January 23 | 2023

Meditate
like a
Tibetan
monk

Why it works — and how to do it

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Don’t chicken out, Charles

He carves! He
— a king should don silk
stockings for a coronation
sews! He knits!
Kevin Maher The rise of the
T
hat’s it. I’m ordering

crafty man
earplugs. I can’t handle
another torturous Stop firing
round of Adam
Lambert murdering We shots at
Will Rock You in front
a phalanx of bored- Bond girl
looking royals. And
though the King’s coronation guest list Sad to see that the
has yet to be announced, and though reputation of former
the Palace has only recently revealed Bond girl and, also, Make-do-and-mend is back in fashion —
further details of three planned days of bloody good actress Eva
“joyful celebrations” in May, you just Green (see Proxima for some men it’s just the gateway to
know that Lambert and Queen are and Cracks) is being
going to be, as they were during the mildly traduced reviving old skills. Even flower pressing.
Platinum Jubilee, head of the queue because of a couple of
and first on stage. “Charles! You’ll “controversial” Hannah Evans talks to the new crafters
always be our king! And we’ll always messages.
be your . . .” It writes itself. A lawsuit involving
Their logical slot would be the the actress and the

Windsor Castle concert, on Sunday,
May 7, which is scheduled to be the
mid-point climax of this extended
weekend. The prestige gig will be
staged on the castle’s East Lawn and it
has been revealed that the BBC is
contacting “top musicians, stars of
stage and film and dance and Sunday will feature the Big Lunch,
entertainers to finalise the list for the which is the communal bit involving
event”. And, presumably, when that lot street parties and joyful neighbours
knock them back the Beeb will have to overloading trestle tables with
make do with Sam Ryder, Lee Mack “bounteous offerings”. Given the cost
and the cast of The Lion King. of living crisis, I’m thinking that
What else do we know about an means “mostly lentils”. A fabulous
event that will allegedly represent “the long trestle table decked out in tiny
spirit of our times”? The ceremony Union Jacks and affordable, protein-
itself, on May 6 at Westminster Abbey, rich legumes. The spirit of our times.
will be feature a traditional religious The weekend concludes on a special
service and will also be “a thing of bank holiday Monday with a national
splendour”. It might be even more call to arms named the Big Help Out,
splendid if Charles reneges on his which is apparently “dedicated to
decision to opt for a military uniform volunteering” and designed to
instead of the traditional “silk engender an even more conscientious
stockings and breeches”. For nothing and interactive society. The most
seems to scream “spirit of our times” interactive gesture I made during the
more than the idea of the patriarchal jubilee was a trip to see the local
head of the nation swanning about flaming beacon. It had been glowing
Westminster Abbey in silk stockings. for hours on a faraway hilltop and I
Then there will be the photo op at was eventually compelled by a sense
Buckingham Palace. If the coronation of history to jump into the car and
follows the rules set by the jubilee, drive all the way there. After parking
only working royals will be permitted the car and climbing the highest
on the balcony. And the appearance of camber, I discovered that the Queen’s
a grappling hook, snagging itself deftly beacon was far less elemental than I’d
onto the balustrade? That’ll be anticipated. It was an idling tractor,
Andrew, coming up from below. And with extra headlights and a picture of
that deafening sound of scribbling and the Queen taped to the side. It was
snivelling? That’ll be Harry, busily disappointing, illogical — why not just
writing Spare II: My Coronation burn wood instead of several gallons
Rejection Nightmare . . . And How I of diesel? — and anticlimactic. And
Turned it Round and Became an Even yet it could’ve been worse. At least it
Better Person. wasn’t Adam Lambert and Queen.
Murray fired off a May. I worried I might
sarcastic tweet aimed never hold a racket
The Andy at the doctor who had again. At the weekend,
claimed that hip however, I made a
Murray of replacement surgery Murray-like comeback
would rule out a return (think Russell Crowe
padel? Moi to professional sport. in Gladiator).
It’s just like me. I I played padel
After his monumental ruptured a disc (L1, (pronounced by
performance in the since you ask) in my everyone around me
Australian Open, Andy back playing tennis last “padelle” like Michelle,
O
production company of n a Friday night,
a sci-fi film that was after a few pints
never made (she was at the pub with
supposed to star) has his friends,
revealed that Green Robert Radcliffe, a
referred, in emails and 28-year-old charity
WhatsApp messages, to fundraiser from
one of the film’s south London, sits
producers as “pure down in front of the TV to catch up
vomit” and another as a on one of his favourite shows, The
“f***ing moron”. Great Pottery Throwdown. In the
Is there anything Channel 4 reality show, which is
unusual in that? I have, on its sixth series, amateur potters
over nearly three competitively create crockery, utensils
decades of film writing, and vases. Think The Great British
spoken to countless Bake Off with clay instead of cake.
producers who, in my “I don’t watch much TV, but it’s
opinion, would easily one of the few shows I do follow,”
qualify as “pure vomit”. Radcliffe says. He is a keen crafter
The mistake Green whose hobbies range from spoon
made was putting it whittling — using small, sharp knives
down in messages. to carve wooden spoons — to sewing
She should have and lino printing, which he picked up
heeded the golden from his sister and mum.
behavioural advice that You may find this surprising, but
Will Smith consistently Radcliffe is not an outlier. In fact, he
offered throughout is a very modern man. I know dozens
his career: say nice of blokes who are just as much into
things about everyone pottery and patchwork as pints.
because the guy who On WhatsApp I ask my male friends
makes you coffee today for their favourite influencers, and as
could be tomorrow’s well as the predictable sporting
studio head. And then, accounts, they tell me about Joe
presumably, when that Ando-Hirsh, a tailor who makes
works, and you become clothes for his girlfriend and has a
really big, you can just combined following on TikTok and
start smacking the Instagram of 3.5 million.
crap out of everyone on And they direct me on Instagram to
live TV? the Home Boys, two upholstery
influencers called Andrew and David
who decorate their home with soft
furnishings they make themselves.
Another friend reminds me that for
his birthday this year he received a
ie not pretentious at “knit your own hat” kit and a “paint
all). It was a revelation, your own egg cup” pottery session for
with smaller courts, two at Turning Earth, a hip pottery
slower balls, music, a workshop in east London.
chill-out zone and a In the cost of living crisis these
coffee area. The game types of men — crafty and good with
is easy. The vibe is their hands — are in high demand.
friendly and I didn’t They can thread a needle, get creative
hurt my back. At the with clay and know how to take up a
same time, well, it’s just hem. This month John Lewis revealed
not tennis. that dressmaking, repairing and
haberdashery were having a
resurgence as customers counted
their pennies. According to the
department store, darning needles,
repair tape and clothing dye are flying
off the shelves. Sales of patches for
covering up holes and rips are up
60 per cent compared with last year,
while those of dressmaking accessories
such as thimbles, dressmaker’s chalk
and pattern-making accessories are up
15 per cent.
Obviously, this make-do-and-mend
attitude saves money. Radcliffe says
that he made all his family’s Christmas
presents, and their cards, and saved
a few hundred quid. “I basically made
their gifts out of the firewood pile.
The wooden vase I made my sister
would have cost at least £100 if I’d
bought one from a professional.” But
there’s more to why men take up crafts
than that.
Josh Pinfold, a 29-year-old data
analyst from Warwickshire, got serious
about sewing when he grew tired of
having to take his clothes to the tailor
to be altered. He asked his girlfriend’s
mum to show him how to use a sewing
machine, and that Christmas she
bought him one as a gift.
Becoming a dab hand at darning
will save Pinfold money. He and his
girlfriend are moving into their first
home this year, and plan on making
all the soft furnishings, from blinds to
cushion covers. But what he enjoys
most is the satisfaction that creating
something brings. “It’s quite nice to
have an immediate result,” he says.
“You don’t get that with work
because projects are much longer.
With crafting you get to the end of
the day and you have something to
show for it.”
Joel Vincent James’s passion for arts
and crafts is about preserving skills.
This may partially explain why the
25-year-old landscape gardener lives
in a yurt in the middle of a field on the
Jurassic coast in Dorset. He made the
yurt himself, from the polycotton
canvas outer layer to the sheep-wool
insulation, and did not stop there.
Now he spends his spare time turning
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From top: Joel Vincent James;
Chris Moss. Right: James Milner
driftwood from the beach into frames,
chopping boards and coffee tables. “I
made my ex-girlfriend’s mum a bird
box once,” he says. “Another time a
friend wanted to make a piece of art
for his girlfriend from this cool stick he
found. I helped him carve it and paint
it. He said he wouldn’t have done it
without me.”
Some people
think knitting
is weird or not
very masculine
Say what you will about men and
their sticks, but I do think there is
something very touching about a
man who takes the time to craft a
gift for someone they love. That’s
how Ben Calder-Travis, 27, got into
flower pressing. As a teenager in
Stockholm he used to pick flowers,
which he pressed and framed for
a girlfriend. “She thought it was
very romantic.” In his twenties he
graduated to seaweed pressing. “I’m
always pressing seaweed between
cookbooks,” he says.
Sadly not everyone reacts to
Calder-Travis’s hobby in the same
positive way. Although my peers are
children of the “here’s one I made
earlier” era of TV programmes such as
Blue Peter and Art Attack — both
presented by men — there are still
some arts and crafts gender faultlines.
“Clay, painting and woodwork are
considered quite normal for men
now, but I think when you stray into
pressing flowers and knitting, some
people think it’s weird or not a very
masculine hobby,” he says. “I’ve had a
few people laugh and ask why I do it.
It’s a bit frustrating because there are
men who bake and make bread, but
arts and crafts haven’t caught up.”
Still, it’s not enough to put
Calder-Travis off. The benefits
outweigh the negative responses. “I do
it to slow down and switch off. I keep
myself really busy and I find it hard
to calm down, but pressing seaweed
helps me. Crafting isn’t gendered.
It’s having the luxury of time and
confidence to try new things.”
Chris Moss, a 27-year-old PhD
student and part-time willow weaver,
agrees. He learnt to weave animal
figurines after attending a free
workshop run by Juliette Hamilton
when he was an undergraduate. Moss
now works part-time at festivals such
as Glastonbury, teaching people how
to create butterflies and spiders from
strips of willow. One summer he was
part of a team commissioned to weave
a 10ft willow version of the band
Oasis, working strips round a huge
metal structure.
“It’s helpful because it gets you to
have some downtime in your day,”
he says. “You can switch off without
physically exerting yourself. It’s not
massively mentally testing, so you
can just get out of your head and get
in the zone.” Moss would like to see
the stereotypes around crafting gone
completely. “For blokes these things
are seen as feminine activities.
Anything we can do to deconstruct
that social norm is a good thing.”
For other crafters, turning a hobby
into a money-making side hustle has
provided further enjoyment. James
Milner, 25, is a teacher. In his spare
time he prints his designs on T-shirts,
rugs, hoodies, cushions and tote bags
bought from charity shops. His
Instagram, @somedrawingsbyjames,
is full of his colourful designs. He
has sold them on Etsy, but now
makes them solely to order for
friends. “I don’t want to focus
so much on trying to make
money that it takes away from
the enjoyment of the craft,”
he says.
Josh Gimber, 33, has
turned his hobby into a
small business. Gimber
always loved clothes, but
it was not until lockdown,
when he bought a beginner’s
embroidery kit, that he
considered making his own.
“After embroidering my first
few stitches my brain just
exploded with possibilities,”
he says. Two years later,
alongside his job as a
photography studio manager,
he stitches bespoke designs (usually
people’s pets) on to T-shirts he sells for
£50 or more to clients who find him
on Instagram at @pikolclothing.
Honing these skills at a time like
this is brilliant in many ways. Not
only can you make do, mend and look
after your mind, you can make some
money. Now, where are those needles?
I’m having a millennial
social media crisis. Help
My generation shared our whole lives online.
Now we’re clamming up. By Martha Alexander
N
ot to be dramatic, but I’m
scared of social media. It’s
a feeling that has been
marinating in TikToks and
hot takes and talk of
BeReal for months. Where once I’d
regularly be pumping out Instagram
posts of sandwiches or Peggy
Mitchell or my feet in new socks all
accompanied by pithy bons mots, I’m
now increasingly mute.
Sure, I still spend an embarrassing
amount of time scrolling, liking,
commenting “lol” or the melting face
emoji. But something’s changed: I
feel lost and
purposeless, like
I’m having some
kind of online
identity crisis.
Of course I
realise that for
older readers this
may seem like
the world’s
tiniest problem.
If you’re not
running a
Kardashian-style
business via
social media
why should it
matter? But for
millennials like
me this is a
catastrophe.
Social media
was our thing. We created it, we
owned it. And now it feels like we’ve
been relegated to digital has-beens.
I know this sounds neurotic but
I’m not alone. There seem to be loads
of people like me — millennials and
older — who are morphing into
online voyeurs. There’s an adage that
goes something like “people are too
busy thinking about themselves to
think about you” — but this, and I
cannot emphasise it enough, is not
true on social.
I’m so anxious when I post —
which is almost solely about work
anyway — and I worry excessively
about everything from the quality of
the image and my grammar to
whether it will be embarrassing if no
one “likes” it or if it reveals
something shaming about my life,
personality or beliefs.
“I fear being judged because I
judge,” agreed one of my friends,
who is in her late thirties and last
posted on Instagram in 2019 despite
spending much of her day on it.
“I always feel anxious after I post,
imagining that maybe someone feels
like shit all because I showed off,”
another millennial friend says. A
third adds: “It all just seems like so
much work to do it properly now.”
I get all of that. I fear being judged.
I fear people thinking I’m a show-off.
I fear not getting the joke. Or, worse,
being the joke.
At 38 I’m nostalgic for 2010, where
soft-focus snaps of avocados reigned
and everyone was a basic bitch. It’s
not like that any more, because Gen
Z have arrived.
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I envy the ease with which these
youngsters produce aloof content.
They seem to care less, the antidote
to my millennial allies, who like to
look sleek in their sitting rooms
surrounded by confessional fiction
and cheese plants.
But I am not adapting well to
TikTok and Instagram Reels. No
shade to anyone who does this well,
but the idea of me producing candid
“to camera” bits with music and
subtitles and links makes me want to
put my hand in a blender.
There’s also something I find
queasy about cultivating and
maintaining a
trademark,
mood or style. I
recently found
myself
wondering if
something I
thought may be
a good post was
“on brand” for
me — and I
knew I’d reached
a nadir. I don’t
want to think,
“What does it
really say about
me if I post this
picture of some
snowdrops — will
I come across as
too wholesome?”
It’s no way to live.
I cringe at the smug and knowing
way I once behaved around older
generations, holding forth about
hashtags and the Valencia filter as if
I were the chief executive of a Silicon
I fear being
judged. I fear
people thinking
I’m a show-off
Valley start-up. I hanker for the days
when I could unselfconsciously
publish a picture of my cat with
#HappyCaturday underneath.
But it’s all become so serious.
Everyone’s cool and angry and
wearing tiny sunglasses and editing
feature films starring themselves on
their iPhones. I feel exhausted.
I also think I’m jealous because
Gen Z seem more open to honest,
direct discussion online. Millennials
like me have been force-fed #BeKind
and “women supporting women” to
such an extent that a lot of us fear
posting authentic content in case it
causes controversy or upset.
What if I can’t adapt? What if I
never get over Instagram 2010? Do I
just watch and like from afar and
awkwardly post occasionally to
remind people who don’t know me
that I haven’t died? If anyone has the
answers, DM me — because one
thing’s for sure, I’ll be there.
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How to meditate
the Tibetan way,
beat stress and
improve your gut
A new study has found that meditation can boost
your microbiome. Daniel Goleman, who has
co-authored a book with a former monk, gives
Damian Whitworth tips on getting started
T
he deadline looms. You
have done the research
and need to write it up
by the end of the day.
Then the phone rings.
It takes five minutes to
answer a colleague’s
queries but before you
get back to the task in hand, your
computer alerts you to some emails.
That takes five minutes and . . . now
where are you with that report? You
can’t recall. If only you could focus.
Daniel Goleman may be able to
help. The US psychologist is best
known for introducing the world
to the concept of “emotional
intelligence” — his 1995 book on
the subject sold five million
copies worldwide and he went
on to write several more
bestsellers. Now he’s immersed in
the scientific exploration of the
benefits of meditation and his latest
work was co-written with Tsoknyi
Rinpoche, a one-time Tibetan monk
who is a Buddhist teacher.
Goleman offers hope to all of us
whose working lives are beset by
distractions. He cites research by
a Stanford professor that found
that, yes, stopping to browse the
internet or answer emails leads
to diminished focus when you
finally return to your work —
unless you engage in a couple of
ten-minute sessions of mindfulness
breathing each day. Then you should
find you have little or no loss of
concentration after multitasking.
Since his days studying clinical
psychology at Harvard, Goleman, 76,
has been fascinated by meditation and
in recent years has been writing about
the scientific literature that indicates
the benefits meditators may enjoy. He
doesn’t identify as a Buddhist, but he
has had Buddhist teachers and wrote a
book with the Dalai Lama on the
spiritual leader’s vision for the world.
The day before we talk there are
headlines about research in China that
shows that Tibetan monks who
meditate have healthier gut bacteria
than others who eat the same diet, but
don’t meditate. “I’m not surprised,” he
says. “It’s just another one of an
ongoing series of scientific findings
that show the positive value of many
different kinds for meditation.”
For millennia Buddhists have been
teaching meditation as a means to
calm the mind, then seek greater
insight into the nature of existence.
Now data indicates that it may have
benefits ranging from a greater sense
of mental wellbeing to reduced
vulnerability to certain illnesses.
Since the 1990s Goleman has been
friends with Rinpoche, who comes
from a line of Tibetan meditators.
Rinpoche is based in Nepal, but
travels the world, and runs an
annual retreat in the UK. In their
book, Why We Meditate, Rinpoche
explains how to practise
meditation and Goleman outlines
what the science suggests may
happen to you if you do.
The recent boom in people
exploring meditation, especially
mindfulness — the technique of
focusing on being fully present in the
moment — suggests a yearning for
calm in a hectic world. “There’s good
evidence that we’re more distracted
than we were 10 or 20 years ago;
that the pace of change keeps
accelerating,” Goleman says
on a video call from his home
near New York. “People are
complaining of stress. Whether
it’s more than in the past, I don’t
know. But the complaints are
certainly louder. And meditation has
been proven to be a wonderful
antidote to stress.”
He details three key measures of
The psychologist how we respond to stress. “One is how
Daniel Goleman, top, often we’re triggered to get upset. The
has written a new book second is how deeply upset we get.
with Tsoknyi Rinpoche, And the third is how quickly or slowly
a Buddhist teacher we recover from the peak of that
upset. Different studies have shown
that meditation improves all three of
those. People get triggered less often.
They’re less upset when they do get a
trigger. And they’re more resilient.
There’s increasing data that shows
that meditation tends to make us more
calm generally in our life.”
Rinpoche explains to those taking
up meditation how to start with a
grounding exercise he calls “dropping”
Techniques for beginners
1 The technique of dropping
In dropping you do three things at
the same time:
6 1 Raise your arms, then let your
hands drop on to your thighs.
6 2 Exhale a loud, big breath.
6 3 Drop your awareness from
thinking into what your body feels,
and all its sensations.
It doesn’t matter what the feelings
are. If you can’t feel anything, that’s
fine too.
Just try it for five minutes at a time:
Drop your hands, let a big breath out,
and drop your thinking mind into
sensing your body. Rest there for a
little while, maybe a minute or so,
then drop again. Repeat as needed.
2 Try these mantras
It can be helpful sometimes to use a
mantra while doing this dropping
practice. There are two I like to use:
6 Just after your hands hit your lap,
say this mantra silently to yourself, or
in a whisper, over and over: “So what!
Who cares? No big deal.”
6 You can also repeat this one over
and over inside your mind, or try
whispering it to yourself: “Whatever
happens, happens. Whatever doesn’t
happen, doesn’t happen.”
3 Deep belly breathing or
baby breathing
Find a relaxed position to work with
your breath. If you are sitting in a
chair, try crossing your legs or sitting
in a way that your feet are flat on the
floor. If you are lying down, try on
your back with a straight spine and, if
you can, your legs bent, with your
feet flat on the floor.
Next, put your hands on your
lower belly. Your thumbs should be
roughly at the level of your navel.
Relax your shoulders and arms. Start
breathing gently from your abdomen,
allowing your belly and hands to rise
and fall with each breath. You can
rest awareness with the rise and fall
of your belly and hands. Try to
completely relax your neck,
shoulders and chest so they have no
tension. Allow the upper body to
fully rest, and let the lower abdomen
do most of the movement.
When you feel relaxed and are
breathing in a regular rhythm,
breathe more deeply, letting the belly
and hands rise and fall with each
breath. Then introduce short pauses
when the breath is fully inside and
the breath is fully outside. In other
words, after exhaling, pause a few
seconds before beginning the next
inhalation. At the end of the
inhalation, hold the breath in for a
few seconds before beginning the
exhalation. These pauses, just
holding for a few seconds, should
be relaxed and comfortable. Don’t
hold until you feel short of breath
or strained.
TIP One day you can feel which
pause is more helpful, the holding in
or holding out. Whichever is for you,
do that. Progress comes over time,
the retention lengthens naturally.
Allow your body to enjoy the deep
rhythmic abdominal breathing. Allow
your whole system to calm down and
let go, like a baby resting without a
care in the world. Continue for as
long as you are comfortable.
Abridged from Why We Meditate by
Daniel Goleman and Tsoknyi
Rinpoche (Penguin Life, £14.99)
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(see panel, left), which cuts through
constant thinking and makes you
aware of your body. This, according
to Goleman, “does seem to cut
ruminative worry, which is the less
helpful kind of worry”.
The next stage of the practice is
belly breathing. Goleman recalls being
in a taxi with Rinpoche in Delhi,
racing to catch a train. Goleman
became very anxious and Rinpoche
told him to locate what he calls the
“speediness” in his body, then led him
through deep breathing exercises that
calmed his mind. He has been doing
those exercises for many years. “Do I
get stressed less? I think so.”
Studies have shown that people
doing slowed breathing report being
more relaxed. It seems to drive our
brain and cardiac and respiratory
systems into the “relaxation response”.
Helping ourselves to relax like that
could be a useful tool in a world where
we don’t need to choose fight or flight
in the same way that our ancestors
did, but our brains still prime us to do
so. In our stressful lives, the amygdala,
which Goleman calls the brain’s “radar
for threat”, still pitches us into fear or
anger far more than it needs to now
that we don’t have to worry about
being eaten. Prolonged, continuing
fight-or-flight reaction has a cost. It
“overtaxes” our biology, which can
lead, according to research cited by
Goleman, to heightened inflammation,
lowered immune system defences and
a greater susceptibility to stress-
worsened illnesses. Studies suggest
that practising mindfulness of the
breath seems to calm the amygdala.
Rinpoche teaches his students to
attempt the “handshake”, in which
they make friends with their fear,
anger, self-righteousness, envy and the
other “beautiful monsters” that make
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The Doomsday Clock
is moving. Uh-oh . . .
Stuart Heritage on where we stand as scientists
update the estimated ‘minutes to midnight’
B
race yourself, everyone. deaths have dropped to their lowest
Tomorrow, the Doomsday number since March 2020 — back
Clock is going to be by 40 seconds
recalibrated, and we should 6 But British excess deaths are at
probably prepare ourselves their highest level for 70 years —
for the worst. forwards by 10 seconds
Unveiled by members of the Bulletin 6 Kate Winslet was just quite nice
of the Atomic Scientists in 1947, the to a child in a viral video — back by
clock was designed to represent the 5 seconds
imminent threat from man-made 6 Prince Harry still won’t shut up —
global catastrophe. At launch, it was forwards by 10 seconds
set to seven minutes to midnight. Two 6 Wild bison have successfully been
years later, when Russia initiated the reintroduced to the British countryside
nuclear arms race, it moved forward to after an absence of thousands of years,
three minutes to midnight. Since then bringing the species back from the
the clock has ticked backwards and point of extinction and successfully
forwards according to the global improving local biodiversity — back
threat level. In 1991, for instance, we by 10 seconds
were 17 minutes from midnight. 6 Within the space of a single month
However, the last time that the clock last year, three people were gored by
moved was in 2020, and it brought us wild bison in Yellowstone National
to just 100 seconds to midnight, the Park — forwards by 5 seconds
closest in history. Not to worry 6 The risk of cyberattacks on
anyone, but things haven’t exactly organisations has never been higher
been great since then. — forwards by 15 seconds
our lives and relationships difficult. So how will the Doomsday Clock 6 People seem to have realised
Healing comes from a greater change on the 24th? Let’s survey the that NFTs are stupid — back by
awareness of what is inside us, he says. current state of the world on both a 5 seconds
There’s Some studies suggest that this may macro and micro scale, and try to 6 The Social Progress Index has
good be true. Research at the University of
California found that people with
make an educated guess at where the
boffins will be moving the hands of the
announced that, despite everything,
the world has generally become a
evidence social anxiety who paid attention to
their anxieties in an accepting, non-
clock face: better place to live over the past
decade, with improvements in
that we reactive way had reduced anxiety. Yale
research has shown that the inner
6 Almost 200 countries have reached
an agreement to conserve 30
nutrition, sanitation and access
to knowledge — back by
are more stance of accepting our feelings lessens
amygdala reactivity, “making it easier
per cent of the planet’s land
and oceans by 2030 —
30 seconds
6 However, the index
distracted to simply tune into upsetting emotions
without having them drive what we
back by 20 seconds
6 But UN secretary-
also reported that the
UK has lost so much
than we think or do”, Goleman writes. general António of its social progress
Developing an accepting attitude Guterres stated in that it now finds
were 10 or and compassion towards ourselves October that climate itself in a “social
20 years enhances our sense of wellbeing, he
says, which makes us more resilient to
action was “falling
pitifully short”,
progress recession”.
The only other
ago stress. Other benefits are a lessened
risk of heart disease and medical
adding: “We are
headed for a global
countries to
experience a similar
disorders that are worsened by stress- catastrophe” — recession are Syria,
related inflammation, such as arthritis forwards by Venezuela and
and asthma. There’s strong data, he 45 seconds Libya — forwards
adds, linking wellbeing to a lessened 6 Still, the by 10 seconds
vulnerability to chronic anxiety and International 6 On top of which,
depression as well as better Environment McDonald’s hasn’t
concentration and less distractedness. Agency predicts reintroduced the
Meditation may even have a positive that global CO2 Breakfast Wrap after
effect on our genes. One research from fossil fuels ditching it during
group looked at the genetic activity of could peak in 2025, Covid — forwards by
long-term meditators and found that before falling as 5 seconds
inflammatory genes were turned off governments switch to clean 6 Governments have
after meditating. However, this was energy — back by 15 seconds unveiled plans for rolling
noted in those who had meditated for 6 It has been predicted blackouts to cope with the
a full day and were lifetime that Russia’s invasion Europe-wide energy crisis
practitioners with 6,000 hours under of Ukraine will — forwards by
their belts. So the only downside to come to an end 20 seconds
that finding, I suggest, is that you have this year — back 6 Still, the days
to have done a huge amount of by 25 seconds are getting longer,
meditation. “If you consider that a 6 Has anyone so we won’t
downside,” Goleman says, laughing. told Vladimir need so many
He also points out that beginners in Putin? — candles — back
mindfulness have shown lower levels forwards by by 5 seconds
of inflammatory gene activity. 50 seconds 6 Longer days?
Goleman’s routine now is to 6 The World Bank That just gives
meditate before and after breakfast if has warned of a us more time to
he can. He says there is no need to global recession in screw everything
aspire to marathon meditation 2023 — forwards by up — forwards by
sessions. “The problem with long 15 seconds 15 seconds
sessions is that you can just get lost in 6 But at least the
a wandering mind. If you keep it short, price of Lurpak has Net adjustment
the quality might be better. The point stabilised since last Forwards by
really is the quality,” he says. “I think September — back 40 seconds. We are
the world would be a happier place if by 5 seconds a minute away from
more people did this.” 6 Daily global Covid midnight!
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life
Ask Professor Tanya Byron Our unloving
daughter won’t let us see our grandchildren
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daughter has a
professional job, is
married to a lovely
man and has two
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adorable children.
She was privately educated, taken
around the world and shown love
and support in abundance.
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hard to make friends, communicate
and maintain relationships. She is
envious of her brother and has no
relationship with him.
Whenever we see her she has these
o against her
emotional outbursts, mainly directed
towards her father over old, petty
grievances. She seems intent on
punishing us and forgetting all the
good things in her childhood.
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When she was young we took her
to the GP, who referred us to a
therapist who asked us why we were
letting a child control our lives. That
didn’t help us at all.
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I am concerned that, despite her
upbringing, she is very much like my
mother-in-law and to some extent
her father. My mother-in-law was
cold, unloving, ungrateful, reclusive
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and not family-orientated at all. My
husband also lacks empathy and is
very self-absorbed. I wonder if they
are on the autism spectrum. We have
been estranged from our daughter
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for some months — and have not
seen our grandchildren — since she
came to stay and yet again got into a
rage with us. After these rages she
weaponises the children, which is
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what she has done now.
My husband’s health is not good,
but she seems incapable of showing
him love or kindness. She talks about
me supporting her yet does not even
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call me to see how things are.
We are at a loss to work out what
the problem is. I have suggested
counselling for her or us together,
but she is very defensive and parks
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all the blame on us.
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many, often unstated expectations:
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up with unconditional love, the “blood
is thicker than water” contract. While
differences are normal, we hope to find
a way through so that at baseline a
solid and loving relationship continues.
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— a daughter who holds on to past
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grievances and only sees her needs in
the relationship she has with you and
her father. You describe her as a
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woman who has always struggled with
relationships. You wonder whether
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these behaviours are paternal familial
traits and ask whether this can all be
explained by your daughter (and her
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father) being neurodivergent, ie on the
autistic spectrum?
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A sketch of someone’s behaviour is
not sufficient to enable a diagnosis,
especially if not provided by the
h
person themselves and corroborated
by an in-depth assessment. Where
there are complex relationship
challenges, there can often be the
inclination to label and diagnose —
although from what you describe
I can understand the logic of your
question. As a clinician, I feel strongly,
however, that it isn’t always helpful to
jump to diagnostic labels as
explanations of challenging
behaviours. When individual
differences are boiled down to these
labels, we can lose any understanding
of other factors that underpin the
distress and challenges. There is a risk,
therefore, that we localise problems as
pathology in one individual and so by
ignoring any mutual responsibilities
for the problems that exist, reduce any
chance of mutual resolution.
Having said all this, I completely
understand that you are devastated by
the estrangement and so need an
explanation. You may or may not be
correct in thinking that your
daughters and husband are on the
autistic spectrum, yet how does that
help with the situation? Furthermore,
given the similarities between your
husband and your daughter, I am
curious why you have been able to
make your marriage work but struggle
with your daughter. This last question
opens up a consideration of family
dynamics and seeing this as a systemic
(ie family) issue rather than/as well as
an individual one (ie your daughter
being on the autistic spectrum). This,
I suggest, would be more helpful since,
even if neurodevelopmental
differences exist, there still has to be a
solution to the breakdown in relations.
You say that your husband “lacks
empathy and is very self-absorbed”
and your daughter “has these
emotional outbursts mainly directed
towards her father over old, petty
grievances”. This provides a useful
starting point because in order to
move on from past upsets, painful past
issues need to be acknowledged. So if
your husband has never seen that he
needs to hear his daughter and
apologise for what has hurt her, why
wouldn’t she hold on to this? It is also
not unusual in families that conflict is
likely between those who are the most
similar in temperament, and while
your daughter is temperamentally
similar to her father, maybe your son
isn’t and so, like you, found ways to
have an easier relationship with him.
This might explain her jealousy of
her brother, who she may have felt
was less in the parental crosshairs
while growing up than she was.
All this then opens up other
issues including how your daughter
views you. It can often be the case
in similar scenarios that the child
is not only angry with the parent
they perceive to have been the
problem, but also with the other
parent who they see
compromising around such
behaviours and also, perhaps, not
stepping in at times when they
occurred. Does your daughter see
you as complicit in the grievances
she has against her father
because you didn’t challenge
them and instead expected her to
accept her father’s behaviour in the
way perhaps you have? Maybe there
is resentment, which explains why she
doesn’t call to see how you are.
This might feel challenging and
Does your unsettling, since what I am suggesting
daughter means you shift your position to
consider whether your daughter’s
see you as grievances are legitimate and remain
complicit
live for her because they have never
been properly acknowledged. This isn’t
about right and wrong as much as
in the
about feeling heard — which is often
necessary in order to let go and move
grievances
on. We don’t have to agree with the
grievance, but we can acknowledge
she has the hurt and pain it has caused.
You might say that your husband is
who he is so there is not going to be
father? any chance that this will happen,
especially now that he is in poor
health. This doesn’t mean, however,
that you can’t acknowledge your
daughter’s hurt, which might include
recognising the characteristics of her
father that continue to perpetuate that
hurt. This might be a challenge since
you may see this as being disloyal.
Furthermore, it might put you in the
uncomfortable position of
acknowledging behaviours within your
marriage that have hurt you and that
you may have previously accepted.
I think you have a choice here —
either really listen to your daughter
and acknowledge her hurt or decide
that this stalemate comes from her
being on the autistic spectrum. If she
is neurodivergent, however, does that
make her responsible for what she
experienced and the hurt it caused?
I do not believe that it is acceptable
for your daughter to fly into rages in
your home and weaponise her
children against you. I can understand
why you view her behaviour as
distressing and challenging. That
childhood therapist may have been
If you would like Tanya right — perhaps it was always difficult
Byron’s help, email to set boundaries with her and so she
proftanyabyron@ held significant power in the family,
thetimes.co.uk which she continues to hold on to.
While she has set her boundary
(estrangement), you also have a right
to set yours in terms of behaviour in
your home. It might help to build back
slowly with small visits outside the
home that focus only on the
grandchildren with a view to, at some
point, finding a way to let her know
you acknowledge her hurt and the
reasons that underpin it and
want to find a way to move on.
That may shift the standoff and
open a new channel of
communication between the
two of you.
Additionally, given that
there are communication
challenges in your family
that may be related to
neurodivergence, it may
help to explore the
resources available for
improving communication
between neurotypical and
neurodivergent partners and
families. This is an
acknowledgment that
communication will be interpreted
and expressed differently and
finding ways that reduce
misunderstanding (on both sides).
Explore via autism.org.uk; see the
helpful guide produced by the Relate
centre in Derby at bit.ly/3GTXNkk
I went
Her forte is playing
strong women —
after falling ill at
76, Patricia Hodge
demonstrated why.
By Andrew Billen
C
larissa Eden, the wife
of the stressed-out
prime minister who
presided over the 1956
Suez crisis, famously
complained that the
Suez Canal flowed
through her drawing
room. For Fanny Farrelly, the
fearsome American matriarch of
Lillian Hellman’s Watch on the Rhine, it
is the Rhine that cascades through the
French windows of her mansion.
At the Donmar Warehouse in
London, where the play is enjoying a
rare revival, audiences are taken to the
pivotal summer of 1940. Figuratively
speaking, the mighty river that divides
Nazi Germany from the free world
disgorges Europe’s heroes and its
villains into Fanny’s Washington
home. What starts as a sparky
drawing-room comedy deepens in
profundity until its moral thunder
drowns out even Fanny’s verbal volleys.
The formidable Fanny is played by
Patricia Hodge. When we meet at the
Donmar during a rehearsal break, I
note that throughout her career — her
first West End appearance was 50
years ago — Hodge has played many
strong-flavoured women.
To take three of them, she was the
sexy, predatory Mary Fisher in the
BBC’s 1986 adaptation of Fay Weldon’s
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, Mrs
Thatcher in Ian Curteis’s controversial
The Falklands Play, and Penny,
Miranda Hart’s domineering mother
in the sitcom Miranda. At present, and
in succession to Diana Rigg, she is the
posh, dog-pampering Mrs Pumphrey
of Channel Five’s All Creatures Great
and Small. Is it typecasting or is she a
little bit formidable herself?
“I think you’d have to ask people
that know me,” she says, possibly a
touch offended. “I’m not the best judge
of myself, am I? People will always
cast you in what they think you’re
going to be able to produce. There is a
thread there but I would say all those
characters are pretty different people.
I mean, the madness of Miranda’s
mother is really not much to do with
Margaret Thatcher and Mrs
Pumphrey is a bit dotty and eccentric.”
And lonely. “She’s lonely, yes.”
In fact all Hodge’s apparently
indestructible women turn out to be
assailable. Mary Fisher is blown to her
death from the top of her lighthouse.
Thatcher was toppled (although not in
the play). And Miranda’s mother,
finally witnessing her daughter getting
married, faints in disbelief. Nor, at 76,
has Hodge proved quite unstoppable.
During Watch on the Rhine’s run-in
period, she was taken seriously ill.
Half an hour after coming off stage
from a preview, she experienced acute
stomach pain. “It was a very small and
the times | Monday January 23 2023
from critical care to on stage in weeks
unconcerning hernia which suddenly
became strangulated. They operated
within hours. I was in hospital for a
week. It is dangerous because it cuts
off the blood supply to the part of the
intestine that comes through the
hernia. It can go gangrenous. It’s a
very serious situation. Anyway, it’s the
worst thing in medical terms that ever
happened to me.”
She looks pretty radiant today.
“Well, listen. I’m fit. I keep myself fit.
So I was determined I’d come back. It
happened that we closed the show for
four nights over Christmas anyway,
which gave me a bit of time. So two
weeks after being in critical care I was
back on stage.
“There’s a loose term we all use,
which is Dr Theatre. It’s a bit overused
but I think if you pump the adrenaline
through and the energy through, you
heal. It’s better to get up and just get
on with it. Once you’re on stage you
can’t think about anything else.”
Nor, at least the night I saw one of
its previews, can anyone in the
audience. Hodge commands the stage
much as the widow Fanny commands
her progeny. I wonder whether Hodge,
whose husband died in 2016, plays the
matriarch in her own family but it
seems she would not presume. She
was not with her two sons and a new
grandson over Christmas because both
brothers were off with their in-laws.
She spent Christmas with friends.
“I try not to put myself in that
position. I’m there if they need me and
otherwise I’ll keep out of the way. I
like to be asked really.”
She married in 1976. Peter Owen
was a symphonic trumpet player who
became a music publisher. They had
got together four years before while
she was making her West End debut in
a musical version of Ben Travers’s
farce Rookery Nook and he was in the
orchestra pit of Jesus Christ Superstar.
It was not until 1989 that they had her
first child, Alex, and she was in her
mid-forties when Edward arrived
three years later. Being unable to
conceive was agony. “You’re in
mourning for something you’ve never
had, and that feeling never leaves you.
I was incredibly lucky.”
Did it just happen? “It just did. It just
did. But how wonderful is that? That’s
the single most significant thing that’s
ever happened to me.
“I think if you ask me what I miss
more than anything, and this obviously
includes my husband, it’s family life.
Family life is just the best, as far as I’m
concerned. And one doesn’t have it
any more because they’ve gone off and
are having their lives and Peter’s gone.
But I had it. At least I had it.”
If her happiest years were then, the
toughest were during Owen’s
dementia. He spent his last three years
in a care home; by the end she was not
sure whether he really recognised her.
“But these experiences in life, they
change you, don’t they? They probably
make you a better person. You take a
lot of things for granted in life until
you realise that you can’t.”
In 2011 when Meryl Streep played
Mrs Thatcher in The Iron Lady some
criticised the film’s focus on Thatcher’s
dementia. In The Falklands Play in
2002 for BBC4 Hodge played her in
her pomp. By then the production had
been on ice for almost two decades,
the BBC having claimed Curteis’s
script was incomplete, although many
suspected it was felt to be too soft on
Thatcher. It was not repeated again
until 2020 when it accompanied a
documentary series.
“A lot of people then saw it for the
first time and actually I had calls from
people like Michael Portillo, for
example, who said to me, ‘How did
you know what Margaret was like in
private?’ and I said, ‘I didn’t. I didn’t.’ I
only wanted to know the way that she
thought. That was the only thing that
concerned me. And I talked to people
who helped me with that.
“I talked to her daughter, Carol,
about her clothes. She said, ‘She never
ever wore real jewellery. She had just a
box full of stuff, trinkets.’ It was all
costume jewellery. None of it was
worth anything. But what she did say
to me, without my asking, was: ‘One
thing you have to know about my
mother was that she never talked
about anything else [during the
Falklands conflict]. There was no
other conversation.’ ”
Thatcher and Hodge were both
brought up in Lincolnshire, the
politician in Grantham and the actress
in Cleethorpes, where her father
managed hotels. You’d strain, however,
to hear what Hodge calls the “nasal
flatness” of the Lincolnshire accent in
either voice. Thatcher had elocution
lessons aged 11 to correct a lisp rather
than elevate her socially, according to
her biographer Charles Moore. For
Hodge’s family, it was part of a family
insistence on self-improvement.
Patricia Hodge as “I spoke one thing at school and
Mrs Pumphrey in another at home. At home I used to
All Creatures Great get told off if I said ‘bath’ [to rhyme
and Small. Right: with “hath”]. They thought it was how
with Miranda Hart to get on in life, really, how to survive.”
in Miranda After university, she trained as a
teacher before being accepted aged 22
by Lamda. When she left drama
school, she says, there were still 44
repertories around the country. She
worked first at the Traverse in
Edinburgh then the Chester Gateway.
Now she is at the other end of her
career, I ask about ageism in the
profession, particularly as it affects
If you ask actresses. “Well, there just aren’t the
roles. There aren’t.”
what I As opposed to those for men?
miss more “There never have been. It is being
corrected to a degree, but only in
than modern terms. You can’t change the
catalogue of what’s already there.”
anything, In the Britbox show Murder in
Provence last year she was cast as
it’s family Roger Allam’s mother-in-law. Two
decades before, they had played
life contemporaries. “Well, that was the
7
life
joke. Roger and I were lovers in a play
at the National and then the next
thing is that I’m playing his mother-
in-law. Well, there you go.”
Last year she and Nigel Havers were
cast in a well-received production
of Noël Coward’s Private Lives,
assuming roles written for actors 30
or 40 years younger. Was that a
breakthrough? “Well, it had viability.
That’s all I will say. We didn’t do it to
prove a point.”
Yet if you look at her list of TV roles,
there has hardly been a year since 1973
that she has not worked. I wonder if
lookism may not be a factor too. On
The Life and Loves she shared top
billing with Julie T Wallace, who at 6ft
2in played the she-devil. Wallace’s
recent résumé does not look crowded.
Hodge, slim and elegant, continues to
be in high demand.
“It’s all to do with what roles are
there, what’s available and there just
aren’t enough to give everybody a
good innings is the truth,” she says.
But are women actors always going
to be judged by their appearance more
than men? “I think that’s changed
quite a bit. I think funnily enough it
can be more of a handicap these days.
The more ordinary the character, the
more people can identify. I think that’s
more the trend for the moment,
honestly,” she says, adding that she is
just throwing this thought out.
Was Weldon, who died this month
and whom she met on the set of The
Life and Loves, her kind of feminist?
“I don’t think I thought about her in
those terms. I’m not sure that I
pigeonhole myself. I think I have
many traits of feminism but
I’m not sure that I’m . . . I don’t know.
I haven’t identified fully.”
She remains in touch
with Hart, who calls her
“Mum Two”, but seems
unwilling to analyse
Miranda in anything
approaching sociological
terms. Technically, on
the other hand . . . “It was
one of the most difficult
acting exercises I’ve ever
had to do because every
theatrical instinct tells
you to play to the live
audience in studio, but
what matters is what the
cameras capture.”
In Watch on the Rhine, Fanny
threatens: “I shall do a fine death.
I intend to be a great trouble to
everyone.” Is that Hodge’s plan?
“I hope not. I concentrate on living,
really. I think I’m probably a bit
brush-it-all-aside, in denial, about
all that.
“I was brought up a bit short before
Christmas when this [hernia]
happened. It was funny. In the
pandemic it transpired that my sons
were far more worried about my
vulnerability than I ever was. Terrified.
And I just sort of dotted along.”
She lives alone in an open-plan flat
in west London overlooking the
Thames. What comparably animating
force runs through her life, I find it,
from our chat, hard to tell. On stage,
however, this quiet woman is powerful
enough to trigger flood alerts.
Watch on the Rhine continues at
the Donmar Warehouse, London
WC2, until February 4
8 Monday January 23 2023 | the times

first night
pop classical
Fabio & Grooverider BBCSO/Wigglesworth
Royal Festival Hall Barbican
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s the godfathers of the
drum’n’bass scene and DJ
partners for almost 40
years, Fabio and
Grooverider have played to
rabid crowds in clubs, warehouses and
raves around the world. The south
London duo looked genuinely moved,
though, to be headlining at the Royal
Festival Hall. Back in the Nineties
Grooverider would be introduced by
his MC as “Grooverider, hardcore
provider”. Now he and Fabio had their
own orchestra and a seated audience
in a temple of high culture.
They weren’t seated for long,
obviously. After a recorded message in
which Goldie praised the duo’s
“unfathomable” influence on
drum’n’bass, the first breakbeats
rattled out and hundreds of middle-
aged ravers rose as one.
While Fabio and Grooverider
manned the decks at the back of the
stage, in front of them were string and
brass sections, drummers, synth
players and a conductor. Orchestral
dance music events have been around
for a while, with similar treatment
hat is the ideal
concert companion
piece to the
performance of a
great Mahler
symphony? Certainly not orchestral
tutti-frutti like Rimsky-Korsakov’s
Capriccio espagnol, though something
equally compact would be welcome.
Its small compass, however, shouldn’t
stop the item chosen from reaching
out towards the grander issues of life,
death and beyond: Mahler’s meat and
drink. Recently installed as chief
conductor of the BBC Scottish
Symphony Orchestra, Ryan
Wigglesworth and the BBC Symphony
Orchestra came before us with the
Covid-delayed UK premiere of his
song cycle Till Dawning, first heard in
Austria in 2018.
Mykhailo Malafii as Cavaradossi and Giselle Allen as Tosca in Edward Dick’s updated production It was a worthwhile choice, by and
large. Though the hall’s sound balance
didn’t always favour her, the soprano
Northern lights shine Elizabeth Watts stayed emotionally
resonant as the music zig-zagged
through four devotional poems by that
17th-century wonder George Herbert,
guiding us through the violence and

given to house (Pete Tong) and UK
garage (DJ Spoony), but here the
blend of recorded and live music felt
thrillingly organic.
The drummers had to work
overtime to match the speed of the
breakbeats but the effect was intense.
As Fabio and Grooverider cued up
Omni Trio’s Renegade Snares, GQ, the
lightning-rod MC, roared: “Everybody
scream!” They already were.
The set list took in 30 years of
classics, from Lennie De Ice’s We Are
IE through to High Contrast’s Racing
Green. While tracks such as Ray
Keith’s Terrorist rumbled with
weaponised bass, you were reminded
of how lush and sophisticated this
music can be. LTJ Bukem’s Horizons
sounded even more atmospheric with
live strings and saxophone.
Every few songs Fabio and
Grooverider strolled to the front like
Vegas veterans to address their
audience. “It’s great not to be the
oldest people in the building,” said
Fabio, 55. He wasn’t wrong. One
greying chap wore a jacket
emblazoned with the name of
AWOL, the legendary jungle night
at Ministry of Sound.
Ed Potton
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Opera North ll this talk of relocating
English National Opera to
could teach Manchester must be very
ENO a thing disconcerting for Opera
or two about North, a much better run
company that has been “levelling up”
excellence, opera provision in the north of
says Richard England for more than 40 years. This
revival of Tosca, for instance, opens in
Morrison Leeds then visits Salford, Nottingham,
Newcastle and Hull.
opera And it’s a corker of a show — cast
with seasoned Opera North regulars
Tosca at the top of their form, staged
Grand, Leeds imaginatively and cogently, and with
{{{{{ Puccini’s searing score pungently
played by a fired-up orchestra. ENO’s
leadership could learn a lot from it.
Edward Dick’s production, first seen
in 2018, is updated to the present day
— primarily, it seems, so Scarpia can
treat Tosca to a live streaming on his
laptop of her lover Cavaradossi being
tortured. Other innovations include
real incense wafting across the stalls in
the spine-tingling Te Deum (bells and
smells — real Catholicism!) and the
staging of Act II not in Scarpia’s office
but in his bedroom, which gets straight
to the point, I suppose, and allows the
vile police chief to excite himself by
rubbing his crotch against a bedpost.
The most gripping drama, however,
is created not by the director but by
Giselle Allen and Robert Hayward as
Tosca and Scarpia. Indeed, I have
rarely seen the vicious, volatile Act II
confrontation done with more raw
venom, right down to a stabbing so
brutal you gasp with shock.
Allen matches that by turning her
voice — so thrillingly focused up top
— into a guttural snarl of pure hatred.
She also makes her Act III exit so
audacious that you wonder whether
she has been rushed straight to A&E.
Of all her magnificent performances
for Opera North, this is the most
terrifying and gripping.
As for Hayward, this is just the latest
in his epic series of perverted psychos.
His singing is compelling enough, but
his acting is something else. He does a
creepy Dr Strangelove thing with his
right arm that suggests inner turmoil.
There’s much to admire, too, about
the Ukrainian tenor Mykhailo Malafii
as Cavaradossi, though he needs more
lyricism and less heft in gentler
moments. And in the pit Garry Walker
conducts a tremendously persuasive
orchestral performance: not just
thunderous in the climaxes but also
full of beautiful things from, for
example, solo clarinet and cello. A
riveting evening.
To March 2 then touring,
operanorth.co.uk
radiance of the events of Easter week.
Almost inevitably in contemporary
vocal writing, we lost the exquisite
shape of Herbert’s stanzas, with the
sting of his rhymes obscured as well.
Full marks, though, for the variety and
beauty of the orchestra’s kaleidoscope,
ranging from chattering woodwinds
and pin-prick beauties from harp and
celesta to the growling depths of the
double basses.
Then came the main event: Mahler’s
Symphony No 5. Conductor and
orchestra began in peak condition,
launching the first movement’s funeral
march with piercing brass fanfares,
soon giving way to the subtle shaping
of phrases and dynamics in the slow
procession of mournful strings. Similar
care was shown in the adagietto’s love
song, complete with a fade-out so
perfectly and tenderly judged that I
almost cried.
Less interpretive finesse was audible
in the frenzy and nostalgia of the
scherzo, always a tricky movement.
Wigglesworth needed to impose
himself more. No complaints, though,
about the finale, decisively pitched as
a wholehearted celebration of the life
force. A full house responded with
thunderous cheers and applause.
Geoff Brown
On BBC Sounds

M
aking her first British
pop appearance since
suffering a stroke in late
Lucinda 2020, alt-country queen
Williams Lucinda Williams was on
Barbican shaky but upbeat form at this packed
{{{{( show. Back on tour with her cowboy-
hatted band of Nashville outlaws, the
Buick 6, the hard-bitten Louisiana-
born singer-songwriter turns 70 this
week, celebrating her birthday with a
marathon feast of jukebox Americana
spanning country to jazz, blues to folk.
Although Covid restrictions have
been a factor in keeping Williams
away from these shores, the after-
effects of her stroke were also clearly
evident. The fragile-looking singer was
escorted on stage, then spent much of
this performance perched against a
chair. She is unable to play guitar, as
Lucinda Williams is back on tour
she used to, but her magnificent
whiskey-soaked voice remains
unscathed. That deliciously rich Deep
South vibrato drawl proved
particularly effective during slower
numbers including People Talkin’, a
sublime two-fingered salute to
malicious gossip, and Fruits of My
Labor, a fond rumination on lost love
that dripped with sultry sensuality.
A melancholy air hung over this set
as Williams paid tribute to absent
friends and departed rocker peers,
including Jeff Beck and Tom Petty, the
latter commemorated in the wistful
Stolen Moments. The singer also
summoned the ghosts of her old flame
Clyde Woodward in the elegy Lake
Charles and her former manager
Frank Callari in the ruminative, jazzy
Copenhagen. “Sorry, I seem to be
talking about so many dead people
tonight,” she said, “but it’s cathartic.”
Under the circumstances, there were
inevitably a few wobbles in this set.
But as Williams performed for well
over two hours, her determination
took on the air of a defiant statement.
For the finale, after slowly exiting the
stage, she gamely shuffled back on
again for a punchy trio of encores
including a voluptuous saloon-bar
reworking of Lou Reed’s Pale Blue Eyes
and a rollicking gallop through Neil
Young’s Rockin’ in the Free World. This
was hardy a flawless gig but, all things
considered, it still felt like a triumph.
Even if Williams is slightly depleted,
she is emphatically not defeated.
Stephen Dalton
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, January
23; Belfast Empire, January 26
the times | Monday January 23 2023
From Truman Peyote to Sigmund
Droid: how pop music fell for puns
A new wave of
bands, who aren’t
just cover acts,
are using wordplay
in their names,
says Ed Potton
I
f you’re feeling down this
January, I heartily recommend
a trawl through the darker
corners of Spotify or a visit to
your local independent record
shop. Leftfield music is not
renowned for its sense of hilarity,
but a scan of the names of
today’s popular beat combos is a hoot.
Specifically the slew of really awful
puns — there are dozens of them.
Making a pitch for that neglected
Beatles/Star Wars crossover are
the Texas shoegazers Ringo
Deathstarr, and joining the dots
between the galaxy far, far away and
turn-of-the-century Vienna are the
Brooklyn band Sigmund Droid — “I
am your father” meets “tell me about
your mother”. My colleague Will
Hodgkinson recently tipped the punk/
metal/rap duo Bob Vylan, although
I think that was despite their name
rather than because of it. Meanwhile,
the psych-rockers Truman Peyote
have picked a name that evokes
images of the author of In Cold Blood
running through the Mojave Desert
with his pants on his head. Sadly it
hasn’t helped their popularity — they
have ten monthly listeners on Spotify.
Elsewhere spoonerisms loom large,
Wevie Stonder, Com Truise and Mill
Ringo Deathstarr
Burray being particularly egregious
examples. Perhaps Mill Burray could
be joined on a Ghostbusters-themed
bill by the Scottish emo rockers
Dananananaykroyd? Some of the best/
worst names have been nabbed by
more than one act, such as Harmonica
Lewinsky, which has been adopted by
a British blues group and a solo artist
who describes himself as a “Cockney
singalong entertainer”. Let’s pray their
stage outfits do not include cigars or
stained dresses. My personal favourite,
borrowed from Nick Hornby’s High
Fidelity, is the choice of three different
bands in Queensland, Toronto and
South Warwickshire: the wonderfully
silly Kathleen Turner Overdrive.
Punning names have been a thing in
music for years, of course, from Poly
Styrene and Buster Bloodvessel in the
Seventies to Camper Van Beethoven
in the Eighties, the Dandy Warhols in
the Nineties and Kurt Vile in the
Spoonerisms
also loom large:
Wevie Stonder
and Com Truise
Noughties. Actually, it goes back even
further than that — the Beatles, let’s
not forget, is a very feeble pun. Tribute
bands have often cornered the market,
from Bjorn Again and Proxy Music to
Blobbie Williams and the northeast-
based Reet Hot Chili Peppers (bravo).
Now, though, a surge of non-tribute
bands have led us into a golden age of
dreadful musical wordplay. You
wonder if the rise of RuPaul’s Drag
Race is something to do with it — Dot
Rotten, Joanna Gruesome and Lana
Del Rabies have an evil-twin vibe
that’s reminiscent of drag queens such
as Anna Bortion and Penny Tentiary.
“It’s funny you say that,” says Lana
Del Rabies, whose real name is Sam
An (thank God for that). “When I
actually started establishing myself
under this name [around 2016], I was
running into issues because there was
a drag queen with this name.” Now
she is the pre-eminent Lana Del
Rabies, her stage name a wrong-
footing counterpoint to her music,
which is a shadow-strewn blend of
goth, metal, industrial and electronica.
An’s new single is called A Plague
and in her publicity shots she wears
head spikes, black lipstick and Edward
Scissorhands-style pointy finger
covers. Her themes, she says, include
“how we treat the powerless and how
we abuse children without even
meaning to” and “if there is a God,
what would it mean for them to
essentially see their creation
destroying itself?”
You can see why some light relief
could be welcome. “However
brooding and dark my work is,
I also have a dumb sense of
humour,” she says. “I have to have
that levity in order to survive
anything.” She is speaking by phone
from her home in Phoenix, Arizona,
and is charming and thoughtful, as
supposedly scary musicians often are.
Her stage name came about
because she started off making drone
music that sampled female pop stars.
She was drawn in particular to Lana
Del Rey, the multimillion-selling
“gangster Nancy Sinatra” from
New York, whom she admired
for “talking about co-dependent,
intense, almost violent relationships.
I appreciate her honesty in terms
9
arts
Lana Del Rabies
of being unapologetic about those
times in her life.” There are other
things about Del Rey that she
appreciates less, but she doesn’t want
to go into detail because “she does go
after people. Please don’t make Lana
Del Rey hate me!” There has never
been the threat of legal action,
although in January An’s Facebook
page was deleted for 24 hours for
“impersonating a public figure”.
She has considered jettisoning the
alias. At one point “people weren’t
necessarily engaging with the work,
they just wanted to talk about the
name”, she says, which makes me shift
in my seat. “There were situations
where I felt like I was maybe not
considered for certain opportunities
because ‘Oh, the name’s silly’.”
In the past five years or so, however,
“things have changed a bit”, An says.
“Gen Z tend to be a bit more loose
about those kinds of things.” God
knows we need something to smile
about, and in an era that zigzags
between sincerity and satire it’s pretty
much de rigueur to call yourself
something that sounds like a social
media handle. Or a drag queen.
“I’ve noticed that people are
Bob Vylan
more receptive to it now,” An says.
Her favourite musical pun is Salvia
Palth, the recording name of the
Baltimore-based musician Michael
Collins. “That actually reminded
me of my own situation because the
name’s like ‘Ha ha, Salvia Palth’, but
the music is very deep and dark,” she
says. She likes the “unexpectedness” of
calling herself something wacky, then
blasting people away on a wave of
demonic noise. Far from hating her,
the other Lana should be applauding.
Lana Del Rabies’s album Strega
Beata is released by Gilgongo on
March 17
10 Monday January 23 2023 | the times

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Calder Valley cops face another brilliant twist

waiting area to distract the security Who else heard doomy bells ringing
Carol guards was the one thing Catherine
Cawood (Sarah Lancashire) hadn’t
when Catherine said she only had
until Thursday to go to her retirement,
Midgley predicted. She guessed Royce would
be sprung from the prison van en
route to court to reward him for taking
“then you can kiss my ample arse”? In
TV land that never bodes well.
Documentaries about ships can be
TV review the blame for a murder that Darius
had committed. That’s why he wanted
a little dry, so directors need a cheeky
chappy character to liven things up.
Ryan there to see it, his dad escaping Ronnie Lambert, a chef from Essex
like the big swinging, er, psychopath. on board HMS Queen Elizabeth, is
Royce (James Norton) had a nice a godsend to The Warship: Tour of
haircut, lost the beard and gave us a Duty. He is charismatic yet flawed,
flash of his abs for his great escape. I a former coke-snorter come good.
know of several women who are more He even let the cameras film him
than discombobulated by the fact that getting a bollocking (OK, “disciplinary
they find a murdering, rapist piece of hearing”) for going Awol and
Happy Valley filth “hot”. Let’s put it down to the returning to ship six hours late.
BBC1 subtle charisma of Norton, whose I’m not saying that the military detail
{{{{{ gentle voice only makes Royce more isn’t interesting: it is. The fact that
sinister. Luckily he hadn’t forgotten Britain’s biggest warship carries 18 F-35
The Warship: Tour of Duty how to ride a racer bike after all those stealth jet fighters worth £100 million
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{{{(( years in the slammer. He was off like each is mind-blowing. It was filmed
a bullet, the devil in tight Lycra. before Putin invaded Ukraine, but let’s

H
ow does Sally Wainwright
keep this up? (Spoilers
ahead!) Happy Valley has
nimbly wrong-footed the
viewer this series, but the
choreography of Tommy Lee Royce’s
escape from the dock at Leeds crown
court was a lissom work of art. Even
more impressively, it was just about
believable (someone vaulted from the
dock and escaped at Liverpool crown
court only this month).
That Darius Knezevic’s two gopher
numpties would create a fight in the
The brilliant twist over the murder
of poor Joanna (Mollie Winnard),
trussed into a suitcase for her violent
husband Rob (Mark Stanley) to find,
is a subplot that in any other drama
would be a main action. He has been
done up like a kipper now by Faisal
(Amit Shah), hasn’t he? But Faisal was
a little bit too obvious when they had
a car prang, Rob exploded and he
poked at him asking: “Are you all
right? Is something else the matter?”
Faisal seems to have psychopathic
potential too.
hope he’s watching because this is
basically a TV muscle-flex of military
might, and an impressive one too.
It’s the humans who keep things
grounded, describing the “earthy”
realities of life onboard, such as all
the flatulence and what we shall
diplomatically call “solo
entertainment”. Ronnie, who had two
children by two mothers (“I’m just a
slag”), said it was like the Big Brother
house. “I’ve never seen so many
penises in my life,” he said. Well!
Wrong-footed: Sarah Lancashire as Sergeant Catherine Cawood Much obliged for the mental image.

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year, so she knows her
subject. In this latest
programme she shows how
sophisticated the methods
used by the smuggling
gangs have become, not
least in their use of large
boats made in Turkey
specifically for these
crossings. As Mitchell and
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British soldier and aid
worker Rob Lawrie,
demonstrate, the authorities
have been slow to react to
the current state of affairs.
Will the cunning of the
gangs thwart whatever
deals are secured between
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Hartley-Brewer Breakfast Show 10.00 The
Independent Republic of Mike Graham
1.00pm Ian Collins 4.00 Vanessa Feltz 7.00
Jeremy Kyle 8.00 Piers Morgan Uncensored
9.00 The Talk 10.00 Tom Newton Dunn
11.00 Live Petrie Hosken 1.00am Paul Ross
6 Music
Digital only
5.00am Chris Hawkins 7.30 Lauren Laverne
10.30 Mary Anne Hobbs 1.00pm Craig
Charles. Public Enemy’s Chuck D talks about
his music documentary Fight the Power: How
Hip Hop Changed the World 4.00 Steve
Lamacq 7.00 Marc Riley. With a live session
by Lunge 9.00 Gideon Coe. Archive sessions
12.00 The xx: In Their Own Words 1.00am
The xx — xx, Mercury Prize Winner 2010
2.00 The xx Live 3.00 The First Time
with the xx 4.00 The xx Playlist
Virgin Radio
Digital only
6.30am The Chris Evans Breakfast Show
with Sky 10.00 Eddy Temple-Morris 1.00pm
Jayne Middlemiss 4.00 Ricky Wilson 7.00
Bam 10.00 Amy Voce 1.00am Sean
Goldsmith 4.00 Steve Denyer
Classic FM
FM: 100-102 MHz
6.00am More Music Breakfast 9.00
Alexander Armstrong 12.00 Anne-Marie
Minhall 4.00pm John Brunning 7.00
Smooth Classics at Seven. Presented
by Zeb Soanes 10.00 Smooth Classics
1.00am Bill Overton 4.00 Early Breakfast
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Viewing Guide severity it couldn’t might think. Yes, there apocalypse, which he student despite all the rounded up Jews to be
have been sported in isn’t much that is (and young son Aaron) preaching and lack of
How the shot and buried in
Ben Dowell the real world. He is tasteful about Dillon clearly hope will be sleep, her parents Holocaust Began hastily dug trenches.
BBC2, 9pm
also an extremely Mapletoft and Oliver soon. “You will get worry only about what Helping him to do so
Everyone Else religious paterfamilias Taylor’s comedy, but is biscuits after the moon sins lie in store if she The image most people are thousands of
Burns who goes for all the it funny? Essentially has turned to blood,” goes to university. have of the Holocaust aerial photographs the
Channel 4, 10pm/10.35pm
burn in the tarry pit of Bird delivers an older David tells the fam. There is something usually involves the Nazis took themselves
Simon Bird’s hellfire stuff that might version of his know-it- Mum Fiona (Kate faintly old-fashioned unspeakable horrors of — effectively
Top latest comedy exist on some extreme all character from The O’Flynn) is semi- about the storytelling. the death camps. Here documenting their
pick character, fringes of one of the Inbetweeners, but reluctantly on board, And the way David the historian James own crimes — which
David Lewis, world’s foremost instead of obsessing while 17-year-old obsesses about whether Bulgin looks at the create a disturbing
has what can only be monotheistic religions about girls he wakes his daughter Rachel (Amy he will be promoted at little-told story of its picture of hundreds
described as a sitcom (one that is always a family in the early James-Kelly) is less his local church feels a first revolting steps of lost mass graves
haircut: a pudding bowl soft target for comedy), hours for practice enamoured. Although bit like a plotline from when the Wehrmacht that are only now
trim of such grotesque but is rarer than people walks for the she’s a straight-A Terry and June. ventured east and coming to light.

BBC1 BBC2 ITV1 Channel 4 Channel 5

6.00am Breakfast 9.15 Morning Live. Kym Marsh and 6.30am Bargain Hunt (r) (AD) 7.15 Make It at Market 6.00am Good Morning Britain. A lively mix of news and 6.10am Countdown. Rick Edwards is in Dictionary Corner 6.00am Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine. The broadcaster
Early

Gethin Jones host the weekday magazine show 10.00
Defenders UK. New series. An 80-year-old woman is
tricked out of an estimated £50,000, and a helicopter pilot
spots a fly-tipper dumping rubbish in a remote location
10.45 Rip Off Britain: Holidays. The sporting breaks that
failed to go to plan (r) 11.15 Homes Under the Hammer.
The progress of properties in Stoke-on-Trent, Rugby and
Leeds (r) (AD) 12.15pm Bargain Hunt. The teams scour
the antiques shops in Blackpool 1.00 BBC News and
Weather 1.30 BBC Regional News; Weather 1.45
Doctors. Zara and Emma’s night out takes more than one
turn to the unexpected (AD) 2.15 The Farmers’ Country
Showdown. A couple sell their cider for the first time at
Lenham Country Market in Kent 3.00 Escape to the
Country. Sonali Shah helps a couple to find a new home in
Argyll and Bute (AD) 3.45 The Repair Shop. Jay Blades
and the team restore a set of horse bells (AD) 4.30
Bridge of Lies. New series. Quiz show hosted by Ross
Kemp 5.15 Pointless. Quiz hosted by Alexander
Armstrong, joined by co-host Konnie Huq 6.00 BBC News
at Six; Weather 6.30 BBC Regional News; Weather
(r) (AD) 8.00 Sign Zone: The Smeds and the Smoos (r)
(AD, SL) 8.30 Tom Kerridge: Lose Weight for Good (r)
(AD, SL) 9.00 BBC News at 9 10.00 BBC News 12.15pm
Politics Live 1.00 Hardball (r) 1.45 Celebrity Eggheads.
With Ken Cheng, Hal Cruttenden, Justin Moorhouse, Zoe
Lyons and Ruth Bratt (r) 2.15 Celebrity Antiques Road
Trip. Tennis coach Judy Murray and former British number
one Greg Rusedski compete with expert guidance (r) 3.15
Great Australian Railway Journeys. Part one of two.
Travelling from Adelaide to Perth (r) 3.45 My Unique
B&B. Master craftsman Simon Parfett and his team help
people generate extra income by creating B&Bs, beginning
by transforming a battered old family camper van (r) (AD)
4.30 Saved and Remade. A much-loved childhood bike and
a wartime Royal Navy kit bag are among the items
transformed into new and useful items for their owners
(r) 5.15 Flog It! From Capesthorne Hall in Cheshire (r)
6.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games. With Jon
Culshaw, Harriet Kemsley, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and
Verona Rose 6.30 Robson Green’s Weekend Escapes. New
series. The actor explores the north-east of England (AD)
current affairs, plus health, entertainment and lifestyle
features 9.00 Lorraine. Entertainment, current affairs
and fashion news, as well as showbiz stories and gossip.
Presented by Lorraine Kelly 10.00 This Morning. A mix
of chat, lifestyle features, advice and competitions.
Including Local Weather 12.30pm Loose Women.
Showbiz interviews and studio discussion from a female
perspective 1.30 ITV News; Weather 1.55 Regional
News; Weather 2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal. David
Dickinson and experts Tim Hogarth, Jan Keyne, James
Layte and Fay Rutter assess items brought in by members
of the public in Liverpool (AD) 3.00 Lingo. A father and
son from Dorchester, siblings from Craigavon, and a pair
from London and Bristol compete in the quiz hosted by
Adil Ray 4.00 Tipping Point. Ben Shephard hosts the
arcade-themed quiz in which contestants drop tokens
down a choice of four chutes in the hope of winning a
£10,000 jackpot 5.00 The Chase. Bradley Walsh presents
as four contestants take on one of the Chasers and hope
to secure a cash prize. Quiz show hosted by Bradley Walsh
6.00 Regional News; Weather 6.30 ITV News; Weather
(r) 6.50 3rd Rock from the Sun (r) (AD) 7.40 Everybody
Loves Raymond (r) (AD) 9.00 Frasier (r) (AD) 10.25
Undercover Boss USA. Anthony Wedo, president and CEO
of Buffets, Inc, goes undercover in his restaurant
organisation to pinpoint the flaws in the business (r)
11.25 Channel 4 News Summary 11.30 Come Dine with
Me: The Professionals. At The Wine Room City in
Nottingham, owner Peter and head chef Bee serve up a
feast of international small plates (r) 12.30pm Steph’s
Packed Lunch. Weekday magazine show hosted by Steph
McGovern 2.10 Countdown. Stephen K Amos is in
Dictionary Corner 3.00 A Place in the Sun. Jasmine
Harman helps a children’s nurse to find a holiday home on
Spain’s Costa del Sol 4.00 A New Life in the Sun. A couple
in Greece have dreams of bringing a new business to the
area 5.00 Junior Bake Off. The young bakers face their
first technical challenge (AD) 6.00 The Simpsons. The
family remembers Lisa’s early days (r) (AD) 6.30
Hollyoaks. Tom and Yazz try to put a smile back on Shaq’s
face. Elsewhere, Cindy befriends influencer Rayne and
offers to be her next guest for a livestream (r) (AD)
and guests discuss the issues of the day with co-host
Storm Huntley joining him for phone-ins and reading out
viewers’ correspondence 12.45pm George Clarke’s Build a
New Life in the Country. The architect George Clarke helps
a couple who want to move from Surrey so they can start
a business in the Lincolnshire countryside (r) 1.40 5
News at Lunchtime 1.45 Home and Away. Remi is drawn
closer to Bree, grasping at any chance he can to be with
her (r) (AD) 2.15 FILM: Revenge for My Mother (PG,
TVM, 2022) When her recently hired assistant secretly
starts exacting revenge, the perfect world of a woman
who teaches post-natal fitness is shattered. Thriller
starring Sami Nye and Taylor Joree Scorse 4.00
Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun. A man has always
dreamed of kayaking in the National Park lakes with his
best mate, the small problem is that neither of them
know how to kayak 5.00 5 News at 5 6.00 Holiday
Homes in the Sun. Amanda Lamb, JB Gill and Sam
Pinkham visit Ravello on the Neapolitan Riviera,
competing to find the area’s best holiday homes
for a classic Italian retreat (r) 6.55 5 News Update

7.00 The One Show Alex Jones and 7.00 Nadiya’s Fast Flavours Nadiya 7.00 Channel 4 News 7.00 Police Interceptors Several units
7PM

Jermaine Jenas present topical
stories and showbiz chat
7.30 EastEnders Kat takes care of a
conflicted Lily, Kim and Denise give
Lola a glow-up for her hen do and Linda
jumps into action to help Jay (AD)
Hussain rustles up dishes including a
magical custard tart, and also crafts a
fancy sweet focaccia (3/6) (r) (AD)
7.30 Mastermind The specialist subjects
are Catherine the Great, Wallace &
Gromit, Egon Schiele, and hyenas
chase a white van that has been driven
at four times the speed limit, until the
driver eventually goes for broke on
7.30 Emmerdale Priya revisits her trauma, foot. Following a report of a car on fire,
and Vinny lashes out. Meanwhile, the interceptors get behind a car
Mary goes on a date (AD) suspected to have fled the scene (r)
7.55 5 News Update

8.00 Dogs, Dealers and Organised 8.00 Only Connect Victoria Coren Mitchell 8.00 Coronation Street Sarah alerts 8.00 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces 8.00 Traffic Cops A disqualified driver with
8PM

Crime — Panorama Sam Poling looks
at the close relationship between
organised crime and dog dealing
8.30 The Bidding Room Five dealers bid
against one another to buy a retro
battling top game, a set of shelves,
and a collection of Vintage bikes(r)
asks the questions as the Jillies take
on the Strigiformes in the first of the
quarter-final matches of the quiz
8.30 University Challenge Two teams
battle it out for a place in the quarter-
finals as the second-round matches
continue. Jeremy Paxman hosts
Stephen to the existence of the
factory’s CCTV, and Daisy receives two
unwelcome visitors at the Rovers.
Meanwhile, Chesney unveils his
business idea to Gemma (AD)
George visits a family who have been
creating much-needed extra space in a
dilapidated vintage bus. Meanwhile, a
farmer builds an owl inspired wooden
cabin. Plus, in Israel, George heads to
Jerusalem to visit a YMCA (AD)
possible links to violence triggers a
police camera near Harrogate, and he
has questions to answer when officers
find thousands of pounds in his car. In
Tadcaster, a member of the public calls
in about a suspicious male changing
registration plates on an Audi

9.00 Silent Witness Part one of two. The 9.00 How the Holocaust Began 9.00 Maternal Maryam finds out there’s 9.00 SAS: Who Dares Wins — Jungle 9.00 Police: Night Shift 999
9PM

team are called to a devastating train
crash, and work with the police and
counter terrorism to piece together
what happened. As they try to find the
motive for killing the local mayor, it
appears the family who own the land
might hold the key (7/10) (AD)
James Bulgin reveals the origins of the
Holocaust in Hitler’s war on the Soviet
Union, exploring the mass murder,
collaboration and experimentation
that led to the Final Solution.
See Viewing Guide (AD)
going to be an investigation into the
Edward Williams case and fears her old
doubts and anxieties are returning,
while Catherine struggles to get
surgical hours as staffing problems
mean operations are cancelled.
See Viewing Guide (2/6) (AD)
Hell New series. The reality show
takes its inspiration from the jungle
phase of SAS selection, which is the
most gruelling phase of the SAS’
training regime. The first episode sees
the 20 candidates challenged to control
their fear. See Viewing Guide (AD)
Gloucestershire police are called to a
break-in at a shop, where thieves
targeting cigarettes have raided the
premises and made off at high speed.
On the M5, a traffic officer has to cope
with torrential rain when he is called
to a crash in the fast lane (6/8)

10.00 BBC News at Ten 10.00 QI With Sarah Millican, Alan Davies, 10.00 ITV News at Ten; Weather 10.00 Everyone Else Burns New series. 10.00 Casualty 24/7: Every Second
10PM

Daliso Chaponda and Rob Beckett Sitcom about a religious family who Counts A sister battles a doctor
believe the world is going to end. shortage and a high influx of walk-in
0.30 BBC Regional News and Weather
1 10.30 Newsnight Presented by Kirsty Wark 1 0.30 Regional News; Weather See Viewing Guide (1/6) (AD) patients — a perfect storm that means
10.40 Humza: Forgiving the 10.45 Britain’s Notorious Prisons: 10.35 Everyone Else Burns David insists she needs to call on her years of
Unforgiveable Humza Arshad Wormwood Scrubs Documentary his family live by the rules in an old experience to keep the shift on track.
explores the possibility of forgiving the telling the truth about life behind the book and demands his family follow it. A 70-year-old is blue-lighted in having
gang who stabbed his cousin, seeking walls of Wormwood Scrubs, one of See Viewing Guide (2/6) (AD) suffered a serious fall at home (r)
out those who have made the Britain’s most notorious jails. It
headlines by readily forgiving their includes the story of spy George 11.05 Jon & Lucy’s Odd Couples 11.05 999: Critical Condition A man is
11PM

attackers. He also has an unexpected
encounter with a killer and debates the
issue with a forgiveness academic (AD)
11.40 The Graham Norton Show Graham
is joined by Michelle Williams, Helena
Bonham Carter, Russell T Davies,
Oti Mabuse and Brendan Fraser (r)
12.30am Would I Lie to You? Shirley Ballas, Steven
Late
11.15 I, Tonya (15, 2017) Ice skater Tonya
Harding rises through the ranks at
the US figure skating championships,
but her future in the sport is thrown
into question by a shocking incident
after her ex-husband steps in. Craig
Gillespie’s biopic with Margot Robbie
1.10am Sign Zone: Countryfile John Craven and
Blake’s 1966 escape from the Scrubs,
which had a long-lasting impact on the
prison system as a whole (r) (AD)
11.45 English Football League
Highlights Jules Breach presents
the latest action from the EFL
1.30am Teleshopping 3.00 All Elite Wrestling:
The comedians Sara Pascoe and Steen
Raskopoulos take on Blue singer
Duncan James and Rodrigo Reis in a
head-to-head contest to decide who
has the best relationship (2/6) (r)
12.05am I Literally Just Told You (r) 1.00 Travel
rushed in with horrific head and neck
wounds after being attacked with a
machete. The doctors also treat a
motorbike racer who was injured
during his last event before retirement,
and a 17-year-old who fell on his head
from a substantial height (4/4) (r)
12.05am Police Interceptors (r) 1.00 The LeoVegas

Bartlett, Josie Gibson and Chris McCausland bolster the
deceitful talents of team captains Lee Mack and David
Mitchell. Rob Brydon hosts (r) 1.00 Have I Got News for
You. Jess Phillips MP guest hosts, with panellists Jon
Richardson and Hannah Fry (r) 1.35-6.00 BBC News
Charlotte Smith visit Audley End House in Essex, where
they help out with winter cleaning and maintenance and
examine a collection of thousands of artefacts (r) (SL)
2.05-3.05 Dragons’ Den. Pitches include a couple who
organise social events for four-legged friends (r) (AD, SL)
Dynamite. Hard-hitting action 4.40 Unwind with ITV.
Daily escape designed to calm the mind 5.35-6.00 Simply
Raymond Blanc. The chef shares recipes ideas for
breakfast and brunch, baking the perfect granola bar and
showing how to make omelettes in three ways (r) (SL)
Man: 48 Hours in Dublin (r) (AD) 1.25 The Caribbean:
Billionaires’ Paradise (r) (AD, SL) 2.20 Kitchen
Nightmares USA (r) 3.05 Old House, New Home (r) (AD)
4.00 Grand Designs (r) (AD) 4.55 Location, Location,
Location (r) 5.50-6.10 Sunday Brunch Best Bits (r)
Live Casino Show 3.00 Entertainment News on 5 3.05
The Yorkshire Steam Railway: All Aboard (r) 3.55 OMG:
My Barbie Body (r) (SL) 4.40 House Busters (r) (SL)
5.10 House Doctor (r) (SL) 5.35 Peppa Pig (r) (SL) 5.40
Paw Patrol (r) (SL) 5.50-6.00 Pip and Posy (r) (SL)
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During the hour-long Billingham, who admits We then rejoin our trio
Jeremy Kyle Live: special, the disgraced
SAS: Who Dares to hating this part of
The Last of Us — Joel (Pedro Pascal),
Film Fatherhood
Ghislaine Behind Wins Sky Atlantic/Now, 9pm Film4, 9pm
socialite also makes the training process his smuggling partner
Bars Channel 4, 9pm
some startling himself. The volunteers’ After all the excitement Tess (Anna Torv) and Kevin Hart stars in the
TalkTV, 7pm revelations about her Another bout of macho tasks include traversing about this adaptation of Bella Ramsey’s young first feature film from
In which Ghislaine relationship with derring-do, shouting, the “trainasium”, the cult video game, it’s Ellie, who may hold the production stables
Maxwell gives her first Jeffrey Epstein. She vomiting and pained suspended 50ft above clear that this is a the key to a cure — in of Barack and Michelle
filmed interview from says: “I feel completely faces as 20 new civilian the ground, before rather generic post- their journey across Obama, which is based
prison. Of the infamous divorced from the recruits face the completing one of the apocalyptic adventure an infection-ravaged on the true-life tale of a
photo of Prince person that people harrowing ordeal of most dangerous story, if an excellent US. Oddly bereft of Boston tech worker
Andrew with Virginia reference and talk the jungle phase of the infiltration methods and plushly produced jump-out-of-the-seat forced to raise his
Giuffre she says: “It’s a about in all the SAS selection process. used by the SAS — a one. Episode two begins scares, it’s still newborn daughter
fake. I don’t believe it is newspaper articles and Filmed in Vietnam, waterfall abseil. And with a flashback to pleasingly full of alone when his wife
real for a second. In TV shows and it’s led by the former this time the drop is Indonesia in 2003 and tension and fungal dies of a postpartum
fact I am sure it is not.” podcasts.” SAS soldier Billy 215ft. Oof. the start of the horror. menace. embolism. (12, 2021)

Sky Max
6.00am Stop, Search, Seize (r) 8.00 DC’s
Legends of Tomorrow (r) (AD) 9.00 The Blacklist
(r) (AD) 10.00 Supergirl (r) 11.00 NCIS: New
Orleans (r) 1.00pm Hawaii Five-0 (r) 2.00
S.W.A.T (r) (AD) 3.00 The Blacklist (r) (AD)
4.00 DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (r) (AD) 5.00
Supergirl. M’yrnn causes psychic disturbances (r)
6.00 Stargate SG-1. A deadly spell is cast. (r)
7.00 Stargate SG-1. The team rescues a
stranded child from a diseased planet (r)
8.00 Agatha Raisin. The detective opens her
own agency, but with business slow she goes to
a haunted house in search of work. Return of the
mystery drama starring Ashley Jensen (r) (AD)
10.00 A League of Their Own Road Trip: Dingle
to Dover. Freddie Flintoff and Jamie Redknapp
spend time with Tyson Fury (r) (AD)
11.00 Road Wars. An insight into vehicle
crime and how it can be prevented (r)
12.00 The Force: North East (r) 2.00am NCIS:
New Orleans (r) 3.00 Hawaii Five-0 (r) 4.00
S.W.A.T (r) (AD) 5.00 Highway Patrol (r)
Sky Atlantic
6.00am Fish Town (r) 7.55 The Sopranos (r)
10.05 Ray Donovan (r) (AD) 12.10pm Game of
Thrones (r) (AD) 1.10 Six Feet Under (r) (AD)
3.30 The Sopranos (r) 5.45 Ray Donovan. An
FBI agent investigates the shootout (r) (AD)
6.50 Your Honor. Crime drama starring Bryan
Cranston as a New Orleans Judge who faced
with an impossible decision when his son
is involved in a tragic accident (r) (AD)
7.55 Game of Thrones. The end of the Baratheon
brothers’ rivalry provides Lord Baelish with
a chance to further his ambitions (r) (AD)
9.00 The Last of Us. Joel and Tess try to hand
Ellie to the Fireflies. See Viewing Guide (2/9) (r)
10.05 Succession. Kendall tries to find allies in
his fight to take over control of Waystar. Greg
turns to his grandfather for help (2/9) (r) (AD)
11.15 Big Little Lies. Madeline gets under
Renata’s skin in retaliation (r) (AD)
12.20am Babylon Berlin (r) 1.20 Der Pass (r)
2.20 Game of Thrones (r) (AD) 3.30 In
Treatment (r) 4.00 Fish Town (r)
Sky Documentaries Sky Arts
6.00am Fish Town (r) 7.00 Discovering: Natalie
Wood (r) (AD) 8.00 The Directors (r) (AD) 9.00
The Sixties (r) (AD) 10.00 Escobar by Escobar
(r) 11.00 Urban Secrets (r) 12.00 Our Towns (r)
(AD) 1.50pm King in the Wilderness (r) 4.00
The Directors (r) (AD) 5.00 Discovering: Natalie
Wood. Portrait of the American actress (r) (AD)
6.00 The Sixties. American culture (r) (AD)
7.00 Escobar by Escobar. The story behind
the cursed Escobar empire (1/4) (r)
8.00 Urban Secrets. Bristol’s history (3/8) (r)
9.00 FILM: Forbidden Games — The Justin
Fashanu Story (12, 2017) The turbulent
life and tragic death of Justin Fashanu
10.50 Deadline Day: Football’s Transfer Window.
Taking a look at the transfer market (r)
11.50 1972: Munich’s Black September.
Documentary exploring the events of the 1972
Munich massacre from three perspectives (r)
1.45am Endangered (r) (AD) 3.30 Paycheck to
Paycheck: The Life & Times of Katrina Gilbert (r)
5.00 Discovering: Natalie Wood (r) (AD)
6.00am Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos
6.50 LSO: Bernard Haitink Conducts Mozart and
Bruckner 9.00 Tales of the Unexpected (AD)
10.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents 11.00
Discovering: Roy Scheider 12.00 Rodin: In His
Time 1.00pm Tales of the Unexpected (AD)
2.00 Doddie Weir Portrait 3.00 Landscape
Artist of the Year 2015 4.00 Discovering: Joseph
Cotten 5.00 Tales of the Unexpected (AD)
6.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents. A Confederate
farmer escapes a hanging when the rope breaks
6.30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents. A teacher spots
one of her students leaving a nightclub
7.00 André Rieu: New York Memories
9.30 Laurie Lee: The Lost Interview (AD)
10.30 Classic FM Rising Stars With Julian Lloyd
Webber 2022. A showcase for young musicians
11.30 Punchdrunk: Behind the Mask
12.30am I Am Patrick Swayze (AD) 2.30 Lenny
Henry’s Got the Blues (AD) 3.30 The South Bank
Show 4.30 Tales of the Unexpected (AD) 5.00
Cream: Music Icons 5.30 Discovering: Meat Loaf
Sky Main Event
6.00am Sky Sports News 7.00 Good Morning
Sports Fans 7.45 Live Big Bash League: Hobart
Hurricanes v Sydney Sixers. Coverage of the T20
match from Blundstone Arena, Hobart 11.45
The Best of The Big Bash (AD) 12.00 The
Football Show 1.00pm Transfer Talk 2.00 Sky
Sports News 3.00 Live SA20: MI Cape Town
v Pretoria Capitals. Coverage of the match
from Six Gun Grill Newlands, Cape Town
7.00 Live MNF: Fulham v Tottenham Hotspur
(Kick-off 8.00). Coverage of the Premier League
match from Craven Cottage, as the teams meet
for the second time this season. The reverse
fixture took place last September, when Spurs
recorded a 2-1 victory thanks to goals in each
half from Pierre Hojbjerg and Harry Kane,
before Aleksandar Mitrovic notched
a consolation effort for the visitors
11.00 Deadline Day: Football’s Transfer Window.
A look at the transfer market, featuring
behind-the-scenes access to players (AD)
12.00 Sky Sports News. A news round-up
Variations
BBC1 N Ireland
As BBC1 except: 7.00pm Hope Street. A boat’s
engine explodes 7.45 Northern Irish Homes.
Documentary 8.00 EastEnders. Kat takes care
of a conflicted Lily 8.30-9.00 Dogs, Dealers
and Organised Crime — Panorama 10.40
Hooded Men — Britain’s Torture Playbook
11.40 Humza: Forgiving the Unforgiveable
12.40am-1.30 The Graham Norton Show (r)
BBC1 Scotland
As BBC1 except: 8.00pm-9.00 Disclosure:
The Dog Dealers. Sam Poling investigates the
ruthless world of organised crime’s trade in
dogs 10.40 Scot Squad (r) 11.10 Sportscene:
SWPL Highlights 11.55 Humza: Forgiving the
Unforgiveable 12.55am The Graham Norton
Show (r) 1.45 Would I Lie to You? (r) 2.15
Have I Got News for You (r) 2.45 Weather for
the Week Ahead 2.50-6.00 BBC News
BBC1 Wales
As BBC1 except: 8.00pm Welsh Rugby Under
the Spotlight. Claims of sexism, bullying and
sexual harassment at the Welsh Rugby Union
8.30-9.00 A Special School 10.40 Dogs,
Dealers and Organised Crime — Panorama
11.10 Humza: Forgiving the Unforgiveable
12.10am-1.00 The Graham Norton Show (r)

BBC2 N Ireland
As BBC2 except: 7.00pm-7.30 The One Show
10.00-10.30 Trad Ar Fad! Performances

BBC2 Wales
As BBC2 except: 10.00pm-10.30 Age of
Outrage. Last of three compilation episodes (r)

ITV1 Wales
As ITV1 except: 10.45pm Sharp End
11.10-11.45 Fishlock’s Choice (r)

TalkTV BBC4 Talking Pictures Film4 More4 STV

6.00am James Max. An initial insight into the
day’s top stories 6.30 The Julia Hartley-Brewer
Breakfast Show. All the stories you need to
know to start your day 10.00 The Independent
Republic of Mike Graham. The host takes a look
at the morning newspapers 1.00pm Ian Collins.
Hard-hitting monologues, debates and dedicated
time for your calls 4.00 Vanessa Feltz. The host
guides you through the big stories of the day
7.00 Jeremy Kyle Live. The broadcaster
takes on the issues that really matter
8.00 Piers Morgan Uncensored. The host
presents his verdict on the day’s global events
with debate, straight-talking interviews with
the world’s leading figures, and plenty of fun
9.00 The Talk. Join a panel of opinionated
famous faces from the worlds of politics,
showbiz, business and current affairs to debate
the hot topics everybody’s talking about
10.00 First Edition. An energetic
look at tomorrow’s news, tonight
11.00 Piers Morgan Uncensored
12.00 Live: Petrie Hosken 1.00am Vanessa
Feltz 2.00 Jeremy Kyle Live 3.00 Piers Morgan
Uncensored 4.00 The Talk 5.00 James Max
ITV2
6.00am World’s Funniest Videos 6.35 Totally
Bonkers Guinness World Records (SL) 7.00
Secret Crush (SL) 8.00 Dress to Impress 9.00
Chuck 10.00 One Tree Hill 11.00 The O.C 12.00
Secret Crush 1.00pm Dress to Impress 2.00
Family Fortunes 3.05 Chuck 4.00 One Tree Hill
5.00 The O.C. Kirsten’s sister moves in
6.00 Celebrity Catchphrase (AD)
7.00 Ninja Warrior UK: Race for Glory. More
competitors take on the obstacle course (AD)
8.00 Superstore. Glenn returns from quarantine
to resume store manager duties (AD)
8.30 Superstore. Mateo, Glenn and Sandra
try to help Glenn move on after Amy (AD)
9.00 Love Island. Maya Jama presents
all the latest action from the villa
10.05 Georgia Toffolo: In Search of Perfect Skin.
Examining the dangerous lengths that
people go to for the ideal complexion
11.05 Family Guy. Peter seeks a turkey (AD)
11.35 Family Guy. Stewie is reborn (AD)
12.00 American Dad! (AD) 12.55am Superstore
(AD) 1.50 Kavos Weekender. David is isolating
2.45 Unwind with ITV 3.00 Teleshopping
7.00pm Great British Railway Journeys.
Michael Portillo travels from Belfast to Portrush
7.30 The Joy of Painting. Bob Ross captures the
beauty of the beach as the sun goes down, in
a seascape painted in gold, purple and orange
8.00 Winterwatch 1963: The Big Freeze.
Chris Packham introduces a documentary from
the BBC archive that takes a look at the worst
British winter of the 20th century, and
also explores how it affected wildlife
9.00 Killer Storms and Cruel Winters — The
History of Extreme Weather: Timewatch. Dr
Lucie Green reveals how some of the UK’s worst
weather disasters occurred many years ago,
despite the belief that the brunt of climate
change has been felt in the 21st century (2/6)
10.00 The US and the Holocaust. How the first
reports of the killing reached the United States,
prompting the Allies to advance and finally
uncover the sheer scale and horror of
the Holocaust. Last in the series
12.05am Ancient Worlds. The paradoxes of
Greek civilisation 1.05 Great British Railway
Journeys 1.35 The Joy of Painting 2.05-3.05
Winterwatch 1963: The Big Freeze
ITV3
6.00am Classic Emmerdale 6.35 Classic
Coronation Street (AD) 8.05 George and Mildred
9.15 Agatha Christie’s Marple (AD) 11.30
Heartbeat (AD) 1.40pm Classic Emmerdale
2.40 Classic Coronation Street (AD) 3.45
Inspector Morse. Arrested on suspicion of
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that he is the real killer’s next target (AD)
6.00 Heartbeat. Nick is attacked (AD)
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incident and uncovers the darker side of rural
life as badger baiters from Middlesbrough visit
the village in search of “sport” (8/10) (AD)
8.00 Ridley. A retired detective Alex Ridley is
called upon by his former colleague to assist
on an unsolved missing person’s case. Crime
drama starring Adrian Dunbar (1/4) (AD)
10.00 Scott & Bailey. A man acquitted of rape
and murder is found dead. Meanwhile, Rachel
receives devastating news (3/6) (AD)
11.00 Scott & Bailey. A porn star is suspected
of murdering her husband (4/6) (AD)
12.00 Agatha Christie’s Marple 2.05am
Unwind with ITV 2.30 Teleshopping
6.00am Get Some In! 6.30 FILM: Leave Her
to Heaven (U, 1945) Film noir starring Gene
Tierney 8.40 FILM: Mutiny (U, 1952)
Nautical adventure starring Mark Stevens 10.15
FILM: Ramrod (U, 1947) Western with Joel
McCrea and Veronica Lake (b/w) 12.05pm
FILM: King of the Khyber Rifles (PG, 1953)
Adventure starring Tyrone Power 2.05 Away for
the Day in 1952 2.30 Crown Court 3.00 FILM:
Sapphire (PG, 1959) Murder mystery starring
Nigel Patrick 4.45 FILM: Naked Fury (U,
1959) Crime drama with Kenneth Cope (b/w)
6.00 The Footage Detectives
7.00 In Suspicious Circumstances
8.00 The Main Chance. Gifts in solicitors’
offices can have starting repercussions
9.00 FILM: Cisco Pike (15, 1971)
Crime drama starring Kris Kristofferson
10.50 Secret Army. Monique is shot
11.55 FILM: Joseph Andrews (15, 1976)
Period comedy starring Peter Firth
1.50am FILM: Death Line (18, 1973)
Horror starring Donald Pleasence and Norman
Rossington 3.35 Vacant Possession 4.40 Look
at Life 4.50 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre
ITV4
6.00am The Saint 7.00 The Return of Sherlock
Holmes (AD, SL) 8.05 Magnum, PI 9.10 The
Sweeney 10.15 Minder (AD) 11.25 The Saint
12.30pm The Return of Sherlock Holmes (AD)
1.40 The Motorbike Show 2.40 Magnum, PI
3.45 The Sweeney 4.50 Minder (AD)
6.00 The Motorbike Show. Henry Cole
takes a wild ride through Gran Canaria
7.00 River Monsters. Jeremy Wade investigates
a bloody attack in the Parana River in Argentina
7.30 Monster Carp. Tom Dove and Neil Spooner
begin a new adventure in the South of France
9.00 FILM: Unstoppable (12, 2010) Two
train operators must stop a runaway locomotive
carrying toxic chemicals before it causes a
major disaster. Tony Scott’s action thriller
starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pine
11.05 FILM: Windtalkers (15, 2002)
A traumatised American soldier is assigned to
protect two Navajo code-carriers during the
invasion of Saipan. Second World War drama
starring Nicolas Cage and Christian Slater (AD)
1.45am Minder. George Cole stars (AD, SL)
2.40 Unwind with ITV 3.00 Teleshopping
11.00am The Riddle of the Sands (U,
1979) Spy thriller with Simon MacCorkindale
1.10pm It Should Happen to You (U, 1954)
Comedy starring Judy Holliday (b/w) 2.55
Destroyer (U, 1943) Wartime adventure with
Edward G Robinson (b/w) 5.00 Footsteps in
the Fog (PG, 1955) Period thriller starring
Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons
6.45 Made in America (12, 1993) A woman
tries to locate her daughter’s biological father.
Romantic comedy starring Whoopi Goldberg,
Ted Danson, Nia Long and Will Smith
9.00 Fatherhood (12, 2021) A father brings
up his baby girl after the death of his wife who
died a day after their daughter’s birth. Comedy
drama starring Kevin Hart. See Viewing Guide
11.10 The Craft (15, 1996) Witches use their
powers to take revenge on classmates who have
wronged them, but their leader’s lust for power
drives her mad. Horror with Robin Tunney
1.15am-4.00 Wings of Desire (15, 1987)
An angel watching over the divided city of Berlin
falls in love with a circus performer and wishes
to become human. Wim Wenders’ fantasy
starring Bruno Ganz and Solveig Dommartin
Drama
6.00am Teleshopping 7.20 All Creatures Great
and Small 8.15 The Bill 9.15 Classic Holby City
10.35 Classic Casualty 11.40 The Bill 12.40pm
Classic EastEnders 2.00 Howards’ Way 3.10 Pie
in the Sky 4.10 All Creatures Great and Small
5.20 As Time Goes By
6.00 Are You Being Served?
6.40 Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em
7.20 Last of the Summer Wine. Compo’s ferret
seeks shelter in Nora’s washing basket
8.00 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries. The
discovery of an Asian man’s body sparks another
case for Lynley. Amid a tense backdrop, Havers
puts her career on the line to save a child’s life.
Detective drama starring Nathaniel Parker (4/4)
10.00 New Tricks. The team investigates the
case of a murdered vicar who received racist
hate mail in the lead up to his death (3/10) (AD)
11.20 Hustle. The con artists target a couple of
diet-plan fraudsters whose latest weight-loss
scam gave their friend a heart attack (4/6)
12.40am Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em. Frank
looks for work 1.20 As Time Goes By 2.00
Lovejoy 2.45 Howards’ Way 4.00 Teleshopping
8.55am Kirstie’s House of Craft 9.15 A Place in
the Sun: Home or Away 10.05 A New Life in the
Sun 11.05 Find It, Fix It, Flog It 1.10pm Heir
Hunters 3.10 Four in a Bed 5.55 Kirstie and
Phil’s Love It or List It. In Lincoln (AD)
6.55 Escape to the Château. Dick and Angel set
up a campsite on the château grounds (AD)
7.55 Grand Designs. Kevin McCloud revisits a
British woman who moved to southern Spain
with her now late husband planning to build
a home in the Andalusian hills (10/12) (AD)
9.00 George Clarke’s Remarkable Renovations.
The painstaking restoration of a former
glassworks in Brighton (3/5) (AD)
10.00 24 Hours in Police Custody. A DS
investigates when a coroner asks police to look
into the sudden death of a 48-year-old (AD)
11.05 24 Hours in A&E. A staff nurse attends to
a chef who accidentally stabbed himself as he
was chopping tomatoes and a father who fell
over and knocked himself out while drunk (AD)
12.10am Emergency Helicopter Medics.
Treating a man hit by a train (AD) 1.15 8 Out of
10 Cats Does Countdown (AD) 2.20 24 Hours in
A&E (AD) 3.25-3.50 Food Unwrapped (AD)
Yesterday
6.00am Murder Maps 8.00 Abandoned
Engineering (AD) 9.00 WW2 — Frontlines (AD)
10.00 Warbird Workshop 11.00 Fred Dibnah’s
Made in Britain 11.30 Fred Dibnah’s Railway
Collection 12.00 Great British Railway Journeys
2.00pm Bangers and Cash 4.00 WW2 —
Frontlines (AD) 5.00 Warbird Workshop
6.00 Great British Railway Journeys
6.30 Great British Railway Journeys
7.00 Fred Dibnah’s Made in Britain
7.30 Fred Dibnah’s Railway Collection (1/11)
8.00 Hornby: A Model World. The musician
Jools Holland reveals his incredible 45ft layout
hidden away in his loft (2/11) (AD)
9.00 The Architecture the Railways Built. Tim
Dunn visits Ribblehead Viaduct in the Yorkshire
Dales, and tours the breathtaking stations of
the Hungerbergbahn in Innsbruck (4/10) (AD)
10.00 Bangers and Cash. Three MGs from the
70s turn up at the garage, still covered in
original factory wax (6/10)
11.00 Abandoned Engineering (6/11) (AD)
12.00 Great British Railway Journeys
1.00am Murder Maps 3.00 Teleshopping
As ITV1 except: 10.30pm STV News; Weather
10.40 Scotland Tonight. Current affairs 11.05
Kate Garraway’s Life Stories (r) 12.05am
English Football League Highlights 1.50
Teleshopping 4.40-5.35 Night Vision
UTV
As ITV1 except: 10.45pm-11.45 View
from Stormont. Political developments
BBC Scotland
2.00pm Sign Zone: My Kind of Town: Larkhall
(r) 2.30 Sign Zone: Iain Robertson Rambles —
The Hebridean Way (r) 3.00-4.00 Sign Zone:
This Farming Life (r) 7.00 The Seven 7.30 Live
Sportscene — Scottish Cup: Darvel v Aberdeen
(Kick-off 7.45). At Recreation Park 10.00 River
City (AD) 10.30 The Scotts (r) 11.00 Raiders
of the Lost Archive (r) 11.30-12.00 Sky High
Club: Scotland and Beyond (r) (AD)
BBC Alba
6.00am Alba Today 5.00pm Treubh an
Tuathanais (Big Barn Farm) (r) 5.15 Su Pic
(Peek Zoo) (r) 5.25 AH-AH/No-No 5.30 Pip &
Posy 5.40 ’S E Iasg a Th’Annam (I’m a Fish) (r)
5.45 Piseag & Cuilean/Kit & Pup (r) 5.50
Stòiridh (r) 6.00 Ronia, Nighean a’ Mheirlich/
Ronja, the Robber’s Daughter (r) 6.25
Geamaichean Gorach (r) 6.30 Dubhlain CBBC
Alba (r) 6.35 Saidheans Sporsail (Backyard
Science) (r) 7.00 Fuine (Home Baking) (r) 7.30
SpeakGaelic 8.00 An Là (News) 8.30
Gàrraidhean Mòra na h-Alba (r) 9.00 An Clò
Mòr 9.30 Trusadh — Beatha sa Bhan (r) 10.30
Na Gleidheadairean (The Animal Keepers) (r)
11.30 OMC! (r) 12.00-6.00am Alba Today
S4C
6.00am Cyw 12.00 News; Weather 12.05pm
Cymry ar Gynfas (r) 12.30 Heno (r) 1.00
Arfordir Cymru: Llyn (r) 1.30 Wil ac Aeron:
Taith Rwmania (r) 2.00 News; Weather 2.05
Prynhawn Da 3.00 News; Weather 3.05
Cynefin (r) 4.00 Awr Fawr: Cywion Bach (r)
4.05 Nico Nôg (r) 4.15 Pablo (r) 4.30 Guto
Gwningen (r) 4.45 Awyr Iach (r) 5.00 Stwnsh:
Y Dyfnfor (r) 5.25 Cer I Greu (r) 5.45 Bernard
(r) 5.50 Dathlu! (r) 5.55 Ffeil 6.00 Straeon y
Ffin (r) 6.30 Rownd a Rownd (r) (AD) 6.57
News 7.00 Heno 7.30 News; Weather 8.00
Sgwrs Dan y Lloer 8.25 Ffasiwn Drefn (AD)
8.55 News; Weather 9.00 Teulu Shadog:
’Nôl ar y Fferm 9.30 Ralïo+ 10.00 Sgorio
10.30-11.35 Efaciwîs (r) (AD)
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MindGames
General Knowledge Crossword No 165 Codeword No 4805 Train Tracks No 1843

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

10 11

12

13 14 15

16

17 18 19

20

21 22

23 24

Lay tracks to enable the train to travel from village A to village

25 26 B. The numbers indicate how many sections of rail go in each
row and column. There are only straight rails and curved rails.
The track cannot cross itself.
Across 25 County town that inspired
1 Gripping tool in carpentry Casterbridge in the works
and metalwork (4) of Thomas Hardy (10) Mini Sudoku
3 Heavy metal band formed in 26 --- James, blues vocalist whose
the 1970s in Sheffield (3,7) signature song was At Last (4) Fill the grid so
10 Moroccan city overlooking that every
the Strait of Gibraltar (7) Down column, every
11 Arthurian son of Lancelot 1 Old-fashioned name row and every
who sought the Holy Grail (7) for sulphuric acid (7) 3x2 box contains
Every letter in this crossword-style grid has been substituted for a number from 1
the digits 1 to 6
12 Sitcom featuring Norwich’s 2 Anglicised spelling of a to 26. Each letter of the alphabet appears in the grid at least once. Use the letters
most cringeworthy province in the northwest of already provided to work out the identity of further letters. Enter letters in the main
broadcaster (2,4,9) the Republic of Ireland (9) grid and the smaller reference grid until all 26 letters of the alphabet have been
accounted for. Proper nouns are excluded. Saturday’s solution, right
13 Bela ---, Hungarian-born actor 4 Princess abducted by Zeus in
famed for playing Dracula (6) the form of a white bull (6) Cluelines Stuck on Codeword? To receive 4 random clues call 0901 293 6262 or
14 Cold weather accessory (8) 5 Cricket delivery turning text TIMECODE to 64343. Calls cost £1 plus your telephone company’s network
17 Most famous invention of from a right-hander’s access charge. Texts cost £1 plus your standard network charge. For the full solution
Percy Shaw (1890-1976) (8) on side to off (3,5) call 0905 757 0142. Calls cost £1 per minute plus your telephone company’s network
18 Bird such as the kea, 6 Traditional name for the access charge. SP: Spoke, 0333 202 3390 (Mon-Fri, 9am-5.30pm).
kakapo or galah (6) founders of the Plymouth
21 Pieces of crispy crackling Colony in 1620 (7,7) Lexica No 6711 No 6712
eaten as a snack (4,11) 7 Plant louse or greenfly (5)
23 Yellowish variety of quartz (7) 8 One of the two Major I M C A L E O R S S
24 Regional capital of League baseball teams Winning Move
Umbria in Italy (7) based in Los Angeles (7) F E E R
Last week’s solution 9 British sprinter, the White to play.
S P E C I A L S B S H
2019 women’s 200m L S O This position is from
world champion (4,5-5) Lalic-Kumar, Hastings
R L C P A R A B O L A
15 Period of 20,160 minutes (9) R A P R Masters 2022/23.
B U T A N E O A L S
N R T U R I N G T E S T 16 Nickname of the British The Hastings event is
E K I R N I I B O A
Army Reserve (8) the longest-running
C L O G C H A R L E S T O N
L A A N A H G
17 Peninsula projecting into the annual chess event in
Atlantic from southeastern R H N R the world, having
S A M B U C A F R I E N D S
C L I A O P O Massachusetts (4,3) started in 1895. This
H O T E L D U L A C P U M A 19 Deep-fried tortilla topped with H Y D E year Sarunas Sulskis of
U O G H E I Lithuania won. Bogdan
meat, cheese and beans (7)
B A R R Y W H I T E R N B W A N D C E E U A T Lalic has been a regular
E O A E L A T V I A 20 Commodity of predominant
at Hastings. How did
he he
R A D I A T O R L O C importance to a nation (6) Slide the letters either horizontally or vertically back into the grid to produce a crash through here?
T E T S T E I N W A Y 22 Revolving machine part (5) completed crossword. Letters are allowed to slide over other letters

KenKen Easy No 5797 Futoshiki No 4396 Kakuro No 3355

Fill the grid

using the
numbers 1 to 9
only. The
numbers in each
horizontal or
vertical run of
white squares
add up to the
total in the
triangle to its left
or above it. The
same number
may occur more
than once in a
row or column,
but not within
the same run of
white squares.

All the digits 1 to 6 must appear in every row and column. In Fill the blank squares so that every row and column contains
each thick-line “block”, the target number in the top left-hand each of the numbers 1 to 5 once only. The symbols between
corner is calculated from the digits in all the cells in the block, the squares indicate whether a number is larger (>) or smaller
using the operation indicated by the symbol. (<) than the number next to it.
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times2
T2 Crossword No 9121
CROSSWORD No 9121 Brain Trainer Cell Blocks No 4688
Just follow the instructions from left to right, starting with the number given to reach an answer at the end.
Divide the grid

ANSWER ANSWER ANSWER

1 2 3 4 5 6
into square or
26 + 7
3/4
EASY x3 +7 1/2
–9 –6 7/9
x4 rectangular
OF IT OF IT OF IT blocks, each
containing one
7 8 9 digit only. Every
block must
MEDIUM 117 x 5 + 97 + 1/2 – 89
OF IT
50%
OF IT
+ 68 80%
OF IT
+ 78 + 1/2
OF IT
contain the
number of cells
10 11 indicated by the
digit inside it.
12
HARDER 142 x 6 + 358 90% x 3 – 559 75% + 543 x 2 – 187
OF IT OF IT
13 14 15

16

17 18 19
Polygon Set Square No 3358
From these letters, make words of
20 Enter each of
three or more letters, always including
the numbers
the central letter. Answers must be in
from 1 to 9 in
21 22 the Concise Oxford Dictionary, excluding
the grid, so that
capitalised words, plurals, conjugated
the six sums
verbs (past tense etc), adverbs ending
work. We’ve
in LY, comparatives and superlatives.
placed two
How you rate 16 words, average;
23 numbers to get
22, good; 25, very good; 29, excellent
you started.
Saturday’s answers Each sum
Across 17 Piece of work (4) should be
agism, aspirin, gasp, gramps, grasp,
1 Timepiece (6,5) 18 Queen; station (8) calculated left
inspan, iris, mainspring, naris, nisi,
to right or top
7 Cool, distant (5) 21 Church kneeler (7) pianism, prism, raisin, rasp, rasping,
to bottom.
rising, samp, sari, sarin, sigma, sign,
8 Attempted (7) 22 Well known (5) simian, simp, sing, snag, snap, snig, snip,
10 — Lights; — Powerhouse (8) 23 West African country (6,5) sniping, spam, span, spang, spar, sparing,
spin, sprag, sprain, sprig, spring Please note, BODMAS does not apply
11 Male deer (4)
13 Red fruit (6) Down
Killer Gentle No 8699 Solutions
15 Alcoholic spirit (6) 1 Style of embroidery (5,6)
2 Singing group (5)
Solution to Crossword 9120 Quick Cryptic 2314 Codeword 4804 Kakuro 3354
3 Very pale colour (3-5)
P I P E DE F E RR ED
E R L N A R 4 Stone fruit (6)
R OO T S E N T EN CE 5 River at York (4)
S P C C A D Y 6 Inert gas (7)
O V E RA C T I N G
N R R S G A R 9 Style of swimming (5-6)
A C T UA L A L L U RE 12 Obliged, appreciative (8)
L Y M A I D S 14 Treats badly (7)
S E RP EN T I NE
K D L O G E A 16 Fruit gatherer (6)
Train Tracks 1842
E L I G I B L E ON ER 19 Juliet's lover (5)
R S S L C C Chess — Winning Move Suko 3706 Square Routes
20 Aperture (4) 202
B AC HE L O R ME SH 1 Rxf5! is a powerful
breakthrough, winning a pawn P S D R E
Need help with today’s puzzle? Call 0905 757 0143 to check the and wrecking the black position.
answers. Calls cost £1 per minute plus your telephone company’s 1 ... exf5 drops the queen to AM AG A
network access charge. SP: Spoke, 0333 202 3390 (Mon-Fri 9am-5.30pm). 2 Bxf7 and 1 ... Qxf5 runs into R O N E P
2 Bc2, pinning the queen and G T I R A
emerging with an overwhelming
material advantage E N C H E
Bridge Andrew Robson Brain Trainer Easy 84; Medium 759; Harder 4,961
Cell Blocks 4687 Set Square 3357 KenKen 5796 Word watch
Duplicate Pairs is a fascinating Dealer: North, Vulnerability: Both
version of the game. Your real Kyack (c) A type of
Pairs ♠ AKJ6 pannier bag (Collins)
opponents are the pairs holding Edriophthalmian (a) (Of
your cards at the other tables (not ♥ KQ J 8
the nice people to your left and ♦A J 4
♣8 3
Killer Tricky No 8700
crustaceans) having
stalkless eyes (Chambers)
right — who will be batting for you ♠ 85 ♠ 42 Arco (b) A bow for a
N stringed instrument (OED)
on every other round). If you are ♥ 10 5 3 2 W E ♥ 9 6 4
playing in the Blue Ribbon Pairs ♦10 9 6 3 2 S ♦KQ 7 5
final (as you were), those other ♣Q 10 ♠ Q 10 9 7 3 ♣7 5 4 2
players holding your cards will be ♥A 7 Futoshiki 4395 Tredoku 1769 Sudoku 13,784
no mugs. If there’s an easy 7♠ , you ♦8
may have to gamble 7NT for the ♣A K J 9 6
extra ten points ...
South would have made 7♠ S W N E
easily. Not so 7NT. He won West’s 1♣(1) Pass
ten of diamonds lead with 1♠ Pass 4♠ Pass
dummy’s ace and crossed to the 4NT(2) Pass 5♣(3) Pass
ace of clubs, West playing the ten 5NT(4) Pass 7♥ (5) Pass
7NT(6) End
(theoretically irrelevant). He then
cashed the five spades and fol- (1) Playing Five-card Majors and “Clubs
Quintagram
lowed with the four hearts. two, diamonds four” (as is the modern
Here was the ending as the last trend — which I’d certainly endorse ahead 1 Up Killer 8698
of “Better Minor”, as those of you watching 2 Gang
heart was led from dummy. my Strong and Fives BridgeCast channel 3 Agency
♠- will know). 4 Conference
♥J (led)
(2) Roman Key Card Blackwood.
5 Press ahead
♦J
♣8 (3) Zero or three of “five aces” (incl ♠ K).
♠- ♠- (4) Confirming all the key cards and inviting
Lexica 6709
♥ 10 N ♥- a grand slam.
♦9 W E ♦K B
♣Q S ♣7 5 (5) A clever shot, showing a trick source in
♠- hearts, hoping the bid will enable partner to Y E T B

♥- count 13 top tricks and bid 7NT, and so earn E O I L

♦-
♣K J 9
East, who had already had to dis-
card the queen of diamonds, now
had to throw a club to keep his
master king of diamonds. When, at
trick 12, declarer led dummy’s club
and East followed low, declarer
those oh-so-crucial (at pairs) extra ten
H U I
points.
(6) South can count 12 tricks — five spades, U G U N
four hearts (facing the presumed ♥ KQJx), G U S H D Quiz
one diamond and two clubs. South realises As with standard Sudoku, fill the grid so that every column,
that 7NT will at worst be on the club every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9. Each set Lexica 6710
1 Green 2 Oven 3 Aphrodite 4 When Harry Met Sally …
finesse. Note, in a lesser event it would be of cells joined by dotted lines must add up to the target number 5 Channel 5 6 Donna Summer 7 Canada 8 Alamo
sensible to settle for 7♠ , as making 7♠ in its top-left corner. Within each set of cells joined by dotted 9 William Heath Robinson 10 Edge of Darkness
will surely score well (even if 7NT is on).
F F D

reflected that East’s last card was lines, a digit cannot be repeated. A W O K E
11 Baudouin 12 Arthur Somervell 13 Cecilie Manz 14 Zulu
almost certainly the king of dia- Contract: 7NT, Opening Lead: ♦10 S R F
15 Alesha Dixon
monds (West would not lead from a Cluelines Stuck on Sudoku, Killer or KenKen? Call 0901 293
T A O
king v 7NT). That meant finessing felled. Thirteen tricks and grand 6263 before midnight to receive four clues for any of today’s
was pointless. Declarer went up slam made — via a show-up squeeze. puzzles. Calls cost £1 plus your telephone company’s network B E G G A R

with the king — and the queen was andrew.robson@thetimes.co.uk access charge. SP: Spoke, 0333 202 3390 (Mon-Fri 9am-5.30pm). N E M
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For extra
puzzles
See page 10

Word watch Sudoku Easy No 13,785 Difficult No 13,786 Fiendish No 13,787

David Parfitt

Kyack
a To chatter idly and
noisily
b A Himalayan beast of
burden
c A type of pannier bag
Edriophthalmian
a Having stalkless eyes
b From a territory of
Roman Africa
c Of a by-product of
coal tar distillation

Arco
a A toothed whale
b A bow for a stringed
instrument
c A mystery or secret
Answers on page 15

Fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9.

The Times Daily Quiz Olav Bjortomt Suko No 3706

1 The beers Peroni Nastro 11 Who was the last

Azzurro, Heineken and Belgian king to be
Beck’s come in bottles sovereign of the Congo?
of what colour?
12 Maud, A Shropshire
2 An air fryer is a Lad and A Broken Arc
small convection are song cycles by
type of which cooking which English composer
appliance? (1863-1937)?

3 In Greek myth, 13 Which Danish

Hermaphroditus was
a child of Hermes and
which Greek goddess?
4 Harry Burns and Sally
Albright are the title
characters in which Rob
Reiner movie?
5 David Vickery’s was the
first ever voice heard
on which terrestrial TV
channel in 1997?
6 Love to Love You Baby
is a 1975 single by which
“Queen of Disco”?
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7 Which Commonwealth
country has more lakes
than the rest of the
world combined?
8 Davy Crockett wields
his rifle like a club in
Robert J Onderdonk’s
c 1903 painting Fall of
the … what?
9 Famed for his drawings
of odd contraptions,
which artist’s books
include How to Live in a
Flat (1936)?
10 Joe Don Baker played
the CIA agent Darius
Jedburgh in which 1985
BBC drama serial?
industrial designer
(b 1972) created the
Caravaggio lamp and
Micado table?
14 South African
cricket star Lance
Klusener shared his
nickname with which
1964 war film?
Place the numbers 1 to 9 in the spaces so
15 Which former that the number in each circle is equal to
Mis-Teeq member is the sum of the four surrounding spaces,
pictured? and each colour total is correct
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The Times Quick Cryptic No 2315 by Joker

1 2 3 4 5 Across Down
1 A male singer having trouble 1 What may produce staggering
6 with king’s diplomat (10) pudding wine from Germany
7 Little bit of time before event (10)
7 8
(5) 2 Supporter of British Royal
8 Fruit with strange lustre (6) Academy (3)
10 Musical performance that’s not 3 Unproductive anger follows
9 setter regularly leaving bits out
entirely enchanted (3)
12 Make a silly person say where (7)
10 11 12 were those calories you 4 Cut loose from a daughter over
absorbed? (9) split (6)
13 What warms big building 5 Opening location for working
on Broadway initially lacking film actors (5)
13 14 15 temperature (6) 6 Shrub planted among girasole
14 Horseman catching a and eryngo (8)
16 marauder (6) 9 More pilots flying in London,
17 Annoyed worker eating one for instance (10)
17 18 19 roll for breakfast (9) 11 Like an old Greek place to get
19 Tear in manuscript (3) a soft drink (8)
20 Note about one short bovine 15 Diplomat having a tough time
leg bone (6) initially with pain (7)
21 Freeze a lot of what goes into 16 Hat a chap raised to father (6)
20 21 22
hot curry? (5) 18 A girl is after small steam
23 Seven sagas about uncivilised room (5)
state (10) 22 Sweet that’s lovely, though not
new (3)
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Friday’s solution on page 15