The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from May 2002:
LIFE ON MARS In the red dust of the Utah desert, six scientists are dressed in home-made spacesuits and living in a large tin can. Their mission: to prove that sending man to Mars is easier than NASA thinks. Charles Laurence joins them in space
May 05, 2002; ... The familiar landscape of planet Earth - trees, water, buildings,that sort of thing - has long since disappeared from my rear-viewmirror, and so far there is not much evidence of life. The MissionCommander told me to follow the track across the stony red desert forabout two-and-a-half ...
Belles of the ball The pay is low, the conditions tough - but when the Doncaster Belles meet Fulham tomorrow in the other FA Cup final, thousands will cheer them on. Julia Llewellyn Smith meets the girls who like to get their kit on
May 05, 2002; ... In the squalid changing rooms of Winchester Football Club, theEngland midfielder Carly Hunt is inspecting an orange-sized lump onher muddy thigh. "I think I've broken something," she sayscheerfully. The physio, Sheila Edmunds, examines her. "You need iceon that. But we haven't got any." ...
What is it like to be a monarch?
May 05, 2002; ... When I tell people that I am writing a book about the monarchy,they do not know quite what to say. Am I not being a bitpresumptuous? Has the subject not been overwritten lately? Do I haveany inside information? The answer to the last question is that I do not. But my anglewill ...
Now Barbie gets her Ken Inspired by the Barbie doll looks of Cindy Jackson - the 'queen of plastic surgery' - Miles Kendall has spent pounds 40,000 turning himself into a real-life Ken. 'Women say I'm gorgeous,' he tells Selina Smith
May 05, 2002; ... Miles Kendall throws open the door to his bar and the smell oflast night's beer is overwhelming. "It was a hard night last night,"he says. "So please excuse me, because I didn't go to bed until 5am.I had a great night!" He emits an extraordinarily camp giggle. Heneedn't apologise because ...
They were going to eat me Two years ago, Major Phil Ashby escaped from a UN compound in Sierra Leone, unarmed and surrounded by rebels. Here, for the first time, he tells his story to Helena de Bertodano
May 05, 2002; ... Major Phil Ashby checks his watch. It is 10 to seven in theevening and although we are sitting in a smart London bar, his mindis in Sierra Leone. "Exactly two years ago today it was getting darkand I was thinking to myself, `I'm going to be dead in an hour'. Therebels had surrounded our ...
A flash of inspiration - and WD40 put to the test
May 05, 2002; ... There was, back in the 1970s, much talk about a left brain/rightbrain split, with many of society's ills being attributed to an over-emphasis on the rational and scientific left side at the expense ofthe intuitive and empathetic right side. This theory has long sincepassed into oblivion, ...
Faithful to the femme fatale Opera
May 05, 2002; ... Lulu What a pleasure, for a change, to be able to write an enthusiasticreview of ENO. Its first staging of Berg's Lulu, in the three-actversion completed by Friedrich Cerha, is above all a triumph for theproducer Richard Jones and his design team of Paul Steinberg (sets),Buki ...
The uncaged anarchist Francis Veber, the author of 'La Cage aux Folles', is Hollywood's favourite French farceur. He talks about his new film to Sheila Johnston
May 05, 2002; ... You have almost certainly seen a Francis Veber comedy - even ifyou don't know his name - La Cage aux Folles, perhaps, or itsAmerican remake, The Birdcage, or his last film, the wickedly funnyLe Diner des cons. Genial and impish, Veber has revealed a special talent foranarchic ...
Rut of spring Ballet
May 05, 2002; ... Ballet Preljocaj Romeo and Juliet Short of having your ballet publicly burned by a bishop, there arefew things more gratifying to the box-office manager than a spot ofmild outrage in the Daily Mail complete with full-frontal nudity withhilariously blacked-out naughty bits ....
Vision of a starry sky Theatre
May 05, 2002; ... Vincent in Brixton Daisy Pulls It Off The Island of Slaves Mind Games In 1873, at the age of 20, Vincent Van Gogh was sent to London towork as a trainee with a firm of art dealers. He took lodgings inBrixton with a widow called Ursula Loyer, who ran a school for ...
Acts of revenge, sex and violence
May 05, 2002; ... The Business of Strangers (15) This looks like the kind of thing where people glide about stagilyand drawl "This isn't just a game" as they down their whisky sodasand the orchestra warms up. And it is. But it's pulled off sosnappily by debut writer/director Patrick Stettner that it ...
All mod cons Cinema
May 05, 2002; ... Panic Room The Warrior America is the great cornucopia of domestic conveniences, from thegiant ice-maker to the walk-in closet. Its latest innovation,available only to the substantially wealthy and paranoid, is the"panic room". While humble Europeans are still forced to panic ...
When she's smiling . . . Television
May 05, 2002; ... My own feelings about the Queen's Golden Jubilee are roughly on apar with the Duke of Edinburgh's. Asked last week which aspect of thecelebrations he was most looking forward to, the Duke replied,"August" - August being when the whole thing packs up. But there is along way to go before ...
Unwelcome reality Radio
May 05, 2002; ... Ludwig Wittgenstein thought that Honeysuckle Cottage by P.G. Wodehouse was "one of the funniestthings he had ever read". It is indeed a wonderful story. Mr Mulliner's cousin James writes hard-boiled detective stories.His late aunt, who wrote luridly romantic novels, has ...
Souffles with substance The world's greatest theatre director prefers the cinema. Peter Brook talks to Rupert Christiansen
May 05, 2002; ... To interview Peter Brook must be a bit like interviewing God. Hisgrace is unfailing, he is infinitely patient and courteous. But thereis no avoiding the bird-like gaze of his watery blue eyes,penetrating any layers of pretence or ulterior motive in one'sfeeble, foolish questions. He ...
I want to be alone Art
May 05, 2002; ... A Pelican in the Wilderness: Hermitages and Solitude in Art The Genius of Caspar David Friedrich Many of us this bank holiday weekend will be heading out of townin search of "peace and quiet". To be alone is a primal urge. On thebus, tube or train it is an ...
When Docklands meant docks This family memoir is also a moving evocation of East End life, says Anne Chisholm
May 05, 2002; ... Silvertown: An East End Family Memoir by Melanie McGrath Fourth Estate, pounds 16.99, 235 pp pounds 14.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 ON THE WHOLE , young writers would be well advised to resist theurge to write a book about their grandparents, no matter ...
A muse is not enough Vernon Scannell on a poetry handbook which shows just how much art needs craft
May 05, 2002; ... An Introduction to English Poetry by James Fenton Viking, pounds 14.99, 137 pp pounds 12.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 JAMES FENTON , the former Professor of Poetry at Oxford andhimself a fine practitioner of the art, is well equipped to produce ...
Vigorous, inimitable, at times absurd Lady Thatcher remains well worth listening to - even when she's wrong, says Nigel Lawson
May 05, 2002; ... Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World by Margaret Thatcher HarperCollins, pounds 25, 486 pp pounds 23 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 IN THE CONTEXT of the ideas-free zone that is British politicstoday, it is particularly refreshing to read this book, which ...
Flashman and film stars Gerald Kaufman prefers the screen-writer memoirist to the state-of-the-nation pundit
May 05, 2002; ... The Light's on at Signpost by George MacDonald Fraser HarperCollins, pounds 18.99, 328 pp pounds 16.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 I CAN FORGIVE George MacDonald Fraser a great deal for his candid,bashful admission at the start of these memoirs: "I . . ....
A love letter to the Queen Elizabeth II deserves all the praise accorded her in this stylish portrait, says Andrew Roberts
May 05, 2002; ... Queen and Country by William Shawcross BBC, pounds 18.99, 240 pp pounds 16.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 IT IS RARE that "tie-in" books for TV series have shelf lives muchbeyond the programmes they accompany, but here is one that will. Itis Old Britain's ...
A tabloid professor Truth is the first casualty of cultural studies, as well as of war, finds Max Hastings
May 05, 2002; ... People's Witness: The Journalist in Modern Politics by Fred Inglis Yale, pounds 18.95, 416 pp pounds 18.95 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 DEPARTMENTS OF Cultural Studies at northern universities invitecaricature. They rouse the shade of Kingsley Amis ....
Walkabout in search of himself
May 05, 2002; ... Dirt Music by Tim Winton Picador, pounds 15.99, 465 pp pounds 13.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 THE AUSTRALIAN Tim Winton is the author, at only 42, of more than15 books, including the Booker-shortlisted The Riders. His new novelis an extraordinary ...
Tea with cousin Adolf
May 05, 2002; ... Eva's Cousin by Sibylle Knauss Doubleday, pounds 12.99, 399 pp pounds 11.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 THIS NOVEL comes with an explanation: the story is based on anencounter between the author and an elderly woman called GertraudWeisker, who had spent ...
Vive la France, and no mistake Despite Le Pen, old-style revolutionary romanticism is alive and well in the French novel, finds George Walden
May 05, 2002; ... The Voice of the People by Jean Vautrin Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pounds 17.99, 481 pp pounds 15.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 FORGET LE PEN for a moment, and remember that 10 per cent ofvoters in the first round of the French Presidential elections votedfor ...
Page-Turner What is the most exciting book you've ever read? Continuing our series, the chairman of BT, Sir Christopher Bland, chooses John Fowles's The Magus (1965)
May 05, 2002; ... I PICKED up The Magus by accident from a brother officer's bed atTerritorial Army camp in Northern Ireland in 1968. Three and a quarter hours later I'd devoured all 567 pages - the only book, then or since, I've been unable to put down, with atotal disregard for the demands ...
The woods are dark and deep The fictionalising of true crime rarely works . . . but Edna O'Brien has managed it, finds David Robson
May 05, 2002; ... In the Forest by Edna O'Brien Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pounds 16.99, 217 pp pounds 14.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 IT IS NOT hard to see why Edna O'Brien has ruffled feathers inIreland with her latest novel. The triple murder, in 1994, of aCounty Clare ...
The five minutes from now Mark Sanderson enjoys this memoir of growing up in small-town America
May 05, 2002; ... Lake Effect by Rich Cohen Jonathan Cape, pounds 12.99, 208 pp pounds 11.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 IT IS A Hollywood cliche that any film that begins with a homemovie - for example, flickering footage of small children runninground a garden - will end ...
He shot with a camera Martin Gayford on Robert Capa, the photographer who got close - too close - to war
May 05, 2002; ... Blood and Champagne: The Life and Times of Robert Capa by Alex Kershaw Macmillan, pounds 20, 298 pp pounds 18 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 IN CONVERSATION with the great French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson last year, I casually asked him a rather banal ...
Best-sellers of the week
May 05, 2002; ... These lists do not include sales of children's books, manuals, cookery or self-help books Paperback non-fiction 1 A Man Named Dave, Dave Pelzer (Orion, pounds 5.99). 17,170. 2 The Road to Nab End, William Woodruff (Abacus, pounds 6.99).7,160. 3 A ...
Paperbacks
May 05, 2002; ... Speer: The Final Verdict by Joachim Fest tr by Ewald Osers and Alexandra Dring Phoenix, pounds 9.99 ALBERT SPEER will always interest biographers because of thecontrast between his apparently civilised character and the hideousregime he assisted, a ...
Tartars without sauce Justin Marozzi enjoys this journey through Siberia's chilly history
May 05, 2002; ... The Shaman's Coat: A Native History of Siberia by Anna Reid Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pounds 20, 202 pp pounds 18 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 To Catch a Tartar: Notes from the Caucasus by Chris Bird John Murray, pounds 17.99, 298 ...
Yes, this is Brentford! Once a dreary backwater, 'Brentford-on- Thames' is being transformed into a chic riverside suburb. So far, prices are still reasonable, says Sonia Purnell
May 05, 2002; ... With neighbours like Kew, Ealing and Chiswick, it is no wonderthat Brentford finds it hard to compete. Decline set in when thedocks and gasworks closed in the 1960s, and it has remained a pocketof neglect ever since, surrounded by leafy west London affluence.Today, it is still known for ...
A load of hot air
May 05, 2002; ... You may have heard about some changes in the Building Regs. Therevised "Part L" of the regulations, covering the conservation ofenergy, has been trumpeted as a worthy initiative to reduce carbondioxide emissions - and the Government-funded Energy Saving Trust(EST) has taken out full-page ...
How Rosemary's garden grows Rosemary Verey was 'the queen of horticulture'. Now her house, and its acclaimed three-acre garden, is for sale, reports Graham Norwood
May 05, 2002; ... No country house is complete without fine grounds, but at BarnsleyHouse in Gloucestershire the garden comes with a worldwidereputation. It was the home and love of the late Rosemary Verey, described bythe Prince of Wales as the queen of horticulture. Hers was thequintessential ...
Opening this week Matisse Picasso at Tate Modern
May 05, 2002; ... In the winter of 1945, as a fillip to morale after six long yearsof war-imposed isolation from Europe, the V & A hastily arranged aMatisse/Picasso exhibition. Its effect was to inspire and influence ageneration of British artists. The new century opens with a secondMatisse Picasso show, ...
Classical CDs
May 05, 2002; ... Puccini Madama Butterfly (original version) (Naxos 8.660078-79, 2CDs, pounds 9.99). This is the two-act version of Butterfly that metwith such first-night disaster and derision in Milan in 1904. It wasrevised for Brescia three months later and again for Paris in 1906.What we usually hear ...
Rock CDs
May 05, 2002; ... Tom Waits Alice and Blood Money (Anti Inc, pounds 14.99 each) Hedrinks, he croaks, he sings like a barking seal: but hasn't theshambling lush with the annoying little chin-beard delighted usenough by now? Well, that's certainly what I thought before I playedhis two latest offerings, ...
Concerts
May 05, 2002; ... Brighton Festival 01273 709709, Dome, today, 8pm: Leonard Slatkinconducts the National SO of Washington and Brighton Festival Chorusin the opening concert - Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, Schuller'sSeven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee and Dvorak's New World Symphony. Music Room, ...
DVDs
May 05, 2002; ... La ville est tranquille (Artificial Eye, 15, pounds 19.99). RobertGuediguian, a realist, humanist and socialist, is considered France's Ken Loach. This cross-section of proletarian life in his native Marseilles interweaves several stories, mostlydownbeat but underpinned ...
Opera
May 05, 2002; ... Royal Opera 020 7304 4000. Roberto Alagna and Angela Gheorghiu innew production by Nicolas Joel of Puccini's La Rondine (Tue, Fri),conducted by Gianluigi Gelmetti. Jose Cura in Verdi's Il Trovatore(tmw; Sat). Concert performances of Strauss's Daphne (Sat, May 15)with Alexandra von der ...
Theatre
May 05, 2002; ... Edward III Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon, 01789 403403, tmw-Wed, Sat;in rep to Sep 14. A chronicle play about Edward's wars in Scotlandand France. Scholars have increasingly argued that some or all of itis by Shakespeare, and Anthony Clarke's sturdy production makes sucha view seem ...
Rock
May 05, 2002; ... Bob Dylan Will probably still be touring when Gareth Gates andWill Young are pensioners. Bournemouth International Centre, tonight,01202 456 456; Cardiff Arena, Mon, 02920 224 488; Newcastle Arena,Wed, 0870 707 8000; Manchester Evening News Arena, Thur, 0161 9308000; Birmingham NEC, Fri, ...
Cinema
May 05, 2002; ... Italian for Beginners (15). In this light romantic comedy, sixcrisis-stricken Danes come together and fall in love through a localItalian evening class. This is the first Dogme film to be directed bya woman (Lone Scherfig); the acting is universally accomplished, andeveryone manages to ...
Dance
May 05, 2002; ... Birmingham Royal Ballet Hippodrome, Birmingham 0870 730 1234, Wed-Sat. David Bintley's company dance Bintley's own Carmina Buranawittily designed by Philip Prowse and set to the Carl Orff score andPowder, a Mozart ballet by the Australian choreographer StantonWelch. First Class ...
Art
May 05, 2002; ... A Century of Queens' Wedding Dresses 1840-1947 Kensington Palace,W2 020 7937 9561, to April 27 2003. Five royal wedding dresses, including Queen Victoria's, the Queen Mother'sand the Queen's to celebrate the Golden Jubilee. John Sell Cotman (1782-1842) British ...
WPA adopts French model
May 05, 2002; ... A MEDICAL insurance company has taken a lead from across theChannel with a new policy aimed at tapping into the growingpopularity of self-funded medical treatment in the UK. Western Provident Association will this week launch a policy thatpays only 75 per cent of any claim, leaving ...
Equitable has 'very little scope' to pay bonuses
May 05, 2002; ... EQUITABLE Life may have less scope to pay future bonuses than itsreport and accounts appear to show, according to an influentialanalyst. Ned Cazalet said the fund from which Equitable's bonuses will bepaid would have fallen to zero in the absence of an accountingchange. But he ...
Get the Abbey habit and top up your mobile
May 05, 2002; ... ABBEY National has joined forces with Orange to allow customers totop up their pre-pay mobile phones at 3,000 cashpoints across the UK. The agreement, due to be announced this week, is expected to befollowed by a series of similar deals between banks, buildingsocieties and mobile ...
WHERE IS WALL STREET LEADING US?
May 05, 2002 ... The Dow Jones Industrial Average has climbed to pre-Septemberlevels and the US is technically no longer in recession, but ...
Split cap investors urged to rethink going to court
May 05, 2002; ... ANXIOUS split-capital trust investors could be jeopardising theirchances of winning compensation by paying solicitors to act on theirbehalf rather than using the free Financial Ombudsman Service. The Financial Services Authority is understood to be concernedthat investors may be ...
Punch woos public with special Isa
May 05, 2002; ... PUNCH Taverns is creating a special Isa for its flotation toencourage private investors to participate in its forthcoming sharesale. The privately-controlled pubs group has linked with the Halifax tolaunch the Isa. The initiative comes at a time of widespread City anxiety ...
ITV Digital's collapse
May 05, 2002; ... ITV Digital's collapse looks set to propel its knitted Monkey intoan even more high-profile career writes Damian Reece. Clear ChannelInternational, the advertising and entertainment group, has offeredpounds 100,000 to ...
US deal will net Smurfits pounds 200m
May 05, 2002; ... Michael Smurfit and his family stand to make pounds 200m from theplanned pounds 2bn acquisition of Jefferson Smurfit group by MadisonDearborn Partners, the US private equity group. The family owns 10per cent of the company with Smurfit personally holding the lion'sshare. Smurfit, ...
Stelios plans pounds 100m EasyJet shares sale
May 05, 2002; ... STELIOS Haji-Ioannou, the founder and out-going chairman ofEasyJet, is preparing to sell shares this week in the low-costairline that could net him and his family more than pounds 100m. Thesale is linked to his company's planned takeover of Go, which isexpected to be announced on ...
Celtic and Rangers raise TV rights stakes
May 05, 2002; ... CELTIC FC, the defeated Scottish FA Cup finalists, are innegotiation with the Nationwide Football League about a deal tomaximise television rights revenues through a move that would take itand Rangers into the English first division. Controversial talks between Dermot Desmond, ...
Revenue raids George Davies
May 05, 2002; ... GEORGE Davies, the business icon and fashion designer whose PerUna range is credited with rescuing Marks & Spencer, is beinginvestigated by the Inland Revenue's Special Compliance Unit. Officers from the specialist unit, which investigates suspectedserious fraud or substantial ...
Don't be a follower of fashion
May 05, 2002; ... MANY investors are expressing their frustration that the market isin the doldrums and lacks any quality buying ideas. Compulsiveplayers talk up prospects here and there, but usually cash in as soonas possible. The ups and downs of Laura Ashley's share price over the past yearare ...
Listen up . . . and get the banks on the record
May 05, 2002; ... ALL CALLS made to certain banks and insurance companies are tapedand stored in archives - and the trend is growing. Does this make you feel (a) threatened (b) pleased or (c)indifferent? If you answered (a) or (c) go to the back of the class. Thecorrect answer is ...
Hill loses exclusivity
May 05, 2002 ... PEARSON, the media group which owns the Financial Times, hascalled off exclusive talks with Stephen Hill, the former chiefexecutive of the FT Group, over the sale of the company's specialistmagazine business. The talks are understood to have broken down on Thursday night,three ...
Friends tie-up talks
May 05, 2002 ... FRIENDS Provident, the life insurer, is in talks aboutdistributing its products through Countrywide Assured's network ofestate agents. Under the complex deal, which could be worth more than pounds100m, Friends would make an up-front payment of about pounds 70m andCountrywide ...
Terry Green heads for the exit at BHS
May 05, 2002; ... TERRY Green, who was lured from Debenhams to run BHS in September2000, is preparing to quit his role as chief executive of the generalstore chain. The highly ambitious Green is believed to be looking for troubledretail businesses to buy, revive and sell on. Friends say he has ...
BT in talks to buy Scoot.com
May 05, 2002; ... BT IS in advanced talks to buy Scoot.com, the former wonder stockof the internet boom that was once worth over pounds 2.5bn and wastipped to join the FTSE100 Index. Terry Martin, the chief executive of Scoot.com, has been holdingdiscussions with BT for a number of weeks. Martin ...
Apax at head of queue for NCP car parks auction
May 05, 2002; ... APAX, the venture capital company bidding with Dawnay Day, theboutique property investment bank, has emerged as the front runner inthe pounds 800m auction of National Car Parks. BC Partners, one of Europe's largest private equity groups, isalso still thought to be in the running ....
Enron rescue strategy disclosed
May 05, 2002; ... ENRON, the energy giant which collapsed into bankruptcy inDecember, plans to split off its core operations into an independentcompany which would be owned by Enron's creditors. The new company, dubbed OpCo Energy Company, would have assets ofalmost $11bn and earnings next year of ...