The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from April 2009:
Jane Seymour actress
Apr 05, 2009; ... It would definitely not involve an alarm clock. What a treat itwould be to wake up when I felt like it. When I do eventually getup, I would have a cappuccino, throw on some exercise clothes andwalk through our vegetable garden. I like to pick raspberries,blackberries and blueberries. I ...
None of us is really in control of our lives, even when we think we are
Apr 05, 2009; ... Why is it whenever I ask for 'black coffee' in one of the globalnetwork of shops that infest the high street that the baristaearnestly inquires whether I 'want milk with that?' Perhaps thewords 'black' and 'coffee' fused together make an unclear request ormaybe I don't know how to order ....
whatever happened to... Sacheen Littlefeather
Apr 05, 2009; ... At the 1973 Academy Awards the best actor Oscar went to MarlonBrando for his performance in The Godfather. But when the camerasswung round to find the great man, he wasn't there. In his place wasa woman calling herself Sacheen Littlefeather, with waist-long blackhair and full Native ...
the list late bloomers
Apr 05, 2009; ... 1 'There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery,'Colonel Harland Sanders once said. 'You can't do any business fromthere.' Still, Sanders was 66 when he began franchising his KentuckyFried Chicken restaurants, personally mixing and mailing franchiseeshis 'secret recipe' of 11 ...
How does it feel suddenly to discover that your parents aren't who you think they are? That you're not safe in the country you call home? That you and your family are in mortal danger? The children of spies break their cover to Georgina Harding
Apr 05, 2009; ... What Daddy, or Mummy, does: it's one of those fixed points in a child's identity that goesdown beside name, colour of eyes, colour of hair, name or number ofthe house where you live. I've recently written a novel about twochildren who believe their dead mother may have been a spy ....
Armando Iannucci is an erudite classical music aficionado who also happens to be responsible for the most inventively foul-mouthed comedy in recent memory. Yet no one bar Alastair Campbell has a bad word to say about him The Nigel Farndale Interview
Apr 05, 2009; ... It is five minutes past nine in the morning, though you wouldn'tknow it from the clocks in the Iannucci household. The one in thekitchen is ten minutes fast, in order to fool the children into notbeing late for school. The one in the study is an hour slow, orrather it has stopped, the ...
the ultimate working holiday It's been nearly 150 years since the very first Royal Tour, a mammoth operation that wowed the world. Over the years the security has got tighter, the logistics more complicated and the dietary requirements more strict. But the spectacle is still the same, reports Andrew Alderson
Apr 05, 2009; ... It was at 9.30am on Saturday, August 25 1860, that Albert Edward,the 18-year-old Prince of Wales, walked down the steps of hissteamer, Kingston, and on to the wharf at Bonsecours Market inMontreal, Canada. Nearly 50,000 spectators roared their welcome as Queen Victoria'seldest ...
The boat that does not rock Richard Curtis's tale of life on a pirate radio station sinks; while a one-dimensional plot leaves the latest 3D animation without any magic
Apr 05, 2009; ... The Boat That Rocked (15) 129 mins ????? Monsters vs Aliens (PG) 94 mins ????? Over the years I have come to divide people into two camps: thekind that, when introduced to a man with a flashing bow tie andyellow cartoon socks, think: 'A real character: what fun!' and ...
DVD of the week
Apr 05, 2009; ... Of Time and the City BFI VD789, 12, pounds 19.56 ????? Terence Davies values his Liverpudlian roots and here offers aclear-eyed assessment of the city's evolution since the war and hisown changing response to it. It's the first film he's made since TheHouse of Mirth (2000), which ...
OTHER FILMS
Apr 05, 2009; ... Modern Life (PG) 87 mins ?????Over the past decade, French film-maker Raymond Depardon has beenworking on a series of films entitled Profils Paysans - documentaryportraits of farming communities around the Massif Central -returning every few years to the same subjects to ...
Constable's arrested development The master of landscapes struggled when it came to portraits
Apr 05, 2009; ... Constable Portraits: The Painter and his Circle????? National Portrait Gallery, London WC2 (020 7306 0055) to June14 The exhibition of John Constable's portraits currently on show atthe National Portrait Gallery is a very odd affair: it is full of mediocre ...
The fat of the land A tubby Toby Jones brings a compelling touch of humanity to this tale of suburban discontent
Apr 05, 2009; ... Parlour Song ?????Almeida, London N1 (0207359 4404) to May 9 Sunset Boulevard ?????Comedy Theatre, London SW1 (020 7432 4220) to Jun 27The theatre is not an especially welcoming place for fat people.It isn't simply that the seats in ...
preview The funny sounds of silence Honestly, old movies are hilarious, Paul Merton tells Veronica Lee
Apr 05, 2009; ... There are those who believe, I suggest to Paul Merton, thatsilent-movie enthusiasts are men of a certain age and disposition -well, nerds. The comic throws his head back in loud laughter andagrees, yes, there is some truth in that, but he is on a mission toconvert people like me, who ...
Lost in transvestite A Japanese 'Twelfth Night' results in an intriguing mismatch
Apr 05, 2009; ... Twelfth Night ?????ABT: Swan Lake ????? Royal Ballet: Swan Lake ????? Kabuki is theatrical Marmite, and Yukio Ninagawa's 2005 all-Japanese production of Twelfth Night has polarised commentatorsaccordingly. Straight theatre critics, used to fripperies like ...
On your marks, get set... rave! 'National treasures' the Prodigy are embarking on an arena tour
Apr 05, 2009; ... Shortly after last summer's British successes at the Olympics,BBC Radio 5 Live ran a programme about the music the nation'sathletes use to hype themselves up for a championship contest. Suchis the compressed dynamism of the Prodigy's greatest hits - from theincendiary kick of ...
Dido left to suffer on her own The dancing and singing are scarcely integrated in this double bill
Apr 05, 2009; ... Dido and Aeneas/Acis and Galatea Royal Opera House (020 73044000) until April 20 ????? Juliette The Barbican ????? Uniting two of this year's big composer anniversaries, CoventGarden also takes the rare step of joining up its opera and balletcompanies for a new double bill of ...
BOOK OF THE WEEK Labour The Pleasure and Sorrows of Work By Alain de Botton HAMISH HAMILTON, pounds 18.99, 329 pp Alain de Botton's musings on the nature of work leave Anne Billson longing for clocking-off time
Apr 05, 2009; ... Thank God for Alain de Botton. For, without him, we might neverhave reflected that, behind each can of tuna stacked on the shelvesof our local supermarket, there exists an intricate network offishermen, factory workers, paper-pushers, airline pilots, lorrydrivers, engineers and chemists, ...
SPORT The Last Game: Love, Death and Football By Jason Cowley SIMON & SCHUSTER, pounds 14.99, 276 pp An Arsenal fan's autobiographical reflection on the changing face of the sport hits home for Leo McKinstry
Apr 05, 2009; ... Despite the passion and drama so often aroused by football,writing about our national sport was rarely treated seriously inliterary circles until the Nineties. That decade brought arevolution in attitudes to the game, not least because of the phenomenal success of Nick ...
Literary Life
Apr 05, 2009; ... Back in 2004 Colm Toibin's novel about Henry James, The Master,happened to come out around the same time as David Lodge's novelabout James, Author, Author. Imagine Mr Toibin's dismay when helearned that his new novel, Brooklyn, due from Viking next month,had the same title as a novel due ...
AS THE EARPIECES OF EARLY LISTENING DEVICES WERE CONSPICUOUSLY LARGE, CIA AGENTS WORE SPECIAL FALSE EARS, MOULDED OUT OF SILICON ESPIONAGE Spycraft: Inside the CIA's Top Secret Spy Lab by Robert Wallace and H. Keith Melton Bantam, pounds 11.99, 548pp A humdrum history of American spycraft leaves John Preston neither shaken nor stirred
Apr 05, 2009; ... In 1943, the Office of Strategic Services - forerunner of the CIA- began tests of what they hoped would prove to be a devastatinglyeffective secret weapon on an air base in New Mexico. This involvedattaching tiny explosive charges to thousands of bats. The plan wasthat these bats should ...
MILITARY HISTORY Warlord: A Life of Churchill At War 1874-1945 By Carlo D'Este ALLEN LANE/PENGUIN, pounds 30, 936 pp Churchill was the only man for the job when Britain went to war and this book shows us why, says Nigel Jones
Apr 05, 2009; ... 'Winston' hissed the feline Arthur Balfour after the Great War,'has written a big book about himself and called it "The WorldCrisis".' The acid comment - albeit accurately capturing Churchill'sformidable energy and his egotism - came relatively early in hisswitchback political and ...
What to read when you're... not going to a party Bibliotherapy
Apr 05, 2009; ... Were you invited to Donatella Versace's party in London lastmonth? No, me neither, nor to trot along with Kate Moss to SirPhilip Green's birthday celebrations. Instead, I have been re-reading Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies, a masterpiece for many reasons,including its brilliant dissection of ...
IN A CAMPAIGN OF GENOCIDE AGAINST THE SERB ORTHODOX POPULATION, 'KILL A THIRD, EXPEL A THIRD, CONVERT A THIRD', WAS THE SLOGAN HISTORY Croatia through History: The Making of a European State By Branka Magas SAQI, pounds 45, 743 pp Croatia's political and religious history has largely been shaped by its geography, discovers Brendan Simms
Apr 05, 2009; ... Imagine a country made up almost entirely of border strips.Croatia, as one map in Branka Magas's superlative new history shows,has a 241km boundary with Serbia; shares 329km with Hungary; 501kmwith Slovenia; and a 932km frontier with Bosnia-Herzegovina; andthat is before you look at the ...
SHORT STORIES The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Fourth Estate, pounds 14.99, 218pp A sombre collection of stories obsessed with society's constraints weighs heavily on the mind of Lucy Beresford
Apr 05, 2009; ... A thing around your neck might keep you warm, or it might make itimpossible to breathe. Adichie's 12 short stories possess similarambiguities as to whether her characters are victims or survivors. It's a collection that reeks of frustrated ambition, with wivesreplaced by ...
THE LANGUAGE IS INCONGRUOUS: ALISON CRIES 'HAVOC' AND 'HARROW' WHILE THE WIFE OF BATH EYES UP A 'HUNK' TRANSLATION A Retelling of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales By Peter Ackroyd PENGUIN CLASSICS, pounds 25, 436 pp Comic turns of phrase are lost in this rendering of Chaucer in prose, says Harriet Paterson
Apr 05, 2009; ... So Peter Ackroyd takes on Chaucer again, following his biographyand a novel, for a 'retelling' of the Canterbury Tales. I was ratherhoping this meant a spicy morality pageant around a penitent Banker,Chancellor and Hedge Fund Manager, but it was not to be. The Reeveand the Manciple it ...
Children's books
Apr 05, 2009; ... Wildthorn by Jane Eagland (Picador, pounds 6.99) 13+ In the days before 'young adults' had been invented, the pathfrom childhood to adult reading was strewn with stepping stones fromGeorgette Heyer. Heaving bosoms were a rite of passage. Today'steenagers, however, get their own ...
TITLE DEED HOW THE BOOK GOT ITS NAME Cadenus and Vanessa by Jonathan Swift
Apr 05, 2009; ... Cadenus and Vanessa, a long poem written in 1713 and published asa book in 1726, contains in its title an anagram and a neonym. Theanagram was 'Cadenus', in reference to Swift himself, since'Decanus' is Latin for 'Dean'. The neonym was 'Vanessa', in secretreference to Esther Vanhomrigh, ...
the sunday project No. 55 Carry on camping gadgets
Apr 05, 2009; ... From music festivals to recession-friendly family holidays,camping is making a comeback. But that doesn't mean you need to beleft without any creature comforts - modern tents and moderntechnology mean that you can pack most of your gadgets without fearof them getting too wet, and without ...
Hyundai i20 1.2 Comfort Price (as tested): pounds 9,945 Power: 77bhp 0-62mph: 12.9 seconds Top speed: 103mph Average fuel consumption: 54.3mpg CO2 emissions: 124g/km Insurance group: 3 Cheap, nippy and with plenty of great extras, Hyundai's successor to the Getz is taking the challenge to the European heavyweights, says Neil Lyndon
Apr 05, 2009; ... Anybody who doubts that Far-Eastern manufacturing corporationsare going to eat Europe's breakfast and lick the plate clean, shouldspend some time with the new Hyundai i20. In contrast with the restof the commercial world, everything about the i20 radiatesconfidence, optimism and the ...
Last-ditch talks to save 1,200 jobs at high street chain
Apr 05, 2009; ... LAST-DITCH talks involving the taxpayer-backed Lloyds BankingGroup were under way last night to avert the collapse of RobertDyas, the high street hardware chain, in a bid to salvage more thana thousand jobs. Change Capital Partners, the private equity firm which ownsRobert Dyas ...
Concern over BAA finances
Apr 05, 2009; ... INVESTMENT bank Merrill Lynch was asked to examine BAA's financesin December as Government officials became so concerned following aslide in its bonds that they requested an investigation. Spanish group Ferrovial, which has a controlling stake in theairport operator, was also cited ...
RBS lines up veteran audit chief
Apr 05, 2009; ... ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND (RBS) is lining up a veteran accountant tojoin its board as part of the state-backed lender's efforts toconvince investors that it is drawing a line under its vast recentlosses. RBS has asked Brendan Nelson, a senior partner at KPMG, theprofessional ...
mystery buyer stalks Chorion's sleuths ITV
Apr 05, 2009 ... THE intellectual property company Chorion is in talks to sell itsliterary estates arm, home to the works of renowned crime authorsincluding Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, writes MarkKleinman. Chorion has been approached by an unnamed trade buyer and the twosides are now ...
Goldman considers share sale
Apr 05, 2009 ... GOLDMAN Sachs is considering a multi-billion dollar share issueto fund the repayment of the $10bn ( pounds 6.75bn) US governmentloan handed to the Wall Street bank at the height of the globalfinancial crisis last autumn, writes Mark Kleinman. Goldman, which will report its ...
Worst of recession 'yet to come'
Apr 05, 2009; ... THE worst of the recession is yet to come for many UK companies,Ernst & Young warns in a gloomy report today. The accountancy company says that as the downturn persists morebusinesses further down the supply chain will be hit. Ernst and Young's report shows that there were ...
Deutsche posts Royal Mail ambition
Apr 05, 2009; ... DEUTSCHE Post, Europe's largest mail company, has emerged as acontender to acquire a stake in Royal Mail after a delegation of itstop managers met with the UK company's advisory board. Press reports in Germany suggested that John Allan, financedirector of Deutsche Post, met Royal ...
Anglo resumes hunt for chairman
Apr 05, 2009 ... MINING group Anglo American has restarted its search for a newchairman, months after a boardroom split scuppered the appointmentof Sir John Parker to the role, write Mark Kleinman and Garry White. Anglo, which is chaired by the former Shell executive Sir MarkMoody-Stuart, has ...
Car industry crisis deepens as sales slump
Apr 05, 2009; ... BRITAIN's ailing car industry is set to intensify calls forgovernment help tomorrow with the publication of figures showingthat new car sales fell by up to 30pc last month. Car registrations fell by between 28pc and 30pc in March comparedto the same period a year earlier, ...
Ex-F1 driver's club hits the skids
Apr 05, 2009; ... FORMER Formula One champion Damon Hill is facing the risk ofsubstantial financial losses after the collapse of a supercar clubhe founded. P1 International was set up by Hill and business partner MichaelBreen in 2000. The ex-motor racing star sold out to Breen in 2006but remains ...
Madoff victims turn spotlight on PwC auditing role
Apr 05, 2009; ... INVESTORS in Fairfield Sentry, the feeder fund that has been thebiggest casualty of the Bernard Madoff fraud, have begun raisingquestions about the role of the hedge fund's auditorsPricewaterhouseCoopers. Concerns about the audit process follow the decision last week ...
Rio has pounds 8bn cash call plan
Apr 05, 2009; ... HEAVILY-INDEBTED miner Rio Tinto is planning an pounds 8bnrights issue ( pounds 5.4bn) should its proposed $19.5bn cashinjection by Chinalco, the state-owned Chinese aluminium group bevoted down by shareholders or regulators. The issue will be under-written by Credit Suisse and JP ...
Bosses tune into Jazz FM
Apr 05, 2009 ... THE sale of radio station Jazz FM to a consortium of directorsled by its chief executive Richard Wheatly is set to be completedthis week, write Amanda Andrews and Yvette Essen. It is understood that the deal to sell the assets and business ofJazz FM and JazzFM.com could be ...
Rake to land at easyJet
Apr 05, 2009; ... SIR Michael Rake, the BT chairman, is this week poised to jointhe board of easyJet, charged with bringing an end to the conflictbetween founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou and the rest of the board. The low-fare carrier will tomorrow name Sir Michael its chairman-designate, ready to ...
McCain loses credit cover
Apr 05, 2009; ... A LEADING credit insurer has withdrawn cover for suppliers to theUK arm of McCain Foods after accusing the frozen-chip maker offailing to provide up-to-date financial accounts. Euler Hermes, the insurer, has contacted suppliers to McCaintelling them it has withdrawn cover ....
This brave new world we live in needs leaders based in reality
Apr 05, 2009; ... 'Today's decisions, of course, won't immediately solve thecrisis," said Gordon Brown, presiding over last week's G20 summit inLondon. "But we've begun the process by which it will be solved." Triumphalism on the part of our Prime Minister isn't new. LastDecember, he told the ...
Breaking the silence before the inflation tsunami
Apr 05, 2009; ... "YOU must be the only person worried about inflation, Liam". So Iwas told on Newsnight last week - by someone who's spent four of thelast five years in the cabinet. Almost lost for words, I blurted an answer before Mr Paxmanintervened. But I left the television studio ...
FTSE boards must tackle leadership vacuum
Apr 05, 2009; ... What do the following FTSE 100 companies have in common: AngloAmerican, BP, J Sainsbury, Legal & General (L&G) and StandardChartered? This quintet of some of the biggest blue-chip names inBritish business are all searching for someone to fill theirchairman's office. They are by ...
UKFI FACES LLOYDS CONUNDRUM
Apr 05, 2009; ... ANOTHER large (although much less large than it was, of course)company that is having to engage in some boardroom recruitment isRBS, where a trio of non-executives is being sought by the chairman,Sir Philip Hampton. All three of the new recruits will need to be endorsed by ...
MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE AT ITV
Apr 05, 2009; ... JUST what is going on at ITV? Shares in the commercial broadcaster leapt by almost 30pc onFriday on the back of very little market chatter other than that arights issue is now just weeks away. I'm assured by people close to ITV that there has been notakeover approach to the ...
I, for one, will be keeping my glass half full after this historic summit
Apr 05, 2009; ... Against a backdrop of simmering protests, a threatened walk-outand an outbreak of Obama fever, leaders of the world's most powerfulnations arrived in London for an historic meeting. The parallelswith the 1933 London Summit that collapsed in disarray, deepeningthe Great Depression, could ...
Aiming for unity, reality bites Hailed as a huge success, the G20 summit saw agreement on issues that will address some of the world's economic problems. But vast challenges still lie ahead, writes Edmund Conway
Apr 05, 2009; ... It was the summit that ushered in a new world order, but for 30excruciating minutes on Thursday afternoon the leaders of theworld's biggest economies stared into the abyss. With the clockticking away towards the mid-afternoon deadline, the G20 had reacheda deadlock: China and France were ...
THE WEEK AHEAD
Apr 05, 2009 ... ECONOMIC news is scheduled to be fairly light in a week shortened by Easter. The main event is probably the monthly meeting of the Bank ofEngland's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), but it is not clearwhether there will be any "new" news when any announcements are madeon ...
Electrocomponents is a hold for now
Apr 05, 2009; ... Electrocomponents 134p Questor says HOLD THERE is no doubt that things are tough in Electrocomponents'business, but the company is still generating cash and maintainingmargins. Following Friday's trading update it is likely that forecastswill ...
Commodore Goodwin flies in under the radar
Apr 05, 2009; ... IT WILL come as a surprise to some but Dashwood learns that SirFred Goodwin, the beleaguered ex-chief executive of RBS, is stillflying high. On top of his pounds 700,000 RBS pension, it has emerged he isalso a chief Biggles with the Air Force (It makes sense, in a way,that he ...
Moulton uncorks recession winner
Apr 05, 2009; ... DASHWOOD reported last year on private equity boss Jon Moulton'ssweet and sour grapes about Gordon Brown's handling of the economy. The founder of Alchemy Partners produced a special bottling ofwine from his vineyard to commemorate the downturn in the ...
Journalist a shoo-in for Arab power list
Apr 05, 2009; ... WHILE the world leaders were gathered in London last week puttingthe global economy straight and re-establishing the power peckingorder, an outsider almost stole the show. The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at ...
Reubens check out hotels group
Apr 05, 2009; ... THE rumour is that London entrepreneurs and multi-millionairesthe Reuben brothers could be interested in making a bid for theluxury hotels group Orient-Express. It would be an interesting move for the pair, who have beenkeeping a low profile of ...
Myners's call to the Garrick is still on hold
Apr 05, 2009; ... GOVERNMENT minister Lord Myners has been having almost as torrida time as Sir Fred. All those questions about what he did or didn'tknow about Sir Fred's pension must have left him needing a quietspot to relax. No doubt to that end, he has applied for membership of ...
A man with the stamp of authority Donald Brydon is relishing the challenge of steering Royal Mail through its part-privatisation, he tells Mark Kleinman
Apr 05, 2009; ... It is 12.30 on Wednesday afternoon and the venue at which I havearranged to meet Donald Brydon, the new chairman of Royal Mail, is asmart Italian restaurant near Victoria station, well away from theG20 protests taking place in the heart of the City of London. Within five minutes of ...
Installing a meter could make a big difference to bills - but make sure you do your research before you take the plunge, writes Richard Evans
Apr 05, 2009; ... No one likes to pour money down the drain, but when it comes towater bills many of us are doing exactly that. Some people couldsave as much as pounds 850 a year by switching to a water meter.But others could be seriously out of pocket - especially as pricesacross the country are about ...
The 'Obama effect' and other reasons to smile
Apr 05, 2009; ... Has Britain experienced the "Obama effect", as the mood seemed tolift a little last week? Or was it simply that summer time hasarrived and the evenings are light when we arrive home after a day'sgraft? Given the mood that has embraced the nation, any reason to smileis being ...
THE RETURN OF TRACKERS
Apr 05, 2009; ... When I started out in personal finance journalism in 1998, fundmanagers who plied the active management trade tried to put me offtracker funds. Their argument was that so-called passive funds thatsimply track a stock market could not add extra value, but managerswho were researching and ...
SET FOR INFLATION?
Apr 05, 2009; ... An email was circulated last week showing the make-up of the Bankof England's own pension fund. The conspiracy theorists wonderwhether it knows something we don't. The fund is full to the brimwith fixed-interest securities and index-linked ...
Dear Jessica FINANCIAL TROUBLESHOOTER Neither party covered in glory
Apr 05, 2009; ... At the end of the last tax year and then the beginning of thisone, my wife and I paid pounds 3,000, and then pounds 3,600respectively each, for the full amount of individual savingsaccounts (Isas) for both years. The appropriate amounts were taken from our Barclays ...
Dear Jessica FINANCIAL TROUBLESHOOTER Wrong Isas allocated
Apr 05, 2009; ... My partner and I applied for Barclays Tax Haven Isas throughrecommendations from our relationship manager before the end of thelast tax year for the new tax year. Six weeks later we were issuedwith the wrong Isa called a Barclays Cash Isa paying a lot lessinterest. NS, ...