32 ***^ Thursday 1 August 2019 The Daily TelegraphThe week in radio Tanya Goldold
Ross Kemp Living with
Young Carers
ITV, 7.30PM
Can it really be true,
as EastEnders actor-
turned-investigative
reporter Ross Kemp
claims at the outset, that
one in every five young
people under the age of
16 in the UK is a carer? It’s
a remarkably high figure
and Kemp doesn’t give a
source for it but, even so,
a fraction of that would
be shockingly high.
In the second of his
series exploring the
“biggest issues affecting
the UK today”, Kemp
spends time with a
number of young carers,
first staying over with
the Haywood family in
Blackburn, where 15-year-
old Lizzie faces so much
work in supporting
her mother, who has
physical disabilities and
schizophrenia, that she
can only study for her
upcoming GCSEs between
10pm and 3am. And in
Manchester, five-year-old
Ali helps his mother with
the 24-hour care of his
sister Zenab, who has
cerebral palsy.
Kemp also visits a
theatre group for young
carers in Manchester and
questions the “postcode
lottery” of council funding
provision for them. It’s notthe most forensic report,
and the line between
helping and caring seems
rather blurred, but it hasplenty of emotional impact
and will certainly raise
awareness of the issue.
Gerard O’DonovanArtsThe Directors
SKY ARTS, 8.00PM Stanley Donen, the
choreographer and director
responsible for popular
musicals such as Seven
Brides for Seven Brothers
and Singin’ in the Rain,
is profiled. GODocumentaryShooting Iwo Jima
SMITHSONIAN, 8.00PM This documentary tells
the story of Bill Genaust,
who filmed one of the most
iconic images of the war in
the Pacific: US marines
raising the American flagafter the ferocious battle for
the island of Iwo Jima. GODramaI Am the Night
ALIBI, 9.00PM Amazing what you findin the outer reaches of
television sometimes: this is
a seriously gripping, highly
atmospheric six-part drama
with shades of The Black
Dahlia. It stars Chris Pine as
a washed-up reporter who
stumbles on the story of a
lifetime in Hollywood. India
Eisley is also terrific as the
small-town teenager at the
heart of this extremely dark
tale. GOFactualPortillo: The Trouble with
the Tories
CHANNEL 5, 10.00PM Postponed from last
week, Michael Portillo
examines the party he once
represented in governmentWhat to watch
Radio choice Charlotte Runcie
Bros: brothers Matt and Luke Goss recalled painful childhoods before world stardomRevealing the pain under
the Bros boys’ stupid hats
B
efore Christmas last year,
the 1980s boy band Bros
was mocked for the
television documentary
Bros: After the Screaming
Stops. It was taken as a
stupefying pastiche of This Is Spinal
Tap and it went viral. Brothers Luke,
who now stars in films such as War
Pigs, and Matt, who is a lounge singer,
fought bitterly, recited ludicrous
personal mantras and talked about
their favourite bandannas. Bros (Radio
2, Saturday) was the post mortem of
this extraordinary documentary; and
what emerged was a portrait of two
boys who became so famous so young
they had no idea who they were:
people were so anxious to project onto
them, no one thought to ask.
Instead – and this was the comedy
disguising the tragedy – they behaved
as 12 year-olds think rock stars should
and the outcome was, of course,
ridiculous. There is pain under the
stupid hats. They were global
superstars at 20, and so over-managed
they were bullied into appearing on
Wogan a day after their sister Carolyn
was killed by a drunk driver.
Radio dug deeper than TV; Bros was
a less perfect piece of art than After the
Screaming Stops, but it was more
truthful. The brothers relaxed under
too-sympathetic questioning by KateThornton – who denied they came
across as ridiculous on screen – and
talked about their stepmother, who
allegedly hated them so much, she
would not allow them in their father’s
house. She apparently did not like
their hair – they had Rod Stewart
tribute haircuts which embarrassed
her. They spoke of this wonderingly,
as if it had only just occurred to them
that it was monstrous.
The brothers stopped talking like
rock stars invented by children, and
talked instead about rock ’n’ roll. They
sounded, for the first time, like the
men they might have been, if they had
not been held hostage by infantile
female lust, and then abandoned to a
world that had no use for them any
more.
Sir Michael Caine was ready for
fame. In What I Know Now (Radio 2,
Sunday), he pondered his long career
from his London penthouse, from
which he can see the area where he
grew up during the Blitz. Caine is a
brilliant film actor – that he is not
called this as often as he should be is
sheer snobbery – and I wondered, as I
listened, if he invented himself: the
very best Michael Caine that he could
imagine. I suspect that he takes being
Michael Caine very seriously.
Even so, the results are marvellous.
He is an optimist and an adult; hebecame famous late enough – he was
31 when Zulu appeared – to merely
enjoy it. He has none of the irritating
fake sincerity of the modern actor. He
doesn’t bore with the craft; and he is
not self-piteous. He may have what
Lynn Barber calls Anecdotage, but it is
anecdotage of the best kind: John
Wayne emerging from a helicopter at
the Beverly Hills Hotel dressed as a
cowboy and telling Caine, after Alfie,
that he would be a star; how, when he
became rich, he bought soap and
shirts and socks, because wealth, to
him, meant hygiene.
He was as happy to discuss his
stupid films – Swarm, Jaws 4 – as he
was Educating Rita and Hannah and
her Sisters, because he doesn’t mind
being laughed at; as the handsome son
of an excellent woman, he was always
loved. He didn’t tell my favourite story- that when he was depressed when
he was young, his mother – a charlady - produced her savings and sent him
to Paris. Bros’ stepmother could have
learnt much from her.
Listening to Lord Patten of Barnes
softly croak his reminiscences of his
political career to Peter Hennessy in
Reflections (Radio 4, Monday), I felt
transported to an earlier time, when
politicians were not mad and all was
well – or at least better – with the
world. I was initially irritated – the use
of “elite” as a slur could have been
invented for Patten – and he was rude
about newspapers.
But it is soothing to listen to men
talk about how great Rab Butler was,
and how difficult governing really is,
even if they do sound soaked in ennui.
And why wouldn’t they when their
polity is something they no longer
recognise?
“Out of the crooked timbre of
humanity no straight thing was ever
made,” said Hennessy, quoting
Immanuel Kant. “Yes, yes,” said
Patten, happily.
After touching on the subject of
Europe, he asked: “When the craziest
things were being said about
Brussels... why didn’t people
immediately bang them on the head?”.
Patten also lamented “the creeping
lack of seriousness in British politics”
as his time – and his type of politician - comes to an end.
Charlotte Runcie is awayHer Story Made History
RADIO 4, 9.00AM Lyse Doucet, the
BBC’s chief international
correspondent, launches
another documentary series
in which she talks to women
from around the world
about the role they play, or
have played, in democracy.
In this episode, the first offour, Doucet is speaking to
the remarkable Vaira Vike
Freiberga, who became
president of Latvia in 1999,
only eight months after
returning to the country
that she had left at the
age of seven. “Now we
are getting an exile as a
president returning and
recovering the country,
as it were,” she says.TMS: The Ashes
RADIO 5 LIVE, 10.25AM Flushed with their World
Cup success, England’s male
cricketers take on Australia
in The Ashes (see above).
Test Match Special boasts
a commentary line-up of
Jonathan Agnew, Isa Guha,
Jim Maxwell and Daniel
Norcross with MichaelVaughan, Phil Tufnell,
Glenn McGrath and
Geoffrey Boycott at
Edgbaston. If, for some
reason, you can’t spend all
day listening to the radio,
this evening at 7.00pm Elly
Oldroyd presents a reaction
programme and a round-
up of the day. Subsequent
Ashes coverage will be on
5 Live Sports Extra.and opposition. His contacts
book gets a good workout,
with Boris Johnson, Tony
Blair and Michael Heseltine
among the contributors
discussing thebuild-up to
David Cameron’s fateful
decision to hold a
referendum on EU
membership. GOFake or Fortune?
BBC ONE, 9.00PM Art expert Phillip Mould
and presenter Fiona Bruce
investigate another case of
possible mistaken identity.
This time, they’re looking
closer at a painting thought
by its owners to be by
18th-century pioneer Maria
Cosworth, but believed by
Mould to be the work of
renowned portraitist Sir
Thomas Lawrence. The
difference in value? A
mere £500,000. GOBritain’s Giant Pet Food
Factory
CHANNEL 4, 9.00PM Who knew that Mars
makes more pet products
than chocolate bars? Here
we find out how they do it,going behind the scenes
at their colossal factory in
Melton Mowbray, which
makes a million pet meals
each day. GOSportTest Cricket: England
v Australia
SKY SPORTS MAIN EVENT/CRICKET, 10.00AM
& CHANNEL 5, 7.00PM (HIGHLIGHTS) The Ashes battle resumes
at Edgbaston, and though
optimism is not the English
way, Joe Root’s men haven’t
lost a Test match here for 11
years – besides, this is where
that famous two-run victory
was won in 2005. GOThe Directors: Stanley DonenI Am the Night: Chris PineSupport: Ross Kemp explores the world of young carersRadio 1
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