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thetimes.co.uk/bulletinsG
hislaine Maxwell’s
reputation is in shreds,
but as House of Maxwell
showed, there’s scope for
a bit more shredding. The
revelation that she and her father,
Robert Maxwell, conversed in “miaows”
was so cringey and so very weird that
I rather wish I hadn’t heard it.
Carol Bragoli, the media tycoon’s
secretary, heard him answer the phone
to Ghislaine on speaker one day and
the two spoke in mutual cat mews.
Nothing to see here! Oh well. As AlanBennett said, every family’s secret is
that they are not like any other family.
Although, obviously, Robert was
harbouring many more secrets, and
still is — namely how he came to
drown off the Canary Islands in
November 1991.
This was an excellent documentary
that let itself down with occasional
lapses into tackiness, such as the
gleefully garish opening outside
Ghislaine’s American prison and the
unnecessary slow-mo film of a
bloated, naked body in the sea. We
can imagine what 22-stone Robert
Maxwell looked like. But in the main
it was gripping, offering previously
unseen film taken by the staff aboard
his yacht in the days and hours before
he died, including footage of Robert in
the sea, bobbing in a swimming ring
tethered to the boat like a toddler.
Increasingly paranoid, he had
bugged the phones at his Mirror
Group HQ in London, and the
recordings we heard, revoiced to
protect the identities of staff, showed
their rising panic as he refused to
answer calls. In truth what they said
was exactly what you’d expect people
in that situation to say, which was
essentially: “Where is he?” “Where’s
the f***ing money?” and “We’re
f***ed.” All credit after 30 years for
coming up with new material. If the
rest of the series keeps up this pace
it will be unmissable.Did anyone else watch the return
of The Split and think, “Yeah, I should
probably make more effort with my
other half”? As a slick, glossy study
in how happy relationships can vanish
because of tragedy or carelessness,
and how we take for granted those we
love, it was chastening.
First there’s Hannah (the ever
brilliant Nicola Walker), who cheated
on her husband, Nathan (Stephen
Mangan), in the last series but wanted
him back, only to find that he’d sown
his wild oats (literally) with smug Kate
the child psychologist (Lara Pulver).
Kate was “possibly the most
sanctimonious woman I’ve ever met”,
said Hannah, and dear God, she was
right. Then there’s poor Rose (Fiona
Button), who was in a happy marriage
but whose husband, James, was killed
on his bike just after they’d had a tiff.
This episode packed a real emotional
punch. The Split isn’t perfect, often too
polished for its own good, and many
characters too cold to like much. If I
walked into that shiny chrome and
glass lawyers’ office without a paper
clip out of place I’d run a mile. But
that teeth-itchingly awkward
restaurant meal, in which Hannah
clearly wanted to stab her smug love
rival Kate with her chopsticks, was
absolutely delicious. I don’t blame her.
Who calls children “little people”? I
think this is The Split giving us clear
permission to hate Kate.Secrets, lies and miaows: a dynasty’s downfall
MIRRORPIX/GETTY IMAGESCarol
Midgley
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