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thetimes.co.uk/bulletinsSaving Britain’s Pubs
BBC Two
{{{{(The Fall of Anne Boleyn
Channel 5
{{{((S
aving Britain’s Pubs with Tom
Kerridge was filmed before
the second lockdown and
this week’s news that post-
lockdown restrictions mean
even those pubs not in Tier 3 must try
to limp through winter with one leg
hacked off. It has been described as
a “death sentence” for the industry.
None of this chimes with the
optimistic, uplifting note on which
Tom Kerridge’s series ended. Amy
from the White Hart in Cornwall,
which during the first lockdown haddiversified by selling groceries from
the pub and redecorating, said they
had endured misery, but had emerged
stronger. “Covid is awful, lockdown
was awful, but we are a bigger, better
and stronger business for it,” she said.
Lana at the Golden Anchor had
worked through her despair, recharged
her batteries and said she was now
talking to customers more while they
registered details for test and trace.
I felt so sorry for these hard-grafting
people who may now feel that their
cheery resilience and enterprising
spirit have been met with another slap
in the face. An economist said there
is “no scientific basis” to requiring
a “substantial meal” to ward off Covid
and that the rule would “lay waste to
thousands of pubs”.
Kerridge told us that already 13,
pubs, important for the UK’s national
identity and sense of community,
have closed since the turn of the
millennium, and it’s anyone’s guess
how many will survive. Yet here were
landlords who had shown precisely
the sort of “can-do” spirit that Boris
Johnson encourages — jumping
though hoops, adapting to comply
with the rules — who will no doubt
feel they have been hobbled again.
Some of the accoutrements used in
The Fall of Anne Boleyn have been
so OTT, I reckon they would have
been rejected by CBBC as too panto.
We did not need the emptying egg-timer, drum rolls, gargoyles and blood-
spattering with a squelch at every ad
break. Yes, it ends in a head-chopping:
we know. The countdown to a young
woman’s execution on invented
charges at the hands of a husband
already oiling up his next young filly
is dramatic enough without need for
Hammer House of Horror effects.
Yet you couldn’t fault the detail in
Tracy Borman’s series: Anne, lion-
hearted, joking that she had a “little
neck” when she learnt that she was to
be beheaded; her ladies-in-waiting
refusing to let any man touch her body
after the execution. Borman told us
that the French executioner hid his
sword in the straw “so as not to alarm
her”. I think that horse might have
bolted, what with knowing one’s head
is about to be severed.
However, it told, clearly and
concisely, the political machinations
leading up to this event: powerful
men basically murdering a woman to
further their ambitions. Then at the
end a long glimpse at Elizabeth I’s
exquisite locket ring, which opened to
reveal a tiny portrait of her mother
(some say it was her stepmother
Catherine Parr, but I prefer the more
romantic interpretation). Elizabeth
rarely spoke of Anne, but perhaps
carrying her image with her secretly
at all times was an act of daughterly
loyalty and female solidarity to the
The chef Tom Kerridge’s mission was scuppered by lockdown mother she lost on the scaffold.A slap in the face for the publican’s can-do spirit
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