Sparkling piece of 'Father Ted' memorabilia
SMALL PRINT: A JACKET WORN by Fr Ted’s nemesis, Fr Dick Byrne, in the A Song For Europe episode of Father Ted is currently up for auction on eBay.
The Celtic leopard: welcome to the age of 'tranformismo'
CULTURE SHOCK DURING THAT brief moment last year when the British deputy prime minister Nick Clegg was still popular, he appeared on Desert Island Discs. His choice of a book to bring with him seemed, in my mind at least, to mark him as a peculiarly astute politician. He chose a short novel, written by a down-at-heel Italian aristocrat just before his death from lung cancer in 1957. The novel is Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa’s The Leopard, and it has good claims to be the best political novel ever written.
Hugh Linehan | Mechanical Turk »
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TV & Radio »
Finely cut legal drama guilty of a few jarring moments
TV REVIEW: NOTHING QUITE like a good courtroom drama for a bit of glossy escapism (from lugubrious Rumpole to gritty North Square , Channel 4’s short-lived offering, it’s all good), which is why the timer was set for Silk (BBC1, Tuesday). Set in a legal chambers in London, it pitches two mid-career barristers, Martha Costello (Maxine Peake) and Clive Reader (Rupert Penry Jones) against each other as they vie to “take silk” or become QCs, which is, I gather, basically a huge promotion. Part of the process is getting recommendations from judges – a solid thread to link the six episodes.
- Another spin on the merry-go-round
RADIO REVIEW: IN AN ELECTION in which there has been surprisingly little negative campaigning, there are still those who have gone on the attack to win over the public. Newstalk, for one. Over the past three weeks, the station has been inviting listeners to “get the truth without the state-run spin”, implicitly impugning RTÉ’s coverage. Eye-catching though the ad is, in common with many political slogans, it does not bear too much scrutiny.
Features and Comment »
When islands put their heads together
It’s about two islands which have been on a similar trajectory coming together and going, ‘Okay, how can we creatively respond to what’s going on here?
- Heaven was a place on earth for lost ponies
I’ve always believed in heaven. Ever since I was six, which is when the Virgin Mary first appeared to me and enveloped
me in her tenderness, writes MICHAEL HARDING
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