The Daily Telegraph - 06.08.2019

32 ***^ Tuesday 6 August 2019 The Daily Telegraph

Last night on television Helen Brown

I Am Hannah

CHANNEL 4. 10.00PM



As arresting as her

performances in

Captain Marvel and

Humans were, it’s hard

not to wonder if Gemma

Chan’s talents were

constrained a little by

playing, respectively, an

assassin and an android.

In this, the last of

Dominic Savage’s

impressive, immersive

trilogy of semi-improvised

dramas, Chan plays

Hannah, a woman in her

mid-thirties struggling

under the weight of

parental and societal

expectations to settle

down and have a baby.

She is a regular if not

particularly enthusiastic

user of dating apps, and

unexpectedly meets a man

(Arinzé Kene) with whom

she can imagine a future,

only for obstacles both

unfortunate and self-

imposed to threaten their

nascent relationship and

force her to consider what

she wants from her life.

While neither as

claustrophobic as Vicky

McClure’s I Am Nicola nor

as desolate as Samantha

Morton’s I Am Kirsty, I Am

Hannah still packs a

punch and bears the

hallmarks of the actor’s

personal investment in its

character. Chan gives a

career-best performance,

with a naturalism and

passion that enhances and

informs this tense,

subdued examination of a

dilemma which is timeless

and contemporary.

Gabriel Tate

Drama

Ackley Bridge

CHANNEL 4, 8.00PM

 A-levels dawn and the

Year 13 pupils are saying

goodbye, some still reeling

from the shocking death of

Missy (Poppy Lee Friar),

while Nas (Amy-Leigh

Hickman) considers radical

action to cope with the

mounting pressure. Some of

its greatest assets may be

leaving, but it’s hard to

imagine this well-loved

series won’t return. GT

Keeping Faith

BBC ONE, 9.00PM

 Faith (Eve Myles)

continues her battle

to keep her family and

business afloat, hold Evan

(Bradley Freegard) at arms’

length and keep Madlen

Vaughan (Aimee-Ffion

Edwards) out of the witness

box as her trial for her

husband’s murder nears its

climax. GT

Euphoria

SKY ATLANTIC, 10.00PM

 Consider this the anti- 13

Reasons Why: this new

series is a controversial but

thoughtful take on the

complicated issues faced by

one teenage girl fresh out of

rehab (played by Spider-

Man: Far From Home’s

Zendaya) and a trans girl

(Hunter Schafer). Addiction,

social media pressures, porn

culture, sexuality, body

shaming are all tackled with

delicacy. GT

Arts

The South Bank Show

SKY ARTS, 10.00PM

 Call the Midwife’s Heidi

What to watch

Radio choice Charlotte Runcie

Dignified: Father Ibrahima and his twins Marieme and Ngeye

An impossible choice

handled with compassion

W

ith separate hearts

and minds, but

conjoined from the

shoulder down,

twins Marieme and

Ngeye were born in

Senegal three years ago.

“The first thing you do,” said their

father, Ibrahima, “is go to Google.

There’s a one in 10,000 chance of this

happening to your children and you

think: why me? Your life, your career?

You just press the standby button.”

An extraordinarily tender and

dignified presence throughout the

agonising documentary The

Conjoined Twins: An Impossible

Decision (BBC Two), Ibrahima had

searched the world for the right

doctors for his girls and ended up at

Great Ormond Street, which leads the

world in the treatment of conjoined

twins. But the case of Marieme and

Ngeye presented its medics with an

“impossible” decision.

Marieme’s heart was failing. She

would not survive the anaesthetic

required for corrective cardiac

surgery, or separation from her sister.

The toxins her leaky valve pumped

into their shared circulation would kill

Ngeye too. Separation meant that

Marieme would die, but give Ngeye a

slim chance of survival.

Watching those beautiful children

giggle, hearing that they slept holding

hands, it was unbearable to think

Ngeye’s only hope lay in the sacrifice

of her sister. It was an option Ibrahima

• raising his daughters alone in Cardiff
  after his wife returned to Senegal to
  care for the rest of the family – could
  not countenance. We watched the
  hospital’s ethics committee discuss
  taking the decision out of the father’s
  hands.
  Philosophy professor David Archard
  reminded viewers of what patients
  have lost and gained as “the authority
  of the white coat” has wained, giving
  us all more responsibility for medical
  choices we make for ourselves and our
  children. His calm and compassionate
  theory was shown in stark contrast to
  the intense emotion aroused by these
  kinds of cases. We saw furious footage
  of protesters outside Great Ormond
  Street in 2016, after medics decided
  (against the parents’ wishes) that
  further treatment of Charlie Gard for a
  rare mitochondrial DNA condition
  would prolong the child’s suffering. It
  was hard to square such simplistic
  condemnation with the complex and
  considered process we saw draining
  the staff on the wards.
  I’m a fidgety TV viewer: always
  switching positions and pottering off
  for snacks. But I sat increasingly still
  throughout this programme. Paralysed
  
  
  • like Ibrahima – by the choice. When
    this gentle giant of a father finally
    wept, so did I.
  
  
  
  

S

ending the spoiled kids of

self- made celebrities off to see

how the other half live and to

knock them down a peg or two

appears to be the goal of Born

Famous (Channel 4). But the first

episode – featuring chef Gordon

Ramsay and his 18-year-old son Jack

• told a more sobering story.
  Yes, we got to rubberneck the
  Ramsay lifestyle: the big houses in
  London and Los Angeles, the in-house
  personal trainer, the expensive gifts.
  Perma-sweary Gordon felt his son
  “needed to be dropped in the s--- to
  get his s--- together.”
  But we actually met a very
  thoughtful young man in Jack
  Ramsay, who spent a humbling week
  on the Bretch Hill estate in Banbury,
  Oxfordshire where his father’s parents
  had run a newsagent’s. Ramsay senior
  recalled paper rounds, his brother’s
  slide into addiction and how, aged 16,
  he stayed in a council flat with his
  sister after his parents moved away.
  He credited his energy, discipline and
  ambition for his success. Jack saw the
  bigger picture. Last year, the Office
  for National Statistics said the richest
  fifth of the population saw incomes
  rise by 4.7 per cent while that of the
  poorest fifth fell by 1.6 per cent.
  Jack shadowed George, a likeable
  lad his own age living on benefits of
  £57.90 per week. He was homeless,
  and had been given community
  service for stealing his mother’s credit
  card. The youth centre, where young
  Gordon found support and
  encouragement, had closed five years
  earlier: one of 600 to close across the
  UK in the past four years.
  Gordon was convinced he could
  still achieve his success against
  shortening odds. “But sometimes,”
  Jack understood, “hunger isn’t the
  only part of the recipe you need.” It
  wasn’t celebrity culture that got
  shamed here, but a society which has
  turned its back on vulnerable
  children like George.

Classified Britain

RADIO 4, 9.30AM

 What do small ads in

newspapers tell us about

our country? In the second

series of James Naughtie’s

jaunt through British

history via the classifieds, he

begins by taking a look at

the Edinburgh Evening

Courant of April 14 1827,

when Walter Scott was

hoping to stay out of

Bridewell debtor’s prison

and ships were taking

passengers from the Port of

Leith to Elsinore and St

Petersburg. The small ads

reveal what Britons were

wearing, the medicines they

were taking, the gadgets

they used and the jobs for

which they were applying.

The Power of Deceit

RADIO 4, 11.00AM

 Being a good liar might

give you an evolutionary

advantage. Or so it’s alleged

by zoologist Lucy Cooke in

this documentary about the

benefits of dishonesty

throughout the animal

kingdom, including in the

lives of chickens, chimps

and even squid, who are

slippery in more ways than

one. Deception can be a

good route to get food or

win a mate, and apparently

you can’t trust the Tower of

London ravens as far as you

can throw them. Cooke also

speaks to psychologist

Richard Wiseman about

how to tell when someone is

lying.

Thomas sits down with

Melvyn Bragg to consider

the influence on her career

of her upbringing in

Liverpool, as well as her

acclaimed adaptations

of Cranford and Little

Women. GT

Factual

The Great Gardening

Challenge

CHANNEL 5,8.00PM

 The two remaining pairs

of professional garden

designers are given

a big project and budget

to match: they have

two days to create show

gardens at RHS Garden

Wisley, £10,000 to get it

done and difficult weather

to contend with in a

closely-fought climax. GT

Secrets of the National

Trust with Alan

Titchmarsh

CHANNEL 5, 9.00PM

 Alan Titchmarsh heads to

Anglesey’s recently restored

Plas Newydd, where he

learns of the property’s

chequered history under

successive marquesses

whose careers secured them

both military glory and

financial humiliation. GT

Revolutions: The Ideas

That Changed the World

BBC FOUR, 9.00PM

 Jim Al-Khalili traces the

history of rocket technology

back to the perhaps unlikely

time and place of ancient

China, where a monk loaded

a bamboo projectile with bat

droppings. He also examines

how Jules Verne was the

first to have the idea of firing

a spaceship to the Moon —

he imagined using a giant

cannon. GT

The Conjoined Twins: An

Impossible Decision ★★★★★

Born Famous: Gordon Ramsay

★★★★

Euphoria: Zendaya

South Bank Show: Thomas

Social pressures: Arinzé Kene and Gemma Chan

Radio 1

FM 97.6-99.8MHz

6.30am The Radio 1 Breakfast Show

with Greg James 10.00 Radio 1

Anthems with Clara Amfo 11.00 Clara

Amfo 12.45pm Newsbeat 1.00 Scott

Mills 4.00 Jordan North 5.45

Newsbeat 6.00 Jordan North 7.00

Radio 1’s Future Sounds with Phil

Taggart 9.00 Adele Roberts 11.00

Radio 1’s Indie Show with Jack

Saunders 1.00am Annie Nightingale

3.00 The Reality Tea 3.40 The Next

Episode 4.00 - 6.30am Early Breakfast

with Riyadh Khalaf

Radio 2

FM 88-90.2MHz

6.30am The Amol Rajan Breakfast

Show 9.30 Gary Davies 12.00 Vanessa

Feltz 2.00pm Steve Wright in the

Afternoon 5.00 Sara Cox 7.00 Jo

Whiley. Music and chat 9.00 The Jazz

Show with Jamie Cullum. The world of

jazz 10.00 Trevor Nelson’s Rhythm

Nation 12.00 OJ Borg 3.00am Sounds

of the 80s with Gary Davies 4.50

Radio 2 Sounds of the 80s Mastermix

5.00 - 6.30am Nicki Chapman

Radio 3

FM 90.2-92.4MHz

6.30am Breakfast 9.00 Essential

Classics 11.00 Edinburgh

International Festival 2019 1.00pm

News 1.02 Composer of the Week:

Meredith Monk 2.00 Afternoon

Concert 5.00 In Tune 7.00 In Tune

Mixtape. Musical depictions of ancient

gods and goddesses 7.30 BBC Proms

2019. The BBC Symphony Orchestra
      perform live from the Royal Albert Hall
      9.30 Resurrecting Mayakovsky. Ian

Sansom presents a tribute to Russian

revolutionary poet Vladimir

Mayakovsky 10.45 The Essay: Secret

Admirers. Tom McKinney celebrates

the music of Olivier Messiaen 11.30

Late Junction 12.30am - 6.30am

Through the Night

Radio 4

FM 92.4-94.6MHz; LW 198KHz

6.00am Today 9.00 Fry’s English

Delight 9.30  Classified Britain. See

Radio choice 9.45 Book of the Week: A

Woman of Firsts 9.45 LW: Daily

Service 10.00 Woman’s Hour 11.00

 The Power of Deceit. See Radio

choice 11.30 The Art of Now: A New

School for New Orleans 12.00 News

12.01pm LW: Shipping Forecast

12.04 Ulverton 12.18 Call You and

Yours 12.57 Weather 1.00 The World

at One 1.45 The TED Interview 2.00

The Archers 2.15 In His Kiss 3.00 The

Kitchen Cabinet 3.30 No Triumph No

Tragedy 4.00 Word of Mouth 4.30

Great Lives 5.00 PM 5.54 LW:

Shipping Forecast 5.57 Weather 6.00

Six O’Clock News 6.30 Andy Hamilton

Sort of Remembers. The writer and

comedian reflects on religion 7.00 The

Archers. Ed has a confession to make

7.15 Front Row. Arts programme 7.45

Curious Under the Stars. Diane makes

a decision that will impact everyone in

Glan Don 8.00 Can Facebook Survive?

8.40 In Touch 9.00 Inside Health

9.30 Fry’s English Delight 10.00 The

World Tonight 10.45 Book at Bedtime:

Ulverton 11.00 Does the Team Drink?

11.30 Partition Voices 12.00 News

and Weather 12.30am Book of the

Week: A Woman of Firsts 12.48

Shipping Forecast 1.00 As World

Service 5.20 Shipping Forecast 5.30

News Briefing 5.43 Prayer for the Day

5.45 Farming Today 5.58 - 6.00am

Tweet of the Day

Radio 5 Live

MW 693 & 909KHz

6.00am 5 Live Breakfast 9.00 Your

Call 10.00 The Emma Barnett Show

1.00pm Nihal Arthanayake 4.00 5

Live Drive 7.00 5 Live Sport 10.30

Sarah Brett 1.00am Up All Night 5.00

Morning Reports 5.15 - 6.00am Wake

Up to Money

Classic FM

FM 99.9-101.9MHz

6.00am More Music Breakfast 9.00

John Suchet 1.00pm Anne-Marie

Minhall 5.00 Classic FM Drive 7.00

Smooth Classics at Seven. Relaxing

sounds 8.00 The Full Works Concert.

Music played in a different form to

how the composer originally intended

10.00 Smooth Classics 1.00am -

6.00am Sam Pittis

World Service

DIGITAL ONLY

6.00am Newsday 8.30 Business Daily

8.50 Witness History 9.00 News 9.06

The Arts Hour 10.00 World Update

11.00 The Newsroom 11.30 In the

Studio 12.00 News 12.06pm Outlook

1.00 The Newsroom 1.30 The

Documentary 2.00 Newshour 3.00

News 3.06 People Fixing The World

3.30 World Business Report 4.00 BBC

OS 6.00 News 6.06 Outlook 7.06 The

Newsroom 7.30 Sport Today 8.00

News 8.06 People Fixing The World

8.30 Digital Planet 9.00 Newshour

10.00 News 10.06 The Documentary

10.30 World Business Report 11.00

News 11.06 The Newsroom 11.20

Sports News 11.30 In the Studio

12.00 News 12.06am The Arts Hour

1.00 News 1.06 Business Matters

2.00 News 2.06 The Newsroom 2.30

The Documentary 3.00 News 3.06

HARDtalk 3.30 The Compass 4.00

News 4.06 Newsday 5.00 News 5.06

The Newsroom 5.30 - 6.00am Digital

Planet

Radio 4 Extra

DIGITAL ONLY

6.00am The Uninvited Guests 6.30

After I Was Gorgeous 7.00 Living with

the Enemy 7.30 Andy Hamilton Sort

of Remembers 8.00 The Al Read Show

8.30 To the Manor Born 9.00 Lobby

Land 9.30 So On and So Forth 10.00

Alexander 11.00 Telling Tales 12.00

The Al Read Show 12.30pm To the

Manor Born 1.00 The Uninvited

Guests 1.30 After I Was Gorgeous

2.00 I Saw a Man 2.15 Hunting the

Beagle 2.30 The Backward Shadow

2.45 Tennessee Williams – Mad

Pilgrimage of the Flesh 3.00

Alexander 4.00 Best Behaviour 4.30

The Sit Crom 5.00 Living with the

Enemy 5.30 Andy Hamilton Sort of

Remembers 6.00 Planet B 6.30 Dad

Made Me Laugh 7.00 The Al Read

Show 7.30 To the Manor Born 8.00

The Uninvited Guests 8.30 After I Was

Gorgeous 9.00 Telling Tales 10.00

Comedy Club 12.00 Planet B

12.30am Dad Made Me Laugh 1.00

The Uninvited Guests 1.30 After I Was

Gorgeous 2.00 I Saw a Man 2.15

Hunting the Beagle 2.30 The

Backward Shadow 2.45 Tennessee

Williams – Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh

3.00 Alexander 4.00 Best Behaviour

4.30 The Sit Crom 5.00 Living with

the Enemy 5.30 - 6.00am Andy

Hamilton Sort of Remembers

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