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at first not too keen on
royal life. In fact, she
turned down a smitten
Bertie (later George
VI) the first time he
proposed. However,
there was a steeliness
and determination to
her as well, and Hitler
came to call her “the
most dangerous woman
in Europe”. Which
coming from him one
should perhaps take
as a compliment.Private Lives of
the Windsors
Smithsonian, 8pmThe final part of this
rummage inside the
royal linen basket seeks
to paint a different
portrait of the dear old
Queen Mum we think
we know. As a 1920s
debutante, she might
not have been the most
beautiful, but she was
witty and vivacious andGee (in a superbly
moving performance
by Rakie Ayola), sees
him off without saying
a proper goodbye. The
attack is unsparingly
shown, as are the
desperate attempts
to save Anthony’s
life while Gee asks
a nurse to pray with
her. It’s a powerful,
gut-wrenching watch
from the first minute
to the last.backwards year by year
as Anthony helps his
old friend Mick (who is
homeless) and starts a
family. Everything leads
back to that terrible
summer day, which
takes over the second
half of the film, when
Anthony, his cousin
Marcus and Anthony’s
girlfriend were chased
by racist thugs while
waiting at a bus stop.
Anthony’s mother,becoming a lawyer,
and Jimmy McGovern’s
story of what might
have been forcefully
brings home the sense
of gnawing absence
that a shock death
creates, the children
this person was never
able to have and the
songs he might have
sung. Essentially, it is
a drama of two halves
that tracks this
imagined futuresenseless killing that
shocked the nation
and ended the life of a
young man blessed with
intelligence, kindness
and strong moral
convictions. Yet this
drama starts with
Anthony (brilliantly
played by Toheeb
Jimoh) at 25, having
married his girlfriend
and winning awards for
good deeds. Anthony
had dreams ofViewing Guide
Ben Dowell
Anthony
BBC One, 8.30pm
In late
July 2005,
18-year-old
AnthonyWalker was brutally
murdered with an ice
axe in a racist attack
in a Merseyside park.
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a right to before fate — and hate —
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