Reviews
Last Night's TV - So What If My Baby Is Born Like Me?, BBC3; True Stories: Village of the Doll, More 4
When it's hard to put on a brave face
Inside Reviews
Last Night's TV - The Reckoning, ITV1; Twenty Twelve, BBC4
Tuesday, 19 April 2011
Dial mum for murder
The Weekend's TV: The Hotel, Sun, Channel 4
The Secrets of Scott's Hut, Sun, BBC2
Monday, 18 April 2011
A documentary that's worth checking out
Robin Scott-Elliot: How do you feel about post-match interviews? Me neither
Monday, 18 April 2011
View From The Sofa: FA Cup, ITV1/Champions League, Sky Sports
Britain's Next Big Thing, BBC2, Tuesday
If Walls Could Talk, BBC4, Wednesday
Sunday, 17 April 2011
It seemed like a good idea on paper, but 'Britain's New Big Thing' failed to live up to its title
Into the Music Library, Radio 4, Tuesday
Counterpoint, Radio 4, Monday
Late Junction, Radio 3, Tuesday-Thursday
Sunday, 17 April 2011
Meet the man who makes George even more gorgeous
Last Night's TV: Misbehaving Mums to Be/BBC3
The Animal's Guide to Britain/BBC2
The Kennedys/History
Friday, 15 April 2011
It's been a good hour since I watched Misbehaving Mums to Be and I'm still not quite sure how I feel. A bit... icky? Halfway between concerned and shame-faced? The former, because the facts presented really were alarming, the latter because, well, there's something terribly uncomfortable about poking one's nose into someone else's pregnancy. And then judging them on it. Still, it was riveting. Now, this might have something to do with the absence of a Y-chromosome in my makeup, but pregnancy – as far as I'm concerned – always is.
Culture Club: The Kennedys, Thursdays, History
Thursday, 14 April 2011
"You Brits will love the Kennedy story. It has all the pomp, sex, money and power struggles you expect from us colonials. Jackie was our queen, Jack our prince. All very royal in an American way."
Last Night's TV: If Walls Could Talk: the History of the Home/BBC4
Life of Riley/BBC1
Thursday, 14 April 2011
There was a funny and telling moment in the middle of If Walls Could Talk: the History of the Home, a new popular-history series about domestic interiors. The location was the saloon at Kedleston Hall, a vast circular Georgian ballroom. The personae were Dr Lucy Worsley, a gamine young historian with something of a young Celia Imrie about her, and Richard Hewlings, an architectural historian of somewhat gloomy mien. After talking briefly about the grandeur of the saloon, Worsley bounced Tiggerishly on the balls of her feet to draw attention to the sprung floor and proposed that they take a turn or two. Richard Hewlings looked as if she'd just invited him to submit to a cavity search. "I don't think I can do this," he said nervously as she seized his hand. "You can, you can!" she said brightly, tugging him round behind her. "I can't, I can't," he replied with an increasing note of certainty in his voice. So, I wonder if you can guess, without knowing a thing about their respective academic qualifications, which was the presenter and which the expert contributor? A little hint – wallflowers don't get their own series.
Last Night's TV: True Stories: Guilty Pleasures, More4
Britain’s Next Big Thing, BBC2
Wednesday, 13 April 2011
They're getting hot between the covers
Last Night's TV: The Great Estate: The Rise and Fall of the Council House, BBC4
A Home for Maisie, BBC2
Bored to Death, Sky Atlantic
Tuesday, 12 April 2011
To the hearth of the matter
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