The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from April 2008:
Five go wild Electrifying it may be, but watching 'Shine a Light', it's easy to forget how licentious the band once were. The raw excitement of 'Gimme Shelter' and other Stones films should remind you, says David Jenkins
Apr 06, 2008; ... Fittingly, I first saw The Rolling Stones in a cinema. It was atthe Regal, Cheltenham, in 1964, and the boys were topping the bill.Cheltenham was Brian Jones's hometown, and originally the Stones hadbeen Brian's band; by the time I saw them, Mick and Keith hadusurped the leadership, and ...
THE PERFECT LIBRARY 110 ESSENTIAL READS FROM CLASSICS AND SCI-FI TO POETRY, BIOGRAPHIES AND BOOKS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD ... WE PRESENT THE ULTIMATE READING LIST.
Apr 06, 2008 ... Classics The Illiad and The Odyssey Homer Set during the Trojan War, The Iliad combines battle scenes witha debate about heroism; Odysseus' thwarted attempts to return toIthaca when the war ends form The Odyssey. Its symbolic evocation ofhuman life as an epic ...
Personally speaking Hollywood? Give me Hammersmith any day
Apr 06, 2008; ... Fifteen years ago, I arrived in London and hung up my hat in myhusband-to-be's Brook Green flat. I had grown up in Los Angeles andworked as an actress there, making movies (Ordinary People, Ragtime,She's Having a Baby, Racing with the Moon, etc), and in New York,working in the theatre ....
THIRTY YEARS OF HURT FILM ONCE HE RAN WILD WITH PETER O'TOOLE, OLIVER REED AND LUCIAN FREUD. TODAY JOHN HURT IS DRY, LESS PRONE TO MOOD SWINGS AND WORKING HARDER THAN EVER. 'I'M EASIER TO LIVE WITH NOW,' HE TELLS NIGEL FARNDALE
Apr 06, 2008; ... Everyone seems to have a John Hurt story. A friend of mine who works in the film industry once had toassist him as he made his way unsteadily from a hotel bar to awaiting taxi. A husband and wife I know bumped into him at whatmight be described as a 'bohemian' party in London ....
Boys will be boys CINEMA Son of Rambow Funny Games
Apr 06, 2008; ... Son of Rambow (12A), for those of us who came of age in the1980s, is guaranteed to trigger a brief but intense rush ofnostalgia. The film is the story of two schoolboys who becomeunlikely friends while making a video homage to the thrillinglyunfettered figure of Rambo in First Blood, and ...
OTHER RELEASES Awake How She Move Never Back Down My Brother is an Only Child I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK One Missed Call
Apr 06, 2008; ... Awake (15) The distributors of this thriller about 'anaesthetic awareness'(a rare phenomena whereby you're conscious yet paralysed duringsurgery) are keen to warn audiences it might not be the perfectnight out for anyone about to hop on to the operating table.Actually, it's ...
MY FAVOURITE MOVIES
Apr 06, 2008; ... Luis Bunuel's L'Age d'or (1930, below) is one of the mostgroundbreaking films ever made. It was a reaction to theconservatism of the Spanish society he grew up in - one dominated byCatholic mindsets and classist structures. Bunuel, working with hisfellow Surrealist master Salvador Dali, ...
DVDs
Apr 06, 2008; ... HITCHCOCK: THE BRITISH YEARS ????? Network, PG, pounds 52.50 Alfred Hitchcock had a successful career in British cinema beforeleaving for Hollywood in 1939. This boxed set collects 10 of thefilms he made here between 1925 and 1939, but omits his firsttalkie, ...
ART CHOICE
Apr 06, 2008; ... Howard Hodgkin Gagosian Gallery, London WC1 (020 7841 9960) to 17May. Whatever you thought at the time, his 2006 retrospective atTate Britain wasn't the last word on Hodgkin's career. The 75-year-old abstract painter is back, with 20 new works.Passage ...
The discreet charm of the angry comic Dara O'Briain
Apr 06, 2008; ... Dara O'Briain is probably best known as the presenter of BBC2'sMock the Week, where his sharp chairmanship and super-quick withints at a man who knows a lot about a lot - and has an opinion onit, too. Live on stage, the Irish comic's two-hour set moves seamlessly between ...
Mystery of good taste Masterpieces from the Louvre: The Collection of Louis La Caze
Apr 06, 2008; ... Louis La Caze (1798-1869) might not be a household name, but hewas one of the most exceptionally perceptive and generous artcollectors of his time. On his death, he left no fewer than 583paintings to the Louvre, including Frans Hals's alluring LaBohemienne and Rembrandt's moody ...
The barbarians are at the gate Into the Hoods
Apr 06, 2008; ... Ivor Novello was a devilishly good-looking composer, singer andactor, best known for the song Keep the Home Fires Burning and forhis Rolls-Royce, which he kept running in wartime Britain with morethan his share of petrol coupons. Quite what this aestheticgentleman with his finely honed ...
Cuban party animals Carlos Acosta Probe
Apr 06, 2008; ... The now familiar 'and friends' format pioneered by Rudolf Nureyevin the 1970s provides an attractive (and inexpensive) showcase forbig ballet stars eager to make the most of their peak earning years.The box office loves stars. This year's five-week season of 'SpringDance' at the London ...
CDs Out this week
Apr 06, 2008; ... All the stops have been pulled out for this new Boheme - astunningly good recording, two luminaries as Rodolfo and Mimi, astrong supporting cast and the Bavarian Radio orchestra under thelively and sensitively poetic control of Bertrand de Billy. Theremay have been more touching Mimis ...
A woman's wintertime CLASSICAL Alice Coote/Julius Drake RPO/Paul Daniel
Apr 06, 2008; ... Alice Coote's two recitals of Winterreise at the Wigmore Halllast weekend looked like red-letter dates in London's musicalcalendar. The mezzo-soprano is one of our outstanding singers - awarm voice allied to fierce dramatic intelligence - and Schubert'svaledictory song cycle can be a ...
CLASSICAL CHOICE
Apr 06, 2008; ... The Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition opens onFriday with a gala concert at St David's Hall, Cardiff (029 20878444) with Joshua Bell the soloist in Tchaikovsky's Violin ...
Nature's new sounds DEEP IN A CONCRETE CAVERN, A HUGE 'INSTRUMENT' OF ROAMING PIANOS HEAVES INTO LIFE. IGOR TORONYI-LALIC MEETS HEINER GOEBBELS, THE COMPOSER/DIRECTOR OF A PLAY WITH NO PERFORMERS
Apr 06, 2008; ... The German composer Heiner Goebbels does not like honouringexpectations, and his latest work, Stifter's Dinge ('Stifter'sThings') is perhaps his most brilliantly disobliging: it's aperformance without performers. A no-man show. What sounds like aconcert and looks like a play is in fact ...
Damaged goods TELEVISION Hughie Green, Most Sincerely Poppy Shakespeare Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture
Apr 06, 2008; ... Out-and-out sodishness is the most difficult thing of all for anydramatist to portray. By general consent, the late Hughie Greenseems to have been a real sod's sod in this respect; vile to hiswife, vile to his children, slimier than a bucketful of frogspawnand also a champion shagger - ...
Sublime time wasters IT'S BEEN 10 YEARS SINCE PORTISHEAD'S LAST ALBUM, YET IT FEELS LIKE NO TIME AT ALL, SAYS PAUL MORLEY
Apr 06, 2008; ... You may or may not have noticed, but it has taken the tardy,tentative English trio Portishead about a decade to finish theirthird studio album. This is both a long time, and yet also no timeat all, and, as always, their music sounds like a zapped, anxiousand dourly delightful soundtrack ...
POP CHOICE
Apr 06, 2008; ... Teenage Cancer Trust Concerts Paul Weller, The Fratellis andMuse. London Albert Hall (0870 998 8888) Thurs, Fri, Sat. KT Tunstall Cambridge Corn Exchange (01223 357851) tonight;Southampton ...
CDs Out this week
Apr 06, 2008; ... Despite what everyone's saying about this being a spectacularreturn to form, this is a patchy album with two lame moments - I'mGonna DJ and Mr Richards - and a few more that wouldn't set yourheart afire if you recognised the opening chords at a gig. When it'sgood, though, it's great, ...
pedigree chums FORMER PIXIE KIM DEAL IS BACK WITH THE BREEDERS. SHE TALKS TO BEN THOMPSON
Apr 06, 2008; ... The Breeders recently featured on an edition of The Culture Show.In the course of a brief introduction, just about every piece ofinformation passed on about this much-loved band's 19-year life-span was materially incorrect. As BBC2's Saturday night artssmorgasbord passes its 100th ...
MEMOIR SIMON GRAY'S CANDOUR WAFTS THROUGH THIS MEMOIR LIKE A TRAIL OF CIGARETTE SMOKE, SAYS CHARLES SPENCER
Apr 06, 2008; ... The Last Cigarette BY SIMON GRAY GRANTA, pounds 14.99, 312 pp T pounds 12.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Due to an infestation of in-laws, I read a lot of this book late at night, lying in anuncomfortable sofabed in Dorset. My mood was for the ...
TITLE DEED HOW THE BOOK GOT ITS NAME 'THE GLASS MENAGERIE' by Tennessee Williams
Apr 06, 2008; ... The Glass Menagerie began as a short story written around 1941,'Portrait of a Girl in Glass', which Tennessee Williams laterexpanded into a play called If You Breathe it Breaks! This becameThe Glass Menagerie in 1944, and was Williams's first real successin the theatre. Like many early ...
IRAQ CON COUGHLIN ON THE MAN WHO HOLDS IRAQ'S FUTURE IN HIS HANDS
Apr 06, 2008; ... Muqtada al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq BY PATRICK COCKBURN FABER, pounds 16.99, 289 pp T pounds 14.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 It is hard to imagine now, but one day Iraq is going to be atruly independent country governed solely by ...
POLITICS THIS INSIDER'S ACCOUNT SHOWS THAT PEACE IN NORTHERN IRELAND WAS A TRIUMPH OF STAMINA AS WELL AS IDEALISM, SAYS LEO MCKINSTRY
Apr 06, 2008; ... Great Hatred, Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland BY JONATHAN POWELL THE BODLEY HEAD, pounds 20, 352 pp T pounds 18 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Before he became Tony Blair's Chief of Staff, Jonathan Powell wasa highly regarded diplomat ...
LITERARY LIFE
Apr 06, 2008; ... As the Olympic torch crosses London today, bringing with it thethreat of protest and a small taste of the inconvenience and costthat hosting the sporting jamboree inevitably entails, June, a poemby Shi Tao, also arrives in town on its own relay around the world.The idea is that the ...
HISTORY SAUL DAVID ON A TALE OF RIVALRY AND BACK-STABBING IN MEDIEVAL ITALY
Apr 06, 2008; ... Vendetta: High Art and Low Cunning at the Birth of the Renaissance BY HUGH BICHENO WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, pounds 25, 290 pp T pounds 23 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 The period of 'highly creative destruction' that prepared theground for the ...
HISTORY NOEL MALCOLM IS NOT CONVINCED BY AN ORANGE-TINTED VIEW OF ENGLAND'S PAST
Apr 06, 2008; ... Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland's Glory BY LISA JARDINE HARPERPRESS, pounds 25, 406 pp T pounds 23 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 When was the last time that England was conquered by a foreignarmy? Most people would say: in 1066. But ...
FICTION CASTING OFF AN OLD LIFE IS AS HARD AS PUTTING ON A NEW, SAYS CHRISTOPHER ONDAATJE
Apr 06, 2008; ... Bone China BY ROMA TEARNE HARPERCOLLINS, pounds 16.99, 400 pp T pounds 14.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Under the protection of British Crown Rule the de Silva familythrived in their ancestral home on the island of Ceylon. However,after Independence in ...
FICTION JERRY BROTTON FINDS THAT SALMAN RUSHDIE IS, FINALLY, BACK TO HIS BEST
Apr 06, 2008; ... The Enchantress of Florence BY SALMAN RUSHDIE JONATHAN CAPE, pounds 18.99, 365 pp T pounds 16.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Throughout his career Salman Rushdie has delighted in unpicking the official histories of races,religions and empires ....
FICTION DO PARENTS HAVE A LIFE OUTSIDE PARENTHOOD? ASKS OPHELIA FIELD
Apr 06, 2008; ... The Private Lives of Pippa Lee BY REBECCA MILLER CANONGATE, pounds 9.99, 233 pp T pounds 9.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Five pages into this novel, a character described as 'probablythe finest fiction writer' in America delivers a tribute to ...
FIRST NOVEL LUCY BERESFORD FINDS TURMOIL IN JEDDAH
Apr 06, 2008; ... The Night of the Mi'raj BY ZOE FERRARIS LITTLE, BROWN, pounds 14.99 357 pp T pounds 12.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 One expects the recent trickle of novels about the Middle Eastthat are sold in the West to lift the veil on that complex society.Zoe ...
CRIME FICTION
Apr 06, 2008; ... The pleasures of life in the Dordogne, some distinctive, well-rounded characters and an intriguing mystery are a winningcombination in Martin Walker's Bruno, Chief of Police (Quercus, pounds 12.99). Bruno, an athletic, fortyish ex-army officer hassettled comfortably into the lively ...
FICTION CIGARETTES ARE BAD FOR YOUR MORAL HEALTH TOO, FINDS JANE SHILLING
Apr 06, 2008; ... The Butt BY WILL SELF BLOOMSBURY, pounds 14.99, 355 pp T pounds 12.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Will Self's latest intricate dystopia is a grim picaresqueinvolving an American, an Englishman and an intractable confection of tribal customs in ...
PAPERBACKS
Apr 06, 2008; ... THE VERNEYS BY ADRIAN TINNISWOOD VINTAGE, pounds 9.99 Seventeenth-century letters can be an acquired taste. 'I return you many thanks for the pigeons youwere pleased to send us yesterday.' But the historian Adrian Tinniswood has such a wealth of ...
PAPERBACKS
Apr 06, 2008; ... FATTY BATTER BY MICHAEL SIMKINS EBURY PRESS, pounds 7.99 One of the funniest sporting memoirs ever, Fatty Batter is arueful, self-deprecating account of one man's obsession withcricket. The actor Michael Simkins caught the bug when he was achild in Brighton, playing ...
PAPERBACKS
Apr 06, 2008; ... TEARING DOWN THE WALL OF SOUND BY MICK BROWN BLOOMSBURY, pounds 9.99 All Phil Spector wanted, according to Mick Brown, who scooped arare interview with the reclusive record producer, was to berecognised as 'a reasonable man'. It was a forlorn hope, ...
PAPERBACKS
Apr 06, 2008; ... MAN OF WAR BY ALLAN MALLINSON BANTAM, pounds 6.99 The title is a slight misnomer. Matthew Hervey of the 6th LightDragoons, the hero of this likeable series of novels by Allan Mallinson, isnot on a war footing. He is in London, recovering from wounds ...
PAPERBACKS
Apr 06, 2008; ... TOMORROW BY GRAHAM SWIFT PICADOR, pounds 7.99 It is a warm midsummer night, and a middle-aged mother lies awake while her husband sleeps beside her. The next day is their twins' 16th birthday, and both parentshave agreed that it is time to tell ...
PAPERBACKS
Apr 06, 2008; ... THE CHILDREN OF HURIN BY J.R.R. TOLKIEN HARPERCOLLINS, pounds 8.99 The Children of Hurin is strictly for Lord of the Rings fans, though that is a sizeableconstituency. It is a literary curiosity, begun by Tolkien at the end of ...
Road test THE GRAND MODUS IS DEMONISED AS A 'PEOPLE CARRIER', YET IT CAN CLOCK UP 60MPG. GO FIGURE, SAYS NEIL LYNDON
Apr 06, 2008; ... WHENEVER OUR RULERS want to look more than usually puffed up withignorant self-importance, they start sermonising about cars. OnRadio 4's Today programme on the day after he delivered his firstBudget, the Chancellor, Alistair Darling, achieved a personal recordin this respect by ...
CHESS
Apr 06, 2008; ... THIS YEAR'S REYKJAVIK OPEN included a memorial tournament inhonour of Bobby Fischer, who spent his last years there and who diedin January, aged 64. Boris Spassky was one of the guests of honour. R Fischer - P Dely Skopje 1967 Sicilian Sozin 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 ...
POKER
Apr 06, 2008; ... A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO, around the Easter weekend, the cardroomsof London were unusually empty. This had nothing to do with thereligious piety of poker players ; rather an exodus to Dublin totake part in the Irish Open. Those of us who were unable to join theparty had to make do with ...
Moving on A guide to buying after divorce After going through a break-up of her own Jane Bidder gives her tips on how to find the right place to start a new life
Apr 06, 2008; ... THE DIVORCEE'S GUIDE TO BUYING AGAIN When Susie Heath got divorced in 2000, she left the family housein the suburb of Amersham and bought a bungalow three quarters of amile away. "I would have preferred to have moved away from the areaand the memories," says Susie, 56, "but I ...
Wanted: a Jackson Five-bedroom home in rural Devon The Seventies child stars are looking for a 'family hideaway' in Morris dancing country. Graham Norwood finds that it's not as easy as ABC
Apr 06, 2008; ... P erhaps it was the pet shops or karaoke at the local pubs, butsomething must be special about north Devon to persuade The JacksonFive to look for a home there. Tito, the second oldest of thebrothers, is acting on behalf of his siblings and has viewed severalhomes around Barnstaple, a ...
Forget the loft ... convert a coal mine into a B&B British buyers are spending billions on property overseas. Graham Norwood looks at some of the most adventurous renovation projects to be carried out
Apr 06, 2008; ... If you think the glut of barn and pub conversions in this countryrepresents the peak of ingenuity, just see what Britons do when theybuy abroad. Michelle and David Coldwell-Leeves, from Farnham inSurrey, have spent the past 15 years turning one of Majorca's fewcoal mines into a thriving ...
A rung too far: the house that is just too big Ross Clark on the troubles of living with more space than you need
Apr 06, 2008; ... Michael Beach protests when I ask him to pose for a photographsitting alone at his dining table. "But I'll look like Billy no-mates," he says, before reluctantly agreeing. It isn't difficult tolook a little lonely in his 8,288-square foot former rectory,Hawkedon House, near Bury St ...
How do I stop my plug holes gurgling? on the level - A builder gives it to you straight
Apr 06, 2008; ... Q. We have a bath, basin, and stand-alone shower that all drainseparately into a soil pipe. The waste pipes all converge underneaththe floorboards of the bathroom and a single pipe exits below intothe garage. Aesthetically this works very well, but the problem isthat when the bath water ...
I WANT TO INSTALL DOWNLIGHTERS on the level - A builder gives it to you straight
Apr 06, 2008; ... Q. About 10 years ago, we replaced a fluorescent tube light in asection of our kitchen with seven halogen ceiling lights. We had tocut 100mm round holes to insert each of these. The illumination hasbeen great, but the lamps tend to fail quite quickly, are expensiveto replace and the ...
The art of growing your own Our gardening writer on the beauty of the veg plot
Apr 06, 2008; ... Statistics from the seed companies confirm that the boom inBritish home-grown fruit and veg is here to stay. Vegetable seedsare outselling flowers by more than two to one in some areas, asconcerns about food miles and pesticides join with a desire to savemoney and, in some cases, emulate ...
The kitchen garden graduate What to do if kale makes your toes curl
Apr 06, 2008; ... There is an orgy of fecundity out there: I have broad beans,peas, rhubarb, asparagus, tomatoes, melons, aubergines, sweetpeppers, chillies, lettuce, chard and beetroot, all growing happilyaway. Only one slight hitch: none are ready yet. In my garden, rightnow, I can eat zip. Apart from ...
Making the most of a conservatory
Apr 06, 2008; ... When it comes to furnishing a conservatory there are two possibleroutes to follow: seamless continuity with the rest of the home, ora complete contrast. The first makes the home feel larger, thelatter adds a dash of intrigue and escapism. I'm a big fan of contemporary, glass box ...
How to fill the house with flowers all year round
Apr 06, 2008; ... For the freshest cut flowers, with the lowest air miles, why nothave a go at growing your own. Here is a seasonal guide to the bestvarieties to plant and sow. Remember to cut them in the earlymorning or evening, when they are full of water, as they will lastlonger, and invest in a ...
Sole mates
Apr 06, 2008; ... THE fashion entrepreneur Linda Bennett has become the latest in astring of British entrepreneurs to transfer the ownership of herbusiness to avoid the rise in capital gains tax which came intoeffect last night, write Mark Kleinman and Angela Monaghan. Bennett, who founded the LK ...
Terminal 5 chaos may have grounded BA's staff bonus
Apr 06, 2008; ... TENS of thousands of British Airways staff are likely to miss outon their annual bonus following the disastrous opening of HeathrowAirport's Terminal 5, The Sunday Telegraph has learned. Airline analysts have calculated that the pounds 16m hit on BA'sfinances disclosed last week ...
Centrica in talks with French over pounds 10bn nuclear bid Joint offer with EDF to buy British Energy would guarantee UK involvement in plans for fleet of nuclear power stations
Apr 06, 2008; ... CENTRICA has begun secret talks with EDF, the giant Frenchutility, aimed at securing a pounds 10bn "British-led solution" tothe future of the country's nuclear power generator, British Energy. Centrica, which owns British Gas, is in talks with EDF aboutstructuring a deal that ...
De La Rue to cash in on pounds 450m money unit
Apr 06, 2008; ... THE Bank of England's banknote printer, De La Rue, isaccelerating plans to break itself up by shortlisting a handful ofbidders for its pounds 450m cash systems business. De La Rue, which has a market value of about pounds 1.4bn andprints one in five of the world's currencies, is ...
Small business leaders take up cudgels against 'back-door' legislation
Apr 06, 2008; ... BRITAIN'S small business community has criticised the Governmentfor failing to uphold its pledges to make regulation morepredictable and cut red tape. The Federation of Small Businesses says the Government isignoring its own rules which state that the introduction of ...
MPC rate cut to control mortgages
Apr 06, 2008; ... THE Bank of England will cut interest rates this week in a bid tobring mortgage rates back under control, leading economists saidthis weekend. Some Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) members are even likely toargue in favour of a dramatic half a percentage point cut, amidgrowing ...
Microsoft threatens to cut Yahoo! offer
Apr 06, 2008; ... MICROSOFT yesterday threw down the gauntlet to Yahoo! over their$40bn hostile takeover battle by setting the search engine operatora three-week deadline to reach a deal. In a letter to Yahoo!'s board, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's chiefexecutive, threatened to lower the terms of his ...
Carphone threat over web music downloads
Apr 06, 2008; ... CARPHONE Warehouse has been threatened with an injunction by themusic industry unless it agrees to controversial plans to crack downon customers who download music illegally. News emerged after Carphone became the first British internetprovider to reject the industry's planned ...
Metals oligarchs forge new links
Apr 06, 2008; ... A TIE-UP between the Russian metals giants Rusal and NorilskNickel may be in jeopardy after signs that the feuding oligarchswith large stakes in Norilsk may have settled their differences. Mikhail Prokhorov and Vladimir Potanin were business associateswho built up Norilsk into the ...
Hedge Funds
Apr 06, 2008 ... We are happy to clarify that Michael Alen-Buckley has always beenchairman of RAB Capital, and not ever Lord Lamont as inadvertentlyreported here last ...
Abu Dhabi sets sail for ExCel London
Apr 06, 2008; ... THE wave of investment flowing into Britain from the Middle Eastmay be about to swell further, writes Mark Kleinman. An exhibitionsgroup backed by the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi has expressed aninterest in buying part or all of the company which owns ExCelLondon, the home of the London ...