Q&A with Alan Partridge as This Time returns
For the uninitiated, what can you tell us about This Time?
It’s what’s known as a magazine show, bottling all of the magic of magazine reading and translating that into 30 minutes of TV. Some people sneer at magazines. But imagine a world without magazines, with readers having to make do with books, newspapers and letters. A chilling prospect.
This Time manages to be all your favourite magazines rolled into one. As informative as the Reader’s Digest, as sassy as Bunty, as entertaining as Private Eye pre-Hislop, as debonaire as Conde Nast Traveler, as fair-minded as The Spectator.
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111 Gründe, England zu lieben is Christophe Fricker, not Fricke as an article said (“A Brexit nightmare”, 24 January, page 36). The piece also said that a group of famous musicians had written a letter to the
Times complaining about the impact of EU visa restrictions on their “money-spinning tours”. To clarify, they voiced concerns on behalf of all performers and support staff who would be affected, “especially young emerging musicians”.
We omitted to credit photographer Gideon Mendel for the picture published last week of a nurse, June Bruton, sitting with an HIV patient, Ian, on the Broderip ward of Middlesex hospital (“‘We were so scared’: Four people who faced the horror of Aids in the 80s”, 31 January, page 41). Furthermore, the caption dated this image to the 1980s; it was taken in 1993.