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Ben DowellThe Essay:
Adrian Edmondson
— Signs of Life
Radio 3, 10.45pm
Adrian Edmondson, above,
the comedian renowned for
his work with Rik Mayall, is
delivering his second set of
Radio 3 essays after the five
he did last summer. His
mission? To consider
personal and career highs,
lows and the bits in
between. He has tackled
creativity (including his
relationship with Mayall,
who died in 2014), money
and how reading ancient
philosophy helped his
mental heath. Tonight he
ponders the nature of both
being a fan and the object of
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thetimes.co.uk/bulletinsT
he main two things we learnt
from Grayson’s Art Club:
Queen’s Jubilee Special is
that British people are
slightly mad, and you should
never hire Prue Leith to do your
interior design. The chandelier she
made to mark the Queen’s 70 years
on the throne was a total dog’s
breakfast. All that tat hanging off it
made it look as if a bomb had gone
off in Poundland. “Well, you haven’t
held back!” Grayson Perry said,which I guess was similar to when
you wear a horlicks of an outfit and
someone says: “Well, you’ll certainly
stop traffic.”
Harry Hill is possibly the purest
expression of British eccentricity, in
a good way. For his artistic offering to
the Queen he cut up foam sponges,
glued them to his lips, smeared them
in paint and smeared his mouth along
a wall while saying: “Congratulations,
Your Majesty, on your jubilee.” Safe
to say it’ll be one of a kind.
Perry, along with his wife, Philippa,
and Leith, watched footage of the
1953 Coronation, which he said was
a great piece of performance art —
the grandeur, the theatre, the emotion
as she was “literally sacrificing herself
on the altar”.
The offerings from people around
the country were brilliantly
idiosyncratic. Margaret Seaman,
who had previously knitted the
Sandringham Estate, was knitting a
huge oak tree next to which was a
knitted acorn, representing the old
and young Elizabeth II.
Someone else replicated the
Crown Jewels using a paperweight
as the Black Prince’s Ruby, although
last time he’d made it (this wasn’t his
first foray) he’d used a boiled sweet.
It was odd to have Perry singing
Billy Joel’s Just the Way You Are to
the Queen, but it was that kind of
programme.The thought of living in the wilds
off-grid, no phone, no wi-fi, no
Six O’Clock News, has become
increasingly appealing lately, given
traumatic world events. It was
trauma that caused Ken Smith to
reject “civilisation” and spend the
past 40 years living in a log cabin in
the Scottish Highlands without
running water or electricity.
As The Hermit of Treig showed in
tender, charming detail, this life is no
bucolic dream. Smith was beaten up
by a group of young men in 1974, was
unconscious for three weeks and
suffered brain damage. When he
recovered he decided “never to live on
anyone’s terms but my own”. But it’s
damned hard work, this off-grid lark.
I mean, a 54-mile round trip to post
a letter? Washing your clothes in an
old bath outside in the snow in winter?
Lizzie MacKenzie’s gentle, tender
film didn’t interrogate Smith, it let him
tell his story in his own words (and he
wasn’t a man given to garrulousness).
He has decided he’ll die there. I
suppose you could say it’s anti-hermit
to allow a film-maker to follow you
for two years, but on seeing the
finished product, who didn’t feel a
small, atavistic pull to a simpler life?
“If you love the land it sort of loves
you back,” Smith said, a truth of which
humans have lost sight. Mind you,
could I live in the Scottish wilds with
no central heating? No chance.Royally weird works by the eccentrics of Britain
ANNA WATSON/ALAMYCarol
Midgley
TV review
The Hermit of Treig
BBC4
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