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Today
Radio 3, noonDonald Macleod’s fresh
and invigorating look
at one of Britain’s most
popular composers
(marking the 150th
anniversary of his birth)
continues all week.
Tonight’s episode is called
Turning Tides and follows
the composer who, in the
wake of the deaths of Elgar
and Holst in 1934, was
quickly hailed as Britain’s
greatest living composer.
However, as Macleod
argues, becoming the
musical face of the
establishment left him
estranged from a younger
generation of British
composers, with his creative
crisis exacerbated by the
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thetimes.co.uk/bulletinsI
f you have never read The Time
Traveler’s Wife (annoyingly
I am forced to use the American
spelling) then you may have
occasionally wondered what the
hell was going on in Steven Moffat’s
lush, witty but erratic adaptation.
Actually, even if you have read
Audrey Niffenegger’s novel, you may
still have been confused. Theo James
plays Henry, the titular time traveller,
in different timelines, his varying ages
signified only by (bad) wigs.Henry, 28, appeared in the same
scene as Henry, 36, then with Henry
aged seven, which words on the screen
kept having to spell out for us. Luckily
James is charismatic and dextrous
in the lead male role, with good
comic timing and a toned gym body.
Dramas with fluctuating timelines
are frustrating and this has the added
annoyance of the characters speaking
directly to camera — although here it
can explain what’s happening.
Rose Leslie as Clare puts in a
strong, nuanced performance and
the dialogue is as sprightly and sharp
as you’d expect from Moffat. “Is that
your secret? That you’re a secret
asshole?” she asked the younger, more
arrogant Henry. “It’s kinda every man’s
secret,” he replied. Good line. He had
just suggested that all women are mad.
If the drama sometimes feels overly
abstruse and repetitive (to be fair, it’s a
complicated novel), it’s also successful
at drawing out how time travel is a
metaphor for relationships, mental
absence and commitment-phobia.
It’s an uneven watch, however, with
some things working well (such as
their domestic bickering) and others
not so well, like the occasional heavy
exposition: “So in my future I’m going
to start showing up in your past?”
Henry asks. Yes, for 14 years, 152 times.
There’s also the slightly queasy
business of Henry first meeting Clare
as an adult man while she is a child —and he is naked. He effectively
grooms her to steal clothes for him
and eventually to be his wife. They
acknowledge that quite wittily, with
a reference to Clare grooming her
toy pony and Henry grimacing at the
word. But it gets better, episode two
featuring a hideous, random tragedy in
Henry’s life. Worth sticking around for.
Celebrity confessionals about
mental health are fashionable fare for
documentaries now, but they teach us
something about resilience. How Joe
Wicks has turned out — a force-of-
nature body coach — feels miraculous.
The son of a drug-addicted father and
a depressed mother with OCD, it
would have been textbook predictable
for him to go off the rails. But, as Joe
Wicks: Facing My Childhood showed,
instead he channelled his childhood
pain into rigorous self-discipline.
The Wicks family has confounded
the odds: his brothers didn’t spiral
downwards either and they still have
loving relationships with their mother
and father, the latter now clean. They
all got teary about the past. Gary, their
father, said he’d thought he was the one
suffering, never considering the impact
his addiction had on his children. But
he was self-medicating the depression
he’d had since he was a child.
It showed how life is more
complicated and surprising than we
think and being dealt a tough hand
can sometimes be your making.A repetitive drama, but still worth your time
HBOCarol
Midgley
TV review
Joe Wicks: Facing
My Childhood
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{{{{(The Time Traveler’s Wife
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