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May 9 | 2022

Couples, beware!

What not to watch on
TV with your partner

The final episode of divorce drama The Split airs tonight
— will your marriage survive it?

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So Sir Keir ordered his The troublewith
curry in advance? Surely townies in the
everyone does that now country, by the

Kevin Maher

Professional bashers of vindaloo connoisseur — it’s a More than man who knows
Keir Starmer, relax. It hot’n’spicy thing) and the vegetable man’s best
appears that you now bhuna for Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen friend They moan about wi-fi speeds and don’t
have a smoking gun in (he loves a dramatic splash of colour get farming: pandemic newcomers are
the “beergate” scandal, and taste). And then they finally, We’ve always suspected clashing with rural stalwarts, says the
but really you don’t. A begrudgingly, turn to mine. it. Some of us have felt
leaked “top secret it. But now a new book, Country Life editor, Mark Hedges
Labour Party memo” has At which point they ping you back, Wonderdog: How the
allegedly proved, incontestably to and basically say, “Congratulations, Science of Dogs Everyone is agog in the Country Life and after a gimlet-eyed
some, that Starmer did indeed enjoy we’ve accepted your order and we’ll Changed the Science of countryside and silence we parted.
an entirely premeditated lockdown- deliver it whenever we bloody well Life, has explained it. struggling to cope with
breaking knees-up in Durham. What’s please, most likely a good 90 minutes, Our dogs actually love its new-found fame. I Not everyone is happy about this
the most damning piece of evidence possibly two hours, after your us, with emotions and keep hearing talk on the rural migration. I considered
contained in the memo? It’s a single preferred slot. Have you got a problem everything. The book radio and television of launching a magazine called Country
line, apparently, and it says, “Arrange with that?” Then you wait. And you refers to a Japanese life returning to normal Strife. One friend suggested that the
takeaway from Spice Lounge.” The wait. And sometimes, if the food is study from 2015 that “now that the pandemic congestion charge should apply when
Labour apparatchiks ordered a curry really late (like pushing the boundaries asked 30 dog owners is over”, but for us rural residents you leave London rather than when
in advance rather than dashing down of all known decorum, practical joke to gaze into their pets’ things have changed permanently. you drive into it.
the high street for a couple of chicken territory, Beadle’s About late), you eyes for half an hour.
kormas, ergo a Durham-based booze phone the restaurant and it tells you Urine samples that Once the countryside was populated There are two new subjects of rural
and biriyani orgy ensued. that there’s a driver in your area, but were then taken from by people with rich regional accents: conversation: newcomers are obsessed
don’t hold your breath because he’s the dogs revealed a country folk who knew everything by wi-fi speeds and everyone else by
This is interesting to me: it means probably chin-wagging with Kate huge boost in the “love from how to cook potted squirrel or telling the newcomers how many
that there is officially a party round at Moss, or Alex James from Blur. hormone” oxytocin. tickle a trout, or people like me, who decades they have lived there. The
ours at least once a fortnight. Because grew up there, spent ten years in newcomers may hold strong views on
that’s what you When it finally arrives, sometime This is heart- London and boomeranged back to the badgers and the reintroduction of
do with Indian before midnight, it is usually, warming and, honestly, countryside aged 30 with a wife and beavers, but unless they also know the
takeaways now. annoyingly, just a tiny bit disturbing two children, the middle-class human difference between straw and hay,
You order in divine — there’s only one equivalent of crop rotation. rooks and crows, hares and rabbits,
advance. My (Starmer way this ends, and they would be better off keeping it to
local even has knows what it’s with interspecies When the world caught Covid, themselves. A little knowledge is a
its own bespoke I’m talking candlelit dinners, though, it all changed. Lockdown dangerous thing in our green and
app. There’s about — weekend staycations didn’t just mean the frenzied buying of pleasant land.
none of that Labour and eventual vows at loo rolls, it meant panic-buying
stumbling politicians and the altar. houses, cottages, hovels; anywhere just All agree that the countryside is
through the curries go as long as it was in the countryside beautiful; those who thought it too
doors on Friday together like, I Instead we should with its clean air. Everyone also quiet or noisy have gone back to
night after six dunno, Tories surely concentrate on a bought a dog. Lockdown brought a London with their tails between
pints to nab and, well, human application for great exodus from the cities and rural their legs. For many the power cuts
a couple of crisps, sausage the experiment? What house prices rocketed. caused by Storm Eunice were the final
cartons of tongue-burners. rolls and other about a nifty pee-break straw: Uber Eats does not deliver to
It has become, it seems, a much more picnic food). test for oxytocin on that Places that were dormitories became many hamlets.
nuanced dining experience. first date between the busy all day long. Some thought it
Yet by that stage everyone in the main course and the would be temporary; in fact, with The countryside has always been
My local Cotswold curry house, in family is so extraordinarily ravenous pudding? Could save a many city workplaces adopting flexible there, but for many generations it was
fact, is so nuanced that it has taken that we consume far too much, far too lot of future hassle. It’s working, it appears that much of the largely ignored; nobody became prime
ordering in advance to new and quickly, falling upon the completely all in the urine. If the change is here to stay. People who minister by worrying too much about
sublime levels of delayed gratification. compostable containers like savages love’s not there, kick were slaves to their desks have become it. Its main purpose is farming and
Once you’ve painstakingly made your (have you ever tried to wrap a king ’em to the kerb and go Twats (working Tuesday, Wednesday over the centuries Man has shaped it
selection using their bespoke app, and prawn rogan in a peshwari naan, then back to your dog. and Thursday in the city). Now, with into what it looks like today. It is as
have chosen your ideal delivery slot fold it all neatly back into your mouth? summer approaching, they will be man-made as any city; there are only
(anything up to two days in advance), Starmer probably has). We even eat assembled to bar joined by the weekend out-of-towners, tiny bits of Britain that are pristine
you click “send” and sit back and wait, the little bags of salad. That’s how bad Netflix camera crews only adding to the mêlée. and untouched.
nervously chewing your fingernails, it is. No one eats the little bags of salad. from shooting “insider”
while the ball is firmly in the sequences at the It is the Industrial Revolution in Programmes such as Countryfile,
restaurant’s court. What this ultimately means for Platinum Jubilee. reverse. Village shops made a profit for which regularly attracts more
curry nights chez Maher is that the the first time and a fortune if someone viewers than EastEnders, brought the
During this period, anything up to event usually climaxes with the entire I mean, what’s an on the staff worked out how to make a countryside into everybody’s front
ten minutes long, I always picture the family lying groaning on the kitchen ailing entertainment latte for the incomers. The so-called room and now almost everyone has a
staff deluged by celebrity Cotswold floor like upturned tortoises, top network got to do to get golden hour, the optimum length of view on what should happen to it. The
curry enthusiasts, thus prioritising all buttons undone, firing out quiet some royal footage in time it takes to get from home to trouble is that nobody agrees. The
their clients by status, sorting out the imprecations and swearing never, on the can? Er, stick to office, is no longer relevant when that Department for Environment, Food
lamb jalfrezis for Lily Allen, the pain of death, to arrange another The Crown? office is 12 steps away. Distant counties and Rural Affairs has tilted towards
chicken madras for Jilly Cooper takeaway curry, ever again. Because it such as Devon and Herefordshire were environmental schemes where farmers
(although she’s probably more of a is somehow, inevitably, a recipe for suddenly places to live and work from. manage the land for wildlife.
disaster. Starmer knows.
I moved house too. Not far, but we However, Ukraine, until this year
Netflix and disappearing faster First, Meghan’s were greeted on the first day by being one of the bigger producers of wheat
Sussex: a than a virgin in planned animated told by a neighbour that “we’d come and sunflower oil in the world, has
royal pain Bridgerton (that’s a series Pearl was axed in from London and knew nothing about changed all that. Prices in
meta Netflix raunch development, then the the countryside”. I mumbled supermarkets are rocketing. The UK
Poor ol’ Netflix. Not reference), it seems the service was allegedly something about being the editor of imports almost half of its food. We
only is its share value streaming service made miffed when Harry need to decide whether we want to
and subscriber base a shockingly poor gave an exclusive
investment when it paid interview to its rivals
£112 million to strike a NBC. Now it’s been
content deal with reported that a Palace
Harry and Meghan. team has been

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Not everyone This mango is so good
is happy. it has a VIP waiting list

I considered Fruit aficionados were online at 4am to get
launching a
new magazine, the first drop of alphonsos, says Giulia Crouch
Country Strife
Sunshine yellow, juicy and I’d trust the snake and eat an
grow food or finches — do we want an Things newcomers must know fleeting, the alphonso mango alphonso mango even if Adam told
idyllic chocolate-box painting of the is arguably the ultimate in me not to.”
countryside or food that we can The local village fête the fête. The parish magazine foodie status symbols. With
afford? The hedges and stone walls Attendance is compulsory. Miss should also be read and a brief season from April to Henry Dimbleby, who co-founded
that snake across our country didn’t it and your new neighbours will memorised. June, the fruit is highly sought after Leon, loves them too. “My mum
happen by accident; they need never speak to you again. Dogs and does big numbers each year in once turned up unexpectedly at my
maintenance and somebody Instead volunteer to look after The locals all love dogs. You the UK. This year is no different. house with a whole box,” he says.
needs to pay for it. As ever, a the bottle stall. You will quickly will know the names of the The demand is so high that more “When I opened the door, there she
balance is the answer. meet the whole village. canines long before you than 1,000 devout customers felt was, beaming and waving an
Money remember what their owner is the need to sign up to a “VIP alphonso in the air with a delighted
If you want to watch something that The further you are from called. Do not let your pet waiting list” to ensure they were cry of, ‘They’re here!’ ”
truly shows what farming is like, try London the less it matters. chase sheep — a farmer is then among the first to get their hands
Clarkson’s Farm, which shows Jeremy Nobody wants to know how entitled to shoot it. on the “king of fruits”. As well as being stupendously
Clarkson battling with rain, mud and much you earn and, besides, The village shop delicious, they are very good for
the death of his livestock. The great your cleaner will have seen Use it or lose it (a successful “They’re more coveted than you. They are high in vitamin C,
outdoors might look like the giant your bank statement and told shop adds value to your house) Glastonbury tickets,” says Mark packed with antioxidants and
leisure park that many people want it everyone anyway. and with the price of petrol it Haydon, the head of procurement contain enzymes that aid digestion.
to be, but farming can be brutal and doesn’t make sense to drive and supply chain at Red Rickshaw,
the suicide rate among the men and The pub is the rural internet anywhere anyway. the hard-to-find-ingredient grocer. India has over
women who toil our land is almost If you want to find someone to Weather The company sold 90,000 alphonso 4,000 types of
twice the national average. remove the wasp nest in your Study the forecasts. Weather is mangos to Brits during April and mangos, but the
attic, go and ask at the pub. the rural way of life; it affects expects that figure to rise to alphonso is king
The British have always had a Somebody will always know everything that happens 130,000 for May and June. Sales are
special relationship with our land. someone and you will also and forms part of every up 40 per cent on last year. They also have high amounts of
Its great cheerleader has been the meet all your new friends from conversation. It matters. In potassium and magnesium, which
royal family. Queen Victoria spring you must be enthusiastic “We were bombarded with emails support proper muscle function.
bought Balmoral and Sandringham about rain; in summer it ruins from customers asking if they were
and ever since these country the harvest. ready yet,” Haydon says. The In the past five months searches
estates have proved a refuge for our Tractors speciality mango “went live” on the for the mango variety on
kings and queens. Yes, they are slow and any website in the early hours of the waitrose.com have shot up 273 per
journey can only ever be morning on March 19, after Mark cent compared with the previous
The Prince of Wales is a estimated because of them. had checked the batch for quality year and many restaurants are
countryman above all. I have seen If you are stuck behind one, and, to his bemusement, began celebrating the start of the season.
him at his happiest laying a hedge, relax. They are a lot bigger selling immediately. Pahli Hill, an Indian restaurant in
planting trees or inspecting his than your car. west London, makes its alphonso
cattle. Both the issues of Country Smells “The VIP-list customers had first mango cheesecake as soon as the
Life that he guest-edited were The countryside can pong a bit, dibs. They were sent an email with season starts. “There are over 4,000
studded with articles on the joy he but stay shtoom. To say a link to the mangos as soon as they different types of mangos in the
gets from it. Do not, if you are a anything would immediately were ready and orders started whole of India, but for me, the
newcomer, criticise him in your local reveal you as a newcomer. coming in at 4am. You don’t get this alphonso is king,” says the head
country pub. He is the countryside’s Cockerels with any other fruit. They all chef, Avinash Shashidhara. “It’s
poster boy. The crowing starts at dawn, disappeared straight away.” great in sweet and savoury dishes.
which in summer is about 5am. I love it with chilli and salt too.”
Above all the countryside is Get some earplugs or, even What’s so special about them?
Britain at its best, the past two years better, get up. Rural folk are “People who know their mangos Another fan said: “These are truly
have brought it alive in a way not seen early risers and everyone will know that the alphonso is totally the best mangos ever. The taste of
in generations and, as long as think you are one of them. different to the ones you get in the that juicy flesh as it bursts into life
everyone remembers to shut the gate, supermarket, and once you’ve tried on your tongue is a feeling like no
all will be well. an alphonso you’ll never go back,” other. I don’t care that I’ve lost
Mark Hedges is editor in chief of Haydon says. several white tops due to eating
Country Life. Its 125th anniversary them with absolutely no dignity at
edition is on sale on Wednesday First, they look different: they all. Totally worth it.”
are a deep, buttery yellow rather
than green with a hint of red and Pahli Hill’s alphonso
inside are softer, juicier and much mango cheesecake
tastier than those you find in the
supermarket. They are tree-ripened
and in India, where they are grown,
normally eaten within 24 hours
of being picked.

For Haydon it’s the aroma
that’s particularly distinct. “One
of the growers explained it to
me,” he says. “If you walk into a
room with a box of alphonso
mangos inside you know there’s
a box of alphonso mangos
inside. It’s the sweetest smell.”

He says his customers
“chain-eat” them, buying
them in boxes of six or
twelve, the latter
setting you back
£30.99 or about
£2.60 per mango.
Aficionados aren’t
put off by the price. In
fact, they are fervent
in their adoration. One
foodie wrote on Twitter:
“I would literally die for
a proper silky sweet
alphonso. Makes me believe
in the Bible because, fair enough,

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Warning! The Split may wreck

The divorce drama ends tonight. It has
divided single and married people, says
Sophia Money-Coutts. Plus: TV critics
on what not to watch with your partner

By the end of the last While different family law subplots The Split, which is on BBC1 tonight at 9pm and on iPlayer
episode, my face was so have run through each series since
swollen I looked as if the show began in 2018, the main vast and labyrinthine fantasy opus is
I’d had a near-fatal thread has been the shifting love
run-in with a peanut. triangle between Hannah, Nathan Let’s not watch unlikely to be a harmonious shared
“I want to get married and Christie. Hannah and Nathan viewing experience. This has less to
just so I can get live in a whopping double-fronted
divorced and have house with the biggest kitchen island extramarital lust do with the early seasons’ sex scenes,
Nicola as my divorce lawyer,” sobbed on television and three faintly sulky tonight James Jackson which now look merely gratuitous, but
my sister, sitting beside me on the children. (Tragically, I’ve googled the more for the beheadings, the throats
sofa. She meant Nicola Walker, the house and can tell you it’s on ripped out and the children being
green-eyed actress (Unforgotten, Last Macaulay Road in Clapham. slaughtered under the orders of odious
Tango in Halifax) whose face can Estimated price: £7 million.) Life
express 1,000 emotions in a single seems rosy and Hannah has a The Affair Sky/Now King Joffrey. Watching Jon Snow
shot and who stars in The Split as bulging wardrobe from the Fold and bludgeon a man’s head with a hammer
calm, wise, brilliant divorce lawyer Me+Em, but they have marital
Hannah Stern. problems of their own — Nathan’s All that marital doubt and mistrust starts to look tame next to Arya Stark
had an affair, while Hannah duly
A brief catch-up if you haven’t rekindles things with old flame — isn’t there the perilous possibility slitting the throat of a man while he
watched it. The Split is the hit BBC Christie. The question overhanging
series about a family of divorce the entire series is: will their that some of the unhappy themes of eats his sons in a pie. This, apparently,
lawyers. Ruth, the mother, is a family marriage survive?
lawyer; sisters Hannah and Nina are the hit infidelity drama might leak off is great for fanboy nerds to get
partners at the same firm; Rose, the Oh, it’s agony. “Are you Team
youngest sister, is too sweet and nice Christie or Team Nathan?” I took to the screen into your living room? Yet excited about on online forums, but
to be a divorce lawyer so she’s a asking almost everyone I met after
nanny instead. the end of the previous series in even if you’re rock-solid in your isn’t wholly conducive to cosy
2020, which aired just before the
Hannah’s husband, Nathan, pandemic hit. If they looked blankly relationship, did there need to after-dinner relaxation with
meanwhile, is a family barrister, but at me, I simply didn’t bother with a
the man she’s been half in love with follow-up question. Since then we’ve be quite so much heaving your loved one. Still,
for her entire life, Christie, is also a had an agonising two-year wait. I
family lawyer. Anna Chancellor, mean, Covid was pretty bad, but how and gasping? The scenes great dragons.
Duckface from Four Weddings and a on earth was the writer Abi Morgan
Funeral, plays a very funny, very (The Iron Lady, Shame, Suffragette) of the sweaty, naked Sex and the City
going to resolve Hannah and Dominic West and Sky/Now
‘Are you Team Nathan’s relationship? Ruth Wilson bumping
Christie or Team
Nathan?’ I asked Well, Morgan’s nailed it, and the against each other During its original run,
everyone I met final 15 minutes of tonight’s episode
— already available on iPlayer — amid soft grunts this was seen as
bitchy rival family lawyer called are some of the most moving I can
Melanie. There are more legal remember on telly. Without revealing show little concern “women’s TV”, yet in
experts in this show than in a too much, various married friends
John Grisham novel. have complained that they find it for your levels of many ways, this has
annoying, even disappointing, but as
The third and final series finishes a single person, I reached for another embarrassment. Yes, actually always been
tonight and I’m bereft. I wasn’t sure Kleenex and punched the air. This
how they could top the end of series is a show written by a woman, the lovers are helplessly an ideal thing for men
two, when Hannah came home to starring four women, with a mother
find Nathan had moved out and and three sisters at its heart. The in the grip of self- and women to watch
left his wedding ring on the hall ending is perfect.
table. I didn’t look great after destructive extramarital Game of Thrones together. As a relic from
watching that episode either. Yet this Then there’s the speech that lust, so much so that the an era of unchecked toxic
series surpassed it with an almost Hannah delivers in the final few
Shakespearean balance between seconds which left me wailing so point needs to be regularly masculinity, it remains a guide
comedy and tragedy. hard that I didn’t even mind that
Hannah is delivering this speech to hammered home just in case you for men to understand what
The plot develops at a galloping her mother’s podcast, Lovecast, which
pace. Yet it hardly matters because is inexplicably played in the law aren’t sure. Yet which viewer actually women want — or rather, what they
you’re so invested in the characters. firm’s reception. How many top law
These are real, complex relationships firms in London have their own enjoys such prolonged lay-it-out-there don’t want. Don’t poop in front of
showing that a married couple, or podcast recording studio? I once
sisters, can love and really loathe one asked a very senior partner from one rampancy filling a large corner of the your girlfriend while she’s using the
another at the same time; be the best such firm how accurate the
of friends or the worst of enemies. depiction of his job was and he told living room? Rarely has the phrase bathroom; don’t be the guy who can’t
me there wasn’t “quite as much
As one friend texted on a group shagging”, which was a “shall we fast-forward?” been uttered have sex unless his sports team wins;
WhatsApp chat that we had once disappointment. Yet it would be silly
used to discuss babies and where to to get hung up on pedantic little more often from our sofa. Yours, don’t use your deceased wife’s grave
go for drinks but now exclusively use quibbles when the acting and writing
to discuss The Split: “It’s enough of a are so magnificent. Mr Killjoy of The Times. as a way to get women to hit on you.
soap opera to be escapist, but not so
wildly silly that it becomes annoying.” Morgan has said that she devised Game of Thrones Sky/Now Be instead like lovely Harry or
The Split with a three-series arc, and dependable Aidan. Great. Yet the show
although I’d be the first person to
clamour for more, I hope that’s it. For all its acclaim as the world’s also runs the risk of prompting your
What a show.
biggest show of the past decade, this wife to start considering your foibles,

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your relationship ( )and so could these
other shows

pitching them into her ranking of Normal People COVER: GETTY IMAGES. BELOW: ALAMY; BBC over whether to have a child, who
the handsome-but-dreadful boyfriends wants to spend precious downtime
in the series. This could be risky. At The Affair This Is Going to Hurt with their partner watching other
least you’ll surely be nowhere near people row, cry and tear strips off
as bad as the guy who can’t stop Who wants to see Sex and the City each other? As much as anything else,
himself yelling “You whore!” at the other couples row that’s something you can do yourself
point of climax. and cry? Ben Dowell novel 44 Chapters About 4 Men. without wasting the electricity
Narrated by Sarah Shahi’s Billie required to switch the telly on.
Get Organized with the Sex/Life Netflix Connelly (yup), this interminable Watching this comes with many
Home Edit Netflix drama had our heroine spending health warnings, not least the possible
Was it real or not? The enormous most of the time toying with the provocation of conflict in your home if
If there’s one thing to cause a blazing penis, I mean, the one showcased by idea of leaving her happy-seeming you make the fatal mistake of taking
marital row it’s the topic of “stuff”. the hunky bad-boy music producer marriage — and two children — with sides. Especially when people such as
Accusing your other half of having far Brad (Adam Demos) in that shower rich, strait-laced financier Cooper Mau come out with such gems as:
too much annoying mess piled round scene from that extraordinarily (Mike Vogel) for Brad, the well- “What I want is to have zero
every room — while you, of course, execrable Netflix drama? Or was it a endowed ex from the shower. As an responsibility [and] to have all the sex
are perfectly organised with old books prosthesis containing about half the idea, this, like the huge penis, is not I want without any, any work on my
and childhood Star Wars toys neatly world’s known plastic material? Either something to introduce into any part of any kind.” That said, this
boxed away in a small corner of the way, the eye-watering sight of Brad’s couple’s living room. showcase of real-life sessions with the
loft — tends to end in the kind of old chap halfway through this show is New York-based therapist Dr Orna
argument where you eventually just one reason men in particular Normal People iPlayer Guralnik was gripping. Although
question the other’s entire might not hugely (a word I use with probably best watched alone.
psychological make-up. For those in feeling) enjoy watching with their This exquisitely shot and sensitively
such a situation, do not think Netflix’s partners this adaptation of BB Easton’s performed adaptation of Sally This Is Going to Hurt iPlayer
Get Organized — in which expert Rooney’s heart-twanging bestseller
home organisers “edit” the homes about a secret teenage love affair had This skilled adaptation of Adam Kay’s
of the famous — will help. Or rather two brilliant stars in Daisy Edgar- funny and sometimes angry 2017
it might, just not if watched together Jones and Paul Mescal. It captured memoir beautifully captured the
because the only resultant the breathtaking beauty of its west mayhem, humour and bleary-eyed
conversation will begin, “See how coast of Ireland setting as well as the experience of being a young doctor on
harmonious our house could be if you breathless passions of young love — an “obs and gynae” ward (or “brats
kept your underwear folded neatly?” those times of awakening to life and and twats” as it was apparently known
and that can only end in a terrible row. possibility when nothing else seems to to staff). Yet like the bestselling book,
matter except the person you are it took us into the guts of the job, often
Live US Masters golf Sky with. Yet to my mind, there was literally with some quite extraordinary
probably a bit too much young sex birth reconstructions and graphic
Four evenings on the trot when it’s and nudity for any self-respecting sound effects of surgical incisions,
perfectly acceptable and not-at-all middle-ager to watch confidently bodily slops and shouty births,
antisocial for me to retire to the with the person they love on a cold usually with the dad being a useless
second, smaller TV in the house and winter evening. Sex scenes are fine in appendage to proceedings. Some
get lost in pure sporting theatre with small doses, but there was so much women complain that Kay’s black
no annoying interruptions right at the here it got embarrassing after a while. humour strayed into misogyny. Other
key moments while she watches Plus, if you took away all that earnest women didn’t want to be reminded of
Gilmore Girls in the next room free rumpy-pumpy there was hardly their birth experiences, especially if
of any adjacent eye-rolling. Bliss — any drama. they weren’t as great as they had
for both of us. hoped. Either way, this may not be a
Couples Therapy iPlayer show to watch with the mother of your
child or children, is all I am saying.
Whether it’s DeSean who feels
plagued by his wife Elaine constantly Scenes from a Marriage
calling him at work or Lauren Sky Atlantic/Now
frequently clashing with partner Sarah
Ingmar Bergman’s landmark TV series
about the disintegration of a marriage
was remade as a lavish, modern
HBO spectacular written by the
scriptwriter of the The Affair,
Hagai Levi. Lawyer Marianne and
psychology professor Johan from the
1973 original became Jessica Chastain’s
tech executive Mira and Oscar Isaac’s
bearded, asthmatic philosophy
professor Jonathan. In Bergman’s
version he is unfaithful; in this, she is
the one who has an affair, which felt
very modern and modish. It was
beautifully done, if earnest American
middle-class relationship drama is
your thing. Jonathan’s
over-attentiveness was acutely
observed and the couple’s anguished,
unhappy looks and silences were
memorable. However, its normalising
of infidelity certainly has the
potential to make this a bit of an
uncomfortable watch over red wine
and Green & Blacks. And it’s not just
our central couple enjoying a bit of
the old extracurricular. Early on, Kate
(Nicole Beharie) and Peter (Corey
Stoll) disturb the clink of wine glasses
and mannered eating by revealing
that their open relationship has hit
a particularly troubling snag. Do
people really live and talk like they do
in this? Let’s hope not.

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life

Ask Professor Tanya Byron
My seven-year-old has convinced herself that she is fat

NQ My seven-year-old understand what influences the way Look to a preference for thin bodies, and what we or others think. I see this as
daughter has they perceive themselves and learning develop aversion towards larger bodies, and an essential life lesson. To be effective
repeatedly told me to challenge beliefs that are at best her critical this is worrying because play is a critical thinkers, we need to define
she thinks she is fat unhelpful (causing them to see their thinking powerful vector for children to learn. what the problem/issue is, identify
and she hates her legs. body shape as indicative of their value skills to assumptions, create hypotheses,
The first time she said as a person) and at worst toxic challenge In another study, children as young analyse ideas and reason critically: this
it I didn’t make a big deal of it, but (causing them to develop harmful unhelpful as two and a half years were shown is called reflective thinking.
told her that we all have bodies in behaviours, like eating disorders, that beliefs line-drawn figures of differing sizes (eg
different shapes and sizes and what are related to such pernicious beliefs). thin, average or large) and read a list Being able to think critically and
is important is that our bodies are If you would like of words (eg happy, sad, has friends, reflectively will enable your daughter
healthy. However, she has since It is useful to first understand where Professor Tanya Byron’s has no friends). It was found that to learn to “own” her mind and build
brought up this issue many times, these influences come from. You help, email proftanya children as young as three assigned the skills so that she can resist peer
often in tears, and my response explain that you are careful how you [email protected] more positive characteristics to pressure, form her own opinions and
clearly isn’t helping. She says she discuss food and health with your thinner figures and more negative trust her own thinking. We see the
wants her thighs to be the size of her daughter and this is good. However, as characteristics to larger figures. need for this when we look at the
calves, “like the other girls at school”. well as negative parental influence, Further research has highlighted that dangerous groups on and offline, such
there are many factors that influence children who show weight bias (ie as pro-ana and pro-mia communities
My daughter is a normal healthy children and can impact on their ascribing greater negative attitudes (see beateatingdisorders.org.uk).
weight, but she isn’t “skinny”. She perception of themselves, including towards people of higher weight) also
loves her food, eats a wide variety of their peers, media and social media. experience higher levels of depression, To develop critical thinking in
home-cooked fare, and has a fairly anxiety, low self-esteem, body children we need to begin early,
active lifestyle. I have always been Knowing what these are can help to dissatisfaction and disordered eating. encourage their questions and answer
very careful not to talk about my inform us on how to help them to them with questions — teaching them
weight in front of her, and instead really think about these things without There are so many influences to reflect. When our children present
talk about food and exercise in terms feeling stressed and unhappy. This is relating to the “ideal” body image, opinions that worry us (eg “I think I’m
of what makes me feel healthy. of course a greater challenge for very with photoshopping and airbrushing fat”) our reflexive and anxious
young children. creating fake images of “perfection”. response is often to provide a
I have no idea where she got this Children are influenced as they counterview that gives them no room
idea that she is fat, but it is A large body of evidence suggests interact with friends or observe the to reflect further. By doing this, we
heartbreaking. I was expecting this that exposure to images of thin adults in their lives who may, even teach them nothing and risk
sort of conversation when she was a female bodies contributes to body nonverbally, express dissatisfaction embedding them further in the dogma
teenager, not when it started at age dissatisfaction and the formation of with themselves as they observe their that they have bought into.
six. Do you have any advice for me? “thin-ideal” beliefs. One way in which bodies. These experiences can build
young girls may begin to learn about toxic beliefs whereby acceptance and Sometimes our children will express
Emily and internalise societal weight ideals is validation (of self and by others) only opinions or ask questions that we
through exposure to very thin dolls, don’t understand or haven’t formed
NA Children’s opinions of which are common in their play. comes from having “a perfect body”. opinions on. This is an opportunity to
their bodies form at a Your daughter is showing that, role-model “not knowing” and the
very young age. There is interesting research that process of investigation. Successful
Research has has focused on the most popular doll like many young children, she is female role models come in all shapes
highlighted that that children play with. The internalising a belief than and sizes, so to explore that together
attitudes about body proportions of this doll translate into thinness equates to beauty and challenges the “thin = success” dogma.
shape and size can show in very young a body that would be 5ft 9in, a size 6 self-validity. Telling her that what
children, with more than 30 per cent and, given the highly pronounced she thinks is not correct is Model critical thinking by
of five-year-old girls stating that they “thigh gap”, lacking adequate verbalising your thinking skills so your
need to go on a diet. Research by the adipose tissue to support unlikely to enable her to create daughter can hear you reflect aloud,
Mental Health Foundation has found menstruation. Girls aged three to a long-term shift in this ask yourself questions and set out
that among young people aged 13 to ten were asked to assign positive or emerging belief. Instead, look differing positions. Encourage play
19, 35 per cent said their body image negative traits to these dolls, which to develop her critical thinking that requires challenge to enable
causes them to “often” or “always” varied in size and shape. It was skills and see this as a process cognitive flexibility. Do not be afraid
worry — this breaks down to 46 per found that the girls showed greater whereby you enable her to learn to hear your child state opinions or
cent of girls and 25 per cent of boys. negative attitudes and a reluctance to challenge unhelpful beliefs she beliefs that are unhealthy — see this
to play with the curvy version of will be exposed to. This means as an opportunity to provide her with
To support our children in the doll, and showed more positive enabling her to develop the ability to the tools to navigate through a world
managing these issues we need to attitudes to the thinner version. analyse and evaluate information to that will, at times, undermine her
build their critical evaluation skills, determine its integrity and validity. belief in herself. Teach her to know
which means helping them to What this all suggests is that The tenet here is to help children to her own mind.
even very young girls demonstrate learn that we don’t have to believe

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life

The queen of introverts on
why being sad is good for us

She made it cool to Author Susan Cain up against a bunch of “eternalists” who greeted its appearance. She began so obvious he represented the worlds
are determined not to die. In essence, researching Bittersweet in 2014, but of words and art that I had wanted to
be shy. Susan Cain In some the book details Cain’s spiritual quest the thoughts it expresses have been be part of all along. The obsession
ways to pin down what made her listen bubbling under the surface pretty completely fell away: I was liberated
now wants us to having to what her friends called “funeral much her entire life. from it. That’s when I started writing
a happy music” in her law school dorm room, for real and I haven’t stopped since.”
embrace the blues. family but she also comprehensively explores Cain was brought up in Nassau
life has physical and psychological County, New York, and writes in the She met her husband, Ken Cain —
By Nick Curtis given me manifestations of the human book of the difficult dynamic between a writer who previously worked in UN
a sense of inclination to the bittersweet. the Orthodox Jewish upbringing her conflict resolution in war zones such
In 2012 the lawyer turned writer a longing mother — whose family were killed in as Rwanda, Somalia and Liberia —
Susan Cain published a book sated Professor Dacher Keltner of the the Holocaust — tried to impose on shortly after, and the two have sons
called Quiet: The Power of University of California, Berkeley, her, and the science-led rationalism aged 12 and 14. Did having her own
Introverts in a World that Can’t Bittersweet: How explains to her how the evolutionarily of her doctor father. Her mother’s children bring the awareness of
Stop Talking, which suggested Sorrow and Longing ancient vagus nerve, which controls increasingly frenzied monitoring of bittersweetness into sharper focus?
that the world and the workplace Make Us Whole by breathing and digestion, activates an her daughter while she studied law “In some ways having a happy family
undervalued introverts like Susan Cain is published empathic response when we see others at Berkeley — she even read Cain’s life has given me a sense of a longing
herself. With no small irony, the by Viking at £20 in distress. James Pennebaker of the angry teenage diaries — led to an sated. But when there’s something
book led to a Ted talk (the first of University of Texas proved that estrangement that has recently been that’s precious to you, then the fact of
three) that has now had 40 million unemployed engineers improved their imperfectly repaired. Her mother now life’s impermanence is more charged.”
views, a healthy LinkedIn and job prospects and even their health has dementia and has become
YouTube following, and a career as a when encouraged to express how touchingly affectionate, with no Sorrow overtook the book. Cain
public thinker — and speaker — who unhappy they felt. Laura Carstensen, memory of her previous behaviour. gave her third Ted talk, announcing
co-curates an ideas-led book club with a psychology professor at Stanford “Bittersweet is absolutely in some its ideas in 2019, the year before it was
the journalist Malcolm Gladwell. University, says that “poignancy is ways about the pain of separation that originally due to be published. In 2020
the richest feeling humans experience, all humans experience,” Cain says. “I her radiologist brother and her father
Quiet spent eight years on the New one that gives meaning to life”. had a difficult relationship with my died from Covid. She says her
York Times bestseller list and spawned mother, but it could take the form immersion in the understanding of the
two spinoffs and the “venture-backed, I hadn’t previously come across of a break-up or a bereavement.” bittersweet made the loss easier to
mission-based” organisation the Quiet epigenetics — the study of how bear, or at least to comprehend, and
Revolution providing advice, training behaviour and environment affect Or a denial of one’s true self. writes in the book: “The love you lost,
and online resources to businesses and gene behaviour — but Cain explores Cain “had wanted to be a writer from or the love you wished for and never
families about how to foster privacy how an emotional legacy can be the age of four, but had put those had: that love exists eternally.”
and embrace quietness. Now, Cain, handed down, for instance, to the dreams away in the service of doing
54, has published a new book, children of Holocaust survivors. something more practical”. For seven The book also lands at a particularly
Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing years she worked at a commercial law bitter time. Cain won’t say, but I’m
Make Us Whole, which aims to bring “As soon as I know I want to write firm, but quit the day she learnt she guessing she is no fan of Donald
about a similar handbrake turn in a book about something I start looking wouldn’t be made partner, also ending Trump and the legacy of division he
received wisdom. at the whole world through that lens a seven-year romantic relationship has bequeathed to America. Horrific
and I don’t really stop for another and giving up her apartment. She events in Ukraine bring an almost
“Bittersweetness is a kind of intense decade,” Cain says with a laugh in her began an “obsessive” relationship with unbearable poignancy to the story she
awareness of joy and sorrow being voice. “It takes me a while to figure out a musician and songwriter “who was tells in her Ted talk and in the book’s
forever paired,” Cain says over the what I really think.” Quiet took eight not fully available” until a close friend introduction about a cellist playing
phone from New York (no Zoom calls years to write — and she enjoyed the suggested that perhaps he stood for Albinoni’s wrenching Adagio in G
for this introvert). “It’s an intense process of creating it a whole lot more something else Cain wanted. “It was Minor under enemy fire during the
awareness of life’s fragility, but what than the sudden recognition that siege of Sarajevo. Cain mentions the
comes from that awareness is a sense quote from Leonard Cohen’s Anthem,
of wonder and beauty.” In other which is the book’s epigraph: “There is
words, America’s culture of “ruthless a crack, a crack in everything/ That’s
positivity”, and our British tendency to where the light gets in.” She adds:
play down or be embarrassed by any “Once you are oriented towards it,
expression of spiritual yearning or you can see the bittersweet in life and
emotional craving, is blocking us off appreciate it in good times and bad.”
from a full appreciation of life. “When
I started this book, I thought of it as a And are there practical applications
very different project from Quiet, but for the appreciation of the bittersweet?
the common thread is that they are “Oh yeah, very much so,” she
both talking about what I believe to enthuses. “The 30,000ft view [on that]
be hidden superpowers that are not is a question of following your longing
adequately recognised in the culture.” and where it is telling you to go:
become attuned to what is the
Bittersweetness finds expression in representation for you of what is
religion, “the longing for the Garden beautiful and true. [And ask] how can
of Eden or for Zion or for Mecca, or you bring yourself into alignment with
what the Sufis call the ‘beloved of the that?” On a practical level, it helps to
soul’, which is my favourite expression follow the example of Pennebaker’s
of it”, she says. It is at the heart of the engineers and write down what’s
epic of Gilgamesh, Star Wars and the bothering you at the start of the day.
Odyssey; it’s central to the music of Even if you then chuck the paper away
Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, the blues afterwards, you will feel better.
and Portuguese fado. (Cain claims that
people who like happy songs listen to “Conversely, start off your day with
them about 175 times; those who like shots of beauty,” Cain adds. She got
sad songs listen to them 800 times.) into the habit of doomscrolling
through social media, so asked friends
The term correlates to German to recommend art accounts to her
Sehnsucht, Greek pothos or the instead. Every day she shares an image
Hispanic concept of duende. There’s of a painting or sculpture with her
a chapter on a violinist whose followers, “pairing it with an idea or
Stradivarius was stolen, and an quote or poem . . . It’s an incredibly
amusing episode where Cain comes grounding way to start the day
because what it’s doing is orienting
your mindset in the direction of what
matters to you most.”

8 Monday May 9 2022 | the times

artsfirst night

pop Odette-Odile, usually a job for just comedy
one, and add in four princes to boot.
Michael Kiwanuka Lou Sanders:
Two of his Russian stars — Natalia One Word: Wow
O2 Academy, Glasgow Osipova and Vadim Muntagirov —
took part in the event, which was Leicester Square Theatre, WC2
M{{{{( ichael Kiwanuka began conducted by Gavriel Heine, the
this tour two years and American who recently resigned as L{{{((
two months ago. Just resident conductor of the Mariinsky ou Sanders can advertise
three dates in, acute Theatre in St Petersburg, citing the her greatness while making
laryngitis forced him off war in Ukraine as his reason. light of all vanity. In fact,
no comedian better mixes
stage in Bournemouth before Covid After some strongly worded self-aggrandising with self-
anti-Putin remarks from Alex mocking. Mix her restless charm with
caused chaos. Glasgow, where the tour Beard, the Royal Opera House solid subject matter and you can have
chief executive, and a stirring great comedy, as in her show Shame
finally resumed, had waited long rendition of the Ukrainian national Pig from 2018 (the year after she broke
anthem from the ROH Orchestra, through as a victorious contestant on
enough to welcome him, but we were into Act I, which proceeded Taskmaster). Mix her deceptively loose
as it usually does in Liam Scarlett’s approach with an insubstantial theme
Kiwanuka still refused to be rushed. outstanding production, the action or story and you’ve got something like
beautifully realised against John this latest show: easy to sit through,
As a kick drum announced the Macfarlane’s elegant tsarist Russian but hard to take much away from.
setting. A fine Matthew Ball took
show’s start, the crowd, crammed into the honours as the first of four That’s despite her advertising big
Prince Siegfrieds. themes at the start of her hour. When
every corner, cheered and chanted. By the pandemic began she realised that
The second act was where it got she was seven years single, she had no
the time shimmering cymbals, female weird, but in a fun way, with not friends who would come round even if
one but two Odettes to captivate they could come round and her life
vocals and beefy bass had joined in, Siegfried’s heart. The Prince, now outside comedy had atrophied. Yes,
danced handsomely by William she mixes the sharp-tongued with the
the screams had hit fever pitch. Bracewell, met and fell in love with spiritually minded (there are crystals
Lauren Cuthbertson’s regal swan on the table behind her on stage), but
Kiwanuka’s arrival couldn’t have queen — their romantic pas de deux even so: “I’m not a very well rounded
was a study in luxuriant yet subtle individual,” she says.
been more low-key. On he ambled in poetry — but he ended the act in
thrall to Sarah Lamb, who handled Big life changes as she hits her mid-
a brown outfit, head down, guitar in Odette’s solo with decorative aplomb. thirties, then? Kind of . . . She has some
half-decent pandemic riffs, but the
hand, before his huge hug of a voice Muntagirov partnered Marianela time has gone for anything but the
Núñez in the opulent third act, in most gold-plated lockdown material.
wrapped itself around Piano Joint (This which the black swan Odile seduces She touches on becoming an NHS
the Prince, and the Royal Ballet’s volunteer responder, looking after a
Kind of Love), the first of four songs grandest duo delighted in delivering 93-year-old and getting beyond her
the bravura choreography to own headspace. Yet the biggest topic
from his 2019 album Kiwanuka, which perfection. Osipova and Reece here is how she became a rollerskater,
Clarke had the hardest job, coming going to skate parks, getting past
won the Mercury prize and was in cold for the tragic fourth act finale tumbles and bruises, and along the
with no backstory to fuel their way sidelining her ego — and finding
nominated for a Grammy. emotions. But in a short time they a skateboarding boyfriend almost a
made a big impression. decade her junior along the way. Was
Live, the songs were as much Vadim Muntagirov and Marianela Núñez in the Swan Lake gala it just a “spring fling” or could she and
As a concept it won’t catch on — Jamie end up on solid ground?
psychedelic rock as soul. I’ve Been The night of you can’t invest in a story when the
four swans characters keep changing bodies! — One Word: Wow drifts pleasantly,
Dazed stomped like Led Zep and but as a fundraiser it was a hit. but doesn’t resonate. Sanders is so
Between this special Swan Lake, the assured in her skittishness, however,
was bolstered by vocals from Simone Concert for Ukraine in April and the so deft at interacting with her crowd,
streaming of the ballet Flight Pattern, that she brings a sense of event even
Richards and Emily Holligan, both of the opera house has raised about to material that’s barely substantial
£400,000 for the Ukraine appeal. enough to sustain an hour.
whom looked happier in the limelight, Swan Lake runs to May 28 with a Dominic Maxwell
live cinema screening on May 19. Touring to Jun 30, lousanders.com
twirling tambourines and banging roh.org.uk

bongos, than Kiwanuka.

Rolling mixed symphonic funk with

shades of Santana and You Ain’t the

Problem folded retro disco into its rich

tapestry as dry ice flooded a stage with

striking lighting that recalled Top of

the Pops circa 1976. Kiwanuka’s deep, In aid of Ukraine, the Royal Ballet fielded

low vocals and powerful lyrics may be a quartet of ballerinas as Odette-Odile in
one special evening, writes Debra Craine
his calling cards, but this show shone

as much for his bold arrangements.

“It means the world to us to be If you were going to stage yet
another performance of Swan
here after two plus years,” said the dance Lake but wanted it to be a bit
special, this was certainly a
35-year-old, who took to keyboards Swan Lake remarkable way to do it. For the
Royal Ballet’s fundraising gala in
for an acoustic version of Rest and Royal Opera House support of the DEC Ukraine
{{{{( Humanitarian Appeal, the director,
hypnotised the crowd with a storming Kevin O’Hare, decided on a unique
approach — have four of his top
Black Man in a White World. “We’re ballerinas share the iconic role of

going to sing and play so hard that

we can’t speak in the morning.” The

crowds still awaiting Kiwanuka and his

band may wish to look away now.

Lisa Verrico

michaelkiwanuka.com for dates

opera D’Angelo, the fast-rising young classical Alarge crowd gathers on I was surprised by how moving it was,
Canadian singing the title role. The a street corner in the how intimate it felt to listen closely to
Serse voice is hard-edged. Her intonation Bristol New sunshine. Kids play round unseen voices coming out of individual
took time to settle and she didn’t Music a poplar tree. Mendelssohn speakers suspended in wooden frames.
St Martin in the Fields, WC2 infuse her arias with much light blasts out of a car radio. The sheer variety of sounds was
{{{{{ and shade. Heavens, though, what Various venues, Bristol This is the premiere of Áine remarkable, a chorus of sighs, ums,
power when she let rip. In her last {{{{( O’Dwyer’s Song of Place, an ahs and laughter, with different
Handel’s Serse lasted just raging aria she practically chewed up improvised street opera, the opening timbres, accents, volumes, probing
five performances when the scenery, or would have done if event of a weekend programme from how we feel about our voices. Music
premiered in 1738. The there had been any. Bristol New Music, which is in its was woven throughout with chords,
composer must have been fourth outing. Concerts were dotted humming and beatboxing spilling over
mortified. He had written at Lucy Crowe, playing the much round the city’s formal venues, but into beautiful song.
least 12 arias that deserved to stop the desired Romilda, is a far more what self-respecting contemporary
show and 12 more that were merely imaginative Handel singer, and one of music festival would be without a If there’s one iconic image of Bristol,
inspired. They embellish a story that the show’s delights was her vocal (and site-specific performance or three? it’s the Clifton Suspension Bridge, but
plays fast and loose with history, but indeed physical) sparring with Mary A timetable for O’Dwyer’s hour even this 19th-century construction
depicts the twists and turns of human Bevan’s good-time girl Atalanta. Just promised episodes of found sounds. has its secrets. Twenty years ago one
emotions in an irresistible blend of the as compelling was Paula Murrihy’s It was nothing like an opera, but, of the huge abutments was found to be
sublime and the ridiculous. The absurd Arsamene, a picture of noble anguish, still, everyone was having fun. hollow. Hard hat on, I joined the
plot machinations edge the opera and Daniela Mack’s superb Amastre. group scrambling down a ladder to
towards the latter. And there was a chance for more delve inside a chamber. Sedimentary
Directed from the harpsichord by concentrated listening over in the Stone Tape was the artist Kelly Jayne
In the modern era, unlike in Harry Bicket, the English Concert Broadmead shopping centre, where Jones’s response to the space in which
Handel’s lifetime, Serse has been was on cracking form: robust where an empty unit became the home for lime deposit stalactites hover
revived many times, but I struggle to necessary, but also sensitive and polyphony, a 40-minute audio overhead. Her 25-minute solo
recall a performance as musically stylish. Lucky Handel lovers in installation composed by Verity performance drew together sounds of
spectacular as this one. And although Pamplona, New York and Gateshead Standen and Yas Clarke. Constructed stone and flute with projections by
it was in a church, not a theatre, it was will be getting Serse live this month; from interviews with 32 people, Kevin Craig. I was transported.
also persuasively semi-staged. Even on the rest of the world will have to wait carefully dissected and shaped into Rebecca Franks
authentically unforgiving baroque for the recording. a satisfying structure, polyphony is polyphony runs until May 29,
pews three hours flew by. I had Richard Morrison a meditation on the human voice. mayk.org.uk
reservations at first about Emily Sage Gateshead, May 25

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© MAEVE GILMORE ESTATE arts

Gilmore’s murals in her home at 1 Drayton Gardens in Chelsea, London

Maeve Gilmore’s surreal world

Rachel Campbell-Johnston remembers Wertheim and Redfern dressed ingenue fresh from Swiss
galleries in London), she finishing school (“When she married
her childhood visit to the artist, wife of allowed her career to come she had no idea how to cook or
second to that of the keep house, although she always
the Gormenghast writer Mervyn Peake husband. She was “fiercely made all her family’s clothes,” her
It was more than 40 years ago, proud” of him, her granddaughter says) gives way a
but I can still remember the first swept hair answered the front door. granddaughter explains. decade or so later to a woman who,
— and, until now, the last — “Tether your bicycle to the bay tree,” “She championed him at despite the crisis of faith to which her
time that I came across the work she told me. I goggled. “How did you every opportunity.” husband’s suffering led, still clings to
of Maeve Gilmore. I was in my know that I always pretend that my her belief in the power of creativity.
early teens and had just spent bike is a horse?” I wondered, shyly. His legacy is in large part She frames herself as an artist, stick
the best part of my summer attributable to her, but it of charcoal in hand. The latter is a
For an isolated country girl, her first came at a cost. Gilmore had powerfully evocative painting. The
solo venture to London is bound to be increasingly to become the once breathtakingly beautiful girl has
carer of a husband who the crow’s feet and deeply furrowed
stalking the crumbling stone eye-widening, but nothing could have suffered not only from brow of a much older woman.
Parkinson’s but also what
labyrinths of Mervyn Peake’s prepared me for the inside of that (although it was undiagnosed Even more evocative, however, is
at the time) may have been the sense of commitment. Gilmore
Gormenghast. I was obsessed with the house. It was covered with the murals PTSD, resulting from that painted whenever she could eke out a
time when, serving as a war spare moment. Still lifes, interiors and
world that he conjured up in his now that Gilmore had painted. Acrobatic artist, he bore witness to the her children are her subjects. Yet, for
liberation of Belsen. Sedated, given all the overt domesticity, they are
classic trilogy and when, reaching the children cavorted with electric-shock treatment and imbued with a surreal aura that
eventually lobotomised, a cheerful, speaks of the brooding richness of
end, I heard of the Mervyn Peake a bizarre medley of easy-going man turned into a terrified her imaginative life. The children are
stranger, into a nightmare. Peake died puckishly acrobatic. Motifs and objects
Society I dispatched an excitable creatures across in 1968 at the age of 57, a short while — taxidermied birds, cat’s cradles of
after moving to a psychiatric hospital. yarn, onions on benches, headdresses
inquiry. Did it have a reduced price for landscapes that ranged The selection of 15 works on show adorned with feathers — repeated
at Studio Voltaire follow the artistic across multiple works develop a
junior members, I wondered. I’m not from Amazonian development of a highly privileged, strange symbolic voice.
convent-educated girl who, falling in
sure what I expected. A Lord rainforests to the frozen love with her dashing tutor on her first Gilmore, her granddaughter tells
day at art college, ended up (despite me, “painted her way through her
Sepulchrave poster; Steerpike stickers, Arctic. A doorway the best efforts of her parents to husband’s illness”. After he died, left
deflect her) moving into bohemia, alone in her large house, she
perhaps? It certainly wasn’t the erudite doubled as a tropical living on the island of Sark, learning surrounded herself with haunting
about modernism, mingling with such pictures of her family — of her
quarterly that eventually came. aquarium. A seal pup figures as Dylan Thomas and Graham husband holding a baby, standing at
Greene (who tried, unsuccessfully, to doorways or looking in at windows
A week or so afterwards I received lay on the boiler. Lions steal her away as his mistress), and — but then she broke out. The works
working as a painter, illustrator and of her last years are vibrant and
a letter, handwritten in sepia ink on draped over branches textile artist (she made, among other alive, bright with pinks, yellows and
things, minutely elaborate doll figures oranges, “full of love and life and the
thick cream paper. “Dear Rachel,” with lynxes and lemurs that she posed all over her painted joy of living”, as her granddaughter
house). She had three children, the describes them.
it said, “I have never been asked in an upper-floor eldest of whom, Fabian, also an artist,
is married to Phyllida Barlow, another Gilmore died of cancer in 1983
that before. I think we can make nursery. Donkeys met overlooked female artist who, despite at the age of 66. Her murals are
a lifetime of creativity, came to fame gone. They were ripped out by the
you an honorary member.” It was puffins and penguins on only when she was in her sixties. buyers of her Drayton Gardens
You can follow Gilmore’s home and replaced with something
signed Maeve Gilmore. She was, the beach. A bogey man transformation through a series of more dully fashionable, no doubt.
self-portraits. The wide-eyed, neatly Yet here is an exhibition to show us
she explained, the widow of crouched in the area that the vivacious spirit of their
creator still survives.
Mervyn Peake. basement. Rows of

A year or so later I was at a boarding ballerinas used staircase

school in Surrey. “I live in London, rails as their barre.

come and visit me,” Gilmore wrote. These murals no longer

By then we were engaged in an exist, but now, at last, I

infrequent — and somewhat am getting a second

imbalanced — correspondence. She chance to see Gilmore’s

would send me cards of Peake’s pictures. Studio Voltaire is staging Gilmore in her Maida
Vale studio in 1939, top,
drawings (he was an artist and a small show of her work that, and a self-portrait

illustrator as much as a writer); I beginning in the early 1940s, spans Maeve Gilmore is
at Studio Voltaire,
would tell her about the gosling that I the career of a painter, writer and London SW4, from
Wednesday to July 7,
had called Steerpike. So one weekend, illustrator who for more than 30 years studiovoltaire.org

having pedalled by bike for 20-odd managed to integrate her dedication

miles, I pitched up at her home at to family with her creativity.

1 Drayton Gardens in Chelsea. Gilmore is not a fashionable figure,

I think I had expected a kindly old Christian Peake, her granddaughter,

granny. Instead a strikingly handsome tells me. Younger people, she suggests,

woman with bold lipstick and elegant are “annoyed” that, despite her early

tailoring, statement earrings and up- success (she showed in the 1930s at the

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Every day, Monday to Thursday, a page of extra Sudoku super fiendish Train Tracks
puzzles to give your brain an extended workout
Lay tracks to enable the train to travel
Samurai easy from village A to village B. The numbers
indicate how many sections of rail go in
Fill each grid so that every column, every row and every 3x3 box each row and column. There are only
contains the digits 1 to 9. Where the puzzles overlap, the rows and straight rails and curved rails. The track
columns do not go beyond their usual length. cannot cross itself.

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Fill the grid so that every column, every row and Fill the blank squares so that every row and
every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9. Each set of column contains each of the numbers 1 to 5
cells joined by dotted lines must add up to the target once only. The symbols between the squares
number in its top-left corner. Within each set of cells indicate whether a number is larger (>) or
joined by dotted lines, a digit cannot be repeated. smaller (<) than the number next to it.

Codeword Thursday’s SAMURAI
solutions
Every letter in the crossword-style grid, right, has been
substituted for a number from 1 to 26. Each letter of the alphabet
appears in the grid at least once. Use the letters already provided
to work out the identity of further letters. Enter letters in the
main grid and the smaller reference grid until all 26 letters of the
alphabet have been accounted for. Proper nouns are excluded.

Quintagram® Suko QUINTAGRAM

Solve all five cryptic clues using Place the numbers 1 to 9 in 1 Asp FUTOSHIKI CODEWORD
each letter underneath once only the spaces so that the 2 Rant
number in each circle is 3 Famed
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surrounding spaces, and 5 Benefactor
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How to be a Marine (remember: it’s only pain)

Carol Commando: Britain’s Ocean GREG LANDER WILLIAMS/BBC sparky and positive, but took his life
Midgley Warriors took us through the training last year. I didn’t make the connection
TV review course that Royal Marine commando Kane, one of the Commando recruits, during the “30-miler” test until the end that this was the man
recruits must pass before they are who, according to reports, was “sacked
Commando awarded the coveted green beret and, by email” and treated “like shit” by the
strewth, it was brutal. No wonder one MoD, although he was suffering
BBC2 poor lad was vomiting with nerves. marital problems. This film reminded
Several shows follow soldiers during us what top quality people we have in
{{{{( their training exercises, but it’s rare to the Royal Marines. If it’s true and they
get a ringside view of the most revered are treated this badly there should be a
Eden: Untamed Planet fighting unit in the world. documentary about that.

BBC2 I usually have little interest in As someone who suffers from
military training, but I was ophidiophobia I shall have nightmares
{{{{( mesmerised by the strength and about the scenes in Eden: Untamed
determination of ordinary lads such as Planet in which a racer snake hung
Do you remember the Kane, a joiner, and the baby-faced upside down from a branch, its mouth
hilarious reports this year Dom, a 16-year-old from London who yawning hideously, as thousands of
that trainee police officers wanted to make something of his life bats flew from a cave. The snake
are too timid to speak to and not drift into trouble. What grabbed one and ate it alive. The poor
members of the public and enormous inner reserves they had, bats had hungry hawk eagles and
ask their parents to phone the chief taking on the “nine-miler”, the hornbills to contend with after. I think
inspector to get their birthdays off “Tarzan” assault course and the I’d have stayed in to wash my hair.
work? Well, I think we can be horrific “30-miler carrying heavy
reassured that in the Royal Marine backpacks” without complaint. There are glorious visual spectacles
commandos there would be zero on offer in this new series about those
tolerance of such wussery. No chance The D-Day hero Clifford Coates, few places on Earth not entirely
of anyone behaving like a big girl’s who at the age of 16 stood on his toes ruined by humans, episode one being
blouse (sorry, big person’s blouse) to meet the 5ft 6in requirement, wore about Borneo, even if Helena Bonham
where the motto is “It’s only pain”. his green beret and said that being a Carter’s chocolatey narration did at
Royal Marine commando was a state times go a bit Jackanory. A spectacular
of mind that says: “You will overcome.” sequence showing proboscis monkeys
You could see exactly how. It was sad leaping across a croc-infested river
to see at the end that he had died possibly had a slight continuity issue
since the programme was made. as one monkey appeared to have
emerged from the water to sit in a tree
Even sadder was the tribute to bone dry. But that’s a tiny point about
another interviewee, Major General a quality series that promises six hours
Matthew Holmes, the former head of of luscious natural-world escapism.
the Royal Marines, who appeared

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Viewing Guide emotional response to diagnosis of post- on “another scale” to Britain’s Top their best) and the The Games
Ben Dowell what he has seen. traumatic stress other war zone horrors Takeaways chance for Yorkshire
What he calls a “long disorder when he went she has witnessed. to take on Scotland ITV, 9pm
Fergal Keane: immersion in the (in his words) “barking Keane proves to be an BBC2, 8pm (alongside
Living with PTSD suffering of others” is mad” and called time excellent listener as Leicestershire, Cardiff Celebrity sporting
not everyone’s idea of on his war zone well as an honest It’s a new foodie talent and Cheltenham, of contests are almost as
BBC2, 9pm how journalism should reporting. Here, he chronicler of his life. He contest that pits the course) for tonight’s old as television itself,
be done, but it’s also charts his troubled admits to being drawn best British takeaways crown. It’s an engaging and ITV is having
It’s hard to hard to imagine how experiences and speaks to conflicts partly against each other, format with some another stab at the
Top think of a else to approach the to a survivor and the because he wanted to starting with the interesting insights into concept with this very
pick war zone of subject, whether in man who treated him, change the world and chippy. The occasion the craft of making serious-looking
Belfast, Baghdad or as well as his BBC witness history, but allows the presenter good fast food, yet competition involving
modern Rwanda and the 1994 producer Rizu Hamid also because he wanted Sara Cox to run the slightly compromised 12 stars whose fitness
times where the BBC genocide. In 2020 he who remembers scenes to be “seen” and to gamut of punning by a complicated levels will probably put
journalist Fergal Keane went public with his in that country being “win awards”. (Who will “batter” judging system. many of us couch
hasn’t featured, quite who? They will “fry” potatoes off our
often describing his

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7PM 7.00 The One Show Alex Jones and 7.00 Rick Stein’s Secret France The chef 7.00 Channel 4 News 7.00 Police Interceptors Documentary
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makes a decision which shapes from reporting on conflicts, as well as reports from trackside as 12 famous 10.00 Married to a Psychopath The covert where a woman accuses her son of
everyone’s future, and Nina confesses a look at the latest scientific thinking faces take on sporting challenges. investigation into Malcolm Webster starting a house fire and stealing
her past misdeeds and her fears for behind treatment. See Viewing Guide The opening night sees the women go in light of evidence that he attempted £4,000 from her wardrobe (6/8)
the future to Melanie. Meanwhile, head-to-head in a hurdles race while to kill his second wife in similar
Rose allows herself to express her 10.00 Live at the Apollo Ed Byrne hosts, the men do battle in the hammer and circumstances to his first wife’s death 10.00 Casualty: Every Second Counts
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12.25am Celebrity Catchpoint Paddy McGuinness MasterChef. The finalists make a celebratory dinner Point. Ben Shephard hosts the arcade-themed quiz in
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Judi Love and Charlene White to win a cash prize for chutes in the hope of winning a £10,000 jackpot (r) (SL)
charity. But they will have to think fast as they answer
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takeaway suppers. Not The Spy Who and spying before he Mother Teresa: God, but also had fierce Film One of Our
all the participants are Died Twice was found alive in For the Love detractors. The latter Aircraft Is Missing
household names, but Australia. The saga is of God? include the journalists
you’ll probably Channel 4, 9pm being made into a Christopher Hitchens Talking Pictures TV, 6pm
recognise the Strictly three-part ITV series Sky Documentaries/Now, and Tariq Ali, who
dancer Kevin Clifton The disappearance of starring the husband 9pm produced a 1994 film A Second World War
and the pop star Max the Labour cabinet and wife Matthew called Hell’s Angel classic from Michael
George puffing through minister John Macfadyen and Keeley Ignore the sensational denouncing her as the Powell and Emeric
an array of running Stonehouse on a Miami Hawes. Before that, this “saint or sinner?”-style charlatan leader of a Pressburger in which
and throwing beach in 1974 is fairly documentary about the trailers that have cult that promoted an RAF bomber crew
challenges across the well known. It was case focuses on claims accompanied this suffering. Their voices crashes behind enemy
week, at the end of assumed he had been that he colluded with three-part series: this is are heard, with the case lines then tries to make
which one male and drowned by his wife, the Czech security a complex profile of the for the defence made by it home. Eric Portman
one female champion and his case prompted service at the height of Calcutta nun who people who knew — or stars, with support from
will be crowned. speculation about a the Cold War. dedicated her life to the were helped — by her. a 21-year-old Peter
mistress, corruption poor and the service of Ustinov. (U, 1942)

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3.00 DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (r) (AD) 4.00 6.50 The Affair. Alison’s idyllic life 12.00 FILM: Baby God (2020) 1.30pm PL Charles: Music Icons 11.30 Video Killed the Premier League: Mumbai Indians v Kolkata O’Hanlon: Tomb Raider 11.40-12.25am
The Flash (r) 5.00 Supergirl (r) with Noah is interrupted (r) (AD) Legends: Tony Adams (r) (AD) 2.00 FILM: Radio Star 12.00 The South Bank Show Knight Rider. Coverage of the T20 match from Have I Got a Bit More News for You (r)
6.00 Stargate SG-1. Daniel is taken hostage (r) 7.55 Game of Thrones. Qhorin gives Missile from the East (U, 2021) (AD) 3.45 Originals 1.00pm Tales of the Unexpected (AD) Dr DY Patil Sports Academy, Mumbai 5.00 Live
7.00 Stargate SG-1. Carter embarks on an away Jon a chance to prove himself (r) (AD) My Icon: Shaun Gayle (r) (AD) 4.00 Discovering: 2.00 The Sixties (AD) 3.00 The Directors (AD) Netball Superleague: Loughborough Lightning v BBC1 Scotland
mission to retrieve the Prometheus (r) 9.00 Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Charlie Chaplin (r) 5.00 The Directors (r) 4.00 Tales of the Unexpected (AD) 5.00 Team Bath. (Centre-pass 5.30). Coverage of As BBC1 except: 8.00pm Landward 8.30-9.00
8.00 Agatha Raisin. The judge of Carsley’s Dynasty. Drama starring John C Reilly, Jason 6.00 Urban Secrets. Exploring Newcastle (r) Discovering: Sally Field. A profile of the actress the match from Sir David Wallace Arena Scotland’s Home of the Year 10.40 The Airport:
jam-making competition dies after being Clarke and Quincy Isaiah (10/10) (r) 7.00 Ghislaine Maxwell: Epstein’s Shadow. The 6.00 Portrait Artist of the Year 2017 7.00 Sky Sports News Back in the Skies (AD) 11.05 Fixing Unfair
poisoned by the winning entry and Agatha 10.05 Devils. Massimo helps Dominic sabotage mysterious life of the former socialite (3/3) (r) 7.00 André Rieu: My Musical Year 7.30 Live EFL: Sheffield Wednesday v Britain: Can Levelling Up Deliver? — Panorama
resolves to discover the identity of the culprit a deal of huge strategic importance to 8.00 The Sixties (6/10) (r) (AD) 8.00 The Art of Architecture. Sunderland (Kick-off 7.45). Coverage of 11.35 Sportscene: SWPL Highlights 12.05am
10.00 Rob & Romesh vs the West End. The NYL’s Chinese investors (3/8) (r) 9.00 Mother Teresa: For the Love of God? The A look at the work of Brian Mackay Lyons the League One play-off semi-final Have I Got a Bit More News for You (r) 12.50
comedians try to crack the world of musicals (r) 11.10 Devils. The battle lines are drawn nun and missionary. See Viewing Guide (1/3) (r) 9.00 Romeo and Juliet (AD) second-leg match at Hillsborough Celebrity Catchpoint (r) 1.20 Weather for
11.00 The Rising. Suspicions grow regarding between NYL and Dominic’s new company, and 10.00 Super Greed: The Fight for Football. The 10.40 Art Traffickers: Treasures Stolen 10.15 Sky Sports News. Round-up of the sports the Week Ahead 1.25-6.00 BBC News
Neve’s ex-boyfriend Joseph (r) Massimo continues to seek the truth (4/8) (r) dramatic story of The Super League (r) (AD) from the Tombs. Last in the series news with live analysis and comment plus
12.00 Never Mind the Buzzcocks. Comedy music 12.15am Big Love. Drama starring Bill Paxton 12.00 Nike’s Big Bet. The Alberto Salazar doping 11.40 Discovering: Dire Straits (AD) extended interviews with the headline makers BBC1 Wales
quiz with Joe Wilkinson, Aitch and Self Esteem (r) 1.20 The King (r) 2.25 Julia. Julia’s decision scandal (r) 1.40am FILM: American Dharma 12.10am Borromini: The Dark Side of Baroque. 11.00 Sky Sports News As BBC1 except: 8.00pm Rookie Cops
(r) (AD) 1.30am Road Wars (r) 2.00 NCIS: to end the show shocks the staff of WGBH and (15, 2018) The career of political strategist and Documentary 2.20 Inside the Mind of Leonardo 12.00 Sky Sports News 12.30am 8.30-9.00 Hot Cakes. Life at a Cardiff bakery
Los Angeles (r) 3.00 Hawaii Five-0 (r) 4.00 Paul. Last in the series 3.30 In Treatment (r) former Donald Trump advisor, Steve Bannon 4.00 Degas: Passion for Perfection 4.40 Live NBA Basketball. Coverage of an NBA (r) 10.40 Fixing Unfair Britain: Can Levelling
S.W.A.T (r) (AD) 5.00 Air Ambulance ER (r) 4.05 Fish Town (r) 5.05 Urban Secrets (r) 3.25 Cured (r) 5.00 The Sixties (r) (AD) National Trust: National Treasures (AD) playoff match 3.00 Sky Sports News Up Deliver? — Panorama 11.10 The Airport:
Back in the Skies (AD) 11.40-12.25am
TalkTV BBC4 Talking Pictures Film4 More4 Have I Got a Bit More News for You (r)

6.00am James Max 6.30 The Julia Hartley- 7.00pm Return to Pembrokeshire Farm. 6.00am FILM: Naked Fury (U, 1959) (b/w) 11.00am Anastasia (U, 1956) Historical 8.55am Kirstie’s House of Craft 9.15 A Place in BBC2 N Ireland
Brewer Breakfast Show 10.00 The Independent The planning authorities investigate 7.15 FILM: Pit of Darkness (PG, 1961) 8.50 drama starring Ingrid Bergman and Yul Brynner the Sun 11.05 Find It, Fix It, Flog It 1.05pm As BBC2 except: 10.00pm-10.30
Republic of Mike Graham. The host takes a objections to Griff Rhys Jones’s plans (3/5) FILM: The Quiet Woman (PG, 1951) (b/w) 1.10pm Last Train from Gun Hill (12, Heir Hunters 2.10 Four in a Bed 4.50 Find It, Fix Croí na Ceiste le Caoimhe. New series
look at the morning newspapers 1.00pm 7.30 Winter Walks. Adrian Chiles enjoys 10.20 FILM: Impact (U, 1963) Crime thriller 1959) Western starring Kirk Douglas 3.05 It, Flog It 5.55 Escape to the Château: DIY
Ian Collins. Hard-hitting monologues, a seaside stroll around Scarborough starring Conrad Phillips (b/w) 11.35 FILM: Timberjack (U, 1954) Western drama starring 6.55 The Block: Big Renovation Challenge. ITV Wales
stimulating debates and time for your calls 8.00 Earth from Space. Cameras in space tell Holy Matrimony (U, 1943) Comedy starring Sterling Hayden 4.55 Hell Is for Heroes (12, New series. Australian renovation challenge As ITV except: 11.15pm-11.45 Sharp End
4.00 Jeremy Kyle. Political panel debates, all stories of life on the planet from a new Gracie Fields (b/w) 1.25pm Breaking the Codes 1962) Second World War adventure starring 8.25 Château DIY. While renovating a new bridal
the latest from Parliament, and exclusive perspective, following an elephant family 2.00 Rooms 3.00 FILM: Cattle Empire (U, Steve McQueen and James Coburn (b/w) bedroom, Julia battles some expensive STV
interviews with big-name guests that is struggling through a drought, 1958) Western starring Joel McCrea and Gloria 6.40 Sahara (12, 2005) An explorer searches surprises. Anna and Edward get creative with As ITV except: 11.00pm STV News 11.05
7.00 The News Desk with Tom Newton Dunn. 9.00 Brian Cox’s Adventures in Space and Time. Talbott 4.45 FILM: From Ship to Shelf for a treasure-laden American Civil War the candles left over from weddings (AD) Scotland Tonight 11.35 Happy Birthday Bill.
The host tackles the biggest stories of the day Exploring the enigma of time, a phenomenon Documentary from the 1970s about the tea battleship. Adventure starring Matthew 9.00 The Great British Dig: History in Your Back Documentary (r) 12.30am-3.00 Teleshopping
with a packed hour of news, expert analysis, that is taken for granted but which, as far as industry 5.00 The Footage Detectives McConaughey and Penélope Cruz (AD) Garden. The team solves a medieval mystery 3.50-5.05 Unwind with STV
debate and exclusives from across the UK physicists are concerned, is one of the universe’s 6.00 FILM: One of Our Aircraft Is Missing 9.00 Skyscraper (12, 2018) A security expert in Coventry, as they search for a monastic
8.00 Piers Morgan Uncensored. The host biggest mysteries. Last in the series (U, 1942) Second World War drama starring must infiltrate a burning skyscraper when his grange known as Biggin Hall (AD) BBC Scotland
presents his unmissable verdict on the day’s 10.00 The Sky at Night. Exploring the universe Eric Portman (b/w). See Viewing Guide family is trapped inside by criminals. Action 10.00 Inside Rolls-Royce. Behind the scenes at 2.00pm Sign Zone: Fish Town (r) 2.30 Sign
global events with debate and interviews 10.30 Missions. The emotional toll on Jeanne 8.00 Gideon’s Way thriller starring Dwayne Johnson (AD) the renowned car manufacturer’s Goodwood Zone: Inside Central Station (r) 3.30-4.00 Sign
9.00 The Talk. Join Jeremy Kyle and a panel makes her dangerously unstable (8/10) 9.00 FILM: Man Hunt (PG, 1941) Second 11.05 Slumdog Millionaire (15, 2008) factory, as the team builds the luxurious Zone: Beechgrove (r) 7.00 Sportscene: SWPL
of opinionated famous faces from the 10.55 Missions. While Jeanne must pick her World War thriller with Walter Pidgeon (b/w) An impoverished Indian teenager accused of Celestial Phantom, which comes complete Highlights 7.30 Fish Town (r) 8.00 Scottish
worlds of politics, showbiz, business and path, Peter wavers about helping her (9/10) 11.00 FILM: Undercover (12, 1943) Second cheating on a quiz show tells the police his with diamond-studded interior (AD) Vets Down Under (r) (AD) 8.30 Great Escapes
current affairs to debate hot topics 11.20 Missions. Doubts about helping Jeanne World War drama starring John Clements (b/w) eventful life story. Drama with Dev Patel (AD) 11.05 24 Hours in A&E. A crash victim of a with Colin and Justin (r) (AD) 8.55 Beechgrove
10.00 Daisy McAndrew. The host is joined by arise during the race to a rendezvous (10/10) 12.45am FILM: Age of Innocence (12, 1.25am-3.20 The Keeping Room (15, 2014) charity bike ride is airlifted to St George’s (AD) Repotted 9.00 The Nine 10.00 River City
leading journalists and commentators to discuss 11.45 Horizon: Volcanoes of the Solar System. 1977) Second World War drama starring Three women living on an isolated farm during 12.10am When Cruises Go Wrong (AD) 1.15 (AD) 10.30 Two Doors Down (r) (AD)
the day’s big stories and look ahead Examining volcanos on Earth and those David Warner 2.40 FILM: Mother Wore the American Civil War must defend their home The Great British Dig: History in Your Back 11.00 Raiders of the Lost Archive (r)
11.00 Piers Morgan Uncensored (r) elsewhere in the solar system Tights (U, 1947) 4.50 FILM: The Body from renegade soldiers. Western starring Garden (AD) 2.15 8 Out of 10 Cats Does 11.30-12.00 Best of Chewin’ the Fat (r)
12.00 Petrie Hosken 4.00am The Talk 12.45am-3.20 The Terror Vanished (PG, 1939) (b/w) 5.50 Look at Life Brit Marling and Hailee Steinfeld Countdown 3.20-3.45 Food Unwrapped (AD)
BBC Alba
ITV2 ITV3 ITV4 Drama Yesterday 6.00am Alba Today 5.00pm Treubh an
Tuathanais (r) 5.15 Su Pic (r) 5.25 ’S E Iasg a
6.00am Totally Bonkers Guinness World 6.00am Classic Coronation Street (AD) 7.00 6.00am Great Racehorses 6.20 The Saint (SL) 6.00am Teleshopping 7.00 Ever Decreasing 6.00am Impossible Engineering (AD) 8.00 The Th’Annam (r) 5.30 Beathaichean a’ Bocadaich
Records 6.30 Dress to Impress (SL) 7.30 The Classic Emmerdale 8.05 On the Buses 9.10 The 7.10 Robin of Sherwood 8.05 The Avengers (SL) Circles 7.45 Bergerac 8.40 The Bill 9.40 Classic World at War 9.00 Nazi Hunters 10.00 5.35 Meaban and Moo (r) 5.40 Pompon Am
Ellen DeGeneres Show 8.25 You’ve Been Darling Buds of May (AD) 11.35 Heartbeat (AD) 9.15 The Professionals (AD) 10.20 Minder (AD) Holby City 11.00 Casualty (AD) 12.00 The Bill Abandoned Engineering (AD) 12.00 The Mathan Beag 5.45 Piseag & Cuilean (r) 5.50
Framed! Goes Savage! 9.20 Hart of Dixie 10.15 1.45pm Classic Emmerdale 2.50 Classic 11.30 The Saint 12.35pm Giant Lobster 1.00pm Classic EastEnders 2.20 Bergerac 3.20 Architecture the Railways Built (AD) 1.00pm Stòiridh (r) 6.00 Na Moomins (r) 6.20
One Tree Hill 11.10 The O.C 12.00 Secret Crush Coronation Street (AD) 3.50 Agatha Christie’s Hunters 1.35 Robin of Sherwood 2.40 The Lovejoy 4.20 Pie in the Sky 5.20 Ever Great British Railway Journeys 2.00 Abandoned Geamaichean Gorach (r) 6.25 Port Pàipeir (r)
1.05pm Dress to Impress 2.05 The Ellen Marple (AD) 5.55 Heartbeat (AD) Avengers 3.50 The Professionals (AD) 4.55 Decreasing Circles. Comedy Engineering (AD) 4.00 The World at War 5.00 6.35 Saidheans Sporsail (r) 7.00 Fuine (r)
DeGeneres Show. With Jenna Dewan 3.00 Hart 6.55 Heartbeat. Greengrass robs a grave in the Minde. Arthur ventures into cuisine (AD) 6.00 Butterflies. The boys try to earn extra cash Nazi Hunters. The Jewish group the Avengers 7.30 SpeakGaelic 8.00 An Là 8.30 Slighe
of Dixie 4.00 One Tree Hill 5.00 The O.C churchyard to retrieve a stuffed sheep that has 6.00 Giant Lobster Hunters 6.40 Last of the Summer Wine. The arrival 6.00 Antiques Roadshow. From Buckfast Abbey Chladach Fiobha (r) 9.00 Trusadh: Dannsa
6.00 Celebrity Catchphrase (AD) been buried instead of its former owner (AD) 7.00 The Chase Celebrity Special. With Adam of Clegg’s cousin threatens the gang’s gentle 7.00 Great Continental Railway Journeys. Gaidhealach — An t-Slighe gu Chomhaill (r)
7.00 Superstore (AD) 8.00 Vera. The detective investigates the Garcia, Carol Decker, Holly Walsh and Rylan walks, so they resolve to get rid of him Michael Portillo takes a trip in a 10.00 Julie Fowlis: Ceol Aig Baile (r) 10.30
7.30 Superstore (AD) murder of a social worker and an infamous past Clark-Neal. Presented by Bradley Walsh 7.20 Last of the Summer Wine. Truly tries state-of-the-art Maserati sports car Talamh gu Truinnsear (r) 11.30 Mach à Seo! (r)
8.00 Bob’s Burgers (AD) case involving the death of a child appears to 8.00 King of the Roads. The Cookstown 100, to rescue Howard from his bedroom 8.00 Abandoned Engineering. A crumbling dam 12.00-6.00am Alba Today
8.30 Bob’s Burgers (AD) hold the key to solving the mystery (2/4) (AD) Northern Ireland’s oldest road racing venue 8.00 Inspector Alleyn Mysteries. Pilot episode. hidden in the Welsh valleys (8/12) (AD)
9.00 Family Guy (AD) 10.00 DCI Banks. Part one of two. The detective 9.00 FILM: Jaws 2 (PG, 1978) A man-eating A artist’s model is murdered 9.00 Hornby: A Model World. The Hornby team S4C
9.30 American Dad! (AD) and sidekick Annie Cabbot investigate the shark menaces teenagers adrift off a seaside 10.05 New Tricks. Part two of two. As the locals races to complete a model of the giant P2, 6.00am Cyw: Peppa (r) 6.05 Guto Gwningen
10.00 Family Guy (AD) deaths of two people on a canal boat that was resort, while the police chief tries to alert the reel from the murder of shipping agent Gordon The Prince of Wales locomotive (9/10) (AD) (r) 6.20 Caru Canu a Stori (r) 6.30 Octonots (r)
10.30 Family Guy (AD) destroyed in a fire. Crime drama starring community. Thriller sequel starring Roy Fletcher, Sandra continues to suspect Harry 10.00 Bangers and Cash. Derek rubs shoulders 6.45 Dathlu ’Da Dona (r) 7.00 Odo 7.10 Blero
11.00 Family Guy (AD) Stephen Tompkinson (1/6) (AD) Scheider, Lorraine Gary and Joseph Mascolo (AD) Truman. Starring Amanda Redman (2/10) (AD) with pop music royalty when he picks yn Mynd i Ocido (r) 7.20 Anifeiliaid Bach y Byd
11.30 American Dad! (AD) 11.00 DCI Banks. Part two of two. The 11.25 South of the River. The talented pool of 11.15 Silent Witness. When a wealthy banker up a Morgan sports car (AD) (r) 7.30 Patrôl Pawennau (r) 7.45 Cacamwnci
11.55 Bob’s Burgers (AD) detective realises he is now on the trail of a footballers emerging from south London (1/3) dies in suspicious circumstances, Harry and Nikki 11.00 Abandoned Engineering. A mysterious (r) 8.00 Bing (r) 8.10 Cymylaubychain (r) 8.20
12.25am Bob’s Burgers (AD) 12.55 Superstore serial killer, but a new discovery casts doubt 12.30am Motorsport UK. Racing from end up on opposing sides after their post- structure on the 38th parallel (8/11) (AD) Meic y Marchog (r) 8.35 Jen a Jim a’r Cywiadur
(AD) 1.55 The Stand Up Sketch Show 2.25 on the alibis of all his suspects (2/6) (AD) Donington Park 1.30 Auto Mundial 1.55 mortem results reach different conclusions (AD) 12.00 Great Continental Railway Journeys. (r) 8.50 Ben a Mali a’u Byd Bach O Hud (r)
Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records (SL) 12.05am Inspector Morse (AD) 2.15 Motorsport Mundial 2.20 The Protectors 1.25am Dalziel & Pascoe. A mock killing on a TV A trip in a Maserati sports car 1.00am 9.00 Sblij a Sbloj (r) 9.10 Y Brodyr Coala (r)
2.50 Unwind with ITV 3.00 Teleshopping Unwind with ITV 2.30 Teleshopping 2.50 Unwind with ITV 3.00 Teleshopping show becomes a reality (AD) 4.00 Teleshopping Impossible Engineering (AD) 3.00 Teleshopping 9.20 Do Re Mi Dona (r) 9.35 Sion y Chef (r)
9.45 Byd Tad-Cu (r) 10.00 Peppa (r) 10.05
Guto Gwningen (r) 10.20 Caru Canu a Stori (r)
10.30 Octonots (r) 10.45 Dathlu ’Da Dona (r)
11.00 Odo (r) 11.10 Blero yn Mynd i Ocido (r)
11.20 Anifeiliaid Bach y Byd (r) 11.30 Patrôl
Pawennau (r) 11.45 Cacamwnci (r) 12.00
News; Weather 12.05pm Cymry ar Gynfas (r)
12.30 Heno (r) 1.00 Codi Pac (r) 1.30 Sgwrs
Dan y Lloer (r) 2.00 News; Weather 2.05
Prynhawn Da 3.00 News; Weather 3.05 Ffit
Cymru (r) 4.00 Awr Fawr: Odo (r) 4.10 Caru
Canu a Stori (r) 4.20 Byd Tad-Cu (r) 4.30 Sion
y Chef (r) 4.45 Cacamwnci (r) 5.00 Stwnsh:
Dreigiau — Marchogion Berc (r) 5.20 Angelo
am Byth (r) 5.30 Bwystfil (r) 5.40 Sgorio 5.55
Ffeil 6.00 Adre (r) 6.30 Rownd a Rownd (r)
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9.00 Ffermio 9.30 Welsh Whisperer: Ni’n
Teithio Nawr (r) (AD) 10.00 Teulu’r Castell (r)
11.00-11.35 Arfordir Cymru (r) (AD)

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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 Crossword No 8899 Brain Trainer Cell Blocks No 4466

12 34 56 7 ANSWER ANSWER ANSWER © PUZZLER MEDIA Divide the grid
8 9 12 into square or
EASY 15 2/3 SQUARE – 14 50% +8 ÷ 3 + 16 2/3 + 9 rectangular
10 11 OF IT blocks, each
13 OF IT IT OF IT containing one
digit only. Every
MEDIUM 123 + 24 + 2/3 x3 + 75 70% – 112 + 1/5 + 76 1/2 block must
OF IT OF IT OF IT OF IT contain the
number of cells
indicated by the
digit inside it.

HARDER 283 + 876 x6 – 419 80% – 884 +1/8 + 775 +1/2 – 859
OF IT
14 15 OF IT OF IT

17 18 16 Polygon Set Square No 3173
21 19 Killer Gentle No 8292
20 Killer Tricky No 8293 From these letters, make words of Enter each of
22 three or more letters, always including the numbers
the central letter. Answers must be in from 1 to 9 in
23 24 the Concise Oxford Dictionary, excluding the grid, so that
capitalised words, plurals, conjugated the six sums
Across 19 Bird food container (6) verbs (past tense etc), adverbs ending © PUZZLER MEDIA work. We’ve
1 Blocks; hinders (9) 21 Prized fungus (7) in LY, comparatives and superlatives. placed two
6 Pouch-like structure (3) 22 Turned to ice (5) How you rate 16 words, average; numbers to get
8 Assert, maintain (5) 23 Sheltered side (3) 22, good; 26, very good; 31, excellent you started.
9 Poisonous plant (7) 24 Infamous (9) Each sum
Saturday’s answers should be
10 Season (6) Down calculated left
12 Classical element (5) 1 At one time (4) belie, bile, bine, blin, bliss, elemi, emesis, to right or top
13 Hue (6) 2 Surgical blade (7) ensile, isle, lenis, lien, limb, lime, limen, to bottom.
14 Impurity remover (6) 3 Sugar cane spirit (3) limn, line, linen, linn, mien, mile, miles,
17 Government report (5) 4 Rough, rugged (6) mine, miss, nemesis, nibs, nimble, Please note, BODMAS does not apply
5 Children's story character nimbleness, nine, seine, seise, semi,
(4,5) senile, sensei, sensible, siemens, sine,
6 Penniless (5) slim, slime, smile, snib
7 More distinct (7)
11 Anti-inflammatory drug (9) Solutions

Solution to Crossword 8898 13 Main city (7) Quick Cryptic 2129 Codeword 4582 Kakuro 3169
15 Wavering note (7) Train Tracks 1625
V I ABSK 16 Result of an action (6) C A T A COMB L E N T
18 Bunch of feathers (5) AHOODX I
K I NDERGART EN 20 Optical glass (4) S T ERN SM I T T EN
22 In favour of (3)
KCEMTOU HMF A S I K

N I AGARA TOP I C REM I N I SCENCE
S DCOCR
I RLD I K PRAYER SUBT LE

COAX HANN I BA L ESNRR R

KGA GEE COURTMART I A L

KEEPSAKE LEAD TN I F ERO
RAD I ANT OCEAN
N CNT TO UE L EUNC

A N G L E E Y E B R OW MART DRESSAGE

C A N A XON

KOMODODR AGON Chess — Winning Move Suko 3484 Square Routes
164
SESSST 1 Qb4+! diverts the black rook
from the back rank . After 1 ... E AT HO
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Easy 31; Medium 311; Harder 7,634

Cell Blocks 4465 Set Square 3172 KenKen 5574 Word watch

Tournament duplicate bridge Dealer: South, Vulnerability: Neither Spelaean (c) Of or found
(whether Teams or Pairs) is an in caves (Collins)
odd pursuit in that you don’t know Teams ♠72 Avadavat (a) A south
how you’re doing at the time. You ♥AJ92 Asian relative of the
can’t say the same at golf, tennis, ♦K J 2 weaver bird (Chambers)
football, cricket or chess (or almost ♣A Q J 4 Forcené (a) Rearing on
any other competitive pursuit). ♠J5 ♠ Q1083 hind legs (heraldry) (OED)
When you take out your three iron ♥ 10 6 5 N ♥83
to try to clear the lake on the 18th, ♦Q 10 9 4 ♦A 8 7 3
210 yards from the green, you do ♣9 8 7 5 WE ♣10 6 3
so in the knowledge that you’re S 4
one down and your opponent is
nicely on the fairway. ♠AK96
♥KQ74
In the Bermuda Bowl quarter- ♦6 5 Futoshiki 4210 Tredoku 1732 Sudoku 13,192
final, Kieran Dyke of the England
Open team knew his team were ♣K 2
trailing Switzerland by 18 imps
with 16 boards to play. Partner S(Dyke) W N(Byrne) E
Michael Byrne and he had not
done especially well in the first 14 1♠ Pass 2♣ Pass
boards. Naturally, he had no idea 2♥ Pass 3♥(1) Pass
how his teammates were doing at 3♠ (2) Pass 4♣(2) Pass
the other table. 4♠ (2) Pass Pass
5♠ (3) Pass 4NT(3) End
And now we come to the penul-
timate board. West led the ten of 6♥
diamonds v Dyke’s 6♥. The “nor-
mal” play from dummy is the jack (1) Forcing (North’s 2♣ was forcing to game).
— on the grounds that West prob-
ably won’t underlead the ace but (2) Control bids. Quintagram Killer 8291
may underlead the queen. 1 Final
However, it was clear from the bid- (3) Roman Key Card Blackwood, 5♠ show- 2 Colon
ding that diamonds were the weak- ing two of “five aces” (incl ♥K) with ♥Q. 3 Quaver
ness and it was certainly possible 4 Precious
that the world-class Swiss West Contract: 6♥, Opening Lead: ♦10 5 Seminary
would find the ace-underlead.
successful guess of the king winning Lexica 6339
Dyke called for dummy’s king. the match were greater than the
When East won the ace and chances of a successful guess of the D E CO Y
returned a low diamond to West’s jack winning the match: even
queen, Dyke will have known though the jack would be the cor- RH
England were not going to win the rect guess more often.
Bermuda Bowl (yet again — Great AWE D
Britain’s only success came in 1955). Dyke reasoned that England
were probably losing the match MA L
I really like Dyke’s play — and I without a swing. Yes, his young
admire his courage to do it. The key teammates Mike Bell and Ben ACT I VE
is that he gauged the chances of a Norton could be having a fabulous
set at the other table (and they had G Quiz
a brilliant tournament). Probably,
As with standard Sudoku, fill the grid so that every column, Lexica 6340 1 Anne Robinson 2 Knee 3 Marzipan. They represent
though, England were behind. every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9. Each set the disciples minus Judas 4 Sir John Falstaff
Yes, they guessed right at the of cells joined by dotted lines must add up to the target number USUA L 5 Tropic of Capricorn 6 Crime and Punishment 7 Derby
in its top-left corner. Within each set of cells joined by dotted 8 Alice Springs 9 William Godwin 10 The Delgados
other table (♦10, ♦J, ♦A, ♦5). If you lines, a digit cannot be repeated. PO 11 Koh-i-Noor Hardtmuth 12 A person whose words and
swap the ace and queen of dia- actions are determined wholly or in part by artificial
monds, England’s winning guess Cluelines Stuck on Sudoku, Killer or KenKen? Call 0901 293 ROL L intelligence (AI) 13 Inside Edge 14 Hossein Vafaei
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Word watch Sudoku Easy No 13,193 Difficult No 13,194 Fiendish No 13,195

David Parfitt © PUZZLER MEDIA

Spelaean
a Enchanting, magical
b A fibrous material
produced by whales
c Of or found in caves
Avadavat
a A relative of the
weaver bird
b A statement sworn
under oath
c A Scandinavian
alcoholic spirit
Forcené
a Rearing on hind legs
b Disqualification in
fencing
c (In music) played with
power

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 3484

1 Who hosted the quiz 15 Territory was known as record label Chemikal Place the numbers 1 to 9 in the spaces so
show The Weakest Link Stuart until 1933? Underground? that the number in each circle is equal to
from 2000 to 2012? her half-sister with an the sum of the four surrounding spaces,
2 Genuflection is the axe in which 9 The father of Mary 11 Which Czech and each colour total is correct
act of bending which Dostoevsky novel? Shelley, which company claims its 1500
part of the body to philosopher wrote yellow pencil became For interactive puzzles visit
the ground? 7 In the 1745 Jacobite the 1793 book An “the most famous pencil thetimes.co.uk
3 Traditionally, simnel rising, Bonnie Prince Enquiry Concerning in the world”?
cake is decorated with 11 Charlie advanced as far Political Justice?
balls of which confection? south as which 12 What type of person
4 The title of Ralph Midlands city? 10 Which Scottish is an “echoborg”?
Vaughan Williams’s band founded the
opera Sir John in Love 8 Which town in 13 Which Indian TV
refers to which Australia’s Northern drama centres on the
Shakespeare character? Mumbai Mavericks, a
5 Which latitude T20 cricket team in the
corresponds to the Powerplay League?
southernmost
declination of the 14 Which Iranian winner
sun’s ecliptic to the of the 2022 Snooker
celestial equator? Shoot Out is nicknamed
6 Raskolnikov kills an the “Prince of Persia”?
elderly pawnbroker and
15 Which former
Conservative MP is
pictured?

Answers on page 15

The Times Quick Cryptic No 2130 by Corelli

123456 Across 2 Spy almost fell from the sky,
78 getting injured (8)
7 Jewel I perhaps must change
9 10 (8) 3 Generous family with daughter
(4)
11 12 13 14 8 Conservative yarn, not the first
(4) 4 Tolerate hairstyle — one time!
15 16 (6)
9 Award — ridicule also (6)
17 18 19 20 5 Look hard for missing English
10 A crime to send back celebrity (4)
racehorse (6)
6 Faithful servant’s last regret (4)
11 Twelve? I had nine initially in
force (8) 12 That woman turned up in
picture house (3)
13 Some fancy a new colour (4)
13 Public officials love getting
15 Eccentric person, one bearing into awkward situations (8)
greetings? (4)
14 Rubs lady in need of massage,
16 Unpoetic stuff about border ridiculously (8)
plant (8)
16 Flaps from article appearing in
17 Longed, desperately, to be illustrations (6)
prosperous (6)
18 Instrument for blokes, oddly
20 Preserve a track for singer in unused (4)
cage? (6)
19 Aristocrat from this country
21 Part of egg may go all black, cutting half of debt (4)
finally (4)
20 Jersey, possibly, with large
22 Craven cold war moves by hood (4)
Yankee (8)

21 22 Down
1 Herb, in charge of a building in
Friday’s solution on page 15*
Rome (8)