Shiny Shiny Bright New Hole in My Heart
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SHINY SHINY BRIGHT NEW HOLE IN MY HEART Nathalie is an attractive and successful young woman who works as a personal shopper in a glamorous department store and is married to dependable Jeremy, a GP. But Nathalie becomes seduced by Manchester’s opulent city centre, bursting with designer shops, bars and restaurants, and when she befriends a wealthy client, Maya, she tries to emulate her lifestyle.As Nathalie’s spending habits spiral out of control, she is faced with devastating consequences for herself and her family. Shiny Shiny Bright New Hole In My Heart is an improvised drama written and directed by Marc Munden and starring Sally Hawkins, Steven Mackintosh and Daniela Nardini. FD 22 THE WILL TO WALK THE HAIRY BIKERS’ COOKBOOK PETROLHEADS Three people face a once-in-a- A new celebrity game show, lifetime opportunity: the Following a critically acclaimed and highly popular pilot Petrolheads pits motoring wits chance to walk again… programme earlier this year, and a phenomenal public reaction, against each other in fast and the new year sees the arrival on BBC Two of a highly unusual furious fun for all, including Mik is paraplegic and has been documentary series presented by two warm, life-long foodies. spectacular car stunts shot a wheelchair-user since Dave Myers and Si King are big, bearded bikers who met 17 years on location. childhood.After a recent car ago working behind the scenes on the set of a Catherine crash, doctors operated on Cookson drama. Comedy actor Neil Morrissey him and, suddenly, he could feel steers the show, with teams his toes. He might even walk, Having discovered a mutual, passionate love of food, travel and led by Richard Hammond and but it would mean more adventure, they pack up their panniers, rev up their bikes and Chris Barrie. operations and a lot of pain. head off in search of authentic culinary and cultural experiences He must now decide if it’s in all corners of the world.With their friendly disposition and CG worth it. infectious enthusiasm, the lads are welcomed with open arms by locals of all ages. Film crew in tow, Dave and Si are off on six This film also follows the quests that take in Namibia, the Isle of Man and Ireland, stories of Sue, who has Transylvania,Turkey,Vietnam and Mexico. multiple sclerosis and stakes everything on stem cell AN treatment – it’s her last chance of recovery but everything depends on whether she can raise enough money; and Judy, a successful businesswoman until she broke her neck in a fall. Doctors said she’d never walk again but she’s determined to prove them wrong. KA (c) Photolibrary 24 FACING THE TRUTH ACCUSED! PINOCHET IN LONDON In six gripping face-to-face The Orkney child abuse case was one in a series of high-profile Pinochet In London tells the encounters, victims and scandals that rocked Britain in the late Eighties and early remarkable story of what perpetrators from the Nineties. It illuminated a burgeoning child abuse “industry” that happened when a former Northern Ireland conflict seemed to be spinning out of control. In the Eighties, new South American dictator came meet for the first time, in a theories and techniques aimed at uncovering the existence of to London for a holiday and unique event. child abuse had swept across the Atlantic and through the British was arrested. Chile’s General social work profession. Pinochet (played by Derek Archbishop Desmond Tutu Jacobi in this fully dramatised oversees these meetings as In February 1991, the unsuspecting and remote Scottish island version of events) was victims and perpetrators face was hit by co-ordinated dawn raids, police and social workers detained in the UK under the truth and each other, in a swooping without warning on four Orkney families and taking house arrest for nearly two series presented by Fergal their nine children into care. Extraordinary allegations of Satanic years in 1998.What followed Keane.Victims tell their ritual abuse had been made and an extraordinary fight ensued to sparked off a huge stories about the human costs have the children returned and the families’ names cleared. international incident. It also of what the perpetrators have led to an extraordinary legal done; and perpetrators In Accused!, the parents, children and social workers involved battle in which a House of acknowledge the pain and describe their experience – some talking for the first time – of Lords ruling was reversed, suffering they have caused, how and why it happened: what drove the social workers to act and New Labour faced up to revealing crucial details about so drastically; the resulting campaign that galvanised the the conflicting demands of their acts of violence. community; and the children themselves reveal what really real politique and ethical happened in their all-important disclosure sessions with foreign policy. In these compelling the social workers. encounters, victims question Also starring Peter Capaldi, perpetrators directly as they GM Phyllida Law,Anna Masey and try to get to the truth. Jessica Stevenson. LK MB 26 THE CONVENT FOLLOWING ON FROM THE SUCCESS OF THE MONASTERY, THE CONVENT FOLLOWS FOUR ORDINARY WOMEN AS THEY GIVE UP THEIR EVERYDAY LIFESTYLES TO EMBARK UPON A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY WITH A COMMUNITY OF NUNS. Offering a remarkable glimpse into the inner workings of convent life, the women will spend 40 days and 40 nights in a world without material possessions and where the pressures of modern life are left behind. Cut off from the outside world, they will share the daily routine of prayers and work with the Sisters in an attempt to discover if life has any greater meaning. This series explores whether the age-old values of the nuns hold any relevance to modern women and whether or not this experience will have the power to transform their lives. CR (c) Getty Images 28 WHOSE BRITAIN IS IT THE PRIVATE LIFE OF AN EASTER MASTERPIECE A QUESTION OF ANYWAY? SELECTION Three great paintings encompassing traditional Easter themes – The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci; Salvador Dali’s The Christ Of St John Of The Cross and Resurrection by Piero della Francesca – With “selection” a taboo in Dynamic duo Peter and Dan are forensically examined and explained in these New Labour’s education Snow lift the lid on how special programmes. policy, this series investigates few of Britain’s 60 million whether under-privileged inhabitants own its 60 million The Private Life Of An Easter Masterpiece goes beyond art theory children in the Fifties and acres of land. and fashionable artistic movements to present the biographies of Sixties had a better deal the paintings themselves, exploring how the paint has been under the 11+ system than They reveal that 90 per cent applied, how particular ideas are conveyed to viewers and how they do today. live on about 10 per cent of each work is a unique reflection of its own life and times. the land and that homes are The first programme goes now a third smaller than CR/JC back to school with some previous generations’. well-known people for whom the chance to pass an exam While the Forestry and attend a grammar school Commission is still the took them out of the working largest landowner, the Church classes and transformed their has sold off over a million lives.The next part returns acres in recent times; and with them to their schools Prince Charles earns £36k today – to discover whether a day from his Duchy of children from the same Cornwall land holdings and background have the same property portfolio. opportunities and standard of education. A Question Of BR/LS Selection also examines the “postcode lottery” which, critics say, has replaced selection by ability with selection by postcode. NL (c) Museo Civico di Sansepolcro 30 ON THE LAST VISIT TO JIMMY’S FARM AT Now it’s his third year and everything is getting bigger. Ambitious as ever, Jimmy’s recent additions include a bull, 100 JIMMY’S CHRISTMAS 2004, ESSEX BOY JIMMY DOHERTY rescued battery chickens and 800,000 bees. Other challenges WAS PLOUGHING AHEAD REGARDLESS OF include creating a wildlife walk, managing the increasing numbers of staff and controlling the new prize boar. Can PROBLEMS – DETERMINED TO REALISE HIS Jimmy rise above the obstacles or has he finally bitten off FARM II DREAM OF ESTABLISHING A SUCCESSFUL PIG- more than he can chew? FARMING BUSINESS BY RETURNING TO KC TRADITIONAL AGRICULTURAL METHODS. 32 ELIZABETH DAVID: SPRINGWATCH WITH BILL ODDIE HOW TO HAVE A A LIFE IN RECIPES GOOD DEATH Springwatch 2005 renewed the nation’s passion for British wildlife with its live day-by-day coverage following the fortunes of several Post-war Britain’s culinary well-loved creatures. Off air, viewers joined the BBC’s Breathing It is an inevitable part of life couture was limited, to say the Space but death is a taboo subject in campaign in their thousands and pledged over 38 million How To Have least. In the main, restaurants hours of action for wildlife. today's society. In served dull, tasteless food, and A Good Death, Esther Rantzen “home-cooked” fare usually In 2006, Bill Oddie, Kate Humble and Simon King are back for examines the reality of end-of- meant stewed to within an three weeks of live wildlife reports from around the country and life care in the UK and reveals inch of its life. more news from the ongoing Springwatch survey.They’ll also be the findings of the largest continuing the Breathing Space campaign by asking viewers to national survey ever held on Cookery writer Elizabeth share their favourite spots for enjoying nature on their doorstep the way people deal with David was to change – at least and beyond.