The Sunday Times - UK (2021-12-19)

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Interview
Nicole Kidman tells Jonathan

Dean about showing her

funny side as American

sitcom queen Lucille Ball in
Being the Ricardos

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Television

From 'Golden Torso' to

Golden Globes — Jamie

Dornan on starring in the
BBC thriller The Tourist ( just

don't mention Fifty Shades)

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Cover story

Julia Donaldson on growing

up, Gruffalo-mania and The
Christmas Pine, our cover star

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Quiz

How many points can you

score in our fiendish TV

challenge?

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Books
Bryan Appleyard on the

inexorable rise of cosy crime

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Classical

Conductor Daniel Barenboim

talks about his towering
career and losing his 'unique'

wife Jacqueline du Pré

BOOKS

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Critics' choice

Our reviewers choose their

favourite books of the year

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The year in review

The daft things authors and

critics have done and said

32

The Sunday Times

Bestsellers

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Cover Cover illustration

©Victoria Sandoy. Based on

the cover of The Christmas

Pine © Julia Donaldson &

Victoria Sandoy, 2020 & 2021

(Alison Green Books)

© Times Newspapers Ltd, 2021. Published and licensed by Times Newspapers Ltd, 1 London Bridge Street, London SE1 9GF (020 7782 5000). Printed by Prinovis UK Ltd, Liverpool. Not to be sold separately.

l Christmas holidays

on the horizon? Not for

Quentin Blake, who draws

every day. “I once tried not

to draw for a fortnight. I

lasted nearly a week.”

Art, p22

l Dramatic prowess runs in

Jamie Dornan’s family. His

father was offered a place

at Rada when he left

school, but his parents

made him study medicine

instead. What's more, his

grandmother's first cousin

was the actress Greer

Garson, who won an Oscar

in 1942. Her acceptance

speech is still the longest

in Oscars history, at seven

and a half minutes.

Television, p6

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A VERY BRITISH SCANDAL

Michael Sheen has 11 haircuts

in his show on Sky, Last Train

to Christmas — one of the perils

of acting in a time-travel

drama. Watch the star on The

Sunday Times Culture Show, on

our website or on the Sunday

Times YouTube channel.

14 days of TV, film and streaming treats.

Catch Claire Foy, BBC1 from Boxing Day

Watch the culture shoW

CONTENTS 19.12.2021

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Television

Catch up on the crackers —

Camilla Long picks her box set

highlights of the year

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Film

Tom Shone's classics for

Christmas, from ET to Die Hard

40 - 95

Listings

Buckle up for two weeks of

terrific TV, film and radio

yOur feStive dOuBle iSSue — the ultimate guide tO Staying in until the new year!

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