The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from July 2005:
Dahl was a force unto himself Roald Dahl mercilessly mocked the fat, the stupid, the ugly - and was rewarded with the devotion of millions of young readers. As a new film of 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' opens, children's writer Anthony Horowitz - a long-time Dahl fan and rival - marvels at the staying power of cheerful malevolence
Jul 03, 2005; ... There must be some mistake. The biggest children's film of thesummer comes out on July 29 and it's not based on any of the heavy-hitters that have been making the news recently. Which is to say, itisn't Northern Lights, to be directed by Chris Weitz (About a Boy).Nor is it Artemis Fowl, ...
And another thing... Elbow gymnastics and a difficult delivery
Jul 03, 2005; ... Did you know that it is not possible to lick your own elbow? Imention this as a harmless activity to attempt while you are on thephone. Let me confess that I am feeling curmudgeonly: crusty, ill-tempered, and possibly turning into a man - it must be the heat. It'sthe ancient, vexed ...
Strictly Natasha The BBC presenter and 'Come Dancing' star once vowed never to talk publicly about herself. Now, for the first time, Natasha Kaplinsky speaks frankly about her family, growing up in Africa - and her whirlwind engagement
Jul 03, 2005; ... Meeting Natasha Kaplinsky is, quite frankly, a bit of adisappointment. She is, after all, regularly characterised as "themost ambitious woman in broadcasting''; a woman who, if the tabloidpress is to be believed, likes to spend her spare time cacklingwickedly and hatching Machiavellian ...
Yes, time can heal an ailing heart In Sickness and in Health
Jul 03, 2005; ... Sometimes the obvious advice is not necessarily the best. Thus, ina recent article in our sister paper on the hazards of heart diseasein hamsters, as shown by their getting breathless while on the wheel,a senior vet is quoted as saying: "We would normally tell the ownerto take the wheel ...
As the pedals turned, my whole life changed At 32, Jemima Lewis still didn't know how to ride a bicycle. So she booked a lesson, found a steep hill, and - to her amazement and delight - she was off
Jul 03, 2005; ... Make yourself visible. Tempting though it is to stick to cyclelanes and hug the kerb, you are safest in the middle of the road,where everyone can see you. Bicycle fast: that way, car drivers won't mind you sharing theirlane. Keep at least 3ft away from any cars parked on the ...
My Regime The joys of a heavy rucksack
Jul 03, 2005; ... When I am writing a book, I tend to keep strict working hours. Iwill start at about 8.30am, have a light lunch at 12.30pm, followedby a quick nap and then more writing. I'm a big man who's built morefor knocking posts into the ground than sitting around and writingall day, which can make ...
The unique mystery of the horse A new Stubbs exhibition reveals the great British artist's powers of transfiguration, writes Andrew Graham-Dixon
Jul 03, 2005; ... Closely associated with lesser genres such as portraiture orequestrian painting, 18th-century British art is frequentlymisrepresented. It is easily caricatured as a rather narrow field ofactivity - the small and servile skill of painting milord's wife, hishorse and his dog. What such a ...
Subversion on canvas Meredith Etherington-Smith visits the Saatchi Gallery for an exclusive preview of the new 'Triumph of Painting' show
Jul 03, 2005; ... The second part of The Triumph of Painting, Charles Saatchi's two-year series of shows devoted to his more recent acquisitions, opensthis week at County Hall. For this tightly curated show, five of thesix artists featured are German, one Polish; there are no Britishartists - they're ...
Other films
Jul 03, 2005; ... Imaginary Heroes (18) Something terrible has happened to Sigourney Weaver. She's turnedinto Susan Sarandon. Once a smart and subtle actress, Weaver seems tohave been studying Mrs Tim Robbins's withering matriarch routine (seethe hellish The Banger Sisters) and somehow, somehow, ...
Bombarded with truisms Television
Jul 03, 2005; ... Last week was a pretty big one for me: I got married. Soon, nodoubt, I will be able to utter these words without an accompanyingyelp of disbelief, but right now that moment still seems some wayoff. In the years ahead the two of us will inevitably face what Ibelieve are known as ...
It's sex or nothing Radio
Jul 03, 2005; ... Michel Houellebecq, the great French nihilist, believes that ourability to love has been much eroded by sexual liberation. "Love as akind of innocence and as a capacity for illusion ... rarely resists ayear of sexual immorality, and never two,'' he observed in his firstnovel, ...
Alien tripods and their slippery ways War of the Worlds Dig!
Jul 03, 2005; ... In the original The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells's novel about analien takeover, the invaders first landed in Woking, England. Butwhile Woking might indeed one day prove a desirable location foralien life forms, it was not appealing to Steven Spielberg, who forhis new film War of the ...
The profoundly unstoppable drumming diva Percussionist superstar Evelyn Glennie lives to work. If she's not playing, she's planning - a chain of cafs, part two of her autobiography. She talks to Catherine Shoard
Jul 03, 2005; ... Evelyn Glennie can't go five minutes without hitting something.Nothing is safe from her sticks - not the radiator, not my coffeecup, not the yucca in the corner. And when the world's one and onlydeaf female superstar percussionist isn't actually drumming, she'stalking about it: stroking ...
Berkoff's awful big adventure
Jul 03, 2005; ... Theatre Richard II The President of an Empty Room Telstar Don Quixote The audience at the Ludlow Festival swarms through the market,towards the castle, over the grassy moat, to their seats. Among themare the mayor, his aldermen and their wives. Those ...
Essence of Moor
Jul 03, 2005; ... Opera Otello Zmire et Azor Verdi's Otello dominates opera in England this month. Glyndebourneis shortly to revive its Peter Hall production and the Royal Opera isstaging six performances of Elijah Moshinsky's, first seen in 1987(when Carlos Kleiber was the conductor) and good ...
Such strange alchemy
Jul 03, 2005; ... Pop 1 Coldplay With the mystifying exception of a man carrying a twice life-sizecardboard cut-out of Kylie Minogue, the crowd that pours into CrystalPalace stadium displays few of the usual badges of tribal allegiance.Forget pink mohicans or zoot suits, this is an audience ...
Flowerpot men in the mud
Jul 03, 2005; ... Pop 3 Glastonbury Glastonbury 2005 will be remembered as one of the muddiest in thefestival's 35-year history. With up to 700 tents rendereduninhabitable by the early Friday downpour, stories of soddenfestival-goers swimming for their belongings were already reachingthat ...
A voice of Gothic soul
Jul 03, 2005; ... Pop 2 Patti Smith On the penultimate night of her Meltdown season, 30 years afterthe release of her wild, visionary debut album Horses, Patti Smithfloats like a butterfly onto the stage at the Royal Festival Hall anddoes what very few others could do. Before she sings Horses ...
The presidency at any price Harry Mount sifts revelation from exaggeration in a sensationalist Life of Hillary Clinton
Jul 03, 2005; ... HILLARY-HATERS will be disappointed by the real story behind thisbook's most scandalous charge, the one that dominated Americanheadlines last month before being widely pooh-poohed - that Billraped her and that Chelsea is the product of the union. The truth was that, on a drunken ...
From Masonic rituals to Millwall John Gross finds crime and mumbo jumbo in the East End but where's the Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay?
Jul 03, 2005; ... ED GLINERT's sketchbook of East End history opens with the promiseof dark legends and flesh-creeping revelations. The East End, hetells us, is - or was - "a bizarre world'', characterised by"strangeness and savagery'', "devilment and danger''. It is also anarea "which has long been ...
A far from elementary novel Julian Barnes has turned a real-life mystery into a story that is both emotionally and morally subtle, says Caroline Moore
Jul 03, 2005; ... JULIAN BARNES has managed, in his excellent new novel, to combinepotentially incompatible virtues. Arthur & George is a historicalnovel, drawing upon the once-notorious and still creepily disturbingGreat Wyrley Outrages, which began at the end of the 19th century: itis both meticulously ...
The caveman in all of us Noel Malcolm finds out what a Neolithic tooth and an axe mark can add to the story of British identity
Jul 03, 2005; ... THERE IS NO book so sensible that it cannot be rendered slightlyabsurd by a publisher's blurb. "At a time of political devolution,immigration, globalisation and European referendums,'' announces thepublicity handout for this book, "The Tribes of Britain provides atimely historical ...
Less of a sea, more of an organism with shores Christopher Clark on an engaging historical panorama of the people who have fought and traded around the Baltic
Jul 03, 2005; ... OF THE TWO seas that top and tail the European peninsula, theBaltic occupies a subordinate place in the European imagination.Poets and holidaymakers have preferred the scents of thyme and lemonblossom of the south to the notes of tar, timber and herring thatride the cooler air of ...
A wounded poet shows her claws Edward Smith finds the author of this travel memoir purring at big cats but snarling at an ex-boyfriend
Jul 03, 2005; ... TRAVELOGUE, memoir, a study in natural history, and an explorationof love, Tigers in Red Weather is a clever and curious book by thepoet Ruth Padel about her obsession with tigers. Armed with hergranny's opera glasses and wearing a pair of cheap Tunisian trainers,she goes on holiday to ...
Great surges of detestation Christopher Hitchens' essays show that like all great haters, he has his sentimental side, says John Preston
Jul 03, 2005; ... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, as he readily acknowledges in thiscollection of reviews and essays, has a pretty good life. He has nomoney worries, he's in reasonable physical shape - despite a littlesponginess around the middle - and he has three children, whom heplainly adores. So why then, he ...
Double-crossing double agents The fall of the Berlin Wall, as many spies as there are plots... David Robson enjoys an accomplished retro-thriller
Jul 03, 2005; ... "JESUS, YOUR LIFE is so complicated,'' grumbles Dr RudiRosenharte, as a pretty Mata Hari type plants amorous kisses on hischin. He never said a truer word. Ulrike Klaar, alias Kafka, is anEast German agent who may or not be a CIA double-agent, but iscertainly up to no good with an Arab ...
Still mad about the boys
Jul 03, 2005; ... IF YOU liked Melissa Bank's best-selling debut, The Girls' Guideto Hunting and Fishing, chances are you'll like her follow-up, too.They're all but identical. Most authors have a go at revamping theirstyle over six years. Not Bank - she's just stuck her first book inthe photocopier and ...
Brutish and short
Jul 03, 2005; ... JOYCE CAROL OATES's latest novel does exactly what it says on thewrapper. It is a short, nasty story about rape, which comes straightto the point in its verbless first sentence: "After she was gang-raped, kicked and beaten and left to die on the floor of the filthyboathouse at Rocky ...
TITLE DEED HOW DID CELEBRATED BOOKS GET THEIR NAMES? The story behind James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice
Jul 03, 2005; ... JAMES M. CAIN's classic noir thriller of 1934 was originallyentitled Bar-B-Q. His publisher, Alfred Knopf, didn't like the titleand asked for a change, so Cain substituted The Postman Always RingsTwice. Knopf was mystified. There is no postman in the book, and nomention of the phrase ....
A year in the life of a literary magpie This eclectic record of a voracious reader impresses Nicholas Bagnall
Jul 03, 2005; ... ALBERTO MANGUEL, littrateur extraordinaire, decided to keep a year-long record of what he was reading in 2002-3 and this is the result. His tastes are wide, encompassing Cervantes, H.G. Wells's TheIsland of Dr Moreau, Kipling's Kim, Margaret Atwood and KennethGrahame, as well as ...
Paperbacks
Jul 03, 2005; ... Eating up Italy: Voyages on a Vespa by Matthew Fort Harper Perennial, pounds 7.99 THE AWARD-winning food writer travelled by scooter through Italy,from Calabria in the extreme south to Turin in the north, eating,drinking, talking and noting as he went. He discovered a land ...
The Literary Life
Jul 03, 2005; ... THE REAL reason for Saddam Hussein's failure to comply with UNresolutions on the eve of the invasion of Iraq can now be revealed:he was distracted by literature. The dictator is a seasoned novelistand the ink on his latest work, Get Out, You Damned One, wasapparently still wet when the ...
The dangers of doing good Caroline Moorehead on an aid worker who found that the helpers need help too
Jul 03, 2005; ... THERE IS A haunting incident at the beginning of Where SoldiersFear to Tread, John Burnett's account of his experiences as ahumanitarian aid worker in Somalia during the floods of 1997-8.Driving back into his compound in Kismayo, his car is stopped by a 10-year-old soldier with a ...
Poker
Jul 03, 2005; ... You cannot move these days without being assailed by adverts forthe internet poker sites gliding effortlessly towards global stockmarket domination, and the London Underground is no refuge. "Badpoker face?'' asks a tube train poster for the biggest of them all,beside a picture of a ...
Rock CDs
Jul 03, 2005; ... Royksopp: The Understanding (Wall Of Sound, pounds 12.99). For a nasty moment, I feared that the Bergen duo's second albumwasn't going to be a patch on its million-selling predecessor MelodyAM. Partly, there seemed to be no chorus quite as impossibly grabby asthe liquid ...
Opening this week Mostly Mozart at the Barbican
Jul 03, 2005; ... The Barbican's Mostly Mozart festival, now in its fourth year,starts this Friday and will keep those with an insatiable appetitefor the classical repertoire busy and happy over the next fourweekends (0845 120 7537 and www.barbican.org.uk). The concerts willalso keep happy those with an ...
Rock
Jul 03, 2005; ... R.E.M. The imperishable Georgians play a string of open-airspectaculars with support from Feeder, the Zutons and Idlewild. HullKC Stadium, Tue, 0870 011 7900; Nottingham Forest Football Club, Wed,0871 230 2633; Ipswich Town Football Club, Fri, 0870 0600 800; LondonHyde Park Sat, 0870 400 ...
Opera
Jul 03, 2005; ... Glyndebourne 0173 813813. New production by David McVicar ofHandel's Giulio Cesare (tnt, Thur), conducted by William Christiewith Sarah Connolly in title-role and Angelika Kirchschlager asSesto. Die Zauberflte (Wed) conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras. LaCenerentola (Sat). Royal ...
Cinema
Jul 03, 2005; ... In My Father's Den (15). The British actor Matthew Macfadyen (bestknown for the television dramas Warriors and Spooks) stars as PaulPrior, a disillusioned war correspondent who returns to his remotehome town in New Zealand after his father's death. Once he encounters16-year-old Celia ...
Art
Jul 03, 2005; ... Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era, Tate Liverpool, 0151702 7400, to Sep 25. From art, music, film and fashion to posters,album covers, underground magazines and hallucinogenic drugs, thisshow takes a serious look at the psychedelic art and culture of the1960s and early ...
Theatre
Jul 03, 2005; ... As You Like It Wyndham's Theatre, 0870 060 6633, to Sep 3. What alark, what a romp, what an entertainment. Bubbling with brightcameos, WWF-style wrestling, roundelays and the lilting accordionmusic of Lisa-Lee Leslie, this play is Shakespeare as a musical rom-com set in post-war France ....
Concerts
Jul 03, 2005; ... Cheltenham Music Festival, 01242 227979, Pittville Pump Room, Mon,11am: the Rosamande Quartet plays the First String Quartets ofShostakovich and Valentin Silvestrov (a British premiere), followedby Schubert's great G major Quartet D887. Tue, 11am: violinistViviane Hagner is accompanied ...
Dance
Jul 03, 2005; ... Akram Khan Sadler's Wells, London EC1, 0870 737 7737, Fri to Jul16: The hip and happening Khan joins forces with Flemish Moroccandancemaker Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui to create Zero Degrees with acommissioned score from Nitin Sawhney and designs by Antony Gormley,including life-sized casts of ...
DVDs
Jul 03, 2005; ... The Door in the Floor (Momentum, 15, DVD, pounds 17.99). TodWilliams's adaptation of a John Irving novel keeps the expositiontantalisingly concealed until the last scene, when everything thatseemed meandering suddenly becomes clear. A first-class psychologicalstudy, with Jeff Bridges ...
Classical CDs
Jul 03, 2005; ... Verdi: La Forza del Destino (original version). Arroyo, Collins,Glossop, BBC Singers & Concert Orch./Matheson (Opera Rara ORCV304, 3CDs, pounds 29.99). Verdians will be grateful to Opera Rara, the BBC and the PeterMoores Foundation for the series of recordings of the first ...
Can the Fulfords clean up? 'Don't glue that wallpaper - it's so authentic' The entrepreneur Peter de Savary thinks that a few changes to their ancestral home could make the Fulfords f*lthy rich. But, as Rory Knight Bruce soon discovers, these unlikely stars of reality television are not easily convinced
Jul 03, 2005; ... It is Monday morning at Peter de Savary's pounds 29 million BoveyCastle club and hotel in Devon. Noel Edmonds' ex-wife is on the golfcourse and a blonde in barely a thong is splashing about in theplunge pool. Since opening Bovey 18 months ago, with its tinkling piano musicand ...
Charity begins with a home
Jul 03, 2005; ... When Dave Gilmour played at last night's Live 8 concert, it wasnot the first time that the Pink Floyd guitarist had done his bit forcharity. In 2003, Gilmour sold his house in Little Venice, westLondon, to Earl Spencer and gave the entire pounds 3.6 millionproceeds to Crisis. It was the ...
An old house that is young at heart Outside it looks like a row of 18th-century cottages. Inside, Trock's Mill is all glass and open spaces. Eluned Price reports on a total transformation
Jul 03, 2005; ... The exterior of Trock's Mill is charming. A long low house thatspeaks clearly of its origins as three 18th-century cottages, with aRegency veranda and fretwork running the length of its faade, itwants for nothing in terms of authenticity. The little carved timbercanopies over each of the ...
The outlook's bright The interior designer Nina Campbell shows how to dress the home for summer
Jul 03, 2005; ... When the weather is hot, the home can feel unpleasantly stuffy,especially if it is still wrapped in thick and itchy winter fabrics.But it doesn't have to be: a few simple changes can cool down yourrooms and bring the freshness of the outdoors in. It is nice to start this process in ...
Pity the people living in Prescott's prefabs On the Level A builder gives it to you straight
Jul 03, 2005; ... The Deputy Prime Minister's plans for hundreds of thousands of newhomes to be built across the South of England are starting to look abit rocky. In the first place, the levelling off of house pricesmeans that the big developers are reviewing their finances, and plansfor several large ...
Condensing boilers
Jul 03, 2005; ... I have read with interest your advice to avoid combinationboilers. However, my boiler is 20 years old and will need replacingsoon, and I have been told that new regulations mean that I mustreplace it with a "combi'' boiler. This will involve major changes tothe pipework and cost several ...
Leaning chimney
Jul 03, 2005; ... My chimney stack has lost a brick and is leaning a little after afew nights of high winds. I asked the insurance company whether I hada valid claim, and was told I did not because it was due to sulphateattack of the mortar. When I asked them how they identified sulphateattack, the answer ...
My Property Nightmare The disappearing garden
Jul 03, 2005 ... George and Ann Bragg live in a quiet and secluded part ofBristol. Many of the houses in their road are detached, and thespacious gardens and groves of trees are a haven for birds. So itcame as a shock to them when one of their neighbours announced thathe wanted to build a dormer ...
GARDEN SOLUTIONS Asian vegetables
Jul 03, 2005; ... For some years, I have been convinced that the Japanese diet isone of the tastiest and healthiest in the world. Flavour is giventop priority in the growing of their wide range of vegetables, and atlast we're catching on. Last week Raymond Blanc opened to the public his new ...
Garden Notebook
Jul 03, 2005 ... BUY OF THE WEEK Anyone looking for something to keep the children entertainedwould do well to consider a Root Viewer Kit, pounds 7.99, byLetterbox. The three perspex test tubes come with onion, carrot andradish seeds, compost and a journal for recording the vegetables'progress ...
URBAN GARDENER A touch of the Deep South
Jul 03, 2005; ... Odd, whose heavenly range of outdoor furniture and accessories were the toast of this year's Chelsea Flower Show, sells the mostcovetable swing seat, modelled on an original that belonged to theowner's aunt. Not cheap at pounds 2,799, the "Old Rocker'' is madein England and comes ...
Chrysalis puts its money on Chris Wright's privately owned horses
Jul 03, 2005; ... CHRYSALIS, the listed radio and music publishing group that ownsthe Heart and Galaxy stations, has been using shareholders' money tosponsor race horses belonging to its founder and chairman, ChrisWright. In an apparent mixing of Wright's private interests and those ofthe public ...
Schroders makes a late entry in the race for Deutsche Asset Management
Jul 03, 2005; ... SCHRODERS has joined the race for Deutsche Asset Management withan eleventh hour bid for the fund manager. The battle for Deutsche had looked like a two-horse race betweenAberdeen Asset Management and BNP Paribas. It is understood thatAberdeen had been the favourite to snap up DeAM ...
'We will sue the Government for billions' Leading fund manager warns of massive new legal claim if small shareholders win their Railtrack class action
Jul 03, 2005; ... THE Government faces a multi-billion pound claim for damages frominstitutional investors in Railtrack if it loses the case currentlybeing fought against it in the High Court by small shareholders. The small shareholders claim that Railtrack was dishonestly forcedinto administration ...
Baugur offers to withdraw from Somerfield bid
Jul 03, 2005; ... BAUGUR, the Icelandic retailer, has told its partners in theconsortium bidding for Somerfield, the supermarket retailer, that itis willing to withdraw from the high-profile bid in the wake of thefraud charges brought last week against Jon Asgeir Johannesson,Baugur's chief ...
Von Pierer tipped to take chair at Royal Dutch Shell
Jul 03, 2005; ... HEINRICH von Pierer, the respected former boss of Siemens, theGerman industrial giant, has emerged as a leading candidate to becomethe new chairman of Shell. Von Pierer has been short-listed to chair the Anglo-Dutch oilgroup, which is close to completing the merger of its two ...
NCP struggles to find pounds 500m offer
Jul 03, 2005; ... THE auction of NCP, the parking services business, is flagging,with several shortlisted potential buyers unlikely to make a bid byThursday's deadline for best and final offers. One executive close to the auction process, which is beingconducted by Citigroup, the investment bank, ...
Priory sale set to raise over pounds 600m for Doughty Hanson
Jul 03, 2005; ... THE auction of Priory Healthcare, Britain's biggest chain ofprivate psychiatric hospitals and purveyor of rehab to celebrities,looks set to raise pounds 650m. Final offers for the business are due in tomorrow. It isunderstood that the UK venture capital groups Apax Partners, ...
Business tapped in $550m Africa fund
Jul 03, 2005; ... ANGLO AMERICAN, the mining company, and Barclays, the bank, planto back a $550m ( pounds 309m) fund to improve conditions forinvestment in Africa. The so-called Investment Climate Facility for Africa will belaunched by Niall FitzGerald, the chairman of Reuters, and PresidentMkapa ...
Sibir asks SFO to act on $1.5bn oil loss
Jul 03, 2005; ... LAWYERS acting for Sibir Energy, the oil minnow, are consideringasking the Serious Fraud Office to investigate the circumstancessurrounding the loss of a stake in an oil field in Russia worth$1.5bn ( pounds 850m). Sibir, which is listed on London's Alternative Investment ...