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1 2.00 Composer of the Week:
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Weinberg (Second Symphony, Op. 30);
and Bizet/Shchedrin (Carmen Suite)
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Hygge
Radio 4, 6.30pmHygge (pronounced hoo-ga)
is a Danish word meaning
comfort, contentment and
cherishing the simple
pleasures in life. Something
we could all do with in
this terrible year. And
everyone’s favourite Dane,
Sandi Toksvig, above, is just
the woman to bring it to
us. Broadcasting from her
cabin near a lake deep
in the Danish countryside,
she explores the concept
of hygge and the Danish
way of life and welcomes
celebrity guests to join her
in front of the wood burner
to reveal what brings them
comfort and contentment.
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thetimes.co.uk/bulletinsC
hannel 5’s historical three-
parters tend towards a
particular style —
overheated, let’s say — so
much so that it would take
you about 15 seconds to know if one
was for you. The Dambusters began
with the towering Dan Snow striding
into shot brimming with pedigree
vigour and launching straight into the
historic-present tense. “It is spring
1943: 133 young men set out on the
most daring and ingenious bombing
raid in history.”Strings gather, a high-impact font
slams up on the screen, “60 Days to
Mission”, and we are off. Snow walks
into a room and tells us how the
bombastic, heroic pilot Guy Gibson is
called into an HQ full of pen-pushers
and given one last job...
Gibson has less than eight weeks
to recruit and train 147 air crew. He
meets the quietly spoken Barnes
Wallis at a smart Surrey golf club and
is shown test footage of a new bomb.
It is inspired by skipping stones at
Chesil Beach in Dorset and developed
using a catapult and children’s
marbles. We see the test footage of
the bouncing bomb and it stirs the
soul in a boy’s own kind of way.
Is this blurb doing enough to show
the problems of the historic present?
Snow, so passionate about bringing
history to life, would no doubt argue
that the tense gives the story a vitality.
Yet it also makes this kind of series
feel at the 11-plus end, a shame when
there is rich material such as how,
against the clock, Wallis worked out
how the bomb could breach the dam.
In other words, if you could
surrender to the Snow effect, embrace
the British military-magazine feel,
then the simple retold facts of 617
Squadron were gripping enough. For
others, the movie The Dam Busters
is showing on Film4 on Friday.
By contrast, The World’s Biggest
Murder Trial: Nuremberg, whichfollowed, took a more sober approach,
despite the tabloidy title, and rightly
so: no presenter, no talking heads, just
black and white courtroom footage
and the voices of lawyers and
eyewitnesses at the Nazi trial.
The film was concise, perhaps overly
so, but derived fascination simply in
showing the trial footage of the 21
Nazis in all their apparent
complacency. Here was Hermann
Goering rising to tell the judges,
“I declare myself, in the sense of the
indictment, not guilty”; Rudolf Hess
up next with an eccentric “Nein!”; then
19 more “not guilty” pleas from men
guilty of the worst crimes imaginable.
When they were played the ghastly
footage of concentration camp mass-
murder, Goering looked away, others
sat stone-faced and Hans Frank tried
to stifle tears and gasped “horrible”.
What was going through these men’s
heads remains unknowable.
Was Nuremberg a case of “victor’s
justice”? The defence to that old
charge felt implicit in a caption that
told us that the judges spent an entire
month deliberating on the verdicts.
Sentenced to death, Goering, smirking
and cocky during the trial, was
finally pale-faced and rattled. As the
psychologist Gustave Gilbert, who
witnessed him in his cell, put it,
Goering realised there is nothing
funny about death when you’re the
Dan Snow told the dambusters story as if it were happening now one about to die.Dan keeps bouncing the past into the present
James
Jacks on
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Nuremberg
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