2 weeks Ago By The Guardian
The Our Lives strand is proving to be a BBC hidden gem. In this episode, there is a 30-year age gap between historian Ioan and dairy farmer Al, but their unlikely friendship is joyous to watch as they share a passion for the abandoned metal mines of mid-Wales. In this lovely half-hour, they explore “a hidden, forgotten world of history – time capsules waiting to be discovered”.
The budget will no doubt make for many of the horror-filled headlines that host Jo Brand has fun with this Halloween week. Team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton will be joined by comedian Nabil Abdulrashid and Times journalist Tom Peck. Fans will notice something different about season four of the Oz version.
Following RuPaul stepping down from the series, longtime drag connoisseur Michelle Visage leads the charge as 10 more Australia- and New Zealand-based performers battle it out for the crown and a cash prize. After a brutal encounter last week, top rhyming zombie-smashing duo Daryl and Carol (Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride) must regroup and press on, hunting for new info in this penultimate episode. But their mortal enemy, Pouvoir, also has a new plan.
Where next for Carol Vorderman? The TV presenter turned political activist is on the Last Leg sofa, explaining what she will do now she has indeed Got the Tories Out. Joining her for a look back at the week’s news is Armando Iannucci, and regulars Josh Widdicombe, Alex Brooker and host Adam Hills. The new Paddington film is almost here, so Hugh Bonneville and Emily Mortimer – AKA Mr and Mrs Brown – are on Norton’s sofa.
Billy Crystal and Pharrell Williams join them, and Michael Kiwanuka provides the live music. Lee Miller’s life is the sadly familiar case of a female artist whose work has been overlooked because of her collaboration with a famous man, in this instance as a model for Man Ray. It’s her subsequent career as a war photographer that director Ellen Kuras and star Kate Winslet focus on in their fierce film.
Winslet – in a role she was born to play – is the magnetic, forthright Lee, a woman who won’t take no for an answer. When the second world war breaks out, she nabs a job taking pictures for Vogue, getting herself front and centre for the London blitz, liberation of Europe and, chillingly, the discovery of the death camps – snapping away in fury and shock at the inhumanity she sees. After all these years, it’s still a surprise to realise John Williams is the author of so many superb soundtracks.
Laurent Bouzereau’s affectionate tribute to the greatest composer in the history of cinema rightly spends a bunch of time on his long collaboration with Steven Spielberg (Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, ET, Schindler’s List, those five “spiritual” notes in Close Encounters), but then there’s Star Wars, Home Alone, Harry Potter ...
The son of a jazz drummer and a dancer, Williams has also found time to conduct and create pieces for the likes of Yo-Yo Ma and Anne-Sophie Mutter. A bringer of joy. Actor turned director Mélanie Laurent has clearly taken on board the success of Netflix crime series Lupin.
This fact-based caper about 1970s robber Bruno Sulak (Emily in Paris love interest Lucas Bravo) lays into Lupin’s romantic “gentleman thief” angle while ticking off its protagonist’s incident-packed career. From supermarket robberies in the south of France to jewel heists in Paris – with a couple of prison breaks and a love story involving accomplice Annie (Léa Luce Busato) thrown in – Laurent keeps it sunny, sexy and largely free from violence. The first-round tie at the Lamb Ground.
The Group A match from Franklin’s Gardens..
