The Sunday Times Magazine • 5
FEBRUARY 13 2022
10
THIS IS GOING TO HURT
Ben Whishaw and Adam Kay
tell Rhik Samadder how they
adapted Kay’s hit book for TV
34
UNLUCKY IN LOVE — TILL NOW
It’s never too late! Christina
Patterson on how she finally
found “the one” in her fifties
28
THE HEART OF BLACKBURN
It was labelled a “segregated”
town. The photographer Craig
Easton discovers another story
40
PREP TODAY, DINE TOMORROW
Get ready for a Valentine’s meal
to remember with four easy
dishes by Skye McAlpine
49
BOOKS TO LIVE BY
Mariella Frostrup prescribes
a new mum some reading
therapy to cure her baby blues
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Plus P7 Matt Rudd^ | P8 Relative Values^ | P46 Table Talk^ | P48 Wine^ | P50 Driving: the Clarkson Review^ | P58 A Life in the Day
Oktar, centre, and followers on his Turkish TV channel. Last January he was jailed for 1,075 years
THE CULT MASTER AND HIS KITTENS
Louise Callaghan reports on the downfall of
Adnan Oktar, a Muslim TV preacher, page 18