.10am-1.10 Train Truckers (6/6) PBS America Smithsonian Sky Arts Sky Comedy Sky Witness Sky History FV 84, FS 155, SKY 174, VIRGIN 273 FV 56, FS 175, SKY 171, VIRGIN 276 FV 11, FS 147, SKY 122, VIRGIN 123 SKY 113, VIRGIN 121 SKY 107, VIRGIN 112 SKY 123, VIRGIN 270 5.35pm The Vietnam War 7.00pm Food Factories: How They 7.00pm Guitar Star 2016 George 7.00pm The Fresh Prince of 7.00pm Ghost Whisperer Melinda 7.00pm Engineering Disasters The Watergate scandal forces Work Machines that feed Benson gives the eight finalists a Bel-Air Will quits university communicates with the angry Two train collisions at the same President Nixon to resign (10/10) Britain’s habit for snacks lesson in stage presence (2/9) 7.30 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air spirit of a cheerleader crossing within a year (3/8) 7.55 1916: The Irish Rebellion Liam 8.00 Inside the Factory 8.00 Landscape Artist of the Year Will faces a dilemma 8.00 Ghost Whisperer A spirit 8.00 Engineering Disasters Neeson narrates a documentary The team explores the production The sixth and final heat is held 8.00 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air leads Melinda to a criminal The sinkhole that opened that tells the story of the events and history of sweets at West Reservoir Centre Will becomes stranded in a forest 9.00 Blue Bloods Frank faces a under the National Corvette surrounding the Easter Rising 9.00 How Did They Build That? in Stoke Newington 8.30 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air battle with the city government Museum in Kentucky (4/8) 9.50 Countdown to Calvary Arches and opera houses 9.00 Miss Saigon: 25th Philip’s former girlfriend pays the 10.00 Private Eyes Angie uses 9.00 Battle of Dunkirk: From Hugh Bonneville travels to 10.00 America’s Hidden Stories Anniversary Performance family a visit and seduces Will her skills to take down the man Disaster to Triumph Documentary Jerusalem to tell the story of George Washington’s first love A 2016 staging of the musical at 9.00 Saturday Night Live who abducted her (3/12) showcasing the remarkable the last six days of Jesus’ life 11.00 Mystic Britain The search for London’s Prince Edward Theatre American sketch show 11.00 Law & Order: Special Victims bravery of the Dunkirk veterans 11.00-12.55am 1916: The Irish the great warrior Queen — Boudica 12.00-2.00am Barry Manilow: 10.30 Bill Maher: Live From Unit A rent boy is murdered 10.40 The Battle of Britain Rebellion The events 12.00-1.00am How Did They Build Live on Broadway A concert Oklahoma A stand-up show 12.00-1.00am Law & Order: Supremacy in the skies (3/3) surrounding the Easter Rising That? Arches and opera houses at the Chicago Theatre 11.40-12.15am Veep (5/10) Special Victims Unit 11.40-12.40am Fox Discovery Nat Geographic Comedy Central Gold W SKY 124, VIRGIN 157 SKY 125, VIRGIN 250, BT 316 SKY 129, VIRGIN 266, BT 327 SKY 112, VIRGIN 132, BT 307 SKY 110, BT 310 SKY 109, BT 311 7.00pm NCIS The team 7.00pm Building Off the Grid 7.00pm Lost Treasures of Egypt 6.45pm FILM How to Lose a Guy in 6.00pm Only Fools and Horses 7.00pm Inside the Ambulance investigates a corporal 8.00 Combat Dealers 8.00 Europe from Above 10 Days (12, 2003) Romantic 7.10 Only Fools and Horses 8.00 Inside the Operating Theatre suspected of murder 9.00 Alaska: The Last Frontier 9.00 Trafficked with comedy starring Kate Hudson 9.00 Mrs Brown’s Boys A man has an ultrasound scan 8.00 NCIS 10.00 Undercover Billionaire: Mariana Van Zeller 9.00 FILM Bridget Jones: The 9.40 Mrs Brown’s Boys 9.00 One Born Every Minute 9.00 NCIS Comeback City Helping to save 10.00 Narco Wars Edge of Reason (15, 2004) 10.20 Mrs Brown’s Boys 10.00 Emma Willis: 10.00 Those Who Kill (3/10) a 60-year-old Italian diner 11.00 North Korea: Inside Romantic comedy sequel with 11.00 Men Behaving Badly Delivering Babies in 2020 11.00 Family Guy 11.00 Edge of Alaska the Mind of a Dictator (1/2) Renée Zellweger and Colin Firth 11.40-12.20am Men Behaving 11.00 One Born Every Minute 11.30 Family Guy 12.00-1.00am Alaska: The Last 12.00-1.00am Inside North Korea: 11.05-2.05am Most Shocking Badly Deborah and Dorothy 12.00-1.00am Babies: Their 12.00-12.30am Family Guy Frontier Autumn approaches The Criminal State Talent Show Moments Ever! take a weekend break Wonderful World Sky Main Event Sky Premier League Sky Cricket BT Sport 1 BT Sport 2 SKY 401, VIRGIN 511, BT 402 SKY 402, VIRGIN 512 SKY 404, VIRGIN 514 SKY 413, BT 408 SKY 414, BT 409 9.00 Live Pakistan Super League: 11.30 Live Renault Super Sunday: 8.50am-1.00pm Live Pakistan 7.00am-9.15 Live Hyundai 8.00am-10.00 Live W-League Lahore Qalandars v Peshawar West Ham United v Tottenham Super League: Lahore Qalandars A-League: Wellington Phoenix v Football:Brisbane Roar Women v Zalmi Coverage of the T20 match Hotspur (Kick-off 12.00) v Peshawar Zalmi The T20 match Western Sydney Wanderers Perth Glory Women (Kick-off 8.05) 11.30 Live Renault Super Sunday: 2.00pm Live Renault Super from National Stadium, Karachi (Kick-off 7.10). From WIN Stadium 12.15pm Live Bundesliga: FC West Ham United v Tottenham Sunday: Aston Villa v Leicester 1.50-6.00 Live Pakistan Super 2.00pm-5.15 Live Gallagher Augsburg v Bayer Leverkusen Hotspur (Kick-off 12.00) City (Kick-off 2.00) League: Islamabad United v Premiership Rugby Union: 2.30-4.30 Live Bundesliga: Hertha 2.00pm Live Renault Super 4.15 Live Renault Super Sunday: Multan Sultans The T20 match London Irish v Bears Berlin v RB Leipzig (Kick-off2 .30) Sunday: Aston Villa v Leicester Arsenal v Manchester City from National Stadium, Karachi (Kick-off 3.00). Coverage from 5.00-7.00 Live Bundesliga: TSG City (Kick-off 2.00) (Kick-off 4.30). Action from 7.00 Pakistan Super League Brentford Community Stadium 1899 Hoffenheim v Werder 4.15 Live Renault Super Sunday: Emirates Stadium Highlights Four editions 6.30-9.30 Live Premier League: Bremen (Kick-off 5.00) Arsenal v Manchester City 7.30 Matchday Plus 11.00 The Cricket Show Manchester United v Newcastle 7.45-10.00 Live Ligue 1 Football Arsenal’s Pierre-Emerick 7.30 Live SPFL Ross County v 8.00 Best PL Goals 2018/19 A look at the big topics United (Kick-off 7.00) action from France’s top division Aubameyang is set to face Man Celtic (Kick-off 7.30) 9.00 Premier League Icons 12.00-4.10am Pakistan 5.30am-9.45 Live T20 Cricket: 1.00am Live College Basketball City (Sky Main Event, 4.15pm) 10.00-11.30 Live PGA Tour Golf 10.00-1.30am Premier League Super League New Zealand v Australia 3.00-5.00 Live College Basketball the times | Saturday February 20 2021 1GR saturday review 31 Sunday 21 Film guide Radio guide Film4 FREEVIEW 14 SKY 313 VIRGIN 428 Times Radio Today’s pick Carry On 10.30 I, Regress 10.45 The Shuttleworths 11.00am Capture the Flag Digital only Journeys with My Violin: 11.00 The Brig Society (PG, 2015) Animated 6.00am Jenny Kleeman and 11.30 Pleased to Meet You sci-fi adventure The People Luke Jones with Times Radio Radio 3, 11pm 12.00 Listening to the Dead 12.50pm Carry On Spying Breakfast 10.00 G&T with 12.45am Charles Dickens: (U, 1964) Comedy In this last of three and Tom programmes reflecting on Tales of the Supernatural 2.35 The Return of the Pink Newton Dunn 1.00pm Alexis Panther (PG, 1975) Comedy her celebrated career, the Conran 4.00 Ayesha Hazarika British violinist Tasmin Little BBC World Service sequel starring Peter Sellers 7.00 Past Imperfect: Damon Digital only 4.50 Home Alone 3 (PG, 1997) — who retired last year — Buffini. With the ub sinessman remembers the many Comedy sequel Damon Buffini 8.00 Stories of 9.00am News 9.06 From Our 6.55 Daddy’s Home 2 (12, musicians she collaborated Our Times 8.30 Red Box 9.00 with across three decades as Own Correspondent 9.30 2017) Comedy starring Will Highlights from Times Radio Africa Life Clinic 10.00 News Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg a soloist. She talks about the to Vladimir Ashkenazy. Little Brad Pitt in the 1995 thriller 10.00 Kait Borsay 1.00am pianists with whom she had also considers some of the 10.06 WorkLifeIndia 10.30 9.00 A Quiet Place (15, 2018) Highlights from Times Radio Heart and Soul 11.00 The Horror starring Emily Blunt Se7en (TCM Movies, 9pm) a close working relationship other artists who influenced and the dozens of conductors her the most, especially the Newsroom 11.30 The and John Krasinski Radio 2 Compass 12.00 News 10.45-12.40am Crank 2: High 9.25 Jamaica Inn (PG, 1939) who inspired her music- American violinist Itzhak FM: 88-90.2 MHz making, from Simon Rattle Perlman. Debra Craine 12.06pm The Inquiry 12.30 Voltage (18, 2009) Action Period adventure Assignment 1.00 Newshour thriller sequel starring Jason 11.30 The Hunchback of 6.00am Good Morning Sunday 2.00 News 2.06 The Statham and Amy Smart Notre Dame (PG, 1982) Period 9.00 Steve Wright’s Sunday 8.58 (r) 9.00 6-0-6 10.30 Stephen Documentary 3.00 News drama with Anthony Hopkins Love Songs 11.00 9.00 Nolan 1.00am Dotun 3.06 The Forum 3.50 More Talking Pictures TV 1.35pm The Taming of the 1.00pm Elaine Paige on 10.00 Omnibus Adebayo or Less 4.00 News 4.06 FREEVIEW 81 SKY 328 VIRGIN 445 Shrew (U, 1967) Shakespeare Sunday 3.00 Sounds of the 70s 10.54 Tweet Take 5: Water Rail Sportsworld 7.00 The comedy with Elizabeth Taylor with Johnnie Walker 5.00 Paul The call of the water rail (r) talkSPORT Newsroom 7.30 The 6.00am Tyneside Story 4.00 Jane Eyre (PG, 1943) O’Grady 7.00 Sunday Night Is 11.00 MW: 1053, 1089 kHz Documentary 8.00 News 6.20 River Beat (U, 1954) Romantic period drama Music Night (r) 9.00 Carla 11.45 The Battles That Won 8.06 Music Life 9.00 Thriller starring Phyllis Kirk 6.10 The Robe (U, 1953) Bruni’s C’est La Vie (r) 10.00 Dr Our Freedoms (r) 6.00am Weekend Sports Newshour 10.00 The 7.40 Jackpot (PG, 1960) Drama with Richard Burton Rangan Chatterjee 12.00 OJ 12.04pm The Unbelievable Breakfast 9.00 Jonny Owen Newsroom 10.20 Sports Crime drama 9.00 A Man for All Seasons Borg 2.30am One Hit Wonders Truth (6/6) (r) and Friends 11.00 Warm Up News 10.30 I’m Not A 9.00 Black Saddle (U, 1966) Historical drama with OJ Borg 3.00 The Musical 12.30 2.00pm Sunday Session with Monster 10.50 More or Less 9.30 Johnny Ringo 11.25-1.45am Life at the Top (r) 4.00 Jayne Middlemiss 1.00 The World This Weekend Sam Matterface 6.00 Darren 11.00 News 11.06 From Our 10.00 Rogue’s Rock (PG, 1965) Drama sequel 1.30 (r) Bent’s Boot Room 9.30 Own Correspondent 11.30 10.30 Talking Pictures with Radio 3 2.00 Gardeners’ Question A talkSPORT Special Outlook 12.00 News 12.06am Shirley Anne Field TCM Movies FM: 90.2-92.4 MHz Time Listeners’ queries (r) 10.30 Trans Europe BBC OS Conversations 10.55 Tawny Pipit (U, 1944) SKY 315 VIRGIN 415 2.45 Disability: A New History Express 12.00 Extra Time 12.30 Discovery 1.00 News Comedy with Bernard Miles 7.00am Breakfast The birth of a modern 1.06 Business 1.30 The 12.35pm Miss Knowall 6.00am Close Up 9.00 Sunday Morning disabled identity (10/10) (r) talkRADIO Documentary 2.06 HARDtalk 12.40 Looking for Sophia 6.40 3 Godfathers (U, 1948) 12.00 Private Passions 3.00 Drama: Hardy’s Women Digital only 2.30 The Conversation 3.00 (PG, 2004) Documentary Western starring John Wayne 1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime — Tess of the D’Urbervilles News 3.06 The Forum 3.50 1.50 Twenty-One Days 8.55 Gaslight (PG, 1944) Concert A performance by Katie Hims’ dramatisation of 5.00am Darryl Morris 7.00 Sporting Witness 4.06 The (PG, 1937) Thriller Thriller with Ingrid Bergman Narek Hakhnazaryan and Thomas Hardy’s novel (2/3) Penny Smith 10.00 Kevin Documentary 4.30 3.20 Fanny by Gaslight 11.20 Guns of Wyoming Pavel Kolesnikov. 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See Choice 12.15am Sideways (r) Calman Carry On 1.00 The Digital only 2.35 Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 2.40 To Olivia (PG, 2021) 12.00 Classical Fix (r) 12.45 Wall Omnibus 2.10 (PG, 2015) Comedy Drama starring Hugh 12.30am Through the Night (r) 12.48 Shipping Forecast Inheritance Tracks 2.20 6.00am Amy Voce 9.30 The 4.30 Annie (PG, 2014) Bonneville and Keeley Hawes 1.00 As BBC World Service Writing the Century: Land’s Graham Norton Show Musical remake 4.30 Spontaneous (15, 2020) Radio 4 End to John O’Groats 12.30pm Virgin Radio On 6.55 Bulletproof Monk Comedy starring Katherine FM: 92.4-94.6 MHz Radio 5 Live Omnibus 3.30 Walter Demand 4.00 Bam 7.00 (12, 2003) Martial arts thriller Langford, Charlie Plummer, LW: 198 kHz MW: 720 kHz MW: 693, 909 Kershaw: The UK’s First Street Christian Williams 10.00 starring Chow Yun-Fat Yvonne Orji and Hayley Law Artist? 4.00 John Graham: A Stu Elmore 1.00am Virgin 9.00 Braven (15, 2018) Action 6.25 Dragon Rider (PG, 2021) 5.30am News Briefing 5.00am Duncan Barkes 6.00 Desperate Hour 5.00 Poetry Radio Through The Night thriller starring Jason Momoa Animated adventure featuring 5.43 Bells on Sunday 5 Live Science 7.00 Sunday Extra: Adventures in Poetry 4.00 Sam Pinkham 10.50-1.35am The Missing the voices of Felicity Jones 5.45 Profile Breakfast 8.30 Live Tennis 5.30 Susan Calman: Keep (15, 2003) Western starring and Thomas Brodie-Sangster 6.00 News Headlines 11.30 5 Live Sport 2.00pm Live Calman Carry On 6.00 Classic FM Cate Blanchett 8.00 Sniper: Assassin’s End 6.05 Something Understood Premier League Football Listening to the Dead 6.45 FM: 100-102 MHz (15, 2020) Action sequel Samira Ahmed presents (r) 2020-21: Aston Villa v Leicester Charles Dickens: Tales of the Sony Movies Classic starring Tom Berenger 6.35 On Your Farm City 4.00 5 Live Sport 4.30 Supernatural 7.00 The Moth 7.00am Aled Jones 10.00 Bill FREEVIEW 51 SKY 319 VIRGIN 424 9.55 To Olivia (PG, 2021) 7.00 News and Papers Live Premier League Football Radio Hour 7.50 Inheritance Turnbull 1.00pm Catherine Drama starring Hugh 7.10 Sunday 2020-21: Arsenal v Manchester Tracks 9.00 Desert Island Bott 4.00 John Humphrys 6.00am The Woman on Pier Bonneville and Keeley Hawes 7.54 Radio 4 Appeal City 6.30 5 Live Sport 7.00 5 Discs Revisited 9.45 David 7.00 Smooth Classics 9.00 13 (PG, 1949) Melodrama 11.40-1.45am Cut Throat City 8.00 News and Papers Live Sport: Premier League Attenborough’s Life Stories Sir Trevor McDonald’s 7.25 Loss of Innocence (15, 2020) Thriller starring 8.10 Sunday Worship Football 2020-21 — Manchester 10.00 Comedy Club: Susan Headliners 10.00 Smooth (PG, 1961) Drama Shameik Moore 8.48 A Point of View (r) United v Newcastle United Calman — Keep Calman Classics 1.00am Bill Overton 32 saturday review 1GR Saturday February 20 2021 | the times Monday 22 | Viewing guide

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6.00am Breakfast 9.15 Morning Live 6.10am Meerkat Manor (r) 6.35 6.00am Good Morning Britain 9.00 6.30am Mike & Molly (r) 6.50 Mike & 6.00am Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine 10.00 Homes Under the Hammer (r) Meerkat Manor (r) 7.00 Jay and Dom’s Lorraine. Entertainment and fashion Molly (r) 7.10 Cheers (r) 7.35 Cheers (r) 11.15 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away! (r) 11.00 For Love or Money 11.45 Critical Home Fix (r) 7.45 Sign Zone: This news 10.00 This Morning 12.30pm 8.00 The King of Queens (r) 8.25 The 12.15pm 5 News at Lunchtime 12.20 Incident (r) 12.15pm Bargain Hunt 1.00 Farming Life (r) (SL) 8.45 Workout the Loose Women. Interviews and studio King of Queens (r) 8.55 Frasier (r) 9.25 George Clarke’s Build a New Life in BBC News at One; Weather 1.30 BBC Wright Way 9.00 BBC News at 9 discussion 1.30 ITV News; Weather Frasier (r) 9.55 Come Dine with Me (r) the Country. Renovating a 200-year- Regional News; Weather 1.45 Doctors. 10.00 BBC News 12.15pm Politics Live 1.55 Regional News; Weather 2.00 10.25 Come Dine with Me (r) 10.55 old Devon barn (r) 1.15 Home and Al worries Lily’s latest move may 1.00 FILM Bringing Up Baby (U, 1938) Judge Rinder. Cameras follow the Come Dine with Me (r) 11.25 Come Away (r) 1.45 Neighbours 2.15 FILM A have put his mother in danger 2.15 A zany heiress with a pet leopard falls criminal barrister Robert Rinder as Dine with Me (r) 11.55 Channel 4 News Serial Killer’s Obsession (TVM, 2018) Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private in love with a timid palaeontologist he takes on real-life cases in a studio Summary 12.00 Come Dine with Me Amanda Jennings discovers a serial Investigators. Frank encounters an and tries to stop him marrying his courtroom 3.00 Tenable. Warwick (r) 12.30pm Steph’s Packed Lunch killer is obsessed with her and he old enemy (r) 3.00 Escape to the assistant. Screwball comedy starring Davis hosts as five family members 2.10 Countdown 3.00 A Place in the forces her to play his deadly game in Country. Helping an osteopath find a Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant answer questions about top 10 lists, Sun (r) 4.00 A New Life in the Sun: order to save her son. Thriller starring country retreat in Herefordshire 3.45 (b/w) 2.40 Put Your Money Where then try to score a perfect 10 in the Where Are They Now? New series. Erin Cahill 4.00 Dogs Behaving (Very) Jay and Dom’s Home Fix. Jay Blades Your Mouth Is (r) 3.25 Tiger Dynasty: final round 4.00 Tipping Point. Ben Catching up with more expats who Badly. Graeme Hall treats a rescue and Dominic Chinea make clothes Natural World (r) 3.30 Life (r) 4.30 Shephard hosts the arcade-themed set up business abroad 5.00 Mend It dog that steals food and barks at the rails 4.30 The Bidding Room. People Royal Recipes (r) 5.15 Flog It! From quiz in which contestants drop tokens for Money. Items include a set of front door (r) 5.00 5 News at 5 5.30 try to sell items to five dealers, Sandon Hall, Staffordshire (r) 6.00 down a choice of four chutes in the vintage industrial metal drawers 6.00 Neighbours. Jane loses Clive’s keys including an Edwardian card table Richard Osman’s House of Games. hope of winning a £10,000 jackpot The Simpsons. With the guest voice of and searches for them in a panicked 5.15 Pointless. With Ronni Ancona, Nathan Caton, 5.00 The Chase. Quiz show hosted by Eric Idle (r) 6.30 Hollyoaks. Felix, frenzy (r) 6.00 . hosts 6.00 BBC News at Six; Weather and 6.30 Bradley Walsh 6.00 Regional News; Warren and Brody await their arrest Colby’s life hangs in the balance after 6.30 BBC Regional News; Weather Lightning. Quiz hosted by Zoe Lyons Weather 6.30 ITV News; Weather after the news about Cormac (r) a fight in jail (r) 6.30 5 News Tonight

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10.00BBC News at Ten 10.00Have I Got a Bit More News for 10.00ITV News at Ten; followed by 10.00Catching a Killer Documentary 10.00Casualty 24/7: Every Second You Helen McCrory hosts an Regional News and Weather about Thames Valley Police’s Counts A critically ill patient is extended edition of the satirical investigation into the brought into the emergency 10.30BBC Regional News quiz, with Andy Hamilton and disappearance of 31-year-old department after suffering a Chris McCausland (7/10) (r) mother of three Natalie sudden cardiac arrest, and Hemming on May 1, 2016. The another patient is treated 10.45 RuPaul’s Drag Race UK The 10.45 Headline analysis 10.45 Piers Morgan’s Life Stories programme has access to for a broken wrist (2/12) (r) contestants showcase their The former boxer Chris Eubank officers as they try to work out impressions of famous faces discusses his career and whether Natalie is alive or dead , and improv skills as they take personal life, including the 1991 and to her family and friends, 11.05 Critical Condition A man with a on the Snatch Game. With guest fight in which his opponent struggling with the situation torn aorta, the main artery in judge Jessie Ware (6/10) Michael Watson received a unfolding around them, before the body, needs urgent medical near-fatal brain injury (5/8) (r) an arrest is made and the case attention. Meanwhile, a patient 11.30 Imagine: We’ll Be Back? reaches its conclusion (r) is flown into the hospital by Alan Yentob explores the 11.45 All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite helicopter after being involved 11.55 The Graham Norton Show pandemic’s impact on Hard-hitting action from the 11.50 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares in a major car accident (2/4) (r) Rosamund Pike discusses performing arts in the UK (r) world of All Elite Wrestling USA In Los Angeles (r) IICareaLot Care a Lot, chats about his new quiz show 12.30am Sign Zone: Countryfile. 12.35am Teleshopping 3.00 FYI Extra 12.45am George Clarke’s Amazing 12.05am Evicted! Nightmare Tenants Bank Balance and the rugby A look through the archives to 3.15 This Time Next Year. A foster dad, Spaces (r) (SL) 1.40 The Supervet (r) (r) 12.55 Entertainment News 1.00 union great Gareth Thomas celebrate winter heroes (r) (SL) 1.25 a teenager, and a grandmother 2.35 Fargo (r) 3.30 Couples Come Casino 3.00 Entertainment News reflects on his new book (r) Inside Culture with Mary Beard. Mary attempt to change their lives (r) (SL) Dine with Me (r) 4.20 Fifteen to One 3.10 Friends (r) 4.00 Gypsy Kids: finds out why audiences matter and 4.05 ITV Nightscreen. Text-based (r) 5.10 Coach Trip: Road to Marbs: Our Secret World (r) 4.45 Wildlife SOS 12.45am Weather for the Week asks what role they play (r) (SL) information service 5.05 Tipping Final Week (r) 5.35 Kirstie’s Fill Your (r) (SL) 5.10 Divine Designs (r) (SL) Ahead 12.50 BBC News 1.55-2.55 Antiques Roadshow (r) (SL) Point. hosts (r) (SL) House for Free (r) 5.50 Countdown (r) 5.35 House Doctor (r) (SL) 34 saturday review 1GR Saturday February 20 2021 | the times Below Deck Mediterranean 22 A new reality series set Monday | Primetime digital guide on board a cruise ship E4, 7.30pm FV Freeview FS Freesat BBC Four ITV3 More 4 Sky One Sky Atlantic Sky Documentaries FV 9/24, FS 107, SKY 116, VIRGIN 107 FV 10, FS, 115, SKY 119, VIRGIN 117 FV 18, FS 124, SKY 136, VIRGIN 147 SKY 106, VIRGIN 110 SKY 108 SKY 114, VIRGIN 277 7.00pm Fred Dibnah’s World of 5.55pm Agatha Christie’s Poirot 6.55pm Escape to the Château: 7.00pm The Simpsons Homer 6.30pm The Sopranos Tony pays a 7.00pm Rolling Stone: Stories Steam, Steel and Stone A cleaner is found dead in DIY Amy and Marc complete tries to fulfil his mother’s visit to the track to check from the Edge A look at the Profiles of some great her home and suspicion falls their barn in time to host dying wish (R) out Ralph’s new horse and rise of Trump’s America, Victorian engineers (4/12) upon her lodger. Zoe their first yoga class and 7.30 The Simpsons Lisa gets her Christopher overstays his Jann Wenner’s 2016 7.30 The Joy of Painting Bob Wanamaker guest stars celebratory meal own television show (R) welcome (5/13) (R) post-election interview with Ross demonstrates how to 8.00 Agatha Christie’s Poirot 7.55 Grand Designs Kevin 8.00 A League of Their Own: 7.45 Game of Thrones Stannis Barack Obama, and the paint a wooden shanty upon An actress witnesses the McCloud revisits Denise and European Road Trip Jamie and Davos arrive in Braavos magazine’s relationship a bed of soft snow murder of a shady producer, Bruno Del Tufo, whose plans Redknapp and Andrew for their meeting with the with Bob Dylan (6/6) (R) 8.00 Fake or Fortune? Fiona only to become the number to transform a concrete Flintoff race through Paris Iron Bank, while Tyrion’s trial 8.00 Driving Force Judy Murray Bruce and Philip Mould one suspect. Her fiancé asks water tower into a on its Formula E circuit, begins in the throne room sits down with the boxer investigate a lost painting Poirot to catch the killer contemporary home before playing darts with and he is stunned by the Natasha Jonas to discuss by Constable (1/3) 9.00 Long Lost Family A former originally left him aghast Anthony Joshua and identity of one of the the obstacles she overcame 9.00 Into the Storm: Surfing to British soldier yearns to find 9.00 Darcey Bussell’s Wild Tom Davis (2/6) (R) witnesses (6/10) (R) in making it to the top Survive — Storyville the father he has never met, Coasts of Scotland Darcey 9.00 FILM Safe (15, 2012) 9.00 FILM The Immortal Life Of of the sport (R) Following Jhonny Guerrero while a woman hopes to travels to Islay, from where A former cage fighter Henrietta Lacks (2017) The 9.00 FILM Pariah: The Lives and as surf champion Sofia trace the youngest birth she embarks on a boat trip protects a girl holding powerful true story of a Deaths of Sonny Liston (15, Mulanovich takes the mother the programme has to see Corryvreckan, valuable information that poor African-American 2020) A look at the life and teenager under her wing. ever encountered (5/7) the third largest several criminal factions tobacco farmer whose cells suspicious death of the See Viewing Guide 10.00 Des Fact-based drama with whirlpool on Earth (3/4) want. Action thriller starring became one of the most iconic boxer, who died from 10.25 The Killer Wave of 1607: David Tennant as serial 10.00 Coastal Railways with Julie Jason Statham and important tools in medical a supposed overdose Timewatch Documentary killer Dennis Nilsen (1/3) Walters The actress travels Catherine Chan history. Stars Oprah Winfrey 10.45-12.35am I Am Johnny Cash looking at the tsunami that 11.05 Scott & Bailey First episode from Newcastle to 10.50 The Blacklist Liz seeks 10.45 Deadwood The A celebration of the country struck Britain’s coast in 1607 of the detective drama Edinburgh by train, stopping vengeance (R) townspeople decide to singer-songwriter built 11.15-12.15am Titian: Behind Closed starring Lesley Sharp off at Alnmouth (2/4) 11.45-12.45am A Discovery of put an end to Miles and around 12 of his tracks Doors A tour of an and Suranne Jones 11.05-12.10am 24 Hours in A&E Witches Matthew and Diana Flora’s games (8/12) (R) spanning four decades, and exhibition at London’s 12.00-2.00am A Touch of Frost Police suspect a patient is arrive in Bohemia to search 11.55-1.05am Oz Beecher takes featuring interviews with National Gallery A student is attacked concealing a weapon (5/8) for the Book of Life (7/10) (R) revenge (1/8) (R) family and friends (R) ITV2 ITV4 E4 Dave Drama Yesterday FV 6, FS 113, SKY 118, VIRGIN 115 FV 25, FS 117, SKY 120, VIRGIN 118 FV 13, FS 122, SKY 135, VIRGIN 106 FV 19, FS 157, SKY 111, VIRGIN 127 FV 20, FS 158, SKY 143, VIRGIN 130 FV 26, FS 159, SKY 155, VIRGIN 129 7.00pm You’ve Been Framed! 6.45pm Live Snooker: Players 7.00pm Hollyoaks Summer 7.00pm Whose Line Is It Anyway? 6.35pm Last of the Summer Wine 7.00pm Great British Railway Gold Narrated by Harry Hill Championship Coverage of day overhears a conversation USA With guest Kathie Lee Gifford Clegg sets out on a treasure hunt Journeys Goes to Ireland 7.30 You’ve Been Framed! Gold one of the ranking tournament, between Brody and Warren 7.30 Whose Line Is It Anyway? USA 7.15 Last of the Summer Wine 7.30 Great British Railway 8.00 Superstore featuring two first-round matches, 7.30 Below Deck Mediterranean With guest Randy Couture Compo takes up waterskiing Journeys 8.30 Superstore played over the best of 11 frames New series. Reality show (1/13) 8.00 Would I Lie to You? With Prue 8.00 Inspector George Gently 8.00 World War Two From Above 9.00 Family Guy 10.30 FILM Rush Hour 2 (12, 2001) 8.30 Married at First Sight Leith, Scarlett Moffatt, Big Narstie Bacchus and Gently delve into Drone technology experts 9.30 Family Guy The two mismatched detectives Australia The couples prepare for and Tomasz Schafernaker a world of military secrets scan the site of the Battle of Monte 10.00 The Stand Up Sketch Show travel to Hong Kong to investigate one last dinner party 8.40 QI XL With Bill Bailey, 10.00 New Tricks An unidentified Cassino (3/6) With Kojo Anim, Tessa Coates, Luke a bombing at the US embassy, and 10.00 Teen First Dates New series. Katherine Ryan and murder victim is named on a 9.00 David Jason: Planes, Trains McQueen and Seann Walsh (3/8) take on Triad gangsters. Action Teenagers go on blind dates (1/6) 9.20 QI XL With , website covering unexplained and Automobiles The actor learns 10.30 Family Guy comedy sequel starring Jackie 11.00 The Big Bang Theory Penny Holly Walsh and disappearances to drive a stunt car (5/5) 11.00 Family Guy Chan and Chris Tucker agrees to a date with Leonard 10.00 Taskmaster 11.15-1.15am Waking the Dead 10.00 Steam Train Britain (8/10) 11.30 American Dad! 12.20am-1.20 Motorsport UK 11.30 The Big Bang Theory 11.00 Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable DNA links a traffic collision 11.00 The Two Ronnies 12.00-12.30am American Dad! Action from Snetterton 12.00-1.00am Gogglebox 12.00-12.40am to a Balkan War murder 11.50-12.35am The Two Ronnies PBS America Smithsonian Sky Arts Sky Comedy Sky Witness Sky History FV 84, FS 155, SKY 174, VIRGIN 273 FV 56, FS 175, SKY 171, VIRGIN 276 FV 11, FS 147, SKY 122, VIRGIN 123SKY 113, VIRGIN 121 SKY 107, VIRGIN 112 SKY 123, VIRGIN 270 6.20pm World of Stonehenge 7.00pm Inside the Factory 7.00pm Artists in Love The 6.30pm Sex and the City 7.00pm Border Security: 7.00pm Forged in Fire Four The origins of Britain (1/4) 8.00 How Did They Build That? relationship between Johnny Cash Charlotte gets engaged Australia’s Front Line bladesmiths must forge a fully 7.30 War at Sea: Scotland’s Story A railway station built in the and June Carter (6/10) 7.05 Sex and the City 7.30 Border Security: functional serrated knife A look at the naval campaign shadow of an active volcano 8.00 Mystery of the Lost Paintings 7.40 Curb Your Enthusiasm Larry Australia’s Front Line 8.00 of the First World War (1/2) 9.00 Air Warriors New series. The team re-creates The Concert becomes a car salesman (1/10) 8.00 Ghost Whisperer Frank negotiates a deal with a 8.35 A Bloody Legacy Conflicts The F-86 Sabre, America’s first by Johannes Vermeer (4/8) 8.20 Curb Your Enthusiasm Jeff 9.00 Blue Bloods Danny and Jamie Wisconsin collector (2/15) past and present between eastern swept-wing jet fighter 9.00 Andre Rieu: European Dream helps Larry get revenge (2/10) team up to take down a drug lord 9.00 Strangest Things including Europe and the Middle East (1/2) 10.00 Inside the Factory The Dutch violinist celebrates the 9.00 A.P. Bio Jack spends winter 10.00 Coroner New series. Jenny a bizarre discovery in Whitby 9.45 Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial 11.00 How Did They Build That? music of his classical heroes (8/10) break alone in the school (6/8) investigates the mysterious 10.00 Treasures Decoded: Spear Drama recreating the court case A railway station built in the 10.00 Landscape Artist of the Year 9.30 Last Week Tonight with John death of a care worker (1/10) of Destiny Investigating the legend against Hitler’s armaments shadow of an active volcano 11.00 Charles Hazlewood: Oliver A satirical look at news 11.00 Law & Order: Special Victims of “the spear of destiny” (6/6) minister, Albert Speer (1/3) 12.00-1.00am Air Warriors Beethoven & Me and pop culture Unit The CEO of a military 11.00 Crusaders 11.00-12.10am World of The F-86 Sabre, America’s first 12.00-1.00am Dr Jack 10.05 Saturday Night Live contractor is sexually assaulted 12.00-1.00am Roswell: Stonehenge (1/4) swept-wing jet fighter and Mr Nicholson 11.35-12.10am Girls (4/10) 12.00-1.00am Ghost Whisperer The First Witness (2/6) Fox Discovery Nat Geographic Comedy Central Gold W SKY 124, VIRGIN 157 SKY 125, VIRGIN 250, BT 316 SKY 129, VIRGIN 266, BT 327 SKY 112, VIRGIN 132, BT 307 SKY 110, VIRGIN 124, BT 310 SKY 109, VIRGIN 125, BT 311 7.00pm NCIS The team 7.00pm Outback Truckers 7.00pm Air Crash Investigation 7.00pm Friends 7.00pm The Good Life 7.00pm Junior MasterChef investigates a petty officer’s death 8.00 Texas Metal A client requests 8.00 Air Crash Investigation: 7.30 Friends Jerry has a dilemma Australia New series 8.00 NCIS Gibbs and a last-minute diesel engine swap Special Report 8.00 Friends 7.40 Open All Hours 8.40 Fashion’s Dirty Secrets: the team assist Ziva 9.00 Wheeler Dealers 9.00 Trafficked with Mariana Van 8.30 Friends 8.20 Dad’s Army Stacey Dooley Investigates 9.00 NCIS: New Orleans Mike and Ant look back on Zeller Fentanyl’s next wave 9.00 FILM Welcome to the Jungle 9.00 The Office 10.00 Emma Willis: 10.00 NCIS their American adventure 10.00 Narco Wars (12, 2003) Action comedy 9.40 The Office Delivering Babies in 2020 11.00 American Dad! 10.00 Wheeler Dealers 11.00 Air Crash Investigation 11.00 Younger 10.20 Live at the Apollo 11.00 Inside the Ambulance: 11.30 American Dad! 11.00 Combat Dealers 12.00-1.00am Atlas 11.30 Younger 11.20 Peep Show Coast and Country 12.00-12.30am Family Guy 12.00-1.00am Wheeler Dealers of Cursed Places 12.00-1.00am Baywatch 11.55-12.35am Upstart Crow 12.00-1.00am 999 Rescue Squad Sky Main Event Sky Premier League Sky Cricket BT Sport 1 BT Sport 2 SKY 401, VIRGIN 511, BT 402 SKY 402, VIRGIN 512 SKY 404, VIRGIN 514 SKY 413, BT 408 SKY 414, BT 409 5.00pm Live Netball Superleague: 7.00pm Live MNF: Brighton & 1.50pm-6.00 Live Pakistan Super 6.30pm PL Review 6.15pm Gallagher Premiership Celtic Dragons v Surrey Storm Hove Albion v Crystal Palace League: Lahore Qalandars v 7.30 Live Bundesliga 2: SpVgg Rugby Highlights (Centre-pass 5.00). Coverage (Kick-off 8.00). All the action from Quetta Gladiators Greuther Furth v Holstein Kiel 7.45 Gallagher Premiership from Studio 001 in the Premier League game between 7.00 Talking Cricket Double bill (Kick-off7 .30). From Sportpark Tonight The team takes a look at 6.45 My Icon: Christine Ohuruogu the rivals at Amex Stadium 8.00 Pakistan Super Ronhof Thomas Sommer all the key talking points The athlete speaks about the 11.00 Matchday Plus League Highlights 9.30 Bundesliga Highlights Show 8.30 The WRC Magazine individuals who have inspired her 11.15 Matchday Plus 9.00 Out of Exile: Feature Length 10.30 BT Sport Goals Reload 9.00 Fishing: On The Bank 7.00 Live MNF: Brighton & Hove Focusing on Manchester City Version Documentary 11.00 WWE Raw Highlights 10.00 UFC Curtis Blaydes Albion v Crystal Palace (Kick-off v Tottenham Hotspur 9.45 Best of England v Pakistan 12.00 WWE SmackDown v Derrick Lewis 8.00). All the action from the 11.30 The Tyler Archives Moments 10.00 Pakistan Super Highlights 1.00am-6.00 Live: Women’s Premier League match between from past games between League Highlights 1.00am-4.15 Live: WWE Monday One-Day International Cricket Brighton’s Leandro Trossard the rivals at Amex Stadium Liverpool and Chelsea 11.00 Talking Cricket Double bill Night Raw Watch your favourite — New Zealand v England is set to start against Crystal 11.00 News 12.00-1.45am MNF Brighton & 12.00-4.10am Pakistan WWE Superstars face-off inside the Coverage of the first one-dayer, Palace (Sky Main Event, 7pm) 12.00-1.00am Live: Total Access Hove Albion v Crystal Palace Super League ring on WWE Monday Night Raw held at Hagley Oval in Christchurch the times | Saturday February 20 2021 1GR saturday review 35 Monday 22 Film guide Radio guide Film4 FREEVIEW 14 SKY 313 VIRGIN 428 Times Radio Today’s pick 11.00 The News Quiz 11.30 Digital only The Jason Byrne Show 11.00am The Day Will Dawn (U, 1942) Second World War 5.00am Calum Macdonald David Bowie in New York BBC World Service adventure with Hugh Williams with Early Breakfast 6.00 Radio 4 Extra, 2.30pm Digital only 1.00pm The Bridges at Aasmah Mir and Stig Abell A look back at the intriguing Toko-Ri (U, 1954) with Times Radio Breakfast. pop star through the lens 9.00am News 9.06 The Korean War adventure Monday’s big stories and of an interview — newly Documentary 9.30 The 3.05 Gun Fury (U, 1953) interviews 10.00 Matt Chorley. enhanced — that he gave Conversation 10.00 News Western with Rock Hudson A full primer on the political in 2002 to Radio 4’s John 10.06 The Cultural Frontline 4.45 7th Cavalry (U, 1956) week 1.00pm Penny Smith. Wilson in a rehearsal room 10.30 Mayday 10.50 More or Western with Randolph Scott News, views and reviews 4.00 in New York as he was Less 11.00 The Newsroom 6.20 Ghostbusters (12, 2016) John Pienaar at Drive. Analysis preparing to release his 11.30 CrowdScience 12.00 Fantasy comedy of the day’s news 7.00 Phil album Heathen. David egos, including Ziggy News 12.06pm Outlook 12.50 9.00 Red Sparrow (15, 2018) Williams. Entertaining evening Bowie, right, talks about his Stardust, which he used Witness History 1.00 The Spy thriller starring Jennifer Grace Kelly in High Society conversation 10.00 Carole creative processes and the to explore some of the Newsroom 1.30 The Lawrence and Joel Edgerton (TCM Movies, 11.10am) Walker. Today’s headlines and inspirations behind some disturbing themes in his Conversation 2.00 Newshour 11.45-1.25am Action Point tomorrow’s front pages of his favourite albums. music: despair, fear, isolation 3.00 News 3.06 HARDtalk (15, 2018) Comedy 1.00pm Hotel Reserve 1.00am Stories of Our Times He also reveals how he and abandonment. 3.30 Business 4.00 BBC OS (U, 1944) Thriller 1.30 Red Box 2.00 Highlights invented his famous alter Debra Craine 6.00 News 6.06 Outlook Talking Pictures TV 2.50 Who Was That Lady? from Times Radio 6.50 Witness History 7.00 FREEVIEW 81 SKY 328 VIRGIN 445 (U, 1959) Comedy Radio 4 1.00pm Nihal Arthanayake The Newsroom 7.30 Sport 5.15 Every Time We Say Radio 2 FM: 92.4-94.6 MHz 4.00 5 Live Drive 7.00 5 Live Today 8.00 News 8.06 The 6.00am Charlie’s On Guard Goodbye (15, 1986) Second FM: 88-90.2 MHz LW: 198 kHz MW: 720 kHz Sport: The Monday Night Club Documentary 8.30 Discovery 6.05 Paul Temple’s Triumph World War romantic drama 8.00 Live Premier League 9.00 Newshour 10.00 The (U, 1950) Mystery 7.10 The Detective (U, 1954) 6.30am The Alan Carr 5.30am News Briefing Football 2020-21: Brighton & Newsroom 10.20 Sports 7.40 Noose (PG, 1948) Crime Crime comedy Breakfast Show 9.30 Ken 5.43 Prayer for the Day Hove Albion v Crystal Palace News 10.30 Business 11.00 drama starring Derek Farr 9.00 Sunday, Bloody Sunday Bruce 12.00 Jeremy Vine 5.45 Farming Today 10.30 Colin Murray 1.00am News 11.06 HARDtalk 11.30 9.30 The Adventures of (15, 1971) Drama starring 2.00pm Steve Wright 5.00 5.58 Tweet of the Day Dotun Adebayo The Conversation 12.00 William Tell Glenda Jackson 6.30 Sara Cox’s 6.00 Today News 12.06am The History 10.00 Catweazle 11.15-1.35am Awakenings (12, Half Wower 7.00 Jo Whiley’s 9.00 talkSPORT Hour 1.00 News 1.06 10.30 Demobbed (U, 1944) 1990) Medical drama Shiny Happy Playlist 7.30 Jo 9.45 (LW) Daily Service MW: 1053, 1089 kHz Business Matters 2.06 People Comedy with Norman Evans Whiley 9.00 The Blues Show 9.45 Book of the Week: Bessie Fixing the World 2.30 In the 12.20pm 1950s Puzzle TCM Movies with Cerys Matthews 10.00 Smith By Jackie Kay (1/5) 5.00am Early Breakfast 6.00 Studio 3.00 News 3.06 Corner Archive footage SKY 315 VIRGIN 415 Trevor Nelson’s Rhythm 10.00 Woman’s Hour talkSPORT Breakfast with Outlook 3.50 Witness History 12.40 Double Bunk (PG, 1960) Nation 12.00 OJ Borg At 10.45 Drama: Little Blue Laura Woods 10.00 Jim White 4.00 News 4.06 The Comedy with Ian Carmichael 6.00am Hollywood’s Best 3.00am Pick of the Pops (r) Lines, by Kate Rawson (1/5) and Simon Jordan 1.00pm Documentary 4.30 Discovery 2.30 Doctor at Sea (PG, 1955) Film Directors 4.00 Jayne Middlemiss 11.00 My Name Is Hawksbee and Jacobs 4.00 Comedy with Dirk Bogarde 6.35 Hollywood’s Best 11.30 How to Vaccinate the Drive with Adrian Durham & 6 Music 4.30 Twenty-One Days Film Directors Radio 3 World Tim Harford reports Darren Gough 7.00 The Digital only (PG, 1937) Thriller 7.10 TCM Shorts: FM: 90.2-92.4 MHz 12.03pm Shipping Forecast PressBox 10.00 Sports Bar 6.00 Scales of Justice Ben Miller Off Set 12.06 Small Pleasures (1/10) 1.00am Extra Time 7.30am Lauren Laverne 6.35 The Atomic City (PG, 7.30 Casablanca (U, 1942) 6.30am Breakfast 12.20 10.30 Mary Anne Hobbs 1952) Thriller with Gene Barry Romantic drama 9.00 Essential Classics 1.00 talkRADIO 1.00pm Shaun Keaveny 4.00 8.15 The Rat Race (PG, 1960) 9.45 Fury at Gunsight Pass 12.00 Composer of the Week: 1.45 NatureBang (r) Digital only Tom Ravenscroft 7.00 Tom Comedy with Tony Curtis. (U, 1956) Western Mendelssohn 2.00 Home School History Robinson 9.00 Gideon Coe See Film Choice 11.10 High Society (U, 1956) 1.00pm Live Radio 3 2.15 Drama: Murmuration 5.00am 6.30 Julia 12.00 PJ Harvey: In Their 10.20-12.10am Timeslip (12, Musical romantic comedy Lunchtime Concert A live By Christine Entwisle Hartley-Brewer 10.00 Mike Own Words 1.00am The 1955) Sci-fi thriller with Gene 1.30pm Stage to Thunder recital by the pianist Kathryn 3.00 Counterpoint Graham 1.00pm Ian Collins Complete Mercurys Nelson and Faith Domergue Rock (U, 1964) Western Stott. Bach (arr. Wilhem 3.30 The Food Programme (r) 4.00 Drivetime 7.00 James 3.25 TCM Shorts: Kempff) (Siciliano, BWV 1031); 4.00 Dub Revolution: The Whale 10.00 Cristo Foufas Virgin Radio Sony Movies Ben Miller Off Set Grieg (Holberg Suite); Fauré Story of King Tubby (r) 1.00am Paul Ross Digital only FREEVIEW 33 SKY 321 VIRGIN 425 3.45 The Four Horsemen of (Nocturne No 4); Poulenc 4.30 The Digital Human New the Apocalypse (PG, 1961) (Mélancolie); Bach (trans. series. The power of toys and Radio 4 Extra 6.30am The 9.00am Killer Switch (2016) Melodrama with Glenn Ford Siloti) (Prelude in B minor); play in shaping the Digital only Breakfast Show with Sky Thriller with Jamie Luner 7.05 The Fastest Gun Alive and Wagner (trans. Liszt) technological future 10.00 Eddy Temple-Morris 10.50 Sony Movie News (PG, 1956) Western starring (Isolde’s Liebestod) 5.00 PM 8.00am Steptoe and Son 1.00pm Tim Cocker 4.00 11.00 Wall of Secrets (2003) Glenn Ford and Russ Tamblyn 2.00 Afternoon Concert 5.54 (LW) Shipping Forecast 8.30 Life, Death and Sex with Amy Voce 7.00 Steve Denyer Drama with Nicole Eggert 9.00-12.15am The Revenant With the New Zealand 6.00 Six O’Clock News Mike and Sue 9.00 Act Your 10.00 Rich Williams 1.00am 12.50pm Sony Movie News (15, 2015) Western starring Symphony Orchestra and 6.30 New series Age 9.30 Married 10.00 Tsar Virgin Radio Through The 1.00 Out of Control Leonardo DiCaprio Auckland Philharmonia. 7.00 The Archers 11.00 TED Radio Hour 11.50 Night 4.00 Sam Pinkham (12, 2009) Crime thriller Beethoven (Symphony No 1 in Tensions rise at Brookfield Inheritance Tracks 12.00 2.50 The Perfect Marriage Sky Cinema Premiere C, Op 21); Clara Schumann 7.15 Front Row Steptoe and Son 12.30pm Classic FM (12, 2006) Thriller SKY 301 VIRGIN 401 (Piano Concerto in A minor, 7.45 Little Blue Lines (1/5) (r) Life, Death and Sex with Mike FM: 100-102 MHz 4.55 Sony Movie News Op 7); Wagner (orch Wagner 8.00 After Trump (4/4) and Sue 1.00 Only the Good 5.05 Bridge to Terabithia 12.25pm Ode to Joy (12, 2019) and Felix Mottl) (Wesendonck 8.30 Analysis Die Young 1.30 High Table, 6.00am Breakfast 9.00 (PG, 2007) Fantasy drama Comedy with Martin Freeman Lieder); and Bruckner 9.00 England’s Level Best (r) Lower Orders 2.00 Dirt Road Alexander Armstrong 12.00 7.00 Push (12, 2009) Sci-fi 2.25 Blood and Money (Symphony No 4 in E flat) 9.30 Start the Week (r) 2.15 Kitchen Confidential Anne-Marie Minhall 4.00pm thriller with Chris Evans (15, 2020) Thriller starring 4.30 Early Music Now 10.00 2.30 David Bowie in John Brunning 7.00 Smooth 9.00 Underworld: Blood Tom Berenger 5.00 In Tune 10.45 : New York. See Choice Classics 8.00 The Classic FM Wars (15, 2016) Action-horror 4.15 Walkaway Joe (12, 2020) 7.00 In Tune Mixtape Small Pleasures (1/10) (r) 3.00 Tsar 4.00 Act Your Age Concert with John Suchet. starring Kate Beckinsale Drama with David Strathairn 7.30 Radio 3 in Concert Jan 11.00 Loose Ends (r) 4.30 Married 5.00 Boswell’s Bach (Violin Concerto in 10.50-12.45am Faster 6.00 Combat Wombat (U, Caeyer conducts Le Concert 11.30 Lives 5.30 The Unbelievable A minor BWV.1041); Rota (The (15, 2010) Action adventure 2020) Animated adventure Olympique, the Arnold 12.00 News and Weather Truth 6.00 The Price of Fear Godfatherr — Love Theme); starring Dwayne Johnson featuring the voice of Schoenberg Chorus of Vienna 12.30am Book of the Week: 6.30 7.00 Beethoven (Piano Concerto Deborah Mailman and soloists. Beethoven (Missa Bessie Smith (1/5) (r) Steptoe and Son 7.30 Life, No 3 in C minor Op 37); Sony Movies Classic 7.40 To Olivia (PG, 2021) Solemnis in D, Op 123) 12.48 Shipping Forecast Death and Sex with Mike and Farrenc (Symphony No 1 in FREEVIEW 51 SKY 319 VIRGIN 424 Drama starring Hugh 10.00 Music Matters The 1.00 As BBC World Service Sue 8.00 Only the Good Die C minor Op 32); Saint-Saëns Bonneville and Keeley Hawes relationship between Young 8.30 High Table, Lower (“Mon Coeur s’ouvre a ta 6.00am Rhythm Serenade 9.30 Becky (18, 2020) Thriller music and literature (r) Radio 5 Live Orders 9.00 TED Radio Hour voix”” From Samson and (U, 1943) Musical starring Lulu Wilson 10.45 The Essay: Becoming MW: 693, 909 9.50 Inheritance Tracks 10.00 Delilah); and Chopin 7.45 The End of the Affair 11.10-12.55am Sniper: Animal Isabel Galleymore Comedy Club: The (Andante Spianato & Grand (PG, 1955) Drama Assassin’s End (15, 2020) imagines herself as a limpet 5.00am Wake Up to Money Unbelievable Truth 10.30 The Polonaise Op 22) 10.00 9.55 The Victors (12, 1963) Action sequel starring 11.00 Night Tracks 6.00 Breakfast 9.00 Your Call Pick Up 10.45 Can’t Tell Smooth Classics Drama with George Peppard Tom Berenger 12.30am Through the Night (r) 10.00 Naga Munchetty Nathan Caton Nothing 1.00am Bill Overton 36 saturday review 1GR Saturday February 20 2021 | the times Tuesday 23 | Viewing guide

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The bright yellow shirt, blue Ben Nicholas seem to have shorts, dazzling passes and added audio effects such as thundering shots are such the sound of breathing as Pelé familiar sights it’s slightly evades desperate tackles or unnerving to see the great the clunk of his body against Pelé shuffling into this film grass when he is brought on a walking frame. Now aged down. A thoughtful through 80, he is, we quickly realise, line considers Pelé’s role in as human as the rest of us. shaping Brazil’s national story His family weren’t rich either and the film doesn’t flinch and his footballing career from assessing the less contains hiccups such as the savoury aspects of its political disappointing 1966 World Cup apparatus. But mainly it’s full campaign (well, for Brazil of great goals and cracking anyway). And even before the stories told by the man glorious 1970 tournament he himself and those who knew was being written off by some or played alongside him. Pelé as past it (he was only 29). But has recounted his story before Brazil won, making Pelé, right, but retains a sharp eye for the only player in the game telling details, such as the to win the trophy three times. time local children touched This film, as with the slew of his skin during the 1958 World other recent prestige sport Cup in Sweden, assuming documentaries by Asif the colour would rub off. Kapadia and others, has no On the football field everyone commentary and is principally is equal, he adds rather composed of judiciously movingly. But no one, let’s be chosen archive. The film- honest, was his equivalent. makers David Tryhorn and Ben Dowell Star channel launch Million Pound Blitz Spirit with Bates Motel Films of the day Disney+ BBC One, 10.45pm/11.30pm Pawn Lucy Worsley Lawrence of Arabia (PG, 1962) Mickey Mouse’s empire ITV, 8pm BBC One, 8.30pm “This is our chance to start Sky Cinema Greats, 9pm expands further with today’s over,” a loving mother tells her The vast canvas of David Lean’s historical epic is matched only launch of this entertainment With more than £1 million worth The jolly TV historian aims to son. “We own a motel, Norman by the scale of its ambition. The Allies’ activities in the Middle channel containing some of assets passing through celebrate the nation’s response Bates.” If you want to find out East during the First World War are filtered through the eyes of original dramas and an archive Britain’s pawnbrokers each to Germany’s brutal aerial where it went wrong, all five TE Lawrence (a star-making performance by Peter O’Toole). of 75 TV series and 270 films. day it is a thriving industry, assault on our cities, but also series of this drama, first shown Everything about it is big: the shoot lasted 14 months and the It feels skewed towards especially during a pandemic- interrogate clichés surrounding on the Universal channel in finished film feels barely shorter. Still, it is impressive. The strong teenagers, but grown-ups related downturn. This new it. Between September 7, 1940 2013, are on iPlayer and airing cast includes Alec Guinness as Prince Faisal and Omar Sharif as shouldn’t necessarily be put series profiles various and May 11, 1941 the Luftwaffe on BBC One in double bills. It’s a tribal chief. O’Toole had to put a layer of sponge foam under off by Big Sky, an abduction practitioners from the more dropped 32,000 tonnes of set in contemporary Oregon his camel’s saddle to protect his bruised backside. The Bedouin thriller that has the imprimatur than 800 shops across the UK bombs, killing more than and has familiar high school supporting cast soon copied his technique. The film won seven of David E Kelley of Big Little who provide what some call 44,000 people. The horror is drama elements. But there is Oscars but was banned in many Arab countries because it was felt Lies and The Undoing fame. the oldest form of banking. The recreated in sequences that always an undercurrent of the people and culture were misrepresented. (216min) Wendy Ide Also worth checking out is competitive element to the capture the bravery of the menace, not just with Freddie the slightly saccharine but haggling is interesting to see, citizenry and firefighters. But Highmore’s Norman and his unerringly well-meant drama but the main draw is the insight the main thrust is the first-hand abnormally close relationship Love, Victor. A spin-off from the we get into the hopes (and accounts of six people — with his mother (Vera Farmiga), film Love, Simon and first seen desperation) of their punters, including the artist and nurse but in hints of the darkness on Hulu, it follows a teenager whether they are pawning Frances Faviell and black air lurking beneath the pretty starting at a new school who jewellery, watches or in one raid warden Ita Ekpenyon — town and its oddball realises that he is gay. BD case a Lamborghini. BD which are read by actors. BD community. BD

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7.00 The One Show Live chat and 7.00 Inside the Zoo Tasty treats are 7.00 Emmerdale Charity is all alone, 7.00 Channel 4 News Including 7.00 The Highland Vet Shondie is topical reports on the menu for the monkeys it remains to be seen whether sport and weather on call as first shepherdess and chimps, while the fast- Rishi will listen to her advice, Susan and then farmer Meri disappearing Scottish wildcat and Nicola makes a secret call arrive at the practice in the 7.30 EastEnders Sheree demands is thrown a lifeline and it is middle of the night with that Isaac take Patrick out time for two zebras to begin pregnant sheep in need of a new life in Fife (4/8) urgent veterinary help (4/6) (r); 7.50 Holby City Dom’s plans followed by 5 News Update are ffttdhArustrated when Ange blocks his discharge 8.00 Interior Design Masters with 8.00 Million Pound Pawn New 8.00 Secret Safari: Into the Wild 8.00 Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly Alan Carr The six remaining series. Documentary series A young cheetah must protect Graeme Hall takes on a cocker designers are put into teams about pawnbrokers and their her four cubs after they stray spaniel that loves to steal food of two and challenged to customers. In the first episode, into lion territory, and a and people’s belongings, while 8.30 Blitz Spirit with Lucy Worsley transform three shops — a businessman tries to sell dominant male hartebeest an aggressive beagle cross is The historian tells the stories of a pet accessories shop, a a Lamborghini, but the defends his territory and putting a strain on his owners’ six people who lived through camera store, and a kitchen pawnbroker may not be able dwindling herd from predators relationship (8/12); followed the Blitz, featuring archive equipment retailer (4/8) to sell it. See Viewing Guide by 5 News Update footage and readings from oral history collections and private, 9.00 Forensics: The Real CSI A man 9.00 Marcella The detective realises 9.00 24 Hours in A&E An 88-year-old 9.00 Ben Fogle: New Lives in the unpublished diaries. is murdered for no apparent the extent to which her past man collapses, and doctors fear Wild Ben revisits a woman See Viewing Guide reason by a guest at a party. is still haunting her, as the he is not getting enough blood living off grid in an overgrown Detectives use CCTV and origins of her Keira persona are to the brain, and a law student Welsh woodland, meeting the financial transactions to track brought to light. Crime drama is treated for a condition that people who have joined her the suspect and arrest him just starring Anna Friel (6/8) causes his ribs to grow inwardly and helping them to construct before he flees the country (3/3) a communal mud hut (2/6)

10.00BBC News at Ten 10.00The Ranganation Topical 10.00ITV News at Ten; followed by 10.00First Dates Big Narstie’s cousin 10.00The Hunt for Cleopatra’s Tomb comedy show hosted by Regional News and Weather has a date with an office Egyptologist Glenn Godenho Romesh Ranganathan, joined manager whose online explores the groundbreaking virtually by special guests Rosie confidence does not extend to work of the archaeologist 10.30BBC Regional News Jones and Guz Khan (3/6) (r) real life, and an 83-year-old Kathleen Martinez, who is on a 10.45 On Assignment former model seeks a man quest to find the tomb of 10.45 Bates Motel New series. A 10.45 Newsnight The day’s important Rageh Omaar presents reports who can keep up with her Egyptian queen Cleopatra (r) prequel to Alfred Hitchcock’s national and international news from Venice, San Francisco, film Psychoo, depicting the lives stories. With Emily Maitlis and the Sea of Galilee of a teenage Norman Bates and 11.05 The Undateables Following 11.00 The Kennedys: Money, Murder his mother as they renovate a three new singletons, a & Marilyn Documentary motel. See Viewing Guide (1/10) 11.20 The Bay A rash decision 19-year-old royalist, a 22-year- charting the family’s rise from unsettles Lisa, so throwing old creative, and a 29-year-old poor Irish immigrants to an 11.30 Bates Motel Dylan Bates, 11.30 Chris Packham’s Animal herself into her work, she ice hockey player, on their all-powerful dynasty, exploring Norma’s older son from a Einsteins The world’s most pursues a new line of search for love (2/5) (r) the many deaths, freak previous marriage, arrives in intelligent animals (1/6) (r) investigation, which uncovers accidents and scandals town — much to the family’s a secret (5/6) (r) associated with them (r) displeasure — and Norman spends more time with Emma. 12.30am Sign Zone: Your Garden 12.15am Teleshopping 3.00 FYI Extra 12.10am Hunting Paedophiles (r) 12.30am Wonderful World of Starring Freddie Highmore. Made Perfect. Neil and Clare need 3.15 ITV Nightscreen 5.05 Tipping 1.05 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares Chocolate (r) 12.55 Entertainment See Viewing Guide (2/10) help redesigning their garden, which Point. Ben Shephard hosts the USA (r) 1.55 The Great Pottery Throw News 1.00 Live Casino Show 3.00 has a stunning view of rural Cheshire arcade-themed quiz in which Down (r) (SL) 2.55 Fargo (r) 3.50 Entertainment News 3.10 Friends (r) but does not work for their large contestants drop tokens down a Amazing Spaces (r) (SL) 4.45 Fifteen 4.00 Gypsy Kids (r) 4.45 Wildlife SOS 12.15am Weather for the Week Ahead family (r) (SL) 1.30-2.30 Amazing choice of four chutes in the hope of to One (r) 5.40 Handmade Treasures (r) (SL) 5.10 Divine Designs (r) (SL) 12.20 BBC News Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby (r) (SL) winning a £10,000 jackpot (r) (SL) (r) 5.50 Countdown (r) 5.35 House Doctor (r) (SL)

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Don 11.00 The Big Bang Theory 10.00 Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable 11.15-1.25am Waking the Dead 11.00 One Foot in the Grave 11.05 Family Guy Siegel’s crime drama with Clint 11.30 The Big Bang Theory 11.00 Hypothetical A kidnapping is linked to an 11.40-12.20am One Foot in the 11.35-12.05am American Dad! 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Critic’s choice Gordon Ramsay’s Bank Balance BBC One, 9pm

The title suggests a deep can place the bars is down dive into Gordon Ramsay’s to luck, so sometimes it finances, but this is actually pays to use bars that aren’t a new shiny-floor game show worth any money to keep presented by the sweary the board steady. However, chef that is running over if they hold their nerve they the next three nights (and could win up to £100,000. In continuing for two weeks). summary, just don’t tip the TV quiz shows are having a board over. Ramsay, right, is moment in lockdown, with an odd choice as host (the ITV giving its popular teatime programme is made by his format The Chase a primetime production company) and run-out (as Beat the Chasers), despite being post-watershed and this is the BBC’s attempt he is on his best behaviour, to cash in on their popularity. saying “frick” where he would The format involves normally drop the f-bomb. contestants answering He doesn’t have the easy questions in categories charm and people skills of to win bars worth various Bradley Walsh, but what he amounts of money that lacks in empathy he makes they must then place on a up for by taking the whole board that is “volatile and thing incredibly seriously, unpredictable” (a bit like which means you invest our host is the nudge-wink in what happens because suggestion). It could all Ramsay makes it seem like come crashing down if the life or death. “Look at the contestants don’t balance tilt,” he cries. “You have to it properly (it’s a bit like stack to survive!” Buckaroo!) and where they Joe Clay Ginny & Georgia Marilyn Monroe: Trump Takes Murder in a Films of the day Netflix Auction of on the World Small Town Chariots of Fire (U, 1981) Fans of Gilmore Girls should a Lifetime BBC Two, 9pm Channel 5, 9pm Sky Cinema Drama, 4.05pm get ready to welcome another Hugh Hudson’s tale of two runners competing against each other wisecracking mother and PBS America, 8.30pm The final part of this excellent In the summer of 2003 in the 1924 Olympics has a simple, undiminished power. From daughter into their lives. series explores how Donald 14-year-old Jodi Jones was the opening scene of pale young men racing barefoot along the The Gilmore Girls connection In November 2016 the Trump dealt with Asia. Trump murdered in the Scottish town beach, backed by Vangelis’s anthem, the film is compelling. While is even acknowledged by possessions of Marilyn Monroe was warned by the outgoing of Easthouses. Her mutilated Chariots of Fire is more English than Marmite and takes its title Georgia (Brianne Howey), were auctioned in Los Angeles president, Barack Obama, that body was found in woodland from the words of Jerusalem, the film is the true story of a race the thirtysomething mum with about a thousand lots as well as his dealings with by her boyfriend, Luke Mitchell, between two outsiders, a Scottish Sabbatarian and a Jewish of teenage Ginny (Antonia selling for nearly $11 million. China, the greatest challenge also 14; he soon became the Englishman. The former, Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson), is Gentry). “We’re like the Gilmore Each of the items sold — from would come from North Korea prime suspect. “He was a a devout evangelical Christian and the latter, Harold Abrahams Girls with bigger boobs,” the dress Monroe wore to sing and its leader Kim Jong-un. Satan-worshipping scary (Ben Cross, below left with Charleson), a student at Cambridge she says. Georgia is a wild, Happy Birthday to President The Obama administration had gothic character,” the journalist who suffers sly . Religion and ambition clash as weed-smoking extrovert and Kennedy to a menu card on exercised “strategic patience”, Neil Mackay says. Mitchell the heroic theme plays on. (123min) Kate Muir constant embarrassment to which she scrawled her but that wasn’t Trump’s style. was convicted of her murder Ginny, the grown-up in the thoughts — reveals something He wanted to start “knocking in 2005, but continues to relationship. The family (there about her. The dress sold for heads together” from the get- plead his innocence. He is is a young son) have moved $4.81 million. This film tells her go. The policy would almost interviewed from prison for around, but are trying to put life story through the auction, start a war, but nobody could this two-part film, which down roots in a New England and interviews with “those who have predicted an unlikely re-examines the case to see if town and have a normal life. worked with her and knew her bromance blossoming. “We there is evidence of a shocking If only it were that easy. JC well” add colour. JC fell in love,” Trump said. JC miscarriage of justice. JC

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Can five comedians train five think God likes comedy novice celebrities in the art of much,” says Coles, right with stand-up comedy in just two Baddiel. The joke is on the left- weeks? That’s the intriguing wing comedian Helm being premise for a two-part series paired with the Tory peer in support of Stand Up to Sayeeda Warsi. (Although fans Cancer. The pairings are of will (comedians first) David know that she is one of the Baddiel and the Rev Richard more amusing politicians to Coles; Jason Manford and the appear on the show.) Ryder Happy Mondays frontman has funny bones but has Shaun Ryder; Nick Helm and ADHD and his rambling Baroness Warsi; Judi Love and stories have no punchlines, the dancer Curtis Pritchard; while despite being an and Zoe Lyons and the former actress, McGlynn struggles Coronation Street actress without a script. Finally, Love Katie McGlynn. At the end of worries that Pritchard is afraid the fortnight the amateurs will to tap into his vulnerabilities perform a five-minute routine and reveal who he really is, in front of a crowd. It sounds which will enable the simple, but it’s anything but. all-important audience All the pros confess to still connection. It’s definitely food getting nerves even after for thought for anyone who years on the circuit. “Can has sat on their sofa watching anyone be funny,” Baddiel Live at the Apollo and thought: muses. “Er, I don’t think so.” “I could do that!” Next week And he definitely has his work we find out how they perform cut out trying to make the on the big night. reverend irreverent. “I don’t Joe Clay Horizon: Piers Morgan’s ZeroZeroZero The Fantastic Films of the day Sky Atlantic/Now TV, 9pm Coronavirus Special Life Stories Mr Murray Anastasia (U, 1956) BBC Two, 9pm ITV, 9pm After the focus last week on Sky Arts/Now TV, 9pm Film4, 1.05pm the Italian mafia and their Ingrid Bergman was shunned by Hollywood after beginning an The Van Tullekens and Dr Trisha Goddard, the daytime unpleasant obsession with The “supernatural affair with the director Roberto Rossellini in 1950, but swept back Guddi Singh explore the latest TV host whose confessional pigs, we’re back in Mexico as phenomenon” Bill Murray is the into American hearts with her impassioned portrayal of Anna scientific understanding of chat show predated The Roberto Saviano’s superlative subject of this venerational Koreff (based on the real-life Anna Anderson, who claimed to be Covid-19. Assisted by scientists Show, is the latest crime drama continues. profile. According to the Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia). It is a beautiful film. Koreff is a and clinicians on the front line subject for Piers Morgan’s in- However, there is no let-up on excitable voiceover, Murray has down-and-out refugee in 1920s Paris who is saved from suicide by of the fight against Covid they depth interview. Goddard, 63, the macho brutality as Manuel transformed his “existential General Bounine (Yul Brynner). This is no act of charity, however, reveal why viruses mutate and lives in the US, but while she and his crack team of soldiers melancholy into a comic force”. because Koreff bears a strong resemblance to the daughter of the impact this has on vaccine was in the UK filming with make good on their proposal He doesn’t have an agent or a Tsar Nicholas II and would be due a fortune if she were the real efficacy, and analyse how Morgan she recorded a pilot for to take control of distribution manager (offers are left on his princess. Bergman won the best actress Oscar for her role in this superspreading occurs and a new show to replace Kyle’s in at street level for the Leyra voicemail, which he only film, while Brynner won best actor the same year for his portrayal how to control it. They also the schedules, so ITV is using brothers. Meanwhile, Chris checks every few weeks) of King Mongkut in The King and I. (105min) Chris Bennion shine a light on the impressive this opportunity to remind us (Dane DeHaan) and his drifting and he remains elusive off breakthroughs in genetics, all who she is. Goddard container ship are rescued and screen. This film does little to medicine and modelling that discusses her life and career, towed to Dakar in Senegal. pin the man down, but it can’t have offered a way out of the opening up about finding out Emma (Andrea Riseborough) fail to entertain as it zips pandemic, and have a crack at that the man she called Dad joins him there as they through his acting career, answering the most important wasn’t her biological father, her formulate a plan to get their from Saturday Night Live to question of all — when will we experiences of racism and precious cargo back on the Groundhog Day and Lost in get back to normal? JC surviving breast cancer. JC ocean wave. JC Translation. JC

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10.00BBC News at Ten 10.00Top of the Pops: The Story of 10.00ITV News at Ten; followed by 10.05 Back Stephen and Alison set 10.00Countdown to Murder 1979 A look back at a heady Regional News and Weather out to track down Andrew’s The case of Carole Waugh, year for the chart show, which birth mother (6/6) who fell for a lethal conman recorded its highest audience and gambling addict who 10.30BBC Regional News of 19 million viewers (r) claimed to be a doctor, 10.35 Naked Attraction A self- but had more than 40 10.45 Question Time Fiona Bruce 10.45 Newsnight Analysis of the 10.45 Regional Programme News confessed “dating disaster” convictions for fraud (6/8) chairs the topical debate, day’s events. Presented by and events at Westminster and a free-spirited artist take inviting a panel of politicians Kirsty Wark part in the dating show. Hosted and other guests to answer by Anna Richardson (1/5) (r) 11.05 The Philpott Fire: An Evil questions from a virtual 11.10 56 Up Continuing the 2012 Conspiracy Eyewitnesses, audience update in the landmark series, family members and following the stories of a neighbours discuss the case 11.30 Trump Takes On the World group of participants whose 11.35 Friday Night Dinner Mum puts of Mick and Mairead Philpott, 11.45 DIY SOS: The Big Build Trump sets his sights on Asia, lives have been chronicled Dad on a strict diet for two who killed six of their children Nick Knowles and the team launching the biggest trade war since 1964 (2/3) (r) weeks (4/7) (r) after setting fire to their Derby head to Bangor in County Down in economic history (3/3) (r) home in May 2012 (4/6) to help the McCreights , who have a variety of medical issues 12.30am Sign Zone: Forensics — The 12.05am Finding Alice. Roger decides 12.10am Friday Night Dinner (r) 12.05am 22 Kids & Counting (r) 12.55 and need their home to be Real CSI. Investigators examine the to leave Sarah and becomes Alice’s 1.15 Kitchen Nightmares USA (r) Entertainment News on 5 1.00 Live made wheelchair friendly (r) home of a man who claims to have latest uninvited lodger (r) 12.55 2.10 It’s a Sin (r) (SL) 3.10 The Great (r) Casino Show 3.00 Entertainment murdered his wife (r) (SL) 1.30 Teleshopping 3.00 FYI Extra 3.15 (SL) 4.10 Fifteen to One (r) 5.05 Coach News on 5 3.10 The Yorkshire Vet (r) Celebrity Best Home Cook. The Antisocial Britain: Trouble on the Trip: Road to Marbs — Final Week (r) 4.00 A Gypsy Christmas (r) 4.45 12.45am Weather for the Week perfect breakfast (r) (SL) 2.30-3.30 Streets? Tonight (r) 3.40 ITV 5.35 Kirstie’s Handmade Treasures (r) Wildlife SOS (r) (SL) 5.10 Divine Ahead 12.50 BBC News Celebrity Best Home Cook (r) (SL) Nightscreen 5.05 Tipping Point (r) 5.50 Countdown. Game show (r) Designs (r) (SL) 5.35 House Doctor (r) 46 saturday review 1GR Saturday February 20 2021 | the times Educating Rita Julie Walters stars as a 25 working class hairdresser Thursday | Primetime digital guide who wants to better herself BBC Four, 9pm FV Freeview FS Freesat BBC Four ITV3 More 4 Sky One Sky Atlantic Sky Documentaries FV 9/24, FS 107, SKY 116, VIRGIN 107 FV 10, FS, 115, SKY 119, VIRGIN 117 FV 18, FS 124, SKY 136, VIRGIN 147 SKY 106, VIRGIN 110 SKY 108 SKY 114, VIRGIN 277 7.00pm Coast Exploring the 5.50pm Agatha Christie’s Poirot 6.55pm Escape to the Château 7.00pm The Simpsons Homer 6.30pm The Sopranos Tony’s 7.00pm Hollywood Couples strong bonds between The detective investigates Angel Adoree insists that becomes the new voice of housing development funds A closer look at the complex Great Britain and Denmark when a man is found Dick Strawbridge smash a American politics (R) scam hangs in the balance relationship between the 7.10 Fred Dibnah’s World of murdered on a golf course hole through one of the 7.30 The Simpsons Lisa creates a as Carmine and Johnny Hollywood stars Barbara Steam, Steel and Stone An — but his inquiries are castle’s three-foot-thick social network that takes deliver an uncompromising Stanwyck and Robert Taylor, insight into the steeplejack’s complicated by the interior walls to create a the town by storm (R) set of demands (11/13) (R) who were married from passion for steam-powered discovery of a tramp’s honeymoon suite (3/4) 8.00 Freddie Fries Again Andrew 7.45 Game of Thrones Jon and 1939 to 1951 (3/4) (R) engines (7/12) mutilated body nearby 7.55 Test Cricket Highlights Flintoff and Rob Penn head the men of the Night’s 8.00 The Eighties A look at how 7.40 The Joy of Painting Bob 8.00 Lewis The murder of a India v England. Rishi Persad to Newmarket, where they Watch face their biggest the personal computer, the Ross paints a cabin at the babysitter whose elbows presents action from day spend a disturbing night challenge yet as they internet and video games all foot of a mountain and wrists were elaborately two of the third Test in the in a church (2/6) (R) prepare to defend the Wall became part of daily life 8.10 All Creatures Great and tied after her killing leads four-match series 9.00 Resident Alien Harry is against an attack by Mance thanks to technological Small Siegfried reaches Lewis and Hathaway into a 9.00 Ugly House to Lovely introduced to the concept Rayder’s army (9/10) (R) innovations made during breaking point with Miss world of suburban swinging House with George Clarke of marriage (5/10) 9.00 ZeroZeroZero While the the 1980s (8/8) (R) Harbottle (4/13) and fetish photography (3/4) Architects Katerina 10.00 Dating No Filter New series. Lynwoods ensure that their 9.00 FILM The Beatles: Eight 9.00 FILM Educating Rita 10.00 The Real “Des”: The Dennis Dionysopoulou and Billy Comedians observe people shipment continues its Days a Week — The Touring (15, 1983) Comedy drama Nilsen Story Documentary Mavropoulos come to the on first dates and give their journey to Gioia Tauro, Years (12, 2016) starring Michael Caine exploring the personality aid of a couple, whose 1930s own take on proceedings Manuel and his team Documentary charting the 10.50 Julie Walters in of the serial killer London home stands out for 10.35 A League of Their Own: spread terror among the brief but successful period Conversation with Richard 11.00 Scott & Bailey An adult-film all the wrong reasons (2/6) European Road Trip Jamie narcos of Monterrey. the Beatles spent on the E Grant The actress star is suspected of 10.00 The Tudors Henry and the Redknapp and Andrew See Viewing Guide (4/8) road. Contributors include discusses her career (3/6) murdering her husband court sign a treaty with Flintoff race on Paris’s 10.05 Deadwood Farnum Paul McCartney 11.50-12.50am Around the World 12.00-2.10am A Touch of Frost France (2/10) Formula E circuit (2/6) (R) becomes the crime-riddled and Ringo Starr in 80 Treasures Dan A murder case leads to 11.15-12.15am 24 Hours in A&E 11.35-12.35am A Discovery of towns mayor (9/12) (R) 11.00-1.15am Mr Dynamite: The Cruickshank’s journey Frost’s suspension. Drama A 78-year-old man who Witches Matthew and Diana 11.15-12.25am Deadwood A Rise of James Brown takes him to Australia starring David Jason and suffered a cardiac arrest arrive in Bohemia to search shipment of opium is stolen The career of the singer, and Cambodia (3/10) Eoin McCarthy at the gym (8/8) for the Book of Life (7/10) (R) by two addicts (10/12) (R) musician and producer (R) ITV2 ITV4 E4 Dave Drama Yesterday FV 6, FS 113, SKY 118, VIRGIN 115 FV 25, FS 117, SKY 120, VIRGIN 118 FV 13, FS 122, SKY 135, VIRGIN 106 FV 19, FS 157, SKY 111, VIRGIN 127 FV 20, FS 158, SKY 143, VIRGIN 130 FV 26, FS 159, SKY 155, VIRGIN 129 7.00pm You’ve Been Framed! 6.45pm Live Snooker: Players 7.00pm Hollyoaks Ste is horrified 7.00pm Whose Line Is It Anyway? 6.40pm Last of the Summer Wine 7.00pm Great British Railway Gold Harry Hill presents another Championship Coverage of the to find out what Sid is planning USA Bill Nye “The Science Guy” Compo, Clegg and Foggy display Journeys Taking a trip to Leeds edition of his popular programme evening session on day four of 7.30 Below Deck Mediterranean guests on the comic improv show their talents in a church concert 7.30 Great British Railway 8.00 Superstore Amy finds herself the ranking tournament, featuring Danny disobeys an order (4/13) 7.30 Whose Line Is It Anyway? USA 7.20 Last of the Summer Wine Journeys Michael Portillo travels at odds with her colleagues the third quarter-final, played 8.30 Married at First Sight Aisha Taylor hosts the show, with Foggy experiments with through Buckinghamshire 8.30 Superstore Amy worries over the best of 11 frames Australia The last couple make Wayne Brady, Keegan-Michael Key, camouflage fail to impress 8.00 Bangers and Cash Derek people are making fun of her 10.30-12.25am FILM Rush Hour 2 preparations to say their final vows Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles 8.00 Dalziel & Pascoe A car crash picks up some “emerging” sporting 9.00 Family Guy (12, 2001) The two mismatched 9.30 Wife Swap Australia A 8.00 Would I Lie to You? At leaves Dalziel suspended classics from the Far East (5/10) 9.30 Family Guy detectives travel to Hong Kong to mother of 11 swaps places with a Christmas Hosted by Rob Brydon 10.00 New Tricks The remains 9.00 Bangers and Cash (6/10) 10.00 Plebs (1/8) investigate a bombing at the US highly organised mum of two 8.40 QI Double bill of a body are discovered near a 10.00 The World at War 10.30 Plebs (2/8) embassy, and take on Triad 10.50 The Inbetweeners 10.00 Have I Got a Bit More News public boarding school 11.00 World War Two From Above 11.00 Family Guy gangsters. Action comedy sequel 11.25 The Inbetweeners for You Hosted by Martin Clunes 11.25-1.30am Waking the Dead The Battle Of Monte Cassino (3/6) 11.30 American Dad! starring Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, 12.00-12.30am The Big Bang 11.00 Eve suspects her boyfriend was 12.00-1.00am Secrets of Britain 12.00-12.30am American Dad! Zhang Ziyi and Roselyn Sanchez Theory Riki Lindhome guest stars 11.40-12.20am Mock the Week involved in a murder Uncovering Roman remains (2/6) PBS America Smithsonian Sky Arts Sky Comedy Sky Witness Sky History FV 84, FS 155, SKY 174, VIRGIN 273 FV 56, FS 175, SKY 171, VIRGIN 276 FV 11, FS 147, SKY 122, VIRGIN 123SKY 113, VIRGIN 121 SKY 107, VIRGIN 112 SKY 123, VIRGIN 270 6.10pm World of Stonehenge (4/4) 7.00pm America’s Secret Space 7.00pm Bafta: Life in Pictures 6.30pm Sex and the City 7.00pm Nothing to Declare 7.00pm Forged in Fire Two 7.15 Dam Busters: The Race to Heroes How the International With (6/6) 7.05 Sex and the City 7.30 Nothing to Declare competitors make a steel crossbow Smash the German Dams James Space Station was built 8.00 The Directors The life and 7.40 Curb Your Enthusiasm (7/10) 8.00 Ghost Whisperer Melinda 8.00 Pawn Stars Holland presents an analysis of 8.00 Inside the Factory Gregg career of Rob Reiner 8.20 Curb Your Enthusiasm (8/10) must investigate the meaning 9.00 Forged in Fire Two of the the 1943 raids by the RAF Wallace visits the UK’s largest 9.00 The Fantastic Mr Murray 9.00 Ferrell Takes the Field of a mysterious code smiths are tasked to recreate one 8.35 Maxima A woman fighting to sports shoe factory Documentary exploring the life Following Will Ferrell as he plays 9.00 Private Eyes A concerned of the world’s sharpest blades stop a multibillion-dollar mining 9.00 How Did They Build That? and character of Bill Murray. in five Major League Baseball husband suspects that his wife is 10.00 Forged with Steele project in Peru A railway station built in the See Viewing Guide training games in one day keeping a secret from him (4/12) The iconic Viking sword and 9.45 Dunblane: Our Story shadow of an active volcano 10.00 London Short Film 10.15 Girls Elijah prepares for an 10.00 Criminal Minds Rossi Japanese throwing star Documentary about the mass 10.00 Air Warriors Festival 2021 open call audition (7/10) questions his actions after a 10.30 Forged with Steele Alec shooting in Dunblane in 1996 11.00 Ultimate Warships 10.40 Hollywood Couples The 10.50 The Tonight Show Starring near-death struggle (13/15) Steele recreates a cane sword 11.00-12.10am World of 12.00-1.00am How Did They Build story of Katharine Hepburn’s love Jimmy Fallon American chat show 11.00 Law & Order: Special Victims 11.00 Fire Masters: BBQ Wars Stonehenge An exploration of the That? A railway station built in the affair with Spencer Tracy (4/4) 11.50-12.50am The Late Late Show Unit A child prostitute disappears Culinary competition Bronze Age with Neil Oliver (4/4) shadow of an active volcano 11.40-12.40am Hollywood Gossip with James Corden Chat show 12.00-1.00am Ghost Whisperer 12.00-2.00am Grant (1/3) Fox Discovery Nat Geographic Comedy Central Gold W SKY 124, VIRGIN 157 SKY 125, VIRGIN 250, BT 316 SKY 129, VIRGIN 266, BT 327 SKY 112, VIRGIN 132, BT 307 SKY 110, VIRGIN 124, BT 310 SKY 109, VIRGIN 125, BT 311 7.00pm NCIS 7.00pm Outback Truckers 7.00pm Food Factory 7.00pm Friends Double bill 7.00pm Open All Hours 7.00pm Junior MasterChef 8.00 NCIS 8.00 Wheeler Dealers 7.30 Food Factory 8.00 Will & Grace 7.40 Dad’s Army Australia The contestants take on 9.00 Damien The photographer is 9.00 Expedition Bigfoot Bryce 8.00 Icebreakers: Arctic Giants 8.30 Will & Grace 8.20 Dad’s Army a mystery box challenge led to a dark place (5/10) comes across a photo of a The Timofey Guzhenko (2/6) 9.00 FILM The Other Guys 9.00 The Office 8.20 Inside the Ambulance 10.00 Those Who Kill Catherine human-like hand with claws 9.00 Ultimate Supercar: Top (12, 2010) Action comedy with 9.40 The Office 9.20 Brainwashing Stacey: Living seeks more information (4/10) 10.00 Expedition X Following Models New series (5/6) Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg 10.20 Not Going Out Comedy with with Big Game Hunters 11.00 American Dad! strange orbs of light 11.00 Air Crash Investigation 11.15-1.15am FILM Just Friends (12, Lee Mack and Sally Bretton 10.20 Louis Theroux: Miami Mega 11.30 American Dad! 11.00 Alaska: The Last Frontier 12.00-1.00am Atlas of Cursed 2005) Romantic comedy starring 11.00 Peep Show Jail Exploring the lives of inmates 12.00-12.30am Family Guy 12.00-1.00am Expedition Bigfoot Places The curse of the Mothman Ryan Reynolds and Amy Smart 11.30-12.10am Inside No 9 11.20-12.20am 999 Rescue Squad Sky Main Event Sky Premier League Sky Cricket BT Sport 1 BT Sport 2 SKY 401, VIRGIN 511, BT 402 SKY 402, VIRGIN 512 SKY 404, VIRGIN 514 SKY 413, BT 408 SKY 414, BT 409 4.00pm Live World Golf 7.00pm Premier League 7.00pm Pakistan Super League 8.00am-10.00 Live: Westfield 7.00pm Premier League Reload Championships: At The Matchpack A game-by-game Highlights Action from Karachi W-League Action from the 7.15 Live Uefa Europa League: Concession Coverage of day one breakdown of all the weekend’s Kings v Quetta Gladiators Westfield W-League Manchester United v Real of the event normally known as Premier League action 8.00 The Cricket Show Nasser 5.30 Live Uefa Europa League: Sociedad (Kick-off8 .00). Coverage the Mexico Championship 7.30 PL World Behind the scenes Hussain and Rob Key are joined by Arsenal v Benfica (Kick-off5 .55). of the match from Old Trafford 6.00 Live World Golf 8.00 Gary Neville’s Soccerbox guests to discuss all the big news Coverage of the second-leg clash 10.30 Uefa Europa League Championships: At The The presenter talks to Robert Pires 9.00 Pakistan Super League from Emirates Stadium Highlights All the goals and talking Concession Further coverage 8.30 Gary Neville’s Soccerbox The Highlights Latest action 8.15 What I Wore: Jens Lehmann points from the latest round of 11.00 Sky Sports News presenter talks to Michael Owen 10.00 The Cricket Show 8.30 Premier League Match Pack Europa League fixtures 12.00 Live: Total Access 9.00 Premier League Matchpack 11.00 Pakistan Super League 9.00 Hyundai A-League 11.45 UCL Stories of the Finals 1.00am Sky Sports News 9.30 PL World Highlights Latest action Highlights All the talking points 12.15am BT Sport Goals Reload Patrick Reed defends his title at 2.30-5.00 Live NBA: Milwaukee 10.00 PL Icons 12.00 The Cricket Show 10.00-6.30am Live: Women’s 12.30-3.00 Live NHL: Detroit Red the World Golf Championships Bucks v New Orleans Pelicans 10.30 PL Retro 1.00am-3.00 Pakistan Super One-Day International Cricket Wings v Nashville Predators (Sky Main Event, 4pm/6pm) (Tip-off 2.30). From Fiserv Forum 12.30am-1.00 PL Icons League Highlights — New Zealand v England (Face-off 12.30). All the action the times | Saturday February 20 2021 1GR saturday review 47 Thursday 25 Film guide Radio guide Film4 FREEVIEW 14 SKY 313 VIRGIN 428 Times Radio Today’s pick Marian Keyes 10.30 Digital only Newsjack 11.00 Tim Key’s 11.00am The Last Frontier Late Night Poetry (PG, 1955) Western 5.00am Calum Macdonald The Classic FM Concert Programme 1.05pm Anastasia (U, 1956) with Early Breakfast 6.00 with John Suchet Historical drama starring Aasmah Mir and Stig Abell with Classic FM, 8pm BBC World Service In his regular two-hour slot Ingrid Bergman and Yul Times Radio Breakfast. Wake Digital only Brynner. See Film Choice up to news, politics and John Suchet, right, shares 3.15 The Violent Men entertaining conversation some of the works he thinks 9.00am News 9.06 (PG, 1955) Western 10.00 Matt Chorley. An deserve a vote in the Classic Assignment 9.30 The Food 5.10 Carry On Spying insider’s guide to politics FM Hall of Fame, the world’s Chain 10.00 News 10.06 The (U, 1964) Comedy 1.00pm Penny Smith. Cultural biggest annual survey of Forum 10.50 Sporting 6.55 Congo (12, 1995) Action guests and big thinkers 4.00 classical music tastes, Witness 11.00 The Newsroom adventure with Dylan Walsh John Pienaar at Drive. compiled by the public. His Listeners are invited to select 11.30 Healthcheck 12.00 9.00 Taken 3 (12, 2014) Action Conversation with political and suggestions range from their top three pieces of News 12.06pm Outlook 12.50 thriller sequel starring Liam Marisa Tomei in Only You economic guests 7.00 Phil Vivaldi’s Violin Concerto classical music (vote at Witness History 1.00 The Neeson and Forest Whitaker (Sony Classic, 6.45pm) Williams. Evening headlines (played by Nicola Benedetti) classicfm.com before March Newsroom 1.30 The Food 11.15-2.05am 13 Hours: The and conversation 10.00 Carole to Christopher Tin’s Sogno di 14) and the results will be Chain 2.00 Newshour 3.00 Secret Soldiers of Benghazi 7.25 Rhythm Serenade (U, Walker. Late-night news Volare, the main theme for broadcast over the Easter News 3.06 Inquiry 3.30 (15, 2016) Fact-based action 1943) Musical with Vera Lynn 1.00am Stories of Our Times the video game Civilization VI. weekend. Debra Craine Business 4.00 BBC OS 6.00 thriller starring John Krasinski 9.10 On Dangerous Ground 1.30 Red Box 2.00 Highlights News 6.06 Outlook 6.50 (PG, 1951) Thriller from Times Radio Radio 4 Radio 5 Live Witness History 7.00 The Talking Pictures TV 10.50 A Man for All Seasons FM: 92.4-94.6 MHz MW: 693, 909 Newsroom 7.30 Sport Today FREEVIEW 81 SKY 328 VIRGIN 445 (U, 1966) Historical drama Radio 2 LW: 198 kHz MW: 720 kHz 8.00 News 8.06 Assignment 1.15pm The Detective (U, FM: 88-90.2 MHz 5.00am Wake Up to Money 8.30 Science in Action 9.00 6.00am Stormy Crossing 1954) Crime comedy 5.30am News Briefing 6.00 5 Live Breakfast 9.00 Newshour 10.00 The (PG, 1958) Mystery 3.05 The Admirable Crichton 6.30am The Alan Carr 5.43 Prayer for the Day Your Call 10.00 Newsroom 10.20 Sports 7.25 Life in Emergency Ward (U, 1957) Comedy Breakfast Show 9.30 Ken 5.45 Farming Today 1.00pm Nihal Arthanayake News 10.30 Business 11.00 10 (U, 1959) Hospital drama 5.00 Idol On Parade Bruce 12.00 Jeremy Vine 5.58 Tweet of the Day (r) 4.00 5 Live Drive 7.00 5 Live News 11.06 Inquiry 11.30 9.10 London in the 60s (PG, 1959) Comedy 2.00pm Steve Wright 5.00 6.00 Today Sport: The Tuffers and Food Chain 12.06am Forum 9.30 Sir Francis Drake 6.45 Only You (PG, 1994) Sara Cox 6.30 Sara Cox’s Half 8.31 (LW) Yesterday Vaughan Cricket Show 8.00 12.50 Sporting Witness 1.00 10.00 Catweazle Romantic comedy Wower 7.00 Jo Whiley’s Shiny in Parliament Six Nations 9.00 5 Live Sport: News 1.06 Business Matters 10.30 Fiddlers Three (PG, 9.00 Our Man in Havana (PG, Happy Playlist 7.30 Jo Whiley 9.00 In Our Time The Euro Leagues Podcast 2.06 HARDtalk 2.30 World 1944) Time travel comedy 1959) Carol Reed’s satirical 9.00 The Country Show with 9.45 (LW) Daily Service 10.00 Colin Murray 1.00am Football 3.00 News 3.06 12.15pm Two Way Stretch spy drama with Alec Guinness Bob Harris 10.00 Trevor 9.45 Book of the Week: Bessie Mobeen Azhar Outlook 3.50 Witness (U, 1960) Comedy 11.20-1.35am Sunday, Bloody Nelson’s Rhythm Nation 12.00 Smith By Jackie Kay (4/5) History 4.06 Tech Tent 4.30 2.00 Rooms Sunday (15, 1971) Drama OJ Borg 3.00am Sounds of the 10.00 Woman’s Hour talkSPORT Science in Action 2.30 A Day Begins in 90s with Fearne Cotton (r) At 10.45 Drama: Little Blue MW: 1053, 1089 kHz Manchester TCM Movies 4.00 Jayne Middlemiss Lines, by Kate Rawson (4/5) 6 Music 2.55 School for Secrets SKY 315 VIRGIN 415 11.00 From Our Own 5.00am Early Breakfast 6.00 Digital only (PG, 1946) Second World War Radio 3 Correspondent Breakfast with drama with Ralph Richardson 6.00am TCM Shorts: FM: 90.2-92.4 MHz 11.30 John Keats: 10.00 Jim White and Simon 7.30am Lauren Laverne 5.00 Talking Pictures TV Ben Miller Off Set Life and After-Life Jordan 1.00pm Hawksbee & 10.30 Mary Anne Hobbs With Michael Craig 6.20 Stars in My Crown (PG, 6.30am Breakfast 12.03pm Shipping Forecast Rushden 4.00 Drive with 1.00pm Shaun Keaveny 4.00 5.30 Rooms 1950) Western drama 9.00 Essential Classics 12.06 Small Pleasures Adrian Durham & Darren Tom Ravenscroft 7.00 Tom 6.00 Scales of Justice 8.15 Stage to Thunder Rock 12.00 Composer of the Week: By Clare Chambers (4/10) Gough 7.00 Kick Off 10.00 Robinson 9.00 Gideon Coe 6.35 Value for Money (U, (U, 1964) Western Mendelssohn 12.20 You and Yours Sports Bar 1.00am Extra Time 12.00 6 Music Recommends 1955) Romantic comedy with 10.05 The Four Horsemen of 1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime 1.00 The World at One with Steve Lamacq 1.00am 6 John Gregson and Diana Dors the Apocalypse (PG, 1961) Concert A recital of French 1.45 NatureBang (r) talkRADIO Music Recommends with 8.15 Berth 24 Melodrama music by Karen Cargill and 2.00 The Archers (r) Digital only Lauren Laverne 9.00 Public Eye 1.30pm Murder Most Foul Simon Lepper. 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“I would have reigned would each find redemption supreme if it weren’t for Iron in the ring, for a short time at Mike Tyson,” Frank Bruno least. As the film shows, Bruno says. He is surely right. Bruno and Tyson were never really hit his peak in the late 1980s enemies. They had sparred just when “Iron Mike” was the together when Tyson was 15, most feared man to have and in mid-1980s interview stepped into the ring. Like a clips from Wogan, Tyson talks violent animal, Tyson was fast about Bruno “being such a and savage; Bruno had the big sweet guy; you want to give punch that might just stop him a hug”. Moreover, as the him, but did anyone truly film builds to the first meet-up believe that he might beat between Bruno and Tyson in Tyson when they stepped into years it becomes a rueful the ring for their momentous reflection on reputation and fight in 1989, right? Bruno mental health — they have seemed too unthreatening, both had struggles with with his big, slow laugh. This bipolar disorder. Both talk of feature-length film takes us being at peace, but you sense back to show how Bruno and some lasting bruises. If sports Tyson were pitched against documentaries have really each other, as the loved gentle upped their game recently giant versus the “baddest man (The Last Dance, Tiger and on the planet”, but also how this week’s Pelé on Netflix, their fortunes fluctuated see page 40), this one from before they met for a reverse the Oscar-winning director title fight in 1996. Tyson had Kevin Macdonald is another ended up in jail and Bruno in with a whiff of class about it. pantomime, although they James Jackson Grayson’s Art Club Great Escape: Raiders of the Britain’s Favourite Films of the day Channel 4, 8pm The Reckoning Lost Past 80s Songs Empire of the Sun (PG, 1987) The series that charmed the PBS America, 8pm BBC Two, 9pm Channel 5, 10pm BBC Two, 11.20pm nation in lockdown 1 is back to Steven Spielberg’s stirring adaptation of JG Ballard’s memoir about light up lockdown 3 as we edge Fifty of the 76 Allied airmen Those who’ve found an interest More unashamed pop his boyhood incarceration in a Japanese wartime internment into spring. This can only be who escaped from Stalag Luft in archaeology piqued by the nostalgia. Each week this new camp marked the director’s graduation to grown-up film-making. good news. Once again III in March 1944 were shot film The Dig (on Netflix) should ten-part series counts down A teenage Christian Bale was cast from 4,000 applicants to play Grayson Perry chats to guests dead by the Gestapo in find much to enjoy in tonight’s the 30 biggest-selling singles the daydreaming English schoolboy Jim Graham — a version of the — celebrities, renowned artists violation of the Geneva episode. Janina Ramirez is in for each year of the 1980s, as young Ballard. After Pearl Harbor is bombed, the city is occupied and public participants — as Conventions. As soon as the Norway to explore the story of well as looking at songs that by the Japanese and Jim is separated from his parents and taken they share insights into their war ended, RAF investigators the world’s oldest preserved didn’t make the chart, but to the camp near Shanghai. The boy views the war as one big creative process and artwork. went to Germany to find those Viking ship, known as the left a lasting impression. It is adventure, especially after bonding with Basie, a laconic American Meanwhile, Perry and his wife, responsible. First shown in Oseberg. Like the Sutton Hoo arguable that the early 1980s pilot (John Malkovich). Tom Stoppard wrote the screenplay. The Philippa, will get their hands 2009, this documentary mixes ship, it was buried as part of a were as good as the pop film received six Oscar nominations, but lost out on all of them dirty to create their own works first-hand recollections and the royal funeral, and has helped charts ever got, and 1980 to The Last Emperor (1987). (154min) Joe Clay in response to a set of themes. odd dramatisation to describe our understanding of Viking was fantastic: Dexys Midnight Tonight’s guests are Boy the tireless investigation. For culture. The excavator was Runners’ Geno, David Bowie’s George, the artist Yinka Ilori three years, the team criss- Gabriel Gustafson, a Swede in Ashes to Ashes, Diana Ross’s and the photographer David crossed Germany, and arrested Norway, and Ramirez takes us Upside Down, the Jam’s Going Bailey, who talks about his 50 suspects. Thirteen were back to 1903 to show how his Underground, Blondie’s passion for painting. Details executed, 17 were imprisoned find became, ironically for him, Atomic . . . let’s just quietly on how to submit art work at and 11 others killed themselves a symbol of Norway’s fight for ignore There’s No One Quite graysonsartclub.com JJ before they could be tried. JJ independence from Sweden. JJ Like Grandma. JJ

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Put one letter in each cell so that each word on the right can be spelt out by moving from cell to cell without using diagonal moves. You can use a cell more than once in a word (including backtracking into a cell you’ve just used), but double letters (eg, the LL in ALL) must use two adjacent cells. The words start in the coloured How to solve Sudoku. Fill the grid so that every column, cells and the vowels are shown by asterisks. every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9 Solution on Monday Stuck on KenKen, Killer or Sudoku? Call 0901 293 6263 before midnight to receive four clues Answers for any of today’s puzzles. Calls cost £1 plus your Friday’s solutions telephone company’s network access charge. KenKen No 5195 Sudoku No 12,181 SP: Spoke, 0333 202 3390 (Mon-Fri 9am-5.30pm). Killer No 7598 — Deadly

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Our five-grid Sudoku will test your powers of logic and deduction — against the clock. Fill each grid so that every column, every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9. Where the puzzles overlap, the rows Killer No 7596 Killer No 7597 and columns do not go be- yond their usual length. The interlocking nature of the grid gives you more clues — and more complexity. Remember — don’t try to Fill the grid so that every column, every row and every solve each Sudoku grid in 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9. Each set of cells turn; the puzzle has to be joined by dotted lines must add up to the target tackled as a whole. number in its top-left corner. Within each set of cells joined by dotted lines, a digit cannot be repeated. Train Tracks No 1254 Codeword No 4203 Stuck? Call 0901 293 6263 For solutions to KenKen, Sudoku & Killer see to receive four clues for Times2 on Monday today’s Samurai Sudoku. Calls cost £1 plus your KenKen No 5196 — Medium telephone company’s network access charge. SP: Spoke, 0333 202 3390 (Mon-Fri 9am-5.30pm) Tredoku

No 1670 — Hard .COM Tredoku is similar to Sudoku: the digits 1 to 9 must appear once only in each 3x3 box and in each line of nine consecutive cells. However, since the puzzle is three-dimensional, the lines may be straight or The Listener 4644 Symbols by Aedites bent around angles. Follow Groups of letters in clashing cells formed the each line’s direction in 12 signs of the zodiac in order, as listed in search of clues. Chambers. Some common variants of their symbols were accepted. At the centre is E(arth). Sudoku/Killer © Puzzler Media © 2010 KENKEN PUZZLE & TM NEXTOY. DIST. BY UFS, INC. WWW.KENKEN More details at listenercrossword.com. KenKen™ Puzzles are used with permission All the digits 1 to 6 must appear in every row and column. The winners are Max Taylor of Chesterfield, of Gakken Co Ltd and Nextoy, LLC Derbyshire; Roger and Madeleine Allen of Puzzle content © 2009 Gakken Co Ltd In each thick-line “block”, the target number in the top Camberley, Surrey; Chris Jenkins of Cambridge, Tredoku © Mindome Ltd 2009. TREDOKU® left-hand corner is calculated from the digits in all the cells is the registered trademark of Mindome in the block, using the operation indicated by the symbol. Cambridgeshire. the times | Saturday February 20 2021 1GR saturday review 53

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Cryptic Quintagram® Word Watching Scrabble® Paul Gallen Chess David Howell Solve all five cryptic clues using David Parfitt Unlike chess, a blitz variant for 55 points. Under the normal Success at the Opera 23 e4 Qd7 24 Rad1 Rad8 25 Nh4 each letter underneath once only of Scrabble has not proven time limit, former US national Kh8 Perron 1 E European mostly leading king a Wesley So triumphed at the Op- 25…Qd6 is an empty threat: 26 a. An external staircase successful in live tournament champion Anderson would have dance (5) era Euro Rapid. This was the Nf5 Qh2+ 27 Kf2 and the black b. A square flag play. This has been due to the deduced that Schoenbrun was American grandmaster’s second queen is misplaced. c. 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Given time, Plastique administrative tasks. Following ADEEENT in the opening, So is able to the a-pawn will push forward to ------a. Loose-limbed the increased interest, an online 5 Transport welcome paparty: a code of switch gears between solid and undermine Black’s queenside. b. False, deceitful World Blitz Championship has R R RR R R R:R R R RR honour (7) aggressive play depending on the 30…Bd4 31 Rf4 c. A slow dance movement been organised, with 80 players i battling to be crowned the n situation or the opponent. He is Not 31 Nxd4? Rxe4. ------pragmatic, trusts his intuition, 31…Rxe4 Xoanon inaugural champion in April. It j and he refuses to get tempted into Desperation. Carlsen changes A B C D D DEE a. A wooden image of will be fascinating to see how calculating long variations unless the nature of the position rather a god competitors adapt to the huge rro o f E E F H I I K L strictly necessary. Many of So’s than sit passively. b. 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Having also beaten Carl- 34…h5 721 632 23623 The winner is the reduced time limit. 8 5 The encounter was a good time to consider racks containing sen in the 2019 Fischer Random 34…Rd8 allows 35 Qf7, while if 756257 56 1 Robin Parker of example of the mistakes that a blank. Later in the same game world championship and in the 34…Qd7 35 Qxd5! Qxd5 36 Re8 is 7 5 1 6 6 Holt, Norfolk (main board below), Anderson 7 272623 67 6 are likely to occur during the 2020 Skilling Open final, it ap- mate. 6 6 1 3 8 tournament due to the frantic had the following rack. pears a new rivalry has been born. 35 Re8+ Kh7 36 Re7+ Kh8 37 6805 15 6151 62 DINOPR Qc1! 6 3 6 1 nature of each game. Schoenbrun 036 6757 played the invalid LATEENED* Anderson would likely have White: Wesley So Black resigns. The white queen 6 5 1 6 (H2d) as shown on the main spotted the only bonus word Black: Magnus Carlsen will deliver the killer blow on h6. 977 62215 0 board below. With limited time available under a standard time Opera Euro Rapid, 2 7 7 1 6 5 chess24.com 2021 1036 5 3275 to consider the play, Anderson limit. Can you find the bonus Winning Move 7 5 5 8 6 5 2 accepted the move and quickly play that Anderson overlooked, Italian Game 81567 2607 035 responded with WINE (L1d) declaring the blank as A? White to play. Dubov-Carlsen, 5 7 2 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bc4 Bc5 chess24.com 2021. White’s pieces 91 67 327086 Collins Official Scrabble Words is the word authority used. 6 5 3 Word positions use the grid reference plus (a)cross or (d)own. Earlier in the match Carlsen are perfectly centralised. Can you 2675 5 0 chose 3...Nf6. This was met in ag- find the masterful way in which 0 8 1 7 8 5 double letter triple letter double word triple word gressive fashion: 4 Ng5. After a Dubov now overwhelmed the 3 17 115659 square (dl) square (dw) square (tw) square (tl) tactical flurry, So emerged with a black______W defences? CHARMBRACELET GLAD I ATOR Solution to times2 Letter large advantage. He later re- áWDWDW4kD] ALOUOUOACNUAJumbo 1482 ffoifoooi iid d w values vealed he was following a recom- TR I AD SANDSTORM CATFLAP The winner is mendation from a video course àDrDWDp0p] TSETSHLEEE I P mmirex ir eexx d gu RLW Sally Priestley of I NTERMI TTENT SKYSCRAPER n ttalli a lllilll iieeer r s aeiou he had produced for Chessa- ßW0W!WhWD] NEACAE ESC OLymington, Hants ble.com. Þ0WDWDWDW] ERRATA BESOTTED ZOD I AC jjii bbbb t o lnrst 4 c3 Nf6 5 d4 exd4 6 e5 d5 7 Bb5 S ESUSUP NMH yyeeeveve vve e aaq aquqqu u a ÝW0PDWDWD] SMALLSCALE UNREASONABLE Cell Blocks 4086 RLW Ne4 8 cxd4 Bb6 9 Nc3 0-0 10 Be3 UYAAAGRHERM rroroft o f t dg Bg4 11 h3 Bh5 12 Qc2 Bg6 13 Qb3 ÜDW1WHW)W] S I TE VERONESE FRUCTOSE i yyaaan nnker k eerr s i This opening variation has be- OHI EYTTTETGN RLW ÛPDW$W)W)] PREGNANT S I DESHOW FLAT lleleprose eepp rroserooosose sse e hhu hunuun nnh h come topical in recent years. HNTGADNE I P I bcmp 13…Ne7 14 0-0 c6 15 Bd3 Nf5 16 ÚDWDW$WIW] a s g INTROVERSION BOISTEROUS RLW Qc2 Nxc3 17 bxc3 Nxe3 18 fxe3 ÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈ SIX STTRHR E t R TUCK I N P I PEL I NE END I NG Suko 3105 Bxd3 19 Qxd3 f6 20 c4 The first correct entry drawn on fhvwy ICCMMTJIOM e This move also featured in So’s Thursday will receive a copy of CAPPADOC I A REM I N I SCENCE w e R k R Chessable course. Meanwhile it Collins English Dictionary and ARTMLBLCN I EN TR I T I UM AWAKEN I NG ONSET 0 i inn jx R seems Carlsen had not done his Thesaurus. The two runners-up ESOOTLSALUCE research. White’s position is eas- will receive a book prize. Answers 1 n e : R qz DOM I NANCE M I SUNDERSTOOD R ier to play as the queen and on a postcard to: The Times Win- 2 R : e edd knight combine better than ning Move, PO Box 2164, Col- Mindset 1 a) YORKIE. Clue/ Word Watching: SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark of J. W. Spear & Sons Ltd ©Mattel 2021 Black’s queen and bishop. White’s chester, Essex CO2 8LJ, or email answer is SHEEP IS TO Perron (a) An external flight central pawn mass is just a bonus. to: [email protected]. MUTTON AS PIG IS TO = of steps. Langued (a) Having a Polygon Roger Phillips Cell Blocks 4087 20…Bc7? Open to 18+, UK and ROI resi- PORK. All words have first letter tongue (heraldry). Plastique A step in the wrong direction. dents only. The answer will be replaced by Y and have IE added (c) A slow deliberate dance at end. b) WISPA. Clue/answer movement or pose. Xoanon 20…fxe5 21 Nxe5 Qd6 is Black’s published next Saturday. is WOMEN AGAINST STATE (a) A wooden image of best, as 22 c5? allows 22…Bxc5. PENSION INEQUALITY a god said to have fallen from 21 cxd5______W Qxd5 22 exf6 Solution to last week’s puzzle: ACRONYM = WASPI. All words heaven. 1…d1R! wins. All other moves have two vowels swapped. Polygon bloke, blouse, boke, bole, árDWDW4kD]lead to a draw, for example: 1… c) LION. Clue/answer is PRESS bolo, bolus, book, booklouse, à0pgWDW0p]d1Q 2 Qa3+! Kxa3 stalemate. CREASES OUT OF boule, kobo, koel, lobe, lobo, look, The winner is Chris Hill of GARMENTS = IRON. Each R loose, lose, louse, obelus, oboe, ßWDpDW)WD] Penwortham, Preston, Lancs changes to an L and moves one obol, ousel, skol, slob, sloe, soke, ÞDWDqDWDW] character to the left. d) CURLY sole, solo, sook, sool, souk, soul. WURLY. Clue/answer is Scrabble NEATENED (C3a) — ÝWDW)WDWD] WINTER OLYMPIC STONE 61 points; RAINDROP (H5d) — ÜDWDQ)NDP] SLIDING SPORT = CURLING. 70 points. All words have last three letters Literary quiz Using the given letters no more than © PUZZLER MEDIA Divide the grid into square ÛPDWDWDPD] removed and replaced with Y; 1 Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. once, make as many words as possible of or rectangular blocks, each Ú$WDWDRIW] then that is repeated but with 2 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. four or more letters, always including containing one digit only. Every the central letter. Capitalised words, ÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈ the first letter moved back six 3 Pride and Prejudice by block must contain the number plurals, conjugated verbs (past tense 22…gxf6 places in the alphabet. All Jane Austen. of cells indicated by the digit answers are chocolate bars. etc), adverbs ending in LY, comparatives A reluctant decision by Carl- 4 Treasure Island by Robert Louis inside it. 2 Two. No matter what polygon Stevenson. and superlatives are disallowed. sen. With roles reversed, Wesley you think of, the largest circle 5 The Great Gatsby by F Scott How you rate: 21 words average; Yesterday’s solution, left 29, good; 35, very good; 41, excellent. So would likely have chosen to always has a radius of two. Fitzgerald. keep Black’s structure intact with Answers to Friday’s Polygon are to the 3 WONDERS IN ITALY: Cryptic Quintagram 22…Rxf6. However White’s initi- LATIN IS RED NOW — is a left. Today’s answers are printed in 1 Polka 2 Forded 3 Pierces ative grows after 23 e4 Qd7 24 e5. palindrome. 4 Trumpet 5 Bushido. MindGames on Monday 545 saturday review 1GR Saturday February 20 2021 | the times

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Codeword No 4204 The Listener Crossword No 4647 Roundabout Sums by Oyler Bridge Andrew Robson Senders of the first three correct entries English international Ben drawn will receive Brewer’s Dictionary Green showed me this fabu- of Phrase and Fable or may choose from lous deal from an online team a selection of other books (see below). game. Send your entry with contact details Dealer South Both Vul completed to: Listener Crossword 4647, 63 Green Lane, St Albans, ♠ A K Q 4 Hertfordshire AL3 6HE, to arrive by ♥ J 8 7 4 March 4. ♦ - ♣ K Q J 7 6 ♠ ♠ Listener 4644 solution on 9 8 N J 7 6 ♥ K Q 10 9 6 W E ♥ A 5 3 2 S page 52 ♦ K J 9 6 2 ♦ A 10 7 5 4 3 ♣ 8 ♣ - ♠ 10 5 3 2 ♥ - ♦ Q 8 ♣ A 10 9 5 4 3 2 Table One S W N E Prize options and Pass(1) Pass 1♣ 1♦ more at 5♣ 5♦ 6♣ 6♦(2) listenercrossword.com Pass Pass Dbl end (1) Opts not to pre-empt given the More information vulnerability, the lack of club pic- about Chambers tures, and the side four-card major. books can be One flaw, and perhaps he’d chance found at 3♣; but not three flaws. chambers.co.uk (2) Doesn’t expect the ace of dia- Every letter in this crossword-style grid has been substituted for a number from monds to live, so thinks 6♣ may 1 to 26. Each letter of the alphabet appears at least once. Use the letters already Name...... make — in which case 6♦ (doubled) provided to work out further letters. Enter letters in the main grid and the can go as many as four down and still smaller reference grid. Proper nouns are excluded. Yesterday’s solution on page 52 Address...... be a profitable sacrifice. Stuck on Codeword? To receive four random clues call 0901 293 6262 or text Postcode ...... Phone number...... TIMECODE to 84901. Calls cost £1 plus your telephone company’s network access South was pretty certain the charge. Texts cost £1 plus your standard network charge. For the full solution call ace of clubs would get ruffed, 0905 757 0142. Calls cost £1 per minute plus your telephone company’s network access The clues are algebraic expressions for numbers to be entered in the grid. The letters in charge. SP: Spoke, 0333 202 3390 (Mon-Fri, 9am-5.30pm). so tried a spade lead. North clues represent the numbers 1 to 15 in an order to be determined. Some of the 15 won the queen and cashed the times2 Crossword No 8520 perimeter cells will contain two digits. The three corner cells are not part of any clued ace. South played the ten on the second-round and, cor- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 entry; the solver must enter numbers in them to complete a “roundabout” of relations rectly reading it as a suit-pref- linking every adjacent pair of the 15 perimeter numbers. Reading clockwise from the erence signal for hearts, North 8 top, they could be considered literally as a précis of the solver’s success (8, 4, 3). No switched to a heart. South ruffed and declarer claimed 9 entry starts with zero and all are different. the reminder shortly after. Yes — North could have switched 10 Across 9 ZOO to a heart at trick two and 2 TO 11 M(UG + G + E − R + S) received two heart ruffs, but 11 4 UNT((A + N)G + L + E) 12 TAMMI that was really impossible to find. N-S +500. 12 13 6 GROG 13 JAR 8 YES − M + A − N 18 R(OU + T − E + S) Table Two 14 10 OIL(M(E + N) − U) S(Khandelwal) WN(Green) E Down Right 3♣(1) 3♥(2) 6♣(3) 6♥(4) 14 N(AN) Pass Pass 7♣(5) Dbl(6) 15 16 17 1 ANTEGGS 15 (SU − LT)(A + N − S) end 2 GOT 18 19 16 SAY (1) Ankush Khandelwal is a top 5 GAZ − A poker player and knows well you 20 21 17 L((I + T − I)G + A)NT 7 R + U + M + S have to mix things up. (2) Pushy — as you should really have 22 Down Left 8 LOO(MIN + A − RI + ES) opening values to bid after an oppos- 1 M(O + M + E + N)T 9 ANNAN ing pre-empt. However, the hand 10 JEST + E + R + S with the shortage should strain to 3 GRANSSANG act, so 3♥ is understandable. 23 24 5 (M + I − S − S)RAT(I + N + G + S) 11 TERM = MARY (3) Gambling partner has a singleton 7 TAY 12 SU(M + M − E + R) heart. Across (4) As would we all, given the void 18 Members of the police (8) club and fine heart support. 1 Astronomical unit of 20 Gaol (6) (5) With East-West bidding and sup- porting hearts to the Six-level, it now distance (6) 22 Contain; enclose (7) appears partner is void (assuming 5 Shut forcefully (4) 23 Grass; area of influence (4) there are only 13 hearts in the pack). 9 Teaching meeting (7) 24 Detective (6) (6) East can hardly be blamed for doubling here. He has two aces and 10 Eg, native of Mumbai (6) partner has (theoretically) shown 11 From the USA (8) Down opening values. 12 Architectural style (6) 2 Accept without proof (6) Declarer ruffed West’s king 15 Short time (6) 3 Mexican hat (8) Mindset by 700 Literary Quiz of hearts lead (East’s heart sinking as he viewed dummy). 4 Like a tapering object (5) Solution to Crossword 8519 1 Decode, answer and encode to obtain four related items: The Times Literary Desk Declarer drew trump (note R U B B E R A N N I E 6 Crudely offensive (4) a) YHEEPIE YSIE YOIE YUTTONIE YSIE YIGIE YSIE singular) and cashed two top YOIE (6) I A X C I I A 7 African country (6) Which classics novels spades. The 3-2 split revealed, S U N U P I N D E X E R b) WEMON IGAANST STETA PONSIEN INAQUELITY inspired these prequels declarer was soon claiming all I D O V S O L 8 Cower in fear (6) OCRANYM (5) and sequels ? 13 tricks (including a long B A S E N J I E N V Y 13 Heraldic colour (8) c) LPESS LCEASES OUT OF GLAMENTS (4) 1 Mrs de Winter by Susan Hill spade). That was a whopping L A E L O P d) WINYQINY OLYMYILYMY STYMTY SLIDYMLIDY 2 Wide Sargasso Sea by 2,330 to N-S and a swing of E D W I N A S S E T 14 Very handsome youth (6) SPYMPY (5,5) 1,830 points to Green’s team. Jean Rhys T A R R M E 16 Straying (6) Intriguingly, the par result is F A C E I R A N I A N 2 The Queen of Nootropia drew a regular polygon and saw that its 3 Death Comes to Pemberley 7♠ declared by North (not 17 Very pressing (6) E A P T N T U perimeter was equal to its area. The King drew the largest circle he by PD James South — West can lead his R E P R O V E O T T E R 19 Centre of attention (5) could inside that polygon. What was its radius? 4 Silver by Andrew Motion club, East ruffing). Declarer A E N S I E E 21 Burn or scorch (4) 5 Nick by Michael Farris Smith ruffs two hearts in dummy to L O R R Y B A N N E D 3 Arrange in a different logical order: make the grand slam (bid over IN IS ITALY LATIN NOW RED WONDERS E-W’s 7♦/♥). Need help with today’s puzzle? Call 0905 757 0143 to check the answers. Calls cost £1 per minute plus your telephone company’s network access charge. [email protected] SP: Spoke, 0333 202 3390 (Mon-Fri 9am-5.30pm). Answers on page 53 Answers on page 53 the times | Saturday February 20 2021 1GR saturday review 55

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Jumbo crossword No 1484

Cryptic clues 12 3 4 56789101112 Across Down 1 Exhausted, American journalist 2 Delay beginning to seem unlikely on horseback (4,2) (5) 13 5 Opening large part of church (7) 3 Child’s toy with red and navy 9 Fly in food sent back? Do floppy hat (5,6) nothing (8) 4 Friend, old singer, in a place in 13 Song always associated with California (4,4) 14 15 16 religious magazine (3,5,3,10) 5 Waterway with biblical town on 14 To co-operate, take part in a left (5) game prior to social function 6 Employed by us, now and again? (4,4) (2,5) 17 18 19 20 21 22 15 Given the wrong role in film 7 What may be brought with a netting endless money (7) Stilton? Check — see if keen, 16 Bad storm skirting North being curious (6,5) Carolina (6) 8 Pounds carried by monk’s beast 23 24 25 26 27 17 British chieftain’s time in capital, of burden (5) mostly, note, with us (10) 9 Weird curses involving wrecked 28 20 Ostensibly promote excitement tea clippers (9) by winning flight (4,8) 10 Change flag when heading off (5) 29 30 31 23 Briefly examine item of jewellery 11 From time to time was successful, (4) turned up with a profit (3,3,5) 24 Measure of paper covering 12 Row involving stray dog (7) AGM’s awkward situation (8) 18 Big guns, hostile placed in middle 32 33 34 35 26 Fresh buns — adjust heat to of major road (9) brown? (8) 19 Brief local authority by telephone 29 Lends farmer a clapped out old (7) warhorse (8,4) 21 Gallant French actor and singer 36 37 38 39 30 A head entertaining lecturer in (9) Rhode Island, a Scot (10) 22 Swimmers also not good climbing 32 Few ordered in England on board ship (4,4) 40 originally, being ostentatiously 25 After fine, slate major modern! (10) championship (5,4) 41 42 43 34 Inhalant supplied to order? (6,6) 27 Senior teacher having pains 36 Faculty I refer to in speech (8) causes problems (9) 38 Learned line to utter repeatedly 28 Names within top party (3,5) (8) 31 Unreliable quote about a bishop 44 45 46 47 48 49 39 Ballerina finally retiring, coming over (7) becoming pale (4) 33 Angler: he was in form spinning 41 Here, rest assured (4,2,4,2) (11) 43 Bother involving religious 34 Plump, her tanned literary 50 instruction given by cunning old sleuth (6,5) bishop’s assistant (10) 35 Advanced up cliff (7-4) 44 Fool can in turn with comedian 37 Fairly good hotel in a street in (6) resort, close to pier (5-4) 51 52 53 46 Show former partner and 40 Outraged at university, current husband small piece about island members (2,2,4) (7) 42 Leader in another paper under Name...... Prizes 48 Study including data about discussion (2,5) The prize for each of the first European rat (8) 43 Item the Parisian found under Address...... correct solutions to the Cryptic 50 Poet’s literary colleagues do, lorry (7) and times2 Jumbo clues to be opened will be a collection of upset about poem's ending (6,6,9) 45 Pay for another nurse (5) Times reference books — 51 Fifteen from Ireland — some 47 Former US president in state of ...... including The Times Universal settle in sterling (8) confusion, they say (5) Atlas of the World, Collins 52 Seeing that on, this must be 48 Bohemian poet’s anger about English Dictionary & Thesaurus, and Bradford’s genuine (7) Keats, primarily (5) ...... Crossword Solver’s Dictionary published by HarperCollins. Entries should be marked “Cryptic” or 53 Fast, agent crossing river to the 49 Fear about being caught by the “times2” and sent to: The Times Jumbo Crossword west (6) old man (5) 1484, PO Box 2164, Colchester, Essex CO2 8LJ; or ...... Postcode...... emailed to: [email protected], with “Cryptic 1484” or “times2 1484” in the subject line, to arrive by March 4. Open to 18+, UK & ROI residents only. The Phone number...... winners and the solutions will be published on March 6. times2 clues Train Across 43 Looking astonished (6-4) 12 Subjugate (7) Tracks 1 Supreme power over several 44 Expel (a foreigner) from a country 18 Not arranged in advance (9) No 1255 countries (6) (6) 19 Road round a town (7) 5 Like a dandy (7) 46 Shine softly and tremulously (7) 21 Game with shuttlecock (9) Lay tracks 9 Test organiser; inspector (8) 48 Misanthropy, contempt for human 22 Nomadic, belonging nowhere (8) to enable the train to 13 Classic record of the 1660s nature (8) 25 At a point on one’s journey (2,4,3) travel from (3,5,2,6,5) 50 US national anthem (3,4-8,6) 27 Exotic, rare, obscure (9) village A to 14 Characteristic; ownership (8) 51 Driving out of spirits (8) 28 Supplier (8) village B. 15 Painkilling drug (7) 52 Accidental release of fluid or gas 31 (Of a film) on now (7) The numbers 16 Lasso rope (6) (7) 33 Campaign for votes (11) indicate 17 Heavy, oppressive (10) 53 Vitality; power (6) 34 Obsession with power (11) how many 20 Stirrer-up of crowds (6-6) 35 Milky iridescence (11) sections of 23 Duelling sword (4) Down 37 Powerful whirlpool (9) rail go in 24 Took in (8) 2 Measuring device (5) 40 Lengthen (8) each row 26 Volunteer cavalry force (8) 3 Not practical or advisable (11) 42 Make excessive demands on (7) and column. 29 Outstandingly skilful act (12) 4 One going to live abroad (8) 43 Great ape (7) There are 30 Bankruptcy (10) 5 Water-crossing transport (5) 45 With all musicians playing only straight 32 Rate insufficiently highly (10) 6 Flammable gas (7) together (5) rails and curved rails. 34 Eg, the Perseids (6,6) 7 Unable to be treated individually 47 Drive forward (5) The track 36 Item added at the end of a book (11) 48 Scrounge (money, etc) (5) cannot or text (8) 8 The Iliad author (5) 49 Gesture of indifference (5) cross itself. 38 Continental sleeping car (5-3) 9 Everlastingly (9) Solution 39 Supporting structure (4) 10 Greatly horrify (5) on Monday 41 Mr Hyde’s alter ego (6,6) 11 Persistent or pressing (11)