The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from December 2007:
class act christmas tv special three decades of parky jacqueline wilson on 'ballet shoes' doctor who's secrets foreign tv at christmas long-lost star wars special ITS SNOOTY HUMOUR WORKED WELL IN THE 1980S. BUT CAN 'TO THE MANOR BORN' STILL CUT IT? NIGEL FARNDALE LOOKS FORWARD - SORT OF - TO A NEW EPISODE
Dec 02, 2007; ... What intrigues most about To the Manor Born is not how dated itseems now, but how dated it seemed then - then being 1979, when thefirst episode was shown. It seemed to represent a world of snobberythat belonged to a more complacent and twee era. Possibly the 1950s.Certainly not the ...
DANGER! GEEKS AT WORK
Dec 02, 2007; ... THERE IS A PLACE IN CALIFORNIA called the Lawrence LivermoreNational Laboratory. It is home to the world's fastest computer andtheir cheerily named National Ignition Facility is working on theworld's largest laser. This government-funded lab is where manygeeks with massive craniums get ...
class act christmas tv special three decades of parky jacqueline wilson on 'ballet shoes' doctor who's secrets foreign tv at christmas long-lost star wars special ITS SNOOTY HUMOUR WORKED WELL IN THE 1980S. BUT CAN 'TO THE MANOR BORN' STILL CUT IT? NIGEL FARNDALE LOOKS FORWARD - SORT OF - TO A NEW EPISODE
Dec 02, 2007; ... What intrigues most about To the Manor Born is not how dated itseems now, but how dated it seemed then - then being 1979, when thefirst episode was shown. It seemed to represent a world of snobberythat belonged to a more complacent and twee era. Possibly the 1950s.Certainly not the ...
seven says this is the week to ... 02.12.07 DO THIS OR THAT
Dec 02, 2007; ... MAKE a total pudding of yourself as the annual charity GreatChristmas Pudding Race wreaks fancy-dress havoc in London's CoventGarden. Saturday 8 Dec; www.xmaspuddingrace.org.uk RELIVE former glories today as an England legends XI (Gascoigne,Waddle, Shearer) tackle a Rest of the ...
tip-toeing back in time christmas tv special CHILDREN'S AUTHOR JACQUELINE WILSON RECAPTURES THE MAGIC OF NOEL STREATFEILD'S 'BALLET SHOES'
Dec 02, 2007; ... I had a little green Puffin paperback edition of Ballet Shoeswhen I was a child. I read it until it fell apart. I still knowwhole passages by heart. I felt as close to the three Fossil girlsas if they were my own sisters. I could never make up my mind which girl I liked the ...
world view christmas tv special IN SWEDEN, DONALD DUCK; IN SPAIN, THE LOTTERY; IN COLOMBIA, SINGERS BEING KICKED FOR GOOD LUCK. MARIANNA WALKER LOOKS AT CHRISTMAS TV WORLDWIDE
Dec 02, 2007; ... Spain There is usually a large helping of dated feel-goods on Spanishnetworks around Christmas, but the undisputed highlight is the hugeannual lottery: El Gordo - 'The Fat One'. This unfolds on 22December, giving out as much as two billion euros in recent years.In a procedure ...
the worst TV special ever WOULD CHEWBACCA MAKE IT HOME FOR 'LIFE DAY'? DID ANYONE CARE? PETER LYLE ON THE 'STAR WARS' CHRISTMAS TURKEY
Dec 02, 2007; ... 'Kasshyk.' That would be the answer to the question, if anyoneever asked it, but in this strange case, nobody does. 'What planetwere they on?' is an utterly understandable and, perhaps, inevitableresponse to hearing about, let alone viewing, the The Star WarsHoliday Special. It's the ...
the good, the bad, the emu christmas tv special THREATENED BY MUHAMMAD ALI, TAKEN FOR A RIDE BY ORSON WELLES, HUMILIATED BY MEG RYAN ... AS MICHAEL PARKINSON PREPARES FOR HIS FINAL SHOW, MARIANNA WALKER RECALLS HIS GREATEST HITS
Dec 02, 2007; ... Orson Welles was Parkinson's first coup. He agreed to appear inthe show's first year, 1971, but only, Parkinson recalls, 'if weknocked the first two rows out of a jet so he could sleep on amattress. We did it ... he walked on the plane, looked at themattress on the floor and smiled, and ...
THE SILENT KILLER INTERVIEW YOU HAVEN'T ARRIVED AS A POLITICIAN UNTIL MICHAEL COCKERELL HAS MADE A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT YOU. AS DAVID CAMERON JOINS THE RANKS OF THE 'COCKERELLED', THE BBC FILM-MAKER TELLS NIGEL FARNDALE: 'I WON'T SKIMP OR PLAY NASTY.' OR WILL HE?
Dec 02, 2007; ... THE ONLY SUBJECT ABOUT WHICH MICHAEL COCKERELL is evasive is hispolitics, paradoxically enough. Ask him about his industriousness onthe family front, for instance, and he will grin and say, 'I haveseven children. Can you believe it? Six daughters and a son. Twowith Anne, my first wife, ...
what are the welsh not telling us? WE TRY TO UNCOVER THE MYSTERIES OF THE FESTIVE 'DOCTOR WHO' SPECIAL
Dec 02, 2007; ... It's one of television's most closely guarded secrets since 'Whoshot JR?' - just what is going to happen in this year's Doctor WhoChristmas Special? We know it'll guest-star Kylie Minogue (right), opposite DavidTennant; we know it'll follow on directly from series three's ...
FOXY LADIES FILM ELIZABETH TAYLOR IN CLEOPATRA; KATE WINSLET ON THE PROW OF TITANIC; BETTY GRABLE'S LEGS ... THE ICONIC IMAGES IN 20TH CENTURY FOX'S ARCHIVE PRESENT A UNIQUE HISTORY OF GLAMOUR, SEDUCTION AND AIRBRUSHING. ROB EASTERLA, THEIR KEEPER, TELLS STUART HUSBAND THE STORIES BEHIND THE PICTURES
Dec 02, 2007; ... ROB EASTERLA'S WORKPLACE MAY SOUND CHILLINGLY Orwellian -Building 99, Vault 8 - but this contrasts all the more piquantlywith the treasures nestling within. For Building 99 is on the 20thCentury Fox studio lot in LA, and Vault 8 contains the studio's vastphotographic archive, of ...
glimpsing the soul of jesse The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Fred Claus
Dec 02, 2007; ... For those who know little of how the celebrated American robberJesse James met his end, the title of Andrew Dominik's film - TheAssassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (15) - rathergives it away. This film unfurls at considerable leisure in thelast, uneasy year of the ...
OTHER RELEASES Hitman This Christmas The Magic Flute The Nines
Dec 02, 2007; ... Hitman (15) Movies based on video games tend to get a bad press, doubtless onaccount of their flatpack plots, emotional nullity and enormousinterest in mass slaughter. Yet as such they're also oddly honest,distilling cinema to four basic ingredients - hero, baddie, girl,gun - and ...
DVD OF THE WEEK
Dec 02, 2007; ... NOSFERATU ????? Eureka, PG, pounds 21.99 1921's Nosferatu was the first Dracula film, but the Germanproduction company hadn't enough money to pay for the rights toadapt Bram Stoker's novel. So it changed the vampire's name to CountOrlok and hoped nobody would notice. For ...
DVDs Out this week
Dec 02, 2007; ... THE LENINGRAD COWBOYS COLLECTION ????? ARTIFICIAL EYE, 15, pounds 27.50 The Leningrad Cowboys are Finland's - no, the world's - worstrock band. They wear winkle-pickers ...
DVDs Out this week
Dec 02, 2007; ... AUSTIN POWERS ????? Optimum, 15, pounds 17.99 Yeah, baby: Mike Myers's hilarious spoof of 1960s spy films (notjust James Bond, but also those poor 007 imitations, such as theMatt ...
DVDs Out this week
Dec 02, 2007; ... 12.08 EAST OF BUCHAREST ????? Artificial Eye, 15, pounds 18.99 12.08 was the time Romanian TV announced Ceausescu's fall on 22December 1989. Come 2005, a regional TV talk-in asks what ...
DVDs Out this week
Dec 02, 2007; ... HEIMA ????? EMI, pounds 27.99 This isn't your usual band-on-tour documentary. It follows the2006 homecoming tour of Iceland's celestial-folk quartet Sigur Ros,as they gig in caves, fish factories and plains of volcanic ...
ART CHOICE
Dec 02, 2007; ... Keith Tyson Haunch of Venison, London W1 (020 7495 5050) to 5 Jan. The 2002 Turner Prize winner presents his madcap 'StudioWall Drawings', a sprawling personal diary of the ...
catalonia goes north Barcelona 1900
Dec 02, 2007; ... Barcelona 1900, at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, is anambitious and exhilarating sprawl of an exhibition, a brave attemptto recreate - in, of all places, grey and wintry Holland - somesense of what it was like to be alive in Spain's most vibrant citymore than a hundred years ...
catalonia goes north Barcelona 1900
Dec 02, 2007; ... Barcelona 1900, at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, is anambitious and exhilarating sprawl of an exhibition, a brave attemptto recreate - in, of all places, grey and wintry Holland - somesense of what it was like to be alive in Spain's most vibrant citymore than a hundred years ...
A great voyage of discovery King Lear Doubt
Dec 02, 2007; ... An actor playing the same part over many months can go one of twoways: either he gets into an ever more intimate relationship with itor he simply switches to autopilot. Happily Ian McKellen has takenthe former course with his King Lear, which I found technicallyaccomplished but lacking ...
BEST OF 2007 CDs
Dec 02, 2007; ... 'Oh my God what have I done? All I wanted was a little fun. Got abrain like bubblegum. Blowing up my cranium.' Hmm, I wonder whatthat sounds like when you're in a dark sweaty club completely offyour face. After six albums, you might imagine that Ed and Tom wouldhave long since turned ...
indie tribute band plays on Dizzee Rascal Babyshambles
Dec 02, 2007; ... For those needing to make a quick check on the high-street soundof young Britain, Wembley Arena presented a 1960s-style pop packagein nicely noisy but oddly perfunctory 21st-century indie disguise. Agood third of the venue has to be curtained off, because the demandfor this kind of ...
winter's best beach party IT'S 10 YEARS SINCE PORTISHEAD PUT ON A SHOW. SO DON'T MISS MINEHEAD NEXT WEEK, SAYS BEN THOMPSON
Dec 02, 2007; ... The jury is still out on the promoters' decision to relocate themuch-loved All Tomorrow's Parties brand from the atmospheric spit-and-sawdust enclave of Camber Sands Pontins to the relative luxuryof Butlins in Minehead. And the trading standards office might havesomething to say about ...
POP CHOICE
Dec 02, 2007; ... Gogol Bordello Violins, loud guitars, armies of peculiar dancersand a dose of Eastern European zaniness. London Hammersmith ...
shock of the screw The Turn of the Screw Das Wunder der Heliane
Dec 02, 2007; ... Good news, at last, from English National Opera. After fourconsecutive duds, the company is back on form with The Turn of the Screw. By hiring DavidMcVicar's production from the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, ENO was more or less guaranteed a success: evenallowing for ...
CDs Out this week
Dec 02, 2007; ... A sparkling performance under Eveline Pido's direction, withNatalie Dessay in prime voice as Amina, singing with great charm,style and poignancy, phrasing Bellini's long lines with deep feelingand affection. Needless to say, her technique is infallible. Pidouses the critical edition, ...
blather by appointment Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work Boy A Evicted Update
Dec 02, 2007; ... In the end it didn't much matter which direction the Queen wastravelling in, it was the lack of almost any momentum that scupperedMonarchy: The Royal Family at Work (Monday, BBC1). The film -terrifyingly, there are four more in the series - began with atriumphant burst of blather from ...
tiaras will be worn Jewels
Dec 02, 2007; ... Remember the old Mexican Truth Game? 'If this ballerina were acar, what car would she be? What flavour ice cream would she be?'And - most revealing of all - which of Balanchine's Jewels would shedance? First danced by New York City Ballet in 1967, Balanchine'ssumptuous triptych - ...
SPORT LEO MCKINSTRY KICKS, HITS, CLIMBS AND DRIVES HIS WAY THROUGH THE WORLD OF SPORT
Dec 02, 2007; ... Left Field: A Footballer Apart BY GRAEME LE SAUX HARPERSPORT, pounds 18.99 As befits one of England's most intelligent and thoughtful modernfootballers, Graeme Le Saux has produced a fascinatingautobiography. Born in the Channel Islands and taken on by Chelseawhile ...
PHOTOGRAPHY JUDITH FLANDERS SEES THE WORLD THROUGH THE EYES OF THE BEST PHOTOGRAPHERS
Dec 02, 2007; ... Magnum Magnum ED BY BRIGITTE LARDINOIS THAMES & HUDSON, pounds 95 The five-star Christmas present: a history of Magnum is a historyof photojournalism over the past 60 years. All the greats are here:Eve Arnold, the Capas (Cornell and Robert), Cartier-Bresson, ...
GARDENING ELSPETH THOMPSON REJOICES IN GREAT GARDENS, GREAT GARDENERS AND GREAT TIPS
Dec 02, 2007; ... Helen Dillon's Garden Book BY HELEN DILLON FRANCES LINCOLN, pounds 25 Helen Dillon is a great gardener and a great communicator - thetwo talents don't necessarily go together - and it is good to seeher writing published alongside photographs of her famous Dublintown ...
THESE POP EXPOSES TEMPT MELISSA KATSOULIS TO TAKE UP THE AIR GUITAR
Dec 02, 2007; ... George Michael: The Biography BY ROB JOVANOVIC, PORTRAIT, pounds 17.99 Here's one for thirtysomethings with a guilty pop past. GeorgeMichael instantly became cool again after his brush with the law andsubsequent refusal to pretend he is anything other than a gentle ...
INTERIORS ELFREDA POWNALL FINDS DECORATING INSPIRATION FOR BOTH MANSIONS AND SHOEBOXES
Dec 02, 2007; ... Apartment Living: Stylish Decorating Ideas for Flats and Lofts BY CAROLINE CLIFTON-MOGG RYLAND, PETERS & SMALL, pounds 19.99 Whatever its type, size or style, Caroline Clifton-Mogg believesevery flat can benefit from the application of basic ...
TITLE DEED HOW THE BOOK GOT ITS NAME 'the threepenny opera' by elisabeth Hauptmann and bertolt brecht
Dec 02, 2007; ... When the theatrical impresario Ernst Aufricht accepted themanuscript of The Threepenny Opera from Brecht in mid-1928, the workhe saw was almost entirely by Elisabeth Hauptmann. Hauptmann wasBrecht's theatrical factotum, and had cobbled the piece togetherfrom a translation of John Gay's ...
PETER GROGAN DESCRIBES HOW FORGED INSCRIPTIONS TEMPT BOOK COLLECTORS TO SIGN AWAY HUGE AMOUNTS OF MONEY WHAT'S IN A NAME? ABOUT pounds 10,000
Dec 02, 2007; ... The 'gentleman' who sidled into the rare books shop where I workcame to offer a first edition of Under Milk Wood signed by DylanThomas. He seemed a little furtive - and with good reason. Thomasnever lived to see his book in print. The '19 whiskies' which tookhim - gently or otherwise - ...
PAPERBACKS
Dec 02, 2007; ... POINT TO POINT NAVIGATION BY GORE VIDAL ABACUS, pounds 8.99 What a name-dropper! Eleanor Roosevelt, Orson Welles, JackKennedy, Princess Margaret - but the great man of letters really hasknown these people and in this second volume of memoirs he writesabout them with ...
PAPERBACKS
Dec 02, 2007; ... THE CASTLE IN THE FOREST BY NORMAN MAILER ABACUS, pounds 9.99 Norman Mailer's last novel, published shortly before his death,encapsulates the strengths and weaknesses of his career as a whole.Zig-zagging between fact and fiction, the book sprawls, and ...
VOLVOS ARE FAMED FOR THEIR QUIET SOLIDITY. SO WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE XC70, ASKS NEIL LYNDON
Dec 02, 2007; ... THE NEW VOLVO XC70 I BORROWED last week seemed not entirely to have grasped the point that itwas meant to be a Volvo. When, for instance, I gave the acceleratorpedal the test that is known among advanced drivers as 'a goodwellying', this beefy car would hesitate for a second - as ...
CHESS
Dec 02, 2007; ... FOR MORE THAN 10 YEARS, Fide, at the behest of its president,Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, has been trying to get chess recognised as anOlympic sport. This could be of great benefit to the game incountries such as the UK, where it receives little governmentfunding. I well recall how sniffy the UK ...
BRIDGE
Dec 02, 2007; ... IT IS ANNOYING ENOUGH to misplay a hand, but when the bidding has provided a blueprintof the defence's assets, that really hurts. Dealer West East/West Game S A 6 3 H 9 5 2 D J 8 C A Q 10 3 2 S K Q 7 2S 10 9 5 H K Q 7H ...
POKER
Dec 02, 2007; ... I HADN'T BEEN TO DOUGLAS'S home game in a long time but littlehad changed. It's a men-without-women, air-thick-with-smoke kind ofscene. The regular players include two builders, two painter-decorators, a couple of office workers, an artist, a televisionproducer, a property developer and ...
deep deep down There are no limits to today's basement conversions as space-hungry homeowners dig in. Katrina Burroughs reports
Dec 02, 2007; ... Whether it is Ricky Gervais's golf simulator, presently underconstruction beneath his Hampstead home, or the Foxtons' founder JonHunt's underground car museum, planned for his Kensington PalaceGardens villa, extravagant basement projects are now the loadedLondoner's extension of choice ....
HOW I FOUND MY WAY ROUND THE CELLAR CONVERSION
Dec 02, 2007; ... It was one of the reasons for buying my three-storey Victorianterrace house. No sooner had the then-owners opened a pine door fromthe hall, leading down worn, stone steps into a disused cellar thanI was sold. It wasn't enormous, but with 15ft by 12ft to play with,I could make it into a ...
BASEMENT BUYS
Dec 02, 2007 ... Grosvenor Crescent Mews, London, pounds 8 million. Four bedroomhouse in a gated mews in Belgravia by Landmass London, with basementfeaturing an atrium, zen garden, steam room and gym. Henry & James (020 7235 8861, www.henryandjames.co.uk). On the market fromJanuary. Beech ...
BASEMENT BUSINESS
Dec 02, 2007 ... The addition of a habitable basement is no overnight makeover.Before the first spadeful of soil hits the skip, you will need tohave done at least four to five months of preparation. * Every basement conversion requires building regulationsapproval, and planning permission will be ...
Altar is sacrificed, but chapel is saved
Dec 02, 2007; ... Out went the pews and altar; in came the designer red and blackfurniture and mood lighting. Mayfield Grange is a conversion with adifference: it has kept so many of its original features and vastopen spaces that it feels more like a chapel furnished as a homethan a home fashioned from a ...
Perfecting the art of showing off Designer Ken Goodall is an expert on exhibition spaces. And as Helen Gazeley reports, his Jubilee Lodge is a showcase of his style on a smaller scale
Dec 02, 2007; ... If there's one thing an exhibition designer needs to know it ishow to use space. And Ken Goodall knows better than most. In 1996,he won a top prize in the coveted Exhibit Design Awards, run by theAmerican Exhibitor Magazine, for the world's best trade show spaces.In his 30-year career as ...
High-tech, high style at high tide The new generation of homes on the water might float your boat, writes Sonia Purnell
Dec 02, 2007; ... Traditional houseboats are not everybody's cup of tea. Long,narrow, cramped and floral, they rarely appeal to the styleconscious, space-hungry or light-seeking. But that might be about tochange with the arrival in Britain of the high-tech, high-spec andhighly aspirational 21st-century ...
KEN GOODALL'S TOP TEN TIPS FOR CREATING SPACE IN THE HOME
Dec 02, 2007; ... 1. While the entrance to your home invites you in, not all theliving space should be visible from the front door. In an open-planinterior, ensure some parts are concealed - around corners or behindshelves. This makes the space more exciting 2. Don't, however, install fittings, such ...
Make the move and leave your worries behind The Big Move need not be a big hassle, writes Cheryl Markosky. Take the strain out of shifting house with our stress-busting guide
Dec 02, 2007; ... Psychologists consider moving house to be one of life's biggestcauses of stress, just behind bereavement and divorce, and yet weare doing it more than ever. People now aged between 18 to 25 willmove an average of 10 times in their lives - nearly double theaverage of 5.7 times members of ...
Call of the wild
Dec 02, 2007; ... In my opinion, the best mowers are the four-legged variety. Wehave kept pigs, sheep and cattle and apart from the fact that theykeep the grass and weeds neatly under control, it is idyllic to wakeup to views of contented cattle chewing the cud lazily in the earlymorning sunshine. Many ...
cut out 'flower miles' and buy british blooms
Dec 02, 2007; ... At this time of year, the garden offers less in the way offlowers for the house than usual. Of course, there are beautifulbranches of winter-flowering cherry and, later, the likes offragrant daphnes and wintersweet to cut and bring inside, and I lovemaking tiny arrangements of snowdrops ...
Defence industry fires warning shot over budget
Dec 02, 2007; ... DEFENCE industry chiefs have warned the Government that cuts tothe defence budget could undermine the capability of Britain's armedforces in the future. Mike Turner, the chief executive of BAE Systems and chairman ofthe Defence Industries Council, used a meeting last week ...
Malaysians build stake in Rank Gaming giant could spark bidding war or break-up of leisure group
Dec 02, 2007; ... ONE of Malaysia's richest families has bought a secret stake ofmore than 10 per cent in Rank, the bingo and casino operator. Theshareholding, which was amassed in the past few days, could spark abidding war for Rank. The UK operator has been tipped as a takeovertarget ever since a profit ...
BT slows down Government's push for faster broadband
Dec 02, 2007; ... THE domestic broadband revolution in the UK could be stopped inits tracks amid a brewing battle between BT and the rest of theindustry. The telecoms group is set to resist pressure from the Governmentto invest the billions of pounds required to build a fasterbroadband network ...
Deutsche threatens to pull out of Branson bid inside the northern saga
Dec 02, 2007; ... DEUTSCHE BANK, one of the three institutions lined up to backVirgin's bid for Northern Rock, is threatening to walk away from thedeal amid claims that the bank has "serious issues" with thetakeover proposal from Sir Richard Branson's group. The German financial powerhouse is one ...
Close mulls sale of Winterflood to fend off bid
Dec 02, 2007; ... CLOSE BROTHERS, the banking group, is understood to beconsidering a sale of its Winterflood Securities stockbrokingbusiness as a possible defence to an unwanted pounds 1.4bn takeoverapproach from rival Cenkos. Cenkos, headed by City celebrity Andy Stewart, spent last ...
Instant music gratification with mobile phone downloads
Dec 02, 2007; ... FROM tomorrow, radio listeners will be able to instantly buy thesongs they hear by pressing a few buttons on their mobile phone. If it succeeds, the service, called Cliq, should provide a newsource of revenues for radio broadcasters suffering from recentfalls in advertising ...
M&B 'could go under if it spins off property'
Dec 02, 2007; ... MITCHELLS & BUTLERS, the pub group, faces a stark warning fromone of its leading shareholders that its plan to spin off its pounds 5bn property portfolio could bring the company down. The Sunday Telegraph has learned that one of the group'sinstitutional shareholders is to write to ...
NatWest Three will serve most of term in UK
Dec 02, 2007; ... THE NATWEST Three are expected to serve just three to six monthsof their jail term on US soil as a result of their decision lastweek to plead guilty to a fraud charge linked to the collapse ofEnron, the energy giant. David Bermingham, Gary Mulgrew and Giles Darby brought five ...
Insurers demand shoring up flood defences
Dec 02, 2007; ... THE Association of British Insurers (ABI), the trade body forunderwriters, has hit out after revelations that North Yorkshirecounty council knew that its watercourses were bound to flood. The disclosure, obtained in a Freedom of Information request fromThe Sunday Telegraph ...
CHEYNE CAPITAL
Dec 02, 2007 ... In an article last week we said Cheyne Capital was inadministration. We would like ...
Teachers' pay fear as state-run US fund is frozen
Dec 02, 2007; ... SCHOOLS in America are being forced to seek emergency loans topay teachers after a multi-billion dollar state-run investment fundwas forced to freeze withdrawals as the credit crisis takes hold. Revelations that the Florida-based Local Government InvestmentPool held $1.5bn of ...