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items: 'This was an avoidable tragedy'
items: Grenfell survivor Marcio Gomes: 'I can't change what happened – but speaking out could save somebody else's family'
items: 'They couldn't kill the music'
items: 'Jenny's life ended at Edgware Road'
items: 5 top tips from the Glucose Goddess Jessie Inchauspé, star of new Channel 4 series
items: Hitting the sweet spot
items: Is Lord Lucan alive?
items: Is Lord Lucan alive? New evidence in the hunt for the infamous Earl
items: "It broke me"
items: The day the music died
items: Nadiya Hussain on giving scraps a new lease of life in BBC Two's Cook Once, Eat Twice
items: "Leftovers have a reputation"
items: Sophie Morgan unsure Strictly would be "even playing field" for wheelchair user
items: Murder in the Alps revisits true crime 10 years later
items: Mary Berry on the secret of The Great British Bake Off’s success

'This was an avoidable tragedy'
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creator: Kathryn Knight
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description: Marcio Gomes’s unborn child was the youngest victim of the Grenfell Tower fire – so why has no one been held to account?
encoded: Add Grenfell: Uncovered to your watchlist For ten years, their flat on the 21st floor of Grenfell Tower was a contented home for Marcio Gomes, his wife Andreia and their two daughters, Luana and Megan. “We had a lovely family life,” the 46-year-old civil servant says. “We loved each other greatly. Grenfell was a really happy place for us.” That all changed in the small hours of 14 June 2017, when a fire broke out on the fourth floor of the west London tower block and Marcio became the father of the youngest victim of the blaze that killed 72 people, 18 of them children. With no one yet brought to book over a tragedy that has become a byword for regulatory failure and corporate greed, Marcio is among those sharing his story in the Netflix documentary Grenfell: Uncovered. His decision to speak is in part fuelled by his anger at that lack of accountability. “Manufacturers and organisations let Grenfell happen,” Marcio says. “This was an avoidable tragedy, and people need to be held accountable. It’s important to keep this in the news in whatever way we can.” Marcio and Andreia moved into Grenfell with their then infant daughters in April 2007. “I was there for ten years, but most people were there for 20 or 30,” he says. On the night their lives changed for ever, Luana and Megan were 12 and ten years old, and Andreia was seven months pregnant with their third child, a boy. The excited family had already named him Logan. They had been out for dinner and were asleep when Marcio was awakened in the small hours by a neighbour banging on the door to say there was a fire in one of the flats below. Looking out of the window and seeing only the lights of the fire engines on the scene, he assumed that everything was contained. “I didn’t feel in danger at all,” he says. That feeling didn’t last long. Marcio made increasingly frantic calls to the fire service and was told help was coming for him. “I remember opening the front door of the flat, but the smoke was extremely thick an…

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Grenfell survivor Marcio Gomes: 'I can't change what happened – but speaking out could save somebody else's family'
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date: 2025-06-16T23:01:44.000Z
creator: Kathryn Knight
subject: Documentaries
subject: TV
subject: Interview
subject: Magazine
subject: Netflix
description: The survivor is featured in Netflix's Grenfell: Uncovered.
encoded: This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine. For 10 years, their flat on the 21st floor of Grenfell Tower was a contented home for Marcio Gomes, his wife Andreia and their two daughters, Luana and Megan. “We had a lovely family life,” the 46-year-old civil servant says. “We loved each other greatly. Grenfell was a really happy place for us.” That all changed in the small hours of 14 June 2017, when a fire broke out on the fourth floor of the west London tower block and Marcio became the father of the youngest victim of the blaze that killed 72 people, 18 of them children. With no one yet brought to book over a tragedy that has become a byword for regulatory failure and corporate greed, Marcio is among those sharing his story in the Netflix documentary Grenfell: Uncovered. His decision to speak is in part fuelled by his anger at that lack of accountability. “Manufacturers and organisations let Grenfell happen,” Marcio says. “This was an avoidable tragedy, and people need to be held accountable. It’s important to keep this in the news in whatever way we can.” Marcio and Andreia moved into Grenfell with their then infant daughters in April 2007. “I was there for ten years, but most people were there for 20 or 30,” he says. On the night their lives changed for ever, Luana and Megan were 12 and ten years old, and Andreia was seven months pregnant with their third child, a boy. The excited family had already named him Logan. They had been out for dinner and were asleep when Marcio was awakened in the small hours by a neighbour banging on the door to say there was a fire in one of the flats below. Looking out of the window and seeing only the lights of the fire engines on the scene, he assumed that everything was contained. “I didn’t feel in danger at all,” he says. That feeling didn’t last long. Marcio made increasingly frantic calls to the fire service and was told help was coming for him. “I remember opening the front door of the flat, but the smoke was extremel…

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'They couldn't kill the music'
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creator: Kathryn Knight
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description: Anita Lasker-Wallfisch survived the Holocaust playing the cello in the women’s orchestra of Auschwitz
encoded: Add The Last Musician of Auschwitz to your watchlist As a boy, Raphael Wallfisch can recall his mother Anita Lasker-Wallfisch being asked about the digits tattooed on her arm. ‘‘She sometimes told people it was a telephone number or similar,” he recalls. “She would downplay it entirely.” At the family home in London, questions about the past from Raphael and his sister Maya were also largely batted away. “My mother believed in looking forwards, not backwards,” Raphael says. “She didn’t want to bring up her children in the shadow of what she had been through.” For Anita was a Holocaust survivor and the digits were the prisoner number she had inked on her flesh on arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1943 aged 18. That she escaped the gas chambers after being sent to the concentration camp was down to one thing: a gifted cellist, Anita was conscripted into the women’s orchestra of Auschwitz, who were ordered to play marches as the starving prisoners walked to and from their forced labour, as well as performing for their Nazi captors. Anita, now 99, is the only survivor of that orchestra and her story is recounted in The Last Musician of Auschwitz, a moving BBC2 documentary in which she gives living testimony to the horrors they endured. “Music was played to the most terrible things – the burning of victims,” she recalls in the programme. “You could see the people going in and coming out as smoke. And we knew it was only a matter of time before we went in there, too.” Yet Anita survived, along with her sister Renate, rescued by the British Army’s liberation of Bergen-Belsen, the camp to which they were subsequently moved, in 1945. The following year both came to London, where Anita met and married the pianist Peter Wallfisch and became a founder member of the English Chamber Orchestra. Born into a German-Jewish family in Breslau (then part of Germany, now Wroclaw in Poland), Anita recalls in the documentary, being scarcely aware of her Jewishness until the Nazis took power…

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'Jenny's life ended at Edgware Road'
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creator: Kathryn Knight
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description: Twenty years on, the families of the victims, survivors, police and rescue workers recall the horror of the London bombings on 7/7
encoded: Add 7/7: the London Bombings to your watchlist Julie Nicholson can recall the pause at the end of the telephone line that made her realise the worry bubbling inside her was rooted in something all too real. Minutes before, in her holiday cottage in Wales, she had watched “in shock and awe’’ as TV footage showed the unfolding devastation in London, where four suicide bombers had struck at the heart of the capital’s transport network. Worried, she phoned the music publisher where her 24-year-old graduate daughter worked to see if Jenny, a “joyous’’ person with an immense zest for life, had arrived safely. “They said, ‘Oh, it’s chaos here, it’s amazing any of us managed to make it in’. And I don’t know what prompted me, but I asked whether anybody else failed to turn up that morning. There was a pause, and the voice changed. And they said, ‘Only Jenny’. That was the moment I knew this was serious.’’ It took several more agonising days for Julie, who was a priest at the time, to receive the devastating news that her daughter was one of the 52 people killed in the terrorist bombings on 7 July 2005, when three devices were detonated on the London Underground and a fourth on a bus. A further 770 people were injured. “Jenny’s life journey ended at Edgware Road Underground,” as Julie puts it now. “She was away from us and all who loved her.” Over the years, she has “spoken to friends and colleagues who had a loved one in London at that time. We were all holding our breath until we heard from that person. Most people were able to let their breath out and breathe a sigh of relief. That, tragically, didn’t happen for us.” “My hope was that Jenny knew nothing about what happened, because she didn’t like Tube travel, and she used to bury her head in a book – and I hoped that was what indeed happened.” Today, Julie’s is one of the stories told in an extraordinarily moving, four-part documentary released ahead of the 20th anniversary of the attacks. Featuring the testimony of survi…

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5 top tips from the Glucose Goddess Jessie Inchauspé, star of new Channel 4 series
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date: 2025-01-07T08:00:37.000Z
creator: Kathryn Knight
subject: Documentaries
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subject: Channel 4
description: "Every bit helps."
encoded: This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine. If Jessie Inchauspé – known to millions as the Glucose Goddess – could convince us of one thing, it’s that changing our diet for the better need not be a Herculean task. ‘"There’s this big misconception that dietary change is going to mean restrictions,” she says. “People don’t want to change what they eat because they think it’s going to be hard and horrible. But it doesn’t need to be at all." It’s a message the French biochemist hopes will hit home in her new Channel 4 series, which challenges people with problems ranging from weight gain to acne and psoriasis to see if following her rules on regulating blood sugar levels and removing harmful cravings for just six weeks makes a difference. Inchauspé’s path to bestselling author and influencer began 13 years ago when, aged 19, she broke her back jumping off a waterfall on holiday in Hawaii. Her vertebrae fractured into 13 pieces, and her prolonged recovery proved to be both physically and mentally painful. "I had this horrible condition called depersonalisation, which is a feeling of literally being terrified of being alive, not understanding why you have a body, having panic attacks as soon as I looked in the mirror," she says. "It was horrendous.’" While her back eventually healed following surgery, the experience prompted Inchauspé, who was studying for a maths degree in London at the time, to better understand her physiology. "I realised health should be my number one priority," she says. Inchauspé focused on biochemistry and genetics, completing a master’s degree in biochemistry. In 2018 she tried out a glucose monitor: “I saw that I had these big glucose spikes which would trigger depersonalisation episodes,’’ she says. ‘‘It was so shocking, because in six years of struggling, nobody had said that my food could actually impact my mental health. That’s when I started fixing my food.’’ After two years “fixing herself”, Inchauspé put her simple hacks on Instag…

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Hitting the sweet spot
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creator: Kathryn Knight
subject: App
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description: Controlling your blood sugar levels is the key to a healthy and happy life, says “Glucose Goddess” Jessie Inchauspé
encoded: Add Eat Smart: Secrets of the Glucose Goddess to your watchlist If Jessie Inchauspé – known to millions as the Glucose Goddess – could convince us of one thing, it’s that changing our diet for the better need not be a Herculean task. ‘‘There’s this big misconception that dietary change is going to mean restrictions,” she says. “People don’t want to change what they eat because they think it’s going to be hard and horrible. But it doesn’t need to be at all.” It’s a message the French biochemist hopes will hit home in her new Channel 4 series, which challenges people with problems ranging from weight gain to acne and psoriasis to see if following her rules on regulating blood sugar levels and removing harmful cravings for just six weeks makes a difference. Inchauspé’s path to bestselling author and influencer began 13 years ago when, aged 19, she broke her back jumping off a waterfall on holiday in Hawaii. Her vertebrae fractured into 13 pieces, and her prolonged recovery proved to be both physically and mentally painful. “I had this horrible condition called depersonalisation, which is a feeling of literally being terrified of being alive, not understanding why you have a body, having panic attacks as soon as I looked in the mirror,’’ she says. “It was horrendous.’’ While her back eventually healed following surgery, the experience prompted Inchauspé, who was studying for a maths degree in London at the time, to better understand her physiology. ‘‘I realised health should be my number one priority,’’ she says. Inchauspé focused on biochemistry and genetics, completing a master’s degree in biochemistry. In 2018 she tried out a glucose monitor: “I saw that I had these big glucose spikes which would trigger depersonalisation episodes,’’ she says. ‘‘It was so shocking, because in six years of struggling, nobody had said that my food could actually impact my mental health. That’s when I started fixing my food.’’ After two years “fixing herself”, Inchauspé put her simple h…

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Is Lord Lucan alive?
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creator: Kathryn Knight
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description: It’s 50 years since the notorious killing of Sandra Rivett. Now her son is determined to find her killer
encoded: Add Lucan to your watchlist When Neil Berriman opened the brown envelope containing items from his past that his adoptive mother had left for him, one item in particular stood out. There, among the first birthday cards and adoption papers, was a newspaper cutting about a 29-year-old children’s nanny called Sandra Rivett, who had been brutally killed by the aristocrat Lord Lucan. Piecing together the documents in the envelope, it transpired that Sandra Rivett was Berriman’s birth mother. “I remember it was difficult to breathe,” the 57-year-old says now of the moment of his bombshell discovery. “It was horrendous.” Richard John Bingham, the 7th Earl of Lucan, vanished after Rivett’s murder at the Belgravia house he owned on 7 November 1974, in what police believed at the time (and an inquest later declared) was a case of mistaken identity, his intended target being his estranged wife Veronica, with whom he was engaged in a vicious custody battle. Rivett had been bludgeoned to death, and while Lucan’s blood-stained car was later found abandoned in Newhaven, East Sussex, he was never traced, despite numerous reported sightings around the world. Lord Lucan’s family maintained he had subsequently killed himself. He was formally declared dead by the UK’s High Court in February 2016. But father-of-two Berriman, from Hampshire, is convinced that Lord Lucan, who would be 90 in December, is still alive. His journey to discover the truth and try and unearth new evidence of Lord Lucan’s whereabouts – working with investigative journalist Glen Campbell – features in a compelling three-part BBC documentary that takes the pair from South Africa to Australia. Berriman’s mission to find out what really happened began in earnest when, in 2012, Scotland Yard allowed him to see harrowing photographs of the crime scene. The legacy of seeing those images has been visceral and long-lasting. “I was on antidepressants for two and a bit years… Because there’s my mother dead, and somebody’s g…

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Is Lord Lucan alive? New evidence in the hunt for the infamous Earl
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date: 2024-10-29T12:40:51.000Z
creator: Kathryn Knight
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description: Three-part documentary series Lucan will air on BBC Two.
encoded: This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine. When Neil Berriman opened the brown envelope containing items from his past that his adoptive mother had left for him, one item in particular stood out. There, among the first birthday cards and adoption papers, was a newspaper cutting about a 29-year-old children’s nanny called Sandra Rivett, who had been brutally killed by the aristocrat Lord Lucan. Piecing together the documents in the envelope, it transpired that Sandra Rivett was Berriman’s birth mother. "I remember it was difficult to breathe," the 57-year-old says now of the moment of his bombshell discovery. "It was horrendous." Richard John Bingham, the 7th Earl of Lucan, vanished after Rivett’s murder at the Belgravia house he owned on 7 November 1974, in what police believed at the time (and an inquest later declared) was a case of mistaken identity, his intended target being his estranged wife Veronica, with whom he was engaged in a vicious custody battle. Rivett had been bludgeoned to death, and while Lucan’s blood-stained car was later found abandoned in Newhaven, East Sussex, he was never traced, despite numerous reported sightings around the world. Lord Lucan’s family maintained he had subsequently killed himself. He was formally declared dead by the UK’s High Court in February 2016. But father-of-two Berriman, from Hampshire, is convinced that Lord Lucan, who would be 90 in December, is still alive. His journey to discover the truth and try and unearth new evidence of Lord Lucan’s whereabouts – working with investigative journalist Glen Campbell – features in a compelling three-part BBC documentary that takes the pair from South Africa to Australia. Berriman’s mission to find out what really happened began in earnest when, in 2012, Scotland Yard allowed him to see harrowing photographs of the crime scene. The legacy of seeing those images has been visceral and long-lasting. "I was on antidepressants for two and a bit years… Because there’s my moth…

"It broke me"
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creator: Kathryn Knight
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description: Ten years after British troops left Afghanistan, a new documentary tells the real stories of those who fought and died in Helmand
encoded: Add Helmand: Tour of Duty to your watchlist Of the many horrors he witnessed during his six-month tour of Afghanistan’s Helmand Province in 2009, one in particular brought Steven Peters to his knees. Peters, a sergeant in the Welsh Guards, saw his unit’s interpreter blown to pieces in front of him. The man, an Afghan who was seconded to Peters’ team, had been due to go on leave less than 24 hours later, to visit his young family. Instead he became another casualty of this most brutal of wars. “It broke me,” Peters recalls. ‘‘It was like when you’re a child and you start to cry and you can’t stop.” Yet this terrible tragedy was far from an isolated incident. History would later judge that the ferociously demanding six-month tour by the Welsh Guards – with its extraordinary number of casualties, including 72 fatalities – was the bloodiest period for British forces in the entire Afghan conflict. Now, to mark the ten-year anniversary of the withdrawal of frontline British troops from Afghanistan in 2014, a compelling new BBC documentary, Helmand: Tour of Duty allows survivors – and their loved ones – to tell their stories. Unsparing in its depiction of the realities of day-to-day warfare, it also examines, unflinchingly, the impact of the conflict on both soldiers and their families. “I don’t think the public really had an idea of what was going on there on a daily basis,” says Peters, now 42. ‘‘Mortars going off, missiles – there was something happening on an hourly basis. It was constant.” A career soldier, Peters joined the Army in 1988 as a 16-year-old, retiring only last year. ‘‘Until then, the Army was all I’d known,” he reflects. When he arrived in Helmand in March 2009 he was sergeant of a recce platoon and a veteran of several overseas tours, including the Balkans, Northern Ireland and Iraq. “They were nothing compared to what we walked into in Afghanistan,” he says. This is an assessment made chillingly clear by the documentary and shared by fellow veteran Jon…

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The day the music died
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creator: Kathryn Knight
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subject: App features
description: A new film focuses on the horror of the Nova festival massacre
encoded: Add Surviving October 7th: We Will Dance Again to your watchlist Even as a young boy, Aner Shapiro was always the first to stand up for what was right. ‘‘If someone was being bullied, Aner would step in. The most important thing for him was to be a good man,” his mother Shira recalls. Today, it comes as a huge comfort to Shira, her husband Moshe and Aner’s six younger siblings that the 22-year-old died as he had lived, heroically trying to save fellow festival-goers targeted by members of Hamas at Israel’s Nova festival last year. Sheltering with others in a small roadside bomb shelter following the attack, during which at least 360 young partygoers were murdered, Aner didn’t hesitate when terrorists started to throw grenades through the entrance, picking them up and throwing them back. However, he paid for his bravery with his life: the eighth grenade he picked up exploded in his hand, killing him instantly. His story is among those featured in Surviving October 7th: We Will Dance Again, a powerful documentary that pieces together the harrowing events of that day. ‘‘The way he died represents the way he lived – with passion, and courage,” says Shira. Like all those affected by the events of a year ago, she struggles to understand how such horror came to be visited on her close-knit family. Prior to travelling to the festival, Shira’s loving, family-oriented son, an Israeli soldier who was also a keen musician and had recorded songs of his own, had attended a Shabbat dinner at his parents’ home. View oEmbed on the source website When the family heard sirens at 8am the next morning, they knew something significant had happened. But it was only when Aner’s phone went unanswered and they learnt the festival had come under attack that they started to fear the worst. “I started to scream, and I didn’t stop,” Shira says. Amid the chaos and devastation of the aftermath, it took six days to discover Aner’s fate. “In my heart I knew he was gone, but I didn’t want to believe …

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Nadiya Hussain on giving scraps a new lease of life in BBC Two's Cook Once, Eat Twice
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date: 2024-09-13T09:00:30.000Z
creator: Kathryn Knight
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description: The former Bake Off winner talks to Radio Times about her latest series, the downsides of the "big weekly shop" and approaching a milestone birthday.
encoded: This interview was originally published in Radio Times magazine. As addictions go, the one that Nadiya Hussain confides has got her within its grip is probably not one to worry about too much. "It seems ridiculous to get excited about not wasting food, but it really is quite addictive," she beams. "In a good way of course. Using up everything in the fridge really can give you a dopamine hit." Unconvinced? A half-hour in the effervescent company of the former Bake Off winner - not to mention her thoughts about what to do with potato peelings, wilting vegetables and even the gloopy water from a can of chickpeas that we carelessly dispatch into the bin or down the sink - may get you thinking differently. At least, that's what 39-year-old Nadiya hopes to achieve with her six-part series, Nadiya's Cook Once, Eat Twice, during which the mum-of-three showcases inventive ways to utilise leftovers and make the most of what's lurking in the murky hidden corners of the nation's fridges. It's no surprise to anyone who has watched Nadiya cook that the series (with its accompanying book) is full of easily digestible handy tips and quick fixes - but as she ferments, preserves, blitzes and bludgeons breadcrumbs and peelings, it's also clear this show is driven by a very personal passion. "Not wasting has been a big part of my entire life," she explains. "I grew up in an immigrant household, we lived from wage to wage, we were always saving, using up everything that we had - waste just wasn't an option. So it's something that's been ingrained in me. I will find some way of using everything; I will never, ever throw anything away." Growing up in Luton as one of six in a second-generation British Bangladeshi family, money was tight and nothing went to waste. But it goes further than that - the family returned to Bangladesh once a year, where the relationship between humans and the food chain was consistently reinforced. "In Bangladesh if you were to eat rice, you grew your rice; if yo…

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"Leftovers have a reputation"
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creator: Kathryn Knight
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description: Nadiya Hussain is giving scraps a new lease of life, but despite approaching a milestone birthday, she’s leaving the makeovers in the kitchen
encoded: Add Nadiya's Cook Once, Eat Twice to your watchlist As addictions go, the one that Nadiya Hussain confides has got her within its grip is probably not one to worry about too much. ‘‘It seems ridiculous to get excited about not wasting food, but it really is quite addictive,’’ she beams. ‘‘In a good way of course. Using up everything in the fridge really can give you a dopamine hit.’’ Unconvinced? A half-hour in the effervescent company of the former Bake Off winner – not to mention her thoughts about what to do with potato peelings, wilting vegetables and even the gloopy water from a can of chickpeas that we carelessly dispatch into the bin or down the sink – may get you thinking differently. At least, that’s what 39-year-old Nadiya hopes to achieve with her six-part series, Nadiya’s Cook Once, Eat Twice, during which the mum-of-three showcases inventive ways to utilise leftovers and make the most of what’s lurking in the murky hidden corners of the nation’s fridges. It’s no surprise to anyone who has watched Nadiya cook that the series (with its accompanying book) is full of easily digestible handy tips and quick fixes – but as she ferments, preserves, blitzes and bludgeons breadcrumbs and peelings, it’s also clear this show is driven by a very personal passion. ‘‘Not wasting has been a big part of my entire life,’’ she explains. ‘‘I grew up in an immigrant household, we lived from wage to wage, we were always saving, using up everything that we had – waste just wasn’t an option. So it’s something that’s been ingrained in me. I will find some way of using everything; I will never, ever throw anything away.’’ Growing up in Luton as one of six in a second generation British Bangladeshi family, money was tight and nothing went to waste. But it goes further than that – the family returned to Bangladesh once a year, where the relationship between humans and the food chain was consistently reinforced. ‘‘In Bangladesh if you were to eat rice, you grew your rice; if you wa…

Sophie Morgan unsure Strictly would be "even playing field" for wheelchair user
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date: 2024-07-19T12:55:01.000Z
creator: Kathryn Knight
subject: Entertainment
subject: TV
subject: Exclusive
subject: News
description: “It might feel slightly tokenistic."
encoded: TV presenter and disability advocate Sophie Morgan has said she’s unsure whether Strictly Come Dancing would be an "even playing field" for a wheelchair user. Speaking exclusively to Radio Times magazine for this week's issue, the Channel 4 Fight to Fly presenter opened up about disability representation on the popular dancing show. "It’s wonderful to have such positive representation and inclusion with the likes of Rose and Ellie and JJ Chalmers – it reminds me of what can happen when you give disabled people a space and a voice, look what we can do with that. But it should be an industry standard," she said. Asked whether she would ever take part in Strictly, she said: "Sure. It’s not something that intimidates me, but I don’t know, is it a level playing field with a wheelchair user and people who have got the use of their legs?" She continued: "I’m not sure how you would you judge that competition fairly. If they could figure that out then I’d say do it, but otherwise it might feel slightly tokenistic. "Do you know the one I really want to do, the Jungle [I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!]. I’m putting it out there." Morgan spoke out against rumours that she had been signed up to take part in Strictly last year, insisting: "I am not a wheelchair." It came after The Sun reported the rumours under the headline “Cha Cha Chair”. Morgan tweeted in response: "‘CHA, CHA, CHAIR….’ is this actually for real? @TheSun we need to have a word. I am NOT a wheelchair. I am a PERSON who uses a wheelchair. WtAF." Sophie Morgan's Fight to Fly airs Monday 22nd July at 9pm on Channel 4. Check out more of our Documentaries coverage or visit our TV Guide and Streaming Guide to find out what's on. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to The Radio Times Podcast.

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Murder in the Alps revisits true crime 10 years later
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date: 2022-06-24T14:38:34.000Z
creator: Kathryn Knight
subject: Documentaries
subject: True Crime
subject: TV
subject: Interview
description: The new three-part true crime documentary airs on Channel 4 this weekend.
encoded: This interview was originally published in Radio Times magazine. On the morning of 6th September 2012, while Zaid al-Hilli was eating breakfast at his Surrey home, he heard a news report about a British family that had been killed in France. “I remember thinking it was very sad, then I showered, dressed and went to work,” he recalls. Only later that day did he learn that the family involved was his own, and that the scale of the tragedy was almost unimaginable: Zaid’s brother Saad, his wife Iqbal and her mother Suhaila al-Allaf had all been shot at gunpoint in their car in a remote beauty spot a few miles from Lake Annecy in the French Alps. The couple’s eldest daughter, Zainab, seven, had been shot, pistol-whipped and left for dead. Zainab’s terrified four-year-old sister Zeena was discovered inside the car, sheltering under the skirt of her deceased mother, eight hours after French police first arrived. Alongside the car, a French cyclist called Sylvain Mollier had also been assassinated. The brutal and senseless deaths of a holidaying British family made headlines around the world, but Zaid’s grief was quickly compounded by another horror, as he found himself placed under suspicion. “All of a sudden you are at the heart of a storm,” Zaid, now 63, recalls. “You’re trying to understand what happened, then the next minute you are being accused of something you know nothing about.’’ The approaching 10-year anniversary of the tragedy in September is one reason why Zaid has agreed to take part in a three-part Channel 4 documentary looking at the still unsolved murders. “I needed to tell my side of the story, to show how much this very hurtful episode in our lives affected me and my loved ones,” says Zaid. A genial, articulate man, Zaid’s anger at what he experienced remains palpable to this day, along with his grief. The al-Hilli brothers were close, a bond forged by fleeing their home in Iraq for the UK in the wake of Saddam Hussein’s power grab in 1968. “We did not w…

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Mary Berry on the secret of The Great British Bake Off’s success
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date: 2014-04-19T05:21:00.000Z
creator: Kathryn Knight
subject: Entertainment
subject: News
subject: Reality TV
subject: TV
description: GBBO is in the running for the Radio Times Audience Award at this year's TV Baftas, but what's the show's secret? Mary Berry explains...
encoded: Mary Berry doesn’t hesitate when asked why The Great British Bake Off has so robustly captured the public imagination. “Viewers can relate to it,” she says. “The people in it could be your sister, your son, your next-door neighbor. The public identifies with the contestants and like to watch their journey through the show. “Just yesterday I was walking down the street and two young men came out of the pub and asked if they could have a photo with me. They were only around 20, but genuine Bake Off fans. I love that. I think the show brings families of all generations together on the sofa.” Bake Offhas been nominated for the Radio TimesAudience Award by Bafta judges for the third year running, and next season makes the move from BBC2 to BBC1. Mary says the change will make no difference to the format when filming starts just after Easter. “All the values are the same – it’s about people’s passion for baking. The contestants put their heart and soul into it and that always moves me. Many of them have full-time jobs but stay up all night perfecting their skills.” After the marvels conjured up by last year’s winner Francis Quinn, one wonders how the standards can continue to rise. “The bar is already pretty high, but I expect we will see the contestants in the next series becoming even more inventive,” says Mary. That doesn’t mean, however, that the nation’s amateur bakers should worry. “It’s not always about showstoppers,” she says. “People send me pictures of their versions of cakes from Bake Off – the icing may be a bit wobbly but it doesn’t matter. It’s wonderful that people are inspired.” The Great British Bake Off Easter Masterclass is on Saturday BBC2 at 12 noon, with two further Masterclasses on Wednesday and Friday BBC2 at 12 noon The Radio Times Audience Award is the only prize at this year's Television Awards chosen by the public. The shortlist was drawn up by a panel of top TV critics but the final decision lies with you. Your winner will be announced on Sund…

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