September 14 | 2021

I was
silenced No one
else
should be

Harvey Weinstein’s
former PA on
why she wants a
law banning NDAs

Zelda Perkins
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Emma Raducanu says her

‘Weinstein was
dad is ‘hard to please’. I An NDA stopped Zelda Perkins talking
about her boss’s sexual offences. She
was exactly the opposite wants them banned so employees can

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Robert Crampton always speak out. By Helen Rumbelow

W
elda Perkins used to but I don’t take pleasure in it; it doesn’t
inning the by a mile but exhausted, she spotted direct her anger at make me happy to think of any
US Open me and gasped that she had to stop. Harvey Weinstein. She human limping around and getting
at 18 is just “OK, sweetheart,” I said, and gave her Yes, I want was shaking with rage punched by prisoners.
the tip of a hug. when she heard that he “He ruined my life on one level. He
the iceberg: A year or two later Rachel’s to live had attempted to rape really did catastrophically ruin a lot of
Emma swimming club, Bethnal Green Sharks Rowena Chiu, the women’s lives. But the reason it is a
Raducanu based at York Hall in east London, told for ever Miramax employee tragic story is because he was allowed
is one of us she had potential and could she Perkins had just hired. by our power-worshipping system to
those super-accomplished people who start coming three mornings a week I’m not much of one for It was the next morning at the do his worst.”
make me wonder what I’ve been doing before school to train? At 7am? Having Jeff Bezos. Although, to Venice Film Festival when Chiu came The role of Perkins in the Weinstein
with my life. She got an A* in maths eaten a bowl of pasta? She said she be honest, I’m not to Perkins, her manager, “in terrible story, and in particular the way she
A-level last month. She speaks didn’t fancy it and neither did I. much of one for anyone shock”. Perkins marched down to was the first victim to risk breaking
Mandarin. As a little girl, she tried Becky Adlington’s parents used to this morning except for Weinstein, who was having a film her NDA in 2017, is part of She Said,
(no doubt with exceptional success) drive her all over Nottinghamshire to St Emma of Raducanu, industry meeting on the terrace at the a film dramatising these events. She
golf, karting, ballet, horse riding, train. York Hall is a ten-minute walk such is her instant Excelsior hotel. Perkins rapped him on Said, released next year, stars Carey
motocross, skiing and tap dancing from our house. A bit later Rachel was grip on the nation’s his hulking shoulder and said: Mulligan as a New York Times
before settling on tennis. She’s clever, “scouted” to try modelling. She said heartstrings. “Harvey, you need to come with me reporter, with Samantha Morton
pretty and athletic. She also seems she didn’t want to. Her mum and I But I do salute the right now.” Perkins was Weinstein’s playing Perkins. Perkins, 48, talks to
really nice. And now she’s rich as well. said: “Fine.” Amazon boss’s recent London assistant and, like Chiu, was me over Zoom from the cottage in
Raducanu says that her investment in Altos 24 years old. Normally this Wiltshire where she grew up.
parents, Renee and Ian, Labs, which aims to insubordination would cause When Perkins was three her mother
“have been pushy with me find ways to prolong life Weinstein to “rip your head off”, but died; she was brought up by her deeply
to an extent”. Yet not too and ultimately abolish he followed her meekly, guiltily. That moral grandmother, who was from a
pushy, otherwise she death. The PayPal and was 1998, and Weinstein was, owing to military family — “duty was built into
wouldn’t be so remarkably Google guys have sunk what happened next, allowed to me”. Her grandmother, she says, would
well adjusted. There are considerable chunks of continue as a sexual predator for have preferred her to do something
horror stories about some their fortunes into nearly two more decades. more idealistic, such as politics (here
sports stars’ parents, similar ventures. Now Perkins directs her anger at we share a wry laugh). Perkins
particularly dads, Critics always say what she sees as worse even than endured Weinstein’s sexual
particularly in tennis it would be hellish to Weinstein, something that indirectly harassment, him parading naked
(Mary Pierce and Jelena live for ever. Indeed, affects us all: a weapon used by before her and so on, but when he
Dokic, for instance, were this is the received powerful bullies, racists, abusers and became violent to Chiu “I felt huge
traumatised, emotionally wisdom on the subject dangerous incompetents. It is “non- responsibility because I had left her in
and physically), but — unquestioned, disclosure agreements”, or NDAs, the that room alone”. These principles
Raducanu’s upbringing, supposedly axiomatic. gagging clauses that were invented to helped Perkins to stand up to
many witnesses attest, was Emma Raducanu And yet, a bit like prevent departing employees running Weinstein when, I say, as a 24-year-old
nothing like that. The with her father, Ian “it’s always darkest off with intellectual property. Today I think I would have cowered.
worst that can be said of before the dawn” and their use is an ugly distortion, not just “I have ended up unwittingly surfing
her dad, his daughter is “drinking hot drinks part of the modus operandi for on the front of this massive #MeToo
confident enough to admit, is that he Our son Sam said he wanted cools you down”, this powerful men such as Weinstein, wave,” Perkins says. “But this isn’t
is “hard to please”. to leave school at 16 to train as nugget has always Donald Trump and Philip Green, the about gender, it’s about power and the
I say that’s the “worst thing”, but a chef. One or two of our more struck me as Topshop tycoon, but the hushing up of way the system enables its abuse.
maybe dad Ian’s reluctance to laud his conventionally middle-class friends absolute nonsense. bad practice at almost every level, in That’s way more sinister than a
daughter was a handy motivating were horrified. We said: “If that’s what I don’t imagine the church, academia, politics, Harvey Weinstein because those
tactic. Maybe a bit of withheld you want, Sammy.” He was offered a eternal life would be hospitals and construction. people are always going to exist.
parental praise is a good thing. job in a local bakery, but didn’t much a total bed of roses, A BBC survey in 2020 found that “It’s not his fault in a way; he’s a
Toughens ’em up and so forth. relish starting work at 2am. We said: obviously. But it’s about six students a month signed sociopath with too much power. Of
As a youngster, my daughter Rachel, “No problem.” Rachel wanted to drop way, way better than NDAs with British universities; a course he’s going to go mad. But we
22, was a talented distance runner. art A-level. We said: “Good idea.” Sam the alternative. Newsnight investigation in 2018 found have laws to protect us from ourselves.
Aged about 11, she won a London-wide didn’t like his summer job in a the rate for the House of Commons And if the law enables criminal
schools’ cross-country title. On the restaurant in France because it was was ten employees a year issued with behaviour then it’s not working.”
back of that, she went to Mile End 40C in the kitchen. We said: “Sack it gagging clauses; a study in July Perkins is not only the co-founder of
Harriers for a while, but didn’t take to off, son.” And so on. suggested that 57 per cent of American the Can’t Buy My Silence campaign,
it so we said it was fine if she binned it. They’re both doing well despite all workers had NDAs written into their which is launched this week, but also
I went along to watch her next this parental, particularly paternal, employment contracts. one of its best case studies. What she
county race. She set off like a rocket, indulgence. Haven’t won the US Open If you think issues such as racism, relates about the terms of her NDA
too fast, and halfway round, leading though, have they? The lazy buggers. sexism and assault are “not that bad or I find astonishing: conditions of
I would have heard about it”, the fact draconian secrecy that might be
is that you are unaware of how much imposed on MI6 operatives.
with a tennis court Cameron are otherwise over time I’ve realised you are unaware of. Often the first Sometimes she is challenged on why
and swimming pool to engaged. Looks like other people have rule of NDAs is that you can’t talk she did not at the time go public with
Boris and come with my job poor Carrie will be social and family lives, about your NDA. Perkins, who is her and Chiu’s story or to the police.
for nothing. stuck with John Major not to mention health leading a new campaign, Can’t Buy In 1990s Italy they did not have the
his party But I do feel bad on one side, Theresa issues, that don’t My Silence, believes the way confidence that they would be
for him that his big May on the other. Let’s revolve around me. confidentiality clauses are now used believed. Back in London the pair
no-shows celebration party at the hope she likes cricket. Even so, three out of amounts to a gag on democracy. The resigned and sought legal advice; a
Bucks pile has flopped When we have a do five guests of honour person bound by an NDA, as she was “she said/he said” court case against
Nor am I much given so woefully before it’s at home, I always claiming a prior by Weinstein, suffers, and so does such a powerful man was likely to end
to sympathy for Boris even happened. Of the reckon on a 20 per cent commitment would society at large. How does she feel with him destroying them. Instead
Johnson, especially five living previous, if non-attendance rate. As give me pause. If about Weinstein now? lawyers advised a “damages”
sympathy relating to occasional, residents of in, invite 60 people, 20 per cent can’t make “When he was sentenced my initial agreement with Weinstein that might
Chequers because I Chequers that he you’ll get 48. Or if you it, it’s about them. If joy was that justice had worked,” protect subsequent women.
wouldn’t mind a ten- invited, three have said want 16, ask 20, and so 60 per cent can’t, it Perkins says. “I know people want me The negotiations were harrowing,
bedroom Elizabethan no. Tony Blair, Gordon forth. I used to take no- may well be that it’s to say, ‘I hope he rots in jail and I’m so including one 12-hour session that
country mansion Brown and David shows personally, but all about you after all. happy.’ He deserves to be punished, began at 5pm and finished at 5am,
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allowed to do his worst’
with accompanied lavatory breaks.
Perkins felt that they had secured
substantial safeguards; the terms
included many different ways in which
Weinstein would be closely monitored
for harassment. In return she and
Chiu had to sign the NDA; for this
moment Weinstein insisted on being
in the room. After that Perkins
thought, “This is an awful chapter of
my life, but it’s over.”
Afterwards, as they headed home,
she and Chiu turned to each other and
realised that according to the NDA,
this would be the last time they could
contact each other for the rest of their
lives. “We said, ‘Goodbye. I’m never
going to see you again.’ That’s what we
had been told; we were kids and we
were frightened.”
In fact, far from being “over”, the
effects of the NDA were only just
sinking in. She was not allowed to talk
about what had happened to her
family, partner or closest friends; she
was not allowed to talk to a therapist
or a doctor unless those people sought
and got permission for their own NDA
from Miramax. Lawyers, she says,
think “this is a good solution. The
aggrieved person gets a nice bunch of
money and off they go, and the
problem person doesn’t get their
reputation ruined. What they don’t
understand is the real evil of NDAs
starts when you sign it.”
She had to consider her time at
Miramax as a “black hole”. She was
not even allowed a copy of her
agreement. She was paranoid about
Weinstein pursuing anyone she had
ever previously told of his behaviour.
“We were all so scared of Harvey. He
was like the Godfather.”
To force people who have been
through a traumatic event into
isolation is unethical, Perkins says.
The NDA also left her pretty much
unemployable — “My career was
stopped.” She moved to Guatemala,
where she got a job training horses,
and stayed for five years.
The second time she thought, “It’s
over,” came in 2017. She was back in
Britain, working in theatre, and
hearing the persistent thrum of
rumours about Weinstein. Of course
by then she knew that Weinstein had
ignored the conditions imposed on
him in their contract, but what of
the consequences if she did likewise?
She anticipated he would seek
vengeance. She reminds me that Chiu,
who went public some years later than
Perkins, has said that under the
pressure of her NDA she twice tried
to kill herself.
After giving her testimony to the
media, Perkins again felt that her
work was done. “I’ve pointed out
the problem, you know?” As Perkins
hoped, there were exciting
developments. Maria Miller, the
Conservative MP, saw Perkins on
television and brought up the NDA
issue with Theresa May, who was
then the prime minister and who,
Perkins heard, was “horrified”. By
2019 the government statement on
NDAs was that their use to cover up
“unlawful discrimination and
harassment complaints is
unacceptable”, and they committed
to legal reform. Legislation was
imminent. Since then it has been
quietly shelved. What changed?
“Boris,” Perkins says. Of course, she
says, Brexit and Covid have reordered
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The lowdown
Dogs at
weddings
COVER: GARETH IWAN JONES FOR THE TIMES. BELOW: REX FEATURES; NBC/GETTY IMAGES
Goodness, weddings are really
going to the dogs.
Don’t tell me there’s a new trend
for canine nuptials.
No, just a place on the wedding
guest list. At James Middleton
and Alizée Thevenet’s secret
wedding at the weekend, invitees
included “family, friends and of
course a few dogs”.
Well, that’s one way to keep it secret:
guests who can’t speak. And it’s a
solution to the empty-pew issue at
socially distanced weddings.
Was it at their local town hall?
priorities “But I’m afraid the vested
priorities.
Not the groom’s, but maybe the
interest of the current people in power
French bride’s: it was in
is not to look at something like that.
Bormes-les-Mimosas.
Not one thing has changed.”
Julie Macfarlane grew up in Britain
Mimosa like the cocktail?
but is now a law professor in Canada
and one of the world’s experts on No, like those trendy yellow
NDAs, not just professionally but blossoms — it’s a medieval village
through her history as a victim of just inland of the Cote d’Azur whose
sexual abuse by a vicar when she was a flowers are award-winning.
schoolgirl in Chichester. In 2014 she
took legal action against the Anglican J’ai compris. So they flew the dogs
church and won assurances, which over for the ceremony?
have been repeated by Justin Welby, Well, a pet passport is nothing
the Archbishop of Canterbury, that compared with the paperwork I
the church would no longer seek needed for my summer holiday
NDAs for victims of clerical abuse. this year.
“This is why I am so focused on
legislation,” says Macfarlane, who is
the co-founder of the campaign. Alizee and
“Because even where there’s a code of James
conduct I still hear from people all the Middleton
Zelda
Z ld Perkins with time who tell me the church is making
Harvey Weinstein at them sign NDAs. Unless you have a
the Cannes film festival law that actually bans it, it can go on
in 1998 and, below, in the shadows.”
Perkins today. Above There is this phrase, Macfarlane
right: the actress Ashley tells me, “pass the trash”, which has
Judd and Rowena Chiu sprung up since NDAs became
endemic, of passing on people who
have behaved horribly to unwitting
new workplaces.
“If you look in the closet of almost
every powerful man you’re going to
find some NDAs somewhere,”
Macfarlane says. “But what I think has
really changed now is that this is
affecting every big corporation,
institution, charity. And it’s not just if Fair enough. Did the dogs sit at the
you tangle with a powerful man you top table?
might find yourself being silenced.
This is about the girl at 7-Eleven who Under it, probably. Their golden
was sexually harassed by her manager retriever Mabel even made it into
and gets paid off with $5,000 and an the Middletons’ first Instagram
NDA. This is how routine it is now. post as a married couple.
What started out as something to
protect trade secrets is now being Instead of a best man, a good
used to protect bad behaviour, boy — or rather, girl. Who else
which is not a trade secret.” was there?
These two women invite anyone The Duke and Duchess of
with an NDA to post, anonymously, Cambridge were there with George,
on the Can’t Buy My Silence website, Charlotte and Louis in tow.
which they hope will be a platform for
change in the same way that Well, hard to enforce a “no
Everyone’s Invited allowed young children” rule when one of them
women a safe way to expose sexual will be king one day.
harassment in schools. Miller is
again trying to start legislation, of the Exactly. They must have been spoilt
kind that is under way in Ireland. for choice when choosing someone
Perkins says that she has been to carry the rings down the aisle.
contacted by more than a thousand
people made desperate by their Maybe — but I doubt their royal
NDA. If change happens, Perkins highnesses are familiar with the
would like, finally, to believe that, a concept of “fetch”.
lifetime away from a hotel room in Charlie Gowans-Eglinton
Venice, justice has been served.
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Be at yo u r s t re s s
Under pressure: what
to do (and say) when
the kids aren’t OK
Children and teenagers have suffered increased stress this year, but this can
A
be positive — if you know how to channel it, says Professor Tanya Byron
s a clinical
psychologist, I find
working in mental
health is always
challenging, never
more so than in the
past 18 months as
parents and children
have tried to navigate the pandemic.
There is no doubt that for some these
times have been extreme and life-
changing. However, often my
colleagues and I have seen adults and
children worry that they have
developed mental health difficulties
when in reality they are highly
stressed. A large part of my work
recently has been to normalise their
experience and help them to
understand stress as a natural
adjustment response to new and
difficult circumstances.
What is stress?
Stressors cause changes in our
autonomic nervous system — which
controls heart rate, breathing and
vision among other vital things — and
triggers a sequence of hormonal
changes and physiological responses
that are in-built to enable us to avoid
danger, stay alert and, if necessary,
fight a threat or flee. Stress is the first
stage of the fight or flight response.
However, if stressors aren’t adapted
to or continue, stress can then impact
negatively on us physically, mentally
and behaviourally. When stressed we
can experience physical discomfort,
such as chest pain, racing heart,
breathlessness, sleep problems and
muscle aches. We can be more
susceptible to becoming unwell as our
immune system weakens.
Behaviourally, we can become more
irritable and snappy or withdrawn and
unhappy; we may drink, smoke more,
use illicit substances, and eat more or
less. Psychologically, our mood will
shift as we become less tolerant and
feel less mentally robust and more
overwhelmed. Stress is a subjective
experience and we all differ in terms
of our resilience to life challenges
and our ability to manage
stress healthily.
Unsurprisingly, reported stress
levels have significantly increased
across all age groups since the
pandemic began. Given that the
pandemic is an external stressor that
we need to adapt to, the chronic
Professor Tanya Byron nature of st
stress experienced
i dbby some
is leading to higher levels of reported
anxiety and depression in part due to
an increase in maladaptive
(unhealthy) stress management
responses such as poor sleep, reduced
activity, eating more.
The impact of stress on children
and teenagers
Adults living with children reported a
rise in stress, particularly related to
Our stress lockdowns, reduced social support and
juggling multiple pressures and
makes our conflicting responsibilities at home.
Financial and food insecurity,
children loneliness and increased time spent on
childcare and home schooling have
stressed been significant pressure points
and we all affecting mental health.
Family roles and relationships have
feed off also been put under increasing strain
and in families stress has a chicken
each other and egg dynamic — our stress makes
our children stressed and we then
worry about them more and all feed
off each other.
For children and teenagers stress
can be external and the causes varied.
They might have parents who are
fighting, multiple pieces of coursework
to hand in, or a friend who ghosts
them online. Stress can also be
internal and associated with
catastrophic thoughts and feelings
such as fearing academic failure or
fitting in with peers.
Stressed children and teenagers may
be struggling with academic pressure
and social issues such as bullying and
popularity. In older children gender
differences reveal girls showing higher
llevels of stress related to social and
rrelationship issues whereas for boys it
might be more about social status (eg
m
aas related to sport, perceived
sstereotypical masculinity).
Parents and carers of children aged
tten and under have reported stress
rrelated to their children’s behaviour,
whereas with children aged 11 or older
w
tthe increased stress related to worries
aabout their children’s future and
mental wellbeing.
m
Issues that were struggled with
included difficulty relaxing, sleep
in
difficulties, feeling hopeless and being
d
irritable. These issues were more
ir
pronounced in low-income families as
p
well as single-parent households and
w
tthose with children with special While stress per se isn’t a problem
eeducational needs. Frequently for the development of children and
described stressors included prolonged indeed is necessary and helpful for the
screen time, disruption to daily development of resilience, it is the
routine, frequent arguments, lack of type and amount of stress they endure
exercise and exams. and the context they experience it in
The impact of pandemic stress on that makes a difference to its impact.
children and teenagers has revealed Some children and teenagers grow
that while on the one hand the up in a context of toxic stress — in
elimination of smaller “everyday’’ environments with prolonged stress
worries meant that some children’s and duress, trauma, lack of nurture
stress levels decreased during the and support — and these will be
lockdowns, on the other hand these more vulnerable to the development
have been replaced by a focus on of serious emotional, psychological
Covid-19 and its effects on schoolwork,
health, social lives and employment
and behavioural difficulties. In
some circumstances this will
opportunities. One in five young
people has reported persistent stress
include impacts on their brain
architecture and life-long health
during the pandemic. and social problems.
Although schools are back, there is
So how worried should we be? still a lot of uncertainty for children
Given that stress is part of life and
enables us to adapt to challenges, a
and teenagers related to potential
lockdowns or school closures, and
childhood without stress would mean
a lack of opportunity to develop
fears that they or someone in their
bubble will test positive. Many worry
resilience: the ability to bounce
back from stress, adversity, failure,
they have a lot of catching up to do
educationally and socially.
challenges and trauma. Social groups may feel different due
Positive stress — where stress is safe to disruptions to face-to-face
and manageable within a supportive socialising and the increase in social
context — is a vital part of child media activity. The learning of
development. It is when we learn children with special education needs
the skills of distress tolerance will have been especially disrupted
alongside the ability to manage since the pandemic began and they
challenges and risk. may feel particularly overwhelmed.
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1 in 5
young people has
reported persistent stress
during the pandemic
How do we support a
young person with stress?
Children and teenagers may not have
the maturity or ability to be able to
articulate that they are feeling stressed
so it is important to recognise the
signs. Stress in children and young
people doesn’t always look like stress
in adults and usually manifests as
physical and behavioural changes that
will vary due to age, personality and
resilience.
Know the signs
A stressed child can behave differently
from how they normally do. They may
become more moody, withdrawn,
irritable, aggressive or clingy. They
may get into trouble more or show
a lack of interest in friends and
activities. They may develop new fears
(eg at bedtime) or nervous habits
such as nail-biting and hair-pulling.
Cognitive changes can occur and they
may show problems with time-
management, planning, decision-
making, concentration and focus, and
procrastinate more.
Physical changes include
deterioration in sleep and complaints
of headaches or tummy aches.
Bed-wetting might occur. They may
start to have breathing difficulties or
panic attacks. They may noticeably eat
much less or much more. Teenagers
may use drugs and alcohol or take
over-the-counter pain killers. Girls
may experience changes in their
menstrual cycle.
Older children may show changes in
their thinking and begin to show
common signs of anxious thinking,
eg mind reading (everyone thinks I’m
stupid); catastrophic thinking (I will
fail), negative self-labelling (I’m
rubbish); negative futuring (life will
never work out for me); or black and
white thinking (others get it right but
I always get it wrong).
How to address it
Quality time
Create a calm, safe environment
around your child and spend time with
them doing things they enjoy and
eating meals together.
Active listening
You could notice that they seem
changed and express concern that
they may have things on their mind.
Ask questions, stay calm, don’t
jump in with solutions and remain
non-judgmental. Provide affection and
encouragement. Some children may
do better by messaging their worries
rather than engaging in face-to-face
talking. Try to talk when you are out
and about, walking or perhaps driving
so that there isn’t a need for focused
eye contact, which can make children
and teenagers feel uncomfortable.
Younger children might draw how
they feel or enjoy having a worry box
where they can post what they have
written or drawn.
Health and lifestyle changes
Help your child or teenager to create a
calm and tidy space to work and rest
in at home — external chaos can
increase internal stress. Get more
active. Being in nature and exercising
increases the feelgood brain
chemicals. Stabilise healthy eating
with regular mealtimes together.
Monitor online content and set
boundaries around time online.
Encourage social contact in person
and away from screens.
Thinking changes
If your older child or teenager is
showing signs of anxious thinking,
help them to learn to rationalise their
worries by identifying the thoughts,
articulating them, breaking them
down and challenging them.
bl
Encourage them to problem-solve l sense of self-efficacy via coping with
ways to approach what they are
stressed about. Help them to think
about times when they have managed
stress before. Help them to accept the
things they cannot change and so
understand that unhelpful thoughts
can be ignored or that they can
distract themselves from overthinking
by engaging with something they
enjoy. Journalling can help older kids
to process their worries. Get them to
consider what advice they would give
to a friend if they were also stressed.
Physical changes
If your child is struggling with
breathing, download an app with a
breathing circle and help them to
steady their breaths in and out (Try:
clearfear.co.uk). Suggest that they do
some activity to burn off the stress
hormones. Cold water on the face can
help when stress turns into panic. It is
important to create healthy sleep
routines that include wind-down time
before bed, no screens an hour before
sleep, devices out of the bedroom at
night and using audio books or
meditation apps when falling asleep.
Learn mindfulness
Research has shown that 13-18-year-
olds who did a five-week mindfulness
course experienced significantly less
mental distress than those who did
not. See headspace.com
Personal agency
Allow for opportunities where your
child can have control over a situation
and help them to prepare for changes
or challenges. Encourage activities
where they feel skilled.
Be a role model
Your child will learn from and be
affected by how you manage stress.
Model adaptive healthy behaviours in
terms of diet, exercise and lifestyle.
Show how you use activities such as
meditation, yoga, progressive muscle
relaxation and breathing exercises and
encourage them to join in.
Practise gratitude with your child:
notice three good things about your
day and encourage them to do the
same. Show them your skills of
frustration and distress tolerance and
address areas of life where you feel
overwhelmed by letting go of things
and accepting what you can’t change.
Look after yourself to best look after
your child; as in an aeroplane, put
your own oxygen mask on first.
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10 ways to
encourage
resilience
N
ot all stress is harmful,
and positive stress (that
is safe and manageable)
develops resilience.
Therefore, rather than fear
the stress that these challenging times
are causing, we could see this as an
important opportunity for our
children and teenagers to develop
their resilience and increase their
sense of personal agency. It will teach
them perseverance and
determination.
Research has identified what
predisposes children to show positive
outcomes in the face of adversity and
this includes: positive and supportive
adult-child relationships; a growing
challenges; having the chance to learn
and practise stress management skills
and self-regulation; and engaging
with supportive social networks.
So while children and teenagers at
times may show that they are
stressed, anxious and unhappy, this
doesn’t mean they won’t come
through with a greater sense of
understanding. It is important to also
note that many children who have
lived through extreme toxic stress
(abuse, neglect etc) can also be
supported to develop into resilient
adults — I have had the privilege of
working with many such children and
young people.
How to build a resilient child
1 Don’t jump in to fix what is
stressing your child; listen and ask
questions to help them to generate
their own solutions.
2 Let them experience discomfort
and learn to tolerate it.
3 Develop their emotional
articulation so they can label
and express their feelings.
4 Normalise difficult feelings —
feeling stressed and overwhelmed
at times is part of life. These feelings
can be managed and they will pass.
5 Help them to understand how
stress affects our body so they can
learn skills to manage breathing, relax
and bring down their racing heart
rate; engage in more outdoor physical
activity.
6 Ensure they understand that
mistakes are not failures but vital
learning experiences. Give them
examples from your experiences.
7 Teach them how to problem-solve
— brainstorm solutions and help
them to look at pros and cons.
8 Show how you cope by talking
about your feelings, the problem-
solving and decision-making
strategies you use, self-care routines
and positive lifestyle choices.
9 Encourage healthy
risk taking.
10 Gratitude and optimism are
useful mindsets when life feels
overwhelming. Make time to focus
together on the good of everyday,
however small. For more advice, see
also, childrenssociety.org.uk
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health
body&soul

A We developed the
s a team, they work
in complementary
fashion: Dr Ugur
Sahin, 56, is the
flinty one, the sharp
adventurer, his
bullish certainty
leavened by easy
humour. Dr Ozlem Tureci, 54,
presents a vastly softer approach. But
it’s clear during our meeting over
Zoom that the married couple behind
the launch nine months ago of the
Pfizer jab, but we
world’s first clinically approved Covid-
19 vaccine bear deep respect for each
other’s scientific capabilities — and
for the contagion that has infected
224 million people, killing 4.6 million
of them, according to WHO figures.
are still worried
“The virus will continue to mutate,”
says Sahin, who is the chief executive
of the couple’s German biotechnology
company BioNTech (Tureci is its chief
medical officer). He foresees a long
battle. “We are now only seeing the
about Covid
first generation of mutations.”
As we speak, scientists are analysing
an emerging Covid-19 variant, labelled
Mu, that was detected in Colombia in
The pandemic was a baptism of fire,
January. Last week the government
reported that it has infected more
Dr Ugur Sahin and Dr Ozlem Tureci
than 50 people in the UK, while the
European Medicines Agency warned tell John Naish — and the mutations
that it may be better able to overcome
vaccines than the common Delta of the virus are only in their infancy
variant. Even if it can’t, Sahin fears
that other mutants might arise that do.
He spotted the potential for a was in her final year at medical school. For this experimental process to Dr Ugur Sahin and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine compared
pandemic very early. In January 2020 Now, as partners in science, business succeed, mRNA cancer vaccines must Dr Ozlem Tureci with 100 million of the Oxford
he read a Lancet report by Chinese and life, they’re acknowledged leaders be tailored to each patient and be University-AstraZeneca jabs.
academics that mentioned how one in the biotech industry. Yet until developed very quickly to defeat fast- It is an astonishing success story. To
infected person had spread the virus Covid-19 emerged their plan was not proliferating tumour cells. Fellow tell it, the husband-and-wife team
without showing any symptoms. Sahin to become virus-vaccine world-beaters. scientists doubted its worth — it has have contributed to a new audiobook
imagined the world’s airliners carrying They had originally formed their been dubbed “messyRNA” due to the by the journalist Joe Miller, titled
such “silent assassins” to unsuspecting small company BioNTech in 2008 difficulties involved in manipulating it. Vaccine: How the Breakthrough of a
cities. He envisages other pandemics with the primary aim of developing a Still, when Covid-19 began to spread, Generation Fought Covid-19.
striking in a similar manner. “The powerful new cancer treatment called Sahin reasoned that the coronavirus Yet their story continues apace. Last
likelihood is increasing constantly immunotherapy. This aims to train might prove a comparatively easy Would week the UK regulator the Medicines
because we have ever more human patients’ immune defences to target for mRNA vaccine technology, and Healthcare Products Regulatory
travel and we are exposing mankind recognise and kill their tumour cells. and contacted Dr Phil Dormitzer, I take a Agency approved the Pfizer-BioNTech
more to such viruses.”
You would be forgiven for imagining
A central BioNTech approach
involves a gene molecule called
Pfizer’s chief scientific officer for viral
vaccines. But Dormitzer thought there vaccine jab as a Covid booster vaccine, paving
the way for a roll-out before winter.
Sahin as being some grim-faced
prophet of doom. In fact, he and his
messenger RNA (mRNA), which
carries sets of instructions inside cells
was no need, that the virus would soon
be contained and that BioNTech’s
if there The concerns are twofold: that more
vaccine-resistant strains may emerge
wife are both highly engaging and joke
happily in their fluent English. Both
that tell them what proteins to make.
The scientists realised that if they
methods were too experimental.
Two weeks later, Sahin called again.
wasn’t any and that the vaccines’ power fades
over time. Last month an analysis of
are children of Turkish migrants who
grew up in Germany. They met three
could get mRNA to carry custom-
made commands into immune cells,
By then Covid’s threat had become
starkly clear. A month later, Pfizer and
risk of data from more than a million people
in Britain’s Zoe Covid study found that
decades ago, in true hospital-romance they could give the body’s defences a BioNTech signed a deal to develop the catching five to six months after the second jab
fashion, while working on a cancer “wanted poster” with which to identify jab. Thus far the UK government has the effectiveness of Pfizer-BioNTech
ward. He was a young physician; she and destroy patients’ cancer cells. ordered 135 million doses of the Covid? No inoculation fell from 88 per cent
the times | Tuesday September 14 2021 7
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body&soul
talk about that,” she states. I suggest
that this in itself is a crystal-clear
answer. Both husband and wife laugh.
The couple were among the first to
receive their vaccine, getting their
shots in January. “It was part of our
campaign to immunise all our
employees, to ensure that we did not
have infections that would slow the
pace of our work,” Sahin says. “I had
general concerns about having the
vaccine at the beginning. Was it not
better ethically for me to wait until my
age group’s turn to get vaccinated? But
everyone told me to go ahead and do
it. We had no side-effects.”
That is not to deny that any effective
drug must carry a risk. “Would I take a
vaccine if there wasn’t any risk of
catching Covid? No. It’s a medical
treatment with potential side-effects.
We have to look at the risk-benefit
ratio. The vaccine is the better choice.
This has definitely been the case.”
At this point Tureci adds: “If you
don’t want side-effects, better not take
any drugs or eat anything.” In a more
serious tone, she says: “I was highly
confident when taking the vaccine.
Receiving it was like a heavy burden
being lifted. Working with the virus
Chips with everything!
made us all feel very vulnerable.”
Are fries good for you?

I
Tureci brims with optimism about
their mRNA creation. She sees the
vaccine as only the start of a new
revolution in treatment for a broad
array of diseases such as diabetes,
to 74 per cent. (By comparison, the cardiovascular disease and rheumatoid
AstraZeneca vaccine’s effectiveness fell arthritis, as well as producing new
from 77 per cent to 67 per cent over vaccines and fighting cancer.
the same period.) “The pandemic has been our
AstraZeneca bosses have warned baptism by fire,” she says. “The
against rushing into offering boosters vaccine’s success has shown that
to the broad population when the data mRNA technology has great potential.
showing that they are needed after It has also upscaled the manufacturing
two doses remains unclear. Last week and research.”
Professor Sarah Gilbert, the scientist For cancer, she adds: “We already
behind the Oxford vaccine, said that started years ago to develop mRNA-
some vulnerable groups would need based vaccines. The challenge is that
boosters, but immunity is “lasting well” the vaccine has to be potent and
in the majority of cases. needs to be given
g repetitively. We
Sahin, however, backs thee idea are going into advanced clinical
of boosters. “When immunity ty on this.”
trials o
declines to a level that Tureci stresses, however,
Tu
increases the incidence that
tha mRNA therapy has a
of breakthrough infections, clear
cl run ahead. “It does
then boosters are a good not mean that we have
n important source of micronutrients,
idea,” he says. “It’s good got
g a process that can be
to have fewer infections used
u against all other
overall because each diseases.
d We have to
time the virus infects research
re this for all the
someone, it has another respective
res conditions.”
chance to mutate into And
An with Covid-19 she
something more dangerous.”” admits that BioNTech — and
He and his wife have long the world
worl — have been lucky.
dedicated themselves to studying
dying the “This
“This virus canc be tackled with
minutiae of medical research. h. Both vaccine treatment.
treatm There are more
stay off social media and they have complex infectious diseases such as
never owned a television. They are malaria that have evolved through
also normally publicity-shy, which has history to counter all of our warfare.
proved wise in this bizarre new era of We were lucky too that this virus was
online anti-vax extremism. not like HIV.” Indeed. As a young
Sahin is sanguine about the online reporter in the 1980s I was told that an
vitriol that has been directed daily at HIV vaccine was “six months away”,
vaccine developers. “Nowadays you’re but this has never been achieved.
not important if there’s no conspiracy Beyond good luck, Sahin has an
theory about you,” he says. “It’s not unshakeable faith in the fact that he,
only a battle against Covid, it’s a battle his wife and their team have so far got
against misinformation. If you are a everything right. “If we look back, I
denier, you can always find something think everything went well,” he says.
that supports your scepticism.” “Even though we had a hard battle, I
The couple’s best answer has been to don’t think I would change anything.”
stay as independent as possible from Still, the couple see no room for
politicians of any stripe and to be complacency. “Neither of us have had
transparent with all their vaccine- Covid-19. We have been very careful
research data. “It’s important to avoid to take all possible precautions,” he
the implication that politics is says. “It is an important concern to
involved,” Sahin says. remain careful. We know all too well
When I ask about the couple’s that this virus is not going away.”
personal security precautions, their PR Vaccine: How the Breakthrough of a
representative, who is monitoring the Generation Fought Covid-19 by Joe
meeting, interjects fiercely. “We don’t Miller is available on Audible
f potato milk, the new non-dairy
trend from Sweden, makes you
roll your eyes heavenwards, you
may be relieved to hear that the
benefits of spuds don’t begin and
end with drinking them in liquid
form (for the uninitiated, potato
milk’s ingredients include
emulsified potatoes, rapeseed oil,
fructose and sucrose). For two new
studies have proved that potatoes
consumed in any form — even chips
— can provide us with nutrients that
will help to offset health problems.
“Potatoes have definitely been
overlooked and have not been given
the attention that coloured vegetables
have received,” says Connie Weaver,
professor emerita in Purdue
University’s department of nutrition.
This humble vegetable is an
such as vitamin C, vitamin B6, folate
and iron, and contributes a significant
amount of fibre to the diet. Potatoes
also contain potassium, a nutrient that
plays a key role in controlling how
much fluid is stored in the body.
Potassium works with and against
sodium, the mineral that holds on to
water, causing fluid levels in the blood
to rise, and healthy blood pressure
control depends on a delicate balance
between the two. When too much salt
is consumed in the diet, sodium levels
in the blood rise and the increased
fluid puts pressure on blood vessel
walls. Hypertension can be the long-
term consequence. “A lot of emphasis
is placed on reducing dietary sodium
intakes for better control of blood
pressure and cardiovascular disease
risk. That’s only half of the story,”
Weaver says. “Potassium plays just as
important a role.”
Eating more of any foods that are
naturally high in potassium —
including tomatoes, oranges, bananas,
beetroot, milk and apricots — is
beneficial. The NHS says we need to
get 3,500mg potassium a day and 24.3
per cent of women and 10 per cent of
men don’t consume enough. Potatoes
represent about 15 per cent of our total
potassium intake (one medium-sized
baked potato weighing 200g provides
almost a third of our daily needs).
For what Weaver says was one of
the first clinical trials to look at the
effect of increased dietary potassium
on blood pressure, results showed
that potatoes reigned supreme, with
baked and boiled spuds having the
greatest benefit on reducing sodium
retention and producing the biggest
drop in systolic blood pressure (the
force at which your heart pumps blood
around your body) compared with
the control diet. Even a 330-calorie
serving of oven chips had no adverse
effect on blood pressure or blood
vessel function.
“I didn’t know what to expect for
results on oven French fries,” Weaver
says. “But I thought the high
potassium levels may counterbalance,
at least partially, the negative effects of
salt on blood pressure. It is feasible to
eat oven French fries daily, although
better to get a variety of vegetables
and potatoes served in different ways
for all the nutrients they provide.”
It’s not just adults who might
benefit from eating more spuds. In
the second of the newly published
studies, researchers reporting in the
journal Nutrients used data from
more than 16,000 9 to 18-year-olds
to find out if potato consumption
had much bearing on the vitamins
and minerals obtained in their daily
diet. Compared with youngsters
who ate no potato, consuming them
in any form including fried was
associated with higher intakes of
essential nutrients.
Potatoes have been associated with
a temporary spike in blood sugar when
consumed, but Weaver says the
research is varied and “you cannot
generalise about their effect”.
Adding some protein or fat to
potatoes — a little milk, cheese or
oil, for example — will lower their
glycaemic load, and potato researchers
at the University of Surrey reported
how serving cooked potatoes cool or
cold in a salad changes the structure
of the starch so that a blood-sugar
spike is less severe.
If you are going to eat a white,
starchy carb, potatoes are the best
choice, Weaver says.
Peta Bee
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arts
Chris Brookmyre, Doug Johnstone, Mark Billingham,
Val McDermid, Stuart Neville and Luca Veste
‘We’ve always been
the underdogs,
the despised genre’
The Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers, a group of musical
T
novelists, talk to Jade Cuttle about performing again
he Fun Lovin’ Crime
Writers are an unusual
musical clan who are
killing it on the festival
circuit. The band
features the crime-
fiction big shot Val
McDermid (The Wire
in the Blood, Traces) on vocals and
Mark Billingham, the author of the
Tom Thorne series, on guitar and
vocals. Chris Brookmyre and Stuart
Neville are also on guitar and vocals,
with Doug Johnstone on drums and
vocals, and Luca Veste on bass. They
have churned out more than a
hundred novels, of which 30 million
copies have been sold, and won every
important crime-writing award — and
they have now founded a musical
supergroup with the slogan “Best
Midlife Crisis Ever”. They wrap their
speakers in crime-scene tape, shoot
each other with toy guns and make
playful swipes with plastic knives.
Billingham, 60, and Brookmyre, 53,
are perched in deckchairs on a
bustling lawn by the beer tent when
I meet them at the Theakston Old
Peculier Crime Writing Festival in
Harrogate. They are trying to figure
out how two years have passed since
they last played here and a crime-
fiction fan by the name of Nicola
Sturgeon, cheering them on from the
crowd, hopped on stage to offer some
backing vocals. It was a proud moment
for this half-Scottish sextet; however,
the band’s highlight remains their 2019
Glastonbury slot. “I had to write in big
letters, ‘THIS IS NOT A JOKE!’ ” says
Billingham of the initial invitation he
emailed to the band members. “Even
when we got there with our van and
gear it didn’t feel real — until we saw
our name on a fridge next to Keane.”
Billingham, a crime writer
unfamiliar with the riders of music
festival hospitality, recalls a misjudged
drinks order. “We drank all the beer
ALAN MCCREDIE
within ten minutes of arriving, so had
to do some casual pilfering in the
fridges of other bands,” Billingham
says. “I can’t even say it was a dream
come true because I wouldn’t even
have allowed myself to dream about
this five years ago,” Brookmyre adds.
The origins of the band sound hazy
too, as Johnstone, 51, recalls. He has
had to skip the Harrogate beer tent,
along with his fellow Edinburgh-based
writer McDermid, so we are talking
over Zoom — Veste was halfway to
Harrogate when a Covid contact
notification sent him on the next train
home. Neville, embracing his “Best
Midlife Crisis Ever” slogan, is resting
a dodgy knee.
Back when they were more mobile,
Johnstone met up with Billingham
and Neville at the House of Blues in
New Orleans in 2016 during a crime
writers’ convention, Johnstone says.
When the house band went on a
drinks break, the trio spontaneously
decided to “bum-rush” the bar’s open-
mike night with “a few shambolic
Their tunes”. A year later they roped in
favourites McDermid, Veste and Brookmyre,
setting themselves loose on a musical
include killing spree to “murder songs in front
of anyone who will listen”.
Elvis It’s not the most enticing marketing
line when it comes to finding new
Costello’s fans, agrees McDermid, 66. She has
sold more than 17 million books and
Watching been translated into more than 40
languages, although not everyone has
the deduced — from her double life of
playing folk clubs with Billy Connolly
Detectives and now festivals with her writing pals
— that music is possibly her real
passion. “A lot of people came to our
first gig expecting us to be really
The Fun Lovin’ Crime rubbish, for the prospect of being able
Writers are playing to take the mickey out of us
the Bloody Scotland indefinitely,” McDermid says. “But
festival on Friday, people were quite shocked by the fact
bloodyscotland.com that we were actually rather good.”
It’s true: their live performances
are light-hearted. Thrashing around
on stage instead of writing about
slashing throats offers a welcome
release from the dark worlds of their
day jobs. “This is an escape for us and
it’s an incredibly valuable thing in
all of our lives,” Johnstone says. “But
it’s never going to be the main thing
that drives us in our careers.” The
members remain first and foremost
crime writers, a literary clique that
lends itself surprisingly well to playing
in a band.
“We’ve always been the underdogs,
the despised genre writers,” McDermid
explains. “It forged a sense of
community and togetherness, and if
you’re going to be in a band you need
that. So as crime writers, we got a
head start.”
While many novelists are reported
to be solitary creatures, the band relish
the opportunity to perform together,
enjoying a relationship that is
anything but cut-throat. “Unless all six
of us can do it we won’t play,” insists
Billingham, citing the lukewarm set
they once braved without McDermid.
The UK’s best crime writers fighting
over whose turn it is to write the lyrics
is a murder mystery waiting to
happen, so the band prefer to rework
criminal classics rather than write new
ones. Their favourites include Elvis
Costello’s Watching the Detectives and
Kaiser Chiefs’ I Predict a Riot, with
other audience favourites on their hit
list including Riot in Cell Block No 9,
Psycho Killer, Chain Gang and I Fought
the Law.
More than the material, it’s the
performance that sets the band apart.
Billingham, who began his career as
an actor (Maid Marian and Her Merry
Men, Spitting Image and two decades
of stand-up comedy), agrees. “We try
to make it as theatrical as possible,” he
explains. “We’ve built in over the years
little jokes and bits of physicality on
stage, like how I’m trying to kill Val,
she’s trying to kill me, and the others
are trying to break it up . . . We want
the songs to sound good, but we also
want people to see us enjoying
ourselves.”
After a cancelled performance last
month at the Edinburgh Book Festival
(their “spiritual home”, Billingham
says) the band are eager to get back on
the road and perform their first gig
since the pandemic began. Their next
live set, at the Bloody Scotland festival
on Friday, might well be a self-
confessed “rusty” shambles — being
spread out between Edinburgh
(McDermid, Johnstone), Glasgow
(Brookmyre), Belfast (Neville), London
(Billingham), and Liverpool (Veste)
makes it difficult to rehearse. They
usually arrive at festivals in advance
and binge-prepare on site.
During the pandemic, the band
shunned the pressure to jump on the
live-streaming bandwagon. Instead,
they preferred to enjoy more laid-back
“online get-togethers where we talked
about what new cover versions we
could perform when we finally get
back on stage”, Billingham says.
Meanwhile, McDermid has published
four new books in the past 18 months,
Billingham and Johnstone two, Neville
and Veste one.
“It’ll be like a wedding,” Billingham
promises of their plans to reunite. “But
without the kids sliding on knees
across the dancefloor and the punch-
up in the car park.” That is, unless the
band start sparring over who gets to
write lyrics any time soon — that
would be murder on the dancefloor.
the times | Tuesday September 14 2021
Plastic, cloth, paper, jute . . . So
which bag really is eco-friendly?
With Waitrose
upping the price
of ‘bags for life’ to
50p, green expert
Lucy Siegle rates
S
the alternatives
till addicted to plastic
bags? If so, Waitrose is
hoping to force you to
break your habit by raising
the price of its “bags for
life” from 20p to 50p. This
is still 20p below the 70p
marker that the Green
Alliance says would actually make a
difference to our behaviour.
According to the Environmental
Investigation Agency’s research,
1.5 billion bags for life were sold in
2019-2020; that’s 54 per household or
22 per man, woman and child. This
seems marginally better than the 140
old-style plastic bags per person per
year we were consuming before the
plastic bag levy of 5p per bag was
rolled out across the UK in 2015
(Wales and Scotland went much
earlier). In May the 5p was cranked up
to 10p and all retailers (not just the big
ones) brought into the fold. But can
we change without actual bans?
After all, even if they now cost 50p,
these are thicker plastic, which means
more oil and therefore more impact. It
also raises the question, what on earth
are we doing with them? A question to
which many of us know the answer —
they’re in the cupboard under the
stairs until you flip out and throw
them away with the non recyclables
one evening when nobody is looking.
Even when the first plastic levy
came in I had my doubts whether in
the UK we’d really got the memo on
the overconsumption of plastic bags.
For me this stems from 2007, when
Anya Hindmarch released her
covetable “I am not a plastic bag”
a grocery-fashion hybrid that
proclaimed that it was made from
31 recycled bottles per bag. The nation
went nuts for this eco totem, queueing
around the block. Yet when one of my
colleagues went to buy hers (£5 each)
she was left speechless when the lady
on the till insisted on putting the bag
in a normal plastic carrier “to keep it
nice”. I knew it then: it was going to be
difficult to cut the cord.
The which bag is best debate is often
framed as a rational trade-off based on
Life Cycle Analysis, a methodology
where researchers offer a snapshot of
a product’s impact from calculating
the emissions and energy used to
create a product. In practice this is not
that straightforward. For example,
people weighing up plastics often
forget to include the climate cost of
drilling for oil at one end and the fact
that plastic products are more often
Above: Sarah Jessica
Parker — and bag —
on the set of the follow-
up to Sex and the City
than not incinerated at end of life (we
do not send much to landfill any
more), creating a carbon burden.
Alternatively, it tends to be assumed
that natural bags will be in circulation
for ever, not in a downstairs cupboard,
which is sort of reusable bag landfill.
Plus, there’s often no accounting for
consumer (ie our) behaviour, and
something as simple as remembering
to carry a reusable shopping bag can
be cast as an unbearable tyranny. Or
sometimes we just forget stuff. It is at
once complicated and very simple
because whatever material your
grocery bag is made from, no reusable
bag is sustainable if you don’t re-use it.
Cloth bags 3/5
A Danish study of 2018 suggested
that a cotton tote needs to be used an
incredible 7,100 times before breaking
even (ie paying off the energy and
inputs that went into making it). This
figure could be disputed: a UK study
calculated that it would need 310 uses.
A reusable I prefer to use common sense. Cotton
bag is not bags are adaptable, robust and
washable. They fold easily into your
sustainable handbag so you’re more likely to
remember to take them when you
if you don’t shop (a big win since this is the main
point). Buy unbleached cotton canvas,
re-use it with sparse printing.
Single-use plastic bags 0/5
Sixty countries have banned the
single-use “vest” bag (so called
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because of their shape), which is made
of polythene, but not the UK, to the
chagrin of anti-plastic campaigners.
However, many supermarkets have
stopped selling them. For many years
the plastic industry held the line that
they shouldn’t be outlawed because
they were re-used as bin liners. Well
yes, do re-use them, but bear in mind
that this is really just suspending the
moment at which they must enter a
waste stream that isn’t really equipped
to deal with a material that lasts for
hundreds of years.
Ocado plastic bags 2/5
One place where the vest bag remains
a fixture is home deliveries, notably
with Ocado. The retailer claims that
according to its research (not publicly
available), bags stop food waste from
deliveries. At least they are made from
recycled plastic, as messaged by their
sludgy grey colour, and the recyclers
don’t bleach bags using more energy
and chemicals. They are also collected
— Ocado drivers will take 99 at a go if
you want to clear out that cupboard —
and these are sent to Echo Packaging
in Corby, pelletised, then extruded into
new bags. Why can’t they just deliver
in a returnable moulded tray?
Bags for life 3/5
Compared with flimsy polythene, old-
style vest bags, bags for life are thicker
— typically made from polypropylene,
an oil-based polymer, laminated and
9
times2
often with woven handles added to
provide extra endurance. Everything
about these carriers screams
robustness. They are designed to be in
service for years. Indeed, using them
for years is the only real way of paying
off the eco debt of their production.
From drilling the oil, to using
processing chemicals in manufacture,
to disposal (most of our binned plastic
waste is now incinerated, which causes
greenhouse gas emissions), this all
creates a heavy footprint. Danish
researchers calculated that these must
be used 37 times to break even.
You can reduce this a little by
buying a plain one rather than one
that has been heavily printed on
(using more energy and raw materials)
and one that contains a proportion of
recycled content (ie it’s not just from
virgin oil). Notably, the new Waitrose
bag for life contains recycled material.
The plastic and retail industries like
to point out that the life-cycle carbon
efficiency of plastic bags will improve
as legislation makes recycling more
uniform (by 2023). But we need to deal
with the problem now, not wait for
recycling policy to evolve in future.
Jute or sisal 5/5
True sustainability is not just about
theoretically working out the lowest
carbon footprint. It’s also about
supporting livelihoods in the global
south. For me that means more stuff
should be using materials that are low
impact, easily grown without depleting
soils or requiring agri-chemicals and
that sustain a fair supply chain.
Hairy sisal and jute (also known as
hessian) might be a little rough and
ready for clothing, but they’re perfect
materials for shopping bags. They are
also easy to grow and process. A sisal
production facility, including sun
drying, fibre brushing, grading and
baling, can employ more than 500
people. Fossil-free and theoretically
biodegradable after decades of service.
Paper 3/5
In classic grocery bag studies, paper
tends to lose to plastic, even with bags
for life. A recent study by Nanyang
Technological University in Singapore
claimed that paper bags had a greater
environmental impact than reusable
plastic ones used 50 times. However,
results vary based on the type of waste
system a country has. In the UK there
is a relatively good waste paper
recycling system, which means they
become a better bet. Morrisons is
removing all plastic in its bags, and
including a 30p “Reusable Paper Bag”.
They’re made in Wales (so relatively
locally) from paper from
“sustainability managed forests” and
strong enough to carry weights up to
16kg. Morrisons claims that a life-cycle
assessment by the University of
Sheffield shows these beat plastic.
Unfortunately, they haven’t shared this
research, citing commercial sensitivity.
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A saintly husband who cooks naughty roasties PAUL STUART/CHANNEL 4

Incidentally, expect the health submarine in the North Atlantic

Carol police to be gunning for you, Jamie.
He showed how to make the potatoes
was how much smaller and narrower
it looked than the roomy one in
Midgley crunchy and crisp by bashing them
up a bit after being parboiled (I do
this too), but tsk. In 2017 the Food
Vigil. And how much nicer and less
tetchy the crew were, although they
didn’t have Suranne Jones swishing
TV review Standards Agency closed down
another avenue of pleasure by
her hair and arresting everyone
every five minutes.
declaring that crisp roasties with the It certainly did a much better job
lovely burnt bits were a cancer risk. of conveying the foetid claustrophobia
Sigh. However, Oliver’s spuds did look within a submarine, especially when
delicious. I just hope his mum and dad the coxswain was checking those
weren’t too hungry. cramped “hot bunks” and said: “I
Do I sound jealous? Too right I could write ‘clean me’ in the dust
am. Gorgeous house, lovely children and pubes under here.” No! It
and a man who says: “I’ve made all the was described as being “a weird
Jamie Oliver: Together food for tomorrow, now I’ll put the underwater boarding school”. Good
Channel 4 kids to bed.” Is he trying for husband analogy. But where do all the smells
{{{(( of the year? A sainthood? Fair play, go? When you open the hatch is it
Oliver is excellent at explaining his like opening a can of pilchards?
Submarine little tips and quirks simply. He’s Serious respect to those men (it
Channel 5

J
{{{{(
amie Oliver: Together was
based on the formerly naked
chef making a feast for the
friends and family he was seeing
for the first time since lockdown.
“This is saying ‘I love you’ through
food,” he said. I wondered if the guests
minded that for this emotional
reunion they had cameras in their
faces? Or — and feel free to call me a
greedy pig — that Oliver didn’t seem
to have made enough food. One tray
of potatoes for all those adults and
children! I make that many for four.
“relatable”. Well, as relatable as a
millionaire can be. I did wonder
whether he was making a few Nigella
double-entendres at times. “I’ve
bashed up my biscuits,” he said; and
“make sure every bean gets tossed.”
Well, I say! But I suspect wholesome
Jamie couldn’t make a dirty joke to
save his life.
If you bailed out of Vigil, finding it
laughable, then Submarine: Life
Under the Waves was the real deal.
What immediately struck me in this
two-part documentary about HMS
Trenchant during a four-month
mission to protect a Trident
was all men) who live like this for
months, their only treat being nice
food. Until the fridge malfunctioned
unfortunately. When that man steam-
burnt his hand and had to be winched
off on to a speedboat (actually a more
exciting scene than when Jones was
lowered from a helicopter in Vigil),
I was surprised they all weren’t all
rushing out, gulping the fresh air.
There was a real sense of drama
when they detected a Russian
submarine twice their size, before
they had to turn back thanks to an
engine room fire. I recommend it
Jamie Oliver made tomorrow’s food then put the children to bed more than the BBC series.

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Today, with a deadline of
2030 looming for the last
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are gearing up to produce
them, while battery-
charging points are
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cities. In this three-part
series, Curran travels from
Land’s End to John o’
Groats to find out whether
the country is ready for
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Viewing Guide pessimism comes from. but also truly loved life. flirtations with other while Jude’s agonies we’re in the UK, where
Arguments about his With lots of clips from women that caused his stem from his hatred
Jack Whitehall: the highlights include
Ben Dowell supposed sexual the many Hardy film first wife, Emma, of cruelty and Travels with My a lunch at Gordon
voyeurism may also adaptations, we begin intense pain. Yet, this snobbish privilege and Father Ramsay’s Lucky Cat
Thomas Hardy: chime with with his first published film also argues, the an acute sympathy for Netflix restaurant featuring an
Fate, Exclusion contemporary readers novel, A Pair of Blue creator of Tess and ordinary people. This, The travel series that appearance by the
and Tragedy of Tess of the Eyes, which features Far from the Madding it is asserted, fed into shows the benefits of grouchy chef. They
Sky Arts/Now, 9pm d’Urbervilles. Yet this one of English Crowd’s dazzling his anger about the being a celebrity as then head to Dorset to
Anybody excellent film lets the literature’s earliest Bathsheba Everdene taboos on chastity so well as having a learn how to morris
Top who has read life and work illuminate (and most literal) clearly understood fearlessly expressed rather enchanting dance, then have a
pick Jude the each other to cliffhangers, and end and loved the opposite in Tess. Above all the relationship with a murder-mystery
Obscure will demonstrate what a with his wonderful sex. The pained poems film argues for slightly eccentric experience on Burgh
understand where complicated person poetry. Highly sexed, he wrote after Emma’s Hardy’s place as one father returns for a fifth Island. Jack’s dad,
Thomas Hardy’s Hardy was, someone he was prone to death show his of this country’s season. As with many Michael, plays the
reputation for excessive who often despaired intense, if chaste, capacity for remorse, greatest writers. TV travel shows of late, detective.

BBC1 BBC2 ITV Channel 4 Channel 5

6.00am Breakfast 9.15 Morning Live. Magazine show, 6.30am Bargain Hunt (r) (AD) 7.15 Garden Rescue (r) 6.00am Good Morning Britain. Morning magazine 6.00am Countdown (r) 6.40 Cheers (r) 7.40 The King of 6.00am Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine. The issues of the
Early

hosted by Kym Marsh and Gethin Jones 10.00
Crimewatch Live. Appeals for information from the public
about crimes 10.45 Close Calls: On Camera. A father
performs live-saving CPR on his son (AD) 11.15 Homes
Under the Hammer. The progress of properties in
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receive some devastating news (r) 5.00 5 News at 5 5.30
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8PM
Comedian Bobby Davro and songstress
Sheila Ferguson of the Three Degrees
compete to find profit-making antiques
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Braxton and Catherine Southon (r)
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David Hayman David heads to around her new tattoo (AD)
Lewis and Harris to discover the
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party (4/13) (r) swept out to sea (4/10) (AD)
and the team look to the natural world
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orangutan Sarikei and Dagmar
the giraffe (AD)
rushed to the animal hospital from
Cannon Hall Farm, while for young vet
Rohin, there’s a day gaining vital
experience on the farm (2/12)

9.00 Silent Witness (2/2) The police 9.00 A House Through Time Digging into 9.00 Long Lost Family: Born Without 9.00 Spice Girls: How Girl Power 9.00 Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild
9PM

have traced Laura’s last movements to
a suburban house and must now
identify bodies buried in the garden.
Jack chooses between his brother
and the truth (4/10) (AD)
the affairs of the house’s next resident,
Benjamin Wild, David discovers a
factory owner with a history of
questionable business dealings.
See Viewing Guide (2/4) (AD)
Trace — What Happened Next
An update on some of the stories of
people who were abandoned as babies,
focusing on Helen and David, who were
left on either side of the Irish border.
Last in the series (AD)
Changed Britain New series. The
story of the girl group, from their
formation in the mid 1990s against the
backdrop of ladette culture through to
their recent world tour during the time
of #metoo. See Viewing Guide (AD)
Ben journeys to the Suffolk
countryside and a secretive patch of
woodland, to spend the week with
unique character Will, 50, who could be
described as a true British caveman.
See Viewing Guide (3/5)

10.00 BBC News at Ten 10.00 Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone 10.00 ITV News at Ten A fresh perspective 10.00 Celebrity Gogglebox Mo Gilligan, 10.00 Broadmoor: Serial Killers & High
10PM

Fishing Bob and Paul head to the on the major stories of the day Babatunde Aleshe, Ashley Banjo and Security A rare insight into the
Lake District (3/6) (r) (AD) others review shows including workings of the high-security
10.25 BBC Regional News and Weather Changing Rooms, Celebrity SAS: Who psychiatric hospital, Broadmoor, with
10.30 Newsnight Headline analysis, 10.30 Regional News Dares Wins, Get Out and Skin A&E (r) testimony from those who have come
10.35 Back to Life Miri is convinced with Emily Maitlis face to face with Britain’s most
that John Boback knocked her 10.45 Coronation Street Icons: notorious killers (r)
off her bike (3/6) (AD) Norris Cole A tribute to Malcolm
Hebden and his character (r) (AD)
11.05 Ambulance North West Ambulance 11.05 Sixteen: Class of 2021 The pressure
11PM

Service calls up military personnel to
help care for the public effectively as
the pandemic takes its toll. Narrated
by Christopher Eccleston (5/6) (r)
11.10 Butterfly Drama about a separated mounts as the students approach their
11.15 NFL This Week Action from the couple who are reunited when their son final term at school and begin to make
opening round of fixtures, including identifies as a girl, but divided over decisions about their futures and
Super Bowl champions Tampa Bay what is best for their child’s future. careers (3/4) (AD) 11.30 Criminals: Caught on Camera
Buccaneers travelling to Texas Starring Anna Friel (1/3) (r) (AD) Two police officers come face to face
to face Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay with a violent man (1/10) (r)
Packers v New Orleans Saints 11.55 Entertainment News on 5

12.05am Sign Zone: The City of Horses — Our 12.05am Junk and Disorderly Henry Cole and Sam 12.05am Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA (r) 12.00am MTV VMAs 2021 Coverage of the ceremony
Late

Lives The tradition of keeping horses in several Swansea
communities (r) (AD, SL) 12.35 Ambulance. Paramedic
Linda and mental-health nurse Emma respond to patients
in crisis (r) (SL) 1.35-2.35 The House That £100K Built.
12.10am-6.00 BBC News A couple design an eye-catching home (r) (SL)
Lovegrove visit an emporium full of trinketry, and look to
make a profit at one of their favourite autojumbles (r)
12.55 Teleshopping 3.00 FYI Extra. Short bulletin
rounding up the day’s showbusiness stories 3.15 ITV
Nightscreen 5.05-6.00 Tipping Point (r) (SL)
12.55 Couples Come Dine with Me (r) 1.50 Joe Lycett’s
Got Your Back (r) (AD) 2.45 Big Age (r) (AD, SL) 3.10
Celebrity Undercover Boss USA (r) 4.00 Autumn at
Jimmy’s Farm (r) (AD, SL) 4.55 Location, Location,
Location (r) 5.50-6.00 Food Unwrapped (r)
3.10 Secrets of Tutankhamun’s Treasures. The story of
two mummified babies found in Tutankhamun’s tomb,
giving an insight into the practices that kept his dynasty
in power (r) 4.00 My Mum’s Hotter Than Me! (r) (SL)
4.45 Wildlife SOS (r) (SL) 5.10 House Doctor (r) (SL)
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A House Through the factory floor. It
Spice Girls: How 1994 few could have
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of our Headingley wonders. After that is not just a celebration a clever marketing 50-year-old “caveman” adept at digging deeper “anti-Bond” secret
home. The latest we’re on to the of all things Spice but slogan or a genuine who also calls himself a into his subject’s psyche agent Harry Palmer.
former resident is affecting story of Mary an analysis of the kick-back against the living archaeologist. and we discover that The “brain” of the title
Benjamin Wild, a and Andrew Mellish, band’s cultural impact, prevailing 1990s lad Steeped in the Stone Will was drawn to this is a supercomputer that
factory owner whose whose one-year-old then this film delivers culture, and did it have Age life, he is life because of a trauma is being used by a
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Sky Showcase
6.00am The Early Rundown (r) 7.00 Kay Burley
(r) 8.00 Monkey Life (r) 9.00 Nothing to
Declare (r) 10.00 The Flash (r) 11.00 NCIS: Los
Angeles (r) 1.00pm Hawaii Five-0 (r) 2.00
Magnum P.I (r) (AD) 3.00 Modern Family (r)
4.00 Will & Grace (r) 5.00 The Simpsons (r)
5.30 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (r)
6.30 The Simpsons. Triple bill (r)
8.00 Supergirl. Kelly meets Joey, an orphaned
alien boy who is acting out in foster care
9.00 FILM: Spider-Man — Homecoming
(12, 2017) Teen superhero Peter Parker tries to
prove his worth by battling a winged criminal
with a trade in stolen hi-tech weaponry.
Adventure with Tom Holland and Michael Keaton
11.30 Code 404. Major and Carver investigate
an underground MMA fight ring (r) (AD)
12.00 Wellington Paranormal (r) (AD)
12.30am Wellington Paranormal (r) (AD) 1.00
Road Wars (r) 2.00 The Force: Manchester (r)
3.00 Hawaii Five-0 (r) 4.00 Magnum P.I (r)
(AD) 5.00 The Early Rundown (r)
Sky Atlantic
6.00am The Guest Wing (r) (AD) 7.00 Blue
Bloods (r) (AD) 9.00 Six Feet Under (r) 11.15
Oz (r) 1.30pm The Wire (r) 3.45 Blue Bloods
(r) (AD) 5.40 The Sopranos (r)
6.45 The Sopranos (r)
7.50 Game of Thrones. The day of King Joffrey’s
wedding to Margaery Tyrell arrives, and
Melisandre oversees a sacrifice to the Lord of
Light at Dragonstone (r) (AD)
9.00 Britannia. Antedia and Lucius bond over
their mutual wish for revenge (4/8)
10.00 Patrick Melrose. Drama based on the
novels by Edward St Aubyn, following the life of
witty and wealthy aristocrat Patrick Melrose.
Starring Benedict Cumberbatch (1/5) (r) (AD)
11.15 Dexter. Lundy is convinced he has
solved the case of the Bay Harbour Butcher,
meaning Dexter could get off scot-free, and
Doakes meets his end (12/12) (r)
12.20am Dexter (r) 1.25 Californication.
Comedy drama series (r) 2.00 Billions (r)
3.05 True Blood (r) 4.10 Fish Town (r)
Sky Documentaries Sky Arts
6.00am Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger
Ailes (r) 8.00 First Ladies (r) (AD) 9.00
Discovering: Katharine Hepburn (r) (AD) 10.00
The Directors (r) 11.00 The Guest Wing (r) (AD)
12.00 The Nineties (r) 12.50pm The Comedy
Store (r) 2.00 John McEnroe: In The Realm of
Perfection (r) 3.50 My Icon: Leon Pryce (r) (AD)
4.00 Discovering: Katharine Hepburn (r) (AD)
5.00 The Directors (r)
6.00 The Guest Wing (r) (AD)
7.00 The Nineties (1/8) (r)
7.50 The Comedy Store (2/5) (r)
9.00 FILM: Kipchoge — The Last Milestone
Following Eliud Kipchoge’s feat to become the
first person to run a sub two-hour marathon
10.40 FILM: Belushi (18, TVM, 2020)
Documentary about John Belushi (AD)
12.50am FILM: Framing John DeLorean
(15, 2019) Drama-documentary about the
controversial car manufacturer 3.00 The
Directors (r) 4.00 Discovering: Katharine
Hepburn (r) (AD) 5.00 First Ladies (r) (AD)
6.00am Benjamin Britten’s Gloriana 9.00 Tales
of the Unexpected (AD) 10.00 Discovering:
Peter Ustinov 11.00 The Eighties (AD) 12.00
Goya: Visions of Flesh and Blood 1.00pm Tales
of the Unexpected (AD) 2.00 Discovering: Ian
McKellen 3.00 Van Gogh & Japan 4.00 Jefferson
Airplane: Music Icons 4.30 Video Killed the
Radio Star (AD) 5.00 Tales of the Unexpected
6.00 Discovering: Ed Harris
7.00 Landmark. Three artists battle it out in the
south of England heat
8.00 Lucian Freud: A Self Portrait.
A look at more than 50 works that give an
insight into the artist’s psyche
9.00 Thomas Hardy: Fate, Exclusion and Tragedy.
The author’s personal life. See Viewing Guide
10.00 Muriel Spark by Ian Rankin
11.00 Destiny’s Child Live in Atlanta.
A 2006 concert by the group
1.30am How It Feels to Be Free 3.30 Video
Killed the Radio Star (AD) 4.00 Cheltenham
Literature Festival 2020 5.00 The Eighties (AD)
Sky Main Event
6.00am Sky Sports News 7.00 Good Morning
Sports Fans 7.30 Early Kick-Off 8.00 Good
Morning Sports Fans. Including news and views
on today’s early stories and a look at the back
pages 10.00 The Football Show 11.00 The
Football Show 12.00 Sky Sports News 1.00pm
Sky Sports News 3.00 Live US Open 9-Ball Pool.
Coverage of the second day of this year’s
tournament, at Harrah’s Resort in Atlantic City
7.00pm Live EFL: Bournemouth v Queens Park
Rangers (Kick-off 7.45pm). Coverage of the
Championship clash from Vitality Stadium, as
both teams look to continue their strong starts
to the season. This is only the ninth meeting
between these two sides this century, with the
home side only defeating their opponents twice
since 2001. Last season saw this fixture finish
0-0 before the London side won 2-1 at home
9.45 Live US Open 9-Ball Pool. Further coverage
of the second day of this year’s tournament,
taking place at Harrah’s Resort in Atlantic City
1.30am Sky Sports News
Variations
BBC1 N Ireland
As BBC1 except: 8.30pm-9.00 Ghosts (AD)
10.35 Spotlight Special. Debate on the issues
of the day, with Jim Fitzpatrick and a studio
panel 11.35 Back to Life (AD) 12.05am
Ambulance (r) 1.05-6.00 BBC News
BBC1 Scotland
As BBC1 except: 7.00pm River City. Alex
decides on Jessie’s future when an old face
exposes their lies (r) 8.00 EastEnders.
Shirley comes clean to Mick about hitting Phil
(AD) 8.20-9.00 Holby City. Hanssen finds
himself in a perilous situation
BBC1 Wales
As BBC1 except: 8.30pm-9.00 Carol
Vorderman: Closer to Home
BBC2 Wales
As BBC2 except: 1.45pm Welsh First
Minister’s Questions 2.35 Eggheads (r) 3.05
The Big Painting Challenge (r) (AD) 4.05 The
Dark: Nature’s Nighttime World (r) (AD)
5.05-5.15 Coast (r)

ITV Wales
As ITV except: 10.45pm-11.10 Fishlock’s
Choice. New series. Trevor Fishlock takes
a walk on the Llyn peninsula

STV
As ITV except: 10.40pm Scotland Tonight
11.05 Coronation Street Icons: Norris Cole (r)
(AD) 11.35 Butterfly. Drama about a couple
who are reunited when their son identifies as a
girl, but divided over what is best for their
child’s future (r) 12.25-3.00am Teleshopping

BBC4
7.00pm Great British Railway Journeys
7.30 The Joy of Painting. A riverside scene
8.00 The Good Life. Tom and Barbara are helped
with their pigs from a passing boar-walker
8.30 Porridge. Fletch goes into hospital
9.00 Jo Brand: No Holds Barred — Imagine. Alan
Yentob presents a profile of the comedian, going
behind the scenes as she presents Have I Got
News for You and Radio 4’s The News Quiz
and accompanies her on a book tour
10.00 Born Lippy: Mark Lawson talks to
Jo Brand. The presenter chats to the
comedienne about her life and career in
the entertainment industry, in which she has
been a performer for nearly 30 years
11.00 The Culture Show at Edinburgh:
Funny Women. The highs and lows of being a
woman in the world of stand-up comedy
11.30 Some Dog Owners with Jokes.
Shaggy dog stories and more
12.00 Handmade in Bolton 12.30am Great
British Railway Journeys 1.00 Jo Brand: No
Holds Barred — Imagine 2.00 Born Lippy: Mark
Lawson talks to Jo Brand 3.00-4.00 Inside
America’s Treasure House: The Met (SL)
ITV3
6.00am Classic Coronation Street 7.00 Classic
Emmerdale 8.05 Heartbeat (AD) 9.10 Man
About the House 9.45 On the Buses 10.20 A
Touch of Frost (AD) 12.40pm Heartbeat (AD)
1.45 Classic Emmerdale 2.50 Classic Coronation
Street 3.50 Agatha Christie’s Poirot 5.50 The
Darling Buds of May (AD)
6.55 Maigret. A terrified schoolteacher is
convinced he is about to be accused of murder.
Detective series starring Michael Gambon
8.00 Midsomer Murders. A real estate mogul is
murdered in front of a crowd during the opening
of a dolls house exhibit at the Midsomer
Museum of the Family (AD)
10.00 Manhunt. The team tries to identify
the white van discovered from CCTV images,
while Sutton turns his attention to files of
witness statements and identifies a possible
suspect (2/3) (AD)
11.00 Maigret. A terrified schoolteacher is
convinced he is about to be accused of murder.
Detective series starring Michael Gambon (3/6)
12.10am A Touch of Frost (AD) 2.10 ITV3
Nightscreen 2.30 Teleshopping
Talking Pictures
6.00am FILM: Impact (U, 1963) Crime
thriller (b/w) 7.15 FILM: The Agitator (U,
1945) Drama (b/w) 9.15 Look at Life 9.30 Sir
Francis Drake (b/w) 10.00 FILM: Highly
Dangerous (U, 1950) Comedy thriller (b/w)
11.45 The Long Night 1.45pm Carry On
Children 2.00 The Mind of Mr JG Reeder 3.00
FILM: Painted Boats (U, 1945) Drama
starring Jenny Laird (b/w) 4.15 FILM:
Passport to Pimlico (U, 1949) Comedy with
Stanley Holloway (b/w) 5.55 Glimpses: The
Ideal Home Exhibition March 1964 at Olympia
6.00 One Step Beyond (b/w)
6.35 FILM: Blackout (PG, 1950) Crime drama
starring Maxwell Reed (b/w)
8.00 The Human Jungle (b/w)
9.00 FILM: Notorious (U, 1946) Alfred
Hitchcock’s thriller starring Cary Grant (b/w)
11.00 FILM: Yesterday’s Hero (PG, 1979)
Drama starring Ian McShane
12.50am FILM: Downhill Racer (PG, 1969)
Sporting drama starring Robert Redford 2.55
FILM: From the Terrace (PG, 1960)
Romantic drama starring Paul Newman and
Joanne Woodward 5.45 1965 Monte Carlo Rally
ITV4
6.00am The Protectors 6.25 The Champions
7.15 Robin of Sherwood 8.15 The Avengers
9.20 The Sweeney 10.25 Minder (AD) 11.30
The Champions 12.35pm The Big Match
Revisited 1.35 Robin of Sherwood 2.40 The
Avengers 3.45 The Sweeney 4.50 Minder (AD)
5.55 The Big Match Revisited
7.00 The Chase Celebrity Special. Chat-show
host Jonathan Ross, comedienne and writer Katy
Brand, Watchdog’s Chris Hollins and model Jo
Wood take on a trivia expert for charity
8.00 Bear & Jonny Wilkinson’s Wild Adventure.
The ex-rugby union star and Bear Grylls explore
Dartmoor’s gruelling terrain (AD)
9.00 Gordon, Gino and Fred: American Road Trip.
Gordon Ramsay aims to prove that US food lives
up to its bigger-and-better reputation (AD)
10.00 FILM: Ransom (15, 1996) An airline
tycoon turns the tables on the criminals who
have kidnapped his son by placing a bounty on
their heads. Thriller with Mel Gibson (AD)
12.30am Lethal Weapon (AD) 1.25 Minder
(AD, SL) 2.25 The Protectors 2.50 ITV4
Nightscreen 3.00 Teleshopping
More4
8.55am Kirstie’s House of Craft 9.15 A Place in
the Sun 11.05 Escape to the Château: DIY (AD)
12.10pm Heir Hunters 1.10 Four in a Bed 3.50
Find It, Fix It, Flog It 5.55 The Secret Life of the
Zoo. A giant anteater is about to be reunited
with his long-term mate
6.55 Escape to the Château: DIY (AD)
7.55 Grand Designs. Kevin McCloud meets dairy
farmer Andrew Ainslie and his wife Meryl, who
want to build a modern house in Wiltshire,
constructed from engineered timber, with a
barrel-shaped roof (AD)
9.00 24 Hours in A&E. A 19-year-old woman is
brought in with possible spinal injuries after
falling from a second-floor window, while a
59-year-old woman is treated following a
suspected stroke (AD)
10.00 999: What’s Your Emergency? Police in
South Yorkshire respond to cases of revenge
11.05 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.
Jon Richardson and Michelle Wolf take on
Jonathan Ross and Johnny Vegas
12.10am 24 Hours in A&E (AD) 1.15 999:
What’s Your Emergency? 2.20 8 Out of 10 Cats
Does Countdown 3.25-3.55 Food Unwrapped
Dave
6.00am Teleshopping 7.10 Modern Wheels or
Classic Steals 8.00 Timber Kings 9.00 Celebrity
Storage Hunters 10.00 American Pickers 12.00
Top Gear (AD) 2.00pm Cop Car Workshop 3.00
Top Gear (AD) 5.00 Rick Stein’s Long Weekends.
The Greek city of Thessaloniki (AD)
6.00 QI XL. With Julia Zemiro
7.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games. With
Shappi Khorsandi, Michael Buerk, Amanda
Abbington and Elis James
7.40 Would I Lie to You?
8.20 QI. With guest panellists Jason Manford,
Aisling Bea and Johnny Vegas
9.00 QI XL. Extended edition. With Phill Jupitus,
Josh Widdicombe and Sara Pascoe
10.00 Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled. Alan invites
Munya Chawawa, Nina Conti, Morgana Robinson
and Bill Bailey to join him
11.00 Taskmaster. Paul Sinha has some
struggles with a basketball
12.00 Mock the Week. With Rob Beckett
12.40am Have I Got a Bit More News for You
1.40 Would I Lie to You? 2.15 QI 2.45 Insert
Name Here 4.00 Teleshopping
Film4
11.00am Hell Is for Heroes (12, 1962)
Second World War adventure starring Steve
McQueen (b/w) 12.50pm Anastasia (U,
1956) Historical drama starring Ingrid Bergman
and Yul Brynner 3.00 The Naked Truth (U,
1957) Comedy starring Peter Sellers (b/w)
4.50 Billion Dollar Brain (PG, 1967)
Espionage thriller. See Viewing Guide (AD)
7.00 The Greatest Showman (PG, 2017)
A former bank clerk attempts to create and
develop his New York circus in the mid-1800s.
Musical drama starring Hugh Jackman (AD)
9.00 Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation
(12, 2015) The agents of the Impossible
Mission Force become fugitives in order to bring
down a shadowy society of assassins. Spy
thriller sequel starring Tom Cruise, Jeremy
Renner and Rebecca Ferguson (AD)
11.40 Drag Me to Hell (15, 2009) A bank
employee is cursed to suffer a series of
misfortunes, and has to break the spell in three
days before a demon takes her to Hell. Horror
with Alison Lohman and Justin Long
1.35am-4.00 The Love Witch (15, 2016)
Comedy horror starring Samantha Robinson
Drama
6.00am Teleshopping 7.30 Doctor Finlay 8.30
The Bill 9.30 Classic Holby City 10.55 Classic
Casualty 12.00 The Bill 1.00pm Classic
EastEnders 2.20 Peak Practice 3.20 Bergerac
4.20 Auf Wiedersehen, Pet 5.20 Birds of a
Feather. Marcus turns the tables on Dorien
6.00 Bread. Aveline is admitted to hospital
6.40 ’Allo ’Allo! Three rescue attempts are made
7.20 Last of the Summer Wine
8.00 The Last Detective. Davies investigates the
murder of a former soldier, but finding anybody
within his old artillery regiment willing to give
information proves a difficult task (2/4) (AD)
9.35 New Tricks. A skeleton uncovered in the
foundations of a swimming pool is identified as
a young lottery winner named Cheryl, who was
reported missing 17 years ago (8/10) (AD)
10.55 Bad Girls. Jim strikes a deal with
new inmate Virginia which could make him
a very rich man indeed — but Yvonne is soon
wise to their game. Helen grows closer to
prison doctor Thomas
12.05am Dalziel & Pascoe 2.15 Lovejoy
4.00 Teleshopping
ITV2
6.00am Love Bites (AD) 6.55 Ellen’s Game of
Games 8.00 Emmerdale (AD, SL) 8.30
Coronation Street (AD, SL) 9.30 Ellen’s Game of
Games 10.30 Dress to Impress 11.30 Love
Bites (AD) 12.30pm Emmerdale (AD) 1.00
Coronation Street (AD) 2.00 Supermarket
Sweep 3.00 Dress to Impress 4.00 Love Bites
(AD) 5.00 You’ve Been Framed! Gold
6.00 Celebrity Catchphrase
7.00 Superstore. Glenn is fired, so his
colleagues walk out in protest (AD)
7.30 Superstore (AD)
8.00 Bob’s Burgers (AD)
8.30 Bob’s Burgers (AD)
9.00 Ready to Mingle. Sophia’s love triangle
with Casey and Drew intensifies
10.00 Plebs (AD)
10.30 Plebs. Marcus and Stylax try to stop
Cynthia and Metalla being deported (AD)
11.05 Family Guy (AD)
11.35 Family Guy (AD)
12.05am American Dad! (AD) 12.55 Bob’s
Burgers (AD) 1.50 Superstore (AD) 2.40 Totally
Bonkers Guinness World Records 3.05 FYI Extra
3.20 ITV2 Nightscreen 3.30 Teleshopping
Yesterday
6.00am Impossible Engineering (AD) 8.00 A
Tale of Two Sisters 9.00 Abandoned Engineering
(AD) 11.00 Great British Railway Journeys
12.00 Antiques Roadshow 1.00pm Railway
Journeys with Chris Tarrant (AD) 2.00 Bangers
and Cash 3.00 War Factories 4.00 Hitler’s Most
Wanted 5.00 Antiques Roadshow
6.00 Great British Railway Journeys
6.30 Great British Railway Journeys
7.00 Bangers and Cash. A man reluctantly sends
his dream car to auction (9/10)
8.00 Secret Nazi Bases. In Poland lies a
forgotten Nazi complex the purpose of which
largely remains a mystery (3/8)
9.00 Adolf Hitler’s War. Hitler’s War
moves to its endgame as the Soviets
cross the German border (6/6)
10.00 The Search for Hitler’s Bomb. A look at
Nazi experiments into atomic weapons
11.00 ’Allo ’Allo! Fanny and Leclerc’s wedding
coincides with a rescue plan
11.40 ’Allo ’Allo!
12.15am ’Allo ’Allo! 12.55 Impossible
Engineering (AD) 3.00 Teleshopping
BBC Scotland
12.00am This Is BBC Scotland 2.10pm BBC
Scotland News Special: Coronavirus Update
3.00 This Is BBC Scotland 7.00 Paramedics on
Scene (r) (AD) 7.30 Island Medics (r) (AD)
8.00 The Battle for Scotland’s Countryside (r)
(AD) 9.00 The Nine 10.00 Undisputed: The Life
and Times of Ken Buchanan 11.00-12.00
Fight: The Jim Murray Story (r)
BBC Alba
6.00am Alba Today 5.00pm Gudrun — A’
Bhana-phrionnsa Lochlannach (r) 5.05
Peataichean/Pets (r) 5.15 Sionnach agus
Maigheach (Fox & Hare) 5.25 Shane an Chef (r)
5.40 Abadas (r) 5.55 Stòiridh (r) 6.00 Ronia,
Nighean a’ Mheirlich/Ronja, the Robber’s
Daughter (r) 6.28 Geamaichean Gorach (r)
6.30 A-null ’s a-nall (r) 6.45 Alba Eagalach
6.55 Dubhlain CBBC Alba 7.00 An Lot (The
Croft) (r) 7.30 Beul Chainnt (r) 8.00 An Là
(News) 8.30 Vets: Gach Creutair Beo (r)
9.00 Farpaisean Chon-Chaorach (Sheepdog
Trials) (r) 10.00 Trusadh is Na Ciuird (r) 11.00
Eadar Chluich (r) 11.05 Machair (r) 11.30
Alleluia! (Spiritual Music & Verse) (r)
12.00-6.00am Alba Today
S4C
6.00am Cyw: Sali Mali (r) 6.05 Oli Wyn (r)
6.15 Tomos a’i Ffrindiau (r) 6.25 Do Re Mi
Dona (r) 6.40 Syrcas Deithiol Dewi (r) 6.50
Sblij a Sbloj (r) 7.00 Octonots (r) 7.15
Anifeiliaid Bach y Byd (r) 7.25 Blero yn Mynd i
Ocido (r) 7.40 Cacamwnci (r) 8.00 Peppa (r)
8.05 Meic y Marchog (r) 8.20 Jen a Jim a’r
Cywiadur (r) 8.35 Digbi Draig (r) 8.45 Nico Nôg
(r) 8.55 Twm Tisian (r) 9.05 Wibli Sochyn y
Mochyn (r) 9.15 Hafod Haul (r) 9.30 Stiw (r)
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80 189 60 324

128 36 294 24

35 248 30 101

231 39 224 66
Lay tracks to enable the train to travel from village A to village
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times2 Crossword No 8696 Brain Trainer Cell Blocks No 4263

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Divide the grid

ANSWER ANSWER ANSWER

1 2 3 4
into square or
EASY 4 TREBLE 1/4
+8 x 4 – 18 HALVE +7 1/4 TREBLE rectangular
5 6 7 8 IT OF IT IT OF IT IT blocks, each
containing one
digit only. Every
block must
9 10 11 MEDIUM 82 + 1/2
OF IT
– 27 5/6
OF IT
3/4
OF IT
+ 98 DOUBLE 1/4
IT OF IT
x 5 + 71 contain the
number of cells
indicated by the
digit inside it.
12 13 14
HARDER 51
1/3 SQUARE TREBLE
IT IT
– 443 7/8 DOUBLE
IT
– 536 x 7 + 682
OF IT OF IT

15 16 17 18
Polygon Set Square No 3004

19 20 21 From these letters, make words of Enter each of

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capitalised words, plurals, conjugated the six sums
22 23 verbs (past tense etc), adverbs ending work. We’ve
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Each sum
Across 15 Dashboard instrument (6) Yesterday’s answers should be
5 Muddled; rotten (6) 17 Sacred water lily (5) calculated left
espy, hose, hosel, lose, lyse, oyes, peso,
to right or top
7 Short period of 19 Masticate (4) poesy, pose, posey, posh, posy, sepoy,
to bottom.
she, shoe, shop, shy, sley, sloe, slop, slope,
excitement (6) 20 Kneader of muscles (8) sly, slype, soh, sol, sole, sop, soy, spy,
9 Rise and hover in the air (8) 22 Season (6) spyhole, sylph, yes
11 Highest point of 23 Family relative (6) Please note, BODMAS does not apply
excellence (4)
12 Synthetic fabric (5) Down
Killer Moderate No 7920 Solutions
13 Pay back (money) (6) 1 Fine white clay (6)
Solution to Crossword 8695 2 Old Icelandic book (4) Quick Cryptic 1960 Codeword 4379 Kakuro 3000
SCA B B ARD L O RD 3 Over-refined (6) M M T R I
P A L A C E A S S E R T
I R O E O N E 4 Funeral fire (4) C S C I A A
GRE EN HOUS EG A S L A S T H E S I T A N T
H N F P L O S 6 Area of new building (11) R E I I I
MAG I EMO T I V E 8 Build or erect again (11) F O U R T E E N S A F E
N S R F L
C R N N R 10 Metric unit of weight (5) G I S T C A S T AWA Y
L ODGE R RO TG U T R A H C G
E O G R S
14 Moorland hills (5) A NN O UNC E T E RM
M I N I M A L B EC K 16 Game piece (6) E K A K O A
C A R E E R E RR A ND
A J A O I O S 18 Become very angry (3,3) R D L Y T Train Tracks 1426
T HUND ERS T RU CK 19 Talon (4)
I A E I E C I Sudoku 12,649 Quintagram Suko 3281
SONG HARD SH I P 21 Fly high (4)
1 Bawl
2 Grasp
Need help with today’s puzzle? Call 0905 757 0143 to check the 3 Seesaw
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Brain Trainer
Bridge Andrew Robson Easy 15; Medium 466; Harder 2,124

Cell Blocks 4262 Set Square 3003 Lexica 6001

I could not keep away from Dealer: South, Vulnerability: Neither
Eastbourne last month. I returned Sudoku 12,650
A
for the second successive weekend Teams ♠ Q9
of face-to-face bridge, my first for ♥J C R O A K

18 months, for the English Bridge ♦A KQ J 8 4 Killer Tough No 7921 T S S

♣A 10 6 2
Union Summer Festival Teams. ♠ AJ10876543 N ♠- C H I P

I won’t lie. The numbers were ♥K W E ♥Q 8 3 Z O O U

disappointing, down from about ♦3 2 S ♦9 7 6 5 D A R N
100 or more teams in 2019 (there ♣4 ♠ K2 ♣K 9 8 7 5 3
were some 300 teams 20 years ♥ A 10 9 7 6 5 4 2 Futoshiki 4041 KenKen 5371 Lexica 6002
ago) to a mere 20 this year. The ♦10
atmosphere was special though — ♣Q J W F
a bond between those who value Sudoku 12,651
holding bits of reinforced card- S(AR) W N(Lawrence) E T I G E R

board in their paws rather than 1♥ (1) 4♠ Dbl(2) Pass D G W

playing the digital version forced 5♥ (3) Pass 6♦(4) Pass
6♥ (5) End
R E G R E T
upon us by obvious circumstances.
E L R
I’d arrived in my usual manner, (1) I don’t like pre-empting holding ace-high
by bicycle (assisted by a strong tail- suits: you have good defence if partner is W E E P

wind). Talking of a strong tailwind,
take this piece of monstrous luck
for your columnist in a first-time
partnership with the talented
young Oliver Lawrence.
West had so many spades (count
them, there are nine) that he did
not expect the ace to survive,
instead trying his singleton club. It
was an unlucky choice, for it was
West’s partner who was void, and
could have ruffed a second spade,
with the defence also coming to a
heart trick. Two down — indeed
teammates Patrick Lawrence and
David Barker defeated 5♥ by this
route at the other table.
The tall declarer rose with the
ace of clubs and led the jack of
hearts to the ace, felling West’s
bare king. He started cashing
dummy’s diamonds and was
delighted when East had to follow
to four rounds, enabling declarer
to dispose of his three black cards.
Only the queen of hearts was lost
short. Give me ♥ KQJxxxxx and I’d have
opened 4♥ in a jiffy.
(2) Card-showing — not pure penalties as
you are unlikely to have say ♠ KJ10x — and
a very mature choice in my opinion. Partner
will generally remove the double holding a
singleton spade; if partner passes (because
he has two low spades), you are probably
best defending, perhaps unable to make a
Five-level contract.
(3) I seriously considered passing — as ace-
empty (of hearts) is such a defensive hold-
ing. However, I had four more hearts than I
might have had, and could not resist.
(4) Now partner rates to have a spade con-
trol, North is prepared to chance slam,
rather than pass 5♥ and play to land on a
pinhead at the Five-level.
(5) Partner did not bid 5♦ over 4♠ , so
there must be some element of choice here.
I nervously repeated my ace-empty suit
again and hoped not to get doubled.
Contract: 6♥ , Opening Lead: ♣4
— slam made. Extremely fortu-
nate, I’d say.
andrew.robson@thetimes.co.uk
Chess — Winning Move Word watch
1 Qd8+! leads to a beautiful Ponask (a) To cook on a spit
coordination of White’s rook over an open fire (OED)
and bishop: 1 ... Kxd8 2 Bg5+ Renay (a) One who disowns a
Killer 7918
Kc7 (the other finish is 2 ... Ke8 country or belief system (Collins)
3 Rd8 mate) 3 Bd8 mate Deoch-an-doruis (c) A parting
drink (Chambers)
Quiz
As with standard Sudoku, fill the grid so that every column, Killer 7919
every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9. Each set 1 Germany 2 Decompression sickness 3 Tintin
of cells joined by dotted lines must add up to the target number 4 Brewer 5 Pamela Anderson 6 Ethics 7 Anthony
in its top-left corner. Within each set of cells joined by dotted Eden 8 Hedy Lamarr 9 Coventry 10 Lombardy
lines, a digit cannot be repeated. 11 Andrew O’Hagan 12 Dunbar 13 Yemi Alade
14 Hideki Matsuyama. He won the 2021 Masters
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Word watch Sudoku Mild No 12,652 Difficult No 12,653 Super fiendish No 12,654
David Parfitt

Ponask
a To cook on a spit over
an open fire
b A card game using
two packs
c A slender dagger

Renay
a One who disowns a
country or belief system
b A café owner
c To give birth again

Deoch-an-doruis
a Wet and dreary
b A Highland dance
c A parting drink
Answers on page 15

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Fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9.

The Times Daily Quiz Olav Bjortomt Suko No 3281

1 The Weimar Republic Sanpellegrino SpA, is in

was which country’s which Italian region?
government from 1919
to 1933? 11 Which Scottish
novelist wrote Our Fathers
2 Which “sickness” is (1999), Be Near Me (2006)
also known as generalised and Mayflies (2020)?
barotrauma or the bends?
12 The first major battle
3 In 1929, Hergé of the 1650 invasion of
introduced which Scotland took place
teenage reporter near which town on
in issue 11 of the September 3?
newspaper supplement
Le Petit Vingtième? 15 13 Which Nigerian
Afropop singer had an
4 Officially founded in “the principles of made her US film debut international hit with
1698, the Faversham- conduct governing an in Algiers (1938)? the 2014 single Johnny?
based Shepherd Neame individual or a group”?
is Britain’s oldest what? 9 Earlsdon, Holbrooks, 14 Who is the only
7 Which Conservative Spon End and Wyken Japanese golfer to have
5 In the film Borat, prime minister was the are suburbs of which won a men’s major golf Place the numbers 1 to 9 in the spaces so
the titular Kazakh TV MP for Warwick and West Midlands city on championship? that the number in each circle is equal to
journalist tried to kidnap Leamington from 1923 the river Sherbourne? the sum of the four surrounding spaces,
which Baywatch star? to 1957? 15 Which type of and each colour total is correct
10 San Pellegrino mammal in the family
6 What is defined by 8 Playing Gaby, which Terme, home of the Manidae is pictured? For interactive puzzles visit
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The Times Quick Cryptic No 1961 by Mara

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Across 3 Land: uphill track into

1 Card put back inside promontory (7)
uppermost part of boot (6) 4 Greek character is beginning
5 Tell class about Spanish article to perk up (3)
8
(6) 5 Correct a method immediately
8 Dairy product beating the very (5,4)
best (8,5) 6 Shielded by poplar, chestnut
9 Language in Jaipur, Dutch! (4) tree (5)
10 Cricketer’s ability contagious 7 Aintree discombobulated colt
9 10 (8) (7)
11 This crossword setter tore off 10 Motor race, blooming thing (9)
— a streaker? (6) 12 Selfish activity got pier
13 Every bit invested in liquid — destroyed (3,4)
11 12 13 14 there’s money in it (6) 14 US president in English city (7)
15 One playing with toys, liar (8) 16 Picture one before game,
17 Charming French city (4) excited (5)
19 Critical moment taking in 18 Vessel, one empty — small
15 16 17 18 probe that’s malfunctioning boat (5)
(8,5) 20 Chewing the fat, all finally
21 Organ observed filled with understand (3)
pulp, oddly (6)
19 20 22 Note Pavarotti possibly heard?
(6)

Down
2 Different order that has
21 22
evidently reversed, first of all
(5) Yesterday’s solution on page 15