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Review
17.02.08
Two’s
company
Kathryn Williams
and Neill MacColl
on family and folk
Mulholland
drive
The artist who is
taking over Glasgow
Starman
Could Andrew Crumey’s
Sputnik Caledonia be a
novel to rival Lanark?
PLUS
Arts, Books, Film,
Music, Games,
Cinema Listings,
Television & Radio
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CONTENTS
THE PROMPT
AIDAN SMITH
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FILM
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Knocked Up star Katherine
Heigl talks to Siobhan Synnot
about why she refuses to keep
her mouth shut in Hollywood
And Stallone’s return as Rambo
leaves our film critic speechless,
plus reviews of Jumper and My
Blueberry Nights
Actions speak louder...
Straight talking
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TV
“Music is the only
ARTS
Dancing to a new tune
thing that helps to
X Factor dance company’s
Alan Greig explains why
reconnect the neural
new work Other Voices,
pathways to the brain” their
Other Rooms breaks the mould
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BOOKS
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Melody Gardot, Page 17
MUSIC
Musical map
Nobody panic!
In tune, and on song
Aidan Smith on why a
new documentary about
Scottish music has missed
several tricks
Plagues, terror and food — Bill
Jamieson reviews a book which
investigates the main areas of
panic in our everyday lives
Chitra Ramaswamy meets
Kathryn Williams and Neill
MacColl as they prepare to
release their album of duets
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OUR WRITERS’ WEEK
Each week we will be letting you in on what has
been happening in the Review office. From album
previews to advance film screenings, festival
launches and general cultural life, here’s what
some of us have been up to this week.
STUART KELLY
LITERARY EDITOR
It seems like a match made in
heaven: one of my favourite
novels of last year was Michael
Chabon’s The Yiddish
Policeman’s Union (a parallel
universe noir thriller where Alaska was the Jewish
homeland) – and it emerges the Coen Brothers are
to adapt and direct the film version. Hopefully it
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might re-ignite interest in the long-stalled version
of Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier
And Clay.
FIONA LEITH
ARTS EDITOR
My Oscar research project of a
week started off well, with
Juno and No Country For Old
Men bagged by Monday, but
thanks to Vue computer
gremlins, I turned up on Tuesday for a preview of
There Will Be Blood which didn’t exist. Bah! Went
home and consoled myself by listening to Karine
Polwart’s new album, This Earthly Spell, which is
impressively richer, sexier and angrier than
anything she’s done to date. Stand out track: Rivers
Run. Album out March 10.
CHITRA RAMASWAMY
ARTS WRITER
Discovered Madam this week
when I was sent her upcoming
debut album, In Case Of
Emergency, out in March. I see
she has already been
compared to Kylie, Alison Goldfrapp, Mark
Lanegan, PJ Harvey and Nick Cave. Hmmm, wait a
minute, what exactly does that mean? My advice is
to just get on MySpace and check her out. ‘Call
America’ is all twisted Americana, and Portisheadlike vocals. Oops, I’ve just done it myself.
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E’RE rubbish at rugby and our
footballers no longer qualify for
World Cups, so you can understand
the SNP’s enthusiasm for Scotland to
be represented at international tournaments.
But the Eurovision Song Contest?…
Our men in Brussels are excited about
finding a loophole in the rules, which means
that, after all those years of competing as
Britain, we can enter in our own right. “Having
looked into it, I know the door is open for us,”
says Nationalist Euro MP Alyn Smith. And
they’re no less excited over at Holyrood. “There
is a huge amount of talent in Scotland and we
would be happy for it to be showcased,” asserts
Culture Minister Linda Fabiani.
The door is open. We don’t have to be boombang-a-banging on it anymore. But what kind
of door are we talking about? The SNP,
although they don’t quote Aldous Huxley
directly, presumably believe it to be a door of
perception. Millions of Eurovision viewers
would perceive Scotland as standing proud
next to all those other pocket-sized nations in
the broken-down Balkans and that’s an
unmissable marketing opportunity. Fair
enough, but we have to be sure we want to
open that door. For these days the door to the
contest is a closet door.
Eurovision is camp nonsense. Nothing
wrong with camp nonsense, of course, but the
last time I looked, that’s all it is. I suspect the
SNP are not fully aware of just how many
pairs of leather shorts feature these days. They
probably still think it’s a songwriting
competition.
I used to think that, too, but in my defence I
was nine years old. Too young to stay up and
cheer for Sandi Shaw, I couldn’t sleep for the
excitement of not knowing that she’d won –
for Britain, and for the continuance of our fine
traditions of Lennon and McCartney, Flanders
and Swann and Pinky and Perky.
I think it was when Cliff Richard did his
strange, rubber-kneed dance during ‘Power To
All Our Friends’ that I realised Eurovision was
bilge, and that our best choonsmiths weren’t
deigning to participate. By then, I was well on
the way to becoming a musical snob.
The wilderness years for Eurovision were
followed by the irony years, when Terry
Wogan exploited its comic potential. The
irony years then gave way to the camp years,
and they’re still with us. I salute the chaps in
leather shorts. If it wasn’t for them, the
contest would have died.
So I hope the SNP know what they’re
getting us into. Right now, I can’t get an image
of Alex Salmond in leather shorts out of my
head. It’s even more camp than the
image of Jack McConnell in a
pinstriped, too-short kilt and I’m
sure Salmond will hate the
comparison.
To quote Huxley again, he’s
seeking a brave new world for
Scotland. But maybe as
regards Eurovision he
should heed the words of
that other great
intellectual, Larry
Grayson – “Shut that
door!” ❖
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ATHERINE Heigl may be hot property right
now, but she has never been one to keep her
mouth shut, marking her out as a rare woman
in her acting community. “People who know
me well know that I have an opinion about
pretty much everything,” Heigl agrees. Tall with thick,
blonde hair, soft features and an easy smile, in the past 12
months, the TV star turned big-screen Hollywood actress has made a perfect transition between media, while
continuing her role as intern Izzie on hospital drama
Grey’s Anatomy and fitting in marriage during a rare
break in filming.
Hollywood carries its own set of taxes; Oscar dress
scrutiny and high-profile divorces are just two of them.
Yet Heigl seems all too willing to pay for another moviestar rite of passage: controversy.
For instance, she’s not afraid to call her co-stars to
account for bad behaviour. Last year, her Grey’s Anatomy
colleague Isaiah Washington allegedly used an offensive
word (“faggot”) to refer to T R Knight, who plays George
on the show. Washington denied uttering the slur, then
while denying it again to reporters backstage at the
Golden Globes last year, he used the word again.
An exasperated Heigl declared that Washington
“needs to just not speak in public, period”, and told
Entertainment Weekly he was “thoughtless and boneheaded”. In an otherwise tight-lipped community, Heigl
stands out because she speaks as she finds. “Oh I didn’t
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have a courageous moment,” she says dismissively. “I
had a couple of glasses of champagne.”
But it hasn’t put Heigl off speaking her mind, part of a
conscious decision she made some years ago. So, when
she won her acting award at the Emmys and her name
was mispronounced, she corrected the announcer. More
recently she has said she doesn’t like the relationship her
Grey’s Anatomy character is having with a married man
in this current series, calling it “a ratings ploy”. However,
when her comedy hit Knocked Up was released, it was
hard to find anyone who could express dissatisfaction
without sounding like a Victorian aunt.
After all, the film acknowledges some of the difficulties
of family life in the post-feminist age when Alison,
played by Heigl, becomes inconveniently pregnant by a
jobless, pot-smoking loser called Ben (Seth Rogen). The
difference between men and women, however, seemed
to be that the men explored their choices with good
humour and some imagination, while Alison and her
sister were fretful, obsessed by domesticity and devoid of
one-liners. Usually, these gripes are left to critics, but
while the film was still on release, Heigl admitted that
she’d found it “a little sexist”.
“It paints the women as shrews, as humourless and
uptight, and it paints the men as lovable, goofy, fun-loving
guys. It exaggerated the characters, and I had a hard time
with it. On some days. I’m playing such a bitch; why is she
being such a killjoy? Why is this how you’re portraying
women? Ninety-eight percent of the time it was an amazing experience, but it was hard for me to love the movie.”
Months later, she stands by these remarks but is
anxious that her reservations should not be read as
ingratitude: “I realise I was very lucky to be in that
movie. They took a huge chance on casting me. I was a TV
star and that was it. The way it came out sounded like I
wasn’t somehow grateful,” she squirms. What she finds
salutary is that she is still being asked about her comments, “because they’re just opinions. They weren’t that
interesting, and it wasn’t that outrageous”.
SAY WHAT?
Katherine Heigl isn’t the only American actress who has spoken out
on the machine that is Hollywood, or the treatment of women in
Tinseltown, or how annoying other celebs can be. Here are some of
our favourites…
BARBRA STREISAND
I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose
fixed, my teeth capped, or my name
changed. That is very gratifying to me.
AVA GARDNER
I do everything for a reason. Most of
the time the reason is money.
CAMERON DIAZ
I don’t want to go to work and get into bed
with someone else, not even Tom Cruise. It’s not
like I enjoy it.
CATHERINE ZETA JONES
Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend
otherwise?
COURTNEY COX
I would like to do a part that would stretch me. In America it seems to
me that you just take your clothes off and that helps, but I wouldn’t
want to do that.
CYBILL SHEPHERD
If you’re considered a beauty, it’s hard to be accepted doing anything
but standing around
GLENN CLOSE
Celebrity is death, the worst thing that can happen to an actor.
GWYNETH PALTROW
I don’t get Robbie Williams. I think he
seems rude and he’s always getting his
knickers off.
MARILYN MONROE
A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate
being a thing.
SIGOURNEY WEAVER
The movie business divides women into ice queens and sluts, and
there have been times I wanted to be a slut more than anything.
Grey’s Anatomy star Katherine Heigl doesn’t hold back in
slamming the submissive role of women in movies – or living
up to it in her new wedding rom com, she tells Siobhan Synnot
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top) Dr Isobel Stevens in Grey’s
Anatomy; as the fretful,
pregnant wife of Seth Rogen in
Knocked Up, and donning a sari
as a bridesmaid in 27 Dresses.
Main photograph: Frazer
Harrison/Getty
“It’s kind of opened Pandora’s Box,” she laughs.
“Now I won’t shut up – ask me anything!”
Heigl does have a point. The world does need
more films starring fun-loving, wisecracking women, and she has been busy on two more. Gerard
Butler will be her sparring partner in The Ugly Truth
later this year, but first there is 27 Dresses, an ambivalent frou-frou of a romantic comedy about a
woman who loves weddings, but is always the bridesmaid, never the bride.
27 Dresses certainly dodges the charge of providing
Pronuptia porn for girls of every age, but it still tries to
have its wedding cake and eat it too. The film may
vaguely float the notion that a single woman who reads
Brides magazine in the privacy of her home is sad, but
ultimately, all the wedding paraphernalia – the bridesmaid dresses, the wedding chit-chat, the last-minute
crush on another guy – is what ultimately drives the
story. Heigl brings a spark to her ostensibly mousy character, even with her hair dyed a little darker, to signify
that she’s the plain sister, but Jane’s fatalism is still in
stark contrast to Heigl’s default assertive go-getterism
in life.
Tired of waiting for her boyfriend, singer-songwriter Josh Kelley, to propose, she demanded to
know what his intentions were, picked out the diamond for her ring, and organised their wedding last
December, eschewing her character’s little-girl obsessions over the perfect wedding.
“It actually makes me angry because those women have ruined it for the rest of us,” she asserts.
“Weddings have become such a racket and they can
charge three times as much for everything because
women insist on the dream wedding.”
Heigl’s star is on the rise: her price has risen from the
$300,000 she got for Knocked Up to $6m for 27 Dresses
but any working actor knows that it’s luck, as much as the
talent and connections, that end up paying the bills.
Heigl was nine years old when her aunt sent pictures of
her to a modelling agency who signed her up for catalogue work. Three years later, she made her film debut in
That Night, starring Juliette Lewis. And at 14, she played
Gérard Depardieu’s bratty daughter in My Father The
Hero. She went on to star in Under Siege 2 with Steven
Seagal, after he invited Heigl out to Los Angeles and
booked her a suite at the Beverly Wilshire for over a week.
“He flew me in, put me up at this extravagant hotel where
Julia Roberts’ character stayed in Pretty Woman, and
didn’t even come and meet me,” she says.
Aged 18 she landed a lead role in teen extraterrestrial alien show Roswell, but when that was cancelled, and she started being turned down for
everything from cable weepies to Wedding Crashers, she thought her career had stuttered to a halt.
“I was just about to call it quits,” she admits. Then
she was hired for Grey’s Anatomy, although “I had
never wanted to do a medical drama. I never even
watched ER,” she confesses.
Grey’s Anatomy never pretended to be as deep as,
say, Lost. At its best, it’s a serious guilty pleasure combining death, disease, and fit bodies swaddled in scrubs,
and despite a pay dispute last year, Heigl plans to stick
with the show’s contract, making movies in the three
months of the year when she isn’t holding dummy thermometers.
Despite being painted as a forthright Jane Fonda, she
has no weighty political projects in mind, preferring to
stick to the shallow end of the pool for now. “I’m a
commercial kind of gal so I don’t have any grand aspirations to do my Academy Award-winning movie,” she
laughs. “I mean, I love Kate Winslet, but I know I couldn’t
have her career.” ❖
27 Dresses is on release March 14
www.27dressesthemovie.com
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The BBC has missed a golden opportunity by trying
to cram Scotland’s myriad musical icons and
influences into a mere hour, writes Aidan Smith
N MUSIC, as in comedy, timing is
everything. There was little point in
calling your band Glencoe and standing on the stage of Edinburgh’s old
Empire Theatre, all long hair and legsapart heroic, evoking an image of a country
on the march with pumped-up passion in
its breast... and doing all of this a full nine
years before the closure of Ravenscraig.
Glencoe, as the warm-up for Argent, were
the very first band I saw perform live. They
had a big sound and – though I can’t be sure
on account of being drunk on two pints of
lager and lime – I think they were quite
political. But at that time Scottish audiences didn’t want politics from its indigenous acts. If the charts were any guide, they
wanted Neil Reid, Lena Martell and – soon
to stomp over yonder glen, plaided up to the
hilt – the Bay City Rollers.
No one remembers Glencoe now. You
can’t buy their two early Seventies albums
on Amazon. They don’t rate a mention in
Brian Hogg’s definitive book, The History
Of Scottish Rock And Pop. And a new
BBC Scotland documentary, Caledonia
Dreamin’, can find no room for them.
This is a strange programme. Nothing to
do with the Glencoe omission, but it can’t
seem to work out what it’s trying to be. Then
I
again, maybe that’s deliberate. For this
wouldn’t be an entirely inaccurate description of Scottish music. Are we macho or are
we fey? Are we bedsit-scratchy or are we
over-produced? Do we sing in Scottish accents or warble in American ones? What’s
the link, apart from Scotland itself, between
Lonnie Donegan and Franz Ferdinand?
Does a native sound exist or is that just too
salmon-slippery a concept?
Caledonia Dreamin’ starts off as a profile
of Postcard Records, the independent label
run from a second-floor Glasgow tenement
flat by Alan Horne, Scotland’s Andy Warhol. Then it gets bogged down in politics
with contributions from singers who, railing against Thatcherism, allowed their music to get bogged down in politics.
Fearful of missing anyone out, it mentions as many acts as possible, losing focus.
And it still ends up neglecting some bands:
Fire Engines, Aztec Camera and Big Country, from different sections of the documentary. It tries to be a broad history of our
music. But you can’t do that in an hour. So
why wasn’t this a series? If we self-important hacks can hog screen-time for six weeks
– last year’s Deadline: The Story Of The
Scottish Press – then why not our bands?
Caledonia Dreamin’ is a missed oppor-
tunity and a frustrating one because all the
participants speak well. Justin Currie of Del
Amitri recalls the schoolboy thrill of spotting Orange Juice’s Edwyn Collins from the
top deck of a bus. “It was like seeing Elvis,”
he says. “I wrote ‘I love Edwyn’ on my schoolbag in fourth-year and got called a poof.”
Pre-Edwyn, Scots rockers were ancient.
Maggie Bell looked like your mum, Dan
McCafferty of Nazareth must have been 70
if he was a day and everyone knew that Alex
Harvey was 108 and could remember a
world without Alexander Graham Bell’s
telephone. Postcard billed themselves the
“Sound of Young Scotland” and sparked a
pop goldrush among London talent scouts.
“You just had to wear the right trousers and
you got yourself a record deal,” recalls
Altered Images’ Steve Lironi.
There’s great archive footage of Horne,
then a student, conducting a tour of Postcard’s “HQ” – an imitation-teak wardrobe –
and in sandals and Argyle socks, swinging
an ankle grandiloquently. But apparently he
couldn’t be persuaded to reflect on those
heady days from the perspective of 2008.
Doubtless that’s a Warholian stance, although it’s to the documentary’s detriment.
In strict business terms, Postcard lasted
as long as it takes to choose a sea view and
write “Wish you were here”. Just 13 singles.
Suddenly in Scotland, skinny boys and
ironic playfulness were out and ambition
and ideas in widescreen were in. “We just
realised we were a commercial entity,” says
Justin Currie. And Pat Kane of Hue And Cry
adds: “It [the 1980s] was a time for am-
bitious young men and women to get to the
place they wanted to get. Suits were worn
and grandiosity was embraced.”
This was the decade when schizophrenic
Scotland swapped credibility for popularity. Simple Minds and Deacon Blue sold
more records but interested pre-eminent
pop pundit Paul Morley less and, according
to author Christopher Brookmyre, Wet Wet
Wet suffered a peculiarly Caledonian fate:
“In Scotland there’s an enduring hatred of
people who are too successful.”
All of this is fascinating and deserves a
fuller debate than is afforded here. The
same could be said of the risky business of
mixing pop with politics – not in song but
on the soapbox, and not in accents that on
record, as the documentary points out,
were “more Memphis than Motherwell”.
The Proclaimers, of course, were consistently more Muchty even than Motherwell.
But there isn’t enough room in a one-off
programme, and by the time it reaches
Memphis, or mock-Memphis, you almost
forget that it began at 185 West Princes
Street in Glasgow with Collins hiding behind his floppy fringe and Horne, in the
words of another contributor, “sneering at
everything”.
Alex Kapranos returns us to Postcard
when he recalls his excitement at discovering the band who would go on to influence Franz Ferdinand after finding two
old Orange Juice singles in a market-stall.
“They were quite expensive – a pound each.
But I was like: ‘Why had nobody told me
about this stuff before?’ ”
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More slaughter on the sly
Edwyn Collins on
a nostalgia allergy
Edwyn Collins sheds some
light on the mysterious
non-appearance in Caledonia
Dreamin’ of Postcard
impresario Alan Horne. “He
hates nostalgia,” says Collins.
“As far as I know, he’s living
quietly in Glasgow and no
longer involved in music – but
we’ve fallen out.”
Collins’ wife Grace adds:
“Edwyn felt Alan crossed the
line. My reaction was: ‘Alan
Horne is a scheming mixer –
hold the front page!’ I didn’t
think he’d behaved any worse
than before. He got in touch
when Edwyn was unwell
[having suffered two brain
haemorrhages]. I miss Alan:
he could be very funny, and
when I think back, the pair
of them were arrogant
so-and-sos.”
“Ach, I suppose we were,”
says Collins.
Orange Juice inspired
countless Scots to pick up a
guitar. Collins acknowledges
his Scottish roots, but is not a
fervent flag-waver for his
homeland. “I’ve always called
myself an internationalist,” he
says. “Yes, I look to Scotland,
but I also look to Europe,
America and the Far East. I
don’t like parochialism, the
‘Wha’s like us?’ stuff.”
Nevertheless, he says the
Scots pop heritage is vivid and
important enough to merit a
series. “I was too ill to take
part in this programme but I’m
surprised it’s only a one-off.”
Top of the Scots: clockwise from top left, Roddy
Frame from Aztec Camera; Belle & Sebastian;
Franz Ferdinand’s Alex Kapranos; The Associates;
Altered Images’ Clare Grogan; Justin Currie of
Del Amitri; Hue and Cry; and Orange Juice
Stuart Murdoch was another who was too
young to appreciate the Alan Horne aesthetic first time round, but when he formed
Belle And Sebastian he wanted them to be
“Son of Postcard”. There’s enough material
for an hour entirely devoted to Postcard,
and more than enough for another edition
of Caledonia Dreamin’ on just politics.
So why isn’t it a series? All the bands
missed out – and they include Primal
Scream, Jesus And Mary Chain and the
Cocteau Twins – could fill another hour.
Without trying too hard, we’ve just assembled a four-and-a-half-parter and
maybe, because we’re Scottish and a bit
perverse, that would do nicely. There might
even be room for a snippet about Glencoe.
The documentary, as it currently stands,
ends with a roll-call of the contemporary
acts, such as KT Tunstall, the Fratellis and
the View, who show Scotland in a confident
light, a country “more at ease with itself”.
What a pity that someone at the BBC –
either in Glasgow or London – didn’t have
the same confidence in making more of
such a cracking yarn. But that’s typically
Caledonian too: snatching defeat from the
jaws of victory. ❖
Caledonia Dreamin’ is on BBC4 on Friday at 9pm
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ALASTAIR
MCKAY
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RAMBO (18)
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Running time: 93 minutes
★★★★★
HE Motion Picture Association of America has its own
ratings system, designed to
help parents avoid unpleasant
films and, perhaps, to guide
their children towards them. Occasionally, the association’s judgments read
like a capsule review of a film. Rambo,
the MPAA asserts, has “strong graphic
bloody violence, sexual assaults, grisly
images and language”.
Well, with an estimated body count of
236, there’s no denying the graphic
bloody violence, but I would quarrel
about the feckin’ language. There is
scarcely any language in the film at all.
Apart from a few ejaculated expletives,
most of the communicating is done with
saturnine grunts, which operate as
punctuation between the sexual assaults and the grisly images, all of which
are delivered in the service of the action.
Indeed, for quite a while, Rambo is so
taciturn that it’s tempting to believe he
has forgotten how to talk. When he does,
Sylvester Stallone’s diction is akin to
that of an Italian boxer who has been
raised by apes, and what he says is “f***
the world”. Charming.
Those who have not followed the
Rambo saga will be at a slight, but not
insurmountable, disadvantage. In previous instalments, Rambo has established himself as a cinematic representation of American foreign policy at its
most hawkish. He is a creature of the
Reagan years, a kind of Colonel Oliver
North with muscles where the diplomatic tact should be, and less rigorous
personal hygiene. It was Rambo, remember, who helped the Mujahideen
defeat the Soviets in Afghanistan.
He is an uber-cowboy, a bandanawearing symbol of rugged individualism who has experienced enough violence to know the power of it, but also its
danger. This great wisdom has come at a
cost. He has a bit of post-traumatic
stress, flashbacks to Vietnam, and is living peacefully in an obscure corner of
Thailand when he is disturbed by a wellmeaning group of missionaries, who
want to go upriver to help the victims of
repression in Burma.
It’s fair to say that Rambo doesn’t have
much time for do-gooding, but he is quite
taken by Sarah (Julie Benz). Naturally,
when the party is attacked by pirates who
threaten Sarah, a very large fuse blows
inside Rambo’s head, and he is suddenly
cured of his nihilistic pacifism.
He kills the bad men, even though he is
T
Ramble: when he does talk, Stallone’s speech is akin to that of an Italian boxer raised by apes
ridiculously outnumbered and stands
no chance. That’s what Rambo does. So,
after a decent interval of 20 seconds to
consider the implications of this massacre, the missionaries continue upriver
and Rambo returns home to have a
nightmare in his hammock. Then another do-gooder turns up to tell him that
Sarah and the other churchy types have
been taken prisoner. Rambo tries not to
intervene, but a little voice in his head
tells him: “War is in your blood. When
you’re pushed, killin’s as easy as breathin’.” Actually, this may be an understatement. Rambo’s breathin’ is a bit laboured
sometimes, especially when he runs.
Anyway, bad things are happening in
Glasgow Film Festival
This week’s highlights
MR LONELY: Harmony Korine’s Scottish-set
drama starring Samantha Morton.
Cineworld 15, Monday, 8.45pm; Tues, 1.30pm
CONSENTING ADULTS: See why Sean
Biggerstaff won a Scottish Bafta.
GFT, Tuesday, 8.15pm
FUNNY GAMES: Michael Haneke remakes
his own film for Hollywood. Starring Naomi
Watts and Michael Pitt.
Cineworld 15, Wednesday, 8.45pm
THE COTTAGE: London to Brighton director
Paul Andrew Williams again teams violence
with comedy.
GFT, Saturday, 9.15pm
THE BANK JOB: Jason Statham stars in
this true story of a Seventies steal.
Cineworld 4, Tuesday, 8.20pm
Until February 24
www.glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk
Burma. There are massacres in which
soldiers throw mines into shallow water
and then order innocent people to run
through the puddles to the other side. If
they survive, they are shot. It is killing as
sport, and Stallone, who directs the film
as well as starring in it, treats it this way.
Perhaps Stallone is sincere in his abhorrence of the Burmese regime, but his
filmmaking has the political sophistication of a cartoon, and a profound fear of
stillness. His action scenes are shot with
the camera stuck on fast-forward and
the volume turned up to 11.
You may, without watching the film, be
able to guess the outcome. Stallone
doesn’t really bother with characters,
but it’s worth noting the performance of
Graham McTavish, a graduate of The Bill
and Casualty, who delivers a hilariously
over-the-top turn as Lewis, a cockney
mercenary. Lewis, another mercenary
explains, is old-school SAS; a good soldier, but a total maniac. He also believes
he is harder than Rambo, which is a silly
mistake, even for a nutter. Anyway,
Rambo sorts him out by pointing a crossbow in his eye and baffling him with
gnomic philosophy: “Live for nothing or
die for something.”
It’s not exactly Descartes, but it does
allow Stallone to kill people in ever more
shocking ways, from speedy splatter to
heads being blown off, and worse. The
crowd I saw this with enjoyed it ironically,
which I wouldn’t recommend, but it’s
hard to know how else to deal with such
unrelenting stupidity. Rambo isn’t so bad
that it’s good. It is worse than that.
On general
release from
Friday
➡
Agree/Disagree?
8 REVIEW FILM
A leap into the overblown
.
JUMPER (12A)
Director: Doug Liman
★★★★★
HE film starts with a voiceover,
in which teenager David Rice
(Max Thieriot) is explaining his
special gift. “Once I was a normal
person,” he says, “a chump, just like
you.” The action flashes back to the
moment in David’s adolescence
when he first began to throw off the
shackles of chumphood. He is being
taunted by a bully, who throws the
Eiffel Tower snowglobe he has
bought for his prospective girlfriend
on to a frozen lake.
Undeterred by the danger of the
situation, the weed David ventures
on to the ice, before suddenly
disappearing from view. Ordinarily,
he would drown. Instead, his panic
propels him to safety. “One second
I’m a goner,” he reports, “next thing I
know I’m at the Ann Arbor public
library.”
David is a Jumper. He can teleport
himself around the world at will,
escaping from difficult situations
T
ABERDEEN
Cineworld, Queens Links Leisure Park
(0871 200 2000)
Alvin And The Chipmunks (U) Sun-Wed 11am,
1.10 Sweeney Todd (18) Sun/Mon 9 Jumper
(12A) 11.20am, 1.30, 4, 6.15, 8.30 Underdog (U)
11.50am, 1.50 Over Her Dead Body (12A) 3.50
Penelope (U) 11.40am No Country For Old
Men (15) Sun-Wed 6 Cloverfield (15) 2, 4.10,
6.40, 8.50 The Water Horse (PG) 11am, 1.20,
3.50, 6.30 (Sun/Mon/Wed/Thu) Juno (12A)
11am, 1.20, 3.45, 6.20, 8.40 Definitely, Maybe
(12A) Sun-Tue 3.15, 8.40; Wed/Thu 3.15 (Wed)
8.50 There Will Be Blood (15) 1, 4.30, 8 The
Bucket List (12A) 12.30, 3, 5.30, 8.10 Sunday
(12A) Tue 7 National Treasure (PG) 11.10am, 2,
5, 6.10, 8.15, 9 U2 3D (U) Wed/Thu 11am, 1, 3, 5,
7, 8.30 (Wed) 9
The Belmont, Belmont Street
(01224 343536)
There Will Be Blood (15) 2.15, 5.15, 8.15 The
Band’s Visit (12A) Sun 1.30; Mon 6.30 Juno
(12A) 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 The Diving Bell And The
Butterfly (Le Scaphandre Et Le Papillon)
(12A) Sun 3.50, 6.20, 8.45; Mon-Thu 1.20, 3.50,
6.20 (Tue-Thu) 8.45 (Mon/Wed/Thu) Azur &
Asmar: The Princes’ Quest (U) Sun/Mon noon
Paris, Texas (15) Tue 8.45
and travelling to the Wonders of the
World while still being home for his
tea. His first journey is to travel away
from his alcoholic abusive dad, to
New York, where he hones his jumping skills in Central Park. At first, his
control is erratic and he collides with
trees.
Soon enough, he is shamelessly exploiting his talent. He robs banks,
and keeps a yuppie apartment with
an ornamental motorbike and a
pillar box in the lounge. He drops into
London, arriving on the clockface of
Big Ben. He goes surfing in Fiji. He
has a sandwich on top of a Sphinx. If
his choices seem slightly clichéd –
and oddly similar to the vacation enjoyed by Jack Nicholson and Morgan
Freeman in The Bucket List – it’s
because he can only jump to places he
has seen a picture of. Hence, he tends
to turn up at picture-postcard
locations.
Eight years go by, and David is now
played by Hayden Christensen. He is
being pursued by Roland (Samuel L
Jackson, with scary white hair) who
is a Paladin.
Viewers with memories of Glen Michael’s Cartoon Cavalcade will be excused a smile at this point, but
CAMPBELTOWN
Campbeltown Picture House, Hall
Street
(01586 553899)
Alvin And The Chipmunks (U) 7
CLYDEBANK
Empire, Britannia Way
(0871 471 4714)
Cloverfield (15) 1.30, 3.40, 5.50, 8.20
Definitely, Maybe (12A) 3.30, 8.40 All The
Boys Love Mandy Lane (18) 2.40, 4.50, 7.10,
9.20 The Water Horse (PG) 10.40am (Sun)
1.10, 3.50, 6.30 Juno (12A) 11.20am, 1.40, 4.20,
6.50, 9.15 The Bucket List (12A) 1, 3.20, 5.40,
8.10 National Treasure (PG) noon (Sun) 2, 3, 5,
6, 8, 9 Jumper (12A) 11.30am (Sun) 1.50, 4.10,
6.40, 8.50 The Ugly Duckling And Me (U) Sun
10.45am, 12.40 Penelope (U) 1.20, 6.10 Over
Her Dead Body (12A) 4, 8.30 (Sun-Tue) No
Country For Old Men (15) 9.10 Underdog (U)
Sun 11.50am, 1.45, 6.20; Mon-Thu 1.45, 6.20
(Mon/Tue) St Trinian’s (12A) Sun 11.40am
Hoodwinked (U) Sun 11am Alvin And The
Chipmunks (U) Sun 11.20am Be Kind Rewind
(12A) Wed/Thu 6.20, 8.30 Stormbreaker (PG)
Sun 11am
DUMFRIES
Vue, Shiprow
Odeon, Shakespeare Street
(0871 224 0240)
(0871 224 4007)
The Bucket List (12A) noon (Sun-Tue) 3, 5.15,
7.45 Definitely, Maybe (12A) 4, 8.45 (Sun/
Mon/Wed/Thu) Be Kind Rewind (12A) Wed/
Thu 5.45, 8.15 Definitely, Maybe (Subtitled)
(12A) Tue 8.45 Sweeney Todd (18) 8.15 Over
Her Dead Body (12A) 1.40, 6.30 Jumper (12A)
11.40am (Sun-Tue) 2.20, 4.30, 6.45, 9 Penelope
(U) Sun-Tue 12.15 National Treasure (PG)
11.10am (Sun-Tue) 2, 5, 8 Alvin And The
Chipmunks (U) Mon/Tue 11.20am Alvin And
The Chipmunks (Subtitled) (U) Sun 11.20am
The Water Horse (PG) Sun-Tue 12.30, 3.15,
5.45; Wed/Thu 3.15 Cloverfield (15) 2.40, 4.45,
7, 9.15 Juno (12A) 11am (Sun-Tue) 1.20, 3.40, 6,
8.30
ANNAN
Annan Lonsdale Cinema, Moat Road
(01461 206901)
The Water Horse (PG) Sun 12.45, 3.15; MonThu 1.45 (Tue) 5.45 Sweeney Todd (18) 8
National Treasure (PG) Sun/Mon/Wed/Thu
12.15 (Sun) 2.55 (Sun) 5.35, 8.10; Tue 1.45, 5.30,
8.10 Brick Lane (15) Sun 5.55
AYR
Odeon, Burns Statue Square
(0871 224 4007)
The Water Horse (PG) 1.30, 4.15 (Sun)
Stardust (PG) Tue 11.30am National Treasure
(Parent And Baby Screening) (PG) Tue 11am
Over Her Dead Body (12A) Sun 1.15 Alvin And
The Chipmunks (U) Sun 12.30 National
Treasure (PG) 2.30, 5.30, 8.20 Cloverfield (15)
6.15 (Mon-Thu) 6.45, 9 Jumper (Subtitled)
(12A) Sun 4; Mon 6.30; Tue 8.50; Thu 1.45 Juno
(12A) 1.15 (Mon-Thu) 3.45, 6.20, 8.45 Jumper
(12A) Sun/Mon 1.45, 4 (Mon) 6.30 (Sun)
8.50; Tue-Thu 1.35 (Tue/Wed) 4, 6.30, 8.50
(Wed/Thu)
National Treasure (PG) 2.30, 5.30, 8.15
Stardust (PG) Wed 10.30am Penelope (U) Sun
noon
Robert Burns Centre, Mill Road
(01387 264808)
The Kite Runner (12A) Thu 10.45am Lust,
Caution (18) Wed/Thu 7.30
DUNDEE
Cineworld, Kingsway West
(0871 200 2000)
National Treasure (PG) 11.30am, 2.20, 3.20,
5.10, 6.10, 8, 9 Jumper (12A) 12.15, 2.30, 4.40,
6.55, 9.10 Alvin And The Chipmunks (U)
11.30am, 1.25 Enchanted (PG) 11.05am
Sunday (12A) Mon 8.20 Juno (12A) 11.45am, 2,
4.15, 6.30, 8.50 Be Kind Rewind (12A) Wed/
Thu 1.50, 6.35, 8.55 The Bucket List (12A) 1.15,
3.45, 6.15, 8.45 Definitely, Maybe (12A) 3.35,
6, 8.40 The Water Horse (PG) 11am, 1.20, 3.40,
6.05 Cloverfield (15) 2.55, 4.55, 7, 9.05 No
Country For Old Men (15) Sun/Tue 8.20
Penelope (U) 11.15am, 1.40 Over Her Dead
Body (12A) 11.50am, 1.50 (Sun-Tue) 4, 6.20
(Sun-Tue) Underdog (U) 11.20am, 1.10
Sweeney Todd (18) 8.30
DCA, Nethergate
(01382 909900)
Miracle In Milan (NC) Sun 3.30 Roald Dahl’s
Matilda (PG) Sun 1 British Animation Awards
(NC) Thu 6 The Happiness Of The Katakuris
(15) Sun 1 The Killing Of John Lennon (15)
Sun/Tue 1 (Tue) 6; Mon/Wed 3.30, 8.30; Thu 1,
8.30 In The Valley Of Elah (15) Sun 3.30, 6,
8.30; Mon-Thu 1.30, 4, 6.30, 9 Tale Of The Pale
And Silvery Moon After The Rain (PG) Tue 4
Hotel Harabati (NC) Sun/Tue 8.30; Mon/Wed 1,
6; Thu 3.30
Roland is not a brass lamp with an
attitude problem. He is a scary
policeman of the jumping world.
When he catches a Jumper – a process which involves a kind of Taser/
twiddling stick and high voltage
cables – he stabs them to death, “because only God should have the
power to be in all places at all times”.
That’s pretty much as deep as it
gets. In place of nuance, Liman (the
director of Swingers, whose stewardship of The Bourne Identity propelled
him into action movies) opts for special effects, a chase, and a buddy
routine with a more experienced
Jumper, whose misfortune it is to be
called Griffin (Jamie Bell).
There is a girl, Millie (Rachel
Bilson), who gets to be girlish in
Rome while the boys joyride round
Tokyo in a stolen Mercedes, or accidentally teleport into a Chechen
battlefield.
Griffin, at least, has some imagination. David seems trapped in an
adolescent fantasy which struggles
to approach the complexity of a
comic book.
ALASTAIR McKAY
On general release from Friday
Odeon Douglasfield, Douglas Road
(0871 224 4007)
Stardust (PG) Tue 11am Penelope (U) 11.15am
(Sun-Tue) 1.15, 6.15 Definitely, Maybe (12A)
Sun-Tue 11am, 1.30, 6.30; Wed/Thu 11 Over Her
Dead Body (12A) 3.30, 8.30 No Country For
Old Men (15) 8.15 National Treasure (PG)
11am, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9 Juno (12A) 11.30am (Sun/
Mon/Wed/Thu) 2, 4.15, 6.30, 8.45 Jumper
(Subtitled) (12A) Sun/Mon 2; Tue/Wed 9; Thu
11.15am, 6.45 Jumper (12A) 11.15am (Sun/
Mon/Wed) 1, 2 (Tue-Thu) 3.15, 4.15, 5.45, 6.45
(Sun-Wed) 8, 9 (Sun/Mon/Thu) Bee Movie (U)
11am Interview (15) Tue 9 Juno (Parent And
Baby Screening) (12A) Tue 11am Sweeney
Todd (18) Sun-Tue 4, 9 (Sun/Mon) The Water
Horse (PG) 11.15am, 1.30, 3.45, 6 Underdog
(U) 11am, 1 The Ugly Duckling And Me (U)
11am, 1 Alvin And The Chipmunks (U) 11am Be
Kind Rewind (12A) Wed/Thu 11.15am, 1.30, 4,
6.30, 8.45 The Bucket List (12A) 1.30, 4, 6.15,
8.45 Cloverfield (15) 3, 5, 7, 9
DUNFERMLINE
Odeon, Whimbrel Place
(0871 224 4007)
Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium (U) Sun
11.50am National Treasure (PG) 11.30am
(Sun) 1.45, 2.30, 4.45, 5.30, 7.45, 8.30 Over Her
Dead Body (12A) Sun-Tue 11.15am (Sun) 2, 6.35
Penelope (U) 11.20am (Sun) 2 National
Treasure (Parent And Baby Screening) (PG)
Wed 11am Interview (15) Wed 8 Stardust (PG)
Wed 11.45am Bee Movie (U) Sun 11am The
Water Horse (PG) 11.50am (Sun) 3, 5.30
Sweeney Todd (18) Sun-Tue 4.05, 8.50 The
Ugly Duckling And Me (U) Sun 11.45am The
Bucket List (12A) 2, 4.15, 6.35, 9 There Will Be
Blood (15) 1.15, 4.40, 8 Alvin And The
Chipmunks (U) Sun 11am Be Kind Rewind
(12A) Wed/Thu 2.30 (Thu) 4.45, 7, 9.15
Cloverfield (15) 4.45, 7, 9.15 Definitely, Maybe
(12A) Sun-Tue/Thu 8.45; Wed 2.30 Jumper
(12A) 12.30 (Sun) 2, 3.15, 4.15, 5.45, 6.45, 8, 9
Juno (12A) Sun-Tue/Thu 11.30am (Sun) 2, 4.45,
7, 9.25 Juno (Subtitled) (12A) Wed 2, 4.45, 7,
9.25
EAST KILBRIDE
Odeon, Olympia Shopping Centre,
Rothesay Street
(0871 224 4007)
Bee Movie (U) Sun 11am No Country For Old
Men (15) 8.40 Jumper (12A) 2 (Mon-Thu) 4.10,
6.50 (Sun/Tue-Thu) 9.15 Jumper (Subtitled)
(12A) Sun 2; Mon 6.50 Definitely, Maybe (12A)
Sun-Tue 4, 9; Wed/Thu 8 Cloverfield (15) 2.30,
4.40, 7, 9.10 Be Kind Rewind (12A) Wed/Thu
1.40, 4, 6.30, 9 Alvin And The Chipmunks (U)
Sun-Tue 11.25am (Sun) 1.40, 6.40 Interview
(15) Tue 8 The Bucket List (Parent And Baby
Screening) (12A) Tue 11am Juno (12A) 11.10am
(Sun) 1.30, 3.50, 6.20, 8.50 Over Her Dead
Body (12A) 11.05am (Sun) 1.20, 3.40, 6.40, 9
Penelope (U) 12.10 (Sun) 3, 5.40 Sweeney
Todd (18) Sun/Mon 8 The Bucket List (12A)
1.50, 4.20, 7, 9.20 The Water Horse (PG) 12.30
(Sun) 3.20, 6 Mr. Magorium’s Wonder
Emporium (U) Sun noon Stardust (PG) Tue
11am National Treasure (PG) 11.20am (Sun)
2.20, 5.30, 8.30
The boy gets around:
Hayden Christensen and
Rachel Bilson are all over
the place in Jumper.
EDINBURGH
Odeon Wester Hailes, Westside Plaza
(0870 755 1231)
Stardust (PG) Tue 11.15am Definitely, Maybe
(Parent And Baby Screening) (12A) Tue
11.15am Definitely, Maybe (12A) 12.30 (Sun/
Mon) 5.45 Cloverfield (15) 3.45, 6, 8.15 Be
Kind Rewind (12A) Wed/Thu 3.15, 5.45, 8.15
Alvin And The Chipmunks (U) Sun/Mon 1.30
Sweeney Todd (18) Sun-Tue 3, 8 Jumper (12A)
1 (Sun/Mon) 3.30, 6, 8.30 No Country For Old
Men (15) 8 Juno (12A) 1 (Sun/Mon) 3.30, 6.15,
8.30 National Treasure (PG) Sun/Tue-Thu 1.45
(Sun) 4.45, 7.30; Mon 1.45 National Treasure
(Subtitled) (PG) Mon 4.45, 7.30 The Water
Horse (PG) 2.15 (Sun/Mon) 5, 7.30 Penelope
(U) 1.45 (Sun/Mon) 3.45, 6 Over Her Dead
Body (12A) 1 (Sun/Mon) 3.15, 6.15 (Sun-Tue)
8.30
Cameo, Home Street
Juno (12A) 1.25, 4, 6.45, 9.15 No Country For
Old Men (15) Sun-Tue 3.30 (Mon/Tue) 6.15, 9 A
Comedy Of Power (L’Ivresse Du Pouvoir)
(PG) Mon-Thu 1 Paranoid Park (15) Sun 1.30
There Will Be Blood (15) 1.40, 5.25, 8.40 Be
Kind Rewind (12A) Wed/Thu 3.45, 6.20, 9
Cineworld, Dundee Street
(0871 200 2000)
There Will Be Blood (15) 1.05, 4.30, 8
Definitely, Maybe (12A) 12.20, 3, 5.50, 8.40
Juno (12A) 11.10am, 1.30, 4, 6.30, 9 The Water
Horse (PG) 11.05am, 1.25, 3.45, 6.10 (Sun-Tue)
Cloverfield (15) 12.05, 2.15, 4.35, 6.50, 9.05 No
Country For Old Men (15) Sun-Tue/Thu 3.10,
5.55, 8.45; Wed 3.10 Be Kind Rewind (12A)
Wed/Thu 6.30 Penelope (U) 11am, 1.05 My
Blueberry Nights (12A) Wed 8.45 Over Her
Dead Body (12A) 11.50am, 2 Underdog (U)
11.10am Sweeney Todd (18) Sun-Tue 8.35
Jodhaa Akbar (12A) 11am, 3.15, 7.30 U2 3D (U)
Wed 8.45; Thu 11am, 1, 3, 5, 7.10, 9.20 Jumper
(12A) 11am, noon, 1.20, 2.20, 3.40, 4.40, 6, 7,
8.20, 9.20 National Treasure (PG) 11.20am,
12.25 (Sun-Wed) 2.20, 3.20 (Sun-Wed) 5.15, 6
(Sun-Wed) 8.10, 9.10 The Bucket List (12A)
12.40, 3.15, 5.50, 8.30 All The Boys Love
Mandy Lane (18) 4.15, 6.30, 8.50
Dominion, Newbattle Terrace
(0131 447 4771)
In The Valley Of Elah (15) 6.05, 8.35 Sweeney
Todd (18) 8.50 Definitely, Maybe (12A) 1.30
(Sun/Mon/Thu) 4.10, 8.45 The Water Horse
(PG) 1 (Sun/Mon/Thu) 3.30, 6.10 National
Treasure (PG) 2.15 (Sun/Mon/Thu) 5.15, 8.05
Over Her Dead Body (12A) 6.40 Penelope (U)
1.50 (Sun/Mon/Thu) 4
Filmhouse, Lothian Road
(0131 228 2688)
The Diving Bell And The Butterfly (Le
Scaphandre Et Le Papillon) (12A) 3.45, 6.15,
8.45 Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead (15)
1.15, 6 (Sun) 8.30 Paris, Texas (15) Sun 2, 8.15
Beauty In Trouble (Kraska V Nesnazich) (NC)
Sun 5.45 Piglet’s Big Movie (U) Sun 1; Mon
10.30am Osama (12A) Thu 6 Hammett (NC)
Wed 8.45; Thu 3.30 Bad Education (La Mala
Educacion) (15) Tue 6 The Witnesses (Les
Temoins) (15) Mon 6 British Animation
Awards Programme 2 (15) Tue 3.30; Wed 6.30
In The Valley Of Elah (15) Mon/Tue/Thu 5.45
(Mon/Thu) 8.20; Wed 2.45, 5.45 Marty (NC)
Mon 3.30; Tue 6.15 Azur & Asmar: The
Princes’ Quest (U) 1.30 (Mon-Thu) 3.45
Odeon Lothian Road
(0871 224 4007)
Cloverfield (15) Sun/Mon/Wed/Thu 5.30, 8
(Sun/Mon/Wed); Tue 8 Jumper (12A) 1 (SunTue) 3.15, 5.30, 8.15 Juno (Subtitled) (12A) Mon
6.30; Thu 8.45 Cloverfield (Subtitled) (15) Tue
5.30; Thu 8 Juno (12A) 2.15, 4.20, 6.30 (Sun/
Tue-Thu) 8.45 (Sun-Wed) Stardust (PG) Tue
11am National Treasure (PG) 2.30, 5.30, 8.15
The Water Horse (PG) Sun 1; Mon-Thu 1 (Mon/
Tue) 3.15 Jumper (Parent and Baby
Screening) (12A) Tue 10.30am The Water
Horse (Subtitled) (PG) Sun 3.15
(0871 224 4007)
The Scotsman Hotel, North Bridge
(0131 556 5565)
Last Tango In Paris (18) Sun 8
Vue, Omni, Greenside
(0871 224 0240)
Juno (12A) 10.50am (Sun/Mon) 1.20, 4, 6.30, 9
Be Kind Rewind (12A) Wed/Thu 1.10, 4, 6.50,
9.30 Penelope (Subtitled) (U) Sun 11.45am
Definitely, Maybe (12A) 4.50 (Sun/Mon/Wed/
Thu) 7.30 Definitely, Maybe (Subtitled) (12A)
Tue 4.50 Penelope (U) 11.45am (Mon) 2.15
National Treasure (PG) 10.30am (Sun/Mon)
11.30am (Sun/Mon) 1.30, 2.30, 4.40, 5.30, 7.45,
8.30 Cloverfield (15) 11.15am (Sun/Mon) 1.45,
4.15, 6.40, 9.15 The Bucket List (12A) 12.15,
2.45, 5.15, 8 There Will Be Blood (15) 12.45,
4.30, 8.15 Over Her Dead Body (12A) Sun-Tue
9.30 The Water Horse (PG) Sun-Tue 10.20am
(Sun/Mon) 1.10, 4, 6.50 Jumper (12A) 10.40am
(Sun/Mon) 1, 3.45, 6, 8.45
Vue, Ocean Terminal, Victoria Dock
(0871 224 0240)
All The Boys Love Mandy Lane (18) 2.15, 4.30,
6.45, 9.15 The Bucket List (12A) 12.15 (Sun/
Mon) 2.45, 5.15, 7.45 Jumper (12A) 10.10am
(Sun/Mon) 11.10am (Sun/Mon) 12.40 (Sun/Mon)
1.40, 3.10, 4.10, 5.40, 6.40, 8.10, 9.10 Be Kind
Rewind (12A) Wed/Thu 3, 5.45, 8.45 Sweeney
Todd (18) 8.50 Underdog (U) Sun/Mon
10.20am, 12.20 Penelope (U) Sun-Tue 10.15am
(Sun/Mon) 12.45 (Sun/Mon) 3, 5 Over Her Dead
Body (12A) 8.40 Cloverfield (15) 2.20, 4.50, 7,
9.20 Juno (12A) Sun 10.20am, 12.50, 5.50, 8;
Mon-Thu 10.20am (Mon) 12.50 (Mon) 3.20, 5.50,
8 Definitely, Maybe (12A) 3.40, 6.10 The Water
Horse (PG) 10am (Sun/Mon) 10.40am (Sun/
Mon) 12.20 (Sun/Mon) 1, 2.50, 3.30, 5.20, 6, 8.20
Charlie Wilson’s War (15) Sun-Tue 7.50 Bee
Movie (U) Sun/Mon 10am National Treasure
(PG) 10.30am (Sun/Mon) 11.30am (Sun/Mon)
1.30, 2.30, 4.30, 5.30, 7.30, 8.30 Elizabeth: The
Golden Age (12A) Wed 11.30am Juno
(Subtitled) (12A) Sun 3.20 National Treasure
(Parent And Baby Screening) (PG) Wed
11.30am Alvin And The Chipmunks (U) Sun/
Mon 10.05am, 12.05 The Ugly Duckling And Me
(U) Sun-Wed 10.20am, 12.50
ELGIN
Moray Playhouse, High Street
(01343 542680)
Alvin And The Chipmunks (U) Sun 11.20am
National Treasure (PG) 1.40, 5, 7.50 The Water
Horse (PG) 1.30, 4.40 Enchanted (PG) Sun
11am Cloverfield (15) 8
FALKIRK
Cineworld, Central Retail Park, Old
Bison Works
(0871 200 2000)
Jumper (12A) 11.30am (Sun/Mon) 12.30 (Sun/
Mon) 1.50, 2.50, 4.10, 5.10, 6.30, 7.30, 8.50,
9.40 National Treasure (PG) 11am (Sun/Mon)
noon (Sun/Mon) 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9 You Kill Me (15)
Wed 7 All The Boys Love Mandy Lane (18)
2.40, 4.50, 7.20, 9.35 The Bucket List (12A)
1.25 (Sun/Mon) 3.45, 6.15, 8.45 Definitely,
Maybe (12A) 3.30, 6, 8.30 Juno (12A) 11.20am
(Sun/Mon) 2.10, 4.30, 6.50, 9.30 The Water
Horse (PG) 11.10am (Sun/Mon) 1.35 (Sun/
Mon) 4, 6.25 Cloverfield (15) 4.15, 6.40, 8.50
No Country For Old Men (15) 9 Penelope (U)
Sun-Wed 12.20 (Sun/Mon) 2.30, 4.45, 7 (SunTue) Over Her Dead Body (12A) Sun-Wed
11.40am (Sun/Mon) 2, 4.15, 6.30, 8.45 (SunTue) Underdog (U) Sun/Mon 10.50am, 12.45
Sweeney Todd (18) Sun-Tue 9.10 Alvin And The
Chipmunks (U) Sun/Tue-Thu 11.45am (Sun)
2.05; Mon 11.45 Enchanted (PG) Sun/Mon
10.55am Bee Movie (U) Sun/Mon 11.05am, 1.10
The Devil Wears Prada (PG) Mon 2 U2 3D (U)
Wed 8.45; Thu 3, 5, 7.10, 9.20 Be Kind Rewind
(12A) Wed 9.05; Thu 2.15, 4.30, 6.45, 9.05
FTH Cinema, Falkirk Town Hall, West
Bridge Street
(01324 506850)
Brick Lane (15) Wed 11am, 1.30, 7.30 The
Killing Of John Lennon (15) Sun 7.30 The
Band’s Visit (12A) Thu 7.30
GALASHIELS
Pavilion, Market Street
(01896 752767)
Cloverfield (15) 8.30 The Water Horse (PG)
1.20 (Sun) 5.40 Jumper (12A) 6, 8.20 Over Her
Dead Body (12A) 5.50 St Trinian’s (12A) Sun
3.20 Penelope (U) Sun 3.50 Be Kind Rewind
(12A) Thu 8 Definitely, Maybe (12A) 8.10
Sweeney Todd (18) Sun-Wed 8 National
Treasure (PG) 1.50 (Sun) 5.30 Underdog (U)
Sun 1.10 Enchanted (PG) Sun 3.10 Alvin And
The Chipmunks (U) Sun 1
GLASGOW
Capitol, Sauchiehall Street
(0141 331 1040)
Atonement (15) Mon-Thu 6, 8.30 Definitely,
Maybe (12A) 5.30, 8 National Treasure (PG)
2.45 (Sun/Thu) 5.15, 7.45
Cineworld Parkhead, Forge Shopping
Centre, 1221 Gallowgate
(0871 200 2000)
Cloverfield (15) Sun-Tue 8.50 The Water Horse
(PG) 10.50am, 1.20, 3.50, 6.20 Juno (12A) 3.40,
6.30, 8.50 Definitely, Maybe (12A) 3, 5.40,
8.20 The Bucket List (12A) 11.20am, 1.40, 4,
6.30, 9.10 National Treasure (PG) noon, 2.40,
5.40, 8.40 Jumper (12A) 11.50am, 2, 4.20,
6.40, 9 Be Kind Rewind (12A) Wed/Thu 8.50
Over Her Dead Body (12A) 6, 8.30 Alvin And
The Chipmunks (U) 11.10am, 1 Underdog (U)
12.10, 2.10, 4.10 Penelope (U) 11.30am, 1.30
FILM REVIEW 9
OTHER RELEASES
.
MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS (12A)
Director: Wong Kar Wai
★★★★★
BE KIND REWIND (12A)
Director: Michel Gondry
★★★★★
ONG Kar Wai is one of the
great stylists of contemporary cinema, at least when he
has cinematographer Christopher
Doyle in tow. His 2000 film, In The
Mood For Love, was one of the most
sensuous, beautiful works of recent
years, and the prospect of those sensibilities being applied to his first
American film was mouth-watering.
The screenplay is by the thriller
writer Lawrence Block, and in casting Norah Jones opposite Jude Law,
Wong seemed to be following the
lead of Jim Jarmusch in exploiting
the aura of famous musicians.
In reality, My Blueberry Nights is
pretty without being gorgeous, but in
opting for a road movie around some
fairly obvious locations, Wong offers
reminders of directors who have
W
Cineworld Renfrew Street
(0871 200 2000)
The Bucket List (12A) 10.50am, 1.20, 3.40,
6.10, 8.40 National Treasure (PG) 11.20am,
11.50am, 2.20, 3, 5.20 (Sun/Mon/Wed/Thu)
6.10, 8.20 (Sun/Mon/Wed/Thu) 9.15 U2 3D (U)
Wed 8.30; Thu 11am, 1.30, 3.50, 6.20, 8.50
Jumper (12A) 10.20am, 11am, 12.50, 1.50, 3.20,
4.30, 6, 7, 8.45, 9.40 Be Kind Rewind (12A)
Wed/Thu 6.40, 9.10 Cloverfield (Subtitled)
(15) Sun 1.50; Mon 6.30 Cloverfield (15)
11.30am, 1.50 (Mon-Thu) 4.10, 6.30 (Sun/TueThu) 8.50 The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
(Le Scaphandre Et Le Papillon) (12A) 3.50,
6.30, 9.15 (Sun-Tue) The Ugly Duckling And Me
(U) 11.30am, 1.40 The Water Horse (PG) 12.10,
2.50, 5.30 Juno (12A) 10.30am, 1.10, 4, 6.40,
9.20 Definitely, Maybe (12A) 11.30am, 2.30,
5.20, 8.10 There Will Be Blood (15) 12.50, 4.20,
8 All The Boys Love Mandy Lane (18) 4.20,
6.50, 9.20 P.S. I Love You (12A) Sun-Tue/Thu
8.20 My Blueberry Nights (12A) Wed 8.45
Jodhaa Akbar (12A) 11am, 3.15, 7.30 Alvin And
The Chipmunks (U) 10.50am Sweeney Todd
(18) 4.10, 6.50, 9.10 Underdog (U) 11.50am,
2.10 Over Her Dead Body (12A) Sun-Wed
11.20am, 1.50, 4.10, 6.40, 9.10 (Sun-Tue)
Penelope (U) 11.40am, 2 No Country For Old
Men (15) 11.40am, 2.40, 5.50, 8.50
Glasgow Film Festival: CCA
(0141 332 6535)
MAP: Visible Cinema (NC) Sun 6.30 An
Unlikely Weapon (NC) Tue 6.15 How Do I Love
You? (NC) Sun 4.30 XXY (NC) Tue 8.30 Bonds
Of Belonging (NC) Sun 2.30 Four Minutes
(Vier Minuten) (NC) Wed 6.15 Black, White +
Gray (NC) Wed 8.30; Thu 6.15 A Walk Into The
Sea: Danny Williams And The Warhol Factory
(NC) Thu 8.30
Glasgow Film Festival: Cineworld
(0141 332 6535)
You, The Living (Du Levande) (NC) Tue 6.15 The
Bank Job (NC) Tue 8.20; Wed 2 Redacted (NC)
Tue 8.45; Wed 1.30 Return To Goree (Retour A
Goree) (NC) Wed/Thu 6.15 Shotgun Stories
(NC) Wed 8.20; Thu 2 Funny Games (NC) Wed
8.45; Thu 1.30 Irina Palm (NC) Thu 6 My
Blueberry Nights (12A) Sun 8.45 Mister Lonely
(NC) Mon 8.45; Tue 1.30 Charlie Bartlett (NC) Thu
8.45 King Corn (NC) Thu 8.20 The Spiderwick
Chronicles (NC) Sun 1 Teeth (NC) Sun 2; Mon
8.20 The Aerial (NC) Sun 6 Honeydripper (NC)
Sun 6.15 The Great World Of Sound (NC) Sun
8.20; Mon 2; Tue 6 Thieves (Ladrones) (NC) Mon
1.30; Wed 6 The Second Wind (NC) Mon 5.45
White Night (NC) Mon 6; Tue 2
Glasgow Film Festival: Glasgow Film
Theatre, Rose Street
(0141 332 6535)
Unrelated (NC) Thu 8.15 The Trap (Wana)
(NC) Thu 6.15 Water Lilies (Naissance Des
Pieuvres) (NC) Thu 6 Mr Skeffington (NC) Thu
1 Garage (18) Wed 9; Thu 3.45 In Search Of A
Midnight Kiss (NC) Wed 8.30; Thu 2.30 Peer
To Peer (NC) Wed 6.30 The Collector
(Komornik) (NC) Wed 6.15 The Second Wind
(NC) Sun 1.15 The Old Maid (NC) Sun 1 Oliver
Twist (PG) Sun 3.30 John Sayles (NC) Sun 4.15
Caramel (NC) Sun 6 We Are Together (NC)
Thu 8.30 King Corn (NC) Wed 3.30 The Little
Foxes (PG) Wed 1 Empties (Vratne Lahve)
(NC) Sun 6.15 Chacun Son Cinema (NC) Sun
8.15; Mon 2.30 The Inheritence (NC) Sun 8.30
Dark Victory (NC) Mon 1 An Unlikely Weapon
(NC) Mon 3.30 Children Of Glory (Szabadsag,
Szerelem) (NC) Mon 6.15 The Girl By The
Lake (La Ragaza Del lago) (NC) Mon 6.30; Tue
3.30 The Last Mistress (Une Vieille
Maitresse) (NC) Mon 8.30; Tue 2.30 Far North
(NC) Mon 8.40; Tue 1 The Letter (NC) Tue 6
Them (15) Tue 6.30 Consenting Adults (15)
Tue 8.15 Angel (NC) Tue 8.30; Wed 2.30
Glasgow Film Festival: Grosvenor
Cinema, Ashton Lane
(0141 332 6535)
Crazy Love (NC) Thu 6.30 You, The Living (Du
Levande) (NC) Wed 6.30 Children Of Glory
(Szabadsag, Szerelem) (NC) Tue 6.30 My
Blueberry Nights (12A) Mon 6.30 George A
Romero’s Diary Of The Dead (NC) Sun 6.30
Grosvenor Cinema
(0141 339 8444)
The Little Polar Bear (U) Sun 10.30am
Cloverfield (15) Sun 8.10; Mon 8.45 The Kite
Runner (12A) 12.50 There Will Be Blood (15)
Sun 12.30, 3.50, 7; Mon-Thu 11.30am, 2.50, 6,
9.10 No Country For Old Men (15) 3.20, 8.45
(Tue) The Kite Runner (Parent And Baby
Screening) (12A) Thu 10.30am Be Kind
Rewind (12A) Wed/Thu 8.30
IMAX Cinema, 50 Pacific Quay
(0871 540 1000)
Bugs! 3D (U) Tue/Wed 10am (Wed) 11 Space
Station 3D (U) Sun/Tue-Thu 12.15 (Sun) 2.15
CyberWorld 3D (PG) Sun 1.15, 3.15; Tue-Thu 1,
3.30
Odeon Springfield Quay, Paisley Road
(0871 224 4007)
Cloverfield (15) 4.30, 7, 9.30 Definitely, Maybe
(12A) 6.15 Be Kind Rewind (12A) Wed/Thu 2.15,
4.30, 6.45, 9 Enchanted (PG) Sun 11.30am
Alvin And The Chipmunks (U) 11am (Sun) 1
Jumper (12A) 11am (Sun) 1.15, 3.45, 6.30, 9.15
Juno (12A) 1, 3.30, 6, 8.45 National Treasure
(Subtitled) (PG) Tue 5; Thu 1.45 National
Treasure (PG) Sun/Mon/Wed/Thu 1.45 (Sun/
Mon/Wed) 5, 8.15; Tue 1.45, 8.15 No Country
For Old Men (15) 3.15, 9.15 Over Her Dead
Body (12A) Sun/Mon/Wed/Thu 9.30 Jodhaa
Akbar (12A) 3, 7.45 Penelope (U) noon (Sun)
2.15 The Ugly Duckling And Me (U) 11am
(Sun) 1 The Bucket List (12A) 1.15, 3.45, 6.30, 9
Southland Tales (15) Tue 9 Jumper (Parent
and Baby Screening) (12A) Tue 10.30am
Stardust (PG) Tue 11am Bee Movie (U) Sun
11am The Water Horse (PG) 12.45, 3.15, 6
(Sun/Tue-Thu)
Showcase, Coatbridge
(0871 220 1000)
Be Kind Rewind (12A) Wed/Thu 11.20am, 2.10,
5.05, 7.35, 10 Juno (12A) 11.25am, 2.20, 4.40,
7.10, 9.30 Sweeney Todd (18) 4.30, 7.15, 9.55
The Ugly Duckling And Me (U) 11am, 1.15
Jumper (12A) 11.35am, 12.05, 2, 2.30, 4.25,
5.05, 7.05, 7.45, 9.35, 10.10 National Treasure
(PG) 1, 1.50, 2.20, 4.40, 5.10, 7.30, 8, 10.20,
11.30 The Water Horse (PG) 11.05am, 2.15,
4.50 P.S. I Love You (12A) 7.30 (Sun-Tue) 10.20
Alvin And The Chipmunks (U) 12.05, 2.30,
4.45 Definitely, Maybe (12A) 7, 9.45 The
Bucket List (12A) 12.20, 2.50, 5.20, 7.50, 10.15
Penelope (U) 11.45am, 2.10, 4.50, 7.15, 9.30 No
Country For Old Men (15) 7.45, 10.30 (Sun-Tue)
Underdog (U) 11.30am, 2.05, 4.10 Over Her
Dead Body (12A) 1.35 (Sun-Tue) 4 (Sun-Tue)
7.05, 9.25 Cloverfield (15) 12.15, 2.40, 5.15,
7.40, 9.50 All The Boys Love Mandy Lane (18)
12.45 (Sun-Tue) 3.15, 5.35, 7.55, 10.25
done more with similar material.
Jones plays Elizabeth, a woman who
shares her romantic woes with
Jeremy (Law), who owns a café in
New York and keeps a jar full of keys
donated by the heartbroken. The
forced symbolism of this is nothing
compared to the pointless artifice of
Law’s Mancunian accent, but Elizabeth keeps in touch as she travels
round America while apparently saving money for a car. She goes to Memphis, where an alcoholic cop (David
Straithairn) is mourning the loss of
his wife (Rachel Weisz), and on to
Vegas, with a beautiful gambler
(Natalie Portman).
Everyone is alienated and rootless, and all the stories are chiselled from pulp, but despite some flashes of
beauty, Wong struggles to go beyond
tourism. The best moment is a long shot of
Jones asleep on a bar
with melted ice
cream on her lips.
Wi t h B e K i n d
Rewind, Michel
Gondry also fails
to live up to the reputation earned from his
Definitely, Maybe (12A) 1.15 (Sun/Mon) 8.45
The Water Horse (PG) 3.30 (Sun/Mon) 6.15
Alvin And The Chipmunks (U) 11.40am
(Sun) 2.10
(0871 224 4007)
PAISLEY
ROTHESAY
Odeon, Queen’s Drive
Alvin And The Chipmunks (U) Sun 2, 3.50
National Treasure (PG) 2.15 (Sun) 5.15, 7.50
Penelope (U) Sun 1.55, 3.45, 6.10; Mon-Thu
6.10 Jumper (12A) 6, 8.15 The Bucket List
(12A) 3.45 (Sun) 8.10 Juno (12A) 8.10
Definitely, Maybe (12A) 5.50 Underdog (U)
Sun 2.05, 4
HAMILTON
KIRKCALDY
The Waterfront Cinema
(01475 732201)
Vue, Palace Towers
(0871 224 0240)
Adam Smith Theatre, Bennochy Road
(01592 412929)
National Treasure (PG) 11.10am (Sun) 2, 3.10, 5,
6.10, 7.50, 9 The Water Horse (PG) 10.20am
(Sun) 11.40am (Sun) 12.50, 2.10, 3.30, 5.10, 6
(Sun-Tue) 7.40 Juno (12A) 1.10 (Mon-Thu) 3.20,
5.40, 8 Alvin And The Chipmunks (U) Sun
10.30am, 12.25 Penelope (U) Sun 10.50am, 1
Definitely, Maybe (12A) 1.30, 6.30 Underdog
(U) Sun 11.20am, 1.20 Cloverfield (15) 2.20
(Sun/Mon/Wed/Thu) 4.30, 6.40, 8.50 Be Kind
Rewind (12A) Wed/Thu 6.25, 8.40 Elizabeth:
The Golden Age (12A) Tue 2.20 Bee Movie (U)
Sun 10.40am Over Her Dead Body (12A)
11.15am (Sun) 4.10, 9.10 Jumper (12A) 11.30am
(Sun) 1.40, 4, 8.20, 8.30 Sweeney Todd (18) SunTue 8.40 The Bucket List (12A) Sun 12.40, 5.50,
8.10; Mon-Thu 3.15, 5.50 (Mon/Wed/Thu) 8.10 The
Bucket List (Subtitled) (12A) Sun 3.15; Tue 5.50
Iris (15) Mon 3 The Shawshank Redemption
(15) Mon 7.30 Brick Lane (15) Sun 8 Inside I’m
Dancing (15) Mon 5 La Vie En Rose (La Mome)
(12A) Sun 5 Breakfast On Pluto (15) Sun 2.30
INVERNESS
Sweeney Todd (18) 8.30 Elizabeth: The
Golden Age (12A) Tue 1 Underdog (U) Sun
11.30am, 1.45 National Treasure (Subtitled)
(PG) Sun 11.15am; Tue 5.15 Jumper (12A)
10.45am (Sun) 1.15, 3.45, 6.15, 8.45 The Bucket
List (12A) noon (Mon-Thu) 2.30, 5, 7.45 Be Kind
Rewind (12A) Wed/Thu noon, 2.30, 5, 7.30
National Treasure (PG) 2.15, 5.15 (Sun/Mon/
Wed/Thu) 8.15 Bee Movie (U) Sun noon Juno
(12A) 10.30am (Sun) 12.45, 3, 5.30, 8
Definitely, Maybe (12A) Sun-Tue noon (Mon/
Tue) 2.30 (Mon/Tue) 5, 7.30 The Water Horse
(PG) 11am (Sun) 12.15, 1.30, 3.15, 5.45
Cloverfield (15) 1.45 (Mon/Wed/Thu) 4, 6.30, 9
Penelope (U) Sun 10.15am, 12.30, 2.45 Over
Her Dead Body (12A) 4.15, 6.45 (Sun/Mon/
Wed/Thu) 9.15
Eden Court Theatre, Bishops Road
(01463 234234)
Ahlaam (15) Wed 9; Thu 6.30 I’m Not There
(15) Sun 2, 8; Mon/Tue 6.15; Thu 8.30 Talk To
Me (15) Sun 5; Mon 9 Les Chansons D’Amour
(Love Songs) (15) Sun 7.30; Mon 6 Nancy
Drew (PG) Sun 1.30 Blade Runner: The Final
Cut (15) Sun 5.30 Silent Light (Stellet Licht)
(15) Mon/Tue 8.30; Wed/Thu 5.45 Late
Chrysanthemums (PG) Tue 6; Wed 8.30 Youth
Without Youth (15) Tue 9; Wed 6.15; Thu 8.45
Vue, Inverness Retail & Business Park
(0871 224 0240)
The Bucket List (12A) 1 (Sun) 3.20, 5.50, 8.10
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (12A) Tue 2.30 Bee
Movie (U) Sun 12.30 Over Her Dead Body
(12A) 2.50, 7.50 (Sun-Tue) Underdog (U) Sun
5.15 Penelope (Subtitled) (U) Sun 1.40 No
Country For Old Men (15) 8.20 Penelope (U)
Sun 11.30 Be Kind Rewind (12A) Wed/Thu 5.50,
7.50 Cloverfield (15) 3.50, 6.15, 8.40
Definitely, Maybe (12A) Sun 12.10; Mon/Tue
5.15 National Treasure (PG) 11.50am (Sun)
2.40, 5.35, 8.30 The Water Horse (PG) 3, 5.40
There Will Be Blood (15) 1.15 (Mon/Wed/Thu)
4.40, 8 Jumper (12A) 1 (Sun) 3.20, 5.50, 8.10
Both on general release
from Friday
KILMARNOCK
Jumper (12A) Sun 11.40am, 2, 6.30, 9; Mon-Thu
2, 4.15, 6.30 (Mon/Wed/Thu) 9 (Mon-Wed)
Enchanted (PG) Sun 11.10am Definitely,
Maybe (12A) Sun-Tue 5.50, 8.40 Cloverfield
(15) 2.10, 4.30, 6.50, 9.10 The Bucket List
(Parent And Baby Screening) (12A) Tue 11am
Be Kind Rewind (12A) Wed/Thu 4.10, 6.30,
8.55 Southland Tales (15) Tue 8.30 Alvin And
The Chipmunks (U) Sun noon Stardust (PG)
Tue 11am Bee Movie (U) Sun 11am The Water
Horse (PG) 12.50 (Sun) 3.30, 6 The Bucket
List (12A) 12.40 (Sun) 3.10, 5.40, 8.10 Sweeney
Todd (18) Sun/Mon/Wed/Thu 8.30 Penelope
(U) Sun-Tue 1 (Sun) 3.20; Wed/Thu 1.50 Over
Her Dead Body (12A) 1.30 (Sun) 3.50, 6.10,
8.40 National Treasure (PG) 11.20am (Sun)
2.20, 5.20, 8.20 Juno (12A) Sun/Mon 1.10 (Sun)
3.50, 6.20, 8.50 Jumper (Subtitled) (12A) Sun
4.15; Tue 6.30; Thu 9
GREENOCK
last two films (Eternal Sunshine Of
The Spotless Mind and The Science Of
Sleep). It’s a slight story, written by
Gondry, with echoes of Paul Auster’s
collaborations with Wayne Wang
(Smoke and Blue In The Face). Mr
Fletcher (Danny Glover) runs a video
store in Passaic, New Jersey, with the
aid of Mike (Mos Def) and despite the
interventions of his eccentric friend
Jerry (Jack Black, below).
When Jerry becomes magnetised, he
erases the shop’s videos, so he and Mike
hatch a plan to re-enact all the films.
With the aid of a girl from the laundry,
they fashion instant versions of Ghostbusters, King Kong and Robocop.
It is, of course, ridiculous, but
Black – flickering between Quentin
Tarantino and Ricky Gervais – is
funny enough, and there
are cameos from Mia Farrow and Sigourney
Weaver. Gondry’s effort
seems sincere in his appreciation of DIY filmmaking, but this little film
falls between whimsy
and experiment.
ALASTAIR McKAY
KIRKWALL
New Phoenix Cinema, Pickaquoy
Centre, Muddisdale Road
(01856 879900)
We Own The Night (15) Tue/Wed 7.30; Thu
6.30 P.S. I Love You (12A) Sun 6; Mon 7.30
Hallam Foe (18) Thu 8.45
LIVINGSTON
Vue, McArthur Glen Designer Outlet
(0871 224 0240)
NEWTON STEWART
The Cinema, Victoria Street
(01671 403333)
Over Her Dead Body (12A) Wed/Thu 8
OBAN
Highland Theatre, George Street
(01631 562444)
No Country For Old Men (15) 3.45 (Sun/Mon)
8.30 Underdog (U) 1.30 (Sun/Mon) 6.30
Showcase, Griffen Avenue, Phoenix
Business Park
Discovery Theatre, Victoria Street
(0871 220 1000)
P.S. I Love You (12A) Sun-Wed 2.30 (Sun) 7.45
P.S. I Love You (12A) 9.30 Underdog (U)
11.30am, 2.05, 4.10 Sweeney Todd (18) 7.15
(Sun-Tue) 9.55 In The Valley Of Elah (15) SunTue 10 The Water Horse (PG) 11.05am, 2.15,
4.50, 7.25 The Ugly Duckling And Me (U)
11am, 1.15 The Bucket List (12A) 12.20, 2.50,
5.20, 7.50, 10.15 No Country For Old Men (15)
5 (Sun-Tue) 7.45, 10.30 Over Her Dead Body
(12A) Sun-Tue 11.15am, 1.35, 4, 7.05, 9.25; Wed/
Thu 7.05, 9.25 Cloverfield (15) 12.15, 2.40, 5.15,
7.40, 9.50 National Treasure (PG) 11am,
11.30am, 1.50, 2.20, 4.40, 5.10, 7.30, 8, 10.20
Jumper (12A) 11.35am, 12.05, 2, 2.30, 4.25,
5.05, 7.05, 7.45, 9.35, 10.10 All The Boys Love
Mandy Lane (18) 12.45, 3.15, 5.35, 7.55, 10.25
Alvin And The Chipmunks (U) 12.05, 2.30,
4.45 Definitely, Maybe (12A) 7, 9.45 Juno (12A)
11.25am, 2.20, 4.40, 7.10, 9.30 Penelope (U)
11.45am, 2.10, 4.50, 7.15 Be Kind Rewind (12A)
Wed/Thu 11.20am, 2.10, 5.05, 7.35, 10
SALTCOATS
PERTH
Caledonian Playhouse, Murray Street
(01738 623126)
No Country For Old Men (15) 3, 8.10 St
Trinian’s (12A) Sun/Tue 12.30 Cloverfield (15)
8.35 Bee Movie (U) Mon 1 Definitely, Maybe
(12A) 3.10, 5.45 (Sun-Tue) 8.20 Juno (12A) 3.30,
6, 8.30 The Water Horse (PG) 12.20, 3.05, 5.50
National Treasure (PG) 2, 5, 8 Be Kind Rewind
(12A) Wed/Thu 12.30, 5.45 The Bucket List
(12A) 1.05 (Wed/Thu) 3.25, 5.55, 8.25 Jumper
(12A) 1.30 (Wed/Thu) 3.50, 6.10, 8.35 Alvin
And The Chipmunks (U) Sun-Tue 1.30
Enchanted (PG) Sun-Tue 12.55 Penelope (U)
1.10 Over Her Dead Body (12A) 12.40, 5.40
RENFREW
Odeon Braehead, Kings Inch Road
(0871 224 4007)
The Ugly Duckling And Me (U) Sun 10.30am
The Bucket List (12A) 12.30, 3, 5.50 (Sun-Tue/
Thu) 8.30 Underdog (U) Sun 11am Stardust
(PG) Tue 11am Bee Movie (U) Sun 10.30am
The Darjeeling Limited (15) Tue 8 U2 3D (U)
Thu noon, 2.15, 4.30, 6.45, 9 There Will Be
Blood (Subtitled) (15) Mon 4.30 Juno (Parent
And Baby Screening) (12A) Tue 11am There
Will Be Blood (15) 1, 4.30 (Sun/Tue-Thu) 8 The
Water Horse (PG) 12.40 (Sun/Mon/Wed/Thu)
3.20, 6.10, 9.20 The Water Horse (Subtitled)
(PG) Tue 12.40 Sweeney Todd (18) Sun-Tue
9.20 Penelope (U) Sun 10.40am, 1.10, 3.40;
Mon-Thu 1.10, 3.40 (Mon/Tue) Over Her Dead
Body (12A) Sun-Wed 12.10, 2.40, 8.10 No
Country For Old Men (15) Sun-Wed 5.10
National Treasure (PG) 12.20, 2.30, 3.30, 5.30,
6.30, 8.40, 9.40 The Bucket List (Subtitled)
(12A) Wed 5.50 Juno (12A) 1.20, 3.50, 6.20,
8.50 All The Boys Love Mandy Lane (18) 4.50,
7.20, 9.50 Jumper (12A) 12.50, 1.50, 3.10, 4.10,
5.40, 6.40, 8.20, 9.10 Definitely, Maybe (12A) 6
(Sun-Tue) 9 Cloverfield (15) 2, 4.40, 7.10, 9.30
Be Kind Rewind (12A) Wed/Thu 4.20, 7, 9.20
(01700 502151)
Apollo Leisure, Winton Circus
(01294 471777)
Underdog (U) Sun 2.15, 6.15 National Treasure
(PG) Sun noon, 2.30, 5.15, 7.45; Mon-Thu 7.30
The Water Horse (PG) Sun noon, 4, 8; Mon-Thu
7.30
ST ANDREWS
New Picture House, North Street
(01334 473509)
Penelope (U) 2.30 (Sun) 6.25 Over Her Dead
Body (12A) 8.35 Pulp Fiction (18) Wed 9
National Treasure (PG) 2 (Sun) 5.50, 8.25
Atonement (15) 8.25 The Water Horse (PG)
2.20 (Sun) 6
STIRLING
Carlton Cinema, Allanpark Road
(01786 474137)
The Water Horse (PG) 11.45am (Sun) 2.30,
5.15 Enchanted (PG) Sun 11.15am National
Treasure (PG) 1.45, 4.45, 7.45 Cloverfield (15)
8
MacRobert, University Of Stirling,
(01786 466666)
Charlie Wilson’s War (15) Sun 8.15; Mon 5.15
Stardust (PG) Sun 1.30 No Country For Old
Men (15) Sun/Thu 5.15, 8.15 (Thu); Mon/Wed
2.30 (Wed) 7.30; Tue 5 The Rocky Horror
Picture Show (12A) Tue 7.30
Vue, Forthside Road
(0871 2240 240)
Bee Movie (U) Sun 10.30am Cloverfield (15)
1.45 (Sun) 4, 6.20, 8.45 Definitely, Maybe
(12A) 3.20, 8.20 Enchanted (PG) Sun 10.20am
Jumper (12A) 10.50am (Sun) 1 (Sun) 3.30, 6,
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7.50 Over Her Dead Body (12A) 12.50 (Sun)
5.50 Penelope (U) Sun 10am, 12.10 Sweeney
Todd (18) Sun-Tue 9 The Bucket List (12A)
12.40 (Sun) 3.10, 5.40, 8.10
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Sweeney Todd (18) Thu 8.30 P.S. I Love You
(12A) Thu 6
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National Treasure (PG) 3.30 (Sun) 6, 8.30
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(Thu) 8.15
10 REVIEW BOOKS
WE HAVE LIFT-OFF
Andrew Crumey’s hugely ambitious
space-race fantasy puts the Scottish writer
into a new orbit, says David Stenhouse
.
SPUTNIK CALEDONIA
Andrew Crumey
Picador, £7.99
T IS an interesting fact that
two of the most brilliant and
experimental writers of
what we could call scientific
fiction began with academic
specialisms in physics, that purest
and most masculine of the
sciences. Richard Powers, the experimental American writer, enrolled as a physics major in college
before turning to English Literature. Andrew Crumey went one
better and completed a PhD in
theoretical physics.
The two writers on opposite
sides of the Atlantic have been following parallel paths; each writing elegant literary novels which
combine a deep understanding of
theoretical science with ingenious narrative structures.
Some time ago, Powers was
awarded a “genius grant” from
the MacArthur Foundation worth
half a million dollars. In this country, Crumey, who served as literary editor of this newspaper,
scooped the biggest literary prize
going: a £60,000 grant from
Northern Rock allowed him to
write his latest novel full time. As
it turns out, it was one of the
bank’s wiser investments.
Sputnik Caledonia is a bold advance on Crumey’s five previous
novels. In Möbius Dick and Mr
Mee the reader often marvelled at
Crumey’s intelligence and narrative skill but sometimes longed for
something resembling a character to put in an appearance. In
Sputnik Caledonia Crumey’s wit
has matured into broad though
intelligent comedy, science has
been rooted in its social and
historical context, and
characters are distinct
individuals, not types
or exemplars of
I
some narrative trick or astonishing twist.
Like Alasdair Gray’s Lanark,
which it resembles in both scale
and ambition, Sputnik Caledonia
is a novel in separate books in
which a recognisable Scottish
reality is contrasted with a
distorted, fantastical version of
itself.
Section one is a warm, nostalgic
portrait of a West of Scotland
childhood dominated by two
powerful forces, the dreams of our
hero Robbie Coyle, who wants
nothing less than to go into space,
and those of his father Joe.
Joe is the kind of humane, scientifically-minded socialist dad
‘Its sweep
sweep and
‘It’s
andscope
scope
should leave you
should
you
breathless with
breathless
with
aaddmirationn’’
who often appears in Gray’s
novels. Because of his singleminded devotion to socialism (the
Coyle’s neighbours, the Dunbars,
will be first against the wall come
the revolution because of their
conspicuously bourgeois lifestyle), Robbie decides that he
wants to be a cosmonaut. He
spends his time dreaming of a life
in space, though disturbing
pseudo-sexual thoughts flit across
his pre-adolescent mind too.
In section two, Scottish social
realism is translated into
something more disturbing.
Coyle has the chance to live out his
own dreams in a fantasy land
drawn from his father’s: a secretive scientific installation on Scottish soil is devoted to the space
race, but in an alternative political
reality, a British People’s Republic
where the laws
of physics are
taught in terms
of the timeless
principles of
dialectical
materialism.
His mission is to
travel to what in the
capitalist world is
called a “Black Hole”.
In one of this novel’s
wittiest asides he and
his fellow recruits are
told: “We reject the term,
Rocket science: Crumey’s skewed world invites comparisons with Alasdair Gray’s Lanark. Photograph: Neil Hanna
with its colonialist implications,
its unsavoury air of medieval clericalism, its sheer inaccuracy.” Before long it is dubbed the “Red
Star”. Will Coyle qualify for the
mission, and will his messy, inchoate love life ever resolve itself
into an adult relationship? The socialist paradise is closer to a prison camp than Robbie’s dad would
ever have believed. It has made
spies of neighbours, subversives
of Christians and prostitutes of
decent women, forced to sell their
bodies to the political elite to gain
basic foodstuffs. It has also generated one of the most memorable
villains in recent Scottish writing,
the odious Davis, a senior party
apparatchik who makes it his
business to first root out, then exploit human weaknesses.
Section three is both a culmination and a contradiction of much
that has gone before. We are back
in the Scotland of the first section
but Robbie’s parents, Joe and
Anne, are older, failing. Their
broad comedy has soured in the
face of family tragedy, Joe himself
is teetering on the edge of dementia, and they are struggling to deal
with the loss of their son. What
has happened to Robbie?
Not everything works. The novel feels too long and should be
edited in the middle. Robbie is an
oddly inconsistent character, by
turns dreamy and gentle, masterful and occasionally cruel, and the
tone in the final section sometimes swer ves too abruptly
between comedy and pathos.
But the sweep and scope of
Sputnik Caledonia should leave
you breathless with admiration:
not only do we learn, as we often
have from Crumey’s novels before, but we also laugh, a lot. The
final revelation on which the
novel ends is both emotionally
powerful and intensely satisfying.
Sputnik Caledonia is a quantum
leap forward for the Scottish
novel. ❖
www.crumey.toucansurf.com
BOOKS REVIEW 11
Flock together: the media descend
on Cellardyke in Fife in April 2006
after a swan was found infected with
avian flu. Photograph: Julie Howden
Tuber lovers
come feast
or famine
.
PROPITIOUS ESCULENT
John Reader
Heinemann, £18.99
FORDYCE MAXWELL
AN might not be able to live by
bread alone, but he could on
potatoes. Four kilos a day of the
propitious esculent – a grandiose
enough title for a dietary staple – will
provide the protein, calcium and iron
needed for a physical worker, plus
enough of the necessary vitamins for
health and energy. And all fat-free.
It is remarkable, Reader believes, that a
crop which first appeared as small,
knobbly, poisonous tubers thousands of
feet up in the Peruvian Andes became one
of the “calorific engines of civilisation”.
Much of that transition is not recorded, although we can assume that discovering, several thousand years ago,
that small fleshy growths in mountain
soil were poisonous cost lives.
Even in recent history the only certainty about the potato’s appearance in
Europe is that it was not brought by Sir
Walter Raleigh. It might have reached
here by the late 1500s, but, after early
attempts to promote the fleshy tubers as
an aphrodisiac foundered, it took another two centuries before potatoes became as popular as oats and wheat.
Other countries adopted the new crop
sooner and more wholeheartedly. That
led to the Irish famine of 1845 when the
country’s main variety, the Lumper, succumbed to a previously unknown disease – blight, a fungal infection spread by
aphids sucking juice from potato leaves.
It took another 20 years to establish
how blight spread and a further 20 before a mixture of copper sulphate and
lime was recognised as a control of sorts.
M
Our addiction to fear
With modern life safer than ever, why are we in such a panic, asks Bill Jamieson
.
PANICOLOGY
Simon Briscoe and Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Viking, Penguin Books, £20
HAT is it that explains our fixation with fear, our unfailing
susceptibility to panic? We
are living longer and more
healthily than ever. Yet barely
a day passes without a collective panic or
alarm. Climatologists warn of the rising
death toll from global warming, health experts of obesity and binge drinking, financial experts of debt, and welfare workers of
social breakdown. No day seems complete
without the earnest promotion of an issue to
drive us further up the wall of worry.
Blame the media? By all means, since
newspapers and broadcasters are the first
port of call for lobbyists, government quangos and zealous corporate public relations
types anxious to promote their raisons
d’être. Many of the breathless statistics on
problems from wildlife endangerment to
health and safety campaigns come from
governments and official ‘task forces’ desperate for coverage and to justify their
grants and budgets.
The paradox is greater still when you consider the triumph of secular thinking over
religious belief and the relentless rise of
scepticism about governments, official institutions and experts. We have never been
better equipped to deal with irrational or
exaggerated scares. Yet panic has never
been more popular. Can we ever break this
addiction? And if so, how?
Panicology, written by Simon Briscoe (an
economist) and Hugh Aldersey-Williams
W
(writer and curator), sets out to cure us. It
does so by taking a dispassionate look at
some top 40 scares, ranging from killer
birds to rising sea levels and death by heat.
Bird flu is an obvious example. Throughout
the winter of 2005-06 this was billed as an
impending human pandemic that would
wipe out a large proportion of the Earth’s
population. Yet the H5N1 type of flu virus
had led to the deaths of fewer than 300
people worldwide.
The book is upbeat and reassuring in
tone. Have any of these scares led to the
devastation that they were deemed capable
of unleashing? Not yet. Might they do so in
future? Possibly – but unlikely.
Readers will wrestle with a scoring sys-
‘Birdflu
flu was
was billed
‘Bird
billedasasa a
pandemic that
pandemic
thatwould
would
wipeout
out much
much ofofthe
wipe
the
Earth’s population’
population’
Earth’s
tem that seeks to rank each panic example
through a triple assessment: scores of zero
to five for panic, risk and “personal empowerment” (what we can do about it). It is
not clear how the ‘panic-meter’ scores are
arrived at, or how the risk is assessed. It
might have been useful to have had some
measure of panic persistency – over how
many months, for example, did it receive
media attention, or whether any of the dire
consequences ever came to pass.
Assessing risk is more problematic. Two
of the examples cited – personal debt and
house prices – have become considerably
more of a worry since this book went to
press. Indeed, the whole sub-prime mortgage lending debacle in the US which
triggered the global credit crisis, massive
bad debt write-offs by banks and quick-fire
cuts by the world’s biggest central bank to
stave off recession may be seen as a prime
example of how experts under-priced risk.
As a result, highly toxic debt was spread
through the world’s financial system.
It is also wrong to say, as the authors do,
that queues of worried investors outside
Northern Rock were not logical. Until
Chancellor Alistair Darling stated that he
was extending the guarantee to savers to
cover deposits up to £100,000, withdrawing your uncovered savings was absolutely
the rational thing to do.
What the growing Faculty of Panic Studies really needs is not another trot round
the familiar examples of scares and panics
with an obvious sceptical toolkit, but a
more thoughtful discussion as to why we
have a predisposition to buy the panic story
and whether it is more or less pronounced
than in previous generations.
It does seem that there are more scares
about. But Charles Mackay’s Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of
Crowds was first published in 1841. It catalogued public obsessions with witchcraft,
mesmerism and tulips, as well as fears of
annihilation by everything from flooding to
chemical poisons.
So is there anything new here at all? The
safer and more health-conscious our lifestyles appear to be, the more we are fixated
by visions of sudden, inexplicable and horrible death, against which, it seems, we are
powerless. Might it just be that we enjoy the
thrill of an unsafe world? ❖
‘Early attempts
attempts to
‘Early
to
promote them
them as
promote
asan
an
aphrodisiac foundered’
aphrodisiac
foundered’
That was also the origin of today’s multibillion-pound agrochemical industry.
Breeders are also working on blightresistant varieties, a long-term process
because the potato is a tuber. Once
established a variety produces identical
clones for ever to the gratitude of amateur gardeners everywhere.
Breeding a new variety has to start
with seeds produced, and collected,
from the leaves above ground. Luck can
play as big a part as skill and amateur
and scientific breeders have produced a
succession of new varieties.
Reader argues persuasively that the
future of a crop of which most of us know
little more than what appears on our
plate mashed, boiled, baked or chipped,
can be as fascinating and productive as
its past. If only blight could be beaten.
12 REVIEW BOOKS
You wouldn’t like to see Mr Hyde
when his pants catch fire…
The One Book, One Edinburgh version
of Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
is now out, and with it, a number of
events – including a screening of the
classic 1920 silent film version, with
John Barrymore, at the Edinburgh
Filmhouse next Saturday. The press
release claims there are 123 film
versions – a fact I decided to check.
Let’s just say a pinch of salt might be
required, since the 123 includes The
Nutty Professor (1963 and 1996
versions); Fight Club; and an episode
of Gilligan’s Island. There’s also a
surprising number of, ahem, adult
versions; including Dr Sexual And Mr
Hyde and others where Hyde is a lady
nymphomaniac. Surprisingly,
the most famous Hyde rip-off
– The Incredible Hulk – isn’t
mentioned. My brother has,
however, sent me a weblink –
kennethjohnson.us/HulkOutList.html
– which lists all 117
Hulk transformations.
It’s hilarious – especially
“Having several clay pots
broken over his head in the
middle of a burning room, and
then knocking an entire case of
same clay pots on to same head,
and then, while lying very still
and struggling not to get angry,
having his pants catch fire”.
Mind the quality
Why Zadie will get
this judge’s vote
What’s more contentious than
awarding a literary prize? Well, not
awarding one. Zadie Smith, below,
judging this year’s Willesden Herald
£500 short story competition,
decided to do just that, on the
grounds that the judges “could not
find the greatness we’d hoped for”.
Not only do I sympathise, I’m inclined
to say Hallelujah. Too often prizes go
to “the best of a bad lot”, or “the
committee’s least disliked option”. To
actually stand up for quality
that you believe in, pure and
simple, has become rather
unfashionable in the
literary world, especially
with a (collective noun
deleted) of bloggers
ready to cry elitism
whenever
they’re
overlooked.
This year I’d
like to see
Zadie Smith
not awarding
all the literary
prizes, up to
and including
the Nobel.
I don’t know if there is a collective
noun for authors, although
apparently, it’s an “obscurity of
poets”, and, since I’ve just checked
the ever-unreliable Wikipedia, it’s a
“worship of writers”, but whatever
you call them when there’s a gaggle of
them altogether, that’s what there
was at the Society of Authors
Scotland Conference last Saturday. It
was a rather interesting event, with
one question on everyone’s lips:
“Where can I get a load of money?” Of
course, the Digital World loomed
large as both opportunity for
boundless riches and threat of
absolute impecuniosity. The
presentation by two chaps from
a rather nebulous internet
company was full of vim and
promise, although the more
specific they got, the more my
confidence waned. It’s de
rigueur (or e-rigueur) to
give away things for free,
and as they itemised the
various “freemium”
possibilities (e-texts,
audio recordings,
copies of everything
you’ve ever written)
one snag appeared
– under most
authors’ contracts, all those things
belong to the old-fashioned paper
and ink publisher.
Exasperated, one eventually said
the authors should give away all the
chapters and paragraphs cut out by
nasty old editors. So “quality
content” actually meant “off-cuts and
first drafts”.
Jacket required
This July, HarperCollins are
publishing a novel by Sean Dixon
called The Last Days Of The Lacuna
Cabal – which involves a Canadian
Book Club who end up in Iraq on
account of reading The Epic Of
Gilgamesh.
Sounds cute enough: but the
publishers have teamed up with the
Saatchi Gallery to solicit designs for
the cover. There are details at
www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/
lacunacabal.
Given the
reputed depths
of the Saatchi
pockets, it
might be the
beginning of a
very lucrative
career for
someone.
ROUND-UP: GRAPHIC NOVELS
BRITTEN &
BRÜLIGHTLY
Hannah Berry
Jonathan Cape
£12.99
The first of three crime
graphic novels kicks off with
an impressive debut from
Brighton University
illustration graduate
Hannah Berry. Set in a
beautifully evoked bygone
era, it’s a tale of private
investigation that takes its
narrative cue from the
writing of Dashiell Hammett
and its visual styling from
American film noir. The
protagonist is a PI named
Fernández Britten, whose
probings into the sordid
lives of his clients has
earned him the nickname
Heartbreaker. The case
here involves one such
client with numerous
skeletons in the closet.
Also try: Kickback by
David Lloyd
CRIMINAL:
LAWLESS
Ed Brubaker
and Sean
Phillips
Titan Books £9.99
It’s back to the boys for
the second volume of
writer Brubaker and
illustrator Phillips’ almost
irredeemably hard-bitten
ongoing series of stories
about criminal low-lifes up
to no good in modern-day
America. Lawless features
a traumatised Iraq War
veteran returning home to
avenge the murder of his
kid brother by hooking up
with a gang of thieves who
may have had something
do with it. But the plot
takes an unexpected twist
and a sympathetic
emotional note is
introduced into the
otherwise bleak and
cynical proceedings.
Also try: Criminal: Coward
by Brubaker and Phillips
100
BULLETS:
ONCE UPON
A CRIME
Brian Azzarello
and Eduardo
Risso
Titan Books/Vertigo £8.99
Those coming to 100
Bullets for the first time are
likely to be flummoxed by
this 11th edition of Azzarello
and Risso’s projected 13volume labyrinthine crime
saga. All the more reason
to go back to the beginning
and read the previous 10
collections. Once Upon A
Crime catches up with a
group of enforcers of a
secret cartel that runs
America who, at this late
stage in the grand
narrative, have split into
three factions and look set
to whack one another.
Also try: 100 Bullets: First
Shot, Last Call by
Azzarello and Risso
MILES FIELDER
BOOKS REVIEW 13
An inquiry into divine deceivers will soon convince you it’s a literary masterpiece, writes Stuart Kelly
The trick is
to keep you
reading
.
TRICKSTER MAKES THIS WORLD
Lewis Hyde
Canongate, £16.99
HERE has to be a better
word than “non-fiction”.
Any genre would buckle
if it had to encompass
memoirs, travelogue,
polemics, history, belles-lettres,
biography, essays, popular science and every other academic
discipline under the sun. In recent
years there have been rushes
around certain subjects (atheism,
for example, or the ethics of food)
and fashions for certain methods
(the “surprisingly interesting history” of longitude, aspirin, cholera or cod). But here’s a test: how
often do you re-read a non-fiction
book for its literary qualities
rather than just refer back to it?
But amid the information overload there are gems. Rebecca Solnit, Rachel Cohen, Paul Collins
and Richard Klein have all written persistingly good literature
based on facts and opinions
rather than characters and plots.
Lewis Hyde’s new book is an exemplar of what this genre can
achieve: it is a masterpiece.
His subject is deceptively
simple. All cultures have “trickster gods”: Hermes in Greece,
Loki in Scandinavia, Eshu to the
Yoruba, Coyote to the Navajo,
T
Monkey to Chinese Buddhism
and Seventies television. Trickster gods are associated with
crossroads and boundaries,
points of change and transition.
They are both benefactors (stealing fire or food from Heaven) and
inveterate troublemakers. They
represent luck or chance, in its
fortuitous and malign forms.
As he explores the prevalence of
this archetype, Hyde finds deeper
resonances. These cock-snooking
immortals are creators of culture,
commerce and art, at the same
time as creating dirt, theft and lies.
They are “incorrigibly plural” to
use the poet Louis MacNeice’s
phrase. In a universe of black and
white, they are black and white and
red all over, like either a newspaper
or a sunburnt penguin. Whenever
there’s an either/or, they’re both,
and neither.
Trickster Makes This World is
structured around broad themes
associated with these gods,
mostly derived from the Homeric
Hymn to Hermes (which Hyde
translates in full). He covers appetites and accidents, impurity
and impudence, “speechless
shame and shameful speech”.
But Hyde’s book isn’t simply an
enquiry into ancient myths. Along
the way his journey into legends
rubs against modern art. John
Cage, Marcel Duchamp, Allen
Ginsberg and Robert Mappleth-
orpe all echo blips on his radar.
Not only art, but genetics, ethnography, contemporary politics –
heck, the whole “non-fiction”
charabanc goes along too.
There is something of the trickster about Hyde himself. His imagination is serendipitous. He may
‘Theyare
are black
‘They
blackand
and
white and
and red
white
red
allover,
over, like
all
likeaa
sunburnt penguin’
sunburnt
penguin’
start out discussing the Fon trickster, Legba, but he soon leaps to
Carl Jung, alchemy, Mardi Gras
and the Carnivalesque, rightwing attacks on arts funding, Aids
and Platonism. It is the kind of
non-fiction writing in which
where we end up can hardly be
deduced from where we start out.
The most daring parts of the
book are concerned with Frederick Douglass, the 19th-century
former slave and abolitionist. On
the face of it, little connects the
sincerity, social conscience and
evangelical ardour of Douglass
with these gods of chance and
chaos. Hyde then picks out subtle
parallels – Douglass “steals away”
and “steals” his education, he
crosses boundaries, he eludes categories (as Hyde puts it, Douglass
“became a black man”, despite his
white father and rumoured Indian ancestry). But while he illuminates these links, Hyde also stresses
the crucial differences between
Douglass and the trickster gods;
showing how radicals are coopted into the society they’ve
Charming: Hermes, or Mercury as the
Romans knew him, sends Argos to
sleep with his flute before killing him,
in the painting by Abraham Hondius
changed, and how, despite challenging authority, Douglass ends
up re-affirming it. Whereas traditional non-fiction is content to explicate its topic, Hyde’s work constantly complicates its material.
The thrilling thing about reading non-fiction such as Hyde’s is
not just that it gives you new
thoughts: it also changes the way
you think. Like its subject, Trickster Makes This World resis ts
simple classification. I wonder
where it will be shelved in bookstores, given that it might happily
sit in philosophy, folklore, criticism, history, religion, art or that
vague catch-all “cultural studies”.
Wherever they put it, seek it out. ❖
Poignant search for calmer waters in father’s wake
.
THE ROWING LESSON
Anne Landsman
Granta, £12
VANESSA CURTIS
N THIS ambitious follow-up to
her much-praised debut, Anne
Landsman makes the brave
and unusual decision to write in
second-person narrative throughout. Betsy Klein is called away
from her home in America to the
bedside of her dying father, Harold. As he deteriorates, she whiles
away the endless tedium of sitting
I
in a ward by reliving her father’s
life as it might have happened. We
glimpse Betsy’s father as a child,
sitting around the dinner table
with his chaotic family: “You’ve
never ever wanted to eat in this
house, with its brown walls and
brown food and brown couch,
browning like the onions always
browning , browning on the
stove.” And then time propels us
forwards to the bedside of the
grown man at the end of his life.
Landsman displays an enviable
ability to draw full portraits with
the minimum of strokes, convey-
ing the daunting strength and
power that emanate from Harold
even as he lies close to death. Over
the course of the novel, Harold
moves from being a child to an
ambitious and determined medical student and then a pioneering
doctor. Respected by his patients
in later life, Harold fails to win the
trust and support of his own family in quite the same way: the teenage Betsy suffers from “the snuffling terrors” as she waits for her
father to react to a brother failing
his first-year exams.
Landsman excels at taking an
object and revealing its painful associations. Offered the engagement ring on her mother’s finger as
she waits for her father to die, Betsy
stares into the “unblinking hard
stone” of her parents’ marriage.
Ageing and imminent ill health
figure highly, along with the
stench and decay of hospitals and
death. A wry humour balances out
the gloom: “My mother was thickening at the waist, middle age
congealing like a slow-cooking
stew.” The complexity of the father/daughter relationship is mercilessly examined in this tale of
love mixed with resentment, devotion soured by frustration.
Despite the author’s unique
voice and the lyricism of her prose,
it proves difficult at times to find a
core to this novel. The Rowing Lesson floats away before the reader
can truly get to grips with it, a little
like the boat implied by the title in
which Betsy and her father sail,
caught by the wind and propelled
too quickly downstream.
Anne Landsman will be at the next
Gliterary Lunch at the Jam House,
Edinburgh, on February 28
www.gliterarylunches.com
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Teen horror icon Sarah Michelle Gellar would ratherplay an offbeat porn star than a romantic lead – so long
Neill MacColl and Kathryn Williams didn’t realise how
much they had in common until they hit the
haven’t
told you this
says has
Neill resulted
like
In most of their
sentences
a full-stop‘Itisfeels
bumped
out of headed
into her studio,
or rather
a garage with some
studio. Their
shared
folkbefore,"
legacy
in an
album
toI’vecherish,
discovers
Chitra
Ramaswamy
“
I
‘I
MacColl to Kathryn Williams, "but when
you sing with me on ‘Innocent When
HAVEN’T told you this before,” says Neill MacColl
YouWilliams,
Dream’ you
sound
mum
did
to Kathryn
“but
whenlike
youmy
sing
on ‘InwhenYou
sheDream’
was inyou
hersound
twenties.
It’smum
very
nocent When
like my
odd." Considering
MacColl’s
mother
is Peggy
did when she
was in her
twenties.
It’s verySeeger,
odd.”
Considering
MacColl’s
is Peggy
the American
folk singer
for mother
whom his
fatherSeeger,
Ewan
the
American
folkthe
singer
for whom
his father,
MacColl
wrote
classic
‘First Time
Ever Ewan
I SawMacYour
Coll,
wrote
the
classic
‘First
Time
Ever
I
Saw
Your
Face’
Face’, I’m not surprised Williams is tickled pink
at, I’m
the
not surprised Williams is tickled pink at the comparison.
comparison. "That is weird," says the Mercury-nominated
“That is weird,” says the Mercury-nominated folk singer.
singer.
thinkfit
ourtogether,
voices fit like
together,
when
“I folk
think
our "I
voices
whenlike
you
hearyou
a
hear aand
brother
and sister singing." "I think we need
brother
sister singing.”
therapy,"
MacColl
quips. Both
of them
dissolve
into
gig“I think we
need therapy,”
MacColl
quips.
Both of
them
dissolve
gles. into giggles.
We’re
atin
Inverness’s
Eden
We’re
Inverness’s
EdenCourt
Courttheatre,
theatre,where
wherethe
theduo
duo
will later perform songs from their upcoming album, Two,
will later perform songs from their brilliant upcoming
one of which is a whimsical cover of Tom Waits’ ‘Innocent
album, Two, one of which is a whimsical cover of Tom
When You Dream’. They’re doing warm-up gigs in the
Waits’ ‘Innocent
When
You Dream’
. They’re doing
warmHighlands
because,
according
to Williams,
their music
up gigs
themountains,
Highlands because,
according
to Williams
goes
withinthe
and because
MacColl,
whose
father
a Scot,
takes
every
head
north.
theirwas
music
goes
with
theopportunity
mountainsto(it
does),
and
Two is a sublime
record
of intimate
folkasongs,
and
because
MacColl,
whose
father was
Scot, written
takes every
recorded
by Williams
and
MacColl in less than a fortnight at
opportunity
to head
north.
her studio in Newcastle. Like all great collaborations, from
Two is a sublime, understated record of intimate folk
June Carter and Johnny Cash to Robert Plant and Alison
songs,
written
and recorded
by Williams
and MacColl in
Krauss, it’s
the frisson
between them,
in this case
less
than a fortnight
at her
studio
in Newcastle. Like all
the
marriage
of Williams’
sweet,
hushed
greatwith
collaborations,
fromharmonies
June Carter and Johnny Cash
vocals
MacColl’s high
and
fragilePlant
guitar
to Robert
and Alison Krauss, it’s the frisson between
p ithem,
c k i n gin
s , this
t h a tcase the marriage of Williams’ sweet,
makes
it
so
very
hushed vocals with MacColl’s high harmonies and fraggood.
ile guitar pickings, that makes it so very good.
It ’s not
It’sisnot surprising, then, to see how much they like each
su rpr
other.
ing
then"It’s funny how people suddenly enter your life and
it," says Williams. "I just can’t imagine not having
toshape
see how
much
Neillaffecaround now." She looks at him and starts laughing.
stripped
away a and
the way by a hearty laugh, and, not unlike
a brother
layer, andvery
it helps
me
sister, they love teasing one another. "You’re
quiet,
tion they have for each other. “It’s
grow
as
a
writer
and
Neill."
Williams
mocks.
"I
feel
the
same,"
he
mumbles,
funny how people suddenly enter
looking
pleased.
your
life and
shape it,” says Williams. “I artist… ‘It feels like
stripped
awayher
a
Arriving
with
husband,
who
is also
can’t
imagine
not Williams’
having Neill
around I’ve
now.”
In most
of their
sentences
full-layerhats
and and
it helps
manager,
all three
of them
sportawoolly
order
stop
is bumped
outsalads.
of the way
a hearty
me growthey
as a writer
poached
salmon
Thebynight
before,
played
laugh,
and,
not
unlike
a
brother
and
andartistand
‘It feels
like
their first ever gig together in Fortsister,
William,
despite
they love teasing one another. “You’re very
being seasoned performers - Williams has released six
quiet, Neill,” Williams mocks. “I feel the
albumsheand
MacColl
has played
with Eddi Reader, Steve
same,”
mumbles,
looking
pleased.
Earle and KD Lang amongst others - they tell me they had
never been so nervous. They made mistakes - it is a warmup tour, after all - and couldn’t look at each other because
they were terrified they would start laughing and never
be able to stop. Sure enough, later that evening on stage,
every time their eyes meet I’m convinced it’s going to set
them off.
They first met a couple of years ago at a folk concert
in Cork where, aptly, they sang ‘First Time Ever I Saw Your
Face’. The song was Williams’ choice. "It was funny
when we rehearsed it, because I kept saying ‘don’t play
it like that, do it like this’," she giggles. "I’ve done it loads
of times, and with all due respect to the people I’ve played
it with, I never felt it was to satisfaction," says MacColl.
"Until this time."
They agreed on the spot that they wanted to work
together, but Williams was about to have a baby and it
took them more than a year to meet up. In the meantime,
they sent each other "haiku jokes". "They weren’t strict
haikus, because they have to be 17 syllables, don’t they?"
asks MacColl. "I stuck to 17 syllables," boasts Williams.
"No, you didn’t. I counted every one of them," he bats back.
Eventually, MacColl went to stay with Williams and they
instruments in it. Everything happened unbelievably fast.
"In six days we had 22 finished songs," says MacColl. They
Arriving with Williams’ husband, who is also her manhad
never
written
together
had
barely
the
ager,
all three
of them
sportand
woolly
hats
and been
orderin
poached
same
room
but somehow,
it worked.
Me’, ever
a
salmon
salads.
The night before,
they‘Come
playedWith
their first
breathtaking,
song about
friends
deciding
gig together romantic
in Fort William
and, two
despite
being
seasoned
performers
– Williams
has released
six was
albums
and Macwhether
to take
their relationship
further,
completed
has played
Steve
Earle"It
and
KD
Lang
inColl
an hour
and awith
half.Eddi
And Reader,
they were
drunk.
was
late
amongst
others
–
they
tell
me
they
had
never
been
at night after dinner and we were like, let’s just do one so
nervous. They made mistakes – it is a warm-up tour after all
more hour," recalls Williams. "Then whoosh, it came out."
– and couldn’t look at each other because they were terSimilarly,
Williams
inand
one
on to
MacColl
rified
they would
startwalked
laughing
beday
unable
stop. Sure
singing
‘Innocent
When
You Dream’
in the
studio
warm
enough,
later that
evening
on stage,
every
timetotheir
eyes
upmeet
his voice.
She insisted
theyto
record
it, with
I’m convinced
it’s going
set them
off. her backfirstsomet
couple
of "Before
years ago
a folk
ing vocals,They
and did
in a asingle
take.
weat
started making this album Neill wasn’t confident about
singing at all," says Williams. "But it sounded so lovely."
"I have sung all my life but I’ve got out of the habit and
if you don’t exercise the muscle, you lose confidence," he
admits.
In the past Williams has been described as timid.
"I’ve changed since having a baby," she says. "I used to
get terrible stage fright. Doing this used to mean everything to me to the point where I wouldn’t be able to sleep
if I’d played a wrong note. I’d feel like everything was
against me and I had terrible paranoia. But having a baby
changed everything because now that’s the most important thing. And once you’ve pushed a human body out
of your arse, what is there to be nervous about?"
When it came to recording Two, Williams and MacColl
wanted to capture the moment instead of tweaking
each song endlessly to create something perfect, a
process which produces what Williams calls "plastic
surgery records, because they’re the equivalent of sticking a needle of Botox in your face". They wanted it to be
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concert in Cork where, aptly, they sang ‘First Time Ever I
spirit
to song
the folk
the early
Sawcloser
Your in
Face’
. The
wasrecordings
Williams’ of
choice.
“It Sevenwas
ties,
like we
those
of MacColl’s
parents.
funny
when
rehearsed
it because
I kept saying ‘don’t
brings
their
families.
Williams’ father was
play itWhich
like that,
do itme
liketothis’
,” she
laughs.
“I’ve
done
it loadsinofLiverpool
times, and
all dueAfter
respect
a folk
musician
in with
the Sixties.
sheto
tells
the me,
people
I’ve
played
it
with,
I
never
felt
it
was
to
with a deadpan expression, that her father is satin fact
isfaction,” says MacColl. “Until this time.”
Ewan MacColl, and we get the ensuing laughter out of
They agreed on the spot that they wanted to work tothe way, they tell me a lovely story about an old tape
gether, but Williams was about to have a baby and it took
recorder
andaset
ofto
tapes
bought
yearsthey
ago at
them
more than
year
meetWilliams
up. In the
meantime,
flea market.
She stored
under
the strict
bed where
Macsentaeach
other “haiku
jokes”.them
“They
weren’t
haikus,
because
they while
have to
bemade
17 syllables,
they?” asks
Coll slept
they
Two anddon’t
only recently
redisMacColl.
“I stuck
to"The
17 syllables,”
boasts
“No, you of
covered
them.
tapes were
fullWilliams.
of rare recordings
didn’t.
I
counted
every
one
of
them,”
he
bats
back.
his mum and dad playing live at folk festivals in 1962,"
Eventually, MacColl went to stay with Williams and they
she says. They both shake their heads, bemused and
headed into her studio, or rather a garage with some
delightedinby
coincidence.
instruments
it.the
Everything
happened unbelievably fast.
of them
passionate
about
music They
from a
“In sixBoth
days we
had 22were
finished
songs,” says
MacColl.
though
Williams
shy and
used
had young
never age,
written
together
andwas
hadpainfully
barely been
in the
same
butplay
somehow
it secret.
worked.
‘Come
With
, a so
toroom,
sing and
guitar in
This
is why
sheMe’
sings
breathtaking,
romantic
about
two
friendswith
deciding
quietly, she
reckons.song
MacColl
was
touring
his parwhether
to
take
their
relationship
further,
was
completed
ents at six months, started playing guitar at 10, and was
in an hour and a half. And they were drunk. “It was late at
in his parents’ band as a teenager. When did he realise,
night after dinner and we were like, let’s just do one more
though,
his was
not awhoosh,
conventional
"It
hour,”
recallsthat
Williams.
“Then
it camechildhood?
out.”
was hammered
home when
came
to my
junior
Similarly,
Williams walked
in one they
day on
MacColl
singing
schoolWhen
and played,"
he winces.
thought
I wasup
going
‘Innocent
You Dream’
in the "I
studio
to warm
his to
voice.
insisted they record it, with her backing vocals,
dieShe
of embarrassment."
and did so in a single take. “Before we started making this
Williams’
son may
only be two
years
old butathe’s
already
album,
Neill wasn’t
confident
about
singing
all,”
says
written “But
his first
song and
regularly taken on tour with
Williams.
it sounded
sois
lovely.”
hishave
parents,
just
MacColl
was,
while
both and
of his
“I
sung all
mylike
life but
I’ve got
out of
the habit
if
you
don’t exercise
the
you both
lose confidence,”
he says.
teenage
sons are
inmuscle,
bands. For
of them, music
realIn
the
past Williams
has
been described
timid.
“I’ve
ly is
a family
affair. Did
MacColl
ever makeas
music
with
his
changed since having a baby,” she says. “I used to get
half-sister, Kirsty, the renowned singer-songwriter who
terrible stage fright. Doing this used to mean everything to
tragically died in a boat accident? He falls quiet at her menme to the point where I wouldn’t be able to sleep if I’d
tion. "She
was note.
in oneI’d
offeel
my first
whenwas
I was
15," he
played
a wrong
like bands
everything
against
threw
her paranoia.
out because
wehaving
didn’t need
a girl
singer.
mesays.
and"We
I had
terrible
But
a baby
changed
everything
because
nowThe
that’s
theAddicts,
most important
Her first proper
band,
Drug
threw herthing.
out as
And
once
you’ve
pushed
a human
body what
out ofgave
yourher
arse,
well
for the
same
reason.
Maybe that’s
the
what
is
there
to
be
nervous
about?”
strength that she needed to go, well, fuck you. There was
When it came to recording Two, Williams and MacColl
only six months between us so it was a close bond."
wanted to capture the moment instead of tweaking each
quickly
stepssomething
in. "I had aperfect,
band with
my sissongWilliams
endlessly
to create
a process
ter when
I was 14,"
sheWilliams
says. "Wecalls
wore“plastic
pink tops
and miniwhich
produces
what
surgery
reskirtsbecause
and were
calledthe
Yakequivalent
Attack." It works:
MacColl
starts
cords,
they’re
of sticking
a needle
of laughing.
Botox in your
face”.
They
wanted
it to
beacloser
"That’s
the
perfect
name
for
band in
forspirit
you,"
to the folk recordings of the early Seventies, like those of
he teases. She sticks two fingers up at him, and just like
that they’re off again. ❖
‘Come With Me’ is released Feb 25, with the album, Two, to follow
MacColl’s parents. Which brings me to their families. WilMar 3 (Caw).
Kathryn
and Neill MacColl
play Red Rooms,
Perth,
liams’
father
wasWilliams
a folk musician
in Liverpool
in the
SixMar 24,
Cabaret
Voltaire,
Edinburgh,
Mar 25, and
Classic Grand,
Glasties.
After
she tells
me,
with a deadpan
expression,
that
her
gow, Maris26in fact Ewan MacColl, and we get the ensuing
father
laughter out of the way, they tell me a lovely story about an
old tape recorder and set of tapes Williams bought years
ago at a flea market. She stored them under the bed where
MacColl slept while they made Two and only recently
rediscovered them. “The tapes were full of rare recordings
of his mum and dad playing live at folk festivals in 1962,”
she says. They both shake their heads, bemused and delighted by the coincidence.
Both of them were passionate about music from a young
age, though Williams was painfully shy and used to sing and
play guitar in secret. This is why she sings so quietly, she
reckons. MacColl was touring with his parents at six months
old, started playing guitar at 10, and was in his parents’ band
as a teenager. When did he realise, though, that his was not a
conventional childhood? “It was hammered home when
they came to my junior school and played,” he winces. “I
thought I was going to die of embarrassment.”
Williams’ son may only be two years old, but he’s already
written his first song and is regularly taken on tour with
his parents, just like MacColl was, while both of his teenage sons are in bands. For both of them, music really is a
family affair. Did MacColl ever make music with his halfsister, Kirsty, the renowned singer-songwriter who tragically died in a boat accident? He falls quiet at her mention. “She was in one of my first bands when I was 15,” he
says. “We threw her out because we didn’t need a girl
singer. Her first proper band, The Drug Addicts, threw her
out for the same reason. Maybe that’s what gave her the
strength that she needed to go, well, f**k you. There were
only six months between us so it was a close bond.”
Williams quickly steps in. “I had a band with my
sister when I was 14,” she says. “We wore pink tops and
mini-skirts and were called Yak Attack.” It works:
MacColl starts laughing. “That’s the perfect name
for a band for you,” he teases. She sticks two
fingers up at him, and just like that they’re off
again. ❖
Come With Me is released on February 25, with the
album, Two, released March 3 (Caw). Kathryn
Williams and Neill MacColl play Red Rooms, Perth,
March 24; Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, March 25;
and Classic Grand, Glasgow,
March 26
www.kathrynwilliams.
net/two
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Comedian
Andy
Parsons
shares his
top five
musical
moments
AMERICAN IDIOT
Green Day
This is the song I go on stage to – I
just love the guitar riff. It’s powerful,
emotive, I just think it’s brilliant. I’m
hoping to persuade Green Day to let
me use the guitar riff as a sort of
musical interlude to cut between
scenes in my new sitcom for Radio 4.
ALL THESE THINGS
THAT I’VE DONE
The Killers
I play this song as a kind of warm-up
for my stand-up shows – it’s one of
those songs I really like, it really gets
me in the mood for performing. I saw
The Killers at the Brixton Academy
last year, where they performed this
song; I’ve never seen so many people
dancing. It was like a massive party.
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overcooked.
Country and rock in
equal measure,
sometimes fused as one
with the deftest of
touches, slow twists such
as ‘She Only Calls Me On
Sundays’ or sedate
anthems such as ‘We’ll
Get By’ are equally
rewarding.
The title track’s wailing
harmonica and soaring
chorus are a beautiful
modernising of the old
Southern rock school.
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Mika
Glastonbury last year was fantastic,
although the weather wasn’t – it was
raining for more or less the whole
festival. Anyway, Mika had been
performing this song, when suddenly
the sun decided to come out for the
first time that weekend. The whole
crowd decided to get up and dance
after that. It was one of those
moments where you can’t really
explain to anyone why it was any
good, yet it was.
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Thomas Ravenscroft
Back in the heady days of sketch
comedy in the Nineties, I gave out
some musical handbells to the
audience during a show of mine at
the Edinburgh Festival and
attempted to have them perform
‘Three Blind Mice’. It was an absolute
triumph on the first night, but one of
the audience stole one of the bells.
We never noticed until the following
night when we tried to do it again.
Needless to say, it didn’t work.
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I went to the gig with a friend of
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Weller fan in the world. He had
unfortunately contracted food
poisoning and during the first song of
the night had to dash to the toilet. He
spent the whole gig being sick,
missing out on what ended up being
acclaimed as the best show Weller
had done for years. I still gleefully
recount the night’s set list to him.
Andy Parsons appears at The
Garage, Glasgow (0870 013 5464),
on March 7
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by the rise of five young
men from Sussex playing
pop in powdered form?
Instant in every way:
bland, and lacking any
taste or substance.
Guitars introducing
‘Without You’ are coated
in syrupy synths, and
though the band aspire
to being Supertramp
they end up sounding
like Edison Lighthouse.
The title track echoes
Matt Monro’s ‘We’re
Gonna Change The
World’ with its happyclappy philosophy, while
S Club 7 might have done
a better job of ‘Won’t Go
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probably won’t.
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★★★★★
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It was a great gag:
dungareed hillbillies give
the rocking repertoire of
AC/DC the bluegrass
treatment.
Seven albums on, the
band have made a record
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This is a lovingly curated collection of
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instigated by the tenacious US label,
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Having personally lost or
misplaced 10 or more of these 7"
slices of Caledonian 20th-century
culture to thoughtless storage and
multiple house moves, it is amazing
to hear all of them spruced up to
sound so sparkly on this CD.
The accompanying booklet is
painstakingly researched, and a
fascinating snapshot of social history.
From Edinburgh proto-art rockers
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Jim, this is a fascinating sweep of
comprised of original
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accomplishment but a
sense of humour
seriously laboured.
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recall Dr Hook without
the gnarled charm;
agreeably daft but too
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‘Baghdad Dream’, and his
only chart hit, ‘Romeo’s
Tune’, gets a facelift.
Uillean pipes, mandolin,
campfire harmonica and
accordion also make
appearances, but it’s
mostly business as usual
for the veteran folk rocker
and songwriter. Irony and
a rueful sense of fun are
here from the opening
track’s meditation on (his
own) ‘Middle Age’ to its
companion lyric ‘Thirty
More Years’, while love
gets sentimental in ‘Man,
I Miss That Girl’ and
‘You’re Meant For Me’,
then cosmically divine in
Scottish bands operating on the
periphery of the critical radar.
Context is provided by better known
names such as The Fire Engines, and
that group’s Tam Dean Burn-fronted
predecessors, The Dirty Reds.
The Ettes represent the chafing
chord-driven aspirations of lesser
known but equally bright capital
lights, while Ian Burgoyne’s
Jazzateers’ smooth sounds pre-empt
the lounge stylings of many an
Eighties’ Glasgow outfit.
Sadly it is hard to imagine anyone
in Scotland devoting the same time
and attention to detail to produce
such a labour of love. Those who lived
through the era may be startled at the
enduring quality of music seemingly
fuelled solely by the sense of urgency
incumbent of the time.
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‘I Will Sing Your Praise’.
Forbert holds up a
musical mirror to the
times, but feels no hurry
to do anything about it.
NORMAN CHALMERS
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CALUM STEWART
Earlywood
★★★★★
Earlywood EWCD01,
£11.99
The six-holed wooden
flute has undergone a
revival over the last 20
years, having fallen out of
sight from its 19th century
heyday. Joining the
handful of accomplished
Scottish performers is
Morayshire’s Calum
Stewart. This remarkable
talent has already
collaborated with Nitin
Sawhney and Iranian
musicians, and Stewart’s
determination to take the
flute out of its sonic tramlines is the main feature of
his debut album – a
showcase of assertive
technique and
imaginative instrumental
interplay.
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JAZZ
RUBY BRAFF
Little Things Live In Dublin
1976
★★★★★
Nagel Heyer 104, £13.99
A good live recording
should make you wish
you were there – and, for
the most part, this one
does. Cornetist Braff is at
the peak of his powers,
both on hard-swinging
roof-raisers and on
gentle ballads. His
masterful tone is
complemented by the
piano work of Tony
Drennan, and the overall
impression is of a
relaxed, friendly session.
But did the CD have to
include a final track
entitled ‘Braff Talk’ in
which we have a
unwelcome souvenir of
the cantankerous
cornetist in rant mode?
ALISON KERR
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ZOOT SIMS
Love For Sale –
Live In Dublin
1978
★★★★★
Nagel Heyer 102, £13.99
The sound quality may
not be as good as on the
Braff CD (above), but the
quality of the playing by
the American star is in
the same class. Zoot Sims
was an extraordinarily
lyrical tenor saxophonist
with a particularly
plaintive and beguiling
sound and a penchant
for the less obvious song
choices – as this
programme, which
includes one of his latter
favourite tunes, the
theme from The Prime Of
Miss Jean Brodie, shows.
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CLASSICAL
SIMONE
DINNERSTEIN
JS Bach:
Goldberg Variations
★★★★★
Telarc CD-80692, £13.99
A late work from a
composer of genius, there
is a symmetry to Bach’s
‘Goldberg Variations’ that
satisfies almost as much
as the music itself. Here
performed by the young
American pianist, there’s
a double sense of both
lightness and sureness of
touch that rewards
repeated listening.
Dinnerstein performs
Bach’s multi-section
work, an aria to open and
close the music and 30
variations in between, on
a 1903 Hamburg
Steinway previously
owned by Hull Council,
rescued from its bombed
town hall, relocated to
New York and restored
for the reopening of the
World Trade Center’s
Winter Garden.
ALEXANDER BRYCE
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BOURNEMOUTH
SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRAS,
CITY OF LONDON
SINFONIA
Robert Simpson: Complete
Symphonies
★★★★★
Hyperion CDS44191/7, £29.99
Some composers drive
you to drink, or at least to
ordering a double at the
interval; Robert Simpson
is one of these. His music
is inventive and hugely
orchestral, but hardly
user-friendly and unlikely
to have you emerging
from the auditorium
humming the tunes.
So why buy a box set of
his 10 symphonies? In
part, precisely because he
poses such challenges.
Simpson took on allcomers in the late 20th
century before his death
in 1997, and if his music
seems uncompromising,
perhaps it is because we
are too comfortable with
the familiar. Worth
exploring, but don’t say
you weren’t warned.
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MUSIC REVIEW 17
The crash that nearly killed Melody Gardot was the catalyst for her career, writes Alison Kerr
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years ago, when she was a fashion
student, she was knocked off her
bike by a jeep and suffered devastating injuries which have left
her unable to walk without a cane,
and with an excruciating aversion
to light and noise.
“It’s funny, in America, if I were
to tell someone that a guy ran a red
light and hit me, the response
would be: ‘Did you sue?’ It’s what
we do. It’s bizarre. But to me, it was
an accident, and money wouldn’t
have made everything better.”
Gardot endured horrific injuries to her head, back and pelvis,
and, for a while, doctors were unsure if she would walk again. “Six
months came and I hadn’t taken a
single step. I was bedridden for a
long time. I had to learn how to
walk three times: every time I
learned, I learned wrong.”
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intimate and slightly bluesy
vocals are like a breath of
fresh air. Like Madeleine
Peyroux before her, the Philadelphia-based singer-songwriter has an unusually characterful voice which quietly
demands attention – and a knack
for blurring the lines between
jazz, folk, blues and country. Her
debut album, Worrisome Heart,
has a retro appeal, yet all the
songs are originals written by the
eloquent 23-year-old herself.
You don’t need to have read anything about Gardot to sense – from
the yearning in her vocals – that
this is a young woman who has
been through the mill. Not that she
displays even the tiniest hint of bit-
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Accidental songstress: Melody Gardot was merely obeying doctor’s orders when she began learning to play the guitar
she says. “My body was shutting
down, and my liver was really sick
and I had lost about 15 pounds. I
took all my bottles and pills in a bag,
threw them down on his desk and
said: ‘I’m not taking any more!’
“He was horrified and said:
‘These are heavy prescription
drugs – you can’t just stop.’ But I
already had. Anyway, the doctor
replied by saying: ‘Well, first
things first, Melody. We need to
find something that will make you
happy because you’re obviously
not in the right spirit. What did
you do before the accident?’
“My mum was there and she
told him that I used to play piano
in piano bars. His eyes lit up and
he said: ‘You have to do music. You
have to. Music is the only thing
that helps to reconnect the neural
pathways in the brain.’ ”
However, piano was no longer
an option. “I had pelvic fractures
so all the pressure would go on
those fractures when I sat down.”
So Gardot’s mother bought her a
guitar and she learned to play
while lying on her back. Once she
had taught herself the basics of the
guitar, songwriting was the natural next step. “It came on its own
and it came as a surprise,” says
Gardot. “I just sat down one day to
play and ‘Some Lessons’ came out.
That was the first song I wrote.”
It appeared on a six-track EP entitled Some Lessons – The Bedroom
Sessions, which first attracted attention on the internet, and it’s on
the new album. It’s a highly per-
sonal and very gentle affair. “Soft
sounds are the only ones that my
hearing can tolerate,” she says.
Gardot was recently quoted as
saying that writing a song is like
farting. “Oh no!” she squeals.
“That was supposed to be off the
record.” Genuinely mortified, the
unpretentious songstress reluctantly fleshes out the analogy.
“Okay, when I write songs, I’ve got
about 15, 20 minutes to do it. It
happens like an instinct, like an
urge in my body – that’s why I
made that comparison. You feel it
coming, and then you have to let it
go, let it happen, stand aside and
pray that it doesn’t stink.”
Worrisome Heart (UCJ) is out on Monday
www.myspace.com/melody
18 REVIEW ARTS
Artist of note
worth watching
With his own art-rock opera and video, Craig Mulholland’s imagination knows no
bounds as he explores life in the surveillance age, writes Moira Jeffrey
CRAIG MULHOLLAND:
GRANDES ET PETITES MACHINES
Glasgow School of Art, Sorcha Dallas,
Glasgow Film Festival, until March 22
T’S A short film. It’s some sculpture. It’s a whole whack of paintings. It’s a four-screen video installation. It’s an art-rock opera
with a proper libretto, created
on the kind of computer technology
usually reserved for that modern musical genre apparently known as
happy hardcore.
The standard tabloid line about
contemporary artists is that they are
lazy underachievers. Glasgow artist
Craig Mulholland’s excessive masterwork Grandes Et Petites Machines,
elements of which have invaded the
city’s art school, its arthouse cinema
and the commercial gallery Sorcha
Dallas this week, suggests the opposite. The two sister exhibitions and
Mulholland’s film Peer To Peer, which
will get its theatrical premiere on
Thursday at the Glasgow Film Festival, contain such a wealth of creative
references that is hard to imagine the
artist has slept in recent months.
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Mulholland is an artist whose work
bridges any number of divides. He is a
highly skilled painter whose career,
since graduation from Glasgow in
1991, has included shows at some of
the country’s crustier traditional venues. Yet in recent years his work has
also been seen in places considered
the epitome of contemporary cool
such as Tate Britain and the Whitechapel Project Space. His handiness
with a paintbrush is not in doubt, yet
these days, he is as well known for his
digital animations as his brushwork.
For these shows the list of materials
is somewhat mind-boggling: video,
aluminium, polycarbonate, palette
knives, pegboard and string. I can’t
remember when, if ever, my own
scribbled notes on an exhibition have
contained such gems as “brain on a
plinth” and “fleshy tripods riot”.
At the heart of all the work is the
creation of the 12-minute digital animation Peer To Peer, for which Mulholland received a recent Scottish
Arts Council/Scottish Screen Film
and Video Award. It is a bombastic
exploration of the information age,
which meshes imagery of our surveillance culture, CCTV and satellite
technology with a cut-and-paste collage aesthetic that originated with
movements such as Dada and Surrealism at the turn of the last century.
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have been breaking about “mosquitoes”, devices which emit high-frequency sound allegedly only perceptible to young ears and designed to drive
young people off city streets.
This is not unfamiliar territory for
Mulholland. Previous exhibitions
such as Bearer On Demand at Glasgow’s Transmission Gallery and
Plastic Casino in a former sweatshop
space in the city’s Osborne Street have
tackled such weighty topics as the
monetary system and consumer culture. His show RFID at Stirling’s
Changing Room was inspired by the
development of radio frequency
tracking devices: controversial technology used to trace the physical
movement of consumer goods.
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While technology nowadays can produce images of startling and seamless
beauty, Mulholland deliberately uses
it to recreate the monochrome and
juddery visuals of an era when moving film was still in its infancy and the
anxiety and excitement of the machine age was in its first flow.
Even more incongruous is the fact
that Peer To Peer is actually an opera,
with music by Mulholland and words
created with his collaborator, artist
Laurence Figgis. Its narrative thrust
is the interdependent relationship
between a camera operator and the
technology he serves. If this sounds a
bit like the film Red Road, be assured
it is miles away from it in both look
and feel. The work certainly won’t be
to everyone’s taste. Some of it is
clunky; some of it is high camp. If at
times it feels like Mulholland has
tried to stage a musical version of The
Matrix using some paper plates and
computer technology from the era of
the ZX Spectrum, you’ve got to assume it is done knowingly and admire
his zest and ingenuity.
Why work in opera format when exploring social control? It’s apparently
inspired by the experimental use of
classical music in shops and public
places to discourage crime. If this all
seems a bit paranoid then remember
this is a month in which news stories
DANCE
SCOTTISH DANCE
THEATRE: DEFINED
Liv Lorent’s ‘tenderhook’
is teamed with a new
work by highly
acclaimed young
choreographer
Hofesh Shechter in
this impressive
double bill, right.
Dundee Rep Theatre
(01382 223 530), ThursdaySaturday, 8pm
KIDS
HEELIE-GO-LEERIE
Licketyspit start their stint as
one of the Brunton’s
resident theatre
companies with a
mix of bagpipes,
African drumming,
dancing and
games in a show
inspired by playground
games (Ages 3-12).
Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh
(0131-665 2240), Wednesday,
1pm, Thursday, 10.30am and
1pm, Friday, 10.30am,
Saturday, 11am and 3pm
THEATRE
EQUUS
Peter Shaffer’s recently revived
play, which caused a stir in
London’s West End, comes
north of the border with Alfie
Allen in the role of the
disturbed 17-year-old who
poses a psychiatrist’s biggest
challenge. Also starring Simon
Callow and Linda Thorsen.
King’s Theatre, Edinburgh
(0131-529 6000), TuesdaySaturday, 7.30pm
TALKS
KATIE PRICE
The less-buxom-these-days
blonde gets the crowds in as
she signs copies of her latest
biographical instalment,
Jordan: Pushed To The Limit.
Waterstone’s, Edinburgh (0131226 2666), Monday, 4pm
ARTS REVIEW 19
Honoured guests
mind their dancing
feet on the stairs
FACTOR’S latest work, Other Voices, Other Rooms, is a
departure for the leading
dance theatre company in many
ways. “It’s like an experiment,” admits artistic director Alan Greig.
“Can we do a site-specific performance with live music, an actor, professional dancers and dancers with learning difficulties,
and can I be in it and direct at the
same time?” It’s a long list of questions but, judging by the exclusive
peek I’m given of the piece, taking
place in the corridors, stairwells
and basements of Edinburgh’s
grand Freemasons Hall, it looks as
though they can.
It is the first time since 1992 that
X Factor has made site-specific
work, and it’s also the first time
that Greig has worked with an actor, in this case Grant Smeaton
from It’s Only An Excuse, and several Suspect Culture theatre productions. Playing a master of ceremonies, it’s a similar role to the
one Smeaton took on in the
Arches’ site-specific production of
Dante’s Inferno (though I still associate him most with his brilliant
turn as a transsexual in their
Spend A Penny monologues).
Though they have never worked
together before this, Smeaton is
an old friend of Greig. The director
introduced him to the George
Street building when his version
of Talking Heads was there during
last year’s Edinburgh Fringe. “I
knew it would challenge me choreographically,” Greig says, as the
three of us head upstairs to one of
the studies. Next door in the
Grand Committee Room, Greig
points out a couple of original
Henry Raeburn paintings, each
worth a million pounds.
How did they ever get permission to put on a piece of dance
theatre here, in the home of the
Grand Masonic Lodge of Scotland? “I knew someone who is
really high up and we managed to
get an interview,” says Greig. “At
first we thought the cost would be
totally unrealistic, but when they
recognised we’re a charity, it came
down, and we just kept pleading.”
“Everyone has been really good
a b o u t u s b e i n g h e r e ,” s a y s
Smeaton. “We’ll be rehearsing
and shouting, and then a mason
comes around the corner.”
Rather than follow a narrative
or linear journey, Other Voices,
Other Rooms is a response to the
fabric of the building, devised
over a fortnight within its walls. A
series of impressions, it combines
solos, duets and group dances
with live music and spoken-word
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All-round view:
clockwise from far
left, Mulholland’s
globe reflecting
the way we are
under the constant
gaze of satellites;
two clips from
Peer To Peer, and
a painting which
continues the
theme of
surveillance.
Main photograph:
Robert Perry
Grandes Et Petites Machines is an attempt to visualise some of the more
hidden aspects of our obsession with
information: the way that through
everything from computer search engines to supermarket loyalty cards we
unthinkingly conspire with those
agencies that compile and store data
about us.
The two exhibitions spin out from
the film in various ways, including
related drawings and artworks that
double as props. In the Mackintosh
Gallery at Glasgow School of Art we
find a series of abstract drawings and
paintings. Some are created by etching and drilling aluminium in a method that echoes the manufacture of circuit boards, others use the rather sad
material of painted and ragged peg
board. Not all of these are as careful
and considered as the work in film. Of
the sculptural works, the strongest is
Paths Of Resistance a riotous assembly of sinister tripods, which have
sprouted odd fleshy protuberances or
sinister spikes.
At Sorcha Dallas there is a fourscreen digital animation, Rising Resistance, which draws on the imagery
of Peer To Peer and uses florid language lifted not from revolutionary
politics as one might assume, but from
stock market commentary. A sculpture of an aluminium globe reflects
the way in which global mapping
leaves us under the perpetual watchful eye of satellite technology.
Mulholland has name-checked the
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sounds and visuals of consummate art
band Kraftwerk as a key influence on
his work. He has spoken in interviews
of his love of Joy Division and New
Order. Recently pop culture has been
recycling imagery from those odd
years of musical creativity on the cusp
between the Seventies and Eighties.
What with the chill wind of recession,
the credit crunch and an increasing
sense of bugging-induced paranoia,
there’s plenty of room for a contemporary revival of the darker aesthetics
of that age, and Grandes Et Petites
Machines fits firmly into this tradition. There is, however, a healthy dose
of cheeky humour and self-awareness
in the work as well: mock opera as
much as rock opera.
When the show travels to Bristol
venue Spike Island later this year it
will be reconfigured again. Mulholland might need to assess whether, in
the longer term, his artistic route
should itself be grand or petite. I do
wonder if de-cluttering some of the
source material and more repetitive
two-dimensional work would have allowed the video and the strongest
sculpture to speak much more clearly.
On the other hand, it’s hard not to
admire an artist whose work ethic
and artistic control extends from craft
to keyboard and from the palette
knife to the page of a musical score.❖
Screening of Peer To Peer and artist’s talk at
the Glasgow Film Theatre on Thursday
www.glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk
performances taken from sources
as varied as Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads, The Killing Of Sister
George, Abigail’s Party and some
Tennessee Williams. Even the
audience numbers have been decided by the length of the grand
staircase, so each person will have
their own step to look over the
banister and watch the dancers
below, leaping on marble floors.
It all ends in the basement, with
Smeaton in a sumptuous parachute dress, singing a lullaby with
torches blazing around him. “It
wasn’t the dance, or the text that
came first,” says Smeaton. “It was
the building. We feel like we’ve
lived here for the past two weeks.”
“X Factor is in its 18th year now
and I just wanted to do something
different,” says Greig. “When
X marks the spot: artistic director Alan
Greig in Edinburgh’s Freemasons Hall
you’re always in a black box, it
becomes hard to come up with
fantastic new ideas all the time.
Here, the space dictated everything. I don’t want to recreate this
piece anywhere else.”
There’s even a tongue-in-cheek
reference to that rather betterknown rival. “I come out and do a
kind of X Factor spoof,” says Greig.
“So many people ask why we took
our name from the TV programme,
and I say: ‘Actually, we were around
18 years before that.’ ”
As for appearing in Other
Voices, Other Rooms h im s e lf,
Greig says it keeps him interested.
“You’re alive in the show when
you’re a performer,” he says. “But
if you’re a director, once you’ve
created it, it’s done. Also, I’m 45
now, so I might as well keep
moving while I can.”
CHITRA RAMASWAMY
Other Voices, Other Rooms is at
Freemasons Hall, Edinburgh (0131-225
5525), Tuesday until March 1, 6.30pm
and 8.15pm (not Sunday, Monday)
www.xfactordance.co.uk
20 REVIEW
Illustration: Colin Heggie
MY CULTURAL LIFE: DARA Ó BRIAIN
What is your favourite film and why? I
don’t have one; I don’t think anyone could
actually pick a favourite film if you asked
them to really, it all depends on your
mood. That whole “I must see everything
de Niro’s ever made” boy-ish obsession
stopped being that important to me in my
thirties, weirdly enough.
The piece of music that means the most
to you? Bizarrely, it would be a piece of
choral or string music. When I was growing
up, we had stuff like ‘Ave Maria’ or Mozart’s
‘Requiem’ playing in the house.
Particularly, as an atheist, it’s like my guilty
secret that I like choral music – well, I
don’t particularly like it, it’s just evocative.
The best performance you’ve ever been
to? A performance of Metamorphosis by
Franz Kafka in a theatre in London last
year, which was basically a load of
gymnasts pretending to be cockroaches
while Nick Cave’s music was playing. It
was fabulous. My wife and I wouldn’t
leave the theatre until it was completely
over; like when you’re watching the end of
a film and you don’t want to spoil the
illusion, it was that good.
The book you have read more than
once? A book called Laughter by an
American neuroscientist called Dr Robert
Provine. It explains things like that most
of the time laughing is simply a nervous
mechanism, a breaking of tension. It’s
fascinating stuff; for a comedian, it’s an
essential ‘How To...’ book.
The fictional character whose life you
would like to lead? There isn’t one off the
top of my head, but I’m sure there are
X-men I wouldn’t mind borrowing a power
off of here or there. I think I’ve finally
grown out of that phase where you think
“God, if only I was...”
Your idea of classic TV? I generally like
any those dense American series like The
West Wing, and I’ve also just finished
watching series three of The Office USA. I
couldn’t go back to the British one now
because the USA one is not only funnier
but with 22 shows per series you get to
know the characters a bit better. I know
that in this part of the world you’re only
supposed to make 12 beautifully
composed episodes per series and leave
it at that, but there’s also something nice
about just immersing yourself in a show.
Your favourite work of art? As a
teenager, there was one time when I
turned a corner in the Louvre and the
Venus de Milo looked particularly stunning
– but then I went back to the Louvre some
time later and it wasn’t quite as
breathtaking. Also, the Rothko paintings in
the Tate modern are incredibly brooding;
they’re in a room on their own and it’s very
still, very quiet, so different to everything
else going on outside.
Prediction for star of the future?
Michael Cera – he was in Arrested
Development, he was in Superbad, and
now he’s in Juno. He just seems to have a
nose for picking out really funny things.
He’s hilarious, an incredibly funny
improviser and a joy to watch.
Essential website? Videosift.com is very
good. It’s basically an example of where
someone has edited down the internet
and got rid of all of the nonsense. It’s like
a sieve running to youtube to find more
interesting things. Another one is Why,
That’s Delightful!, the blog by Graham
Linehan, who wrote Father Ted.
The entertainment gadget you can’t live
without? There isn’t one because I have
four of everything anyway; if one of my
iPods break I use the iPhone, if my Wii
breaks I play my Xbox 360, and if that
breaks I’ll finally move on to the Playstation
3 – but definitely only in that order. The
one gadget that I heartily recommend
though is a Sonof, which is a wireless
music system that takes the music you
have stored on your computers and plays it
all over the house – like you can have
different speakers in different parts of the
house playing different things, or have
them all playing the same thing. It almost
sounds like I have this fabulous ‘house of
the future’. If you’re really insane, you can
have 32 of them all over the house.
Dara Ó Briain plays Edinburgh Playhouse,
March 9, The Music Hall, Aberdeen; Royal
Concert Hall, March 11, Glasgow, March 12.
Tickets via Ticketmaster (0870 380 0017)
www.myspace.com/daraobriain
ENTERTAINMENT LISTINGS
ART
STUART HAYGARTH
Haygarth transforms the status of
everyday objects by combining
them to make a range of functional
and structural creations.
The Lighthouse, Glasgow (0141-221
6362), until February 24
JOHN WATSON PRIZE:
PAUL CHIAPPE
This year’s winner is Edinburgh Art
College graduate Paul Chiappe,
who creates intriguing illusions by
transforming vintage photographs
with pencil drawings.
National Gallery of Modern Art,
Edinburgh (0131-624 6200),
until February 24
A SURGICAL THREAD
An insight into the methods used
in hospitals prior to the invention
of the anaesthetic.
Aberdeen Maritime Museum
(01224 337 700), until March 16
REUNITED: RUBENS – RIBERA
The Spanish artist’s Drunken
Silenus is displayed with Rubens’
Feast Of Herod.
National Gallery Complex, Edinburgh
(0131-624 6200), until April 6
LOTTE GERTZ: MATCH
PLAY, MATCH SPENT
Gertz looks at identity and image,
portraying a clash between the
real and the ideal in works that
combine woodcut printing,
painting, drawing and collage.
Mary Mary, Glasgow (0141-226
2257), until March 1
STEPHEN HEALY: ETHEREAL
Using artificial light on water in
remote locations, Healy’s body of
photographs allude to the
spectacle of spiritual miracle.
Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow
(0141-552 2151), until March 22
GLIMMERS IN LIMBO
Four site-specific works by
resident artist Minty MacDonald
explore the evolution of Tramway.
Tramway, Glasgow (0845 330
3501), until March 2
BUY MY LOVE
Fashionable London-based artist
Insa, who is known for his graffiti
work, unleashes the sub-cultural
fetishism of modern society with
his new collection.
Recoat Gallery, Glasgow (0141-341
0069), until March 13 (not
Mondays)
LET ME SHOW YOU
SOME THINGS
Experimental short films
presented by The Magic Lantern
are combined with a newly
commissioned film from Sarah
Tripp, Let Me Show You Some
Things, which is framed by two
new installations from sculptor
Robert Orchardson.
CCA, Glasgow (0141-352 4900),
until March 29
KURT HENTSCHLAGER: FEED
A performance with no performers,
this is the British premiere of
Hentschlager’s recent solo work,
which uses artificial fog, light and
projections. Part of ‘New
Territories 2008’.
Tramway, Glasgow (0845 330 3501),
Tuesday and Wednesday, 7.30pm
DANCE
KIDS
COMPAGNIE THOR:
V NIGHTMARES
Experimental dance performance
from Belgian Compagnie Thor,
who turn Vivaldi’s Four Seasons on
its head to use as inspiration for ‘a
nightmare in four movements’.
Part of ‘New Territories 2008’.
Tramway, Glasgow (0845 330
3501), Parts 1 & 2: Friday, 7.30pm;
Parts 3 & 4: Saturday, 7.30pm
LAZYTOWN LIVE!
Sportacus and pink-haired
newcomer Stephanie go up against
super-villain Robbie Rotten.
Edinburgh Festival Theatre (0131529 6000), Thursday, 5pm, Friday
and Saturday, 11am, 2pm and 5pm
RAMBERT DANCE COMPANY
The modern dance company are
back with a new programme of
four contrasting works for their
World View Tour, including the
world premiere of ‘Scribblings’ by
American choreographer Doug
Varone.
His Majesty’s
Theatre, Aberdeen
(01224 641 122),
WednesdayFriday, 7.30pm
CABBAGES AND KINGS
Tabula Rasa Dance Company give a
creative dance performance set in a
magical garden. (Ages 4 plus).
Regal Community Theatre,
Bathgate (01506 433 634),
Wednesday and Thursday, 1.30pm
MUSIC
ELECTRIC SIX
The wild-child novelty rock stars
crash-land in Inverness for the
only Scottish date of their tour.
Ironworks, Inverness (0870 7894
173), Friday, 7pm
FAIRPORT CONVENTION
The influential folk collective play
songs old and new to mark their
40th anniversary year.
Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh (0131668 2019), Saturday, 8pm
CARIBOU
Electronica stalwart Daniel
Snaith, left, gives another
generous helping of
psychedelic music.
New Stereo, Glasgow (0870 220
1116), Monday, 8pm; The Tunnels,
Aberdeen (01224 211 121), Tuesday,
8pm; Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh
(0131-220 6176), Wednesday, 7pm
DELAYS
High-pitched indie boys hailing
from Southampton ready to
release their third album,
Everything’s The Rush.
Liquid Room, Edinburgh (0131-220
3234), Wednesday, 7.30pm;
Moshulu, Aberdeen (0870 907
0999), Thursday, 7.30pm
EDUARDO NIEBLA
World-class flamenco jazz from
the acclaimed Spanish guitarist
who has collaborated with sitar
virtuoso Nishat Khan and George
Michael.
Lochalsh Arts Network, Ross-shire
(01599 555 208), Monday, 8pm;
The Ceilidh Place, Ullapool (01854
612 103), Tuesday, 8.30pm; An
Lanntair, Stornoway (01851 703
307), Thursday, 8pm
SIMON TRPCESKI
The much in-demand Macedonian
pianist who recently sold out
London’s Wigmore Hall gives his
celebrated performance of Chopin
and Rachmaninov.
Perth Concert Hall (0845 612
6324), Thursday, 7.30pm
INSTAL 08
Kazoo-playing Nashville group
The Cherry Blossoms and
Japanese improvisational
artists Marginal Consort play on
the third and final day of the
experimental underground music
festival.
The Arches, Glasgow (0141-565
1000), today, 4pm
THEATRE
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Adapted for the stage by Jo
Clifford and featuring a live
soundscape from composer Dave
Fennessy.
Gordonstoun School, Elgin (01343
837837), Tuesday, 8pm; Adam
Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy (01592
583 302), Wednesday, 7.30pm;
Paisley Arts Centre (0141-887
1010), Thursday, 7.30pm; Birnam
Arts Centre, Dunkeld (01350 727
674), Friday, 8pm; Arbroath
Webster Theatre (01241 435 800),
Saturday, 7.30pm
ENDGAME
Theatre Workshop use kinetic
sculptures from Sharmanka for
their production of Beckett’s play.
Byre Theatre, St Andrews (01334
475 000), Tuesday, 8pm; East
Kilbride Arts Centre (01355 261
000), Thursday, 8pm; Gilmorehill
G12, Glasgow (0141-330 5522),
Saturday, 7.30pm
STATIC
Dan Rebellato’s latest play fuses
music and sign language to tell of
a widow who finds a compilation
tape left by her husband.
Tron Theatre, Glasgow (0141-552
4267), until Saturday, 8pm
SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF
AN AUTHOR
Based on Luigi Pirandello’s drama,
this study in meta-theatre explores
truth, reality and the nature of
existence as six characters look to
a theatre company for help on how
to play out their story.
Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
(0131-248 4848), until March 8,
7.45pm
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ENTERTAINMENT REVIEW 21
THEGAMER
KATE HEAVENOR
URNOUT Paradise (PS3 and XBox,
£49.99, ★ ★ ★ ★ ★) is the new
concept for the Burnout brand, which
some gamers have kept an open mind about
while others have responded with major
resistance. This concept is taking the already
eye-blisteringly quick game, which is full of
single races and crash junctions, and turning
it into an open world in which you decide
where to race, how to reach your goal, or just
drive around taking in the scenery.
B
At first you’ll think you may have been
given a bit too much freedom as you’re
plonked into paradise city and just expected
to get on with it. If you want to take part in a
race you can make your way to one of the
120 junctions, spin your wheels and the
race is explained in terms of start and finish
lines.
It’s a very free game world and the lack of
intervention presents a problem: it’s all just
a bit too quick. When you combine the
speed of this game with trying to navigate a
map and concentrate on not taking a wrong
turn, you find yourself crashing more than
ever. With no after-touch to scupper the
opponents behind you, scrapping your car
just isn’t that much fun.
In time you are supposed to learn the city
and its landmarks by memory, and in that
respect the game does get better the more
you play it. As you drive around the 30
square kilometres you can choose from
three car classes: Speed, Stunt and
Aggression cars. Instead of unlocking new
cars and classes you now have a driving
licence that gets upgraded when you
complete a certain number of challenges.
If you are used to being spoon-fed your
games and races, I don’t think you’ll get
much from this game. However if you like to
explore, and don’t mind getting lost and
retracing your steps time after time, you
may be on to a winner.
There’s one thing I can’t stand at the
moment and that’s having to wave the Wii
remote around when it would be just as
simple to press a button. Thankfully in the
new game Zack and Wiki: Quest for
Barbaros’ Treasure (Wii, £39.99,
★ ★ ★ ★ ★), the Wii remote is essential,
DVD RELEASES
MICHAEL
CLAYTON
(12) £19.99
Spills: Burnout can get a bit too fast
which makes it an absolute joy to play. This
game harks back to the days of old graphic
adventures such as Monkey Island, but with
the emphasis more on puzzle solving within
a level as you play through the story.
You play a pirate boy called Zack and his
flying sidekick mate Wiki as you go on a quest
to find the various parts of the big pirate
Barbaros. For some strange reason Barbaros
has turned himself into treasure, so the game
involves you getting to each treasure chest so
that you can open it and claim what’s inside.
Like puzzle games of old you can also die in
this game. Luckily the death scenes are pretty
amusing, and you don’t feel like your hard
work has gone to waste as, providing you
repeat the same steps in the correct order,
you’ll end up back at the point you left off. This
is the best use of the Wii remote I’ve seen to
date. It’s mega playable and addictive.
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NOT FOR THE
EASILY OFFENDED!
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IN NEXT WEEKEND'S
RUN FAT BOY RUN
(12) £19.99
Director: Tony Gilroy
Running time:
115 minutes
★★★★★
Director:
David Schwimmer
Running time:
96 minutes
★★★★★
This is a cool and classy piece of
filmmaking, thanks to a stark and
clinical style of camera work
teamed with George Clooney in one
of the most sophisticated and
underplayed roles of his career.
Some snipers have suggested
that for underplayed read
underwhelming, but Clooney puts
more method into his part as top
lawyer-cum-fixer than merely
allowing his stubble to grow and
leaving the Just For Men in the
cabinet.
When Clayton’s fellow lawyer
(Tom Wilkinson) has a breakdown in
the middle of handling the
company’s most important case
Clayton is sent in to straighten
everyone out.
Instead, a combination of
conscience and a mid-life crisis
kicks in, and Clooney’s ‘janitor’ role
begins to raise questions of himself.
Tilda Swinton plays a blinder as
the hard-ball defender of the
pharmaceutical company who is
only ever treading murky water.
If box office return alone is anything
to go by then there is little to throw
at this comedy, directed by Friends’
David Schwimmer and starring
Simon Pegg and Thandie Newton.
Pegg plays the kind of
Englishman he always plays – a
little bit peelie wallie, a little bit left
on the shelf, but just enough of a
little bit of an achiever to always
walk away with redemption/
romance/his life in the end.
Here Pegg has left Newton at the
altar five years previous, and when
it occurs to him that this was
perhaps not the wisest life choice,
she is already bringing up their fiveyear-old with a far more attractive
American.
And so ensues the comedy value
of Pegg training for a marathon to
prove his virility and worthiness in
the eyes of his wife-that-never-was.
Despite Schwimmer’s hand, it
does feel like a very British comedy
but, disappointingly, an overly
familiar one at that.
FIONA LEITH
22 REVIEW TELEVISION
ONTHEBOX
AIDAN SMITH
.
LILY ALLEN AND FRIENDS
BBC3 Tuesday, 10.30pm
.
SKINS
Channel 4 Thursday, 10.35pm
.
MISTRESSES
BBC1 Friday, 9pm
.
ECENTLY, while waiting to meet
a star of stage and screen, I was
simultaneously impressed and
appalled by a fellow hack and his
mastery of his state-of-the-art
mobile phone.
It was one of those all-my-world-in-aloganberry-type contraptions. The impressive bit was his confident manner as he
broke off from our chit-chat to conduct a
Q&A about food with a pop musician which
recorded straight into the phone’s memory.
The appalling bit was his callousness as his
finger hovered over the delete button. The
memory already housed his conversation
with an actor but he’d been struggling to
sell this interview. “No one wants to know
about Cuba Gooding Jr anymore,” the
scribe groaned.
There were a number of us in the room
and the others sympathised, in a way that
only journalists can. “Have you tried
Tepid?” asked one, the inference being that
CG Jr’s time of being hot enough for Heat
was long gone. Another quipped that there
R
Sofa so ok: it wasn’t exactly David Frost meets Nixon, but Lily Allen’s chat with Cuba Gooding Jr was surprisingly funny. Teen drama Skins, below
would be more chance of flogging an interview with Cuba Gooding Senior. What a
rotten bunch, I thought to myself, at the
same time questioning my own showbiz
morals. Was I not a bit like them? Oh probably. But if it’s any consolation to Junior,
when he turned up on the first of Lily Allen
And Friends, I cheered. Way to go, Cuba.
But a chat show which refuses to accept
that the genre is dead following Parky’s retirement and the atrocity that was Davina?
Hosted by another foxy singer even though
Charlotte Church’s attempt at telly talk was
so dismal? Featuring the USP of Allen’s
“friends” deciding on the direction of each
edition? This didn’t sound good, and at
first, it wasn’t.
Allen rose to prominence through her
MySpace page, so you can understand the
BBC’s thinking in opening up the programme to the hodden blogging mass. TV,
like other traditional media, is scared of
being rendered brontosaurus-like by the
worldwide web. It thinks its only option is
to gulp hard and invite bloggers into their
old-fangled world.
The trouble is, bloggers are dull. All right,
not dull exactly, but whatever it is that
makes them untamable and anti-corporate
and frequently hilarious seems to disappear when they’re confronted by lights and
cameras. They just look stunned by them.
A large part of the “whatever” is the
web’s anonymity. TV requires you to
show your face, and your personality.
But internet “phenomena” such as
Tay Zonday (sings a strange song
called ‘Chocolate Rain’ in an equally
strange basso profundo) and Chris
Crocker (Britney Spears’ great, blubbing defender; 44 million MySpace
plays to date) came across poorly on
Lily Allen And Friends, which doubtless brought a smirk to the faces of the
traditionalists.
This isn’t the programme to marry TV
with the web but it still works in the prehistoric sense, with Allen proving herself a
sparky presenter. I don’t really care for her
music, but on the chat sofa she’s superior to
both Charlotte Church and Davina McCall.
Not only that, she re-opens a favourite debate of mine: how come Jonathan Ross gets
paid so much money – and don’t tell me it’s
because he cracked the atom with his impudent line in questioning?
And Cuba? Well, straight off. Allen asked
him about winning the Oscar, a triumph of
12 long years ago. Then he whooped and
hollered and bragged and stripped to the
waist until our host sighed: “Yes, I’m sure
you’ve got a massive cock.” It wasn’t David
Frost ensnaring Tricky Dicky Nixon but, in
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this dumbed-down age, it was still pretty
funny.
If Lily Allen And Friends made you feel
old, then Skins must have prompted choruses of “Is it lunchtime yet?” and a horrendous bathchair pile-up in an effort to
grab front-row places for a game of bingo.
It’s the saga – not to be confused with Saga –
of teenage life in modern Britain which
reveals exactly what goes into the topselling Domino’s pizza and why it makes the
kids so happy.
One test of good drama is the house
parties and how realistic they are. Last time
out, Skins threw the best parties since
Howard Kirk’s in The History Man. That
ages me somewhat, but my memories of
Kirk’s bashes are vivid even though the look
of them was anything but: uniformly Seventies beige. By contrast, Skins is an orgy of
nu-rave primary colour, and even Harry
Enfield and Bill Bailey as concerned dads
are required to dress in shocking pinks and
electric blues.
The second series promises to be darker,
in mood if nothing else, with Tony (Nicholas Hoult) struggling to remember who he
was before being hit by a bus. Previously,
Tony was a creep, albeit one who got lots of
sex. It’s by no means certain he will come
out the other side an adult, or that this run
will feature a reduction in the levels of pillpopping and bed-hopping.
Tony is still able to attend parties, to the
relief of the girls, one of whom told him:
“You look so, so, okay, not like, well, they
said you were a total mong and I would have
been so so pissed if you were a veg and had
to be switched off, yah?” And that’s another
test of a good drama: the accurate depiction
of posh ninnies.
So farewell, Mistresses. A yawning Fridayprimetime-sized hole has opened up for my
wife and its other fans, the vast majority of
them women, who loved this drama from
the first Pino Grigio-fuelled confessionnight to the last. In the end, the doctor
didn’t lose her job for mercy-killing her
lover, the lawyer didn’t lose her marriage
for getting pregnant by the snake-faced colleague across the desk, the events-organiser learned to love herself instead of
everything in trousers (and then skirts) and
the mum shopped her husband for a 9/11
scam nicked from the Neil LaBute play The
Mercy Seat.
I thought it was watchable tosh. Maybe a
man would say that. Being competitive as
well, I’d like to award the acting honours,
not to the prerace favourite
Agree/Disagree?
(Sarah Parish),
but to Sharon
Small.
➡
TELEVISION REVIEW 23
TV Week ahead
FILMS OF THE WEEK
by Mik Duffy
PICK OF THE WEEK
That Mitchell And Webb Look
BBC2, Thursday, 9pm
Having delighted viewers as the heroically
hapless nerds of Channel 4’s Peep Show,
the first series of comedy duo Mitchell and
Webb’s BBC2 skit show was met with
disappointment in some quarters. Only
fitfully funny and noticeably dumbed
down from their brilliant Radio 4
tomfoolery, it felt like a badly botched
compromise. Thankfully, however, this
second series is a vast improvement,
offering us an irresistible mix of cerebral
satire and all-out silliness.
Though it’s obviously premature to
compare the pair with the Monty Python
posse, they have evidently incorporated a
Pythonesque drive for invention into their
shtick. With most modern skit shows
relying entirely on annoying repetition,
this duo often discard ideas before they’re
played out. So we can enjoy gems like their
inspired visit to a “bawdy 1970s hospital”
without fear of the punchline being
diluted by a dozen reprises and an
avalanche of catchphrase-laden
merchandise.
Mitchell and Webb’s polite but pointed
jabs at the state of telly are also
devastatingly effective. Whether they are
artfully deconstructing Five’s “sensitive
freak-show” documentaries or explaining
the Beeb’s baffling need to keep
re-commissioning Two Pints Of Lager…,
their anger about television’s misdeeds
always hits the mark. If only all TV
funnymen were quite so consistent.
BEST DOCUMENTARY
My Street
Channel 4, Thursday, 9pm
Though soap operas perpetuate the notion
that streets are micro-universes where
THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK
Five, Sunday, 6.30pm
Leonardo DiCaprio takes on the dual role of
King Louis XIV and his imprisoned twin
Philippe in the sequel to 1993’s The Three
Musketeers. It’s interesting to note that
whilst this is an adaptation of a
quintessentially French story, it only
manages to cast one French actor; namely
Gérard Depardieu, above centre, as the
uncouth Porthos.
THE NAKED GUN: FROM THE
FILES OF POLICE SQUAD
Channel 4, Monday, 11.35pm
Hit skits: Mitchell, right, and Webb bring an irresistible mix of cerebral satire and all-out silliness to BBC2
everyone’s on a first-name basis, here in
the real world many neighbours are
strangers to each other.
It’s a predicament film-maker Sue
Bourne found herself wrestling with until
she hit upon the novel idea underpinning
this sublime documentary. Boldly
venturing beyond her own doorstep, she
decided to knock on every other door in
her street to discover more about her
neighbours. What she uncovers is a
touching and ultimately life-affirming
social tapestry teeming with joy, tragedy
and character.
Also try: The Day Of The Kamikaze (Channel 4,
tomorrow, 9pm). An extraordinary look at the
Second World War’s much-feared aerial suicide
bombers
BEST THRILLER
The Last Enemy
BBC1, today, 9pm
Last Enemy: Nick Sidia and Benedict Cumberbatch,
who becomes the pawn in a mysterious conspiracy
RADIO
ORGET the
proverb; if
wildlife
enthusiast Bill
Bailey endorses
curiosity, I’m sure it didn’t
kill the cat. And who wants to
float around in a pool of selfperpetuated ignorance when
there’s knowledge of such
pressing topics as pineapples
and Father Christmas to gain?
This week Bailey and
F
With most modern espionage thrillers
dominated by implacable killing machines
this new serial offers us a refreshing
alternative to the likes of Bourne, Bauer
and Bond. A painfully reclusive
mathematician with a mild case of OCD,
Benedict Cumberbatch’s Stephen Ezard is
categorically not an action hero.
Unfortunately, however, his ivory tower
existence is about to be shattered by a
series of developments, which will see him
Blackadder producer
John Lloyd open The
Museum Of Curiosity (BBC
Radio 4, Wednesday,
6.30pm), a new six-part
series akin to QI (Alan
Davies does make an
appearance). It aims to
arm the listener with
some interesting and, it has to
be said, downright bizarre
knowledge, inviting a different
panel of guests from the
worlds of comedy and
academia each week to
enlighten our minds.
swapping complex theorems for oldfashioned body counts.
Returning to London for his brother’s
funeral, Ezard is soon up to his bewildered
puppy dog eyes in a labyrinthine
conspiracy involving an Orwellian
national database, a deadly new virus and
a rogue assassin played by a
disconcertingly silent Robert Carlyle.
Copious thrills, spills and kills ensue.
Also try: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
(Thursday, Virgin 1, 10pm). Bad-ass single mom Lena
Headey battles cyborgs as the movie franchise
transfers to the small screen
BEST ARTS
True Stories: Derek
More4, Tuesday, 10pm
A controversial provocateur as well as a
gifted film-maker, Derek Jarman’s passing
left depressing voids in both British
cinema and contemporary art. Here fellow
film-maker and artist Isaac Julien offers us
a tour through Jarman’s life. It’s a frank
and moving portrait with archive
interview footage, mesmerising extracts
from Jarman’s films and the recollections
of muse Tilda Swinton revealing a complex
man whose notoriety masked a warm and
witty soul.
Also try: George Melly’s Last Stand (BBC2, today,
10pm). An engaging and unexpectedly funny look at
the final months of the eccentric jazz legend
Asking questions of a
different nature – and not just
“am I bovvered?” – is Catherine
Tate, who starts a game of
celebrity tag in Chain Reaction
(BBC Radio 4, Thursday,
6.30pm), a show where the
interviewee becomes the
interviewer. In the first of a
four-part series, Tate interviews
David Tennant before handing
him the baton to quiz Richard
Wilson the next week. Wilson
then interviews Arabella Weir,
who chats to her Fast Show
comrade Paul Whitehouse
When To Run (BBC Radio 4,
Thursday, 2.15pm), Sophie
Woolley’s radio adaptation of
her praised tragicomic play
about three women runners
and a dog-sitter, should also be
worth tuning in for.
And finally, if trying to nab
tickets for Duffy’s sold-out gig
in Glasgow this week left you
high and dry, Jo Whiley (BBC
Radio 1, Friday, 10am) provides
consolation when the Sixtiessounding next big thing
performs in the live lounge.
ROSANNA CHIANTA
A spin-off from the original television series,
Leslie Nielsen shines as the evergreen
Lieutenant Frank Drebin. A young OJ
Simpson also appears as the increasingly
incompetent Nordberg, as Drebin attempts to
foil a terrorist plot to assassinate the Queen.
THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS
Sky Movies Premiere, Tuesday, 8.pm,
Based on the true story of how stock market
millionaire Chris Gardner struggled with
homelessness while serving an
apprenticeship as a stock market broker.
Will Smith gives his all in his role as
Gardener, earning an Oscar nomination
for his efforts.
ROCKY
Sky Movies Drama, Thursday, 8pm
Sylvester Stallone steps into the ring for the
first time as local underdog Rocky Balboa
prepares to take on the reigning world
champion. After the bell sounds at the end of
the big fight, Rocky’s competitor declares that
there “Ain’t gonna be no rematch.” Somewhat
ironic, as the movie went on to produce four
sequels over the next three decades.
THE BOURNE IDENTITY
STV, Saturday, 9.45pm,
Doug Liman reimagines Robert Ludlum’s
amnesia-bound CIA agent Jason Bourne as a
man with an altogether more menacing past.
Matt Damon, above, stars as the eponymous
assassin trying to regain his memory.
THE BIG LEBOWSKI
Channel 4, Saturday, 1.15am
Jeff Bridges stars as LA slacker Jeff
Lebowski; a man who becomes entangled in
a dangerous kidnapping plot when he is
mistaken by a group of gangsters for a
millionaire of the same name.
SCOTT MURRAY
24 REVIEW
SUNDAY 17.02.08
BBC ONE
6.00 Breakfast.* 81256562 7.50 Match Of
The Day.* 2638369 9.00 The Andrew Marr
Show.* 32388 10.00 The Big Questions.*
Discussion from Nottingham University.
DAYTIME
83746 11.00 Countryfile.* John Craven
visits the isolated Flat Holm island
community. 63982 12.00 The Politics
Show.* 7599388 1.15 ’Allo ’Allo!*
Presuming Rene is dead, Edith hunts for his
will and a new husband. (R) 373291 1.45
Match Of The Day Live: The FA Cup.*
Sheffield United v Middlesbrough (Kick-off
2.00pm). This afternoon’s fifth-round tie
comes from Bramall Lane, where the Blades
are aiming to claim their third successive
Premier League scalp. 71176456 4.05
Diagnosis Murder.* A cardiac surgeon’s
patient dies. (R) 2527833 4.50 Lifeline.*
9043253
5.00
5
PM
5.35
BBC TWO
6.00 CBeebies: Fimbles.* (R) 7335098 6.20
Tikkabilla.* (R) 4955765 6.50 Step Inside.*
(R) 2008843 7.00 CBBC: Jakers!* (R) 3974388
7.20 BB3B.* (R) 7400562 7.45 The Secret
Show.* (R) 8218982 8.10 Thumb Wrestling
Federation: TWF.* (R) 8232475 8.20 Skunk
Fu!* (R) 8223727 8.30 Raven.* (R) 93524 9.00
Hider In The House.* 23630 10.00 Something
For The Weekend.* 60956 11.30 Animal
Park.* Lion cubs have to steal their food. (R)
24036 12.30 Ben Fogle’s Extreme Dreams.*
The final day of the expedition looms. (R)
34369 1.00 Rugby Union.* Highlights include
Bath v London Wasps. 65340 1.30 River
City.* Ruth makes a startling discovery about
Marty’s health. 5492630 2.25 EastEnders.*
Omnibus. Stacey is rushed to hospital
following her collapse. 517098 4.25 FILM
We Dive At Dawn (1943).* A British submarine
crew face a fight for survival when they are
left stranded during a mission in the Baltic
Sea. Adventure starring John Mills. 10277727
9
PM
10
PM
11
PM
ONWARD
12.30-1.00 Fred
Dibnah’s World Of
Steam, Steel And
Stone.* (R) 1.30
EastEnders.* 3.30
FILM: We Dive At
Dawn.* 5.05-7.00
FILM: Zulu Dawn.* N
East Of England:
12.30-1.00 Fred
Dibnah’s World Of
Steam, Steel And
Stone.* (R) 1.30
EastEnders.* 3.30
FILM: We Dive At
Dawn.* 5.05-7.00
FILM: Zulu Dawn.*
5.45
Time Team.* The team
excavate a field outside Bath
to search for the remains of a
grand Georgian house built
by a local MP 200 years ago.
684104
6.45
Channel 4 News.* 540388
7.00
Our Big Fairtrade
Adventure.* School pupils
decide to produce their
own ethical clothing. 2229
7.30
8.00
Tropic Of Capricorn.*
Simon Reeve travels through
Zimbabwe, Mozambique
and Madagascar. 4949
8.30
Dancing On Ice: The Skate
Off.* The two lowest-scoring
couples compete. 3746
8.00
Wife Swap.* An authoritative
mother trades places with a
permissive housewife. 9017
9.00
Around The World In 80
Gardens.* Monty Don
visits the private oasis of
artist Burle Marx. 4185
9.00
Kingdom.* Aunt Auriel’s
home suffers from a faulty
sprinkler system, and a
raging storm floods the
streets of Market Shipborough.
Last in series. 1611
9.00
FILM Kingdom Of Heaven
(2005).* Première. Drama
following a blacksmith’s rise
to knighthood and journey to
Jerusalem, where tensions
between Christian and
Muslim factions are poised to
boil over into war. Orlando
Bloom stars. 81690794
8.00
CHOICE Lark Rise To
Candleford.* When a
homeless family abandon
their young daughter in Lark
Rise, Robert attempts to
find her a new home. See
Pick of the Day. 6307
9.00
The Last Enemy.* New
series. A man who returns
to a futuristic London for his
brother’s funeral to discover
everyone is now under
constant surveillance.
Drama with Benedict
Cumberbatch and Robert
Carlyle. 5272272
8
BBC2 Northern
Ireland
Ski Sunday.* Highlights
from the World Cup meeting
in Zagreb-Sljeme, Croatia.
Plus Ed Leigh visits the
Himalayas to try a relatively
untouched part of the
snowboarding world. 8901
7.00
Dancing On Ice.* The
couples dance Sixtiesinspired routines. The skateoff is at 8.30pm. 3581494
1.00-1.45 Cash In The
Attic.* (R) 10.45 The
Politics Show.* (R)
11.05 FILM: Runaway
Jury.* 1.05 Sky High.
(R) 1.20-1.50 Sign
Zone: A Passion For
Plants. N East Of
England: 1.00-1.45
The Super League
Show.*
6.10 The Hoobs.* (R) 7333630 6.35
Transworld Sport.* 3049291 7.30 Barcelona
World Race. 8248123 7.55 World Cup
Skiing. 2163388 8.50 T4: The OC.* (R)
3556746 9.50 T4: Hollyoaks.* Omnibus.
Nancy is troubled by Jake’s obsession with
ensuring the wedding goes ahead in the face
of Charlie’s chemotherapy. (R) 53804388
12.25 T4: Vanity Lair.* 6511122 1.30 T4: The
Hills.* Lauren and Jason fall out. 51036 2.00
T4: Friends.* Rachel’s mother plans to move
in. (R) 9950494 2.35 T4: Smallville.* An illegal
immigrant asks for Clark’s help. Tom Welling
stars. 8174217 3.35 T4: The Simpsons.*
Homer worries about his marriage. (R)
4027611 4.05 T4: The Simpsons.* Lisa falls
for the school bully. (R) 7673949 4.40 Terror
In Frostbite Canyon.* A man struggles to
escape from the subterranean depths of
the Utah Canyon, hoping to raise the alarm
after an accident leaves his brother gravely
injured. Part of the Alive strand. 3009272
6.10
Antiques Roadshow.* The
team examine an
exemplary piece of
silverware and a collection
of postcards. 7659
PM
Beat: Life On The Street.*
The work of police community
support officers. 4599678
Scotland Today.* 345949
ITV News.* 333104
BBC1 Northern
Ireland
CHANNEL FOUR
Celtic Connections.*
Mary Ann Kennedy
presents highlights of the
music festival. 42388
6
PM
7
PM
6.00 GMTV.* 8759562 9.25 CITV: Jim Jam &
Sunny.* 1856185 9.40 Jim Jam & Sunny.*
7098456 9.50 Tricky Quickies.* 7087340
10.00 Nick Hancock’s Fishing School.*
The students face a four-mile trek. (R) 43630
10.30 Nick Hancock’s Fishing School.* The
students fish a loch of their choice. (R) 35794
11.00 FILM Columbo: Ashes To Ashes
(1998).* The detective investigates the
complex case of a murdered Hollywood gossip
writer. Drama starring Peter Falk. 72019253
12.50 ITV News; Weather.* 94544272 1.00
Scotland Today/North Today.* 44053369 1.05
Midsomer Murders.* Barnaby and Troy
investigate the members of an art class after
one of their number is found dead. Drama
starring John Nettles. (R) 53366291 3.10
Agatha Christie’s Poirot.* An archaeologist’s
beautiful wife is murdered during an
excavation in the Middle East. Fortunately a
holidaying Poirot is on hand to investigate.
Mystery starring David Suchet. (R) 36689036
5.40
5.55
6.00
7.00
REGION
STV
5.10
Songs Of Praise. Sally
Magnusson journeys to
Cape Town to meet Nobel
Peace Prize winner
Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
8267369
BBC News.* 987814
Life In Cold Blood.*
How amphibians first took
to dry land. (R) 44746
6.00
February 17, 2008 SCOTLANDonSUNDAY
Wild At Heart.* A rare white
lion is discovered in the bush
and the identity of the
poachers is revealed. 64765
10.25 BBC News.* 850098
10.45 FILM Runaway Jury
(2003).* Thriller starring
John Cusack, Gene
Hackman and Dustin
Hoffman. 89654611
10.00 George Melly’s Last Stand.*
Candid documentary
detailing the last few months
of the art critic’s life. 7272
10.00 ITV News.* 148765
10.15 CHOICE Thank God You’re
Here.* With guests Jessica
Hynes and Marcus
Brigstocke. Last in series. (R)
See Pick of the Day. 956833
12.50 Sign Zone: Around The World In 80
Gardens.* (R) 5140692 1.50 Sign Zone:
Holby City.* (R) 5862055 2.50 Sign Zone:
Watchdog.* (R) 3956708 3.20 Sign Zone:
Wanted Down Under.* (R) 3480418
4.05 BBC News 24.* 710944
11.00 Blue Blood — Storyville.* The inner
workings of the Oxford University Boxing Club.
551123 12.25 The Super League Show.*
4121728 1.10 FILM Limbo (1999).*
Drama starring Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio.
578906 3.10 BBC News 24.* 62988760
11.15 FILM Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993).*
Comedy starring Charlie Sheen and Valeria
Golina. 177659 12.45 FILM Duel (1971).*
Thriller starring Dennis Weaver. 1592079
2.00 Dial A Mum.* (R) 8585505 2.40
Reality Bites.* (R) 3921012 3.05 Reality
Bites.* (R) 50285470 3.30 People’s Court.*
(R) 7111429 4.20 ITV Nightscreen. 7716465
5.30 ITV Morning News.* 38875
Kingdom Of Heaven, Channel 4, 9pm
Border
10.00 Championship
Goals.* 78814 1.00
Border News;
Weather.* 44053369
5.40 Border News;
Weather.* 345949
10.14 Border
Weather.* 205659
Tyne Tees
10.00 Championship
Goals.* 78814 1.00
North East News.*
44053369 5.40 North
East Tonight.* 345949
10.14 North East
Weather.* 205659
11.45 Alan Carr’s Celebrity Ding Dong.* (R)
282746 12.35 Smirnoff Experience:
Shanghai.* 2166505 1.05 The Album Chart
Show.* (R) 1192483 1.35 FILM Women
Talking Dirty (1999).* Drama starring Helena
Bonham Carter. 906692 3.15 Honeymoon.*
(R) 71215 3.45 Unreported World.* (R) 70586
4.15 Dispatches: The Children Left Behind.*
(R) 4878760 5.10 Countdown.* (R) 4618147
5.55 Grabbit The Rabbit. (R) 6681692
FIVE
6.00 Milkshake! Tickle, Patch And Friends.*
75765291 6.25 Angels Of Jarm.* (R)
84756494 6.30 Ebb And Flo.* (R) 90745340
6.40 Animal Families.* 90741524 6.50 Hi-5.*
(R) 5321982 7.30 The Beeps.* (R) 6635543
7.45 Make Way For Noddy.* (R) 6630098
8.00 Rupert Bear.* (R) 4707185 8.15 Little
Princess.* (R) 4720036 8.30 Hana’s
Helpline.* (R) 8817825 8.45 Roary The
Racing Car.* (R) 7362730 9.00 Gerald
McBoing Boing.* (R) 1316229 9.25 Jane And
The Dragon.* (R) 6835938 10.00 Dangerman
Adventures: Eye Of The Storm.* (R) 3199746
10.45 Desert Giants: Austin Stevens’
Adventures.* (R) 55945369 11.50 FILM
The Grass Harp (1995).* Drama starring Sissy
Spacek. 39250369 1.45 Football Italiano.*
Live coverage of a match from Italy’s Serie
A. 65214291 4.10 FILM Sinbad And
The Eye Of The Tiger (1977).* Sinbad fights
to free a prince from the grip of an evil spell.
Adventure starring Patrick Wayne. 61399369
6.15
6.30
Five News; Sport.* 9700776
FILM The Man In The Iron
Mask (1997).* The three
Musketeers set out to depose
the villainous King of France
and reinstate his imprisoned
twin brother. Adventure with
Leonardo DiCaprio. 8535949
9.00
FILM Today You Die
(2005).* Première. A thief
is left to take the blame for
a botched armoured car
robbery and thrown in jail,
but escapes to exact revenge
on his betrayers. Thriller with
Steven Seagal. 21844291
10.45
FILM The Stone Killer
(1973).* Thriller starring
Charles Bronson as a police
detective out to stop a
recently released Mafia
hoodlum with murder
in mind. 99898524
12.35 Live NBA Basketball. The All-Star
game (Tip-off 1.00am). 66470215 3.40
Boxing USA. 5256876 4.35 Motorsport:
Arenacross. 5571789 5.10 Wildlife SOS.* (R)
59927437 5.35 Wildlife SOS.* (R) 19661654
REVIEW 25
PICK OF THE DAY
SATELLITE, CABLE & DIGITAL
FILM
SKY MOVIES PREMIERE
Lark Rise To Candleford
BBC1, 8pm
More sumptuous Sunday
evening comfort food as the
period drama du jour
continues. Lady Adelaide
considers adopting a
foundling but Sir Tim harbours
grim suspicions about the
wean.
10.00 Family Close Up. 85630 10.30 Drama
Close Up. 64036 11.00 Modern Greats &
Classics Close Up. 95920 11.30 Comedy
Close Up. 49479 12.00 Luna: Spirit Of The
Whale. 375949 1.55 Save The Last Dance
2: Stepping Up. 82654123 3.50 Arthur And
The Invisibles. 819825 5.40 Sci-fi & Horror
Close Up. 278678 6.10 Barnyard. 48809123
8.00 The Pursuit Of Happyness. 10727
10.00 The Last King Of Scotland. 35481017
12.10 Gone. 190963 2.00 Close.
SKY MOVIES DRAMA
7.05 True Grit. 40557611 9.20 A Fish Called
Wanda. 78893659 11.25 Oscar Fever.
83427659 11.45 Walk The Line. 95572098
2.15 The English Patient. 28398678 5.05
Oscar Nominations Special. 5664272 5.35
Walk The Line. 42437185 8.00 The English
Patient. 55071291 10.45 The Usual
Suspects. 95197678 12.35 All The
President’s Men. 85543050 2.55 The Usual
Suspects. 8510050 4.45 True Grit.
29953050
SKY MOVIES CLASSICS
6.00 The Mark Of Zorro. 60019185 7.35
Sands Of Iwo Jima. 83922320 9.25
Hellfighters. 27440036 11.30 North To
Alaska. 67129388 1.35 Rio Grande.
42373104 3.25 Sands Of Iwo Jima.
90313543 5.20 The Mark Of Zorro.
41830253 6.55 North To Alaska. 28518291
9.00 McLintock! 19393253 11.10
Hellfighters. 75112369 1.20 Soldier Blue.
9315470 3.20 McLintock! 80603789 5.35
Rio Grande. 62507596
Supernatural
ITV2, 9pm
Further mayhem from the US
supernatural drama show as
demon-slaying siblings Sam
and Dean discover a
hedonistic party town where
the whole concept of hellraising is being taken a little
too literally.
BOX OFFICE DIGITAL
Thank God You’re Here
STV, 10.15pm
Paul Merton’s improvisational
skit show always improves
when high-profile talent is
pushed through the door. So
with Spaced
writer/actress
Jessica Hynes in
the house there’s
even more
mirth than
usual.
RADIO
Every 15 mins from 6.00am: The Bourne
Ultimatum. Every 150 mins from 6.00am:
Spider-Man 3. Every 2 hours from 6.00am:
Deck The Halls, Paradise Lost. Every 30
mins from 6.00am: Shrek The Third, Surf’s
Up, Transformers. Every 90 mins from
6.00am: Die Hard 4.0, La Vie En Rose.
Every hour from 6.00am: Bratz, Evan
Almighty, Hairspray, Ocean’s Thirteen, The
Hoax. Every 2 hours from 6.30am to
9.30pm: The Good German. Every hour
from 6.30am to 9.30pm: Fantastic Four:
Rise Of The Silver Surfer, Hostel: Part II,
Vacancy. Every hour from 6.30am: Harry
Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix,
Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End,
This Is England.
ENTERTAINMENT
SKY ONE
6.00 Hour Of Power. 31185 7.00 Pokémon
Advanced. 33765 7.30 Pokémon Advanced.
12272 8.00 Brainiac: Science Abuse. 99543
9.00 Football Icon. 81678 10.00 Vroom
Vroom. 18456 11.00 WWE: Experience.
21920 12.00 Robot Wars Extreme. 64524
1.00 Crash Test Dummies. 73272 2.00 The
Dog Whisperer. 36479 3.00 Project
Catwalk. 81727 4.00 Malcolm In The
Middle. 3494 4.30 Malcolm In The
Middle. 9678 5.00 Malcolm In The
Middle. 9036 5.30 Malcolm In The Middle.
FREEVIEW
BBC 3
7.00 Freaky Eaters. 8.00 Find Me The
Face. 9.00 Two Pints Of Lager And A
Packet Of Crisps. 9.30 Little Britain.
10.00 Phoo Action. 11.00 Family Guy.
11.45 Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet
Of Crisps. 12.15 Marc Wootton Exposed.
12.45 Find Me The Face. 1.40 Phoo
Action. 2.40 Freaky Eaters. 3.35 Marc
Wootton Exposed. 4.05 Close.
Wife Swap: The Aftermath. 81177524
9.30 FILM: Mystic Pizza. 60580185 11.35
The Convention Crasher. 85990291 12.35
The War At Home. 29601963 1.05
Scrubs. 13244692 1.35 The Big Bang
Theory. 86557418 2.05 My Name Is Earl.
81665079 2.25 FILM: Mystic Pizza.
23761437 4.10 Ed. 30943499 4.50
Switched. 28153321 5.35 Switched.
81878296
BBC 4
MORE4
7.00 Dear Television. 2839123 7.10
Poldark. 8011475 8.00 The Cult Of
Sunday Night. 2968475 8.30 Doctors To
Be: Twenty Years On. 2947982 9.00 The
Jet Stream And Us. 4610475 10.00
Earth: The Power Of The Planet.
4613562 11.00 The Late Edition.
1679104 11.30 The Cult Of Sunday
Night. 2595098 12.00 The Jet Stream
And Us. 7549741 1.00 Space Odyssey:
The Robot Pioneers. 3186708 1.50
Doctors To Be: Twenty Years On.
44843692 2.20 The Cult Of Sunday
Night. 73782383 2.50 The Jet Stream
And Us. 5030876 3.50 Close.
ITV2
9.25 American Idol. 11.15 American Idol.
12.15 Movies Now. 12.25 Emmerdale.
3.15 Coronation Street. 5.40 American
Idol. 7.30 American Idol. 8.30 Hey Paula!
9.00 Supernatural. See Pick of the Day.
10.00 FILM: In The Line Of Fire. 12.30
Supernatural. 1.30 Dancing On Ice: The
Skate Off. 2.00 Teleshopping. 5.00 ITV2
Nightscreen. 6.00 Close.
ITV3
6.00 The Rockford Files. 7.55 Ironside.
9.00 Upstairs, Downstairs. 11.10 The
Wonder Years. 12.10 Jeeves And
Wooster. 1.20 Robin Of Sherwood. 2.35
FILM: The Sundowners. 5.10 Inspector
Jeeves And Wooster, ITV3, 7.50pm
Morse. 7.15 Revisiting Brideshead. 7.20
On The Buses. 7.50 Jeeves And
Wooster. 9.00 Super Sleuths. 10.00
FILM: In The Name Of The Father. 12.35
Hammer House Of Horror. 1.40 The
Rockford Files. 3.15 On The Buses. 3.40
Emmerdale.
E4
6.00 Anything Goes. 35430543 7.55 Our
Showbiz Mates. 95667272 8.55 E4 Loves
Skins. 82275272 11.55 Mika — Live In
Paris. 58702320 1.00 Switched.
40556036 1.30 Big Brother US.
85643235 2.20 Big Brother US.
23181456 3.15 Runaway. 78729727 4.05
Ed. 93018415 5.00 Friends. 62411776
6.00 The War At Home. 10015562 6.30
The Big Bang Theory. 10006814 7.00
Scrubs. 61061235 7.30 My Name Is Earl.
10002098 8.00 Friends. 62608340 9.00
3630 6.00 The Simpsons. 4253 6.30 The
Simpsons. 4123 7.00 The Simpsons. 9272
7.30 The Simpsons. 4497 8.00 The
9.00 Lost. 36765 10.00 Weeds. 792253
10.35 Weeds. 592340 11.10 Wives. 675272
12.10 Road Wars. 7964505 1.10 Road
Wars. 7331418 2.00 Tenerife Uncovered.
4394019 2.50 Crash Test Dummies.
5554302 3.40 America’s Dumbest
Criminals. 64875470 4.05 Bite Size
Brainiac. 40532925 4.20 Rescue Me.
6064079 5.10 Guilty! 8373147
6.00 Lesley’s On The Bike. 6.30 New
Every Morning. 6.58 Outdoor
Conditions. 7.00 News. 7.05 The
Greetings Programme. 7.58 Weather.
8.00 News. 8.05 A Life In Question.
Colin MacKay talks to musician Paul
Baker Hernandez. 8.30 Franchi On
Faith. New series. Members of the
public discuss their religious beliefs.
9.00 Sunday Live. 10.30 Battle Lines.
11.00 News. 11.05 New Hands. 11.30
Turning Point. 12.00 News. 12.05 FM:
The Beechgrove Potting Shed. 12.05
MW: Off The Ball’s Sunday
Supplement. 12.58 FM: Weather. 1.00
News. 1.05 FM: The Reel Blend. 1.05
MW: Sportsound. 3.00 FM: News.
3.05 FM: Classics Unwrapped. 5.00
News. 5.05 FM: Women On Top. 5.05
MW: Women On Top. 5.30 Grassroots.
5.58 Weather. 6.00 News. 6.05 Mary
Ann Kennedy’s Global Gathering. 7.58
Outdoor Conditions. 8.00 Brand New
Country. Bryan Burnett interviews
Allison Moorer, who
also performs in the studio. 9.59
Weather. 10.00 News. 10.05 The Jazz
House. 12.00 As Radio 5 Live.
Radio 4
5.30 News Briefing. 5.43 Bells On
Sunday. 5.45 Profile. 6.00 News
Headlines. 6.05 Something
Understood. 6.35 On Your Farm. 6.57
Weather. 7.00 News. 7.07 Sunday
Papers. 7.10 Sunday. 7.55 Radio 4
Appeal. 7.58 Weather. 8.00 News.
8.07 Sunday Papers. 8.10 Sunday
Worship. 8.50 A Point Of View. 9.00
Broadcasting House. 10.00 The
Archers. 11.15 Desert Island Discs.
Kirsty Young chats to Professor Martin
Evans. 12.00 News. 12.01 LW:
Shipping Forecast. 12.04 Just A
Minute. 12.30 The Food Programme.
The flavours of Extramadura. 12.57
Weather. 1.00 The World This
Weekend. 1.30 Advice To The Living.
People with only a short time to live
offer advice. 2.00 Gardeners’ Question
Time. 2.45 The Drawings On The Wall.
3.00 The Classic Serial: Fortunes Of
War. 4.00 Open Book. Mariella
Frostrup and guests discuss the work
of George Glissing. 4.30 Poetry Please.
Poems by writers better known as
novelists. Last in series. 5.00 File On 4.
5.40 Profile. 5.54 Shipping Forecast.
5.57 Weather. 6.00 News. 6.15 Pick Of
The Week. 7.00 The Archers. 7.15 Go 4
It. Barney Harwood learns about
author Laura Ingalls Warner. 7.45 A
Brush With Fame. The first of five
stories about encounters with celebrity.
8.00 Feedback. Listeners’ views. 8.30
Last Word. 9.00 Money Box. 9.26
Radio 4 Appeal. 9.30 In Business. The
impact of the Three Gorges Dam in
China. Last in series. 9.59 Weather.
10.00 The Westminster Hour. 11.00
The Learning Curve. 11.30 Something
Understood. Questioning the possibility
of being both innocent and wise. 12.00
News; Weather. 12.15 Thinking
Allowed. 12.45 Bells On Sunday. 12.48
Shipping Forecast. 1.00 World Service.
5.20 Shipping Forecast.
Radio 3
7.00 Martin Handley. 10.00 News; Iain
Burnside. 12.00 Private Passions. 1.00
The Early Music Show. Composers and
performers associated with the Concert
Spirituel. 2.00 Radio 3 Requests. 4.00
Choral Evensong. Live from the Chapel
of New College, Oxford. 5.00
Discovering Music. 6.30 The Choir.
8.00 Drama On 3. The Cool Bag Baby,
by Katie Hims. 9.15 BBC Singers. 9.30
Sunday Feature: South American
Currents. 10.15 Words And Music.
12.00 The Early Music Show. 1.00
Through The Night.
Radio 1
5.00 Ras Kwame. 7.00 Nihal. 10.00
Dick And Dom. 1.00 Sara Cox. 4.00
Radio 1’s Chart Show With Fearne And
Reggie. 7.00 Switch With Annie Mac.
10.00 Sunday Surgery. 12.00 Rob Da
Bank. 2.00 Rob Da Bank And Friends.
4.00 Dick And Dom.
Radio 2
7.00 Aled Jones. 9.00 Steve Wright’s
Sunday Love Songs. 11.00 Eamonn
Holmes. 1.00 Elaine Paige On Sunday.
2.30 Pick Of The Pops. 4.30 Johnnie
Walker. 6.30 Alan Titchmarsh. 8.30
Sunday Half-Hour. 9.00 Russell Davies.
10.00 Malcolm Laycock. 11.00 The
David Jacobs Collection. 12.00 Janice
Long. 3.00 Alex Lester.
1.00 Rat Race. 6923497 3.00 Cattle
Empire. 71286307 4.35 Penny Serenade.
22289036 6.55 Crocodile Dundee II.
58592901 9.00 An Officer And A
Gentleman. 91068814 11.20 Battle
Royale. 45010104 1.35 Southern
Comfort. 9998944 3.35 Close.
SPORT
SKY SPORTS 1
Die Hard 4.0, Box Office Digital
Radio Scotland FM 92.4-94.7; AM 810kHz,Radio 4 FM 92.4-95.8; LW 198kHz, Radio 3 FM 90.2-92.4, Radio 1 FM 98-99.5, Radio 2 FM 88-90.2, Radio 5 Live AM 693 and 909kHz,
Classic FM FM 100-102, Radio Nan Gaidheal FM 103.5-105 FM, Virgin AM 1215kHz, Talksport AM 1053/1089kHz, World Service FM 92.4-94.7; LW 198kHz and MW 810kHz
Radio Scotland
FILM4
Toughest Tribes. 9811104 5.00 World’s
Toughest Tribes. 7412340 7.00 World’s
Toughest Tribes. 1788524 8.00 American
Chopper. 1797272 9.00 World’s Lost Tribes:
The New Adventures Of Mark And Olly.
1717036 10.00 Deadliest Climb — Everest.
1710123 11.00 A World Without Water.
9311291 12.30 North Mission Road.
1767596 1.00 Body Of Evidence. 4398654
1.30 North Mission Road. 9867383 2.00
Forensic Detectives. 2579166 3.00 World’s
Lost Tribes: The New Adventures Of Mark
And Olly. 4152079 3.50 Deadliest Climb —
Everest. 9884654 4.40 Mythbusters.
7957296 5.30 How It’s Made. 9357302
DISCOVERY
6.00 How Do They Do It? 3862320 7.00
How Do They Do It? 4118494 8.00 How It’s
Made. 7438388 8.30 How It’s Made.
7437659 9.00 How It’s Made. 7411611
9.30 How It’s Made. 3713630 10.00
Mythbusters. 6626982 11.00 Mythbusters.
6646746 12.00 Deadliest Catch. 3703253
1.00 Deadliest Catch. 3712901 2.00
Deadliest Catch. 7321388 3.00 World’s
9.00 Barcelona World Race. 81110123
9.30 Scrapheap Challenge. 40497291
11.40 Scrapheap Challenge. 63301098
12.45 Location, Location, Location.
42707388 1.55 Location, Location,
Location. 17635765 3.00 Location,
Location, Location. 38928765 3.35 Come
Dine With Me. 63902562 4.05 Come
Dine With Me. 95879901 6.20 Jamie At
Home. 95552681 6.55 Jamie At Home.
17633272 7.30 Beyond River Cottage.
18847217 8.00 Meet The Natives.
17115475 9.00 The Secret Millionaire.
30098307 10.05 Baby Bible Bashers.
13464765 11.05 Father Ted. 94652611
11.40 Father Ted. 61824659 12.15 Curb
Your Enthusiasm. 37725382 12.55 The IT
Crowd. 65149302 1.25 The Secret
Millionaire. 41518741 2.20 Baby Bible
Bashers. 68900483 3.20 Close.
Radio 5 Live
World Service
5.00 Morning Reports. 6.00 Weekend
Breakfast. 9.00 SportsWeek. 10.00 Phil
Williams. 12.00 5 Live Sport. Including
Sheffield United v Middlesbrough
(Kick-off 2.00pm). 6.00 6-0-6. 7.30 Five
Live Report. 8.00 The Weekend News.
10.00 Stephen Nolan. 1.00 Up All
Night.
5.00 World Briefing. 5.30 Reporting
Religion. 6.00 The World Today. 6.30
Politics UK. 7.00 The World Today. 7.30
Heart And Soul. 8.00 The World Today.
8.30 Reporting Religion. 9.00 World
News. 9.06 The Ticket. 10.00 World
Briefing. 10.20 Sports Round-up. 10.30
The Instant Guide. 10.41 Over To You.
11.00 World Briefing. 11.20 From Our
Own Correspondent. 11.30 The
Interview. 12.00 Newshour. 1.00
World News. 1.06 Global Business.
1.30 Reporting Religion. 2.00 World
News. 2.06 Have Your Say. 3.00 World
News. 3.06 From Our Own
Correspondent. 3.30 Politics UK. 4.00
World Briefing. 4.30 The Interview.
5.00 World News. 5.06 Sportsworld.
6.00 World Briefing. 6.30 Heart And
Soul. 7.00 World News. 7.06 The
Word. 7.30 Close Up. 8.00 World
News. 8.06 Have Your Say. 8.50 The
Instant Guide. 9.00 Newshour. 10.00
News Summary. 10.06 BBC World
Drama: Kim’s Game. 11.00 The World
Today. 11.30 The Interview. 12.00
World News. 12.06 The Ticket. 1.00
World Briefing. 1.20 World Business
Report. 1.30 Charlie Gillett’s World Of
Music. 2.00 World Briefing. 2.20
Analysis. 2.30 Heart And Soul. 3.00
The World Today. 3.30 The Instant
Guide. 3.41 Over To You. 4.00 The
World Today.
Classic FM
7.00 Myleene Klass Weekend
Breakfast. 9.00 Henry Kelly. 12.00 If
You Liked That, You’ll Like This. 2.00
Natalie Wheen. 4.00 The Great Movie
Composers On Classic FM. 5.00 Live
From The Liverpool Philharmonic. 7.00
Smooth Classics At Seven. 9.00 The
Guest List. 11.00 Lisa Duncombe. 2.00
Mark Griffiths.
Radio Nan Gaidheal
3.00 Dèanamaid Adhradh. 3.30 Mar
Radio Alba. 9.00 Dèanamaid Adhradh.
9.30 Tro Shàmhchair An Fheasgair.
10.00 Mar Radio Alba.
Virgin
6.00 John Osborne. 10.00 JK And
Joel. 1.00 Leona Graham. 5.00 The
Geoff Show. 7.00 Ben Jones. 10.00
Iain Lee. 1.00 Tim Lichfield. 4.00 Robin
Burke.
Talksport
6.00 Fisherman’s Blues. 8.00 Andy
Townsend And Mike Parry. 12.00
Football First. 5.00 Final Whistle. 8.00
The Rugby Show. 10.00 James Whale.
1.00 Mike Mendoza.
6.00 Live International Cricket. Australia v
India. 2834098 11.30 Australian Soccer.
45949 12.00 FA Cup Special. 92456 1.00
Live Rugby Union. London Irish v Leicester
Tigers (Kick-off 1.15pm). 183098 3.30 Live
FA Cup Football. Preston North End v
Preston v Pompey, Sky Sports 1, 3.30pm
Portsmouth (Kick-off 4.00pm). 335659
6.30 Australian Soccer. 6123 7.00 Live
Spanish Football. 222140 10.00 FA Cup
Football. 25036 11.30 Australian Soccer.
21456 12.00 WWE: Heat. 57166 1.00 Live
WWE Wrestling. 7127895 4.00 Close.
SKY SPORTS 2
6.00 Watersports World. 3478123 7.00 Live
Australian Soccer. 7926369 9.30
Champions League Weekly. 1868388 10.00
The Sunday Supplement. 3827017 11.00
Racing News. 6557746 11.30 Wild Spirits.
6558475 12.00 Super League. 8641982
2.00 Australian Soccer. 5856104 2.30
International Cricket. 7743543 4.30 Sailing.
6011746 5.00 Wild Spirits. 5847456 5.30
International Cricket. 4602630 7.30 Wild
Spirits. 6012475 8.00 Live NASCAR.
3843833 12.30 Spanish Football. 7327296
2.30 FA Cup Football. 2917012 4.00
Australian Soccer. 3936234 4.30 Close.
SKY SPORTS 3
6.00 Live European Tour Golf. 96402982
9.00 WWE: Afterburn. 43989843 10.00
WWE: Heat. 76481272 11.00 Watersports
World. 76401036 12.00 World Sport.
71172479 12.30 Wild Spirits. 34706369
1.00 European Tour Golf. 98342320 5.00
WWE: Experience. 27651659 6.00 Rugby
Union. 58834794 7.30 Spirit Of Yachting.
45265098 8.00 Golf Night. 87948562 10.00
Watersports World. 87934369 11.00 WWE:
Late Night — Afterburn. 76482901 12.00
Golf Night. 64827128 2.00 Spirit Of
Yachting. 52632876 2.30 Rugby Union.
29139128 4.00 Close.
BRITISH EUROSPORT
7.30 Luge. 72678 8.00 Biathlon. 4554659
9.15 Live Alpine Skiing. 7290307 10.00
Live Cross-Country Skiing. 61562 11.00
Live Biathlon. 9991562 11.45 Ski Jumping.
298036 12.15 Live Alpine Skiing. 7746543
1.00 Live MotoGP. 4728949 1.50 Live
Biathlon. 3172456 3.00 Live Snooker.
34833 4.00 WTA Tennis. 5193524 5.15
Winterpark Weekend. 8504456 5.30 Ski
Jumping. 5631562 6.45 Winterpark
Weekend. 444630 7.05 Live Snooker. The
Welsh Open final. 26367712 10.00
MotoGP. 86307 10.30 GP2 Racing. 62727
11.00 French Rugby. 21369 11.30 Biathlon.
16524 12.00 Winterpark Weekend. 42514
12.30 Close.
26 REVIEW
MONDAY 18.02.08
DAYTIME
BBC ONE
BBC TWO
REGION
STV
6.00 Breakfast.* 76216296 9.15 Animal
24:7.* 8215050 10.00 Homes Under The
Hammer.* 17352 11.00 To Buy Or Not To
Buy.* 9654 11.30 Cash In The Attic.*
A woman raises money for her supportive
husband. (R) 4352079 12.15 Bargain
Hunt.* From Gloucester. (R) 6037586 1.00
BBC News.* 20692 1.30 Reporting
Scotland.* 12972160 1.45 Doctors.* Julia
attempts to reunite a daughter with her
estranged father after 20 years. 423876
2.15 Diagnosis Murder.* Dr Sloan and a
colleague get embroiled in a blackmail plot
linked to the murder of a Hollywood
madam. Dick Van Dyke stars. (R) 9404857
3.00 BBC News; Weather; Reporting
Scotland.* 8669789 3.05 CBeebies: Mister
Maker.* (R) 4439578 3.25 CBBC: Take A
Bow.* (R) 8648296 3.30 Arthur.* (R)
4021437 3.55 Shaun The Sheep;* (R)
Thumb Wrestling Federation: TWF.* (R)
1497906 4.05 The Revenge Files Of
Alistair Fury.* 9339760 4.35 MI High.*
8529760
6.00 CBeebies.* 61418 8.00 CBBC: Wild
Tales.* 91741 8.30 Arthur.* (R) 5541708 8.45
Dennis The Menace.* 5520215 9.05 The
Sorcerer’s Apprentice.* (R) 1414050 9.35
What’s New Scooby-Doo?* (R) 6021128 9.55
4319960 10.00 Even Stevens;* (R) Diddy Dick
& Dom.* (R) 92321 10.30 Beat The Boss.*
(R) 10876 11.00 Animal Park: Wild On The
West Coast.* (R) 24418 12.00 The Daily
Politics.* 86988 12.30 Working Lunch.*
57895 1.00 Animal Park.* 26388944 1.25
FA Cup Sixth Round Draw.* Live coverage
from Soho Square. 24985302 1.30 The People
Watchers.* A team of psychologists perform a
hidden-camera stunt in a shop. 3543296 2.15
Don’t Get Done, Get Dom.* A major electrical
appliance company is confronted. (R) 9402499
3.00 Escape To The Country.* Finding a home
in Cornwall. (R) 2951895 3.45 Flog It!*
3081857 4.30 Ready, Steady, Cook.* With Tim
Vincent and Diane Louise Jordan. 1599302
6.00 GMTV.* 8726234 9.25 The Jeremy Kyle
Show.* 5898963 10.30 This Morning.* Fern
Britton and Eamonn Holmes catch up on the
rinkside gossip with Dancing on Ice judge
Jason Gardiner. 67437 12.30 Loose Women.*
99012 1.30 ITV Lunchtime News.* 43692
2.00 Doc Martin.* First episode of the drama
starring Martin Clunes as a surgeon forced to
retrain as a GP in a sleepy Cornish village after
developing a blood phobia. With Caroline Catz,
Stephanie Cole and Celia Imrie. (R) 97876
3.00 The Alan Titchmarsh Show.* 9895
4.00 The Royal Today.* A woman is admitted
to the hospital after taking drugs in a nightclub,
and Vijay is puzzled when he learns a patient’s
broken arm has not shown any sign of
recovery in three weeks. Heather presses
Adam to set a date for their big day. Pal Aron,
Ben Hull and Caroline Carver star; What’s
Your Business Idea.* (R) 944 4.30 Golden
Balls.* Game show hosted by Jasper Carrott ;
What’s Your Business Idea.* (R) 42895
5.00
5.15
Newsround.* 9954429
Weakest Link.* (R)
7420963
5.15
Britain’s Dream Homes.*
Melissa Porter and Rhodri
Owen search for Britain’s
best mill conversion. 7428505
5.30
The Five Thirty Show.* 708
6.00
6.30
BBC News.* 925
Reporting Scotland.* 505
6.00
6.30
Eggheads.* 895
Ben Fogle’s Extreme
Dreams.* The presenter
picks one person from each
of the past four trips to form
a team to scale Mount
Roraima in Venezuela. 147
6.00
Scotland Today;* What’s
Your Business Idea.* (R) 321
ITV Evening News.* 673
5
PM
BBC1 Northern
Ireland
1.30-1.45 Newsline.*
10.25 Newsline.*
10.35 Frozen North.*
11.15 Damages.*
12.00-2.00 FILM:
French Connection II.*
N East Of England:
1.30-1.45 Regional
News.* 3.00-3.05
Regional News.* 6.307.00 Look North.*
10.25-10.35 Regional
News.*
BBC2 Northern
Ireland
2.15 Stormont Live.*
3.30-3.45 Secret
Gardens.* 10.00-10.30
ATL TV.* 11.20 Pulling.*
11.50 The Dodo’s
Guide To Surviving
Extinction: BBC 4 on
BBC 2.*
12.50-2.00 BBC News
24.*
CHANNEL FOUR
FIVE
6.05 The Hoobs.* (R) 4911321 6.35 The
Hoobs.* (R) 5721925 6.55 Freshly Squeezed.*
4923128 7.25 Everybody Loves Raymond.*
(R) 7461673 7.50 Everybody Loves Raymond.*
(R) 8291215 8.20 Just Shoot Me.* (R)
9986586 8.45 Frasier.* Niles and Frasier hold
a dinner party. (R) 156692 9.15 Will & Grace.*
(R) 153505 9.45 Will & Grace.* (R) 152876
10.15 Without A Trace.* (R) 7519505 11.05
ER.* A baby chimpanzee receives treatment.
(R) 6877470 12.00 News At Noon.* 96296
12.30 A Place In Greece.* (R) 42963 1.00
Great British Brands.* History of Hovis’s
popularity. (R) 60234586 1.15 FILM The
Day The Earth Stood Still (1951).* Drama
starring Michael Rennie as an alien
ambassador who lands in America to deliver
an ominous warning to humanity. 62638963
2.55 Come Dine With Me.* A fancy-dress
company owner kicks off the competition
in Derby. (R) 2167760 3.25 Countdown.*
2921654 4.15 Deal Or No Deal.* 2575470
6.00 Milkshake 5311673 9.00 The Wright
Stuff.* 9189437 10.30 Trisha Goddard.*
4400470 11.30 The Hotel Inspector.* Ruth
Watson meets actor-hotelier Robert Gray
before assessing his three-bedroom B&B in
Greenwich. (R) 2866586 12.30 Five News.*
29421147 12.45 Law & Order.* The murder of
an apartment block resident prompts Briscoe
and Green to investigate her long-standing
battle with the landlord. (R) 5066924 1.45
Neighbours.* 7162499 2.15 Home And
Away.* Martha manages to fight off the
hospital attacker but he avoids getting caught
yet again. 1105789 2.50 Animal Rescue
Squad.* Highlights from the series in which
Michaela Strachan and Matt Baker meet the
people who are working to protect animals.
4587079 3.00 FILM Mary Higgins Clark’s
Pretend You Don’t See Her (2002).* A New
York estate agent becomes the target of an
assassin after she witnesses a murder. Thriller
starring Emma Samms and Beau Starr. 1003692
5.00
Richard & Judy.* 8708
5.00
5.30
Five News.* 7334050
Neighbours.* Toadie suffers
a panic attack. (R) 7590925
6.00
The Simpsons.* Ned
Flanders’ home is destroyed
by a hurricane. (R) 963
Hollyoaks.* Louise becomes
suspicious of Warren. 215
6.00
Home And Away.* Martha
manages to fight off the
hospital attacker. (R) 7520166
Animal Rescue Squad.*
Two kittens are abandoned
by their mother. 7511418
Border
6
PM
7.00
7.30
The ONE Show.* 3499
Watchdog.* 789
7
PM
7.00
7.30
6.30
The Twenties In Colour: The
Wonderful World Of Albert
Kahn.* A photographic record
of the Middle East’s rebirth in
the early 20th century. 4741
Mastermind.* Specialist
subjects include Mary Tudor
and the Cricket World Cup. 401
7.00
University Challenge.*
Christ Church College, Oxford,
take on the University of
Manchester. 4019
MasterChef.* Contestants
cook a chicken dish in the
first semi-final. 9296
8.00
Paradise Or Bust.*
Environmentalist James
Strawbridge gives the island a
makeover. Last in series. 6429
9.00
7.30
Emmerdale.* Jo puts on a
brave face as her wedding
day approaches. 1895
Coronation Street.* Carla
gets a fright at her flat. 857
2.00 Dickinson’s Real
Deal.* 7079 2.30 The
Alan Titchmarsh
Show.* 72147 3.30 The
Royal Today.* 437 4.00
Doc Martin.* 8302
5.00 Golden Balls.*
9186 6.00
Lookaround.* 321 8.00
Expats Under Attack:
Tonight.* 7215 10.35
FILM: First Blood.*
79896302 12.20 UEFA
Champions League
Weekly.* 6400529
12.45 Nightwatch
With Steve Scott:
Crime.* 494432
6.30
6.30
7.00
7.55
Channel 4 News.*790673
The Political Slot.* With
Anne Snelgrove MP. 600760
7.00
7.30
Five News.* 7321586
How Do They Do It?*
The secrets of the modern
golf ball. 7500302
8.00
CHOICE Dispatches: How
The Banks Bet Your Money.*
The effects of the global
credit crunch on Britain’s
banks. See Pick of the Day.
8031
8.00
Fifth Gear.* Tiff Needell and
Jason Plato face off in the
new BMW 135i Coupe and
the Porsche Cayman. 5900128
9.00
The Day Of The Kamikaze.*
The story of the Japanese
suicide pilots. 88302302
9.00
FILM Kiss Of The Dragon
(2001).* Intelligence officer
Jet Li is sent on assignment
to Paris. Adventure with
Bridget Fonda. 75964383
10.55
FILM The Killer (1989).*
Thriller starring Chow Yun-Fat
as a hit-man who accidentally
blinds a nightclub singer —
and subsequently forms
a relationship with her.
Dubbed in English. 52661302
Tyne Tees
8.00
8
8.30
PM
9.00
9
PM
10
PM
11
PM
ONWARD
EastEnders.*
Tanya asks Stacey for help.
Panorama.* The popularity
of bottled water in the UK.
1654
8.00
Life In Cold Blood.* David
Attenborough examines
how lizards colonised the
planet, looking at how lace
monitors lay eggs in
Australia. 2857
9.00
CHOICE
8.30
8.30
Postcode Challenge.*
Neighbours work together to
win a cash prize; What’s Your
Business Idea.* (R) 7215
Coronation Street.* A nervous
Carla arms herself before
confronting the intruder. 9050
The Palace.* Eleanor is
moved into the palace.
Rupert Evans stars. 7925
10.00 BBC News.* 841321
10.25 Reporting Scotland.*
342760
10.35 Damages.* Tom and Ellen
conspire against Patty.
745586
10.00 Pulling.* Karen is stalked
by a man with whom she
once had a dalliance. 36447
10.30 Newsnight.* 11505
10.00 News At Ten; Weather.*
251437 What’s Your Business
Idea.* (R) 604128
10.35 Scotsport.* 3045437
11.20 FILM French Connection II
(1975).* Thriller with Gene Hackman.
557789 1.20 Sign Zone: Wonderland: The
End Of The World Bus Tour.* (R) 9611141
2.00 Sign Zone: Attila The Hun.* (R) 79118
3.00 Sign Zone: Extreme Pilgrim.* (R)
56906 4.00 Sign Zone: Wanted Down
Under.* (R) 5437548 4.45 BBC News 24.*
5138682
11.00 Newsnight Scotland.* 612514 11.20
The Dodo’s Guide To Surviving Extinction:
BBC 4 on BBC 2.* An investigation into
extinction using the Dodo’s story as a
cautionary tale. 192505 12.20 BBC News 24.*
993093 2.00 BBC Learning Zone.* 4843890
11.55 Ceol Aig A Chaisteal. 113586
12.25 Fir Chlis. 6329600 12.50 UEFA
Champions League Weekly.*
7135068 1.15 Marbella Belles.* (R)
2166906 1.40 Nightwatch With
Steve Scott: Crime.* 7462839 2.35
Loose Women.* (R) 6223838
3.25 Make Me Perfect.* (R)
3441529 4.10 ITV
Nightscreen. 1736722 5.30
ITV Morning News.* 27451
Deal.* 7079 2.30 The
Alan Titchmarsh
Show.* 72147 3.30 The
Doc Martin.* 8302
5.00 Golden Balls.*
9186 6.00 North East
Tonight.* 321 8.00
Expats Under Attack:
Tonight.* 7215 10.35
FILM: First Blood.*
79896302 12.20 UEFA
Champions League
Weekly.* 6400529
12.45 Nightwatch
With Steve Scott:
Crime.* 494432
10.35 Without A Trace.* A girl
disappears after escaping
a boy’s advances. 327079
11.35 FILM The Naked Gun: From
The Files Of Police Squad! (1988)*
Comedy with Leslie Nielsen. 974186 1.10
Sex Change Hospital.* (R) 5969703 2.10
World Cup Skiing. 829426 4.10 FIVB Beach
Volleyball. 4846161 5.05 Richard &
Judy.* (R) 9801432
The Palace, STV, 9pm
1.00 NASCAR. 5159906 1.50 US PGA Golf.
6570141 2.40 Race And Rally UK. 72925451
3.05 Motorsport Mundial. 63807722 3.30
Football Italiano Special. (R) 8516529 4.20
French Football — Le Championnat.
2446277 5.10 Neighbours.* (R) 59994109
5.35 House Doctor.* (R) 19565426
REVIEW 27
PICK OF THE DAY
FILM
FREEVIEW
SKY MOVIES PREMIERE
Being Human
BBC3, 9pm
After last week’s Phoo Action,
Beeb 3’s refreshingly weird
season of would-be pilots
continues with this off-kilter
drama in which a ghost, a
vampire and a werewolf find
themselves sharing a nice little
des res.
10.00 Comedy Close Up. 27031 10.30
Family Close Up. 47944 11.00 Drama
Close Up. 92418 11.30 Modern Greats
& Classics Close Up. 93147 12.00 Luna:
Spirit Of The Whale. 497741 1.50 Save
The Last Dance 2: Stepping Up. 44260166
3.40 Barnyard. 155673 5.30 Premiere Close
Up. 5586 6.00 Arthur And The Invisibles.
38708 8.00 The Last King Of Scotland.
85369418 10.05 The Pursuit Of Happyness.
35466708 12.10 Gone. 234987 2.00 Close.
SKY MOVIES DRAMA
7.00 The Bishop’s Wife. 62959296 8.50
Witness. 85362586 10.45 Tsotsi. 25951166
12.25 Lawrence Of Arabia. 15842673 4.00
Cabaret. 47368302 6.05 Witness. With
Harrison Ford. 57622499 8.00 Lawrence Of
Arabia. 62658465 11.35 Cabaret. 93594418
1.50 Tsotsi. 5402068 3.30 Hustle And
Flow. 4018277 5.30 The Bishop’s Wife.
27741987
SKY MOVIES CLASSICS
Dispatches
Channel 4, 8pm
With the global credit crunch
threatening to trigger a
recession, financier Jon
Moulton takes a closer look at
this looming fiscal meltdown,
furiously wagging his finger at
banks and governments alike.
EastEnders
BBC1, 8pm
More Sisyphean misery round
Walford way as the Mitchells
object to Jack’s promotional
tactics, Stacey
is devastated
by Bradley’s
return and
Jase falls
on hard
times.
RADIO
7.30 The Incredible Shrinking Man.
61307876 8.55 The Spy Who Came In
From The Cold. 55602499 10.55 Three
Faces West. 84795673 12.20 Titanic.
6394079 2.05 The Incredible Shrinking
Man. 47235505 3.35 The Gunfighter.
18904654 5.05 Modern Greats & Classics
Close Up. 72720050 5.35 Three Faces
West. 45627609 7.00 The Spy Who Came
In From The Cold. 3778876 9.00 The
Comancheros. 46672437 10.50 The
Egyptian. 87220337 1.15 Torn Curtain.
97583432 3.30 The Gunfighter. 5474600
5.05 Titanic. Drama with Clifton Webb
52959797
BOX OFFICE DIGITAL
Every 15 mins from 6.00am: The Simpsons
Movie. Every 150 mins from 6.00am:
Goodbye Bafana. Every 30 mins from
6.00am: Knocked Up, Surf’s Up, The
Bourne Ultimatum. Every 90 mins from
Every hour from 6.00am: Bratz, Ocean’s
Thirteen, Shrek The Third, The Hoax,
Transformers. Every 2 hours from 6.30am
to 9.30pm: The Good German. Every hour
Vacancy. Every hour from 6.30am: Evan
Almighty, Harry Potter And The Order Of
The Phoenix, Pirates Of The Caribbean: At
World’s End, This Is England.
ENTERTAINMENT
SKY ONE
6.00 Dream Team. 21128 7.00 Are You
Smarter Than A 10 Year Old? 95302 8.00
Brainiac: Science Abuse. 96031 9.00 Cold
Case. 56302 10.00 Stargate SG-1. 68925
12.00 Are You Smarter Than A 10 Year
Old? 61012 1.00 Cold Case. 70760 2.00 Las
Vegas. 35050 3.00 Stargate SG-1. 71925
4.00 Stargate SG-1. 83760 5.00 Are You
Futurama. 9789 6.30 Malcolm In The
Middle. 3741 7.00 The Simpsons. 5499
BBC 3
Hollyoaks: In The City. 23975345 2.50
Style Her Famous. 68902180 3.10
Desperate Housewives. 21674451 3.55
One Tree Hill. 45198600 4.40 Switched.
61501600 5.45 Close.
7.00 Dragons’ Den. 8.00 The Real Hustle.
8.30 The Real Hustle Las Vegas. 9.00
Being Human. See Pick of the Day. 10.00
EastEnders. 10.30 Dawn Gets Naked.
11.25 Family Guy. 12.15 Being Human.
1.10 The Real Hustle Las Vegas. 1.40
Dawn Gets Naked. 2.35 The Real Hustle.
3.05 Find Me The Face. 4.05 Close.
MORE4
BBC 4
7.00 World News Today. 2926499 7.30
The Cult Of Sunday Night. 7963166 8.00
The Great British Sunday. 4667383 9.00
Savile Row. 4687147 10.00 The Cult Of
Sunday Night. 7897128 10.30 Summits.
3574128 11.30 The Great British Sunday.
8691215 12.30 Savile Row. 3544987 1.30
Summits. 6403109 2.30 The Cult Of
Sunday Night. 7945646 3.00 Savile Row.
6486432 4.00 Close.
ITV2
9.25 Smallville. 10.15 Judge Judy. 11.35
Airline. 12.00 Coronation Street. 1.00
Emmerdale. 1.30 The Jeremy Kyle Show.
3.45 Ricki Lake. 4.30 Sally Jessy
Raphael. 5.20 The Montel Williams
Show. 6.05 Judge Judy. 7.00 Smallville.
8.00 Harry Hill’s TV Burp. 8.30
Supermodels: Gone Bad. 9.00
Ghosthunting With Coronation Street.
11.00 Coronation Street. 12.00 FILM:
Along Came Polly. 1.40 Teleshopping.
4.40 ITV2 Nightscreen. 6.00 Close.
ITV3
6.00 Only When I Laugh. 6.25 Upstairs,
Downstairs. 7.25 The Rockford Files.
8.25 Ironside. 10.25 The Magnificent
Seven. 11.25 Quincy ME. 12.25 Lovejoy.
1.30 Heartbeat. 2.40 The Wonder Years.
3.40 Cagney And Lacey. 4.45 Maigret.
8.00 Maigret. 9.00 Raines. 10.00
Judge Judy, ITV2, 10.15am; 6.05pm
Numb3rs. 11.00 Hack. 12.00 Tales Of
The Unexpected. 1.05 Quincy ME. 1.55
The Rockford Files. 2.45 Bramwell. 3.35
Only When I Laugh. 4.00 Teleshopping.
E4
6.00 Anything Goes. 64906050 8.00 Just
Mark Ronson. 22788166 9.00 Nothing
But Music From Skins. 87334050 10.00
Like Indie? You’ll Love This. 40509128
11.00 Fresh Tracks. 31792654 12.10
Scrubs. 14935708 1.05 The Simple Life.
85567963 2.05 Style Her Famous.
61349050 2.35 Desperate Housewives.
99487876 3.30 One Tree Hill. 19616789
4.25 Hollyoaks. 79278079 4.55 Friends.
54986586 6.00 Scrubs. 65831895 7.00
Hollyoaks. 95366447 7.30 The Class.
10062470 8.00 Friends. 62675012 9.00
One Tree Hill. 62695876 10.00 Skins.
15261895 11.05 Hollyoaks: In The City.
54231215 12.05 Scrubs. 89879345 1.05
The Simple Life. 29402762 1.50
9.00 Ross Kemp In Afghanistan. 26963
10.00 Prison Break. 29050 11.00
Journeyman. 47383 12.00 Road Wars.
80744 1.00 Tenerife Uncovered. 6320109
1.50 The Villa. 9962838 2.40 Mile High.
3493838 3.30 Las Vegas. 3025613 4.20
Dream Team. 6024451 5.10 Guilty!
8340819
6.00 Good Morning Scotland. 8.50
Morning Extra With Gary Robertson.
9.30 MacAulay & Co. 11.00 A Family
Affair. New series. A woman’s fight to
keep her son safe. 11.30 Case Reopened. Louise Welsh re-examines the
death of Lord Darnley. 12.00 Scotland
Live. 1.00 News. 1.15 The Book Café.
2.00 News. 2.05 Tom Morton. 4.00
Newsdrive. 4.00 Weather. 6.00 News.
6.05 Get It On With Bryan Burnett.
7.00 News. 7.12 Outdoor Conditions.
7.15 FM: The Book Café. 7.15 MW:
Sportsound. 8.00 FM: News. 8.05 FM:
Vic Galloway. 9.58 FM: Weather. 10.00
Scotland At Ten. 10.30 The Iain
Anderson Show. 12.30 Case Reopened. 1.00 FM: As Radio 5 Live. 1.00
MW: Nightshift.
Radio 4
5.30 News Briefing. 5.43 Prayer For
The Day. 5.45 Farming Today. 6.00
Today. 9.00 Start The Week. 9.45 LW:
Daily Service. 9.45 FM: Book of the
Week: Trust Me I’m A (Junior) Doctor.
By Max Pemberton. 10.00 Woman’s
Hour. 11.00 Ghosts Of The Cornish
Alps. 11.30 Tomorrow, Today! 12.00
News. 12.01 LW: Shipping Forecast.
12.04 You And Yours. 12.57 Weather.
1.00 The World At One. 1.30 The
Garden Quiz. 2.00 The Archers. 2.15
Afternoon Play: Too Up Too Down. Jim
Poyser’s comedy of life, love and five-aside football about a man reflecting on
a past that has not gone to plan.
Starring Jason Done and Emma
Cunniffe. 3.00 Money Box Live. 3.30
Creating Writing Groups 2008. 3.45
Giving It All Away. 4.00 The Food
Programme. The flavours of
Extramadura. 4.30 Beyond Belief. 5.00
PM. 5.54 LW: Shipping Forecast. 5.57
Weather. 6.00 News. 6.30 Just A
Minute. From the Playhouse, Salisbury.
7.00 The Archers. 7.15 Front Row.
Mark Lawson hosts the arts and
culture programme featuring a review
of Be Kind Rewind, starring Jack Black.
7.45 Faust. 8.00 Dancing With The
Russian Bear. Tim Whewell
investigates the reasons why Russia
cut off gas supplies to Ukraine,
considering possible political
undertones to the action. 8.30 The
Learning Curve. 9.00 Secret Science.
Part one of two. Investigating the littleknown work of the National Institute of
Biological Standards and Control. 9.30
Start The Week. 10.00 The World
Tonight. 10.45 Book at Bedtime: A
Room With A View. By EM Forster.
11.00 Quote — Unquote. 11.30 Today
In Parliament. 12.00 News; Weather.
12.30 Book of the Week: Trust Me I’m
A (Junior) Doctor. 12.48 Shipping
Forecast. 1.00 World Service. 5.20
Shipping Forecast.
Concert. Beethoven and Chopin. 2.00
The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra And
Friends. 5.00 In Tune. 7.00 Performance
On 3. Ravel, Giya Kancheli, Musorgsky
orch Ravel. 8.45 Composer Of The
Week: Giuseppe Verdi. 9.45 Night
Waves. Ronald Harwood’s new play An
English Tragedy. 10.30 Artist Focus.
Ravel’s Shéhérazade. 11.00 The Essay.
Lesley Chamberlain gets all
philosophical about death. 11.15 Lopa
Kothari. 1.00 Through The Night.
Radio 3
Radio 5 Live
7.00 Rob Cowan. 10.00 Classical
Collection. 12.00 Composer Of
The Week: Giuseppe Verdi. 12.00
News. 1.00 Radio 3 Lunchtime
5.00 Morning Reports. 5.30 Wake
Up To Money. 6.00 Breakfast. 9.00
Victoria Derbyshire. 12.00 The Midday
News. 1.00 Simon Mayo. 4.00 Drive.
Radio 1
6.30 The Chris Moyles Show. 10.00
Jo Whiley. 12.45 Newsbeat. 1.00 Edith
Bowman. 4.00 Scott Mills. 7.00 Zane
Lowe. 9.00 In New Music We Trust.
10.00 Colin Murray. 12.00 The Radio 1
Rock Show. 2.00 The Radio 1 Punk
Show With Mike Davies. 4.00 Dick And
Dom.
Radio 2
6.00 Sarah Kennedy: The Dawn Patrol.
7.30 Wake Up To Wogan. 9.30 Stuart
Maconie. 12.00 Jeremy Vine. 2.00
Steve Wright In The Afternoon. 5.00
Chris Evans. 7.00 Paul Jones. 8.00
Mark Radcliffe. 10.00 Big Band
Special. 10.30 Humphrey Lyttelton.
11.30 Music Club Weekly. 12.30
Janice Long. 3.00 Alex Lester.
1.00 Blood On The Sun. 71882470 2.45
Destination Gobi. 76641789 4.30 A
Matter Of Life And Death. 1564963 6.30
I Am Sam. Drama starring Sean Penn
and Michelle Pfeiffer. 8545321 9.00
Judge Dredd. 9939741 11.00 Battle
Royale 2: Requiem. 71739673 1.40 The
Return. 81798426 3.55 Close.
SPORT.
SKY SPORTS 1
Knocked Up, Box Office Digital
Radio Scotland
FILM4
3709437 7.00 Deadliest Catch. 1755296
8.00 Mythbusters. 1764944 9.00 Eddie
Jordan’s Bad Boy Racers. 1784708 10.00
Mythbusters. 1787895 11.00 Most Evil.
9323345 12.30 Body Of Evidence. 5062708
1.00 Suburban Secrets. 4292426 1.30
Missing Persons Unit. 9761155 2.00
Forensic Detectives. 2546838 3.00 Eddie
Jordan’s Bad Boy Racers. 4112451 3.50
Mythbusters. 9788426 4.40 Dirty Jobs.
7851068 5.30 How It’s Made. 9324074
DISCOVERY
6.00 Mythbusters. 7167532 7.00
Engineering The World Rally. 4185166 8.00
Deadliest Catch. 4186895 9.00 Future
Weapons. 9376437 10.00 Mythbusters.
6693654 11.00 American Chopper.
6613418 12.00 Survivorman. 3770925 1.00
Deadliest Catch. 3789673 2.00 Forensic
Detectives. 7381760 3.00 North Mission
Road. 7532321 3.30 Body Of Evidence.
2642499 4.00 Mythbusters. 9484741 5.00
How It’s Made. 7544166 5.30 How Do
They Do It? 2634470 6.00 Mythbusters.
9.00 Deal Or No Deal. 74539760 9.45
How Clean Is Your House? 13590944
10.15 You Are What You Eat. 13582925
13581296 11.15 FILM: Man With The
Gun. Adventure starring Robert
Mitchum. 33086437 12.55 3 Minute
Wonder: Are You Sitting Comfortably?
34986079 1.00 3 Minute Wonder: Can
You Believe Your Eyes? 92936741 1.05 3
Minute Wonder: Can You Believe Your
Eyes? 92935012 1.10 Deal Or No Deal.
25367505 2.00 ER. 52079079 3.00 Hill
Street Blues. 35512789 4.00 A Place In
The Sun. 34318316 5.05 Grand Designs.
42792586 6.05 Deal Or No Deal.
78707418 7.00 Relocation, Relocation.
17173499 8.00 More4 News. 61470302
8.30 The Daily Show With Jon Stewart:
Global Edition. 61499437 9.00 Grand
Designs. 17162383 10.00 Grand Designs:
Trade Secrets. 31024789 10.35 Curb
Your Enthusiasm. 70119741 11.15 ER.
96911437 12.15 The Sopranos.
89375267 1.25 Grand Designs. 72695971
2.30 ER. 85463600 3.15 Countdown.
98035074 4.00 Close.
7.00 5 Live Sport. 10.00 Richard
Bacon. 1.00 Up All Night.
Classic FM
6.00 Easier Breakfast. 8.00 Simon
Bates. 12.00 The Classic FM Most
Wanted. 1.00 Classic FM Requests.
4.00 Drivetime. 6.30 Classic Newsnight.
7.00 Smooth Classics At Seven. 9.00
Evening Concert. Delius, Smetana,
Anon, Gluck, Falla, Suk. 12.00 Lisa
Duncombe. 2.00 Mark Griffiths.
Radio Nan Gaidheal
7.30 Aithris Na Maidne. 9.03
Coinneach Maclomhair. 10.03 Mire Ri
Mòir. 11.30 Bunaidean. 2.03
Caithream Ciùil. 4.03 Fàilte Air
An Dùthaich. 5.00 Aithris An
Fheasgair. 5.10 Siubhal Gu Seachd.
7.00 Litir Bheag. 7.05 Rapal. 9.02
Coinneach Maclomhair. 10.00
Bunaidean. 10.30 Fàilte Air An
Dùthaich. 11.30 Mar Radio Alba.
Virgin
6.00 Christian O’Connell’s Breakfast
Show. 10.00 Russ Williams. 1.00 Leona
Graham. 4.00 Nick Jackson. 7.00 Ben
Jones. 10.00 The Geoff Show. 1.00 Tim
Lichfield. 4.00 Robin Burke.
Talksport
5.00 Mike Mendoza With The Moose
And Faye Carruthers. 6.00 Alan Brazil
And Mike Parry. 10.00 Jon Gaunt. 1.00
Danny Kelly. 4.00 Ian Wright And
Adrian Durham. 7.00 Kick Off. 10.00
James Whale. 1.00 Ian Collins.
World Service
5.00 World Briefing. 5.20 World
Business Report. 5.30 World Briefing.
5.41 Analysis. 5.50 Sports Round-up.
6.00 The World Today. 8.30 Business
Daily. 8.50 Analysis. 9.00 World News.
9.06 The Kremlin And The World. 9.30
Culture Shock. 10.00 World News.
10.06 Outlook. 11.00 World Briefing.
11.20 World Business Report. 11.30
World Briefing. 11.41 Analysis. 11.50
Sports Round-up. 12.00 World News.
12.06 The Kremlin And The World.
12.30 Health Check. 1.00 World
Briefing. 1.30 Outlook In Brief. 2.00
Newshour. 3.00 World Briefing. 3.30
Culture Shock. 4.00 World Briefing.
Health Check. 5.00 Europe Today. 6.00
World News. 6.06 World — Have Your
Say. 7.00 World Briefing. 7.20 World
Business Report. 7.30 Culture Shock.
8.00 World News. 8.06 The Kremlin
And The World. 8.30 Health Check.
9.00 Newshour. 10.00 World Briefing.
10.20 Analysis. 10.30 Business Daily.
10.50 Sports Round-up. 11.00 The
World Today. 11.30 Culture Shock.
12.00 World News. 12.06 The Kremlin
And The World. 12.30 Health Check.
2.00 World Briefing. 2.20 Analysis.
2.30 Culture Shock. 3.00 World News.
3.06 Outlook. 4.00 The World Today.
6.00 Good Morning Sports Fans. 820418
9.00 FA Cup Football. 15692 10.30
Australian Soccer. 49465 11.00 Spanish
Football. 92741 1.00 FA Cup Football.
99031 2.30 Australian Soccer. 7128 3.00
Spanish Football. 79499 5.00 Soccer AM:
The Best Bits. 9470 6.00 Big League
Rugby union: London Irish v Liecester
Tigers, Sky Sports 2, 2.30pm
Weekend. 80383 7.30 Monday Night Live.
971321 10.00 You’re On Sky Sports! 61050
11.00 Big League Weekend. 95050 12.30
Soccer AM: The Best Bits. 98722 1.30 Big
League Weekend. 35451 3.00 Live
International Cricket. 7174703
SKY SPORTS 2
6.00 Aerobics Oz Style. 3103673 6.30
Snow Adventures. 8647166 7.00 WWE:
Bottom Line. 9764316 8.00 WWE:
Afterburn. 8314875 9.00 Golf Night.
8648895 11.00 Rugby Union. 8988234
12.30 Golf Night. 4384944 2.30 Rugby
Union. London Irish v Leicester Tigers.
3422944 4.00 Golf Night. 5813499 6.00
Snow Adventures. 6069383 6.30 Wild
Spirits. 6083963 7.00 Show Jumping.
5827692 7.30 World Motor Sport. 1236944
10.00 Show Jumping. 9212302 10.30 Max
Power. 7336944 11.30 World Motor Sport.
1014302 2.00 You’re On Sky Sports!
2993432 3.00 Close.
SKY SPORTS 3
6.00 NASCAR. 81257215 10.30 Snow
Adventures. 37972811 11.00 Racing
News. 67964924 11.30 Aerobics Oz
Style. 66514483 12.00 WWE: Afterburn.
34785876 1.00 WWE: Heat. 34761296 2.00
WWE: Experience. 92966418 3.00 WWE:
Bottom Line. 58419019 4.00 WWE: Heat.
73269316 5.00 WWE: Raw. 28427906
7.00 WWE: Smackdown. 76460789
9.00 WWE Wrestling. The No Way Out
extravaganza from Las Vegas. 35465321
12.00 Bass Fishing. 64898616 1.00
Thinking Tackle. 46176884 2.00 Live WWE:
Late Night — Raw. 25119074 4.15 Close.
BRITISH EUROSPORT
7.30 Winterpark Weekend. 2550019
7.45 Winterpark Weekend. 1005924 8.00
Biathlon. 30499 9.00 Biathlon. 83470
10.00 MotoGP. 4924437 10.50 Snooker.
1930654 12.00 Ski Jumping. 42876 1.00
Biathlon. 28296 2.00 Biathlon. 75692
3.00 Trial Bikes. 22673 4.00 MotoGP.
7902296 4.50 EuroCRASH! 4953037 5.00
Road To Euro 2008. 5031 5.30 Eurogoals.
893789 6.15 Strongest Man. 999789 7.15
Trial Bikes. 988673 8.15 GP2 Racing.
257215 9.15 MotoGP. 567654 10.05
Eurogoals. 702316 10.50 Snooker.
9515005 12.00 Road To Euro 2008. 93762
12.30 Close.
28 REVIEW
TUESDAY 19.02.08
DAYTIME
BBC ONE
BBC TWO
REGION
STV
24:7.* The first-ever cataract operation on a
golden eagle. 8282722 10.00 Homes Under
The Hammer.* Properties in Harrogate,
Reading and Devon. 89180 11.00 To Buy
Or Not To Buy.* Property hunting in
Stourport-on-Severn. 2068 11.30 Cash In
The Attic.* Sisters aim to raise £3,500. (R)
4312451 12.15 Bargain Hunt.* From
Glasgow. 6004258 1.00 BBC News.* 70432
1.30 Reporting Scotland.* 36596172 1.45
Doctors.* Archie helps reunite an ex-con
with his son. 946277 2.15 Diagnosis
Murder.* Dr Sloan investigates a 30-yearold case. (R) 9471529 3.00 BBC News;
Weather; Reporting Scotland.* 8629161
3.05 CBeebies: Mister Maker.* (R)
2239190 3.25 CBBC: Take A Bow.* (R)
8542068 3.30 Shaun The Sheep.* (R)
6342857 3.35 Prank Patrol.* (R) 4078345
4.05 Thumb Wrestling Federation: TWF.*
(R) 5204635 4.10 Best Of Friends.* (R)
6817451 4.35 Blue Peter.* 8596432
6.00 CBeebies: Tikkabilla.* (R) 37884 6.30
Teletubbies;* (R) Tweenies Songtime.* (R)
65068 7.00 Me Too!* (R) 3901432 7.20
Charlie And Lola.* (R) 5861364 7.30
CBeebies: Na Daoine Beaga (The Little
People).* (R) 6424703 7.50 Blarag A’ Bho
(Connie The Cow). (R) 3555432 8.00 CBBC:
Wild Tales.* 74074 8.30 Arthur.* (R) 5501180
8.45 Dennis The Menace.* (R) 5597987 9.05
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.* (R) 1481722 9.35
& Dom.* (R) 52548 10.30 Beat The Boss.* (R)
93109 11.00 Animal Park: Wild On The West
Coast.* (R) 74258 12.00 The Daily Politics.*
77161 12.30 Working Lunch.* 24567 1.00
Open Gardens.* (R) 78074 1.30 The People
Watchers.* 3447068 2.15 Don’t Get Done,
Get Dom.* (R) 9399971 3.00 Escape To The
Country.* (R) 2928567 3.45 Flog It!* 3058529
4.30 Ready, Steady, Cook.* 1566074
6.00 GMTV.* 8793906 9.25 The Jeremy
Kyle Show.* 5865635 10.30 This Morning.*
Fern Britton and Eamonn Holmes present as
Charles Worthington gives three viewers a
hair makeover. 48987 12.30 Loose Women.*
Topical debate from a female perspective.
29838 1.30 ITV Lunchtime News.* 10364
2.00 Doc Martin.* The surgeon struggles to
dissuade the locals from using his surgery as
a drop-in centre and finds himself forced to
deliver bad news to an ex-teacher already
bitter at losing his job to Louisa. Martin Clunes
stars. (R) 40703 3.00 The Alan Titchmarsh
Show.* Afternoon chat show celebrating the
best of British. 5109 4.00 The Royal Today.*
A man who has failed to turn up for a vital
operation in the past is finally admitted for
surgery, while Carrie comes to suspect that
a patient is a victim of domestic violence;
4.30 Golden Balls.* Jasper Carrott hosts;
5.00
5.15
Newsround.* 2708141
Weakest Link.* 7497635
5.15
Finding the UK’s best
Victorian properties. 7495277
5.30
6.00
6.30
BBC News.* 884
6.00
6.30
Eggheads.* 426
Dreams.* Tempers flare as
storms lash the jungle. 906
6.00
Torchwood.* An alien
with the power to change
memories infiltrates
Torchwood. 121635
Torchwood Declassified.*
Gareth David-Lloyd
discusses his character
Ianto Jones. 767635
7.00
5
6
PM
7.00
7.30
7
PM
8.00
8
PM
9.00
9
The ONE Show.* 1890
EastEnders.* Shabnam
causes a domestic disaster,
forcing the Masoods to take
refuge at the Millers’ house
– much to Keith’s dismay.
548
7.00
River City.* Heather
decides to devote herself to
Gerry’s recovery, but doubts
her resolve when the reality
of his needs hits her. A
furious Ruth believes Iona
is responsible for Marty’s
STD. 2797
8.00
Holby City.* Joseph returns
following his brother’s
death to find Jac on trial as
Sam’s replacement. 8161
9.00
7.50
8.30
9.50
7.30
BBC2 Northern
Ireland
7.20 Get Squiggling.
7.35 Charlie And Lola.
7.50-8.00 Take A Bow.
2.15 Stormont Live.
3.30-3.45 Secret
Gardens. 7.00 Girl
Racer. 7.30-8.00
Wainwright Walks.
10.00-10.30 Blackstaff
Sessions. N East Of
England: 7.20 Get
Squiggling. 7.35
Charlie And Lola. 7.508.00 Take A Bow. 7.00
Girl Racer. 7.30-8.00
Wainwright Walks.
10.00-10.30 Mock The
Week Again.
Emmerdale.* Jo and Andy’s
wedding day arrives. 3258
CHOICE UEFA Champions
League Live.* Liverpool v
Inter Milan (Kick-off 7.45pm).
Steve Rider presents this
evening’s last-16 first-leg
encounter from Anfield. See
An Island Parish.* Bishop
Bill’s advice lifts Father
Guy’s spirits. 8180
MasterChef.* The semifinalists cook at Luton and
Dunstable Hospital. 4987
11
PM
ONWARD
Border
Deal. 9242 2.30 The
Alan Titchmarsh Show.
79635 3.30 The Royal
Today. 628 4.00
Rosemary & Thyme.
4616 5.00 Golden
Balls. 2529 6.00
Lookaround. 180 10.40
UEFA Champions
League. 375242 11.40
Police, Camera, Action.
702242
6.05 The Hoobs.* (R) 7370161 6.30 The
Hoobs.* (R) 4817513 6.55 Freshly Squeezed.
(R) 7438345 7.50 Everybody Loves
Raymond.* (R) 8268987 8.20 Just Shoot
Me.* Jack challenges Elliott to a game of
darts. (R) 9953258 8.45 Frasier.* Roz borrows
money from Frasier. (R) 670722 9.15 Will &
Grace.* (R) 677635 9.45 Will & Grace.* (R)
676906 10.15 Without A Trace.* Samantha
goes undercover. (R) 7586277 11.05 ER.*
Neela and Gallant decide to get married. (R)
6771242 12.00 News At Noon.* 79529 12.30
A Place In Greece.* (R) 19635 1.00 A Brief
History Of Fun.* (R) 12916074 1.20 FILM
City Under The Sea (1965).* Adventure
starring Tab Hunter as an American diver who
encounters a colony of ageless Victorian
smugglers surviving in an undersea city off the
Cornish coast. 58277906 2.55 Come Dine
With Me.* (R) 2134432 3.25 Countdown.*
2825426 4.15 Deal Or No Deal.* 2479242
Horizon.* Dr Brian Wilcox
investigates why particular
groups of people reach
advanced old age. 385513
Coast.* 618161
10.00 BBC News.* 994093
315242
10.35 Boys Beyond Bars.
Following five young
offenders a year after their
release. 454703
10.00 Girl Racer: This World.*
Opportunities available to
women living in Iran. 78890
10.30 Newsnight.* 94838
10.00 News At Ten.* 276221
10.40 Expats Under Attack:
Tonight.* How Britons who
relocated to rural Spain in
search of tranquility have
been targeted by Eastern
European gangs. 797838
11.35 Imagine.* The success of self-help
books and courses. 227426 12.25 Film
2008 With Jonathan Ross.* 8300198 1.00
Close. 1.15 Sign Zone: See Hear.* (R)
49907 1.45 Sign Zone: Natural World.* (R)
5798759 2.35 Sign Zone: Ben’s Zoo.* (R)
4399575 3.35 Sign Zone: Wanted Down
Under.* (R) 7610074 4.20 BBC News 24.
552759
Paradise Or Bust.* Environmentalist James
Strawbridge gives the island a makeover. Last
in series. (R) 243819 12.20 BBC News 24.*
11.10 UEFA Champions League
Highlights.* 248364 12.10 Nightwatch
With Steve Scott: Crime.* 971407 1.50
Loose Women.* (R) 5708136 2.40
The Jeremy Kyle Show.* (R)
6108575 3.35 ITV Nightscreen.
705038 5.30 ITV Morning News.*
68339
Deal. 9242 2.30 The
Today. 628 4.00
Rosemary & Thyme.
4616 5.00 Golden
Balls. 2529 6.00 North
East Tonight.* 180
10.40 UEFA Champions
League. 375242 11.40
Police, Camera, Action.
702242
FIVE
6.00 Milkshake!* 5388345 9.00 The Wright
Stuff.* 9156109 10.30 Trisha Goddard.*
4304242 11.30 The Hotel Inspector.* (R)
2833258 12.30 Five News.* 29498819 12.45
Law & Order.* Briscoe and Green investigate
the shooting of a singer’s wife, questioning
his manager – who proves to have formerly
owned the murder weapon. (R) 9361136 1.45
Neighbours.* 7059971 2.15 Home And
Away.* Rory and Tony conspire to make sure
Martha and Jack do not end up getting back
together. Matilda finds out about Ric’s onenight stand with Viv. 1165161 2.50 Animal
Rescue Squad.* Highlights from the series in
which Michaela Strachan and Matt Baker meet
the people who are working to protect animals.
4538703 3.05 FILM A Perry Mason
Mystery: The Case Of The Wicked Wives
(1993).* Lawyer Anthony Caruso steps into
Perry’s shoes to investigate a murder in the
glamorous world of fashion photography.
Drama with Paul Sorvino. 71039432
5.00
5.00
5.30
Five News.* 7301722
Neighbours.* Steph walks
in on Toadie having another
panic attack and tries to
get him to open up about
his fears. (R) 7494797
6.00
The Simpsons.* Homer has
hallucinatory visions. (R) 722
Hollyoaks.* Frankie is
shocked to see the state Jake
has been reduced to. 154
6.00
Home And Away.* Matilda
finds out about Ric’s onenight stand. (R) 7597838
A bald eagle is in need of
flying lessons. 7571890
6.30
6.30
7.00
7.55
The Political Slot.* Boris
Johnson on inner-city
youths. 760722
7.00
7.30
Five News.* 7398258
Extraordinary Animals.*
The unique abilities of Rio the
sea lion. Reared in captivity
in California, the animal
perfomed better in a series
of logical tests than some
humans. (R) 7577074
8.00
Supersize Vs Superskinny.*
Kevin, an 8st 5lb Brighton
man who now wishes to
reject his lifestyle of coffee
and cigarettes, swaps diets
with 26st Julie. 1635
8.00
The Bearman.* Debunking
myths about animal
unsociability. 5897600
9.00
The Girl with 8 Limbs:
A Bodyshock Special.* The
story of Lakshmi Tatma, the
Indian girl born with one of
the world’s rarest conditions
— the arms and legs of a
half-formed conjoined twin
— as preparations are
made to operate. 8971
9.00
CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation.* The team
investigate when a girl
plunges to her death from
her university dorm. 5980364
10.00
CHOICE Shameless.* Lillian
finds it hard to stay incognito
as part of a witness
protection programme. See
10.00 CSI: Miami.* A daredevil
driver is decapitated while
performing a dangerous
stunt, and the team come
to suspect there could be
a sinister explanation for
the incident. (R) 5983451
Tyne Tees
PM
10
PM
6.30-7.00 Newsline.
8.00 Holby City. 9.0010.00 Hotel Babylon.
10.25 Newsline. 10.35
Spotlight. 11.05
Imagine. 11.55 Film
2008. 12.25 Secret
Gardens. 12.35-1.15
Sign Zone:
Wonderland: The End
Of The World Bus Tour.
N East Of England:
6.30-7.00 Look North.
8.00 Holby City. 9.0010.00 Hotel Babylon.
10.25 Regional News.
10.35 Imagine. 11.25
Film 2008. 11.55-1.15
FILM: Steal.
PM
6.30
BBC1 Northern
Ireland
CHANNEL FOUR
11.05 Baby Bible Bashers.* (R)
163884 12.10 Late Night Poker.
3963759 1.10 Barcelona
World Race. (R) 2069049
1.35 World Cup Skiing.
501643 3.35 KOTV.* 58959339 4.00 Red Bull
Air Race 2007.* (R) 52943 5.00 Richard &
Judy. (R) 23575
Extraordinary Animals, five, 7.30pm
11.00 Law & Order: Criminal Intent.* More
sordid secrets about the Garretts emerge.
1215068 12.00 FBI Files.* (R) 6801484 1.00
NBA Basketball. 2113778 3.30 Football
Italiano. 3444594 5.10 Neighbours.* (R)
59881681 5.35 House Doctor.* (R) 19532198
REVIEW 29
PICK OF THE DAY
FILM
SKY MOVIES PREMIERE
UEFA Champions
League Live
STV, 7.30pm
Steve Rider presents live footie
action as Liverpool meet Inter
Milan. After recent
disappointments the Kop will
be hoping to regain some
credibility but victory is far
from assured.
10.00 Sci-fi & Horror Close Up. 96906
10.30 Comedy Close Up. 39971 11.00
Jumper Special. 64635 11.30 Drama Close
Up. 65364 12.00 Luna: Spirit Of The
Whale. 557703 1.50 Save The Last Dance
2: Stepping Up. 44237838 3.40 Barnyard.
215635 5.30 Action & Thriller Close Up.
5258 6.00 Arthur And The Invisibles. 85616
8.00 The Pursuit Of Happyness. Drama
starring Will Smith. 80161 10.00 The Last
King Of Scotland. 35418161 12.10 Gone.
207469 2.00 Close.
SKY MOVIES DRAMA
7.20 West Side Story. 76259906 10.05
Oscar Fever. 1721093 10.25 Top Gun.
90509258 12.25 Saving Private Ryan.
41426345 3.25 The Sea Inside. 57037345
5.40 Oscar Fever. 2936703 6.00 Top Gun.
5428797 8.00 Saving Private Ryan. Drama
starring Tom Hanks
and Matt Damon. 55006987 10.50 West
Side Story. 42544109 1.25 The Sea Inside.
71541204 3.30 Midnight Express.
37993440 5.35 The Sea Inside. 29864001
SKY MOVIES CLASSICS
Shameless
Channel 4, 10pm
More drama with the chaos
magnets of the Gallagher clan.
En route to a re-start course
Frank is smitten with a
beautiful stranger, but has he
really found the love of his life?
Lily Allen And Friends
BBC3, 10.30pm
Social networking
chanteuse Lily
Allen continues
her winning mix of
music, chat and
internet japery
by adding
Office star
Martin
Freeman to
her list of
friends.
RADIO
6.55 Gypsy. 39537635 9.20 Steptoe And
Son. 78253364 11.10 Indiscreet. 60531141
1.10 A Foreign Affair. 19975074 3.10
Gypsy. 11727548 5.35 The Palm Beach
Story. 12080180 7.15 Indiscreet. 52211797
9.00 Monkey Business. 28292819 10.40 I
Was A Male War Bride. 89670093 12.30
Frenzy. 68843952 2.35 The Naked City.
9999376 4.20 A Foreign Affair. 29926198
BOX OFFICE DIGITAL
ENTERTAINMENT
SKY ONE
Case. 73600 10.00 Stargate SG-1. 66567
Old? 63426 1.00 Cold Case. 45074 2.00
Las Vegas. 87187 3.00 Stargate SG-1.
41277 5.00 Are You Smarter Than A 10
Year Old? 6664 6.00 Futurama. 2161 6.30
Malcolm In The Middle. 5123 7.00 The
Simpsons. 84987 8.00 Stargate Atlantis.
93635 9.00 Lost. 27281 10.00 Cold Case.
83258 11.00 Ross Kemp In Afghanistan.
39109 12.00 Road Wars. 13914 1.00
FREEVIEW
BBC 3
13366267 8.30 Friends. 73160664 9.00
Big Brother US. 62662548 10.00 Reaper.
62665635 11.00 Shameless. 12319364
12.05 Scrubs. 12411001 12.35 Scrubs.
29572407 1.05 The Simple Life.
55898391 1.50 Shameless. 23879117
2.50 Style Her Famous. 68806952 3.10
Desperate Housewives. 21578223
3.55 One Tree Hill. 11554372 4.35
Switched. 60710440 5.00 Switched.
45294556 5.20 Switched. 49111466
7.00 Dog Borstal. 8.00 Find Me The
Face. 9.00 The Real Hustle Las Vegas.
9.30 Bizarre ER. 10.00 EastEnders. 10.30
Lily Allen And Friends. 11.15 Family Guy.
12.00 Find Me The Face. 1.00 The Real
Hustle Las Vegas. 1.30 Lily Allen And
Friends. See Pick of the Day. 2.15
Bizarre ER. 2.45 Dog Borstal. 3.45 Close.
BBC 4
Pop Go The Sixties. 7349722 7.35
Batman. 9782513 8.00 Around The
World In 80 Treasures. 4561155 9.00
Goodness Gracious Me. Meera Syal
stars. 1601703 9.30 The Armstrong &
Miller Show. 7929180 10.00 Citizen
Smith. 7784600 10.30 Very Russian
Geniuses: Storyville. 5430432 12.00 BBC
4 World Cinema Awards 2008. 7410285
1.00 Citizen Smith. 1929759 1.30 Proms
On Four 2007. 10815391 4.05 Close.
MORE4
About Schmidt, Film4, 9pm
3.40 Cagney And Lacey. 4.45 Pie In The
Sky. 5.50 Heartbeat. 6.55 The Wonder
Years. 8.00 Pie In The Sky. 9.00 Clocking
Off. 10.00 Lewis. 12.05 Clocking Off.
1.10 Tales Of The Unexpected. 2.10 The
Rockford Files. 3.00 Bramwell. 3.50 Film
File. 4.00 Teleshopping.
ITV2
Emmerdale. 1.30 The Jeremy Kyle Show.
3.45 Ricki Lake. 4.30 Sally Jessy
Raphael. 5.20 The Montel Williams
Show. 6.05 Judge Judy. 7.00 Smallville.
8.00 No Place Like Home? 9.00 FILM:
Along Came Polly. 10.45 FILM: The Truth
About Charlie. 12.40 The Office: An
American Workplace. 1.10 Harry Hill’s
TV Burp. 1.40 Teleshopping. 4.40 ITV2
Nightscreen. 6.00 Close.
E4
6.00 Anything Goes. 64973722 8.00 E4’s
Got The Feeling. 22755838 9.00 Nothing
But Naughty Boys. 87301722 10.00 Like
Nu-Rave? You’ll Love This. 40496600
11.00 Fresh Albums. 31696426 12.10
Scrubs. 94691600 12.40 Scrubs.
99454548 3.30 One Tree Hill. 19676161
83556884 5.30 Friends. 10052093 6.00
10040258 7.00 Hollyoaks. 29661659 7.30
The Class. 10966242 8.00 Friends.
ITV3
Tenerife Uncovered. 6217681 1.50 The
Villa. 9859310 2.40 Mile High. 3380310
3.30 Las Vegas. 2374925 4.20 Dream
Team. 6928223 5.10 Guilty! 8237391
FILM4
1.00 A Man Betrayed. 67030548 2.35
You Can’t Take It With You. 22391726
5.00 The Four Feathers. 54156118 7.20
The Brady Bunch Movie. 95569451 9.00
About Schmidt. Drama starring Jack
Nicholson. 52068600 11.25 Rush Hour 2.
4503838 1.10 The Last Mitterrand.
26768952 3.30 Close.
North Mission Road. 9227117 12.30 Body
Of Evidence. 8816420 1.00 Suburban
Secrets. 4269198 1.30 Missing Persons
Unit. 9738827 2.00 Forensic Detectives.
2433310 3.00 World’s Lost Tribes: The
New Adventures Of Mark And Olly.
9755198 4.40 Dirty Jobs. 7811440 5.30
How It’s Made. 9228846
DISCOVERY
6.00 Born Survivor: Bear Grylls. 1462744
7.00 UK’s Toughest Jobs. 4152838 8.00
Deadliest Catch. 4153567 9.00 Future
6673890 12.00 Survivorman. 3674797 1.00
2539971 4.00 World’s Lost Tribes: The
New Adventures Of Mark And Olly.
9388513 5.00 How It’s Made. 7511838
5.30 How Do They Do It? 2538242 6.00
Mythbusters. 3776109 7.00 Deadliest
Catch. 1659068 8.00 Born Survivor: Bear
Grylls. 1731616 9.00 World’s Lost Tribes:
The New Adventures Of Mark And Olly.
1754567 11.00 Most Evil. 6598155 12.00
9.00 Deal Or No Deal. 74506432 9.45
13485068 11.15 FILM: Storm Over The
Nile. 34663093 1.15 Deal Or No Deal.
25246068 2.00 ER. 52039451 3.00 Hill
Street Blues. 35572161 4.00 A Place In
17060971 8.00 More4 News. 61447074
8.30 The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.
61466109 9.00 Location, Location,
Location. 17066155 10.00 True Stories:
Derek. 10978884 11.40 FILM: Blue.
26310703 1.10 The Sopranos. 19117469
2.25 True Stories: Derek. 42668846 4.05
Close.
SPORT
SKY SPORTS 1
6.00 Live International Cricket. India v Sri
Lanka. 2798242 11.30 Sky Sports Classics.
22708 12.00 Big League Weekend. 74819
1.30 International Cricket. 69155 3.30 Wild
Spirits. 5277 4.00 Big League Weekend.
84242 5.30 International Cricket. 65426
7.30 Soccer Special. 418285 10.00 Live
SKY SPORTS 2
Bratz, Box Office Digital
9.00 Big League Weekend. 8527838 10.30
Radio Scotland
9.30 MacAulay & Co. 11.00 Women
On Top. 11.30 Past Lives. 12.00
Scotland Live. 1.00 News. 1.15 The
Radio Café. 2.00 News. 2.05 Tom
Morton. 4.00 Newsdrive. 4.00
Weather. 6.00 News. 6.05 Get It On
With Bryan Burnett. 7.00 News. 7.12
Outdoor Conditions. 7.15 FM: The
Radio Café. Arts review. 7.15 MW:
Sportsound. 8.00 FM: News. 8.05 FM:
Mary Ann Kennedy’s Global Gathering.
9.58 FM: Weather. 10.00 Scotland At
Ten. 10.30 The Iain Anderson Show.
12.30 Past Lives. 1.00 FM: As Radio 5
Live. 1.00 MW: Nightshift.
Radio 4
Today. 8.31 LW: Yesterday In
Parliament. 8.58 LW: Weather. 9.00
Simpson Returns To China. John
Simpson recalls the Tiananmen Square
massacre. 9.30 A Dollar A Day. The
price of education in the developing
world. 9.45 LW: Daily Service. 9.45
FM: Book of the Week: Trust Me I’m A
(Junior) Doctor. 10.00 Woman’s Hour.
11.00 World On The Move: Great
Animal Migrations. 11.30 Billy Bunter’s
Birthday Bash. The literary and socialhistoric power of Frank Richards’
writing. 12.00 News. 12.01 LW:
Shipping Forecast. 12.04 Call You And
Yours. 12.57 Weather. 1.00 The World
At One. 1.30 The Nun Who Nurtured
Reggae. 2.00 The Archers. 2.15
Afternoon Play: Pavement Stars. By
Gillian and Catrin Clarke. 3.00 Home
Planet. 3.30 Creating Writing Groups
2008. 3.45 Giving It All Away. 4.00 Law
In Action. 4.30 A Good Read. 5.00 PM.
5.54 LW: Shipping Forecast. 5.57
Weather. 6.00 News. 6.30 The
Lawrence Sweeney Mix. Improvised
sketch show. Last in series. 7.00 The
Archers. 7.15 Front Row. Experimental
artists Duchamp, Man Ray and Picabia.
7.45 Faust. 8.00 File On 4. Examining
local authority pay inequality. 8.40 In
Touch. Presented by Peter White. 9.00
Case Notes. Dr Mark Porter discusses
liver disease. 9.30 Simpson Returns To
China. John Simpson recalls the
Tiananmen Square massacre. 9.59
Weather. 10.00 LW: Live International
One-Day Cricket. 10.00 FM: The World
Tonight. 10.45 FM: Book at Bedtime: A
Room With A View. 11.00 FM:
Laurence And Gus: Hearts And Minds.
11.30 FM: Today In Parliament. 12.00
FM: News; Weather. 12.30 FM: Book
of the Week: Trust Me I’m A (Junior)
Doctor. 12.48 Shipping Forecast. 1.00
LW: Live International One-Day Cricket.
1.00 FM: World Service. 5.20 Shipping
Forecast.
Radio 3
Collection. 12.00 Composer Of The
Week: Giuseppe Verdi. 12.00 News.
1.00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert.
Britten, Debussy, Alberga. 2.00 The
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra And
Friends. 5.00 In Tune. 7.00
Performance On 3. Mozart, Schubert,
Chopin. 8.45 Composer Of The Week:
Giuseppe Verdi. 9.45 Night Waves.
Exhibition of work by Marcel Duchamp
and Man Ray. 10.30 Artist Focus.
11.00 The Essay. The longevity of
ideas. 11.15 Late Junction. 1.00
Through The Night.
Radio 1
6.30 The Chris Moyles Show. 10.00 Jo
Whiley. 12.45 Newsbeat. 1.00 Edith
10.00 Colin Murray. 12.00 Bobby
Friction & Nihal. 2.00 Mary Anne
Hobbs. 4.00 Dick And Dom.
Radio 2
7.30 Johnie Walker. 9.30 Stuart
Chris Evans. 7.00 Desmond Carrington:
The Music Goes Round. 8.00 Mark
Radcliffe. 10.00 Nigel Ogden: The
Organist Entertains. 10.30 Theme
Time Radio Hour With Bob Dylan.
11.30 Jason And Iyare’s A-Z Of Street
Music. 12.30 Janice Long. 3.00 Alex
Lester.
7.00 5 Live Sport. Liverpool v Inter
Milan (Kick-off 7.45pm). 10.00 6-0-6.
11.00 Richard Bacon. 1.00 Up All
Night.
Classic FM
4.00 Drivetime. 6.30 Classic
Newsnight. 7.00 Smooth Classics At
Seven. 9.00 Evening Concert. Ravel,
Parry, Rossini, Schubert, Cherubini,
Donizetti, Liszt,. 12.00 Lisa Duncombe.
2.00 Mark Griffiths.
Radio Nan Gaidheal
Mòir. 11.30 Eadar Dà Fhadhall. 2.03
Caithream Ciùil. 4.03 Sruth Na Maoile.
5.00 Aithris An Fheasgair. 5.30 Siubhal
Gu Seachd. 7.00 Rapal. 9.00
Coinneach Maclomhair. 10.00 Eadar
Dà Fhadhall. 10.30 Sruth Na Maoile.
Virgin
Show. 10.00 Russ Williams. 1.00
Leona Graham. 4.00 Nick Jackson.
7.00 Ben Jones. 10.00 The Geoff
Show. 1.00 Tim Lichfield. 4.00 Robin
Burke.
Radio 5 Live
Talksport
5.00 Ian Collins With The Moose. 6.00
Alan Brazil And Ronnie Irani. 10.00 Jon
Gaunt. 1.00 Danny Kelly. 4.00 Ian
Wright And Adrian Durham. 7.00
Champions League Live. 11.00 James
Whale. 1.00 Ian Collins.
World Service
9.06 Global Business. 9.30 The Word.
10.00 World News. 10.06 Outlook.
11.41 Analysis. 11.50 Sports Roundup. 12.00 World News. 12.06 Global
Business. 12.30 Digital Planet. 1.00
World Briefing. 1.30 Outlook In Brief.
3.30 The Word. 4.00 World Briefing.
Digital Planet. 5.00 Europe Today. 6.00
World News. 6.06 World, Have Your
Say. 7.00 World Briefing. 7.20 World
Business Report. 7.30 The Word. 8.00
World News. 8.06 Global Business.
8.30 Digital Planet. 9.00 Newshour.
10.30 Business Daily. 10.50 Sports
Round-up. 11.00 The World Today.
11.30 The Word. 12.00 World News.
12.06 Global Business. 12.30 Digital
Planet. 1.00 World Briefing. 1.20 World
2.30 The Word. 3.00 World News. 3.06
Outlook. 4.00 The World Today.
Roma v Real Madrid, Sky Sports 2, 7pm
World Motor Sport. 8253109 1.00 Soccer
AM: The Best Bits. 1894703 2.00 UEFA
Champions League. 9449451 5.00 UEFA
Champions League. 5893635 6.00 Revista
De La Liga. 1814567 7.00 Live UEFA
Champions League. AS Roma v Real
Madrid (Kick-off 7.45pm). 30727548 10.15
Revista De La Liga. 2964567 11.15 ALeague. 5008105 11.45 Sports Unlimited.
2952722 12.45 Revista De La Liga.
2808608 1.45 A-League. 8126372 2.15 Sky
Sports Classics. 80936339 2.30 Close.
SKY SPORTS 3
Snow Adventures. 92941109 7.00 Aerobics
Oz Style. 76344797 7.30 Snow Adventures.
76429432 8.00 Wild Spirits. 46427726 8.30
Sports Adventure. 47877267 9.00 Bass
Fishing. 41614557 10.00 Thinking Tackle.
76425616 11.00 Racing News. 91269136
11.30 Sports Adventure. 90819695 12.00
Show Jumping. 43277203 12.30 Wild
Spirits. 34660513 1.00 NFL: Total Access.
69323345 1.55 U Can Do It. 16815258 2.00
World Motor Sport. 75517797 4.30 Show
Jumping. 45128513 5.00 NFL: Total
Access. 61499987 5.55 U Can Do It.
34132277 6.00 Sports Unlimited. 34741432
7.00 Pool. 87899242 8.00 International
Cricket. 87982906 10.00 Poker. 97669172
12.00 NFL: Total Access. 78761049 12.55 U
Can Do It. 18533074 1.00 Pool. 46143556
2.00 Close.
BRITISH EUROSPORT
7.30 Road To Euro 2008. 70426 8.00 UEFA
Champions League. 37987 9.00 WATTS.
2424277 9.15 UEFA Champions League.
4325180 10.30 WATTS. 7664695 10.45
UEFA Champions League. 982364 11.45
Eurogoals. 4189838 12.30 Live WTA
Tennis. The Qatar Total Open. 4007703
5.00 Eurogoals. 6255161 5.15 Live WTA
Tennis. 1973109 6.00 WATTS. 117161
6.15 Eurogoals. 895548 7.00 Boxing.
46797 8.00 Live Boxing. Ismael El
Massoudi v Abdoulaye Soukouna. 22161
10.00 World Touring Car Championship.
84155 10.30 MotoGP. 66703 11.00 GP2
Racing. 73567 12.00 EuroCRASH! 34310
12.30 Close.
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DAYTIME
BBC ONE
BBC TWO
STV
REGION
24:7.* 8186594 10.00 Homes Under The
Hammer.* Properties in Essex, Stoke and
Aldershot. 80440 11.00 To Buy Or Not To
Buy.* House-hunting in Bedfordshire. 3204
11.30 Cash In The Attic.* A cooking
enthusiast attempts to raise money. (R)
4216223 12.15 Bargain Hunt.* 6991730
1.00 BBC News.* 60420 1.30 Reporting
Scotland.* 58733264 1.45 Doctors.* Daniel
has an appointment at an escort agency.
525440 2.15 Diagnosis Murder.* Part one
of two. Sloan’s friend Dr Travis gets a little
help from ace attorney Ben Matlock. (R)
9368001 3.00 BBC News; Weather;
Reporting Scotland.* 8523933 3.05
CBeebies: Mister Maker.* (R) 1588402
3.25 CBBC: Take A Bow.* (R) 8502440
3.30 What’s New Scooby-Doo?* (R)
6354223 4.05 Thumb Wrestling
Federation: TWF.* (R) 5108407 4.10 Whizz
Whizz Bang Bang.* (R) 6711223 4.35 Blue
Peter. 8490204
86136 7.00 Me Too!* (R) 3805204 7.20
Charlie And Lola.* (R) 5765136 7.30 Na
Daoine Beaga (The Little People).* 6328575
7.50 Blarag A’ Bho (Connie The Cow). (R)
3459204 8.00 CBBC: Wild Tales.* 22827
8.30 Arthur.* (R) 5405952 8.45 Dennis The
Menace.* (R) 5491759 9.05 The Sorcerer’s
Apprentice.* (R) 1385594 9.35 What’s New
Scooby-Doo?* (R) 6985372 9.55 Thumb
Wrestling Federation: TWF.* (R) 7963484
10.00 Even Stevens;* (R) Diddy Dick & Dom.*
(R) 77488 10.30 Beat The Boss.* (R) 34662
11.00 Animal Park.* 1846 11.30 The Daily
Politics.* 75440 1.00 See Hear.* 60402 1.30
Working Lunch.* 54914 2.00 Animal Park.*
Behind the scenes at Longleat. 4339 2.30
Holyrood Live.* 3214136 3.35 Lifeline.*
(R) 6340020 3.45 Flog It! From Chelmsford.
3945001 4.30 Ready, Steady, Cook.* With
Rav Wilding and Lisa Maxwell. 1460846
Show.* 5769407 10.30 This Morning.*
Another celebrity attempts to Beat the Stylist,
and Dr Chris Steele rounds up the latest
health headlines. 89865 12.30 Loose
Women.* Topical debate from a female
perspective. 37488 1.30 ITV Lunchtime News.*
41440 2.00 Doc Martin.* Martin suspects
the local water supply is to blame for a nasty
stomach bug sweeping through Portwenn,
and takes to the airwaves in a bid to warn
everyone. (R) 65643 3.00 The Alan Titchmarsh
Show.* Live chat show hosted by the
television gardener. Featuring celebrity guests
and lifestyle features. 3907 4.00 The Royal
Today.* Adam performs a delicate procedure
on the bully who made his schooldays a living
hell, while man-hungry medics Alana, Isla
and Pamela trawl the Internet for suitable
dates; What’s Your Business Idea.* 662 4.30
Golden Balls.* Game show hosted by Jasper
Carrott; What’s Your Business Idea.* 57933
5.00
5.15
Newsround.* 6003353
Weakest Link.* (R)
7391407
5.15
Finding the UK’s best
cottages. 7399049
5.30
6.00
6.30
BBC News.* 643
6.00
6.30
Eggheads.* 285
Dreams. Tempers flare
between two tent-mates. 865
6.00
Your Business Idea. 339
Search For Mountain Lions.*
Gordon Buchanan attempts
to spot the big cats. (R) 5827
Wainwright Walks.* Julia
Bradbury aims to reach the
summits of Crinkle Crags and
Bowfell in the footsteps of
Alfred Wainwright. 579
7.00
Bill Oddie’s Wild Side.*
The presenter observes
corncrakes and learns how
efforts are being made to
secure the bird’s future. 4575
MasterChef.* Four semifinalists compete. 6310
8.00
5
PM
6
PM
7.00
7.30
The ONE Show.* 7285
My Family.* Susan stands
for the council. (R) 407
7.30
7
PM
8.00
8
Sky Cops.* South Yorkshire
police target teenage
motorcyclists. (R) 6643
PM
8.00
8.30
9.00
9
7.00
Crimewatch.* The murder
of Shafilea Ahmed. Plus,
the latest on the Millie
Dowler investigation. 6407
9.00
9.50
PM
10
PM
11
PM
ONWARD
6.30
7.30
Emmerdale.* Bob stands
up to Viv by refusing to
work on his day off and
telling her to hire Mel. 5681
CHOICE Coronation
Street.* Carla refrains from
telling Liam she is back with
Tony. See Pick of the Day. 575
The Brit Awards 2008.*
Presented live from London
by the Osbourne family. 2827
BBC1 Northern
Ireland
10.50 Ships That
Changed The World.*
11.30 Inside Sport
Beijing Special.* 12.15
News 24.* 12.45 Sign
Zone.* 1.45-2.45 Sign
Zone.*
BBC2 Northern
Ireland
7.20 Get Squiggling.*
7.35 Charlie And Lola.*
7.50-8.00 Take
A Bow.* 11.30
Northern Ireland
Question Time.* 12.051.00 Daily Politics.*
2.00 The People
Watchers.* 2.45
Lifeline.* 2.55 Coast.*
3.00-3.45 Escape To
The Country.* 7.008.00 Around The World
In 80 Gardens.* 9.0010.00 Irish Film And
Television Awards. N
East Of England: 7.20
Get Squiggling.* 7.35
Charlie And Lola.*
7.50-8.00 Take
A Bow.* 2.00 The
People Watchers.*
2.45 Lifeline.* 2.55
Coast.* 3.00-3.45
Escape To The
Country.* 7.00-8.00
Around The World In
80 Gardens.*
Border
Deal.* 1865 2.30 The
Alan Titchmarsh
Show.* 50533 3.30 The
Rosemary & Thyme.*
2952 5.00 Golden
Balls.* 4952 6.00
Lookaround.* 339
11.35 Soccer Night.
863933 12.05
Nightwatch with Steve
Scott: Crime.* 743792
CHANNEL FOUR
6.00 Making It. (R) 4184759 6.05 The
Hoobs.* (R) 7274933 6.30 The Hoobs.* (R)
4884285 6.55 Freshly Squeezed. 4887372
7.25 Everybody Loves Raymond.* (R)
(R) 8162759 8.20 Just Shoot Me.* (R)
9840730 8.45 Frasier.* The shrink pretends to
be Jewish. (R) 281594 9.15 Will & Grace.*
(R) 288407 9.45 Will & Grace.* Jack donates
Karen’s favourite shoes to charity. (R) 287778
10.15 Without A Trace.* (R) 7480049 11.05
ER.* Kovac spreads Christmas spirit. (R)
6748914 12.00 News At Noon.* 43310
12.30 A Place In Greece.* Brian looks for
a new job. (R) 80339 1.00 FILM First Men
In The Moon (1964).* Fantasy about a
Victorian inventor who discovers a material
that defies gravity and uses it to build the
world’s first spaceship. Edward Judd and
Martha Hyer star. 73077372 2.55 Come Dine
With Me.* (R) 2038204 3.25 Countdown.*
2892198 4.15 Deal Or No Deal.* 2446914
75603407 6.25 Thomas & Friends.* (R)
62619049 6.35 Rupert Bear.* (R) 90682827
6.45 Animal Families.* 90695391 7.00 Miss
Spider’s Sunny Patch Friends.* (R) 3801778
7.15 Harry And His Bucket Full Of Dinosaurs.*
(R) 7208001 7.30 The Adventures Of Bottle
Top Bill And His Best Friend Corky.* 6582407
7.40 Roobarb And Custard Too.* (R) 3851020
7.50 Make Way For Noddy.* (R) 6586223
8.05 Fifi And The Flowertots.* (R) 4637372
8.20 Big School.* (R) 1269020 8.30 Peppa
Pig.* (R) 7690914 8.35 Thomas & Friends.*
(R) 1700339 8.45 Funky Town.* (R) 7695469
8.50 Pocoyo.* 1781204 9.00 The Wright
Stuff.* 9043681 10.30 Trisha Goddard.* (R)
4371914 11.30 The Hotel Inspector.* (R)
2720730 12.30 Five News.* 29385391 12.45
Law & Order.* (R) 8610448 1.45 Neighbours.*
7026643 2.15 Home And Away.* 1069933
2.50 Animal Rescue Squad.* 4441223 3.00
FILM To Live For (1999).* 1974136
5.00
5.00
5.30
Five News.* 7205594
Neighbours.* Carmella
confronts Marco. (R) 7461469
6.00
6.00
6.30
The Simpsons.* With the
voices of David Duchovny and
Gillian Anderson. (R) 681
Hollyoaks.* Katy finds that
concentrating on the fashion
show leaves her less time
to spend with Justin. 933
6.30
Home And Away.* Matilda
and Cassie are involved in a
car accident. (R) 7484310
Helping opossums and
raccoons re-adjust to
the wild. 7475662
7.00
7.55
The Political Slot.* 740594
7.00
7.30
Five News.* 7285730
It Pays To Watch.*
Colin McAllister and Justin
Ryan guest. 7471846
8.00
Relocation, Relocation.*
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil
Spencer revisit a couple
who swapped the buzz of
Brighton for the peace of
the French countryside. 2681
8.00
Ice Road Truckers.* Todd
White faces a ban for
speeding. 5864372
9.00
Grand Designs.* A couple
build a modernist home
a mile from Bath. 9117
9.00
Extraordinary People: The
Boys Joined At The Head.*
New series. The story of a
pair of conjoined twins from
Cairo who were sent to a
hospital in Dallas to separate
them in 2003. 5884136
10.00
FILM Bloodsport (1988).*
Jean-Claude Van Damme
takes part in a deadly fighting
tournament, where the last
man standing wins the day.
Leah Ayres also stars. 8753643
Tyne Tees
Deal.* 1865 2.30 The
Alan Titchmarsh
Show.* 50533 3.30 The
Rosemary & Thyme.*
2952 5.00 Golden
Balls.* 4952 6.00
North East Tonight.*
339 11.35 Soccer
Night. 863933 12.05
Nightwatch with Steve
Scott: Crime.* 743792
CHOICE Torchwood.* Jack
enlists the help of Martha
Jones. See Pick of the Day.
454223
Torchwood Declassified.*
With Freema Agyeman and
Burn Gorman. 698933
10.00 BBC News. 958827
10.25 Reporting Scotland.
475204
10.35 Crimewatch.* 637310
10.45 The National Lottery
Draws.* 982372
10.50 Inside Sport Beijing
Special;* National Lottery
Update.* 875933
10.00
CHOICE Freezing.* New
comedy series starring Hugh
Bonneville and Elizabeth
McGovern. Continues
tomorrow. See Pick of the
Day. 26643
10.30 Newsnight.* 35391
10.00 News At Ten.* 368933
10.35 Real Crime: The Caroline
Dickinson Murder.* How
the schoolgirl’s killer was
caught. (R) 429643
10.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA.* The chef
comes to the aid of Lela’s,
a California restaurant that is
on the brink of closure thanks
to an inexperienced owner
and arrogant chef. 1042310
11.35 FILM A Night On The Town
(1987).* Drama with Elisabeth Shue.
179952 1.15 Sign Zone: Antiques
Roadshow.* (R) 102889 2.15 Sign Zone:
Britain’s Favourite Fakes.* (R) 28599 2.45
Sign Zone: Wanted Down Under.* (R)
5957315 3.30 BBC News 24. 470131
Desi DNA.* 179579 11.50 Indian School: BBC
4 on Two.* 865391 12.20 BBC News 24.*
11.35 Barail Bhoireannach.* 863933
12.05 UEFA Champions League
Highlights. 8375402 12.55 Nightwatch
With Steve Scott: Emergency.* 5452841
1.50 Loose Women.* (R) 9410624 2.35
The Jeremy Kyle Show.* (R) 4351315
3.35 ITV Nightscreen. 175570 5.30
ITV Morning News.* 49889
11.05 Shameless.* (R) 227407 12.05
Modern Toss.* 5418112 12.35 Love
Trap.* (R) 5080266 1.35 The
Kidnapping Of Elizabeth Smart.* (R)
7277082 3.05 Flood.* (R) 56381808
3.20 Our Big Fairtrade Adventure.*
(R) 3610112 4.20 Richard & Judy. (R)
4797841 5.20 Countdown.* (R) 4654841
Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA,
Channel 4, 10pm
FIVE
11.55 Poker Den: The Big Game II. 5192681
1.25 NHL Ice Hockey. 52277179 4.00
Supercross. 76499006 4.20 Dubai X Games.
2300421 5.10 Neighbours.* (R) 59858353
5.35 House Doctor.* (R) 19592570
REVIEW 31
PICK OF THE DAY
FILM
SKY MOVIES PREMIERE
Coronation Street
STV, 7.30pm
More sudsy chicanery and
soapy subterfuge as Paul
reverts to his old tricks, Jamie
and Violet begin planning for
the future and Liam and Maria
return from their honeymoon.
10.00 Modern Greats & Classics Close
Up. 88876 10.30 Action & Thriller Close
Up. 61730 11.00 Sci-fi & Horror Close Up.
23594 11.30 Premiere Close Up. 24223
12.00 Luna: Spirit Of The Whale. 544865
1.50 Save The Last Dance 2: Stepping Up.
44124310 3.40 Barnyard. 295407 5.30
Family Close Up. 6420 6.00 The Pursuit Of
Happyness. 52594 8.00 Arthur And The
Invisibles. 64339 10.00 The Last King Of
Scotland. 35312933 12.10 Gone. 350131
2.00 Close.
SKY MOVIES DRAMA
7.55 Breakfast At Tiffany’s. 20809643
9.55 Marie Antoinette. 74993865 12.15
Drama Close Up. 3827730 12.45 Tsotsi.
77750223 2.35 Breakfast At Tiffany’s.
52291865 4.40 Oscar Nominations Special.
6510594 5.10 Marie Antoinette. 55557730
7.30 Oscar Nominations Special. 9896488
8.00 Rocky. 5490914 10.00 The Departed.
46851204 12.35 Tsotsi. 7197995 2.20
The Departed. 59515841 5.00 The Top 10
Show. 20605711 5.20 Rocky. 41191599
SKY MOVIES CLASSICS
Torchwood
BBC2, 9pm
More sci-fi weirdness from
Cardiff’s Twilight Zone. With
mysterious deaths at a
medical lab tweaking
Torchwood’s interest, Captain
Jack sends Martha Jones on
an undercover mission.
Freezing
BBC2, 10pm
Fading Hollywood actress
Elizabeth McGovern headlines
as in a sophisticated rom-com
as Elizabeth – a fading
Hollywood actress trapped in
her London home with her
similarly underemployed
husband.
6.25 Saturday Night And Sunday Morning.
17318778 8.00 12 Angry Men. 88552594
9.40 The Edge Of Heaven Special. 1646198
10.00 The Pawnbroker. 3611543 12.00 The
Barbarian And The Geisha. 7456204 1.55
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
59753285 4.00 12 Angry Men. 78737827
5.40 Island In The Sky. 74633914 7.35
Forty Guns. 3439933 9.00 The Bible.
23610681 11.55 The Barbarian And The
Geisha. 6510662 1.45 The Pawnbroker.
45641604 3.50 Forty Guns. 59740537 5.20
The Bible. 34545518
BOX OFFICE DIGITAL
ENTERTAINMENT
SKY ONE
Brainiac. 34407 9.00 Cold Case. 94778
Cold Case. 94556 2.00 Las Vegas. 12575
Middle. 5575 7.00 Simpsons. 3865 7.30
RADIO
FREEVIEW
BBC 3
10933914 8.00 Friends. 62546556 9.00
Reaper. 62559020 10.00 The Big Bang
Theory. 98988575 10.30 Skins. 72289594
11.35 Fonejacker. 50940020 12.05
22056286 1.50 Skins. 23846889 2.50
Style Her Famous. 68873624 3.10
Desperate Housewives. 21545995 3.55
One Tree Hill. 11521044 4.35 Switched.
27400537
7.00 Find Me The Face. 8.00 Don’t Tell
The Bride. 9.00 Freaky Eaters. 10.00
Torchwood. 10.50 Being Human. 11.50
Family Guy. 12.15 Family Guy. 12.35 Two
Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps.
1.05 Freaky Eaters. 2.00 Being Human.
3.00 Find Me The Face. 3.55 Don’t Tell
The Bride. 4.55 Close.
BBC 4
7.00 News. 2880643 7.30 Pop Go The
Sixties. 7243594 7.35 Batman. 9759285
8.00 The Royal Family At Work. 7077285
9.30 The Jet Stream And Us. 4624643
10.30 The Late Edition Live. 7760020
11.00 Art Of Spain. 3300846 12.00 Mark
Lawson Talks To Russell T Davies.
7487957 1.00 The Late Edition. 1989131
1.30 Art Of Spain. 6367353 2.30 The Jet
Stream And Us. 7070995 3.30 The Late
Edition. 1040650 4.00 Close.
MORE4
Wonder Years, ITV3, 2.40pm
11.25 Quincy ME. 12.25 Lovejoy. 1.30
Heartbeat. 2.40 Wonder Years. 3.40
Cagney And Lacey. 4.40 Jeeves And
Wooster. 5.50 Heartbeat. 6.55 Wonder
Years. 8.00 Agatha Christie’s Poirot. 9.00
The Lakes. 10.00 Cider With Rosie.
12.15 The Lakes. 1.20 Quincy ME. 2.05
Rockford Files. 2.55 Bramwell. 3.50
Movies Now. 4.00 Teleshopping.
ITV2
Airline. 12.00 Emmerdale. 12.30 The
Planet’s Funniest Animals. 1.00 Airline
USA. 1.30 Jeremy Kyle. 3.45 Ricki Lake.
4.30 Sally Jessy Raphael. 5.20 Montel
Williams. 6.05 Judge Judy. 7.00 Brits
Red Carpet 2008. 8.00 Coleen’s Real
Women. 9.00 Supernatural. 10.00 Brits
Encore 2008. 11.00 Kylie Show. 12.05
Coronation Street. 12.35 Ghosthunting
With Coronation Street. 2.25
Teleshopping. 5.25 ITV2 Nightscreen.
6.00 Close.
E4
6.00 Anything Goes. 64877594 8.00 This
Is Your Westlife. 22642310 9.00 Nothing
But Naughty Girls. 87205594 10.00 Like
Dance? You’ll Love This. 40463372 11.00
Fresh Stuff. 64544469 12.05 Scrubs.
99341020 3.30 One Tree Hill. 19570933
92742152 6.00 Scrubs. 65702339 7.00
Hollyoaks. 58386541 7.30 The Class.
ITV3
Downstairs. 7.25 Rockford Files. 8.25
Ironside. 10.25 Magnificent Seven.
DISCOVERY
9.30 MacAulay & Co. 11.00 Without A
Trace. 11.30 Medical Matters. The
nation’s health. Last in series. 12.00
Radio Café. 2.00 News. 2.05 Tom
Weather. 6.00 News. 6.05 Get It On
With Bryan Burnett. 7.00 News. 7.12
Outdoor Conditions. 7.15 FM: The
Radio Café. 7.15 MW: Sportsound.
8.00 FM: News. 8.05 FM: The Jazz
House. 9.58 FM: Weather. 10.00
Anderson Show. 12.30 Medical
Matters. Last in series. 1.00 FM: As
Radio 5 Live. 1.00 MW: Nightshift.
Radio 4
5.30 LW: Live International One-Day
Cricket. 5.30 FM: News Briefing. 5.43
FM: Prayer For The Day. 5.45 FM:
Farming Today. 6.00 Today. 8.31 LW:
Yesterday In Parliament. 8.58 LW:
Weather. 9.00 Midweek. 9.45 LW:
Daily Service. 9.45 FM: Book of the
Week: Trust Me I’m A (Junior) Doctor.
By Max Pemberton. 10.00 Woman’s
Hour. 11.00 Secrets Of Stonehenge.
New theories about the prehistoric
monument. 11.30 Clare In The
Community. Colleagues celebrate Ray’s
civil partnership. Last in series. 12.00
1.00 The World At One. 1.30 Quote —
Unquote. 2.00 The Archers. 2.15
Afternoon Play: Cobwebs. David
Hodgson’s drama about a man who is
beginning to get his life back together
after the death of his wife, but is
distraught when his house his broken
into. Kevin Doyle stars. 3.00 Gardeners’
Question Time. 3.30 Creating Writing
Groups 2008. 3.45 Giving It All Away.
4.00 Thinking Allowed. 4.30 Case
Notes. 5.00 PM. 5.54 LW: Shipping
Forecast. 5.57 Weather. 6.00 News.
6.30 The Museum Of Curiosity. New
series. Panel show, hosted by Bill Bailey
and John Lloyd. 7.00 The Archers. 7.15
Front Row. 7.45 Faust. 8.00 The Moral
Maze. 8.45 Lent Talks. 9.00 World On
The Move: Great Animal Migrations.
9.30 Midweek. 9.59 Weather. 10.00
The World Tonight. 10.45 Book at
Bedtime: A Room With A View. By EM
Forster. 11.00 The Eliza Stories. By
Barry Pain. Last in series. 11.30 Today
In Parliament. 12.00 News; Weather.
12.30 Book of the Week: Trust Me I’m
A (Junior) Doctor. 12.48 Shipping
Forecast. 1.00 World Service. 5.20
Shipping Forecast.
Radio 3
Week: Giuseppe Verdi. 12.00 News.
1.00 Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert.
Stuart Macrae: Unity. Messiaen: Vingt
Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus (excerpts).
Franck: Cello Sonata in A. 2.00 The
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra And
Friends. 5.00 In Tune. 7.00
Performance On 3. Ravel: La Valse.
Unsuk Chin: snagS and Snarls. Ravel:
Une Barque sur l’Océan. Rachmaninov:
Symphonic Dances. 8.45 Composer Of
The Week: Giuseppe Verdi. 9.45 Night
Waves. Culture and arts. 10.30 Artist
Focus. 11.00 The Essay. 11.15 Late
Junction. 1.00 Through The Night.
Radio 1
10.00 Colin Murray. 12.00 BBC
Introducing. 2.00 Gilles Peterson. 4.00
Dick And Dom.
Radio 2
7.30 Johnnie Walker. 9.30 Stuart
Chris Evans. 7.00 Mike Harding. 8.00
Mark Lamarr’s Alternative Sixties. 9.00
Radio 2 Music Club Special: Backstage
At The Brits. 10.00 Radio 2 Music Club
Special: The Brit Awards 2008. 11.30
Steve Lamacq. 12.30 Janice Long.
3.00 Alex Lester.
Radio 5 Live
5.00 Morning Reports. 5.30 Wake Up
To Money. 6.00 Breakfast. 9.00 Victoria
Derbyshire. 11.55 Prime Minister’s
Questions. 12.30 The Midday News.
1.00 Simon Mayo. 4.00 Drive. 7.00 5
Live Sport. Arsenal v AC Milan (Kick-off
1.00 Gentleman’s Agreement. 82110223
3.15 The One That Got Away. 28441285
5.20 Lady From Louisiana. 90435223
7.00 Love Story. 9953730 9.00 Rush
Hour 2. 65918469 10.45 Fever Pitch.
3360865 12.45 Tell Me Something.
33948860 3.20 Close.
SPORT
The Simpsons, Box Office Digital
7.45pm). 10.00 6-0-6. Football phonein. 11.00 Richard Bacon. 1.00 Up All
Night.
Classic FM
Seven. 9.00 Evening Concert. 12.00
Lisa Duncombe. 2.00 Mark Griffiths.
Radio Nan Gaidheal
Mòir. 11.30 Dìleab A’ Bhàrd Bhochd.
2.03 Caithream Ciùil. 4.03 Fonn Is Aria.
5.00 Aithris An Fheasgair. 5.30 Siubhal
Gu Seachd. 7.00 Rapal. 9.00
Coinneach Maclomhair. 10.00 Dìleab
A’ Bhàrd Bhochd. 10.30 Fonn Is Aria.
Virgin
7.00 Sarah Champion. 10.00 The
Geoff Show. 1.00 Tim Lichfield. 4.00
Robin Burke.
Talksport
Wright And Adrian Durham. 7.00
Champions League Live. 11.00 James
Whale. 1.00 Ian Collins.
World Service
On Screen. 10.00 World News. 10.06
Outlook. 11.00 World Briefing. 11.20
World Business Report. 11.30 World
Briefing. 11.41 Analysis. 11.50 Sports
Round-up. 12.00 World News. 12.06
The Kremlin And The World. 12.30
Discovery. 1.00 World Briefing. 1.30
Outlook In Brief. 2.00 Newshour. 3.00
World Briefing. 3.30 On Screen. 4.00
Report. 4.30 Discovery. 5.00 Europe
Today. 6.00 World News. 6.06 World
— Have Your Say. 7.00 World Briefing.
7.20 World Business Report. 7.30 On
Screen. 8.00 World News. 8.06 The
Kremlin And The World.
Part two of four. Today’s conflicts in
Russia. 8.30 Discovery. 9.00
Analysis. 10.30 Business Daily. 10.50
Sports Round-up. 11.00 The World
Today. 11.30 On Screen. 12.00 World
News. 12.06 The Kremlin And The
World. 12.30 Discovery. 1.00 World
Briefing. 1.20 World Business Report.
1.50 Sports Round-up. 2.00 World
Briefing. 2.20 Analysis. 2.30 On
Screen. 3.00 World News. 3.06
Figure skating, British Eurosport, 7pm
SKY SPORTS 2
9.00 Snow Adventures. 9195681 9.30 360
Series. 1799204 10.00 Pool. 3758933 11.00
Snow Adventures. 6488662 11.30 ALeague. 6489391 12.00 Poker. 8589198
2.00 UEFA Champions League. 1253865
6.00 Boots ’n’ All. 1718339 7.00 Total
Rugby. 5798136 7.30 Live UEFA
Champions League. 1107488 10.00
2.00 European Tour Weekly. 2864976
3.00 Boots ’n’ All. 4235624 4.00 Close.
SKY SPORTS 3
6.00 Aerobics. 90638371 6.30 Snow
Adventures. 92838681 7.00 Aerobics.
76311469 7.30 Snow Adventures.
76323204 8.00 Sports Unlimited. 64706681
9.00 A-League. 36926371 9.30 Show
Jumping. 34633469 10.00 Revista De La
Liga. 76329488 11.00 Racing News.
60518448 11.30 Aerobics. 69168907 12.00
Sports Unlimited. 34649020 1.00 NFL.
69227117 1.55 U Can Do It. 16702730 2.00
Snow Adventures. 27589488 2.30 360
Series. 45115049 3.00 Sports Unlimited.
65568943 4.00 Pool. 80318240 5.00 NFL.
61393759 5.55 U Can Do It. 34036049 6.00
A-League. 45116778 6.30 Futbol Mundial.
45190730 7.00 Live World Golf
Championship. 15830402 11.00 NFL.
17009223 11.55 U Can Do It. 45181865
12.00 Ten Pin Bowling. 64752860 1.00
European Tour Weekly. 95230421 1.30
Total Rugby. 94544191 2.00 NFL. 89822781
2.55 U Can Do It. 73121266 3.00
Watersports World. 46240353 4.00 Futbol
Mundial. 52554044 4.30 Close.
BRITISH EUROSPORT
SKY SPORTS 1
Radio Scotland
FILM4
2111632 1.00 Suburban Secrets. 4229570
1.30 Missing Persons Unit. 9705599 2.00
Forensic Detectives. 2400082 3.00
Monarchy By David Starkey. 4083995 3.50
The Da Vinci Detective. 9715570 4.40 Dirty
Jobs. 7888112 5.30 How It’s Made.
9295518
Live UEFA Champions League. 453117
10.00 Nothing But The Truth. 50136 11.00
Law & Order. 30469 12.00 Road Wars.
10402 1.00 Caribbean Uncovered. 6284353
1.50 The Villa. 9826082 2.40 Mile High.
3357082 3.30 Las Vegas. 6679137 4.20
Dream Team. 6995995 5.10 Guilty! 8204063
6.00 Blitz: London’s Firestorm. 1730376
7.00 Dolly: The First Cloned Sheep. 4049310
8.00 Deadliest Catch. 4057339 9.00 Future
6564198 11.00 American Chopper. 6577662
12.00 Survivorman. 3641469 1.00 Deadliest
Catch. 3650117 2.00 Forensic Detectives.
7252204 3.00 North Mission Road. 7403865
3.30 Body Of Evidence. 2506643 4.00
How It’s Made. 7408310 5.30 How Do They
Do It? 2505914 6.00 Mythbusters. 3663681
7.00 Deadliest Catch. 1619440 8.00 Blitz:
London’s Firestorm. 1635488 9.00
The Da Vinci Detective. 1658339 11.00
Most Evil. 6565827 12.00 North Mission
9.00 Deal Or No Deal. 74400204 9.45
10.45 Location, Location. 13445440
11.15 FILM: Crash Dive. 25772353 1.10
Deal Or No Deal. 25238049 2.00 ER.
52933223 3.00 Hill Street Blues.
35476933 4.00 Place In The Sun.
41467240 5.05 Grand Designs. 42656730
6.05 Deal Or No Deal. 78661662 7.00
Relocation, Relocation. 17037643 8.00
News. 61341846 8.30 Daily Show.
61353681 9.00 Dispatches. 17033827
10.00 Grand Designs: Trade Secrets.
31988933 10.35 Hypochondriacs.
91590488 11.35 FILM: Sebastiane.
29690933 1.20 The Sopranos. 72630044
15922260 3.25 Countdown. 96105266
4.10 Close.
6.00 Live International Cricket. The Duleep
Trophy Final. 1742223 11.00 International
Cricket. 30117 1.00 A-League. 88020
1.30 Wild Spirits. 17556 2.00 International
Cricket. 81020 4.00 International Cricket.
8952 6.00 Live UEFA Champions League.
Lyon v Manchester United (Kick-off
7.45pm). 33151556 10.15 You’re On Sky
Sports! 513285 11.45 Futbol Mundial.
148440 12.15 Boots ’n’ All. 380605 1.15
Poker. 756179 3.15 360 Series. 137315
3.45 Sky Sports Classics. 98582247 4.00
Live International Cricket. The Duleep
Trophy Final. 59537
7.30 French Rugby. 93952 8.00 Biathlon.
45827 10.00 Ski Jumping. 99136 11.00
Biathlon. 79372 12.00 Live Biathlon. 93575
1.30 Live WTA Tennis. 9340662 5.00
Eurogoals. 6159933 5.15 Live WTA Tennis.
1860681 6.00 Biathlon. 11372 7.00 Figure
Skating. 71575 8.30 Adventure. 9440 9.00
Wednesday Selection. 869335 9.05 Riders
Club. 219876 9.10 US Tour Golf. 544310
10.10 European Tour Golf. 116914 10.40
Golf Club. 183049 10.45 Yacht Club.
175020 10.50 Sailing. 257223 10.55
Wednesday Selection. 256594 11.00
Adventure. 59933 11.30 Biathlon. 93285
12.30 Close.
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DAYTIME
BBC ONE
BBC TWO
24:7.* The RSPCA help a dog whose owner
is in prison. 8153266 10.00 Homes Under
The Hammer.* Properties in Cornwall, Kent
and Derby. 10266 11.00 To Buy Or Not To
Buy.* House-hunting on Staffordshire
Moors. 5063 11.30 Cash In The Attic.* A
couple raise money for a business venture.
(R) 4283995 12.15 Bargain Hunt.* Tim
Wonnacott visits Builth Wells. (R) 6968402
1.00 BBC News.* 11678 1.30 Reporting
Scotland.* 39140696 1.45 Doctors.* Eva
begins to show the first signs of recovery.
692792 2.15 Diagnosis Murder.* Part two
of two. Ben defends a man framed for
murder. (R) 9335773 3.00 BBC News;
Weather; Reporting Scotland.* 8590605
3.05 CBeebies: Mister Maker.* (R)
5883614 3.25 CBBC: Take A Bow.* (R)
3491781 3.35 Prank Patrol.* (R) 4949889
4.05 Best Of Friends.* (R) 9277976
4.35 The Smoke House.* 8467976
76334 7.00 Me Too!* (R) 3872976 7.20
Charlie And Lola.* (R) 5732808 7.30 Na
Daoine Beaga (The Little People).* 6395247
7.50 Blarag A’ Bho (Connie The Cow).* (R)
3426976 8.00 CBBC: Wild Tales.* 36605 8.30
Arthur.* (R) 5472624 8.45 Dennis The
Menace.* (R) 5451131 9.05 The Sorcerer’s
Apprentice.* (R) 1352266 9.35 What’s New
Scooby-Doo?* (R) 6952044 9.55 Thumb
Wrestling Federation: TWF.* (R) 1268696
10.00 Even Stevens;* (R) Diddy Dick & Dom.*
(R) 67686 10.30 Beat The Boss.* (R) 15112
11.00 Animal Park: Wild On The West
Coast.* (R) 98044 12.00 Holyrood Live.*
39792 12.30 Working Lunch.* 52131 1.00
Open Gardens.* (R) 92860 1.30 The People
Watchers.* 3474112 2.15 Don’t Get Done,
Get Dom.* (R) 9333315 3.00 Escape To The
Country.* (R) 2882711 3.45 Flog It!* 3912773
4.30 Ben Fogle’s Extreme Dreams.* 179
5.00
5.15
Newsround.* 3256215
5.00
6.00
6.30
BBC News.* 402
5
PM
Sportscene. Panathinaikos
v Rangers (Kick-off 5pm).
Live coverage of the second
leg of the UEFA Cup last-32
tie at the Apostolos
Nikolaidis Stadium. 27957
6
PM
Show.* 5736179 10.30 This Morning.* Phil
Vickery creates treats in Pudding Club and
agony aunt Denise Robertson offers advice.
Fern Britton and Eamonn Homes present.
79063 12.30 Loose Women.* 34976 1.30 ITV
Lunchtime News.* 55228 2.00 Doc Martin.*
Louisa invites Mark to the Portwenn Players’
dance, prompting him to approach Martin for
advice on dealing with the opposite sex.
Drama series starring Martin Clunes. (R)
55841 3.00 The Alan Titchmarsh Show.*
2976 4.00 The Royal Today.* A woman
suffers complications after having an abortion,
telling her fiancé it’s appendicitis instead of
the truth, but when her condition takes a turn
for the worse, Woods is forced to perform a
hysterectomy. A gymnast’s illness perplexes
Ormerod and Pearl gives Norman food for
thought about his home situation; What’s
Your Business Idea. 421 4.30 Golden Balls;*
What’s Your Business Idea. 54421
5.30
6.00
Scotland Today;
Weather;* What’s Your
Business Idea. 570
6.30
7.00
7.30
7
The ONE Show.* 1131
EastEnders.* Max
manipulates the situation
to ensure Tanya’s party
ends in disaster. 266
7.00
7.30
Rapal.* With Glasgow
band the Hussy’s. 9773
Eòrpa (Europe).* A report on
the increasing trade between
Finland and Russia. 808
REGION
STV
7.00
PM
Emmerdale: Heartbreak.*
Laurel and Ashley’s world
falls apart as baby Daniel’s
distraught mother discovers
him lying motionless in his
cot. 3063
BBC1 Northern
Ireland
10.35 Let’s Talk. 11.35
Hearts
And Minds. 12.05 This
Week. 12.55-1.25 Sign
Zone: Britain’s
Favourite Fakes.
BBC2 Northern
Ireland
7.50-8.00 Take A Bow.
12.00-12.30 Daily
Politics. 4.30 Ready,
Steady, Cook. 5.15
Britain’s Dream Homes.
6.00 Eggheads. 6.30
Extreme Dreams. 7.00
More Than Meets The
Eye. 7.30-8.00 Hearts
And Minds. 9.00
Torchwood. 9.50
Torchwood
Declassified. 10.0010.30 Imeall Geal.
11.20 Freezing. 11.50
Mitchell And Webb.
12.20 Tropic Of
Capricorn.1.20-2.00
News 24.*
N East Of England:
7.50-8.00 Take A Bow.
12.00-12.30 Daily
Politics. 4.30 Ready,
Steady, Cook. 5.15
Britain’s Dream Homes.
6.00 Eggheads. 6.30
Extreme Dreams. 7.00
Torchwood. 7.50-8.00
Torchwood
Declassified. 11.20
Tropic Of Capricorn.
12.20-2.00 News 24.*
CHANNEL FOUR
FIVE
6.05 The Hoobs.* (R) 7241605 6.30 The
Hoobs.* (R) 4851957 6.55 Freshly Squeezed.
(R) 7309889 7.50 Everybody Loves
Raymond.* (R) 8122131 8.20 Just Shoot
Me.* (R) 9817402 8.45 Frasier.* (R) 325518
9.15 Will & Grace.* (R) 315131 9.45 Will &
Grace.* (R) 314402 10.15 Without A Trace.*
A murder trial juror vanishes. (R) 7440421
11.05 ER.* Abby struggles to decide whether
to keep her baby. (R) 6715686 12.00 News At
Noon.* 24860 12.30 A Place In Greece.*
Andrew and Brian are forced to ask Pete and
Les for money. (R) 54599 1.00 The Midland:
Checking Into History.* The Midland Hotel in
Manchester. (R) 12887518 1.20 FILM The
Scarlet Blade (1963).* Adventure starring
Lionel Jeffries and Jack Hedley. 58131150
2.55 Come Dine With Me.* Erotic dance
teacher Michele Cooper hosts the next party.
(R) 2005976 3.25 Countdown.* 2852570
4.15 Deal Or No Deal.* (R) 2413686
75670179 6.25 Thomas & Friends.* (R)
62679421 6.35 Rupert Bear.* (R) 90659599
6.45 Animal Families.* 90662063 7.00 Miss
Spider’s Sunny Patch Friends.* (R) 3861150
7.15 Harry And His Bucket Full Of
Dinosaurs.* (R) 7275773 7.30 The Adventures
Of Bottle Top Bill And His Best Friend Corky.*
(R) 2769841 7.50 Make Way For Noddy.* (R)
6553995 8.05 Fifi And The Flowertots.* (R)
1222599 8.15 Big School.* (R) 1244711 8.25
Peppa Pig.* (R) 6266518 8.30 Thomas &
Friends.* (R) 3566173 8.45 Funky Town.* (R)
7655841 8.50 Pocoyo.* 1758976 9.00 The
Wright Stuff.* 9010353 10.30 Trisha
Goddard.* 4348686 11.30 The Hotel
Inspector.* (R) 2797402 12.30 Five News.*
29352063 12.45 Law & Order.* (R) 6410060
1.45 Neighbours.* 7093315 2.15 Home And
Away.* 1036605 2.50 Animal Rescue Squad.*
4409247 3.05 FILM Columbo: Sex And
The Married Detective (1989).* 71900976
5.00
5.00
5.30
Five News.* 7272266
Neighbours.* Toadie
manages to keep his cool
in court. (R) 7421841
6.00
The Simpsons.* Marge starts
her own business. (R) 112
Hollyoaks.* Carl and Anthony
lay siege to The Dog. 792
6.00
6.30
Home And Away.* Cassie
finds herself in serious
trouble. (R) 7451082
The unsung heroes of animal
protection. (R) 7442334
7.00
7.55
The Political Slot.* 893266
7.00
7.30
Five News.* 7252402
Live UEFA Cup Football.*
Everton v SK Brann (Kick-off
8pm). Colin Murray
introduces coverage of the
second leg of this evening’s
last-32 encounter at
Goodison Park. 11560150
8.00
CHOICE Jamie At Home.*
Jamie Oliver demonstrates
recipes using strawberries.
Jamie At Home.* Preparing
dishes using fresh peas
and broad beans. 2624
10.10
FILM Red Water (2003).*
A freshwater shark appears
in a Louisiana river, spelling
trouble for a nearby group of
people. Horror starring Lou
Diamond Phillips. 5137402
6.30
Border
8.00
8
PM
9.00
9
PM
10
PM
11
PM
ONWARD
Waterloo Road.* Rachel
hatches a plan to stop
Eddie from resigning as
deputy-head, and Mika and
Brett take their eco-warrior
plans to the next level.
4315
8.00
CHOICE Ashes To
Ashes.* An alleged sexual
assault requires delicate
handling when it is
revealed the boat where
the attack took place
belongs to a friend of the
commissioner. See Pick of
the Day. 4179
9.00
9.30
MasterChef.* The four semifinalists fine-tune their skills.
John Torode and Gregg
Wallace present. 2957
That Mitchell And Webb
Look.* New series of the
comedy sketch show. 3841
The Catherine Tate Show.*
Comedy sketches. (R) 72995
8.00
9.00
The Bill.* Ben is incensed to
find his protege Liam Harvey
badly beaten after CCTV
cameras reveal the lad was
responsible for ditching bags
of cocaine in the street. 2711
Trial & Retribution.*
Part two of two. As the hunt
for Nick Fisher’s murderer
continues, Satch coaxes
the victim’s widow into
identifying Dyer as a suspect.
Walker investigates a piece
of old evidence. 9247
10.00 BBC News.* 559792
10.25 Reporting Scotland;
Weather.* 619808
10.35 Question Time.* Topical
debate from Portsmouth.
David Dimbleby hosts.
594537
10.00 Freezing.* Matt and
Elizabeth try to impress
a television historian. 30421
10.30 Newsnight.* 16841
10.00 News At Ten.* 428995
10.35 Moving Wallpaper.*
Mel lands a star name
for the show. (R) 792131
11.35 This Week.* 423860 12.25 Sign
Zone: Panorama.* (R) 5415025 12.55 Sign
Zone: Edwardians In Colour: The
Wonderful World Of Albert Kahn.* (R)
2076938 1.25 Sign Zone: Lark Rise To
Candleford.* (R) 5803193 2.25 Sign Zone:
Wanted Down Under.* (R) 8395984 3.10
BBC News 24.* 62895006
Sportscene.* The weekend’s SPL fixtures.
130063 11.50 Tropic Of Capricorn.* (R)
144841 12.50 BBC News 24.* 4225025
2.00 BBC Learning Zone.* 4781006
11.05 Echo Beach.* Dan loses a
night’s sleep waiting for Abi to return
from a date with Jimmy. (R) 143537
11.35 Politics Now.* 273402 12.00
Nightwatch With Steve Scott:
Emergency.* 880803 1.45 Loose
Women.* (R) 5647071 2.35 The
Jeremy Kyle Show.* (R) 4330822 3.30
ITV Nightscreen. 49551 5.30 ITV
Morning News.* 46377
Emmerdale: Heartbreak, STV, 7pm
Deal. 5711 2.30 The
Today. 686 4.00
Rosemary & Thyme.
4711 5.00 Golden
Balls. 5570 6.00
Lookaround. 570 11.35
Nick Hancock’s Fishing
School. 273402
Tyne Tees
Deal. 5711 2.30 The
Today. 686 4.00
Rosemary & Thyme.
4711 5.00 Golden
Balls. 5570 6.00 North
East Tonight.* 570
11.35 Around The
House. 273402
8.30
9.00
My Street.* The Cutting
Edge series continues with
a glimpse into the lives of
film-maker Sue Bourne’s
neighbours, revealing the rich
tapestry of life that exists
beyond four walls. 7889
10.00 The Big Bang Theory.*
Sheldon tries to do Penny a
favour by tidying her room.
Jim Parsons stars. 32889
10.30 Skins.* Maxxie has a
creepy feeling someone is
watching him. 5926976
11.35 The Sopranos.* Johnny Sack deals
with devastating news. 173518 12.45
Autopsy: Emergency Room.* (R) 267396
1.45 FILM Heaven (1998).* Thriller
starring Martin Donovan. 215716 3.25
Transworld Sport.* (R) 7839613 4.15
Richard & Judy. (R) 513087 5.15
Countdown.* (R) 4515006
12.00 Quiz Call. 1592919 4.00 Football
Argentina. 2268483 4.30 Dutch Football.
5461358 5.10 Neighbours.* (R) 59825025
5.35 House Doctor.* (R) 19496342
REVIEW 33
PICK OF THE DAY
FILM
SKY MOVIES PREMIERE
Ashes To Ashes
BBC1, 9pm
A grimmer than usual episode
of the Eighties-set Life On
Mars sequel as Alex and Gene
try to snare a dangerous rapist
and Ray tries to articulate his
sensitive side.
Jonathan Meades:
Magnetic North
BBC4, 9pm
Adorably gloomy cultural critic
Jonathan Meades finds his
compass pointing to gothic
spires, gloomy skylines and
dark primordial forests as he
ventures into Europe’s weirder
northern climes.
Jamie at Home
Channel 4, 8pm
Jamie Oliver rummages
around his vegetable patch
and performs more alchemy
in his kitchen as he extols
the divine
pleasures of the
simple
strawberry.
10.00 Indie Close Up. 39024 10.30 Drama
Close Up. 59570 11.00 Sci-fi & Horror
Close Up. 42042 11.30 Premiere Close Up.
92501 12.00 Luna: Spirit Of The Whale.
680247 1.50 Save The Last Dance 2:
Stepping Up. 79169150 3.30 Arthur And
The Invisibles. 331889 5.20 Comedy Close
Up. 5195570 5.50 The Last King Of
Scotland. 50111537 8.00 Barnyard. 38599
10.00 The Pursuit Of Happyness. Drama
starring Will Smith. 35398353 12.05 Gone.
338990 2.00 Close.
BBC 3
BBC 4
7.35 The Apartment. 76948501 9.45 All
About My Mother. 20376179 11.40
Brokeback Mountain. 95482421 2.05
Lawrence Of Arabia. 35339537 5.40 The
Fugitive. Drama with Harrison Ford.
92796150 8.00 Brokeback Mountain.
73184957 10.20 Lawrence Of Arabia.
48014889 1.55 All About My Mother.
36063209 4.00 Cyrano De Bergerac.
50969532
SKY MOVIES CLASSICS
ITV2
8.20 Modern Greats & Classics Close Up.
9638112 8.50 Kes. 55534044 10.50 The
Men. 15646773 12.30 Father Goose.
95731860 2.40 Modern Greats & Classics
Close Up. 1259247 3.10 Requiem For A
Heavyweight. 47806711 4.40 Kes.
21927518 6.45 Operation Petticoat.
77840402 9.00 Father Goose. 6642150
11.00 Requiem For A Heavyweight.
6327228 12.30 The Edge Of Heaven
Special. 5256396 12.50 O Lucky Man!
20858648 3.45 The Kiss Of The Vampire.
5564025 5.15 Operation Petticoat.
64011545
Emmerdale. 1.00 Airline USA. 1.30 The
Jeremy Kyle Show. 3.45 Ricki Lake. 4.30
Sally Jessy Raphael. 5.20 The Montel
Williams Show. 6.05 Judge Judy. 7.00
Smallville. 8.00 American Idol. 9.00
Coleen’s Real Women. 10.00 American
Idol. 11.00 Supernatural. 12.00
Entourage. 12.35 The Office: An
American Workplace. 1.05 Coleen’s Real
Women. 2.00 Entourage. 2.30 The
Office: An American Workplace. 3.00
Teleshopping. 6.00 Close.
BOX OFFICE DIGITAL
ITV3
Rise Of The Silver Surfer, Hostel:
Part II, Vacancy. Every hour from 6.30am:
Evan Almighty, Harry Potter And The
Order Of The Phoenix, Pirates Of The
Caribbean: At World’s End, This Is
England.
ENTERTAINMENT
Case. 75228 10.00 Stargate SG-1. 96599
Old? 99686 1.00 Cold Case. 24614 2.00 Las
Vegas. 19063 3.00 Stargate SG-1. 25537
10904402 7.00 Hollyoaks. 36710583 7.30
The Class. 10900686 8.00 Friends.
20415191 8.30 Friends. 31760088 9.00
Big Brother US. 62526792 10.00 Big
Brother US. 62536179 11.00 Russell
Brand’s Ponderland. 20230334 11.35
The Russell Brand Show. 83885792
12.25 Scrubs. 89705716 1.25 The Simple
Life. 55574261 2.10 The Russell Brand
Show. 95005700 2.55 Style Her Famous.
17332464 4.00 One Tree Hill. 18760377
4.45 Switched. 76756629 5.55 Close.
7.00 Spendaholics. 8.00 Freaky Eaters.
9.00 Dawn Goes Lesbian. 10.00
EastEnders. 10.30 Bizarre ER. 11.00 The
Real Hustle Las Vegas. 11.30 Family
Guy. 11.55 Family Guy. 12.15 Dawn
Goes Lesbian. 1.15 Bizarre ER. 1.45 The
Real Hustle Las Vegas. 2.15 Freaky
Eaters. 3.10 Spendaholics. 4.10 Close.
7.00 World News Today. 2857315
7.30 Masterpieces Of The East. 7894082
8.00 Michael Wood: The Story Of India.
4505599 9.00 Jonathan Meades:
Magnetic North. See Pick of the Day.
4518063 10.00 Ashes To Ashes. 4511150
11.00 Pop Britannia. 3377518 12.00 Pop!
What Is It Good For? 7454629 1.00
Jonathan Meades: Magnetic North.
3471087 2.00 Pop Britannia. 4670822
3.00 Jonathan Meades: Magnetic
North. 6324648 4.00 Close.
SKY MOVIES DRAMA
SKY ONE
RADIO
FREEVIEW
MORE4
Sally Jessy Raphael, ITV2, 4.30pm
3.40 Cagney And Lacey. 4.40 The Return
Of Sherlock Holmes. 5.50 Heartbeat.
6.55 The Wonder Years. 7.30 The
Wonder Years. 8.00 The Return Of
Sherlock Holmes. 9.00 Numb3rs. 10.00
Doc Martin. 11.00 Murder In Mind.
12.10 The Return Of Sherlock Holmes.
1.15 Quincy ME. 2.05 The Rockford
Files. 2.55 Bramwell. 3.50 Film File. 4.00
Teleshopping.
E4
6.00 Anything Goes. 64844266 8.00 E4
Loves Skins. 58934792 11.00 Fresh Gigs.
64504841 12.05 Scrubs. 66346808 12.40
19482131 3.35 One Tree Hill. 49819334
12310727 5.30 Friends. 22553402 5.55
9.00 Bones. 54537 10.00 Cold Case. 57624
11.00 Prison Break. 44247 12.00 Ross
Kemp In Afghanistan. 35342 1.00
Caribbean Uncovered. 6251025 1.50 The
Villa. 9893754 2.40 Mile High. 3324754
3.30 Las Vegas. 1336409 4.20 Dream
Team. 6962667 5.10 Guilty! 8271735
FILM4
1.00 Long Day’s Journey Into Night.
72663112 4.15 Red River. Western
starring John Wayne. 63648353 6.50 Life
Is Beautiful. 18067599 9.00 Wedding
Crashers. 91966402 11.20 Primal Fear.
95446995 1.50 La Veuve De Saint-Pierre.
23734939 4.00 Close.
Mythbusters. 3630353 7.00 Deadliest
Catch. 6536315 9.00 Seven Days That
Shook The Weathermen. 1615624 10.00
New Face Of Marlie: Shocking Story.
1618711 11.00 Most Evil. 6532599 12.00
North Mission Road. 9254261 12.30 Body
Of Evidence. 6416844 1.00 Suburban
2477754 3.00 Seven Days That Shook The
Weathermen. 4050667 3.50 New Face Of
Marlie: Shocking Story. 9619342 4.40 Dirty
Jobs. 7782984 5.30 How It’s Made.
9255990
DISCOVERY
6.00 Deadliest Catch. 4016268 7.00 Rogue
Predators. 4016082 8.00 Deadliest Catch.
4017711 9.00 Future Weapons. 9207353
10.00 Mythbusters. 6524570 11.00
American Chopper. 6544334 12.00
Survivorman. 3601841 1.00 Deadliest
Catch. 3627889 2.00 Forensic Detectives.
7470537 3.30 Body Of Evidence. 2573315
4.00 World Without Water. 8416024 5.30
How Do They Do It? 2572686 6.00
9.00 Deal Or No Deal. 74477976 9.45
13412112 11.15 FILM: The Last
Command. 34534537 1.15 Deal Or No
Deal. 25273112 2.00 ER. 52900995 3.00
Hill Street Blues. 35443605 4.00 A Place
In The Sun. 92509222 4.35 A Place In
17004315 8.00 More4 News. 61318518
8.30 The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.
17000599 10.00 ER. 17003686 11.00
Without A Trace. 57735334 12.00 The
Sopranos. 94741483 1.10 ER. 80089767
2.10 Without A Trace. 17694280 2.55
Countdown. 85486551 3.40 Close.
SPORT
SKY SPORTS 1
Ocean’s Thirteen, Box Office Digital
6.00 Live International Cricket. 1719995
11.00 Futbol Mundial. 62082 11.30 Boots
’n’ All. 19518 12.30 Transworld Sport.
11773 1.30 Total Rugby. 21334 2.00 Futbol
Mundial. 1315 2.30 Wild Spirits. 2150 3.00
Live World Golf, Sky Sports 2, 7pm
Live Winning Post Special. The latest
meeting of the Dubai International Racing
Carnival. 9841773 7.00 Premier League
World. 5131 7.30 Live Premier League
Darts. From the Ricoh Arena in Coventry.
5412402 11.00 Premier League World.
54063 11.30 The Rugby Club. 40889 1.00
Premier League World. 85984 1.30 Race
World. 26754 2.30 Premier League World.
55396 3.00 Live International Cricket.
7012919
SKY SPORTS 2
9.00 World Golf Championship. 5911179
12.30 Total Rugby. 1760792 1.00 Thinking
Tackle. 1765247 2.00 World Golf
Championship. 8269112 5.30 The Rugby
Club. 6100976 7.00 Live World Golf
Championship. The Accenture Match Play
Championship from Tucson, Arizona.
4164228 11.00 NFL: Total Access. 8942957
11.55 U Can Do It. 8028808 12.00
Triathlon. 3135828 1.00 The Dogs. 1918613
1.30 The Rugby Club. 4283261 3.00 Close.
SKY SPORTS 3
8.00 Transworld Sport. 64773353 9.00
Aerobics. 60221583 9.30 A-League.
34693841 10.00 Boots ’n’ All. 76389860
11.00 Racing News. 44416260 11.30
Aerobics. 93463119 12.00 Watersports
World. 34616792 1.00 NFL: Total Access.
69294889 1.55 U Can Do It. 16779402 2.00
International Cricket. 87821841 4.00 Ten
Pin Bowling. 14613452 5.00 NFL: Total
Access. 61353131 5.55 U Can Do It.
34096421 6.00 The Dogs. 45176150 6.30
ATP Tennis. 45167402 7.00 Race World.
87833686 8.00 The Rugby Club. 26446315
9.30 WWE: Late Night — Raw. 64779537
11.30 Extreme Championship Wrestling.
85099286 12.30 ATP Tennis. 26426551
1.00 Premier League Darts. 99698667 4.30
Close.
BRITISH EUROSPORT
7.30 Adventure. 74402 8.00 Road To
Euro 2008. 91605 8.30 UEFA Cup Football.
1089570 9.15 Biathlon. 4296624 10.30
Biathlon. 2057599 11.45 UEFA Cup
Football. 4043082 12.30 Live WTA Tennis.
4978247 5.00 Eurogoals. 6126605 5.15
Live WTA Tennis. The Qatar Total Open.
936773 5.45 Ski Jumping. 169334 6.45
Live Alpine Skiing. 312624 8.15 Boxing.
68869063 10.00 UEFA Cup Football. 77402
11.00 UEFA Champions League. 311957
12.45 Close.
Radio Scotland
9.30 MacAulay & Co. 11.00 Bedside
Manners. New series. The lives of
doctors in Scotland. 11.30 When Pop
And Politics Meet. The story of the Free
Nelson Mandela concert. 12.00
Movie Café. 2.00 News. 2.05 Tom
Weather. 5.00 MW: Sportsound. 6.00
FM: News. 6.05 FM: Get It On With
Bryan Burnett. 7.00 FM: News. 7.12
FM: Outdoor Conditions. 7.15 FM: The
Movie Café. 8.00 FM: News. 8.05 FM:
Bruce MacGregor’s Strings And Things.
New series in which artists discuss
their taste in music. 9.58 FM: Weather.
10.00 Scotland At Ten. 10.30 The Iain
Anderson Show. 12.30 When Pop And
Politics Meet. 1.00 FM: As Radio 5
Radio 4
Parliament. 8.58 LW: Weather. 9.00 In
Our Time. 9.45 LW: Daily Service. 9.45
FM: Book of the Week: Trust Me I’m A
(Junior) Doctor. 10.00 Woman’s Hour.
11.00 From Our Own Correspondent.
11.30 With Great Pleasure. 12.00
1.00 The World At One. 1.30 Open
Country. 2.00 The Archers. 2.15
Afternoon Play: When To Run. By
Sophie Woolley. 3.00 Traveller’s Tree.
3.27 Radio 4 Appeal. 3.30 Creating
Writing Groups 2008. 3.45 Giving It All
Away. 4.00 Open Book. 4.30 The
Material World. 5.00 PM. 5.54 LW:
Shipping Forecast. 5.57 Weather. 6.00
News. 6.30 Chain Reaction. New
series. Catherine Tate talks to David
Tennant. 7.00 The Archers. 7.15 Front
Row. A reflection on the career of artist
and film-maker Derek Jarman. 7.45
Faust. 8.00 Sovereign Funds: The New
Wealth Of Nations. First of two
programmes exploring the shift in the
balance of global economic power.
8.30 Analysis. New series. Frances
Stonor Saunders examines the use of
storytelling in politics. With
contributions by Bryan Gould, Robert
McKee, Professor Drew Westen and
Mark Easton. 9.00 Leading Edge. A
report from the American Association
of the Advancement of Science. 9.30
In Our Time. The theory of multiple
universes. 9.59 Weather. 10.00 The
World Tonight. 10.45 Book at Bedtime:
A Room With A View. By EM Forster.
11.00 One. New series. Sketch show
with David Quantick. 11.15 All Bar
Luke. Drama by Tim Key. 11.30 Today
In Parliament. Presented by David
Wilby. 12.00 News; Weather. 12.30
Book of the Week: Trust Me I’m A
(Junior) Doctor. By Max Pemberton.
12.48 Shipping Forecast. 1.00 World
Service. 5.20 Shipping Forecast.
Radio 3
Week: Verdi. 12.00 News. 1.00 Radio 3
Lunchtime Concert. Webern, Deirdre
Gribbin, Ravel. 2.00 The Czech
Philharmonic Orchestra And Friends.
5.00 In Tune. 7.00 Performance On 3.
8.45 Composer Of The Week: Giuseppe
Verdi. 9.45 Night Waves. Literary critics
of the 20th century. 10.30 Artist Focus.
Berg’s Seven Early Songs. 11.00 The
Essay. 11.15 Late Junction. 1.00
Through The Night.
Radio 1
Lowe. 9.00 Pete Tong’s In New Music
We Trust. 10.00 Colin Murray. 12.00
Eddie Halliwell. 2.00 In New DJs We
Trust. 4.00 Dick And Dom.
Radio 2
7.30 Johnie Walker. 9.30 Stuart
Chris Evans. 7.00 Bob Harris Country.
8.00 Mark Radcliffe. 10.00 Rockin’
With Suzi Q. 11.00 The Radio 2 Music
Club Presents. 11.30 Jammin’. 12.00
Steve Harley’s Sounds Of The
Seventies. 12.30 Janice Long. 3.00
Alex Lester.
Radio 5 Live
7.00 5 Live Sport. This evening’s UEFA
Cup last-32 second-leg ties, including
Bayern Munich v Aberdeen. 10.00
Richard Bacon. 1.00 Up All Night.
Classic FM
Seven. 9.00 Evening Concert. 12.00
Lisa Duncombe. 2.00 Mark Griffiths.
Radio Nan Gaidheal
Mòir. 11.30 Sgàilean. 2.03 Caithream
Ciùil. 4.03 Crùnluath. 5.00 Aithris An
Fheasgair. 5.30 Siubhal Gu Seachd.
7.00 Rapal. 9.02 Coinneach
Maclomhair. 10.00 Sgàilean. 10.30
Crùnluath. 11.30 Mar Radio Alba.
Virgin
7.00 Ben Jones. 10.00 The Geoff
Show. 1.00 John Osborne. 4.00
Robin Burke.
Talksport
Wright And Adrian Durham. 7.00 Kick
Off. 10.00 James Whale. 1.00
Ian Collins.
World Service
9.06 Assignment. 9.30 The Beat. 10.00
World News. 10.06 Outlook. 11.00
Report. 11.30 World Briefing. 11.41
Analysis. 11.50 Sports Round-up.
12.00 World News. 12.06 Assignment.
12.30 One Planet. 1.00 World Briefing.
1.30 Outlook In Brief. 2.00 Newshour.
3.00 World Briefing. 3.30 The Beat.
Business Report. 4.30 One Planet. 5.00
Europe Today. 6.00 World News. 6.06
World, Have Your Say. 7.00 World
Briefing. 7.20 World Business Report.
7.30 The Beat. 8.00 World News. 8.06
Assignment. 8.30 One Planet. 9.00
Today. 11.30 The Beat. 12.00 World
News. 12.06 Assignment. 12.30 One
Planet. 1.00 World Briefing. 1.20 World
2.30 The Beat. 3.00 World News. 3.06
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BBC ONE
BBC TWO
6.00 CBeebies: Tikkabilla* 52938 6.30
Teletubbies* (R) 84984 7.00 Me Too!* (R)
3849648 7.20 Charlie And Lola.* (R) 5792280
7.30 Ag Ionnsachadh Le Blarag (Learning
With Connie). (R) 3304700 7.35 Calum
Clachair (Bob The Builder). 6354990 7.55 Ag
Ionnsachadh Le Blarag (Learning With
Connie). (R) 3421272 8.00 CBBC: Wild Tales.*
46613 8.30 Arthur.* (R) 5449396 8.45 Dennis
The Menace.* (R) 5428803 9.05 The
Sorcerer’s Apprentice.* (R) 1329938 9.35
& Dom.* (R) 71464 10.30 Beat The Boss.* (R)
38648 11.00 Animal Park: Wild On The West
Coast.* (R) 62862 12.00 The Daily Politics.*
49700 12.30 Working Lunch.* 10957 1.30 The
People Watchers.* 3378984 2.15 Don’t Get
Done, Get Dom.* (R) 9300087 3.00 Escape To
The Country.* 2859483 3.45 Flog It!* 3989445
4.30 Ready, Steady, Cook.* 1497990
Show.* 5796551 10.30 This Morning.*
Sharon Marshall rounds up the gossip from the
soaps and there’s more inspiration in the
Friday cookery slot. Ruth Langsford and
Eamonn Holmes present. 40342 12.30 Loose
Women.* Topical debate from a female
perspective. 94193 1.30 ITV Lunchtime
News.* 52716 2.00 Doc Martin.* A schoolgirl
develops a crush on the irascible doctor, while
one of Joan’s old flames comes back into her
life, but Martin discovers he is seriously ill. (R)
76919 3.00 The Alan Titchmarsh Show.* Live
chat show hosted by the television gardener.
Featuring unsung heroes, celebrity guests and
lifestyle features. 7803 4.00 The Royal Today.*
A patient reveals a fear that he may be
suffering from motor neurone disease, which
killed his father a year ago, but his problem
turns out to be much more straightforward;
What’s Your Business Idea.* (R) 280 4.30
Golden Balls.* (R) 62071
5.00
5.15
5.15
5.30
Newsround.* 4603777
BBC News.* 261
6.00
6.30
6
PM
7.00
7.30
7
PM
8.30
PM
9.00
10
PM
11
PM
ONWARD
The ONE Show.* 4735
That Was the Team That
Was.* The history of
Scottish football. 975
7.00
7.30
8.00
9
The country’s finest riverside
properties. 7326193
BBC1 Northern
Ireland
1.30-1.45 BBC
Newsline.* 3.00-3.05
BBC Newsline.* 6.307.00 BBC Newsline.*
7.30-8.00 Our Wee
World.* 9.00 The
Tractor Show.* 9.3010.00 Anderson In.*
(R) 10.25-10.35 BBC
Newsline.* 12.25 New
Tricks.* (R) 1.25 BBC
News 24.* 1.50-2.20
Sign Zone: Panorama.*
(R)
N East Of England:
1.30-1.45 Regional
News.* 3.00-3.05
Regional News.* 6.307.00 Look North.*
7.30-8.00 Inside Out.*
9.00-10.00 New
Tricks.* (R) 10.25-10.35
Regional News.*
CHANNEL FOUR
FIVE
6.00 Making It. (R) 4111803 6.05 The Hoobs.*
(R) 7218377 6.30 The Hoobs.* (R) 4828629
6.55 Freshly Squeezed.* 4821716 7.25
Everybody Loves Raymond.* (R) 7369261
7.50 Everybody Loves Raymond.* (R) 8199803
8.20 Just Shoot Me.* (R) 9884174 8.45
Frasier.* Roz helps Frasier arrange a date. (R)
381700 9.15 Will & Grace.* (R) 388613 9.45
Will & Grace.* (R) 387984 10.15 Without A
Trace.* (R) 7417193 11.05 ER.* Dr Dubenko
faces a tough shift. (R) 6782358 12.00 News
At Noon.* 47396 12.30 A Place In Greece.*
(R) 51087 1.00 FILM Angel And The
Badman (1947).* Wounded gunslinger
John Wayne is nursed back to health by a
Quaker girl whose peaceful faith prompts him
to renounce violence. Western with Gail
Russell. 73011716 2.55 Come Dine With
Me.* Web designer Danny makes a culinary
faux pas. (R) 2072648 3.25 Countdown.*
With John Inverdale in Dictionary Corner.
2756342 4.15 Deal Or No Deal.* 2480358
75630551 6.25 Thomas & Friends.* (R)
62646193 6.35 Rupert Bear.* (R) 90546071
6.45 Animal Families.* (R) 90639735 7.00
Miss Spider’s Sunny Patch Friends.* (R)
3838822 7.15 Harry And His Bucket Full Of
Dinosaurs.* (R) 7242445 7.30 The Adventures
Of Bottle Top Bill And His Best Friend Corky.*
(R) 2663613 7.50 Make Way For Noddy.* (R)
6520667 8.05 Fifi And The Flowertots.* (R)
1119071 8.15 Big School.* (R) 1211483 8.25
Peppa Pig.* (R) 6226990 8.30 Thomas &
Friends.* (R) 7861385 8.45 Funky Town.* (R)
7559613 8.50 Pocoyo.* 1725648 9.00 The
Wright Stuff.* 9087025 10.30 Trisha
Goddard.* (R) 4315358 11.30 The Hotel
Inspector.* (R) 2764174 12.30 Five News.*
29329735 12.45 Law & Order.* (R) 7758712
1.45 Neighbours.* 7060087 2.15 Home And
Away.* 1003377 2.50 Animal Rescue Squad.*
4485667 3.00 FILM Mercy Mission: The
Rescue Of Flight 771 (1993).* 1901280
5.00
5.00
5.30
Five News.* 7249938
Neighbours.* Bridget
recalls the accident being
her fault. (R) 7325613
6.00
The Simpsons.* An
avalanche buries Homer
and Mr Burns. (R) 241
Hollyoaks.* OB makes
a huge decision. 551
6.00
Home And Away.* Cassie
faces up to the possibility of a
jail sentence. (R) 7428754
A new home must be
found for a dog. 7419006
BBC2 Northern
Ireland
6.00
6.30
PM
REGION
STV
24:7.* The RSPCA try to save two groups of
horses. 8120938 10.00 Homes Under The
Hammer.* Properties in south London,
Reading and Telford. (R) 91716 11.00 To
Buy Or Not To Buy.* Searching for
properties in Sutton Coldfield. 1590 11.30
Cash In The Attic.* Raising money for some
new furniture. (R) 4250667 12.15 Bargain
Hunt.* Searching for antiques in Barnsley.
6935174 1.00 BBC News.* 15396 1.30
Doctors.* Jimmi helps an abused teacher.
738174 2.15 Diagnosis Murder.* Old
friends reunite on a corruption case. (R)
9302445 3.00 BBC News; Weather;
CBeebies: Mister Maker.* (R) 9188826
3.25 CBBC: Take A Bow.* (R) 8473984 3.30
Shaun The Sheep;* (R) Thumb Wrestling
Federation: TWF.* (R) 6387551 3.40 Basil’s
Game Show.* 4908532 4.10 Freefonix.*
6755667 4.35 The Smoke House.*
8434648
5
PM
8
EastEnders.* Tanya’s
distraught as Max takes
the upper hand. 3483
A Question Of Sport.*
With Mark Butcher and
Glenn Hoddle. 2990
8.00
CHOICE Hotel Babylon.*
New series of the drama
starring Max Beesley as
recently promoted general
manager Charlie, who is
about to discover it can be
lonely at the top. See Pick
of the Day. 1975
9.00
8.50
Eggheads.* 803
De A-nis (What Now?).
Eilidh heads to Aviemore
to participate in the annual
Sled Dog Rally. 483
6.00
Plane Crazy: The
Transatlantic Price War?*
The deregulation of
transatlantic flights. 2377
An Island Parish.*
Bishop Bill’s advice lifts
Father Guy’s spirits. (R) 667
7.00
Natural World.*
The first animal to survive a
trip into space. 662261
The Great British Parakeet
Invasion.* Wild parakeets
in Britain. 498358
8.00
The Choir — Boys Don’t
Sing.* Gareth Malone’s
charges prepare for a
performance at the Royal
Albert Hall, but a throat
infection afflicting the star
soloist threatens to ruin their
big day. Last in series. 8667
9.00
6.30
7.30
8.30
9.30
Emmerdale.* Laurel
struggles to cope with
Daniel’s death. 9803
Coronation Street.* Violet
goes into labour and staggers
into the pub for help. 193
Fuel’s Gold: Tonight.* How
to save money on petrol. 8551
Coronation Street.*
Sean and Violet’s son is
born at the Rovers. 4358
Moving Wallpaper.*
The Christian Viewers’
Association complain. 5822
Echo Beach.* Abi prepares
for a romantic evening. 73209
7.20 Get Squiggling.*
7.35 Charlie And Lola.*
(R) 7.50 Take A Bow.*
(R) 8.00-11.00 CBBC.
6.30-7.00 Ben Fogle’s
Extreme Dreams.* N
East Of England: 7.20
Get Squiggling.* 7.35
Charlie And Lola.* (R)
7.50 Take A Bow.* (R)
8.00-11.00 CBBC.
6.30-7.00 Ben Fogle’s
Extreme Dreams.*
Border
Deal.* (R) 5087 2.30
The Alan Titchmarsh
Show.* 96311 3.30 The
Rosemary & Thyme.*
(R) 6938 5.00 Golden
Balls.* 8174 6.00
Lookaround.* 629
Tyne Tees
Deal.* (R) 5087 2.30
The Alan Titchmarsh
Show.* 96311 3.30 The
Rosemary & Thyme.*
(R) 6938 5.00 Golden
Balls.* 8174 6.00
North East Tonight.*
629
6.30
7.00
7.35
Unreported World.*
Kate Seelye investigates
the rise in the number of
backstreet abortions. 930464
7.00
7.30
Five News.* 7229174
Massive Speed.* Chris Barrie
explores the world of
armoured vehicles. 7408990
8.00
A Place In The Sun: Home
Or Away.* Jonnie Irwin and
Jasmine Harman help a
couple hoping to relocate to
France while maintaining a
house in Ashford. 5311
8.00
Ice Road Truckers.* A lorry
goes through the ice and the
emergency services spring
into action. Jay transports
the heaviest piece of
equipment this season, and
TJ is investigated. 5808716
9.00
Ricky Gervais: New Hero Of
Comedy.* New series
profiling British comedians,
beginning with an insight
into the life and career of
Ricky Gervais. 3735
9.00
NCIS.* The discovery of a
dead Marine intelligence
officer in a motel room
prompts the team to hunt for
his killer in an investigation
which could lead to a
terrorist cell. 5811280
10.00 BBC News.* 170209
671648
10.35 CHOICE Friday Night
With Jonathan Ross.*
Forest Whitaker and Bruce
Forsyth guest. See Pick of
the Day. 647209
10.00 Freezing.* Elizabeth
decides to switch agents.
Last in series. 20629
10.30 Newsnight.* 39377
10.00 Al Murray’s Happy Hour.*
Journalist and television
presenter Piers Morgan and
Coronation Street actress
Kym Ryder join the Pub
Landlord for banter and
no-nonsense chat. 8280
10.00 Alan Carr’s Celebrity Ding
Dong.* With Paul O’Grady
and Peter Andre. 108735
10.50 The Law Of The
Playground.* With Vic Reeves
and Myleene Klass. 427667
11.35 The National Lottery EuroMillions
Draw.* 840464 11.40 Damages.* (R) 658735
12.25 FILM Revelation (2001).* Thriller
with Terence Stamp. 770588 2.20 Sign Zone:
Horizon.* (R) 3307052 3.10 Sign Zone:
What Britain Earns.* (R) 7752439 4.40 BBC
News 24.* 9957014
11.00 Newsnight Review.* 126551 11.35
Later With Jools Holland.* 222209 12.35
Star Trek: The Next Generation.* (R) 6459014
1.20 Star Trek: The Next Generation.* (R)
8160651 2.05 FILM The Atomic
Submarine (1959).* Drama with Arthur Franz.
7783217 3.20 BBC News 24.* 1331762
11.00 The Late News; Weather.*
111629 11.40 The Brits Backstage.*
569218 12.10 Heist.* 1627453 12.55
Nightwatch With Steve Scott:
Emergency.* 903014 2.40 FILM
Instinct (1999).* Drama starring Anthony
Hopkins. 41658014 4.45 Nightscreen.
1581781 5.30 ITV Morning News.* 70965
11.25 The Big Bang Theory.* (R)
286822 11.55 TV Heaven, Telly
Hell.* (R) 615236 12.30 4Music: The
Album Chart Show.* 37762 1.00
4Music: JD Set Presents the
Courteeners.* 5328120 1.15 4Music:
Beat Stevie.* (R) 1944491 1.25
Goalissimo. 3495385 2.15 World Cup
Snowboard. 695101 4.15 Richard & Judy.*
(R) 500149 5.15 Countdown.* (R) 4419878
Ricky Gervais, Channel 4, 9pm
6.30
10.00 Law & Order: Special
Victims Unit.* The team
investigate the rape of a
woman in a coma. The trail
leads them to a doctor whose
stem cell research is funded
by a billionaire. (R) 5821667
11.00 Law & Order: Criminal Intent.*
(R) 1146984 12.00 Quiz Call. 32898743
5.10 Neighbours.* (R) 59729897 5.35
House Doctor.* (R) 19463014
REVIEW 35
PICK OF THE DAY
FILM
SKY MOVIES PREMIERE
Hotel Babylon
BBC1, 9pm
Tom has a soul-searching, eyewandering mid-life crisis,
while Anna is horrified by the
exploitative antics of a fashion
house as the five-star hotel
drama checks in for another
season.
10.00 Comedy Close Up. 80272 10.30 Indie
Close Up. 89396 11.00 Drama Close Up.
21342 11.30 Sci-fi & Horror Close Up.
22071 12.00 Luna: Spirit Of The Whale.
733919 1.50 Save The Last Dance 2:
Stepping Up. 44168754 3.40 Barnyard.
475803 5.30 Premiere Close Up. 3990 6.00
Arthur And The Invisibles. 50342 8.00 The
Last King Of Scotland. Thriller starring
Forest Whitaker. 85267006 10.05 The
Pursuit Of Happyness. 35364396 12.10
Gone. 490965 2.00 Close.
SKY MOVIES DRAMA
6.35 Some Like It Hot. 97338464 8.45 The
Lost Weekend. 85263261 10.40 The Sea
Inside. 53345280 12.50 The English
Patient. 10535498 3.35 Oscar Fever.
3873629 3.55 The Lost Weekend. 6750498
5.50 Some Like It Hot. 25503025 8.00 The
English Patient. Drama with Ralph
Fiennes. 55946551
10.45 Unforgiven. 86385759 1.05 The Sea
Inside. 16349830 3.25 The Bishop’s Wife.
49324410 5.30 Drama Close Up. 6284217
SKY MOVIES CLASSICS
Legends: Jacques Brel
BBC4, 7.30pm
Though he’s a pop icon in the
French-speaking world,
Belgian singer-songwriter the
late Jacques Brel is still an
obscure cult figure in Britain.
Here family, friends and fans
pay tribute to his dark genius.
Friday Night With
Jonathan Ross
BBC1, 10.35pm
Singer Lenny Kravitz,
Oscar winner Forest
Whitaker,
supermodel Agyness
Deyn and, yes,
Bruce Forsyth,
plonk
themselves on
Rossy’s sofa
for another
celebrity chinwag.
RADIO
7.25 Indie Close Up. 2332648 7.55
Limelight. 73491483 10.20 The Glenn
Miller Story. 42423822 12.20 The Circus.
98257209 1.45 Look Back In Anger.
2547290 3.45 The Greatest Story Ever Told.
48758209 7.00 The Snows Of Kilimanjaro.
3676464 9.00 The Glenn Miller Story.
46561377 10.55 The Far Country. 84921087
12.40 Limelight. 82346781 3.10 The
Greatest Story Ever Told. 40354859
BOX OFFICE DIGITAL
Bourne Ultimatum. Every hour from
6.00am: Bratz, Harry Potter And The Order
Of The Phoenix, Pirates Of The Caribbean:
At World’s End, Shrek The Third, The Edge
Of Heaven, The Hoax, Transformers. Every
90 mins from 6.30am to 9.30pm: Die Hard
4.0, La Vie En Rose, Vacancy. Every hour
Rise Of The Silver Surfer. Every hour from
6.30am: Evan Almighty, Hairspray, Ocean’s
Thirteen, This Is England.
ENTERTAINMENT
SKY ONE
Case. 98754 10.00 Stargate SG-1. 33716
11.00 Stargate SG-1. 46280 12.00 Are
You Smarter Than A 10 Year Old? 16984
1.00 Cold Case. 98532 2.00 Las Vegas.
16551 3.00 Stargate SG-1. 13377 4.00
Stargate SG-1. 29984 5.00 Are You
7.30 The Simpsons. 4629 8.00 Brainiac:
Science Abuse. 31261 9.00 FILM: Star
FREEVIEW
BBC 3
10990209 6.00 Scrubs. 10980822 6.30
Scrubs. 10971174 7.00 Hollyoaks.
60015795 7.30 The Class. 10977358 8.00
Friends. 54710303 8.30 Friends.
14514700 9.00 Wife Swap. 62593464
10.00 FILM: Sudden Death. 74698377
12.10 Scrubs. 26659781 12.35 Scrubs.
29403323 1.05 The Simple Life 2: Road
Trip. 13046052 1.35 The Simple Life 2:
Road Trip. 86359878 2.05 FILM: Sudden
Death. 23543033 3.50 One Tree Hill.
11493217 4.30 Switched. 63244897
7.00 Top Gear. 8.00 The Most Annoying
People Of The Year 2007. 9.00 Lily Allen
And Friends. 9.45 The Real Hustle. 10.00
EastEnders. 10.30 Two Pints Of Lager
And A Packet Of Crisps. 11.00 Marc
Wootton Exposed. 11.30 Family Guy.
12.15 Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet
Of Crisps. 12.45 Lily Allen And Friends.
1.30 The Most Annoying People Of The
Year 2007. 2.25 The Real Hustle. 2.40
Marc Wootton Exposed. Comedy show.
Last in series. 3.10 Bizarre ER. 3.40
Dawn Goes Lesbian. 4.40 Close.
MORE4
BBC 4
Legends: Jacques Brel — Ne Me Quitte
Pas. See Pick of the Day. 6325377 8.30
Brecon Jazz Festival 2007. 2749342 9.00
Whatever Happened To Radio 2?
4585735 10.00 Caledonia Dreamin’.
4588822 11.00 Edwyn Collins: Home
Again. 8891919 11.35 Batman. 6326700
12.00 Batman. 8369897 12.25 Brecon
Jazz Festival 2007. 8339656 12.55
Caledonia Dreamin’. 1115149 1.55
Legends: Jacques Brel — Ne Me Quitte
Pas. 2291120 2.55 Caledonia Dreamin’.
5831507 3.55 Close.
ITV2
Airline. 12.00 Emmerdale: Heartbreak.
1.00 Harry Hill’s TV Burp. 1.30 The
Jeremy Kyle Show. 3.45 Ricki Lake. 4.30
Sally Jessy Raphael. 5.20 The Montel
Williams Show. 6.05 Judge Judy. 7.00
Smallville. 8.00 Trinny And Susannah
Undress The Nation. 9.00 American Idol.
11.50 Hey Paula! 12.20 Coronation
Street. 1.15 Coleen’s Real Women. 2.05
Teleshopping. 5.05 ITV2 Nightscreen.
6.00 Close.
ITV3
Hey Paula!, ITV2, 11.50pm
3.40 Cagney And Lacey. 4.40 Agatha
Christie’s Poirot. 5.50 Heartbeat. 6.55
The Wonder Years. 8.00 Wycliffe. 9.00
Agatha Christie’s Poirot. 10.00 Murder
In Mind. 11.15 FILM: Foul Play. 1.30
Quincy ME. 2.20 The Rockford Files.
3.10 Ironside. 4.00 Teleshopping.
E4
6.00 Anything Goes. 64811938 8.00
Hayden Christensen And Rachel Bilson.
22686754 9.00 Nothing But Party Tunes.
87249938 10.00 Like Chilling? You’ll
Love This. 40407716 11.00 Fresh Films.
64408613 12.05 Scrubs. 94603445 12.35
Scrubs. 91750254 1.05 The Simple Life
2: Road Trip. 34761716 1.35 The Simple
Life 2: Road Trip. 91525087 2.05 Style
Her Famous. 23185803 2.40 Desperate
Housewives. 19459803 3.35 One Tree
Hill. 49886006 4.25 Hollyoaks. 35350803
5.00 Friends. 46615939 5.30 Friends.
Trek: First Contact. Adventure with Patrick
Stewart. 50581754 11.05 Ross Kemp In
Afghanistan. 712713 12.05 Road Wars.
7767694 1.05 Weeds. 6950878 1.40
Weeds. 8557746 2.10 Caribbean
Uncovered. 8274743 3.05 Mile High.
4890156 4.00 Dream Team. 8881323 4.55
Bite Size Brainiac. 72488584 5.10 Guilty!
2102304
FILM4
1.00 You Can’t Take It With You.
27141377 3.35 A Man Betrayed. 4978464
5.10 Cattle Empire. 25316700 6.45 Daniel
Day-Lewis Interview. 2925716 6.55 That
Thing You Do! 58467261 9.00 Austin
Powers: The Spy Who S****** Me.
65872613 10.45 Black Book. 61254532
1.30 Disco Pigs. 9710168 3.25 Close.
Do They Do It? 2549358 6.00 Mythbusters.
3607025 7.00 Deadliest Catch. 1580984
9.00 Future Weapons. 1682396 10.00 Fight
Quest. 1685483 11.00 Most Evil. 6429071
Body Of Evidence. 5765156 1.00 Suburban
2371526 3.00 Future Weapons. 4954439
3.50 Fight Quest. 9686014 4.40 Dirty Jobs.
Documentary. 7759656 5.30 How It’s
Made. 9159762
DISCOVERY
7.00 World’s Toughest Tribes. 4083754
8.00 Deadliest Catch. 4084483 9.00 Future
6511006 12.00 Survivorman. 3505613 1.00
2540087 4.00 Future Weapons. 9399629
5.00 How It’s Made. 7442754 5.30 How
9.00 Deal Or No Deal. 74444648 9.45
10.50 FILM: The Sons Of Katie Elder.
11991006 1.00 3 Minute Wonder:
Can You Believe Your Eyes? 92841629
1.05 3 Minute Wonder: Can You
Believe Your Eyes? 92760700 1.10 Deal
Or No Deal. 25265193 2.00 ER.
52977667 3.00 Hill Street Blues.
35410377 4.00 A Place In The Sun.
26804434 4.35 A Place In The Sun.
77013261 5.05 Grand Designs. 42690174
6.05 Deal Or No Deal. 78605006 7.00
Relocation, Relocation. 17071087 8.00
More4 News. 61378990 8.30 The Daily
Show With Jon Stewart. 61397025 9.00
FILM: Meet Joe Black. 57420648 12.15
FILM: Caravaggio. 84118014 2.00 The
Sopranos. 15146101 3.10 Countdown.
98861491 3.55 Close.
SPORT
SKY SPORTS 1
La Vie En Rose, Box Office Digital
6.00 Live International Cricket. 2709358
11.30 Premier League World. 44261 12.00
The Rugby Club. 86445 1.30 Premier
League World. 11532 2.00 Race World.
49803 3.00 Live Winning Post Special.
Live skiing, Eurosport, 6.45pm
9818445 7.00 Premier League Preview.
8735 7.30 Live Super League. 15700 9.30
Live Friday Fight Night. 76667 11.30
Premier League Preview. 44358 12.00 Big
League Weekend. 64728 1.00 Super
League. 35052 3.00 Friday Fight Night.
55859 5.00 Premier League Preview. 83588
5.30 World Sport. 52507
SKY SPORTS 2
12.00 Transworld Sport. 1643071 1.00
NFL: Total Access. 5540731 1.55 U Can
Do It. 60974377 2.00 The Dogs. 5721464
5.30 Premier League World. 6977358 6.00
Big League Weekend. 1745483 7.00
Live World Golf Championship. 4051700
11.00 NFL: Total Access. 8919629 11.55 U
Can Do It. 8088280 12.00 World Sport.
3901217 12.30 Live International Cricket.
9092633
SKY SPORTS 3
Snow Adventures. 92872025 7.00 WWE:
Raw. 76377025 9.00 Race World.
42933303 10.00 Premier League World.
92863377 10.30 ATP Tennis. 98126759
11.00 Racing News. 32613272 11.30
Aerobics Oz Style. 31263731 12.00 Live
Tennis. 50700629 4.00 ATP Tennis.
45133445 4.30 WWE: Raw. 17572938 6.30
Live Tennis. 97635993 10.00 Big League
Weekend. 87809629 11.00 Live Cricket.
35350445 2.00 UEFA Champions League.
15304052 4.00 British Ice Hockey.
52414472
BRITISH EUROSPORT
7.30 Ski Jumping. 88280 8.00 Live
Biathlon. 67532 9.30 UEFA Champions
League. 3260006 10.45 Ski Jumping.
1465667 11.30 Live Biathlon.
21984 12.30 Live WTA Tennis. 4171261
4.00 Biathlon. 52280 5.00 Eurogoals.
3667 5.30 Ski Jumping. 5506822 6.45
Live Alpine Skiing. 6369984 8.00 World
Superbikes. 864667 8.50 Trial Bikes.
552445 9.50 EuroCRASH! 542377 10.15
World Superbikes. 389648 11.05 Yoz
Magazine. 433803 11.35 EuroCRASH!
508716 12.00 Eurogoals. 46946 12.30
Close.
Radio Scotland
9.30 MacAulay & Co. 11.00 Never Say
Die. 11.30 Let’s Do The Show Right
Here. 12.00 Scotland Live. 1.00 News.
1.15 Riddoch Questions. 2.00 News.
2.05 Tom Morton. 4.00 Newsdrive.
4.00 Weather. 6.00 News. 6.05
Watson’s Wind Up. 6.30 Vic’s Most
Wanted. 7.00 News. 7.12 Outdoor
Conditions. 7.15 MW: Sportsound.
8.00 FM: News. 8.05 FM: Brand New
Country. 9.58 FM: Weather. 10.00
Anderson Show. 12.30 Let’s Do The
Show Right Here. 1.00 FM: As Radio 5
Radio 4
Parliament. 8.58 LW: Weather. 9.00
Desert Island Discs. 9.45 LW: Act Of
Worship. 9.45 FM: Book of the Week:
Trust Me I’m A (Junior) Doctor. 10.00
Woman’s Hour. 11.00 It’s My Story:
White Girl Running — Melanie
Verwoerd. The path to activism of a
white Afrikaaner mother. 11.30
Crooked House. Mystery by Agatha
Christie. 12.00 News. 12.01 LW:
Shipping Forecast. 12.04 You And
Yours. 12.57 Weather. 1.00 The World
At One. 1.30 Feedback. 2.00 The
Archers. 2.15 Afternoon Play: Have
Your Cake. 3.00 Shared Earth. 3.30
Creating Writing Groups 2008. 3.45
Giving It All Away. 4.00 Last Word.
4.30 The Film Programme. A review of
Gerard Depardieu in The Singer. 5.00
PM. 5.54 LW: Shipping Forecast. 5.57
Weather. 6.00 News. 6.30 The News
Quiz. With Armando Iannucci. 7.00 The
Archers. 7.15 Front Row. 7.45 Faust.
Broadcast earlier. 8.00 Any Questions?
From the Bath Literature Festival,
featuring panellists including Ziauddin
Sardar. Hosted by Jonathan Dimbleby.
8.50 A Point Of View. Reflections on a
topical issue. 9.00 The Friday Play: The
Heroic Pursuits Of Darleen Fyles. By
Esther Wilson. The story of a woman
with learning disabilities, struggling to
come to terms with life in sheltered
accommodation away from her mother.
Donna Lavin stars. 9.59 Weather.
10.00 The World Tonight. 10.45 Book
at Bedtime: A Room With A View. By
EM Forster. Lucy participates in a
candid and life-changing conversation.
Read by Juliet Stephenson. 11.00 A
Good Read. Jazz singer Jacqui Dankworth and former culture secretary
Chris Smith join Kate Mosse to discuss
books including Gilead, by Marilynne
Robinson. 11.30 Today In Parliament.
12.00 News. 12.30 Book of the Week:
Trust Me I’m A (Junior) Doctor. 12.48
Shipping Forecast. 1.00 LW: Live International One-Day Cricket. 1.00 FM:
World Service. 5.20 Shipping Forecast.
Radio 3
Week: Giuseppe Verdi. 1.00 Radio 3
Lunchtime Concert. Poulenc: Flute
Sonata. Hersant: In Black. Phibbs: Flex
Ravel: Tzigane. 2.00 The Czech
Philharmonic Orchestra And Friends.
5.00 In Tune. 7.00 Performance On 3.
8.45 Composer Of The Week: Giuseppe
Verdi. 9.45 The Verb. 10.30 Jazz
Library. Recordings by Abdullah
Ibrahim. 11.30 Jazz On 3. 1.00
Through The Night.
Radio 1
Bowman. 4.00 Scott Mills. 6.00 Scott
Mills’ Friday Floor Fillers. 7.00 Pete
Tong. 9.00 Annie Mac’s Mash Up.
11.00 Radio 1’s Dance Anthems With
Dave Pearce. 1.00 Judge Jules. 3.00
Radio 1’s Essential Mix.
Radio 2
7.30 Johnnie Walker. 9.30 Stuart
Chris Evans. 7.00 The Bob Hope Trail.
7.30 Friday Night Is Music Night. 9.15
Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall.
9.30 Listen To The Band. 10.00 The
Weekender. 12.00 Mark Lamarr. 3.00
Pete Mitchell.
Radio 5 Live
5.00 Morning Reports. 5.30 Wake Up
To Money. 6.00 Breakfast. 9.00 Victoria
Derbyshire. 12.00 The Midday News.
1.00 Simon Mayo. 4.00 Drive. 7.00 5
Live Sport. 10.00 Stephen Nolan. 1.00
Up All Night.
Classic FM
Seven. Relaxing sounds. 9.00 Evening
Concert. Schubert, Rossini, Grieg,
Beethoven, Verdi, Wagner. 11.00
Classic FM Magazine. 12.00 Chill On
Classic FM. 4.00 Nicola Bonn.
Radio Nan Gaidheal
Mòir. 11.35 Eisteachd Is Labhairt.
11.50 Ceud Bliadhna. 11.55 Litir Do
Luchd-ionnsachaidh. 2.03 Caithream
Ciùil. 4.03 Aileag. 5.00 Aithris An
Fheasgair. 5.30 Rogha Is Tagha. 6.03
Dùrachdan. 8.00 Tiompan. 9.00 Mac
Ille Mhicheil. 11.00 Mar Radio Alba.
Virgin
6.00 Breakfast Show. 10.00 Russ
Williams. 1.00 Leona Graham. 4.00
Nick Jackson. 6.00 Party Classics With
Tony Hadley. 10.00 Tim Lichfield. 2.00
John Osborne.
Talksport
5.00 Ian Collins With The Moose.
6.00 Alan Brazil And Ronnie Irani.
10.00 Jon Gaunt. 1.00 Danny Kelly.
4.00 Andy Townsend And Mike
Parry. 7.00 Match Day Live Preview.
10.00 George Galloway. 1.00 Mike
Mendoza.
World Service
9.06 After The KGB. 9.30 Close Up.
10.00 World News. 10.06 Outlook.
11.41 Analysis. 11.50 Sports Roundup. 12.00 World News. 12.06 After
The KGB. 12.30 Science In Action. 1.00
World Briefing. 1.30 Outlook In Brief.
3.30 Close Up. 4.00 World Briefing.
Science In Action. 5.00 Europe Today.
6.00 World News. 6.06 World — Have
Your Say. 7.00 World Briefing. 7.20
World Business Report. 7.30 Close Up.
8.00 World News. 8.06 After The KGB.
8.30 Science In Action. 9.00
Today. 11.30 Close Up. 12.00 World
News. 12.06 After The KGB. 12.30
Science In Action. 1.00 World Briefing.
1.20 Sports Round-up. 1.30 Politics UK.
2.00 World News. 2.06 From Our Own
Correspondent. 2.30 Close Up. 3.00
World News. 3.06 Outlook. 4.00 World
Briefing. 4.20 Sports Round-up. 4.30
World Football.
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36 REVIEW
SATURDAY 23.02.08
DAYTIME
BBC ONE
6.00 Breakfast.* 2577014 10.00 Saturday
Kitchen.* 25014 11.30 Take On The
Takeaway.* Paul Rankin cooks a Greek meal
of sheftalia for a London man in an attempt
to encourage the takeaway lover to embrace
home cooking. (R) 4033 12.00 BBC News.*
7367656 12.10 Football Focus.* Manish
Bhasin looks back at last week’s FA Cup
fifth-round matches and previews this
weekend’s fixtures in the Premier League,
including Newcastle United v Manchester
United. 5888548 1.10 Inside Sport.*
3513236 2.00 Live Six Nations Rugby
Union.* Wales v Italy (Kick-off 3.00pm). Jill
Douglas presents the first game of a
marathon day of Six Nations rugby.
86860439 CHOICE 4.50 Live Six
Nations Rugby Union.* Ireland v Scotland
(Kick-off 5.00pm). Gabby Logan is joined by
Andy Nicol and Keith Wood for the second
of today’s games, as Eddie O’Sullivan’s men
host the Scots at Croke Park. See Pick of the
Day. 35989101
BBC TWO
6.00 CBeebies.* (R) 46410 7.00 CBBC:
Watch My Chops.* (R) 7938014 7.10 Watch
My Chops.* (R) 7958878 7.25 Arthur.* (R)
7946033 7.40 Mortified.* (R) 6240743 8.00
Krypto The Superdog.* (R) 7979762 8.15
Zombie Hotel.* (R) 9796965 8.40
Dinosapien.* (R) 5323304 9.00 Basil’s Swap
Shop.* 62946 10.00 Prank Patrol.* (R) 77772
10.30 What’s New Scooby-Doo?* (R)
4347149 10.50 Best Of Friends;* (R) Diddy
Dick & Dom.* (R) 2852061 11.20 Animalia.*
(R) 3549762 11.45 Sportsround.* 5497149
12.00 BBC Switch: Sound.* 7542830 12.35
BBC Switch: Them.* (R) 23041946 12.50
BBC Switch: Falcon Beach.* 6242255 1.35
Eggheads .* 29988156 2.05 Ben Fogle’s
Extreme Dreams.* 56278994 2.35 FILM
Swiss Family Robinson (1960).* Adventure
based on the classic story of an 18th-century
family shipwrecked on an island off the coast
of New Guinea. John Mills stars. 42499743
4.35 Sportscene Results.* 9572410
5.30
5.40
5
PM
7
PM
BBC News.* 494491
Out-Take TV.* (R) 328859
Live Six Nations Rugby
Union.* France v England
(Kick-off 8.00pm). John
Inverdale introduces
coverage from the Stade
de France. 99996697
6.00 GMTV. 8528694 9.25 CITV: Supernormal.
1625217 9.40 Tricky Quickies. 7876236 9.45
Dancing On Ice.* (R) 8666830 11.05 Dancing
On Ice: The Skate Off.* The two lowestscoring couples compete. (R) 5904120 11.35
Coronation Street.* Omnibus. As Carla
struggles to hide her anguish, Tony turns up
and secretly takes her flat keys from her
handbag. Alex’s presence continues to divide
Michelle and her family. 83788859 1.50 ITV
News; Weather.* 15586694 1.55 Scotland
Today/North Today.* 15585965 2.00
Primeval.* Cutter sets out to unmask the ARC
traitor, but his plans are interrupted when an
angry mammoth appears on a busy motorway
— and to make matters worse, Stephen’s
nowhere to be found. (R) 58697 3.00 FILM
Thunderball (1965).* James Bond adventure
starring Sean Connery. 72410 4.30 Scotland
Today/North Today.* 3746410 4.45 ITV
News; Weather.* 9830781 4.55 FILM
Thunderball (1965).* Concluded. 3875217
What The Papers Say.*
With Sharon Hendry. 200236
Natural World.* The first
hominid to survive a trip
into space. (R) 911149
BBC2 Northern
Ireland
1.35 Film 2008 With
Jonathan Ross.* (R)
2.05-2.35 Animal
Park.* 4.40-5.05 Final
Score.* N East Of
England: 1.35 Film
2008 With Jonathan
Ross.* (R) 2.05-2.35
Animal Park.* 4.405.30 Final Score.*
Border
1.55 Border News;
Weather.* 15585965
4.30 Border News And
Sport.* 3746410 11.04
Border Weather.*
955101
Tyne Tees
1.55 North East
News.* 15585965 4.30
North East News.*
3746410 11.04 North
East Weather.* 955101
CHANNEL FOUR
6.00 Cubeez.* (R) 2469675 6.10 The Hoobs.*
(R) 7102762 6.35 The Hoobs.* (R) 4714472
7.00 Goalissimo.* (R) 53142 8.00 The
Morning Line.* 1034472 8.50 T4: Friends.*
(R) 5839410 9.20 T4: Jumper: T4 Movie
Special. (R) 1652014 9.50 T4: Kaiser Chief’s
NME Awards: Best International Band.
7854014 10.00 T4: Freshly Squeezed. Music
by Duffy. 5455762 10.35 T4: Peaches Geldof’s
NME Awards: Best Solo Artist. 1933491
10.45 T4: The Hills.* Lauren and Jason fall
out. (R) 445588 11.15 T4: Kimberly Stewart’s
NME Awards: Sexiest Man/Woman.
3584781 11.30 T4: Friends.* Chandler falls
asleep at Joey’s film première. (R) 7743
12.00 T4: Vanity Lair.* (R) 80120 1.00 T4:
Age Of Love.* Three of the women go surfing.
93728 2.00 Channel 4 Racing From Kempton
Park And Newcastle.* Alice Plunkett and
Derek Thompson present live coverage of six
races. 12087033 4.10 Deal Or No Deal.*
Game show with Noel Edmonds. 1195878
6.00 Sunrise. 3388507 7.00 Milkshake! Hi5.* (R) 6617781 7.45 The Beeps.* (R)
6492830 8.00 Rupert Bear.* (R) 4576217
8.15 Little Princess.* (R) 8509520 8.35
Hana’s Helpline.* (R) 7560138 8.50 Roary
The Racing Car.* (R) 1603472 9.05 Gerald
McBoing Boing.* (R) 3312912 9.30 Jane And
The Dragon.* (R) 5013946 10.00 Football
Italiano Highlights.* Action from last
weekend’s fixtures in Serie A. 8436694 10.30
Fifth Gear.* The team test the best small offroaders. (R) 4202830 11.30 Flying Snake:
Austin Stevens’ Adventures.* Photographing
serpents in Vietnam and Cambodia. (R)
87708033 12.35 Animal Rescue Squad.
Highlights from the series. 29222878 12.50
Neighbours.* Omnibus. Toadie feels the
pressure over Susan’s trial. 97006697 3.00
FILM Beaches (1988).* Drama about a
singer who visits her terminally ill friend and
looks back over the highs and lows of their
relationship. Bette Midler stars. 29126491
5.00
Jamie At Home.* The chef
turns his attention to dishes
using eggs collected from his
free-range hens. (R) 3323
Wife Swap USA. Two wives
exchange families. 34472
5.10
FILM Sabrina The Teenage
Witch (1996).* Comedy with
Melissa Joan Hart. 16470694
5.30
Harry Hill’s TV Burp.* 588
CHOICE Primeval.* The
team battle an entire
menagerie of future
predators. Last in series. See
6.30
6.50
Five News; Sport.* 2315491
7.10
The Culture Show.*
Cellist Josephine Knight
talks about her forthcoming
performance of John
Tavener’s new piece Requiem
at Liverpool’s Metropolitan
Cathedral and music is
provided by Duffy. 376507
7.30
Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night
Takeaway.* With guests
Uma Thurman and David
Dickinson. 267743
7.00
ER.* The hospital in inundated
with elderly patients as
the result of a city-wide
blackout, and Moretti meets
his ex-wife to discuss their
son’s wellbeing. 4633
7.05
Ice Road Truckers.* A fuel
tanker overturns. (R) 6983859
8.00
Coast.* The shoreline of the
United Kingdom. (R) 1675
8.45
Duel.* Quiz hosted by Nick
Hancock. 397762
8.00
Grand Designs.* A couple
build a modernist home a
mile from Bath, opting for
an environmentally friendly
German prefabricated kit
house — but first they have
to prepare the site. (R) 6743
8.05
NCIS.* The team deal with
the puzzling case of a petty
officer who has been sent
a parcel containing a pair of
human eyeballs. (R) 4492762
9.00
Have I Got Old News
For You.* (R) 4410
FILM The Ladykillers
(2004).* Première. A criminal
gang come up with a scheme
to gain a fortune — but an
unsuspecting old lady looks
set to ruin their plan. Comedy
starring Tom Hanks. 695743
9.45
FILM The Bourne Identity
(2002). An amnesiac man is
plucked from the sea, only to
be targeted by international
assassins as he tries to
discover his identity. Thriller
with Matt Damon. Continues
after the news. 3043859
9.00
FILM Clear And Present
Danger (1994).* Harrison
Ford returns as CIA analyst
Jack Ryan, this time trying
to track down terrorists
responsible for murdering a
senator. Thriller starring
Willem Dafoe. 43698174
9.00
CSI: NY.* The team discover
the seemingly unrelated
murders of a billionaire’s son
and a woman found dead
outside a museum have
something in common. Drama
starring Gary Sinise. 5715052
8
PM
9.30
9
PM
10
PM
11
PM
ONWARD
10.00 BBC News.* 293385
10.20 The National Lottery
Draws.* 652149
10.30 Match Of The Day.*
Highlights of today’s
Premiership matches,
including Birmingham City
v Arsenal. 5888762
11.40 FILM Highlander: Endgame
(2000).* Adventure starring Christopher
Lambert and Adrian Paul. 413781 1.15
Friday Night With Jonathan Ross.* (R)
7101095 2.20 BBC News 24.* 43256502
FIVE
6.00
6.30
6.40
7.00
7.20
7.50
REGION
STV
The Great British Parakeet
Invasion.* Wild parakeets
in Britain. (R) 134651
Wild Scilly: Britain’s Island
Paradise.* A portrait of the
Isles of Scilly through the
eyes of its residents. 558878
6.30
6
PM
10.00 Law & Order.* Briscoe
and Green are called to
investigate a case of
suspected identity fraud
when an executive is found
shot dead in his plush
apartment. 5725439
10.45 ITV News; Weather.* 182472
11.10 FILM Carry On Again, Doctor
(1969).* Comedy starring Sid James and and
Kenneth Williams. 986491 12.35 FILM
Felicia’s Journey (1999).* Drama starring Bob
Hoskins. 794434 2.25 The Culture Show. (R)
3371637 3.15 FILM La Nouvelle Eve
(1999). Drama starring Karin Viard. 511521
11.05 FILM The Bourne Identity
(2002).* Concluded. 324762 12.20
The Brits Backstage. (R) 6202989
12.45 Nightwatch With Steve Scott:
Mystery.* 708750 2.30 FILM The
Testimony Of Taliesin Jones (2000).*
Drama starring John-Paul Macleod. 898811
4.05 ITV Nightscreen. 9380415 5.30 ITV
Morning News.* 60163
The Ladykillers, BBC2, 9.30pm
11.40 Wife Swap.* (R) 578781 12.45
Kaiser Chief’s NME Awards: Best
International Band. (R) 3837095 1.00
Peaches Geldof’s NME Awards: Best
Solo Artist. (R) 5395892 1.15 FILM
The Big Lebowski (1998).* Comedy
starring Jeff Bridges and John Goodman.
764811 3.15 FILM The Destructors
(1967).* Spy thriller starring Richard Egan.
86063182 5.00 Supporting Acts.* (R)
5771144 5.25 Countdown.* (R) 3636989
11.00 True CSI.* (R) 1113656 12.00 Quiz Call.
32865415 5.10 Wildlife SOS.* (R) 59796569
5.35 Wildlife SOS.* (R) 19430786
REVIEW 37
PICK OF THE DAY
FILM
SKY MOVIES PREMIERE
10.00 Modern Greats & Classics Close Up.
32120 10.30 Drama Close Up. 80656 11.00
Action & Thriller Close Up. 51168 11.30
Premiere Close Up. 52897 12.00 Arthur
And The Invisibles. 713781 1.50 Barnyard.
44062526 3.40 RL Stine’s The Haunting
Hour: Don’t Think About It. 455675 5.30
Sci-fi & Horror Close Up. 3694 6.00
Because I Said So. 64120 8.00 The
Number 23. 76965 10.00 Catch A Fire.
22656 12.00 Clerks II. 37960 2.00 Close.
Rugby Union Six
Nations: Ireland v
Scotland
BBC1, 4.50pm
A clash of the Celts here as
Gabby Logan joins Andy Nicol
and Keith Wood for live
coverage of Scotland’s clash
with Ireland at Croke Park.
SKY MOVIES DRAMA
6.00 Sabrina. 4487014 8.00 Oscar Winners
Season. 3931052 8.20 Rocky. 60167507
10.25 Walk The Line. 43901675 12.45
Saving Private Ryan. 78003675 3.40
Sabrina. 6063762 5.40 Walk The Line.
92667694 8.00 Philadelphia. Drama
starring Tom Hanks. 55608061 10.10
Saving Private Ryan. 46681410 1.00 The
Usual Suspects. 2844927 2.50
Philadelphia. 51657778 5.00 Rocky.
80726415
SKY MOVIES CLASSICS
6.30 The Lady Eve. 42401965 8.10 Funny
Face. 58574830 10.05 Gypsy. 25883439
12.30 Niagara. 38732410 2.05 Funny Face.
9449385 3.50 Doctor Dolittle. 52242255
6.15 Gypsy. 30371965 8.40 The Edge Of
Heaven Special. 8037439 9.00 Niagara.
5891472 10.30 North To Alaska. 35305149
12.35 The Lady Eve. 2706188 2.20 Once
Upon A Time In The West. 60681618 5.05
The Incredible Shrinking Man. 79112182
Pride And Prejudice
Revisited
BBC4, 9pm
TV scribe Andrew Davies,
Bride & Prejudice director
Gurinder Chadha and a host of
Mr Darcy fanatics discuss the
enduring appeal of Jane
Austen’s classic novel.
Primeval
STV, 6.30pm
Monsters and technobabble
aplenty as the
Saturday tea-time
sci-fi show comes
to the end of another
season. With nasty
mutant
scorpions on the
prowl can the
team still save
humanity from
extinction?
RADIO
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4.0, La Vie En Rose, Vacancy. Every hour
Rise Of The Silver Surfer. Every hour from
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ENTERTAINMENT
SKY ONE
6.00 Pokémon Advanced. 13584 6.30
Pokémon Advanced. 25830 7.00 America’s
Dumbest Criminals. 73965 7.30 The Book
Show. 52472 8.00 Football Icon. 46033
9.00 Soccer AM. 291472 12.00 Brainiac:
Science Abuse. 20762 1.00 FILM: Star
Trek: First Contact. Patrick Stewart stars.
37675 3.00 When Sharks Attack. 30675
4.00 Brainiac: Science Abuse. 42410 5.00
Malcolm In The Middle. 9385 5.30
Futurama. 7656 6.00 Futurama. 7897 6.30
Futurama. 8149 7.00 Futurama. 9149 7.30
Futurama. 7033 8.00 The Girl Who Never
Ate. 89439 9.00 Road Wars. 69675 10.00
Ross Kemp In Afghanistan. 62762 11.00
FREEVIEW
BBC 3
7.00 Sound. 7.30 Top Gear. 8.30 The
Real Hustle Las Vegas. 9.00 FILM: The
Girl Next Door. 10.45 Two Pints Of Lager
And A Packet Of Crisps. 11.15 Family
Guy. 11.40 Lily Allen And Friends. 12.45
The Real Hustle Las Vegas. 1.15 Dawn
Gets Naked. 2.10 Freaky Eaters. 3.10 Lily
Allen And Friends. 3.55 Dawn Gets
Naked. 4.50 Close.
BBC 4
7.00 The Diary Of A Nobody. 2608255
7.10 The Diary Of A Nobody. 2699507
7.20 Pride And Prejudice. 2013507 8.10
Pride And Prejudice. 3783410 9.00
Pride And Prejudice Revisited. 1436491
9.30 Savile Row. 4562859 10.30 FILM:
How To Murder Your Wife. 99756965
12.25 The Jet Stream And Us. 2318502
1.25 Citizen Smith. 4577124 1.55
Brecon Jazz Festival 2007. 44611095
2.25 Savile Row. 1342873 3.25 Citizen
Smith. 63262347 3.55 Brecon Jazz
Festival 2007. 44089182 4.25 Close.
ITV2
9.25 Emmerdale. 11.15 American Idol.
1.00 American Idol. 2.50 American Idol.
3.50 Emmerdale. 4.50 Ant & Dec’s
Saturday Night Takeaway. 6.05 Hey
Paula! 6.30 Coleen’s Real Women.
7.30 American Princess. 8.30 The
Planet’s Funniest Animals. 8.45 FILM:
Peter Pan. Adventure starring Jason
Isaacs. 10.45 Al Murray’s Happy Hour.
11.50 FILM: Ali G Indahouse. 1.30
Entourage. 2.00 The Office: An
American Workplace. 2.30 American
Princess. 3.30 Emmerdale.
6.00 Close.
Peter Pan, ITV2, 8.45pm
MORE4
ITV3
6.00 Savage Planet. 6.25 Film File. 6.35
The Rockford Files. 7.25 The Rockford
Files. 8.25 Ironside. 9.30 Ironside. 10.30
Home To Roost. 11.00 Robin Of
Sherwood. 12.10 Agatha Christie’s
Poirot. 1.20 Cadfael. 3.00 Robin Of
Sherwood. 4.05 The Wonder Years. 4.35
The Wonder Years. 5.05 Home To Roost.
5.35 Inspector Morse. 7.40 Pam And
Felicity: Being Rosemary And Thyme.
7.45 Rosemary & Thyme. 8.45 Inspector
Wexford. 10.20 Inspector Wexford.
11.55 Cracker. 1.00 Home To Roost. 1.30
Cribb. 2.25 Where The Heart Is. 3.25
Savage Planet. 3.45 Film File. 4.00
Teleshopping.
E4
6.00 Anything Goes. 64708410 8.00 Our
Showbiz Mates. 22580526 9.00 E4
Music Awards. 19172679 12.00 Girls
DISCOVERY
6.00 Without A Trace. 6.30 Grassroots.
6.58 Outdoor Conditions. 7.00 News.
7.05 The Adventure Show. 7.58
Weather. 8.00 Newsweek Scotland.
9.00 News. 9.05 Sports Weekly. 10.00
News. 10.05 Janice Forsyth Show.
12.30 Off The Ball. 2.00 Sportsound.
Including Ireland v Scotland (Kick-off
5.00pm). 5.15 FM: Your Call With Jim
Traynor. 7.30 Take The Floor. 8.30
Bedside Manners. The lives of doctors
in Scotland. 9.00 News. 9.05 Pipeline.
9.58 Weather. 10.00 News. 10.05
Bruce MacGregor’s Strings And Things.
12.00 As Radio 5 Live.
Radio 4
5.30 LW: Live International One-Day
Cricket. 5.30 FM: News Briefing. 5.43
FM: Prayer For The Day. 5.45 FM: The
Preposterous Files. 6.00 FM: News And
Papers. 6.07 FM: Open Country. 6.35
FM: Farming Today This Week. 6.57
FM: Weather. 7.00 FM: Today. 8.51
LW: Yesterday In Parliament. 8.58 LW:
Weather. 9.00 Saturday Live. 10.00
Excess Baggage. 10.30 And The
Academy Award Goes To. The success
of The English Patient. Last in series.
11.00 Week In Westminster. 11.30
From Our Own Correspondent. 12.00
12.04 Money Box. 12.30 The News
Quiz. With Armando Iannucci. 12.57
Weather. 1.00 News. 1.10 Any
Questions? 2.00 Any Answers? 2.30
The Saturday Play: The Voyage Of The
Demeter. By Robert Forrest. It is 1897
and a schooner is sailing from Bulgaria
to the east coast of England. However,
something nasty is lurking in the dark
corners of the ship. 3.30 The King Of
Light Music. 4.00 Weekend Woman’s
Hour. 5.00 Saturday PM. 5.30 The
Bottom Line. 5.54 Shipping Forecast.
5.57 Weather. 6.00 News. 6.15 Loose
Ends. 7.00 Profile. 7.15 Saturday
Review. Presented by Tom Sutcliffe.
8.00 The Archive Hour: Putting It
Simply. The way science is portrayed
on radio and television. 9.00 The
Classic Serial: Fortunes Of War. By
Olivia Manning, dramatised by
Jonathan Holloway. Harriet waits in
Athens for news of Guy. Starring
Joanna Lumley and Honeysuckle
Weeks. 10.00 News; Weather.
10.15 The Moral Maze. 11.00 The
Garden Quiz. 11.30 Poetry Please. Last
in series. 12.00 News; Weather. 12.30
Manchester Crime Wave. 12.48
Shipping Forecast. 1.00 World Service.
5.20 Shipping Forecast.
Radio 3
7.00 Martin Handley. 9.00 News; CD
Review. 12.15 The Segovia Legacy.
12.15 News. 1.00 The Early Music
Show. 2.00 Radio 3 Lunchtime
Concert. Cédric Tiberghien (piano).
Beethoven: Sonata in C minor, Op 111.
Chopin: Four Ballades. 3.00 World
Routes. 4.00 Jazz Line-Up. 5.30 Jazz
Record Requests. 6.30 Opera On 3:
Live From The Met. Margaret Juntwait
presents a performance of Bizet’s
Carmen, direct from New York.
Emmanuel Villaume conducts the
Chorus and Orchestra of the New York
Metropolitan
Opera. 10.15 Pre-Hear. Jennifer
Martin: Hearing Pictures. 10.30 Hear
And Now. 12.00 The Early Music
Show. 1.00 Through The Night.
Radio 1
5.00 Annie Nightingale. 7.00
Nihal. 10.00 Vernon Kay. 1.00
Annie Mac. 4.00 Fearne And Reggie’s
Request Show. 7.00 Trevor Nelson.
9.00 Westwood. 12.00
Radio 1’s Reggae Dancehall With
Goldfinger. 2.00 Fabio And Grooverider.
4.00 The 1Xtra Takeover.
Radio 2
6.00 Mo Dutta. 8.00 Sounds Of The
60s. 10.00 Mark Lamarr And Jo Brand.
1.00 The Smith Lectures. 1.30
Jammin’. 2.00 Stuart Maconie. 4.30
Dermot O’Leary. 6.30 Paul Gambaccini
With America’s Greatest Hits. 8.00
Mark Lamarr’s Redneck Music. 9.00
Russell Brand. 11.00 Bob Harris. 2.00
Pete Mitchell. 4.00 Mo Dutta.
Radio 5 Live
5.00 Morning Reports. 6.00 Weekend
Breakfast. 9.00 Eamonn Holmes. 11.00
Fighting Talk. 12.00 5 Live Sport.
Birmingham City v Arsenal (Kick-off
12.45pm) and Newcastle United v
Manchester United (Kick-off 5.15pm).
Commentary on the Premier League
Tom Hanks stars in Saving Private Ryan,
Sky Movies Drama, 10.10pm
VIII. 1566304 9.00 The Da Vinci Detective.
1586168 10.00 Born Survivor: Bear Grylls.
1589255 11.00 Deadliest Catch. 6496743
Classic FM
7.00 Myleene Klass Weekend
Breakfast. 9.00 The Classic FM Chart
Show. 12.00 Classic FM Requests.
2.00 Natalie Wheen. 4.00 At The
Movies. 6.00 Countdown To The Hall
Of Fame. 7.00 Smooth Classics At
Seven. 9.00 The New CD Show. 10.00
The Opera Show. 11.00 Classic FM
New Releases Chart. 12.00 Chill On
Classic FM. 4.00 Nicola Bonn.
Radio Nan Gaidheal
9.03 Aithris Na Seachdain. 9.30 Spòrs
Na Seachdain. 10.03 Rogha Is Tagha.
10.30 Eisteachd Is Labhairt. 10.50
Ceud Bliadhna. 10.55 Litir Do Luchdionnsachaidh. 11.03 Tiompan. 12.03
Aileag. 1.00 Mar Radio Alba.
Virgin
6.00 Nick Jackson. 10.00 JK And Joel.
1.00 Christian O’Connell
Uncut. 3.00 Rock ’n’ Roll Football With
Russ Williams. 6.00 Party Classics With
Tony Hadley. 10.00 Sarah Champion.
2.00 Tim Lichfield.
6.00 Fisherman’s Blues. 8.00 Andy
Townsend And Mike Parry. 12.00
Match Day Live. 5.35 Final Whistle.
8.00 Football Quiz. 10.00 George
Galloway. 1.00 Mike Mendoza.
1.00 The Four Feathers. 82034859 3.10
Catch That Kid. 44019694 4.50 The
Hunters. 32626859 6.55 Timeline.
58361033 9.00 John Q. Drama starring
Denzel Washington. 83244033 11.10 The
Cell. 1354675 1.10 Those Glory, Glory
Days. 7945250 3.00 Close.
SKY SPORTS 1
matches at St Andrews
and St James’ Park respectively.
7.15 6-0-6. 7.55 Six Nations Rugby.
10.00 Rugby 6-0-6. 11.00 Stephen
Nolan. 1.00 Up All Night.
Talksport
FILM4
SPORT
Radio Scotland
9.00 Time Team. 91847830 10.00 Time
Team. 57605149 11.00 Time Team.
57685385 12.00 Time Team. 32237217
1.05 3 Minute Wonder: Mesh. 67502694
1.20 FILM: Escape To Athena. 62817743
3.35 Relocation, Relocation. 35777830
9.00 The West Wing. 17964743 10.00
The Day of the Kamikaze. 70288174
11.35 The Closer. 44047743 12.35 Deal
Or No Deal. 14189892 1.20 The Day of
the Kamikaze. 30159273 2.55 The West
Wing. 22101786 3.55 Close.
Suburban Secrets. 9060368 1.00 Body Of
Evidence. 4167786 1.30 North Mission
Road. 9636415 2.00 Forensic Detectives.
2348298 3.00 The Da Vinci Detective.
4914811 3.50 Deadliest Catch. 9653786
4.40 Mythbusters. 7726328 5.30 How It’s
Made. 9126434
Street Wars. 59385 12.00 Road Wars.
55366 1.00 Caribbean Uncovered. 6122569
1.50 Road Wars. 9764298 2.40 Road Wars.
3295298 3.30 Vroom Vroom. 7023273 4.20
Brainiac: Science Abuse. 6826811 5.10
Guilty! 8142279
6.00 How Do They Do It? 9169149 6.30
How Do They Do It? 7108439 7.00 How Do
They Do It? 6410323 7.30 How Do They Do
It? 6499830 8.00 How It’s Made. 7290120
8.30 How It’s Made. 7299491 9.00 How
It’s Made. 7280743 9.30 How It’s Made.
3582762 10.00 Mythbusters. 6495014
11.00 Mythbusters. 6415878 12.00
Deadliest Catch. 3572385 1.00 Deadliest
Catch. 3581033 2.00 Deadliest Catch.
7183120 3.00 Half Man Half Tree:
Shocking Story. 9207694 4.00 World’s
Smallest Kids: Shocking Story. 9286101
5.00 World’s Fattest Kids: Shocking Story.
7325033 6.00 My Big Foot: Shocking Story.
3501897 7.00 The Man With No Face:
Shocking Story. 1557656 8.00 Monarchy
By David Starkey. The reign of King Henry
Aloud: Off The Record. 98818762 12.30
High School Dance. 50715743 1.30
Young, Sexy And Rockin’. 50716472 2.30
Hollyoaks. 14470656 5.00 Friends.
29469651 5.30 Friends. 10887781 6.00
Joan Of Arcadia. 65633255 7.00 Ugly
Betty. 62491052 8.00 Friends. 23069615
8.30 Friends. 48819912 9.00 The World’s
Greatest Comedy Characters. 34978052
12.05 Comedy Live Presents. 71033163
1.10 Ugly Betty. 19513231 2.05 Joan Of
Arcadia. 95042231 2.50 High School
Dance. 18593502 3.50 Young, Sexy And
Rockin’. 11460989 4.30 Switched.
60626057 4.55 Switched. 75332144 5.15
Switched. 69592106 5.40 Close.
World Service
Business Review. 6.00 The World
Today. 6.30 World Football. 7.00
The World Today. 7.30 The Interview.
8.00 The World Today. 8.30 World
Business Review. 9.00 World News.
Charlie Gillett’s World Of Music. 10.00
World Briefing. 10.20 Sports Round-up.
10.30 Discovery. 11.00 World Briefing.
11.30 World Football. 12.00
Newshour. 1.00 World News. 1.06 The
Kremlin And The World. 1.30 Charlie
Gillett’s World Of Music. 2.00 World
News. 2.06 Sportsworld. 3.00 World
Briefing. 5.30 Sportsworld Extra. 6.00
World News. 6.06 From Our Own
Correspondent. 6.30 The Instant Guide.
6.41 Over
To You. 7.00 World News. 7.06 The
Ticket. 8.00 News Summary. 8.06 BBC
World Drama: Birthing Stories. 9.00
Newshour. 10.00 World News. 10.06
The Word. 10.30 Close Up. 11.00 The
World Today. 11.30 Reporting Religion.
12.00 World News. 12.06 From Our
Own Correspondent. 12.30 World
Business Review. 1.00 World News.
1.06 The Word. 1.30 Close Up.
2.00 News Summary. 2.06 BBC World
Drama: Birthing Stories.
3.00 The World Today. 3.30 Discovery.
4.00 World Briefing. 4.20 Sports
Round-up. 4.30 Politics UK.
6.00 Aerobics Oz Style. 55694 6.30 Premier
League Preview. 81410 7.00 Big League
Weekend. 87304 8.00 Champions League
Weekly. 94453 8.30 Premier League
Preview. 44994 9.00 Soccer AM. 840762
12.00 Soccer Saturday. 44930 12.30 Live
Football Special. Birmingham City v
Arsenal (Kick-off 12.45pm). 610323 3.00
Soccer Saturday. 534304 5.30 Live Super
League. Harlequins v Wakefield Trinity
Wildcats (Kick-off 5.30pm). 66156 7.30
You’re On Sky Sports! 968323 8.25 Football
First. 38706588 10.15 Football First.
706781 11.45 Football First. 701236 1.15
Sky Sports Classics. 6594366 1.30 Live Big
Fight Special. Wladimir Klitschko v Sultan
Live football: Birmingham City v Arsenal,
Sky Sports 1, 12.30pm
Ibragimov. 117927 4.00 Snow Adventures.
96057 5.00 World Sport. 82434 5.30
Champions League Weekly. 33057
SKY SPORTS 2
6.00 Live International Cricket. New
Zealand v England. 2806174 10.00
Stanford Twenty20 Cricket. 1617656 12.00
Snow Adventures. 9013033 12.30 World
Sport. 1631236 1.00 International Cricket.
8411743 3.00 Live World Golf
Championship. The Accenture Match Play
Championship. 7184675 11.00 Live
Stanford Twenty20 Cricket. The second
semi-final. 4897120 2.00 Cricket Classics.
3781786 2.30 Cricket Classics. 3793521
3.00 Live International Cricket. Australia v
India. 2781124
SKY SPORTS 3
6.00 Tight Lines. 26331439 7.00 Friday
Fight Night. 76271897 9.00 World Golf
Championship. 26086878 12.00 Live A1
Grand Prix. 92747385 2.00 WWE: Bottom
Line. 92768878 3.00 WWE: Smackdown.
10148930 5.00 WWE: Bottom Line.
27413491 6.00 A1 Grand Prix. 87712149
8.00 International Cricket. 87717694 10.00
Extreme Championship Wrestling.
87796101 11.00 NFL: Total Access.
17947439 11.55 U Can Do It. 45012781
12.00 Rugby Union. 64689960 2.00 Rugby
Union. 15371724 4.00 World Sport.
52485960 4.30 Spanish Football. 79387751
BRITISH EUROSPORT
7.30 EuroCRASH! 6444977 7.40 World
Superbikes. 8333101 8.30 Live World
Superbikes. 2602491 2.00 World Touring
Car Championship. 5101 2.30 Nordic
Combined Skiing. 3236 3.00 Live WTA
Tennis. The Qatar Total Open semi-finals.
47897 5.00 Ski Jumping. 5588 6.00 Live
Alpine Skiing. The World Cup meeting
from Whistler, Canada. 56236 7.00
Biathlon. 6803323 8.15 Cross-Country
Skiing. 190120 9.00 Live Alpine Skiing.
World Cup coverage from Whistler. 142859
9.45 World Superbikes. 716168 11.15
MotoGP. 627694 12.00 Luge. 91182 1.00
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