Reynolds’s sister, Cyril (Lesley Manville), serves as the third point of their uneasy domestic triangle. Paul Thomas Anderson’s exquisite work finds Daniel Day-Lewis (in what he’s since declared is his final film) as Reynolds Woodcock, a 1950s couturier with a muse (Vicky Krieps) who’s bad news. Eastwood perfects his quiet intensity, Patrick McGoohan broods as a sadistic warden, and Danny Glover makes his film debut. Based on the true story of Frank Morris (Eastwood) who attempted to escape the prison island in the Sixties, the story is necessarily embellished. The fifth and final collaboration between director Don Siegel and star Clint Eastwood was another box-office winner. It was director Robert Aldrich’s first colour film and a success at the time. The government agents tasked with recapturing him have other ideas. He escapes from his US government captors while being transported to a reservation, and attempts to return home to be reunited with his lover Nalinle (Jean Peters). GTīurt Lancaster stars in this middling Western as Massai, the last Apache warrior still fighting after the surrender of Geronimo. Joshua Jackson holds this enthrallingly dark docudrama together as the homicidal Dr Christopher Duntsch, who begins to indulge his darkest predilections while his colleagues grow increasingly concerned. GTĬoverage from last month’s literary festival begins with Simon Savidge talking to Richard E Grant, who discusses his memoir pairing professional triumphs (an Oscar nomination) with personal tragedy (the death of his wife). A real treasure from the BBC archives follows at 10.20pm with Comic Roots, as Williams potters around the now-unrecognisable London area of St Pancras, where he grew up. At 9pm is one of Michael Sheen’s finest interpretations of a public figure, as 2006’s Fantabulosa! considers the rise and fall of his career in the light of personal anguish and a domineering mother (Cheryl Campbell). GTĪ pair of programmes focusing less on Kenneth Williams’s storied career in British comedy than his tumultuous private life. As private enterprise continues to circle and funding remains inadequate, can one of the great achievements of postwar politics survive? GTĪlan Titchmarsh and the team bring their horticultural spin on DIY SOS to Hucknall in Nottinghamshire, where a landscape gardener diagnosed with Alzheimer’s at just 32 is given the family garden that he is no longer able to create himself, complete with sensory plants and home-made play equipment for his children. ![]() Kirsty Wark and Xand van Tulleken present a Newsnight special from Cambridge’s world-leading Addenbrooke’s Hospital at a time when the future of the NHS feels genuinely perilous. ![]() It explores the pioneering nature and destructive potential of submarines, adopted to devastating effect by the Nazis and since deployed with even more ominous intent in the nuclear era. ![]() With the Titanic submersible tragedy dominating headlines, this diligently researched two-parter on its aquatic cousins proves endlessly fascinating. She held off Northern Ireland’s Stephanie Meadow, also chasing her debut Major at Baltusrol Golf Club, New Jersey. Irish golfer Leona Maguire is well-placed to challenge for a first Major title following her impressive victory at the Meijer LPGA Classic. Boris, the Lord and the Russian Spy may or may not shed more light on the mystery, but it demonstrates that Johnson, whether in or out of office, remains box-office gold. Why did the then-prime minister set a precedent in ignoring the advice of Britain’s security services and the House of Lords Appointments Commission by forcing through the latter’s peerage? It was a decision that felt all the more baffling given Lebedev Sr’s sanctioning in Canada and Ukraine (although not Britain) and Johnson’s opposition to Putin. This film from investigative documentarian Mark Alden (who has not only Dispatches but also Panorama and Exposure on his CV) includes material from leaked documents and testimony from intelligence officials and senior politicians both in the UK and overseas, as it picks apart the friendship between Johnson and the Lebedevs – former KGB spy Alexander and his son, media mogul Evgeny. ![]() Dispatches: Boris, the Lord and the Russian SpyĪs his career in frontline politics enters a fallow period and the Covid enquiry gets underway, Boris Johnson may well find himself increasingly subject to investigations of past decisions.
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