Allegory and humiliation on the BBC’s Secret Life of Books
Plus Abi Morgan’s new drama River – it should be so good, and yet it is so bafflingly bad.
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New Times,
New Thinking.
Plus Abi Morgan’s new drama River – it should be so good, and yet it is so bafflingly bad.
ByIt’s the 11th instalment of The Apprentice. And aside from a small reshuffle, the format remains reliably, appallingly the same.
ByA “structured reality” show about pensioners in Bournemouth, plus Unforgotten.
ByThose who are complaining that the show has “caved in to political correctness” have missed the point.
ByOver her time in the tent Nadiya’s confidence levels have soared; and she has slowly started to believe in her…
ByWithout even looking at Sutherland’s portrait, Churchill decreed it “a remarkable example of modern art”, cue much sycophantic laughter from…
ByCream-based catastrophe in the quarter final.
ByIt turns out that rural Herefordshire is a veritable hotbed of satanic activity.
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