The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from March 2008:
I'M LIKE THE SCARECROW IN THE WIZARD OF OZ
Mar 02, 2008; ... IF YOU'RE A WOMAN OF MATURE years who's been getting her oats,then frankly you've made the professional life of Prof David Jacobsworthwhile. I thought David Jacobs was a velvet voice on Radio 2,but he turns out to be a professor of epidemiology at the Universityof Minnesota. This week, ...
Mum, you're a star My other mother A woman who appears in a dream, a nurse, the virgin Mary ... Here, writers describe the mother figures who helped shape their lives MOTHER'S DAY SPECIAL SURPRISINGLY GOOD ONES, FICTIONAL ONES, NON-BIOLOGICAL ONES... BUT WE BEGIN OUR CELEBRATION OF MATRIARCHAL LOVE IN STYLE, WITH A LOOK AT THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUSLY PHOTOGENIC MOTHERS
Mar 02, 2008 ... Hilary Mantel When I look up at the pedestal where Mother ought to be, I see,unsurprisingly, the kind of plaster saint for whom pedestals aredesigned. Every little Catholic girl of my generation had a secondmother, as well as the fleshly one God had allocated; she was OurBlessed ...
the next chapter INTERVIEW JEFFREY ARCHER HAS SURVIVED BANKRUPTCY AND SCANDAL BY CONSTANTLY REINVENTING HIMSELF. BUT AS NIGEL FARNDALE DISCOVERS, IT'S PRISON THAT MAY HAVE FINALLY CHANGED HIM FOR THE BETTER.
Mar 02, 2008; ... When I last interviewed Jeffrey Archer I wasn't exactly kind. 'Helacks judgment, he's vainglorious, he's a fantasist,' I wrote. 'Orrather, as his wife Mary puts it, he has "a gift for inaccurateprecis". Everything about him smacks of invention. His whole manneris phoney. He's like a ...
Personally speaking A demure virgin? Not the Dorothy I know
Mar 02, 2008; ... There is a very funny 'mockumentary' called Festival in which anearnest actress performs to an empty theatre at the Edinburgh Fringea one-woman show about Dorothy Wordsworth. She looks at thedaffodils, she watches the swallows nest and she wails at thethought of William's ...
surprisinglygoodshowbiz mothers
Mar 02, 2008; ... Courtney Love In 1992, a Vanity Fair profile cemented Courtney Love'sreputation as the Anti-Mother before her baby was born, by reportingthat she was using heroin while pregnant. Things became worse whenthe baby's father, Kurt Cobain, killed himself two years later. Yetin this ...
the lives of others FILM ALBERT MAYSLES HAS SHOT THE BEATLES, THE STONES AND BIBLE SALESMEN. AND ALONG THE WAY, SAYS HORATIA HARROD, HE CHANGED HOW DOCUMENTARIES ARE MADE.
Mar 02, 2008; ... Not many people see the world like Albert Maysles does. He'sthere, stopped on a New York street looking up as a gigantic flockof birds wheels round, turning from black blots to gold as theirwings dip and catch the sun. He's the one on the bus nudging thewoman next to him, getting her to ...
'I WAS GRIPPED BY THESE PICTURES' MARTIN SCORSESE WRITES IN PRAISE OF ALBERT MAYSLES
Mar 02, 2008; ... Al Maysles once quoted Orson Welles as a way of describing hisown aspirations as a filmmaker: 'The camera person should have aneye behind the camera that is the eye of a poet.' So let me quoteWelles, on Vittorio De Sica's Shoeshine [Sciuscia], as a way ofdescribing Al's achievements as a ...
something for all the family Margot at the Wedding The Accidental Husband
Mar 02, 2008; ... The acrid whiff of family dysfunction can be detected from theoutset of Margot at the Wedding (15), when a long-haired boy, Claude(Zane Pais), locks himself in a train lavatory in order to let loosea long-suppressed scream. With him on the journey is his motherMargot (Nicole Kidman, ...
DVD OF THE WEEK
Mar 02, 2008; ... 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY Warner DOP79191, 12, pounds 15.99 Kubrick's film is still the most ambitious sci-fi film ever made. A short story by Arthur C. Clarke is expanded into an epicvoyage across time from the dawn of history to the exploration ofthe galaxy ....
OTHER RELEASES Semi-Pro The Bank Job The Baker Untraceable The Boss of It All
Mar 02, 2008; ... Semi-Pro (15) There can be few movies less rewarding than an unfunny comedyabout a sport you don't follow. It's not moving, it's not amusingand it's not easy to understand what's going on. That would, byrights, make this Will Ferrell effort about an ailing basketballteam in 1970s ...
DVDs Out this week
Mar 02, 2008; ... ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE Universal 8253304, 12, pounds 19.99 Cate Blanchett's Good Queen Bess is a commanding performance, butthe history would fail GCSE. Raleigh, not Drake, routs the Armada,while Mary Queen of Scots, brought up in France, sports a highlyimprobable ...
grand tourist trap Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787)
Mar 02, 2008; ... Colonel the Hon. William Gordon knows he is a damn fine figure of a man. The epitome of the noble Scotsman in Italy on the GrandTour, he stands imperiously in the Roman sunshine. Behind him standthe ruins of the once-mighty Colosseum. By his side, a marble statueof the ...
ART CHOICE
Mar 02, 2008; ... Derek Jarman Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London W2(020 7402 6075) to 13 April. Isaac Julien has curated this reappraisal of Jarman,the film-maker and artist who died in 1994 ...
it's a gay life in iran Transsexual in Iran Portillo on Thatcher The Woman who Stops Traffic
Mar 02, 2008; ... As part of this column's ceaseless quest to seek out evermoreinventive ways not to have fun, we bring you Transsexual in Iran(Monday, BBC2). In a lot of respects this documentary was evengrimmer than anticipated, although the grimness followed a far-frompredictable ...
the play really is the thing Northern Ballet: Hamlet Birmingham Royal Ballet: Swan Lake Maris Liepa Gala
Mar 02, 2008; ... Like it or not, there is something inherently comic about thestage Nazi. Blame Lubitsch; blame Mel Brooks; blame Himmler; but aperformer has only to don the arm band and walk the walk and thestage is suddenly set for farce - something of a drawback when theproduction is Hamlet ....
OTHER THEATRE Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Mar 02, 2008; ... A theatrical curse seems to be hanging over Frankenstein. InNovember last year, Mel Brooks opened a Broadway musical based onhis 1974 hit film, Young Frankenstein, that left the critics lessthan electrified. Now Frantic Assembly are attempting to revive themonster in association with the ...
THEATRE mother knows best The Vortex I'll be the Devil
Mar 02, 2008; ... With one of our great stage actresses (Felicity Kendal), a risingstar (Dan Stevens; The Line of Beauty), and with Peter Halldirecting, what's not to like about the new production of NoelCoward's The Vortex? When the play first appeared in 1924 it causeda scandal with its references to ...
CDs Out this week
Mar 02, 2008; ... Mr Broucek is the least often performed and regarded of Janacek'smature operas, but Jiri Belohlavek's Barbican performance last year,the basis of this recording, caused many to revise their opinionsand with good reason. It is a great comic opera. Composed between1908 and 1917, the ...
CLASSICAL a girl you can't say no to the great transformer Salome La Nativite du Seigneur WHEN MARISS JANSONS CONDUCTS, THE MUSICAL WORLD LISTENS, SAYS JOHN ALLISON
Mar 02, 2008; ... Maligned by a mutinous soprano ('I'm a decent woman') even beforeits 1905 Dresden premiere, and censored by the Lord Chamberlain inadvance of its first London performance in 1910, Richard Strauss'slurid Salome has shed many veils but seldom its notoriety. Twentyyears ago, the title role ...
POP ROCK MUSIC WITH BITE MGMT Vampire Weekend
Mar 02, 2008; ... You wait three years for a really exciting new band to emergefrom New York, and then two come along at once. Taking to the Kokostage, Camden at the unearthly hour of 7.30, on the bottom of an NMEawards show bill top-heavy with inferior turns, MGMT have thatfaraway look that suggests ...
POP CHOICE
Mar 02, 2008; ... Neil Young Ragged country-rock genius made of imperishable stuff.Edinburgh Playhouse (0871 220 0260) Mon; London Hammersmith Apollo(0871 220 ...
CDs Out this week
Mar 02, 2008; ... Toumani Diabate is a Malian master of the kora - a classical WestAfrican harp, like a giant gourd with 21 strings - and has been muchchampioned by the likes of Damon Albarn and Bjork. It's very puristin style, which is to say it hasn't been enlivened for European poptastes in the way ...
POP slippery customer Eels
Mar 02, 2008; ... At the Royal Festival Hall, Eels, a sort of non-existent cultgroup based around the quietly fiendish, existential crackpot MarkOliver Everett, come across like your average half-crazed comedygroup who sing harrowing, haunted songs about desolation, death anddestiny. The now middle-aged, ...
WAR THE MEN WHO REFUSED TO FIGHT IN THE TRENCHES SHOWED COURAGE TOO, SAYS NIGEL JONES
Mar 02, 2008; ... We Will Not Fight: The Untold Story of World War One's Conscientious Objectors BY WILL ELLSWORTH-JONES AURUM, pounds 18.99, 296 pp T pounds 16.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 The critic Lytton Strachey had his smart-ass answer ...
SPIRITUALITY LIVING BY THE BIBLE'S RULES IS HARD WORK, FINDS MARCUS BERKMANN
Mar 02, 2008; ... The Year of Living Biblically BY A. J. JACOBS HEINEMANN, pounds 12.99, 388 pp T pounds 11.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 I don't know if this genre has a name yet, so if it hasn't, let'sgive it one: the quest book. Writer comes up with a daft idea ...
TITLE DEED HOW THE BOOK GOT ITS NAME 'the admirable crichton' by j. m. barrie
Mar 02, 2008; ... Rhetorician, scholar, wit, musician, fencer, lover and all-roundgood guy, James Crichton of Clunie (1560-82) was the origin of the'admirable' Crichton of J. M. Barrie's famous play. Crichton livedhis short life at tornado pace: he gained his MA at 15, could speak 10 languages ...
BIOGRAPHY MIKE DASH IS FASCINATED BY A QUACK WHOSE IMPOTENCY CURE MADE MILLIONS - AND KILLED BOTH PATIENTS AND GOATS
Mar 02, 2008; ... Charlatan: The Fraudulent Life of John Brinkley BY POPE BROCK WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, pounds 20, 324 pp T pounds 18 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 As medical procedures go, having severed goat's testiclesimplanted in one's body to boost a failing ...
BIOGRAPHY WHERE WILLIAM WORDSWORTH LOOKED INWARDS HIS SISTER DOROTHY LOOKED OUT; SHE IS ALL THE MORE INTRIGUING FOR IT, SAYS CAROLINE MOORE
Mar 02, 2008; ... The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth BY FRANCES WILSON FABER, pounds 18.99, 271 pp T pounds 16.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 I hope that book-shop browsers will not be put off this intelligent and intriguing and properly strangebiography by the title, ...
TRAVEL RORY MACLEAN ON A HEDONIST'S TOUR OF NEW ZEALAND WITH A THESPIAN TWIST
Mar 02, 2008; ... Going as Far as I Can: the Ultimate Travel Book BY DUNCAN FALLOWELL PROFILE, pounds 12.99, 279 pp T pounds 11.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Where on earth would you go if time and money were no object? TheMalabar coast? A sun-kissed Pacific atoll? ...
POP CULTURE ALASTAIR SOOKE LOOKS FOR WIT AND WISDOM IN ATTACKS ON DUMBED-DOWN AMERICA
Mar 02, 2008; ... Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto BY CHUCK KLOSTERMAN FABER, pounds 9.99, 253 pp T pounds 9.99 (99p p&p) 0870 428 4115 The Brain-Dead Megaphone BY GEORGE SAUNDERS BLOOMSBURY, pounds 10.99, 254 pp T pounds 10.99 ...
TRAVEL RORY MACLEAN ON A HEDONIST'S TOUR OF NEW ZEALAND WITH A THESPIAN TWIST
Mar 02, 2008; ... Going as Far as I Can: the Ultimate Travel Book BY DUNCAN FALLOWELL PROFILE, pounds 12.99, 279 pp T pounds 11.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Where on earth would you go if time and money were no object? TheMalabar coast? A sun-kissed Pacific atoll? ...
LITERARY LIFE
Mar 02, 2008; ... The fourth volume of Henry-Louis de la Grange's magisterialbiography of Gustav Mahler, A New Life Cut Short 1907-1911, has justbeen published by Oxford University Press. The irony of the titlebecomes apparent when you set eyes on its 1,728 pages. The secondvolume, The Years of Challenge ...
FICTION JANE SHILLING ADMIRES A MASTER CHRONICLER OF THE MID-LIFE CRISIS
Mar 02, 2008; ... Something to Tell You BY HANIF KUREISHI FABER, pounds 16.99, 345 pp T pounds 14.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Hanif Kureishi's latest novel, Something to Tell You, is aboutlove, death, loneliness, celebrity, orgies, incest, pornography,murder - the usual ...
CRIME FICTION
Mar 02, 2008; ... After a good many books which seem to be recycling the same plotover and over again, Aliya Whiteley's Light Reading (Macmillan NewWriting, pounds 14.99) is refreshingly different, if unpleasantlyrealistic. Pru and Lena belong to a close-knit group of RAF wiveswhose lives revolve around ...
PAPERBACKS
Mar 02, 2008; ... INFIDEL: MY LIFE BY AYAAN HIRSI ALI SIMON & SCHUSTER, pounds 7.99 The brave and beautiful author was raised in Somalia under verystrict Muslims who beat her and had her genitally mutilated. Sheescaped an arranged marriage and fled to Holland, where she became ...
PAPERBACKS
Mar 02, 2008; ... DAY BY A. L. KENNEDY VINTAGE, pounds 7.99 This Costa Prize-winning novel is an astonishing act ofventriloquism by the Scottish writer A. L. Kennedy. In it she evokes the thoughts of a RAF tail-gunner in the SecondWorld War. Alfred Day, as ...
the sunday Project THIS WEEK: AN EASY, POINT-AND-CLICK GUIDE TO MAKING DVDS FROM YOUR HOME MOVIES
Mar 02, 2008; ... Cine to DVD There are ways of converting cine films to DVD at home, primarilyby projecting them onto a tiny screen, which is then filmed by yourcamcorder, but it is difficult. Use a commercial supplier such asStew Arts (www.stew-arts.co.uk) or larger Snappy Snaps ...
BUNNY GUINNESS OUR GARDENING EXPERT SHOWS YOU WHAT TO PLANT AND HOW
Mar 02, 2008; ... Britain is a nation of gardeners. Secateurs in hand, we tend ourborders and beds, filling them with a kaleidoscope of colourfulflowers and shrubs. We plant up pots to adorn our front doors, growherbs from seed on windowsills and train fruit trees up gardenwalls. In the summer months the ...
BRIDGE
Mar 02, 2008; ... WHAT WOULD BRIDGE DISCUSSIONS BE without two phrases: 'You hold'and 'What if'? The first is often an entree into the second and, soas not to break with tradition, you sit South ... Dealer East E/W Game S 9 8 5 H A K 10 6 2 D A 10 4 3 C ...
Stairlifts for all? What you need to know about 'lifetime home' rules Ross Clark explores the implications of new laws to help the aged
Mar 02, 2008; ... For a first-time buyer contemplating putting a foot on thehousing ladder, the practicalities of installing a stairlift areunlikely to feature highly. But like it or not, from 2013 every newhome will have to be a "lifetime home" - that is to say one whichcould be bought by a young couple ...
Get your green team on the march Gardening expert Bunny Guinness tells how she is dealing with a local eyesore and gives tips on how you can make a difference too
Mar 02, 2008; ... For 20 years, I have driven along the main road at the end of ourfarm track and winced at the highly visible mish-mash of modernbarns that flank our house, wishing they were not there. Lastweekend, I took the bull by the horns and planted about 35 trees onthe back edge of the wide verge ...
School conversion by the book As rural classrooms close, the right development can save the architecture and make the building ring to young voices again. Caroline McGhie takes a lesson in re-use
Mar 02, 2008; ... Already converted: The Old School House, Upper Slaughter,Gloucestershire, built in 1846 and used as the village school until1983, it has two bedrooms, immense charm and costs pounds 650,000through Knight Frank (01285 659771). The old school bell is still inplace. To be ...
Your pass to the film set, excess all areas Fred Redwood visits a house where every room has more 'wow factor' than the last
Mar 02, 2008; ... When property developer Mike Spenser-Morris and his wife, Judy,chatted after dinner in a favourite restaurant in 1999, theirconversation, predictably, turned to business. What to do with astable block his company had bought outside Newmarket in Suffolk?Should he build a courtyard of nine ...
ESCAPE THE AIRCRAFT NOISE
Mar 02, 2008 ... Charlton, Hertfordshire: A five-bedroom detached family home amile from the town centre in three acres of gardens and grounds. pounds 930,000 through Savills (01582 465000) Sudbury, Suffolk: A Grade II thatched house, dating from 1560with four ...
Life beneath the blight path Plans to cut aircraft noise are good news for some. For others, it will only get worse, says Graham Norwood
Mar 02, 2008; ... Life may be about to become much more peaceful in parts ofBedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Essex from next year - and somelucky owners could find their homes worth 10 per cent more as aresult. The windfalls would emerge from plans by National AirTraffic Services to redraw flight paths ...
on the level - A builder gives it to you straight Will electric heaters be better?
Mar 02, 2008; ... Q. We are having a small single-storey extension built. Ratherthan conventional radiators heated via the gas boiler, we have beenadvised to install electric radiators which operate by internalwater circulation. I know little about this type of heating. Ilooked on the company's website ...
on the level - A builder gives it to you straight WILL MY INSULATION IDEA BE A PROBLEM?
Mar 02, 2008; ... Q. In my loft, I have tarred paper between the roof tiles andbeams. I had a number of tears but I could not find anything tostick to it permanently. I then hit on the idea of cutting 25mmsheets of expanded polystyrene just wider than the roof beam spacingand forcing this against the torn ...
Dressed to impress Dressing rooms are becoming the 'must-have' accessory in homes - so much so, writes Sonia Purnell, that owners will rip out bedrooms to create them
Mar 02, 2008; ... The term "dressing room" conjures up images of a glamorous,jetsetting life with the designer clothes, shoes and handbags tomatch. Once only the homes of film stars, models or royalty haddressing rooms but now mere mortals are demanding them as anessential luxury. "Buyers now ...
Macquarie readies take-off for BAA airports
Mar 02, 2008; ... THE Australian banking group Macquarie is preparing to swoop onone or more of Britain's largest airports if their owner, BAA, isobliged to sell them due to financial or regulatory difficulties. Macquarie is understood to have begun tentative discussions withinfrastructure funds to ...
ON a surprise winner of Summer bulb of the year
Mar 02, 2008; ... Some flowers seem ripe for a revival in the style stakes. That ofthe dahlia, for instance, seemed long overdue when Christopher Lloyddragged them in from the doldrums by digging up his rose garden atGreat Dixter and re-planting it with spidery dark-reds and scarlet pom-pom ...
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION BAE Systems corruption probe turns to commission payments
Mar 02, 2008; ... THE SERIOUS Fraud Office (SFO) is escalating its probe intoalleged bribery and corruption at BAE Systems, with one line ofinvestigation being a series of commission payments personallyoverseen by chief executive Mike Turner during the late 1980s. The Sunday Telegraph understands ...
Sweet Dreams for husband and wife in pounds 200m beds deal
Mar 02, 2008; ... THE husband-and-wife team who founded Dreams, one of Britain'slargest bed retailers, is poised to land an estimated pounds 200mwindfall by selling the business into private equity hands. Mike Clare, Dreams' chairman, and his wife Carol, are on theverge of agreeing a deal with ...
Rock investors to fire starting gun on lawsuits
Mar 02, 2008; ... THE biggest investors in Northern Rock are this week expected tolaunch a multi-faceted legal action against the Government,regulators and individuals over the collapse of the nationalisedbank. SRM Global and RAB Capital, which own a total of 20 per cent ofthe Newcastle-based ...
Shareholders to vent fury on Rentokil boss Flynn Investors poised to call for head of chief executive of the royal rat catcher
Mar 02, 2008; ... LEADING shareholders in Rentokil Initial are demanding animmediate management shake-up at the embattled pest control tocleaning business, including the resignation of Doug Flynn, chiefexecutive. Investors, furious that Rentokil issued a profit warning lastweek that wiped nearly ...
Aviva considers flight from Indian unit
Mar 02, 2008; ... AVIVA, Britain's biggest insurer, is studying the sale of half ofits Indian back- office business in a move that would mark a slowingof the outsourcing trend to one of the world's biggest labourmarkets. The company is conducting a strategic review of its fourbusinesses in India, ...
Goodhart: rates should be cut to 4 per cent
Mar 02, 2008; ... INTEREST rates should be cut to as low as 4 per cent as Britainheads into a probable recession, one of the Bank of England's mostprominent former policymakers has said. Charles Goodhart, a former Monetary Policy Committee member,warned that both the United States and Britain were ...
New attempt to concoct Xstrata bid
Mar 02, 2008; ... REPRESENTATIVES of Vale and Glencore, the commodities trader, areonce again working together this weekend in an attempt to rescue theBrazilian miner's planned $85bn ( pounds 43bn) takeover of Xstrata. Last week the refusal of Vale to agree to give Glencore lucrativemarketing to the ...
German power firm racks up UK loss
Mar 02, 2008; ... BRITAIN'S third-biggest energy supplier racked up mounting lossesin its residential gas and electricity business last year despiteintensifying pressure on utilities to justify huge profits. E.On, the German company which has 8m customers in the UK, isexpected to say when it reports ...
Implosion fears as hedge fund slashes positions
Mar 02, 2008; ... FOCUS CAPITAL, an award-winning US-based hedge fund, hasliquidated some of its biggest positions, raising fears of anotherimplosion in the high-rolling sector. The fund, which is run out of New York and Geneva, has causedturmoil as it dumped large positions in a raft of Swiss ...
HSBC to raise dividend as crunch bites
Mar 02, 2008; ... HSBC will tomorrow reveal a record $16bn ( pounds 8.1bn) of baddebts at its full year results but seek to reassure investors thatit is containing the sub-prime crisis by lifting its dividend inline with its banking peers. HSBC, which is expected to increase its dividend by about 10 ...
British miners get tough with China over human rights
Mar 02, 2008; ... TWO OF Britain's biggest mining companies, Anglo American and Rio Tinto, will refuse tosign up to African joint ventures with Chinese companies unless theycomply with Western environmental and human rights standards. Rio, led by chief executive Tom Albanese, and Anglo enforce ...
COMMENTARY BAA is flying by the seat of its pants
Mar 02, 2008; ... Is BAA about to become the next Northern Rock of this LabourGovernment? The sparkling pounds 4.2bn construct that is Heathrow'sTerminal 5 is made of steel, not Granite, so as it prepares to opennext month, it hardly seems plausible that the heart of Britain'stransport infrastructure is ...
Cinven makes pounds 1.5bn move for Trillium Private equity group's approach one of several for property services arm of Land Securities
Mar 02, 2008; ... CINVEN, the private equity group, has approached Britain'slargest property company, Land Securities, about a takeover of itsbusiness outsourcing arm Trillium. Land Securities is running a twin track auction and demergerprocess for Trillium, in a move that could raise about ...
Babcock's Angel eyes
Mar 02, 2008; ... A CONSORTIUM led by Babcock & Brown, the investment firm, is inexclusive talks to acquire the Royal Bank of Scotland's rollingstock leasing company, Angel Trains, for a price believed to beabout pounds 3.5bn. The consortium, which also includes Deutsche Bank, has seen ...
COMMENTARY UTILITIES OR UTILITARIANISM
Mar 02, 2008; ... OFFICIALDOM is having a field day all over the place at themoment. As we reveal on page 1 of our main section today, the bossesof Britain's utilities are being hauled into Downing Street to betold that they will be slapped with a windfall tax unless they agreeto support a new fuel ...