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items: Jason Momoa's Chief of War pulls back the curtain on the 'real' Hawaii
items: 'I make the rules now'
items: Self Esteem hints at Glastonbury team-up with Rod Stewart "if he gave me a ring"
items: Sailing into the sunset?
items: 'Their children got taken' – what Michelle Keegan learnt about the Ten-pound Poms
items: Michelle Keegan on Ten Pound Poms season 2 and whether she'd pursue Hollywood
items: Vienna as seen in The Empress: tradition, elegance, and modern flair
items: Beatles '64 unseen footage captures "specific moment in time", says director
items: The Beatles conquer America
items: Croatian delights - The Day of the Jackal
items: Ten Questions with Kelsey Grammer
items: Eddie Redmayne 'didn't want to mess with something brilliant' in new Day of the Jackal
items: "You don’t want to mess with something as brilliant as this"
items: "I've been called a ninja"
items: Lashana Lynch on The Day of the Jackal and how the spy thriller breaks new ground
items: Perusing Peru like Paddington Bear
items: Why Vermont called Beetlejuice back for more
items: Napoleon in Paris
items: Paloma Faith on diversity at Glastonbury: "I'll believe it when I see it"
items: Dua Lipa: 'I had no plan B – singing was my only option'

Jason Momoa's Chief of War pulls back the curtain on the 'real' Hawaii
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date: 2025-07-22T14:58:53.000Z
creator: Matt Charlton
subject: Travel
subject: Apple TV
description: If you want to get a taste of authentic island life away from the tourist hotspots, head this way…
encoded: As new Apple TV+ drama Chief of War was conceived by Jason Momoa to shed some light on the indigenous experience of Hawaiian tribes, and tells the little-known story of the bloody campaign to unite their warring kingdoms, I felt some sense of responsibility to echo this in my trip – albeit with some high-thread-count bedding. The first rule was to avoid Honolulu, surrounding island Oahu, and ‘The Big Island’ (Hawaii itself)… because thar be Taco Bells. The second rule was to try and glean some sense of an authentic experience whilst enjoying that comfort blanket of luxury. Tourism images often show a version of Hawaii filtered through social media, while Chief of War offers something different: a dramatic retelling of actual events through Native eyes, set against Hawaii’s own landscapes. A complete novice to Hawaii – which is quite common among Brits due to the length of the journey – I elect to spend some time in Lāna‘i, and Kauaʻi. The former, one of the least visited, is also the smallest: no traffic lights, one school for all ages, and just 30 miles of paved road. The latter is more a locals’ island: rainforest, strip malls, beach culture... and home to celebrities who no longer need to have LA on their doorstep. Request a brochure and get inspiration for your next holiday An 11-hour flight from New York under my belt (yes, we are talking about 20 hours total from the UK here), I lollop through Honolulu Airport to be met by a valet, who escorts me to my 12-person plane for the half-hour flight to Lāna‘i. Would it be this seamless if I weren’t staying at the Four Seasons (fourseasons.com) resort? Well, yes, this is a locals’ plane too – the choppy waves so loved by the global surfing community make inter-island boats quite the challenge. Four Seasons now makes up the majority of employment on Lāna‘i, which was once a pineapple plantation. In their two locations – the sprawling resort down at the beach, and adults-only Sensei located at an old lodge house in the …

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'I make the rules now'
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creator: Matt Charlton
subject: App
subject: App features
description: From the outskirts of Sheffield to the Park stage at Glastonbury, Self Esteem is creating her own destiny – but still just feels like ‘Becky from Anston’
encoded: Add Glastonbury 2025 to your watchlist Rebecca Lucy Taylor, or Self Esteem as you may know her, is showing me a viral photo on her phone of a disapproving Rod Stewart, after I inform her that they’re going to be neighbours in Radio Times. “I’ve been using this image of Rod lately for memes… I’m a big Rod head”, she tells me, gleefully. “I’ve seen him live, but I always thought, if he gave me a ring and said, ‘put some high white stilettos on and be my backing singer’, I’d do it!” We meet at her record company offices in London on a glorious day, although, now at the tail end of the campaign for her latest album A Complicated Woman, she has been cooped up inside and merely able to look over the revellers in buzzy King Cross. Casually dressed in a vintage Levi’s jacket, her long blonde hair often played with for a touch of self-soothing, she’s gradually melting into the sofa, sustaining herself with energy drinks, clearly exhausted from a day – and many weeks before that – of talking to people like me. In fact, the only reason I’ve been able to shoehorn myself in is because she’s promoting the sustainability movement, “I Came by Train”, where she and other Glasto stars pledge to get themselves to Worthy Farm by rail instead of road. “They asked me to do a video for socials, and I went, ‘Choo, choo! It’s me! I’m going to Glastonbury by train because it’s 67 per cent less polluting for the environment!’” she shakes her head in mock despair. “So now everyone just comments ‘choo-choo!’” And yet, she has managed to get the message across, albeit in her own inimitable style… would I be writing about it if it wasn’t wrapped in typical Self Esteem self-effacement? Maybe it’s the Yorkshire sense of humour, maybe it’s the years upon years of struggling at the indie end of the music business as part of Sheffield band Slow Club, or maybe it’s just that awkward millennial blend of ambition, emotional armour, and existential dread, but somehow, we’ve arrived at a moment where 38- y…

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Self Esteem hints at Glastonbury team-up with Rod Stewart "if he gave me a ring"
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date: 2025-06-16T23:01:58.000Z
creator: Matt Charlton
subject: audio
subject: Magazine
description: The South Yorkshire star speaks to Radio Times magazine as the mega festival looms.
encoded: This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine. Rebecca Lucy Taylor, or Self Esteem, as you may know her, is showing me a viral photo on her phone of a disapproving Rod Stewart, after I inform her that they’re going to be neighbours in Radio Times. "I’ve been using this image of Rod lately for memes… I’m a big Rod head," she tells me, gleefully. "I’ve seen him live, but I always thought, if he gave me a ring and said, 'put some high white stilettos on and be my backing singer', I’d do it!" We meet at her record company offices in London on a glorious day, although, now at the tail end of the campaign for her latest album A Complicated Woman, she has been cooped up inside and merely able to look over the revellers in buzzy King Cross. Casually dressed in a vintage Levi’s jacket, her long blonde hair often played with for a touch of self-soothing, she’s gradually melting into the sofa, sustaining herself with energy drinks, clearly exhausted from a day – and many weeks before that – of talking to people like me. In fact, the only reason I’ve been able to shoehorn myself in is because she’s promoting the sustainability movement, “I Came by Train”, where she and other Glasto stars pledge to get themselves to Worthy Farm by rail instead of road. “They asked me to do a video for socials, and I went, ‘Choo, choo! It’s me! I’m going to Glastonbury by train because it’s 67 per cent less polluting for the environment!’” she shakes her head in mock despair. “So now everyone just comments ‘choo-choo!’” And yet, she has managed to get the message across, albeit in her own inimitable style… would I be writing about it if it wasn’t wrapped in typical Self Esteem self-effacement? Maybe it’s the Yorkshire sense of humour, maybe it’s the years upon years of struggling at the indie end of the music business as part of Sheffield band Slow Club, or maybe it’s just that awkward millennial blend of ambition, emotional armour, and existential dread, but somehow, we’ve arrived at a mom…

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Sailing into the sunset?
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creator: Matt Charlton
subject: App
subject: App features
description: As Ten Pound Poms returns, life for the intrepid Brits who were sold a dream Down Under remains challenging, says writer Danny Brocklehurst
encoded: Add Ten Pound Poms to your watchlist –In 2026, Qantas will launch the first non-stop flight from London to Sydney. Nicknamed ‘Project Sunrise’ (passengers will be on board for so long that they’ll see two sunrises) the plane will spend 22 continuous hours in the sky. As punishing as this journey may seem, it’s in stark contrast to the six weeks that it took the Ten-pound Poms – so-called because of the cost and the ruddy complexion akin to a pomegranate acquired on exposure to the Aussie sun – to reach Sydney’s shores in the 1950s. For £10 (about £350 in today’s money), Brits bought passage aboard a ship and the promise of sunshine and a new life, with their accommodation and employment waiting for them when they disembarked. The Ten-pound Poms – or Assisted Passage Migration Scheme – was part of Australia’s post-war ‘populate or perish’ policy, the aim of which was a much-needed boost for the country’s population and workforce. But of course, not everything went according to plan. The reality that confronted many British emigrants escaping the decimation, depression and rationing brought by the Second World War – is being brought to life once again in series two of the BBC drama of the same name, starring Michelle Keegan. My great aunt Ellen was one of the people who made this journey. In 1950, she and her husband John left the Isle of Dogs in London and boarded the MV Georgic. They arrived in Australia one and a half months later, expecting a running start into their new lives. “People saw an advert in a newspaper or at the cinema. Then they went to Australia House and were shown what can only be described as a propaganda movie,” writer of the drama, Danny Brocklehurst, explains. “Speed boats, water skiing, white-picket fences around big houses, and kids playing on the beach.” But until 2023, when the first series of Ten Pound Poms was broadcast, it seems the real story slipped through the cracks of history, particularly in the UK. It was brought to Brocklehurst’s…

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'Their children got taken' – what Michelle Keegan learnt about the Ten-pound Poms
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creator: Matt Charlton
subject: App
subject: App features
description: The star on her character’s bid to get her son back
encoded: Add Ten Pound Poms to your watchlist Michelle Keegan is having technical issues. She is at her home in Essex but her laptop is in Manchester. Instead, she’s having to use her husband’s — TV personality Mark Wright — and it’s not going well. “I’m the worst when it comes to tech and Mark’s out and I don’t have his password,” says Keegan. Eventually, we give up on a video call and resort to a phone call so that I can record our chat about her return to Australia in the guise of Kate, her character in Ten Pound Poms. However, her memory of the show is a little hazy at first. “You know what it is?” she says. “I wrapped on this a year ago, so it’s really hard to rack my brain about what happened. I don’t even know what I did yesterday. It’s the same every single day — once I finish the day, it’s like a new day and I can’t remember the day before.” So basically, she’s the ghost of Christmas present? “Exactly!” In the first series, it was revealed that Keegan’s character Kate was in fact in Australia to retrieve her son, Michael, who had been shipped halfway around the world to be adopted by a childless Australian couple, while she was suffering from postnatal depression. At the end of the series, she took Michael and went on the run. “That did actually happen with children in orphanages — even with mothers and fathers who didn’t give them up, who were trying to get their life sorted, or going through postnatal depression at the time. The children got taken off them,” Keegan explains. Signing up to the show not having heard of the original Ten-pound Poms, this was another layer of the onion she had to peel. But back to modern day; did she get to see much of Australia while she was there filming? “We did. Mark was with me the whole time and we really enjoyed it,” says the 37-year-old actor who is now expecting her first child. “I soaked up as much as I could; we went to Palm Beach where they film Home and Away, Hunter Valley, which is the wine country and to the Sydney Opera…

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Michelle Keegan on Ten Pound Poms season 2 and whether she'd pursue Hollywood
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date: 2025-03-04T00:01:22.000Z
creator: Matt Charlton
subject: Drama
subject: TV
subject: BBC iPlayer
subject: BBC One
subject: Magazine
description: The Ten Pound Poms star spoke to Radio Times magazine about returning for season 2.
encoded: This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine. Michelle Keegan is having technical issues. She is at her home in Essex but her laptop is in Manchester. Instead, she’s having to use her husband’s — TV personality Mark Wright — and it’s not going well. “I’m the worst when it comes to tech and Mark’s out and I don’t have his password,” says Keegan. Eventually, we give up on a video call and resort to a phone call so that I can record our chat about her return to Australia in the guise of Kate, her character in Ten Pound Poms. However, her memory of the show is a little hazy at first. “You know what it is?” she says. “I wrapped on this a year ago, so it’s really hard to rack my brain about what happened. I don’t even know what I did yesterday. It’s the same every single day — once I finish the day, it’s like a new day and I can’t remember the day before.” So basically, she’s the ghost of Christmas present? “Exactly!” In the first season, it was revealed that Keegan’s character Kate was in fact in Australia to retrieve her son, Michael, who had been shipped halfway around the world to be adopted by a childless Australian couple, while she was suffering from postnatal depression. At the end of the series, she took Michael and went on the run. “That did actually happen with children in orphanages — even with mothers and fathers who didn’t give them up, who were trying to get their life sorted, or going through postnatal depression at the time. The children got taken off them,” Keegan explains. Signing up to the show not having heard of the original Ten-pound Poms, this was another layer of the onion she had to peel. But back to modern day; did she get to see much of Australia while she was there filming? “We did. Mark was with me the whole time and we really enjoyed it,” says the 37-year-old actor who is now expecting her first child. “I soaked up as much as I could; we went to Palm Beach where they film Home and Away, Hunter Valley, which is the wine country and to …

Vienna as seen in The Empress: tradition, elegance, and modern flair
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date: 2024-12-05T06:00:24.000Z
creator: Matt Charlton
subject: Travel
description: The elegance of The Empress’s Austria is everywhere today.
encoded: Once at the centre of Europe, both culturally and politically, Vienna has never strayed from its reputation as a sophisticated, traditional city of neoclassical or baroque buildings, heavy food and old-school class on every gilded corner. Indeed, ostensibly, that’s why I’m here: to experience the Vienna of Empress Sisi – the Austrian Princess Diana, the tragic Queen of Hearts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and of course the subject of hit Netflix drama The Empress, back with a much-anticipated second season. Season one of the German-language series would have pulled you in with the cake-decoration aesthetic of the city, the finery of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at its peak, with the frivolities that went along with it… and it’s all still there in the modern metropolis, albeit with more hot-dog stands, less international clout, and a clean and efficient metro system. The museums, galleries and grand hotels scream out for a nosey. The famous finery, craftsmanship and price tags can be located at such long-established nooks as footwear manufacturer Scheer, silversmiths Jarosinski & Vaugoin and piano-maker Bösendorfer. But you already know this version of the city – in fact, so many people know this side of it that the queue to visit the Sisi Museum in the Imperial Palace can be up to an hour long. Request a holiday brochure from one of our partners Fortunately, among the schnitzel, strudel, concertos, whirls and wieners, there is an incredibly buzzy, modern, sophisticated, citizen-friendly metropolis out there. This modern luxury is summed up in my accommodation, Hotel Amauris (theamauris.com). Opposite the State Opera – built in the neoclassical as opposed to baroque style – it houses forward-looking Restaurant Glasswing, which uses ingredients from local producers. The hotel decor nods to the sumptuous past while being airy and contemporary. Another excellent example of the modern lying just beneath the surface is Pramerl and the Wolf. Appearing as a traditional Vie…

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Beatles '64 unseen footage captures "specific moment in time", says director
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date: 2024-11-29T12:18:15.000Z
creator: Matt Charlton
subject: Documentaries
subject: TV
subject: Disney Plus
subject: Interview
subject: Magazine
subject: On demand
description: A snapshot of a Beatles moment like we have never seen before.
encoded: This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine. American filmmaker David Tedeschi is the director of Beatles '64, a collage-like film that captures the excitement of the Beatles’ first visit to the USA, featuring never-before-seen footage of the band, and the legions of young fans who helped fuel their ascendancy. But hasn’t this admittedly era-defining moment been covered already? And how is it that unseen material is continually unearthed of the most documented and pored-over musical act in history? What is there left to say? Even this moment in their career has been covered before, in The Beatles: the First US Visit in 1991, and the 2016 Ron Howard documentary The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – the Touring Years. “Both Marty and I were very aware of Eight Days a Week,” admits Tedeschi, joining me online from his home town of Brooklyn. “The feeling was, ‘What can we do now?’ But Beatles ’64 is so specific, and so much of what was shot was here in New York. We knew that the Maysles brothers had been interested in the fans, but they had never been the focus in any of the other iterations, so in that sense it came together pretty quickly. It's such a specific moment in time.” This, then, is the story of Beatlemania from a fan’s-eye view, gazing up from the frosty New York streets – a snapshot of a Beatles moment like we have never seen before. But first, clarifications. The aforementioned “Marty” is legendary film director Martin Scorsese, who produced the film, having worked with Tedeschi on documentaries like No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, Shine a Light with the Rolling Stones and George Harrison: Living in the Material World. In other words, this isn’t their first rodeo when it comes to making documentaries about world-famous musicians – or even Beatles. The Maysles, meanwhile, were Albert and David Maysles, documentarian siblings who were “embedded” with the Beatles from the moment they landed at JFK, and whose footage makes up most of the film – a film that op…

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The Beatles conquer America
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creator: Matt Charlton
subject: App
subject: App features
description: Their era-defining US tour is captured in a new documentary, but what more is there to say and see of the Fab Four? Plenty, says director David Tedeschi…
encoded: Add Beatles '64 to your watchlist American film-maker David Tedeschi is the director of Beatles ’64, a collage-like film that captures the excitement of the Beatles’ first visit to the USA, featuring never-before-seen footage of the band, and the legions of young fans who helped fuel their ascendancy. But hasn’t this admittedly era-defining moment been covered already? And how is it that unseen material is continually unearthed of the most documented and pored-over musical act in history? What is there left to say? Even this moment in their career has been covered before, in The Beatles: the First US Visit in 1991, and the 2016 Ron Howard documentary The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – the Touring Years. View oEmbed on the source website “Both Marty and I were very aware of Eight Days a Week,” admits Tedeschi, joining me online from his home town of Brooklyn. “The feeling was, ‘What can we do now?’ But Beatles ’64 is so specific, and so much of what was shot was here in New York. We knew that the Maysles brothers had been interested in the fans, but they had never been the focus in any of the other iterations, so in that sense it came together pretty quickly. It’s such a specific moment in time.” This, then, is the story of Beatlemania from a fan’s-eye view, gazing up from the frosty New York streets – a snapshot of a Beatles moment like we have never seen before. But first, clarifications. The aforementioned “Marty” is legendary film director Martin Scorsese, who produced the film, having worked with Tedeschi on documentaries like No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, Shine a Light with the Rolling Stones and George Harrison: Living in the Material World. In other words, this isn’t their first rodeo when it comes to making documentaries about world-famous musicians – or even Beatles. The Maysles, meanwhile, were Albert and David Maysles, documentarian siblings who were “embedded” with the Beatles from the moment they landed at JFK, and whose footage makes up most of the film …

Croatian delights - The Day of the Jackal
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date: 2024-11-11T14:21:18.000Z
creator: Matt Charlton
subject: Travel
description: Continuing Thursday Sky Atlantic/Now
encoded: Croatia is no stranger to the emerging trend of “set-jetting”. (See what they did there?) Both Dubrovnik and Split, in the south of the country, are inundated with Game of Thrones fans, all trekking down those steps looking to re-create their favourite scene. The north, however – its regions sitting roughly on the same latitudes as Venice or Bologna, across the Adriatic – has remained relatively unexplored… Until now. But Eddie Redmayne and his cast-mates descended on those northern provinces last autumn in order to film the big-budget TV version of The Day of the Jackal. The original novel, though mainly based in London and Paris, galloped across Europe, following the exploits of an assassin for hire. As it’s brought up to date for Sky Atlantic, we’ll see most of the Croatian scenes in the later episodes. But it’s immediately obvious why this country is so appealing to location scouts: sure, there are the tax incentives, which means productions as diverse as Doctor Who, James Bond, Succession and the aforementioned Game of Thrones have been drawn here – but it’s the stunning, unusual and diverse landscapes that keep them returning. I start with a couple of nights in the capital, Zagreb, its architecturally striking airport posing as an Andalusian terminal in The Day of the Jackal. Zagreb feels like a quieter Berlin – northern European architecture, riddled with history on every corner – still on the long road of healing from a war of independence that only ended in 1995. I base myself in the Sheraton (marriott.com), a hotel that serves as a useful metaphor for the city: grand architecture, incredibly welcoming and still undergoing renovations. The place has a real bar and café culture, with the Michelin-recommended Pod Zidom Bistro (podzidom.hr) signalling its trajectory: local, seasonal, innovative and friendly. The unlikely cultural highlight is the Museum of Broken Relationships (brokenships.com) – dedicated to failed love. Its exhibits include personal objects …

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Ten Questions with Kelsey Grammer
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creator: Matt Charlton
subject: App
subject: App features
description: The sitcom star on 40 years of Frasier Crane, keeping politics out of comedy and his friendship with “Rodney Trotter”
encoded: Add Frasier to your watchlist For four decades — from a bar, via a radio station and into academia — 69-year-old Kelsey Grammer has been playing the pompous, quick-witted but thin-skinned Dr Frasier Crane. In the latest iteration of Frasier, he has returned to his home town of Boston to be closer to his two loves: his son and Harvard University. As the Frasier reboot concludes its second series, RT caught up with Grammer to talk new beginnings, the US political climate and whether he’d ever go for a beer at a bar called Cheers. Frasier finished in 2004 but came back in 2023. What were you looking to do differently this time? Just a new canvas of relationships for Frasier. He could become something he’s never been before, which is a present dad – more like his dad. The major idea was to always get him and [his son] Freddy back together, and to have them discover the relationship Frasier discovered with his father. The other ideas were just to be current, and also to get Frasier a friend. He had his brother Niles in the old series [played by David Hyde Pierce], but that wasn’t a friend exactly. View oEmbed on the source website You recruited British sitcom legend Nicholas Lyndhurst for that role — why him? His brain is always working. You can see the wheels turning and you think, “What’s he going to do next?” He’s amazing – one of the great actors in the world. My wife is English, so I knew Only Fools and Horses – I heard her cackling looking at old reruns, and thought “What is going on?” So I got to know “dipstick” and “Rodney”. I never thought I’d hear Kelsey Grammer say the word dipstick… Well, for us it’s just part of a car, but in the UK, it means several other things, I think! How did you two meet? We met on Man of La Mancha [a 2019 production at the London Coliseum] and we basically fell in love, as two men can sometimes – y’know, “Hail fellow, well met”. We had spent years being fans of one another, and the chief joy of going to do that production was working …

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Eddie Redmayne 'didn't want to mess with something brilliant' in new Day of the Jackal
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date: 2024-10-31T13:42:41.000Z
creator: Matt Charlton
subject: Drama
subject: TV
subject: Interview
description: The actor steps into the iconic assassin role for Sky's contemporary remake – and tells Radio Times all about it.
encoded: This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine. "I’m on a lot of ibuprofen and a lot of codeine, so I bear no responsibility for anything I say," explains Eddie Redmayne on Zoom, while keeping pressure on his trigger finger, lest "the blood starts pouring out again". As I promise that I’ll place this disclaimer at the start of the interview, I rub my hands with a little bit of glee… It turns out he’d just returned to his south London home from New York and was beset with jetlag when he decided to go and procure some sharp knives. "I haven’t cooked for ages. I went from making The Day of the Jackal, which was a rigorous eight months in Hungary and Croatia, over to Cabaret in Broadway for eight months. "Anyway, there’s this brilliant knife shop down the road – I’m weirdly obsessed with kitchen knives, I stand in front of knife shops and gaze through the windows. So last night, I was so excited to use my new knives, was cutting some vegetables and just sliced right through. A little chunk of the tip of my finger came off. "Funnily enough, my script for the first episode of Jackal was on my desk. I’d written on the top of it, 'A knife through butter.' That was my first description of the Jackal and how he should hold himself in the world – and when I saw that I thought, 'It’s some kind of hideous full circle that’s come around here.'" This is a lot to take in during the first three minutes of an interview, yet despite his injury and the painkillers, Redmayne communicates it all with a chaotic poise, sheltered under a baseball cap and a casually slung-on Alex Eagle red cricket jumper (a snip at £545). An Eton and Cambridge scholar, and a relentless high-achiever, Redmayne hasn’t stopped acting since training at the Jackie Palmer Stage School, performing with the National Youth Music Theatre, and appearing in a production of Oliver! in 1994, directed by Sam Mendes. The Day of The Jackal might be Redmayne’s first TV series since 2012’s Birdsong, but he’s been quite bu…

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"You don’t want to mess with something as brilliant as this"
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creator: Matt Charlton
subject: App
subject: App features
description: Eddie Redmayne grew up watching the Jackal, so accepting the lead in a remake for TV was a risky move…
encoded: Add The Day of the Jackal to your watchlist "I’m on a lot of ibuprofen and a lot of codeine, so I bear no responsibility for anything I say,” explains Eddie Redmayne on Zoom, while keeping pressure on his trigger finger, lest “the blood starts pouring out again.” As I promise that I’ll place this disclaimer at the start of the interview, I rub my hands with a little bit of glee… It turns out he’d just returned to his south London home from New York and was beset with jetlag when he decided to go and procure some sharp knives. “I haven’t cooked for ages. I went from making The Day of the Jackal, which was a rigorous eight months in Hungary and Croatia, over to Cabaret in Broadway for eight months. Anyway, there’s this brilliant knife shop down the road – I’m weirdly obsessed with kitchen knives, I stand in front of knife shops and gaze through the windows. So last night, I was so excited to use my new knives, was cutting some vegetables and just sliced right through. A little chunk of the tip of my finger came off. View oEmbed on the source website “Funnily enough, my script for the first episode of Jackal was on my desk. I’d written on the top of it, ‘A knife through butter.’ That was my first description of the Jackal and how he should hold himself in the world – and when I saw that I thought, ‘It’s some kind of hideous full circle that’s come around here.’” This is a lot to take in during the first three minutes of an interview, yet despite his injury and the painkillers, Redmayne communicates it all with a chaotic poise, sheltered under a baseball cap and a casually slung-on Alex Eagle red cricket jumper (a snip at £545). An Eton and Cambridge scholar, and a relentless high-achiever, Redmayne hasn’t stopped acting since training at the Jackie Palmer Stage School, performing with the National Youth Music Theatre, and appearing in a production of Oliver! in 1994, directed by Sam Mendes. The Day of The Jackal might be Redmayne’s first TV series since 2012’s Birdsong…

"I've been called a ninja"
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creator: Matt Charlton
subject: App
subject: App features
description: Lashana Lynch was the first female 007 and now stars as the Jackal’s adversary in MI6 – what’s her secret?
encoded: Add The Day of the Jackal to your watchlist Having started her career with early turns on TV in The Bill and Silent Witness, followed by big-hitting cinematic credits in The Woman King and Captain Marvel, via the high-octane glamour of being the first woman to take on the 007 assignation in No Time to Die, and now the field agent role in The Day of the Jackal, has Lashana Lynch’s whole career just been a really, really long job interview for MI6? “With the way that my brain works, the way that I’ve been called a Ninja over the years, and how well I’m able to keep a secret, I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some energetic grooming happening, unbeknown to me…” View oEmbed on the source website I proffer that she would say “unbeknown” if she were a MI6 agent… She looks mysteriously from side to side. “Hmmm. Would I?” Joining me on Zoom from New York, the 36-year-old is in the final stages of a very long The Day of the Jackal process, a series on which she is also an co-executive producer. “When they approached me about the role, I said I’d like to be part of the project, but I also wanted to get on board the production team to oversee and protect the things that I knew I really wanted to discuss within the piece.” Lynch plays Bianca, a dogged MI6 officer and weapons expert, who’s uncompromising in the pursuit of her quarry. “She’s in a male-dominated space, albeit with a female boss and a black man by her side, but none of those things are there to protect her.” There’s a personal, family element to this adaptation, which didn’t exist in the original, adding an extra level of humanity and jeopardy. “Bianca doesn’t know how to be the best, ask for the most, but also bring back the goods at the end of the day. It’s the feeling that she might do that drives her. That level of destruction is what carries her through.” I suggest that because of her character’s race and gender, Bianca may feel she has something more to prove. “That’s another reason why I wanted to co-exec…

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Lashana Lynch on The Day of the Jackal and how the spy thriller breaks new ground
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date: 2024-10-29T12:45:17.000Z
creator: Matt Charlton
subject: Drama
subject: TV
subject: Magazine
subject: NOW
subject: Sky
description: Lynch stars as Bianca in the new Sky series, on which she is also a co-executive producer.
encoded: This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine. Having started her career with early turns on TV in The Bill and Silent Witness, followed by big-hitting cinematic credits in The Woman King and Captain Marvel, via the high-octane glamour of being the first woman to take on the 007 assignation in No Time to Die, and now the field agent role in The Day of the Jackal, has Lashana Lynch’s whole career just been a really, really long job interview for MI6? "With the way that my brain works, the way that I’ve been called a Ninja over the years, and how well I’m able to keep a secret, I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some energetic grooming happening, unbeknown to me…" I proffer that she would say "unbeknown" if she were a MI6 agent… She looks mysteriously from side to side. "Hmmm. Would I?" Joining me on zoom from New York, the 36-year-old is in the final stages of a very long The Day of the Jackal process, a series on which she is also an co-executive producer. "When they approached me about the role, I said I’d like to be part of the project, but I also wanted to get on board the production team to oversee and protect the things that I knew I really wanted to discuss within the piece." Lynch plays Bianca, a dogged MI6 officer and weapons expert, who’s uncompromising in the pursuit of her quarry. "She’s in a male-dominated space, albeit with a female boss and a black man by her side, but none of those things are there to protect her." There’s a personal, family element to this adaptation, which didn’t exist in the original, adding an extra level of humanity and jeopardy. "Bianca doesn’t know how to be the best, ask for the most, but also bring back the goods at the end of the day. It’s the feeling that she might do that drives her. That level of destruction is what carries her through." I suggest that because of her character’s race and gender, Bianca may feel she has something more to prove. "That’s another reason why I wanted to co-exec on the show — to be able…

Perusing Peru like Paddington Bear
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date: 2024-10-29T05:00:01.000Z
creator: Matt Charlton
subject: Travel
encoded: When I tell the concierge at my Lima hotel that I’m heading to Iquitos in a few days, she replies, “I’ve never been. Too much green.” I’ve never heard the Amazon rainforest described so succinctly before, but she’s right: there is a lot of green. I’m here to get to know the homeland of a certain polite bear – our hero returns to his home country for his latest movie, Paddington in Peru. But before I get to “Darkest” Peru (supposedly so called because, in some spots of the rainforest, only two per cent of sunlight makes it to the ground), there’s the country’s capital, Lima. Request a FREE travel brochure here from Radio Times Travel I’m bookending the actual jungle with the concrete one – a sort of urban comfort blanket where I don’t have to worry as much about mosquitos. And since Lima is fast becoming a serious foodie centre – with several Michelin-recommended restaurants, not to mention the street food and coffee – I take a tour. Friendly cafés run on local coffee beans, thriving local markets stock the bounty of the rainforest and the ocean, and we finish at a street food vendor who helps us prepare our own causa – a sort of sandwich made with potato instead of bread, filled with chicken and avocado. The cuisine here goes way beyond marmalade sandwiches. Next day, it’s back to the airport en route to Iquitos, one of the most remote cities on the planet – and all that green. River tributaries snake through the forest on their way to join the mighty Amazon. In this new, third Paddington film, the Brown family charter a riverboat to navigate the jungle, and it’s an idea I’ve run with. Our coach trundles for two hours through dense forest, down one of the only roads in this region, finally arriving at our boarding jetty. At its end is the Marañón river, an Amazon tributary, where our riverboat, the Zafiro, awaits. This is the Amazon Riverboat Adventure (gadventures.com) – six nights drifting down the river basin back to Iquitos. Skiffs will take us into the depths o…

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Why Vermont called Beetlejuice back for more
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date: 2024-10-22T04:00:03.000Z
creator: Matt Charlton
subject: Travel
description: The Green Mountain State is famously friendly, so what drew Tim Burton to film his comedy horror sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice in the land of Ben & Jerry?
encoded: As one travels up the east of the USA, it’s safe to say that things become more liberal as you go. From the humid conservatism of Florida, via the political swamp of Washington DC, through the anything-goes (as long as you can afford it) of New York, and the liberal academia of leafy Massachusetts… until you reach Vermont, where both conformity, and the country itself, are almost on their way out. Perhaps that’s why Tim Burton – hardly a name synonymous with fitting in – chose to return here instead of opting for a sound stage in order to film the exterior scenes of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the long-awaited sequel to, well, Beetlejuice. It was in Vermont, just outside the small town of East Corinth, that the original was filmed, too – including the cartoon-like gothic house erected on a hill especially for the movie. The original film has such a cult following that during shooting for the sequel, Vermont police were investigating two thefts: one of a large lamppost topped with a distinctive pumpkin decoration, and the other an abstract art piece taken from the vicinity of a cemetery. I have come here to understand what attracted the director to the state, and why it gives its visitors a wholly alternative take on Americana. Request a FREE travel brochure here from Radio Times Travel After a five-hour drive from Boston, through increasingly green, hilly vistas, I arrive at the state's largest city, Burlington. This isn’t the American city of your imagination, all skyscrapers, steaming manholes and traffic chaos. Instead, especially in the heat of a lazy summer day, it has the air of somewhere like Stratford-upon-Avon or York. Perched on the edge of Lake Champlain, it’s a township built for quality of life, with the outdoors, gastronomy, and culture all given a serious crack of the whip. Most importantly though, this is a state known for its breweries. I happen to be in town on the weekend of the Vermont Brewers Festival. I savour an appropriately sensible number of s…

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Napoleon in Paris
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date: 2024-10-08T08:43:56.000Z
creator: Matt Charlton
subject: Travel
description: Napoleon: the Director's Cut Available to stream now on Apple TV+
encoded: Paris can be a bit of a museum. Romantic, sure, but without the youthful energy, vibrancy and buzz of other world cities. Thankfully, history is the reason I’m here this time – on the trail of Napoleon, recently portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix in Ridley Scott’s epic biopic, the director’s cut of which is now available to stream on Apple TV+. It’s my intention to lean into the rich historical culture that the City of Light shows off so well, and discover the Paris of one of the most infamous military strategists and “short man syndrome” sufferers in history. The French emperor had quite a hand in the Paris we know today – many of its landmarks and boulevards have his finger-prints on them. And even if they don’t, the torrent of money brought into the French capital as a result of his campaigns still runs through the veins of the city. Request a FREE travel brochure here from Radio Times Travel Take Gare du Nord, for example, where my Eurostar (eurostar.com) arrives after a seamless submarinal trip. The famous terminus is a result of Napoleon III, Bonaparte’s nephew, campaigning for greater infrastructure, and the French railways themselves owe a debt to Boney, too. In 1814, engineer Pierre Michel Moisson-Desroches proposed building seven national railways from Paris in order to travel “short distances within the Empire”. The emperor assented, and France got a half-decent rail network. My accommodation, 25-hours Hotel Paris Terminus Nord (25hours-hotels.com), is just next door, and festooned with decorous touches and Parisian joie de vivre (or whatever the French version is). But now into the city… For a greater insight into Bonaparte’s influence on Paris, I take a two-hour walking tour (parisology.net/rise-of-napoleon-paris-walk). Our guide, Thierry – talking with his hands as much as his mouth, bien sûr – takes my small group to where Napoleon married the love of his life, Josephine, at 3 rue d’Antin, followed by his favourite dinner spot, and then where he saved the F…

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Paloma Faith on diversity at Glastonbury: "I'll believe it when I see it"
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date: 2024-06-17T23:01:30.000Z
creator: Matt Charlton
subject: audio
subject: Glastonbury
description: "It’s almost like I’m a new artist again."
encoded: This interview first appeared in Radio Times magazine. Paloma Faith is not a woman who beats around the bush. Within minutes of our interview beginning, we’re already discussing her sex life and why men need to step up when it comes to parental and marital duties. Strictly speaking, we’re here to talk about her slot at Glastonbury Festival, but the conversation soon turns to the singer’s 2022 break-up with French artist Leyman Lahcine, her husband and the father of her two daughters. Faith has written frankly about the "devastating" split on her new album, The Glorification of Sadness, and its lead single How You Leave a Man, and says her appearance at Glastonbury represents a kind of rebirth. “Having gone through this break-up and learnt to be a single mum with two very young kids, I often feel unsure if I’m doing the right thing,” the 42-year-old admits. "When they said I had the Pyramid Stage on Sunday, just before the ‘Legend’ slot, I was like, ‘How in God’s name have I got that?' "Sometimes when you get a big knock to your self-esteem, like a big break-up, you feel a bit washed up. So when they told me [the news], it felt very special." Faith’s Glastonbury gig will come towards the end of her UK and European tour, and while she is excited to be performing again, she admits it hasn’t been easy to juggle it with caring for her children, aged eight and three. "I’ve got more energy than most but, frankly, I’m so tired," she says. "Touring as a single parent is something else. Back in the day, I’d get in at two in the morning and then I’d sleep in because my ex would look after the kids. But now I get in, get four hours sleep, then I’m up getting them ready for school." Even before the split, Faith says she struggled to balance being a mother with having a career. She is so passionate about the subject that she has written a book called MILF: Motherhood, Identity, Love and F**kery. "I don’t believe we can have it all," she says. "I feel a bit disgruntled about socie…

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Dua Lipa: 'I had no plan B – singing was my only option'
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date: 2024-06-17T23:01:17.000Z
creator: Matt Charlton
subject: audio
subject: Glastonbury
subject: Interview
description: The Radical Optimism superstar chats Glastonbury, politics and Taylor Swift.
encoded: This interview first appeared in Radio Times magazine. The first time I see Dua Lipa "in person" is at the BRIT Awards in March, albeit from a couple of hundred metres away. Having opened the show, she’s up on stage for the second time, accepting the award for Best Pop Act (she was also nominated for Song of the Year and British Artist). From the circle seats of London’s huge O2 arena, I watch a tiny figure on a big screen – and an even bigger stage – commanding the room, giving her unsuspecting fans a few more clues to her upcoming album, one of the most anticipated releases of 2024. "You guys give me this radical sense of confidence that I can do anything… and all the love and the support and the optimism is what inspires me." A couple of months later, Radical Optimism – Lipa’s third album – is sitting pretty in the upper echelons of the UK and US charts. When I finally see Lipa a touch closer, she’s comfortably curled up in the corner of a cavernous function room of an east London hotel – the kind that could double as a dance studio for rehearsing one of her blockbuster routines. "Tracksuit bottoms on, and hair pulled back from a face that adorns ad campaigns from Versace to Puma, she’s relaxed, collected, confident and snacking on some almonds – while wearing her own merch – a football top emblazoned with Radical Optimism. What else? Everything about the campaign around Lipa’s latest album shows that, some 10 years after setting out on the road to superstardom, she’s very much at the top of her game when it comes to handling Brand Dua Lipa. This is, after all, a 28-year-old with more than 40 billion (not a typo) streams under her belt, a song (Dance the Night) and an acting credit in Barbie (one of the most successful movies of all time), 37 weeks at the top of the UK AirPlay chart… Oh, and this weekend, she’s headlining the biggest festival in the world. "It’s gone all right," she smiles. View oEmbed on the source website On the day I meet her, it’s announced t…

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