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Radio Times|25-31st May 2024From the EditorIN 2004 JANE ROOT, then controller of BBC2, launched a new drama called Hawking that told the life story of the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. She declared that the young man in the lead role, Benedict Cumberbatch, “Was going to be a very big star indeed. Watch this space!” She wasn’t wrong. Cumberbatch has become one of our best actors, who chooses projects that challenge and stretch him, so it’s no surprise that he’s starring in the quirky new Netflix drama Eric, which is written by the equally talented Abi Morgan. In this issue, Morgan tells us how her mother, actor Patricia England, made Shakespeare come to life for her while she helped cook the family supper, and how that set her on the path to become one of the…2 min
Radio Times|25-31st May 2024GRAPEVINEABBEY TALK Dominic West and Paul Giamatti are returning to the world of Downton Abbey as the Granthams gear up for a third movie. West reprises his role as dapper movie star Guy Dexter, who popped up in 2022’s Downton Abbey: a New Era, while Giamatti’s back as Cora’s brother Harold Levinson, last glimpsed in a Christmas special way back in 2013. New faces joining the regular cast include Simon Russell Beale and Joely Richardson. THIEF ENCOUNTER Game of Thrones’ Sophie Turner is set to star in a twisty heist thriller for Amazon Prime, following her upcoming turn in ITV’s Joan, the true story of notorious jewel thief, Joan Hannington. In Amazon’s Haven (working title), by novelist and first-time TV writer Sotiris Nikias, she plays an office worker who gets…1 min
Radio Times|25-31st May 2024WE SHOULD BE ON PRIMETIME!AS I WAS walking home from the supermarket with a bulging shopping bag in each hand, a white van pulled up alongside me. The young driver jumped out on to the pavement with his arms outstretched and shouted, “Rip Off Britain! I love that programme, it’s saved me so much money,” before giving me a bear hug. With that, he got back in the van, waved to the traffic he had held up on the main road, and drove off. His reaction might have been a bit over the top (it helps that I’m not of a nervous disposition!) but it’s not at all an uncommon response from the million plus viewers who regularly watch the consumer programme I present with Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville. ‘We are under siege…4 min
Radio Times|25-31st May 2024‘HE MADE ME AN OFFER I COULDN’T REFUSE’The OutlawsThursday 9.00pmBBC1 HOW DID YOU get Christopher Walken to Bristol?” That’s the first question I’m usually asked when viewers see the Hollywood legend co-starring in my comedy thriller series The Outlaws, set in my home town. I’m pretty sure Christopher Walken had never heard of Bristol when he read my pilot script and asked to meet. I flew to New York, hired a car and drove for several hours to the address I’d been given. I found a remote cottage in a clearing in the woods and expected the door to be opened by Hansel or Gretel. Instead, I was greeted by the movie icon himself, who asked in his distinctive staccato Queens accent: “Would you… like some… omelette?” I wasn’t hungry, I’d just eaten a huge hotel breakfast,…5 min
Radio Times|25-31st May 2024SURFING THROUGH TIMEThe Beach BoysAvailable from Friday 24 MayDisney+ IT’S SPRING 2024 and I’m at Abbey Road Studios to meet the Bea… relax, this isn’t more AI gone mad… the Beach Boys. Well, Bruce Johnston and Mike Love, who are in London to promote Disney+’s new career-spanning documentary about the band and are holding court at the favourite recording studio of their great transatlantic rivals. We’re meeting four days after news broke that the group’s troubled creative genius, Brian Wilson, has been placed under a court conservatorship to oversee his personal and medical decisions because of what his doctor calls his “major neurocognitive disorder”. But right now, Johnston is recalling happier times, sitting alongside Love in the Fab Four’s favoured Studio 2. Despite being in their early 80s, they’re puckish, boyish presences,…6 min
Radio Times|25-31st May 2024GIVE ME A BREAKBALI 1999. We backpackers duly headed to the beach for another beautiful sunset, where we found one girl sitting with her back resolutely to the sea. When asked why she wasn’t gazing at the stunning orange orb like the rest of us, she answered, “What’s it got to do with me?” I thought of that girl the other day as I watched Rob and Rylan’s Grand Tour, in which Rob Rinder and Rylan Clark join the roster of celebrities pairing up for what used to be known as travelogues but have become instead licence-fee-funded therapy sessions. Rob’s eyes filled at Rylan’s blossoming love of Italian art, and Rylan provided wingman duties for Rob’s Roman spring. There was some music and history, but as one TV critic described it, “this was…4 min
Radio Times|25-31st May 2024SaturdaySPORT Football: FA Cup Final 1.45pm ITV1/1.50pm BBC1/BBC Scotland Catch up via ITVX/iPlayer There’s a whiff of déjà vu today. For the first time since 1885, the same two teams will compete in the FA Cup final in consecutive years, as Manchester City prepare to face Manchester United. City lifted the trophy for a seventh time in 2023 when Ilkay Gundogan struck twice, either side of a Bruno Fernandes penalty, to bruise their arch-rivals at Wembley. Captain Kyle Walker will be keen to add another piece of silverware to City’s bulging trophy cabinet after last season’s remarkable treble; and his side will look to land another blow on United. The Red Devils have claimed just one title across all domestic and continental competitions in the past seven years — it’s…6 min
Radio Times|25-31st May 2024FridayHORROR The Walking Dead: the Ones Who Live 9.00pm Sky Max NEW SERIES Full series available via Now today For a franchise as prolific as The Walking Dead, it’s incredible, really, how little it’s talked about as a TV success story. Perhaps this is to do with it being horror, a genre often looked down upon for spilling its guts on screen and leaving little to the imagination? But in this case, there’s also the fact that each spin-off (and this is the sixth) requires viewers to have in-depth knowledge of what’s gone before. Not a problem for fans aware of every grisly twist in the relationship of Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and Michonne (Danai Gurira), but something of an issue for those new to this post-apocalyptic landscape. Devotees, though, will…6 min
Radio Times|25-31st May 2024Streams of ConscıousnessDONALD TRUMP BECAME a reality TV star because he was prepared to do something no other prominent business person was prepared to do, which was say the first thing that came into his head. This is what the producers of reality TV are looking for. They want participants who can’t wait to turn themselves into “characters” and naturally talk in sentences begging to be turned into episode titles. In 2007 the American CBS network launched a reality show called Kid Nation, which set out to test the Lord of the Flies premise by sending 40 kids between the ages of eight and 15 to live in a deserted town to see whether or not they got along. Its episodes had titles like To Kill or Not to Kill, Deal with…2 min
Radio Times|25-31st May 2024HERBY-LICIOUS!“EDIMENTAL” IS A new gardening buzzword… but basically it’s just plants that both look and taste great. Fresh herbs are more delicious than dried, and picking and using them straight from the garden is what it’s all about. We’d all love a designated herb garden, of course, but few of us have the space. Fortunately, most herbs can be slotted into an existing garden, planted between ornamentals or grown in containers and raised beds. Bay, rosemary, thyme and sage are woody and evergreen, enhancing a garden’s framework, whereas perennial herbs such as mint and chives die back and return year after year. Annual herbs are one-year wonders, so are sown and planted out annually, like edible bedding plants! Most herbs need plenty of sun. There are a few (mint, parsley,…2 min
Radio Times|25-31st May 2024ALL CHANGE ON YOUR ISATAX-FREE INDIVIDUAL SAVINGS Accounts – Isas – were supposed to become more flexible this year. In his March budget, Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt announced several simplifications of what can seem pernickety rules about opening Isas and moving money between them. But the relaxations are not compulsory and many providers have not yet implemented them. ‘Check if your provider allows these new freedoms’ MULTIPLE ISAs From this year there are no rules to stop you opening more than one Isa of the same type. (Previously you could only open one cash and one shares Isa.) Now you can, for example, open a variable rate cash Isa and a fixed rate cash Isa in the same year. Similarly, if you have Isas from previous years, you can pay money into…2 min
Radio Times|25-31st May 2024FeedbackDOCTOR… WHAT? I was looking forward to the promised Doctor Who reboot, with the latest regeneration of the Doctor and the return of Russell T Davies as showrunner (11 May BBC1). Unfortunately, the real showrunner here appears to be Disney, as it was trying to appeal to an American audience. An opening episode with such infantile toilet “humour” as to make the flatulent Slitheen seem tasteful by comparison was not a good start. I was hoping for an improvement in the second episode – but we got a frightened Doctor who runs and hides from the ridiculous villain; actors who don’t even look remotely like John, Paul, George and Ringo; and, worst of all, a completely out-of-place fantasy musical number. This is not the Doctor Who we have come to…8 min
Radio Times|25-31st May 2024THIS WEEK1 STREAMING Eric Available from Thursday Netflix In an original and touching drama from The Split’s Abi Morgan, Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Vincent Anderson, a puppeteer on a popular children’s programme in 1980s New York. Then one day, his nine-year-old son goes missing… FEATURE P12 ▶ 2 TV The Outlaws Thursday 9.00pm BBC1 Stephen Merchant’s Bristolian crime caper returns, as the gang of small-time offenders find themselves tied up in a murder plot. The question is, can they even trust each other? FEATURE P18 ▶ 3 RADIO D-Day: the Last Voices Mon-Fri 11.45am Radio 4 The experiences of those involved in the largest amphibious invasion in history — including soldiers on the ground, paratroopers and planners — are captured in rediscovered, vivid historical testimonies and new interviews with veterans. There’s…2 min
Radio Times|25-31st May 2024LOOKING FOR MONSTERSEricAvailable from ThursdayNetflix ABI MORGAN IS miles away. Wistfully, she recalls a childhood memory, both momentous and mundane, that was, indubitably, instrumental in making her the woman – the writer – she is today. “I remember my mum [actor Patricia England] and I dipping fish into beaten egg, and then dipping the egg-coated fish into bright orange breadcrumbs,” recalls the Cardif-born 55-year-old. “As we did it, she was working on her lines and reading out Shakespeare to me. She’d start with ‘I’m going to tell you a story’, and then of we’d go. “Having a mother who recited Shakespeare over breaded fish and that being so normal is one of the greatest things she gave me. Because when she asked me to listen to her, she took the words of…9 min
Radio Times|25-31st May 2024LIFE AFTER MARTHAJESSICA GUNNING IS messing with the nation’s head. Her performance in The Outlaws as community service supervisor Diane Pemberley, now a fully-fledged officer with her own blue-liveried, two-wheeled electric scooter, is one of the most joyous things you will encounter on the television this year. Conversely, her portrayal of the unnerving stalker Martha Scott in Netflix’s Baby Reindeer, is a relentlessly agonising viewing experience. “I responded to Martha so clearly in my mind,” says Gunning, who is in LA with her Baby Reindeer co-star and creator Richard Gadd. “Such an emotional reaction; I was incredibly moved by her. When I got the part, a friend of mine said, ‘Go for it. Be brave, really try and be emotional and vulnerable.’ I think it’s quite easy, once you’ve fought to get…6 min
Radio Times|25-31st May 2024THE LOST BEATLES FILMMichael Lindsay-Hogg’s Let It Be is the great “lost” Beatles film, barely viewable via legitimate means for almost half a century. The fly-on-the-wall documentary captures the month-long rehearsals for the recording of what would be the band’s final album of the same name, and was released in May 1970, just weeks after they officially split. Maligned at the time as a dispiriting portrait of a band heading for the buffers, the 80-minute curio slipped from history. Until now. Released via Disney+, the film is finally getting its moment in the sun. It has been remastered by film-maker Peter Jackson’s production company, the same team who used the unedited Let It Be footage to create the monumental eight-hour 2021 docuseries Get Back. Now, Lindsay-Hogg hopes Let It Be will get the…2 min
Radio Times|25-31st May 2024StreamingDRAMA Eric All 6 episodes on Netflix from Thursday In 1980s New York, Vincent Anderson (Benedict Cumberbatch) is the co-creator of popular children’s show Good Day Sunshine. But when it comes to his own nine-year-old son, he’s not the most attentive parent. One day, young Edgar walks to school — but doesn’t come home. To try to reach him, Vincent decides he’s going to create the puppet that Edgar has been drawing — a big, blue furry monster called Eric (also voiced by Cumberbatch) — and get it on TV. The Split’s Abi Morgan has penned a script with deft character arcs, brought to life superbly by a fine supporting cast (see right and below). Challenging our perceptions of “good” and “bad”, it’s an unpredictable ride that meaningfully navigates themes…13 min
Radio Times|25-31st May 2024SundayDOCUMENTARY Fiennes: Return to the Wild 8.00pm National Geographic Catch up via Now You might remember a series back in 2019 where explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes bonded with his younger cousin, actor Joseph Fiennes, star of The Handmaid’s Tale and Dear England, on an adventure-travelogue in Egypt laced with puns and manly pursuits. This two-parter is something similar, but in the wilds of Canada — or fairly wilds, at least. The idea is to honour Fiennes senior’s expedition across British Columbia in 1971, when “Ran” (to his friends) managed to cross the state’s vast stretches of wilderness from north to south via connecting waterways, braving deathly rapids along the way. We see clips from that journey and it looks terrifying, whereas the present-day trip is, as you’d expect, on the…6 min
Radio Times|25-31st May 2024WednesdayTRAVEL The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan 9.00pm BBC2 Catch up via iPlayer If you need an antidote to the myriad celebrity travelogues currently on our screens, this could be it. Once again, the reluctant globetrotter visits some not especially tourist-friendly countries, this time in Africa. After that, he says, the most adventurous thing he’ll be doing is getting sand off his sun-creamed torso on a Greek holiday. Arriving in Uganda, he admits his knowledge of it is limited to Idi Amin’s despotic rule in the 1970s, so it’s hard for him to reconcile that with the wildlife idyll he’s shown — along with experiences such as white water-rafting and banana gin tasting. Mind you, it’s hard for him to string a sentence together after the gin, let alone have a…6 min
Radio Times|25-31st May 2024MY FRIEND BARENBOIMMusic Matters: 25 Years of the West–Eastern Divan OrchestraSaturday 1.00pmRadio 3, BBC Sounds HOW MANY LIFE-CHANGING encounters happen in lifts? For broadcaster Clemency Burton-Hill it came in 2008, when she squeezed into a Royal Albert Hall elevator with the Argentina-born Jewish pianist, conductor and classical superstar Daniel Barenboim. “He said, ‘It’s you! The one that asked the difficult question!’ ” Burton-Hill laughs. Barenboim was famous for starting an orchestra with the American-Palestinian intellectual Edward Said in 1999. Recruiting from Arab and Israeli musicians, the West-Eastern Divan was an attempt to foster greater understanding between warring factions. Today, as Burton-Hill talks to him for a six-part history of the orchestra on Radio 3 and with Israel and Palestine in conflict, that ambition could hardly be more challenging. Back then her question…7 min
Radio Times|25-31st May 2024CHINA CRISISFRANK GARDNER APOLOGISES for sounding so sexy. “Sorry about the gravelly voice this morning,” he rumbles, “I’m just getting over a slight lurgy. My other half loves it, though. She says I sound like Roger Moore.” The late 007 and the current BBC security correspondent were pals, it turns out: “We both used to ski in Crans-Montana in Switzerland and became quite good friends. He used to send me filthy emails, and the other people on the distribution list were members of the Rolling Stones, Michael Palin, people like that.” Is there a touch of Roger Moore in the hero of your spy thrillers then? No, I’ve been very keen to make Luke Carlton someone completely different from Bond or Jason Bourne or anyone else. I was talking to someone…4 min
Radio Times|25-31st May 2024Deal with a boggy areaWhat a wet winter we had! If you have particularly wet and boggy areas in the garden, there are ways to help. I relish a project where I get to select a palette of plants that look lush and dramatic together. Try these tips. SOIL HEALTH Healthy boggy and damp soils will drain through — though slowly at times — whereas stagnant areas that don’t will quickly smell and become almost impossible to grow anything in. Once you’ve found a good boggy bit… ■ CREATE ACCESS Decking boardwalks floating over some lush planting will not only look great but increase access for gardening. ■ USE BOARDS to stand on when working on heavy, wet soils to avoid compacting it. ■ IMPROVE DRAINAGE where possible. Dig in plenty of grit and…1 min
Radio Times|25-31st May 2024CrosswordPRIZE CROSSWORD ACROSS 7 Grand parent’s hidden boiling fluid (5) 8 Lorikeet flying about mile distance (9) 9 Brown oil from India, Sophia’s returned (6) 11 Shoddy fighter plane back with cocaine? (8) 12 Satnav feels odd with unknown TV celeb (7,5) 15 Little boy to even ignite urns of African city (7) 16 European rabies outbreak to the north (7) 18 Returning bird to go in hope flying round China (6,6) 20 Almost tender tenor moves to Italian town (8) 22 Person exiled by terrible regime (6) 23 Grant for a spear kept down (9) 24 One NHS worker run off occupied (2,3) DOWN 1 Delayed some strokes on one side (9) 2 Inside like a scamp gone bankrupt (10) 3 Hang up sign of disengagement? (4,3) 4 Pre-Apollo…2 min
Radio Times|25-31st May 2024Counting down to the Men’s T20 World CupWith the last of the warm-up matches between England and Pakistan being played on Thursday (BBC2/Sky Sports Main Event/Cricket), it’s only days until the ninth ICC Men’s T20 World Cup begins, hosted by the USA and West Indies. As RT goes to press, radio rights have not been announced, but in Jonathan Agnew’s final summer as BBC cricket correspondent, let’s hope we can listen to commentary on Test Match Special on 5 Sports Extra and BBC Sounds. And you can, of course, watch on Sky Sports and Now. So what excitement can we look forward to in this shortest, most dramatic form of the game? The 2024 tournament will be biggest ever, with 20 teams competing across 55 games. The 20 sides are split into four groups: Group A Canada,…2 min
Radio Times|25-31st May 2024WELCOME TO THE TUFTY CLUBWhen Cumbrian film-maker Terry Abraham volunteered to help care for red squirrels on his doorstep, he soon formed a bond with Rusty, Blondie and Stripe. “My heart started stirring,” he says. And so, the self-taught director, who made his name with Life of a Mountain — a BBC trilogy about the Lake District — decided to make a film about the efforts to preserve the indigenous population of red squirrels in the local woodland, one of their last remaining strongholds. The reds face numerous challenges, including squirrel pox, which is carried by both red and grey squirrels but is fatal only to reds. The Victorians imported greys from North America as curiosities, only for their population to mushroom. Reds are also unable to compete with greys for food or habitat.…2 min
Radio Times|25-31st May 2024to curate Walter PresentsWalter Iuzzolino, the man behind Walter Presents, is a former commissioning editor for Channel 4 who co-founded the streaming service that specialises in foreign language drama. THE SUBTITLE STIGMA I was born and bred in Genoa, Italy, and everything I watched from abroad was dubbed, so there was no such thing as foreign drama. I moved to London to study film-making 27 years ago and I was struck by the uniformity of TV drama. Until only recently in the UK, subtitles were synonymous with niche films. It was elitist and felt very removed from a mass market audience. GAP IN THE MARKET BBC4 acquired the French police thriller Spiral, which started to become quite popular. I thought, “If this finds an audience and gets enough traction, then there is a…2 min
Radio Times|25-31st May 2024‘IT’S A HUGE ODYSSEY’“The minute Abi started pitching Eric to me, I was hooked. She’s an incredible storyteller and she enticed me into this complex, multifaceted and troubled character’s journey, and the central conceit of the psychological split whereby his creation of an imagined puppet becomes a reality. It felt very original. “Abi’s very much an actor’s writer. We get each other. We both know what that background is. Her mum was an actor. My parents are both actors. Every potential in what the actor has to offer is realised in her writing and my job is just to try and surprise her, which is a hard task. “Any time there was a gap in the back story or something didn’t make sense to us, Abi was there. She is a bible of…2 min
Radio Times|25-31st May 2024A TALE OF TWO CITIESIT IS AN AFTERNOON when ancient grudge will move to new mutiny, as two Manchester football clubs alike in dignity meet at fair Wembley where we lay our scene. And as coincidence would have it, a similar scene is being laid in fair Glasgow. Yes, it’s Cup final weekend, and a great celebration of not one, but two city rivalries: paired opponents that have for more than a century combined occasionally glorious football with festering resentment. The FA Cup final sees Manchester City against Manchester United, while Celtic play Rangers in the Scottish Cup final for the first time since 2002. In 1881 St Mark’s played Newton Heath in a friendly and lost 3–0. It was effectively the first Manchester derby, as the clubs later became City and United. The…4 min
Radio Times|25-31st May 2024MondayDOCUMENTARY D-Day 80: We Were There 9.00pm BBC2 Catch up via iPlayer This programme is part of a broader BBC News project to collect and record as many first-hand accounts of the Second World War as possible by 2025 — the 80th anniversary of the end of the war. Tonight, Rachel Burden hears from veterans of 1944, some now over 100 years old. Pat Owtram recalls the moment she bumped into Winston Churchill and President Eisenhower on the cliffs of Dover, as they tried to deceive Germany into thinking an invasion force would leave from Kent for Calais. Eddie Brown remembers the whirlwind 72 hours of leave in the midst of the fighting, when he managed to get back to the UK to see his loved ones. Meanwhile, over on…5 min
Radio Times|25-31st May 2024ThursdayCOMEDY DRAMA The Outlaws 9.00pm BBC1 Catch up via iPlayer Stephen Merchant’s take on crime comedy — a West Country western, of sorts — was a surprise hit when it debuted in 2021. Initially following a group of small-time offenders doing community service in Bristol who find a bag of illicit cash, over two series we’ve seen this unlikely crew (including an aristocratic influencer, a lifelong protestor, a right-wing businessman, a lonely lawyer and two troubled teenagers) hoodwink the cops, outwit drug dealers and get away with the spoils. Or so we thought. Because for this third series, writer/star Merchant has raised the stakes once more, wrapping the remaining gang up into a genuine murder plot while they’re hunted by a suave drug lord (Claes Bang). It’s a mark of…5 min
Radio Times|25-31st May 2024DIGGING THE DIRTCRIME Dead Man Running Reviewed here last week, Shiny Bob: the Devil’s Advocate won the Gold award at the Arias for best news coverage. Now the same reporter, BBC Scotland’s Myles Bonnar, investigates the extraordinary case of someone he knew. Kim Avis was a minor celebrity in Inverness. But then he attempted to evade multiple rape and assault charges by faking his death in California. This is a much more detailed (six weekly episodes) account of the case covered earlier this year in Disclosure, still on BBC iPlayer. DAVID McGILLIVRAY PICK OF THE WEEK DOCUMENTARY Home Sleuth The fallout from Netflix’s Baby Reindeer, in which real lives have been thrown into turmoil by viewers’ attempts to find “the real person” on whom the story was based, makes this look at…4 min
Radio Times|25-31st May 2024ON THE BEACHESD-Day 80: We Were ThereBank Holiday Monday 9.00pmBBC2 ON A BRIGHT spring day, it’s a beguiling spot. Lush fields fall gently to a flaxen beach; the sea shimmers blue-green beyond; birds sing, breezes rustle the trees. But looks can be deceiving. Out in those waters lurk huge concrete hulks, half-sunk remnants of war. And, in the foreground, a temporary army of 1,475 has amassed. The 80th anniversary of D-Day is approaching, and this week and next the TV schedules are packed with programmes documenting, dissecting, dramatising and remembering what remains the largest seaborne invasion in history. On 6 June 1944 an estimated 156,000 Allied soldiers crossed the Channel, many landing on one of five beaches – Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha and Utah – along a 70km stretch of the Normandy…4 min
Radio Times|25-31st May 2024PuzzlesONLY CONNECT with Victoria Coren Mitchell The connecting wall from Only Connect combines general knowledge, wordplay and lateral thinking to give your brain cells a workout! How to play Your task is to sort the 16 seemingly random words/phrases below into four groups of four connected words. You may find some clues fall into more than one category, but there is only one complete solution. If you get stuck, have a look at the clues on the side of the page… TRY THESE CLUES: GROUP ONE: LOGAN. GROUP TWO: MUD. GROUP THREE: SLADE. GROUP FOUR: O’HARE. SCRIBBLE PAD TRACKWORD How many words of three letters or more can you find by tracking from one square to the next, going up, down, sideways or diagonally in order? You may not use…6 min
Radio Times|25-31st May 2024STEPHEN MANGANWhat’s the view from your sofa? I’m currently in a sixth-floor apartment in Barcelona where we’re filming a two-part special for [BBC drama] The Split, so there’s a lovely view of rooftops, churches, hills and a big McDonald’s poster. My view at home in London is quite different – our little back garden is very green, full of plants with a little shed. There’s just enough room to swing a relatively small cat. What have you been watching on telly? The first series of [Netflix documentary] Cheer. Having burnt through the series about mountaineering, cycling and extreme sports, Google led me to cheerleading. I never thought it would be something I’d be interested in, but I was totally gripped. Any TV turn-offs? I don’t watch so much scripted television any…3 min
