CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: It s a pity Sue didn t bring Mel along as she traced her ancestors, from Bodmin in Cornwall, to a ploughed and frozen field in Lithuania.
HE AUDITIONED for his role on BBC3’s PRU over zoom during the height of the lockdown but Michael Boahen says he couldn’t have asked for a better opportunity to take his craft to the next level.
Dylan Llewellyn and Jon Pointing star in the coming-of-age drama. Plus: Art That Made Us looks at post- second world war earthshakers. Here’s what to watch this evening
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In the end, Meghan and Harry’s interview with Oprah Winfrey made Princess Diana’s 1995 encounter with Martin Bashir look like a tight-lipped model of restraint. Diana herself was referenced several times (one might say there were “three of them” in this interview). At times, Meghan “Marie Antoinette-ed” herself (“Just the two of us in our own backyard, and the Archbishop of Canterbury”). Not that any of this mattered when the talk turned to suicidal thoughts and racism (“Concerns and conversations about how dark his skin may be”). This, one realised, was as serious as it gets.
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