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from a novel into a masterpiece (r)
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I’m Alright, Jackk, by Suzanne Andrade.
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Decameron Nights
Radio 3, 10.45pmThe theatre troupe 1927 had
planned an international
tour of its production
based on Boccaccio’s
The Decameron (above,
painted by Botticelli), the
14th-century Italian novel
of tales — comic and dark
— told by people sheltering
in a villa outside Florence
to escape the Black Death.
Instead, with our plague
having cancelled all touring,
the company turned its live
show into a late-night audio
experience for Radio 3.
Tonight’s first part is I’m
Alright, Jack, a trio of folk
tales about looking out
for number one. Tuesday
night’s is Heartstrings, three
stories about love, and on
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thetimes.co.uk/bulletinsThe Australian Dream
BBC Two
{{{{{A Suitable Boy
BBC One
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would have laughed if anyone had
told me I would watch a one hour,
40 minute documentary focused
on Aussie Rules football and not
even yawn. “Ridiculous,” I’d have
said. “I have zero interest in this sport
and indeed am not even sure what it
is. Is it like rugby but with more
blood?” (Please don’t write in.) But of
course The Australian Dream was not
really about AFL; it was an excellent
and skewering analysis of racism. Ugly,
gurning, moronic, spittle-flecked
racism and the way it almost brokea sporting legend, Adam Goodes,
whose crime was to stand up against
the prejudice he suffered for being an
indigenous citizen.
What helped to make Daniel
Gordon and Stan Grant’s film so
eloquent was that much of the bigotry
was right there for us to witness,
recorded on TV, social media and
radio, and was woven artfully with
commentary from other athletes who
offered their own stories of abuse.
Goodes’s story started during a
match in 2013 when he demanded that
a spectator who called him an ape be
ejected. It turned out that the shouter
was a 13-year-old girl, and Goodes was
accused by some of bullying, even
though he said immediately after that
he did not blame the child.
To some people he had committed
the sin of being “a black man who
complains”, as one of the
commentators said. Eddie McGuire,
the president of the club Goodes was
playing when the incident happened,
shook his hand and said he was
“devastated” over the insult, then later
suggested on radio that he should be
used to promote the musical King
Kong. Breathtaking.
Such attitudes are deeply ingrained,
as a clip from The Footy Show in 1999
suggested. After Nicky Winmar, a
player, did not turn up, the presenter
Sam Newman pretended to stand in
for him wearing blackface. It was ugly,moronic and embarrassing to watch.
In contrast, Goodes came across as
a thoughtful, intelligent, courageous
man. His mother, Lisa, was even more
impressive. She was one of the Stolen
Generation, who were removed from
their families by the government in an
“assimilation” programme, and wept
as she told of being taken from her
mother aged five. She deserves a
documentary to herself.
The best scene in A Suitable Boy
came towards the end, when Lata was
visited in her bed by her incestuous
uncle, a scene that saved it from
mid-series slump. Saurabh Nayyar was
smarmily menacing as Mr Sahgal, who
tried to force himself on Lata after
perving over photos of her as a young
child. It conveyed with great economy
the suggestion that his daughter,
Kiran, had suffered years of this abuse,
which Lata’s mother, Rupa, clocked
too, all without a word; well directed.
However, I don’t get much sense
that Lata is truly heartbroken over her
forbidden Muslim love, nor Maan over
his, the courtesan Saeeda Bai, who is
shown singing mournfully or having
politicians heaving on top of her.
These don’t feel much like grand
passions, even though we are told they
are. Mahira Kakkar is very good as
Rupa, rejecting possible husbands for
her daughter as too tall or too rich or
for wanting a dowry. And is it not
Sports star Adam Goodes was racially abused by a young spectator deliciously cinematic to watch?Skewering analysis of moronic, gurning racism
ADAM GOODES/PASSION PICTURES/BBCCarol
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