Radio Times
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date: 2022-09-16T12:41:16.000Z
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items: David Oyelowo talks See How They Run, TV habits and Bake Off
items: Streaming the best TV shows of 2022: From Bridgerton to Heartstopper
items: Jane Garvey gives her verdict on Top Gear
items: Stephen Daldry reflects on a half century in the fight for freedom and equality
items: Adrian Lester talks The Undeclared War
items: Emma Raducanu returns to Wimbledon: Tennis stars preview SW19 comeback
items: Portraying the Queen on screen - the stars who have played Her Majesty
items: Royal programmes to stream in celebration of the Jubilee
items: Simon Cowell on the return of BGT, Pop Idol rumours and his favourite films
items: Inside No. 9's Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith and Mark Gatiss reveal how their friendship began

David Oyelowo talks See How They Run, TV habits and Bake Off
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date: 2022-09-16T12:31:50.000Z
creator: Katie Wright
subject: Movies
subject: TV
subject: Interview
description: Speaking to Radio Times magazine, the actor opens up about who he was most excited to work with on the new murder mystery and the important role of storytelling.
encoded: This interview was originally published in Radio Times magazine. What’s the view from your sofa? Our living room looks out over the San Fernando valleys in LA. We have an 80-inch screen and an L-shaped purple sofa that takes up the entire room where my wife and I, our four kids and four dogs curl up to watch movies. Who controls the remote? It varies! If we’re going to agree on what to watch, it’s me. If we’re going to fight, end up scrolling and dissipate – it’s one of my children. Is there a programme your wife (actress Jessica Oyelowo) loves and you loathe? My wife and ten-year-old daughter watch The Great British Bake Off religiously – but it’s just not my jam. Thankfully, I benefit from the baking that ensues after it. What TV did you watch when you were at school in London? I was obsessed with Happy Days. Henry Winkler played Fonzie and he famously used to run a comb through his hair. Having an afro, I was completely scarred by the fact a comb didn’t go through my hair in the same way – that was fairly formative for me. Now we have lots of people who look like me on screen, so I don’t carry those burdens any more! You’re in See How They Run, the star-studded new murder mystery film with the likes of Ruth Wilson, Sian Clifford and Adrien Brody. Who were you most excited to work alongside? Saoirse Ronan – a generational talent who will be up there with Meryl Streep and Kate Winslet. And she’s a wonderful human being – my fanboying over her only increased getting to work with her. What sets this apart from other whodunnits? It’s a film about a play being turned into a film. My earliest years as an actor were spent in British theatre, so I was keen to do a film celebrating and slightly poking fun at that. You received a scholarship to study at Lamda, the prestigious acting school. When did acting feel like a viable career? You almost never lose that feeling that, at some point, someone is going to turn the tap off. I’m incredibly blessed to say I have spent my 24-…

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Streaming the best TV shows of 2022: From Bridgerton to Heartstopper
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date: 2022-09-14T10:40:11.000Z
subject: Collections
subject: Drama
subject: TV
subject: Amazon Prime Video
subject: BBC iPlayer
subject: Disney Plus
subject: Netflix
subject: On demand
description: Catch up on 10 of the finest dramas of the year so far.
encoded: We not far beyond the halfway mark of 2022, but it's fair to say that this year has already been a triumph for streaming platforms across the board. With such a vast wealth of material to choose from, we've put together a list of some of the best new offerings: from Netflix and Disney Plus to Amazon Prime Video, BBC iPlayer and Apple TV+, these are some of the recent highlights to enjoy on all of the services. Take a look at our favourites below, which includes all the important details about where you can watch the show – and why they’re worth your time.

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Jane Garvey gives her verdict on Top Gear
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date: 2022-07-03T07:00:05.000Z
creator: Katie Wright
subject: Entertainment
subject: TV
description: With the penultimate episode of the iconic motoring show airing this weekend, Jane Garvey reveals what she thinks about the latest season.
encoded: In the latest issue of Radio Times magazine, broadcaster and Radio Times Podcast host Jane Garvey shares her thoughts on the long-running BBC motoring show. Top Gear is nearing the end of its 32nd series. That’s a lot of series. The presenting line-up these days lacks anyone as magnificently irritating as Jeremy Clarkson, though they give it a good go. Paddy McGuinness supplies what passes for energy, Freddie Flintoff the derring-do and journalist Chris Harris the genuine expertise. Harris has the air of a benevolent prefect tasked with amusing a pair of giant toddlers over a long weekend. Though sometimes, Christopher, you allow Patrick and Andrew to lower your own high standards! It’s a long old hour on a Sunday on BBC One. All right, I suspect this show isn’t aimed at me. I am a car owner, though perhaps I should out myself as someone who once bought two consecutive Fiat Pandas. And not many petrolheads would boast about that. I was no stranger to the hard shoulder, let’s put it that way. My current car is silver, has wheels and it starts, and I enjoy sitting in a tailback on the way to B&Q listening to the Eagles on Magic FM as much as the next person. But there my interest in cars ends. For such freewheelin’ fellas, they may want to rethink the way Top Gear starts – a crowd in very thick anoraks and bobble hats (when was this filmed?) clap away dutifully outside TV Centre as the hosts plod through a clunking, faintly punny introduction. Freddie Flintoff makes a reference to a “big innings”. Ho hum. Things improve when we leave the UK behind, and get racing in the Florida sunshine. We’re expected to believe that Paddy personally ordered a beaten-up Rambler motorhome as their vehicle of choice. If you say so. Though I expect the producers may have had something to do with it. There’s a marginal amount of jeopardy as they cross the Everglades in fear of alligator attack. I think we all know that if they had been the unfortunate victims of a violent assault by gian…

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Stephen Daldry reflects on a half century in the fight for freedom and equality
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date: 2022-07-02T06:00:17.000Z
creator: Katie Wright
subject: Documentaries
subject: TV
description: The Oscar-nominated director's new documentary Freedom: 50 Years of Pride explores and celebrates the queer activism movement throughout the last five decades.
encoded: This interview was originally published in Radio Times magazine. Fifty-three years ago this month, the New York police raided the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, an iconic venue for LGBTQ+ people. Violent raids happened across the city every night, but what was different on this night was that the people inside and out said no. LGBTQ+ people from all across New York demonstrated against police brutality and state oppression. The Stonewall Uprising spread across America and 50 years ago this month inspired a few hundred LGBTQ+ people in London to march from Trafalgar Square to Hyde Park. They were marching for liberation. Less to change the law, and more to change themselves, they were marching against shame. And so the UK’s first ever Pride march was born. Over the decades, it’s grown to a million and a half thronging the streets of London to celebrate LGBTQ+ equality. Today there’s a lot of debate about how relevant Pride is. Some say it has become too commercial. Some say it’s too much of a party and needs to return to its radical roots. Some say the battle has been won. We’ve made a film about this story with the BBC and Channel 4. It’s the story of 50 years of Pride, of protest, of performance. And, of course, 50 years of fabulousness. And what an unbelievable story. Police brutality in the 70s, Aids in the 80s, Section 28, the fight for an equal age of consent, same-sex marriage, black liberation and trans rights. Director Peter Sweasey and his team interview the campaigners, actors, activists, rock stars and ordinary folk who found a community and a voice at Pride. From Tom Robinson’s anthemic call to arms Glad to Be Gay (banned by the BBC in 1978) to the 1988 invasion of the BBC newsroom by lesbians protesting against Section 28, Britain’s changing prejudices and perceptions have been reflected over half a century on its TV screens. As the story of Pride can’t be told without expressing the joint muscle of protest and performance at the heart of the movem…

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Adrian Lester talks The Undeclared War
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date: 2022-06-30T12:49:22.000Z
creator: Katie Wright
subject: Drama
subject: TV
description: With his new cyber-crime thriller airing tonight, Radio Times magazine caught up with the Trigger Point star all about his latest role.
encoded: This interview was originally published in Radio Times magazine. Having played Henry V, it was only a matter of time before Adrian Lester brought his statesmanlike demeanour to a contemporary leader. And so, in Peter Kosminsky’s new drama The Undeclared War, a six-part thriller set in 2024 that depicts a cyber attack on the UK from Russia, Lester is cast as the Prime Minister. His character has ousted Boris Johnson in a coup to take control of the Conservative Party and country, but comes from an equally privileged background. “Every part of that situation is a real tangible thing that we have around us today,” says Lester. But a black PM? “A black PM in Britain’s future will happen. It’s just a case of when,” the 53-year-old actor adds. “In our multicultural society, it is inevitable that there will be a prime minister of colour at some point.” Researching a modern-day politician, of whatever rank or party, was easy, says Lester. He simply watched Question Time, listened to the Today programme and noted how politicians seem to answer questions… but never actually do. “I started pulling up interviews, and watched politicians speak the truth without saying anything that could be pulled out and wrapped around a different argument and fired back at them. That’s how politicians speak. They never use specifics, because any specifics mean three days later your answer can be fired back at you. So, politicians speak with an absence of facts and use opaque responses.” Episode one of the Channel 4 drama hinges on the global hacking of the internet and, thanks to the work of an intern at GCHQ, the discovery of malware at the heart of the British communications systems. Is Lester familiar with hacking, coding and general computerisation? “At heart, I’m analogue,” he confesses. “I’m one of those people who has to buy something if they walk past a stationery shop. If I was in the psychiatrist’s chair they would note that I still have to make marks with a pen on a piece of paper. …

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Emma Raducanu returns to Wimbledon: Tennis stars preview SW19 comeback
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date: 2022-06-29T12:14:32.000Z
creator: Katie Wright
subject: Sport
subject: Tennis
subject: TV
subject: Wimbledon
description: A year on from her Wimbledon debut, the British teenager returns to Centre Court as the first British woman to win a Grand Slam since 1977.
encoded: This interview was originally published in Radio Times magazine. Rocketing to sudden superstardom has its downside. Just ask Emma Raducanu – if you can make yourself heard above the babble of voices declaring an opinion as she returns to Wimbledon, where she first electrified the nation 12 months ago. This time last year Raducanu was 18, just two months out of secondary school and taking her first steps on the women’s professional tennis tour. Granted a wildcard into Wimbledon, she was ranked 338 but within days was on every front page as she won her way through to the last 16, before breathing difficulties forced her to withdraw. It could be very different this summer, though. And three-time Wimbledon singles champion John McEnroe says Raducanu could win the whole tournament. “It’s reasonable to think she has a chance,” he says. “She’s a supremely talented individual and has an excellent chance to make a good run. If she’s physically fit, I’d be very surprised if she lost early. To think she couldn’t win would be ridiculous.” Raducanu returns to Wimbledon having produced a feat as startling as any in sporting history. At the US Open in September 2021 she became the first player, male or female, ever to come through qualifying en route to the title. McEnroe knows something of Raducanu’s path. In 1977 he came through qualifying as an 18-year-old to reach the Wimbledon semi-finals. The next year he crashed out of Wimbledon in the first round (although he had the consolation of winning five other tournaments that year). “Expectations go up greatly when you pull off something like that [winning a grand slam], and Emma did something no one in the history of tennis has done,” says McEnroe. “I’m assuming expectations in Britain are pretty high. The change in her life is overwhelming. The scrutiny is a bit much at times. It’s the same everywhere, not just Britain. The bigger you are, the harder you fall. When you’re a kid and just trying to grow up, and it’s in front of peo…

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Portraying the Queen on screen - the stars who have played Her Majesty
type: item
date: 2022-06-03T07:00:38.000Z
subject: Movies
subject: TV
subject: Queen's Platinum Jubilee
description: The actors who have taken on the royal role in their own words.
encoded: Four of Britain’s finest actors – Prunella Scales, Dame Helen Mirren, Claire Foy and Olivia Colman – have risen to the challenge of portraying Queen Elizabeth II. To mark the Platinum Jubilee weekend, we take a look back at how they approached the role and what they have said about playing Her Majesty. This article was originally published in Radio Times magazine. Prunella Scales In 1991, Prunella Scales became one of the first actors to portray Queen Elizabeth II on screen, when Alan Bennett adapted his National Theatre play A Question of Attribution for BBC One. Writing in Radio Times, the playwright said: “Even nowadays when Her Majesty makes a regular appearance on Spitting Image [ITV’s satirical puppet show], it still seems quite bold to depict her in the flesh. I can’t imagine anyone giving a more convincing portrayal than Prunella Scales.” Interviewed for RT by Andrew Duncan in 1995, Scales recalled: “It was such a joy playing her at the National. It was the first time a reigning monarch had been portrayed on stage, and when I came on – I had a very good wig and costume – there was a frisson, which was absolutely physical. It was, ‘How cheeky.’ I had a sweet letter from her private detective or someone, who said he had to stop himself from standing up. The most wonderful compliment.” She admitted: “I didn’t enjoy doing it on television. It became perfectly obvious in close-up that this wasn’t HMQ herself. It was P Scales in a wig, and that’s not so much fun.” Dame Helen Mirren Appointed a Dame in 2003, Helen Mirren has portrayed the monarch several times. Interviewed for RT in 2013 by Francine Stock, she revealed: “I was really, really nervous doing The Queen [the 2006 film]. And then I suddenly thought, ‘She’s very generous about portraitists.’ Unlike Elizabeth I, whom I’d played just beforehand, who was very controlling about her image, the Queen is incredibly free and allows any artist to do what they want, and never criticises or tries to control it. I th…

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Royal programmes to stream in celebration of the Jubilee
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date: 2022-06-02T07:00:14.000Z
creator: Katie Wright
subject: TV
subject: Queen's Platinum Jubilee
description: From historical sagas to riotous parodies, here are all of the best royal shows and films to stream across this Jubilee weekend.
encoded: As Queen Elizabeth II formally commemorates her Platinum Jubilee - marking 70 years on the throne - we thought it would only be right to celebrate the historic occasion with a selection of the most entertaining royally-inclined TV series and films. Whilst broadcast TV has a tonne of royal scheduling planned - from Kirsty Young hosting the BBC's Platinum Jubilee coverage to the National Lottery's Big Jubilee Street Party on ITV - if your own weekend schedule is looking rather packed, here are the shows and movies you can dive into on demand whenever suits you best. To celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, Radio Times is releasing a 116-page commemorative edition, featuring covers, articles and illustrations from our archive – buy Radio Times: Her Majesty The Queen for £9.99 at Radio Times Shop. So whether you are more in the mood for a light-hearted royal comedy or to learn a few facts about the famous family in a biopic, our list of top choices should have you covered!

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Simon Cowell on the return of BGT, Pop Idol rumours and his favourite films
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date: 2022-04-23T11:00:55.000Z
creator: Katie Wright
subject: Entertainment
subject: Talent Shows
subject: TV
description: As the new season of Britain's Got Talent kicked off with a bang on ITV last weekend, Radio Times magazine caught up with judge Simon Cowell on the much-anticipated return of the competition.
encoded: This interview was originally published in Radio Times magazine. You’ve got homes in Los Angeles and London. Where are you now? I’m in LA, filming America’s Got Talent. I’m here about three months of the year. What’s the TV set-up when you sit down with fiancée Lauren and your eight-year-old son Eric? We’ve got a large, L-shaped sofa. It’s very comfortable but not smart, because we’ve got three dogs who will be on it fighting with each other. I’m a big believer that you can’t have a big enough TV. I never understand people who watch a movie on their phones. I want to feel like I’m at the cinema. Is there snacking going on? There’s always an argument because Eric and I like to eat in front of the TV, but Lauren likes to eat more formally at the table. At the moment, Eric and I are winning. What are you enjoying watching? I’m loving introducing Eric to my favourite movies, like Raiders of the Lost Ark and Back to the Future. I wish I could experience those films again for the first time, but I get to do that through Eric by seeing his reaction. Who’s in charge of the remote? We always argue about what to watch so we put names into a hat. Tonight, it’s Flubber. My only rule is that whatever you watch at night, it’s got to make you feel good. It can’t be anything miserable, or a horror movie. What do you watch after Eric has gone to bed? I worry that I’ll start a new series and not like it, so I tend to watch things over and over again. I’ve watched The Crown three times. The level of detail is amazing. I like dramas that are based on real events; I find them more interesting. Are you still a night owl? No. My schedule ten years ago was crazy. I would work every night until six in the morning, go to bed, wake up in the afternoon then start again. I was doing 18-hour days. Now I’m up at 8am. In the evening I’ll say, “That’s it. No calls, no emails, nothing.” You look well on it… Thank you. I feel better. That accident on my bike was pretty horrendous [Cowell broke his ba…

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Inside No. 9's Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith and Mark Gatiss reveal how their friendship began
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date: 2022-04-20T16:00:20.000Z
subject: Comedy
subject: TV
description: The League of Gentlemen trio spoke to Radio Times Magazine about how they originally met ahead of their long-awaited Inside No. 9 reunion.
encoded: This interview was originally published in Radio Times magazine. Steve Pemberton Mark [Gatiss] and I were in the same year at Bretton Hall College [in West Yorkshire], but he wasn’t living on the campus. He was quite dandyish, wearing waistcoats and bow ties; they weren’t flamboyant clothes, it was more charity-shop chic. I didn’t have an ounce of flamboyance about me at all. I’m the same now. From our initial chats, it was obvious we had the same sense of humour. We loved talking about horror films, so we started a club where we rented a video from the college library and watched a VHS together using two sets of headphones. We introduced each other to our favourite films, many of which we’d already both seen. We felt like we’d had the same life. We felt like the same person in many ways, so it was an instant connection and we wrote from the off. We never went out into town because the last bus back from Wakefield was at half-past nine and to reach the bus stop you had to walk up a really big hill, so it wasn’t worth it. As a result, we spent a lot of time in our student bar, and one of the first things Mark and I did was to stage a comedy night. We wore padded-out dinner jackets and played spoof Northern club comedians called Fatt and Crass – very Bernard Manning-esque – and we built a whole routine around them. I’ve still got a cassette tape with the first ever gig on. Every year at Bretton Hall they posted a picture of the students who were joining, and Reece stood out to us, because he was posing with a very funny expression on his face, so we pegged him as someone to watch out for. “Reece” and “Shearsmith” – what a name! Later on, when I was in a Shakespeare production, Reece came to see it, and we got chatting afterwards. Again, there was that sense that you’d met a fellow soul who understood the world the way you understood it; he had that humour, that love of horror films, and love of comedy. Reece was quite quiet, actually, but he came alive on stage. I rem…

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