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Ben DowellMichael Palin’s Radio
Adventures: The
Python Years
Radio 4 Extra, 11am
Another chance to hear this
fascinating three-part series
in which John McCarthy
talks to the great Michael
Palin, above, about his
eventful life and career. One
area of the oeuvre of the
Python and globetrotter
with a reputation as the
nicest man in British
showbusiness that has
perhaps been overlooked is
his contributions to radio.
McCarthy has remedied this
with a series of extracts
from Palin’s years with
Monty Python, and other
clips including his diaries
and interviews. There is also
a recording of the time he
had a go at being a BBC
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thetimes.co.uk/bulletinsD
olly Alderton’s bestselling
memoir, Everything I
Know About Love,
chronicled those salad days
when youthful good looks,
an educated mind and, above all, your
friends can stop the world seeming like
such a big and frightening place.
She has now turned it into a semi-
fictionalised drama of four young
women renting in Camden Town —
their first flat-share promising boozy
nights out and nights in dancingaround in jogging shorts. It is
charming, witty, fast-paced and
pleasingly knowing, free of the leaden
earnestness we often got with the two
Sally Rooney drama series the BBC
made recently. Alderton seems to be
half in love with her heroine Maggie
(Emma Appleton) and half detached,
with the overriding sense of an
authorial eye looking back quizzically
on a version of herself and her gauche,
dreamy quest for love.
Even when the foursome watch the
sun rise over Primrose Hill after a big
night and decide to roll down the
grass, it feels like a hackneyed pose we
can easily forgive. Who hasn’t done
similar things during what Maggie
calls “this grubby golden phase of life
that is so short-lived”? And of course,
this is the smartphone generation,
always on the hunt for those Insta
moments, always performing.
One gets a similar knowing feeling
about those staged scenes when
Maggie and her sensible, kindly best
friend from school, Birdy (Bel Powley),
dress up as giant pigs and a stack of
pancakes for work. Maggie certainly
knows how shallow and daft her life
can be. In episode two she tells us
that she is writing a blog to make the
most of a boom that rewards
“mediocre girls being moderately
funny on the internet”.
This is about love (as many of the
best stories are), although notnecessarily involving Street, the
charmer Maggie meets on a train at
the start. The Birdy and Maggie story
is the real romance, but it doesn’t run
smoothly. Maggie loves her friend,
telling her she is the sweetest and
funniest person in the room, a remark
that feels sincere and slightly
patronising at the same time. Rather
neatly, the tables are turned in the
second episode (the whole thing is on
iPlayer now) when Birdy unexpectedly
finds love and Maggie feels shut out.
The other two flatmates — blunt
Scotswoman Nell (Marli Siu) and
Amara (Aliyah Odoffin) — feel a bit
sidelined in the early exchanges, but
even that’s forgivable. Who has a
developed personality in their
twenties? Being a bit two-dimensional
and shallow while thinking you’re a
grown-up is part of the package. And
there’s always time to grow.
Meanwhile, David Simon returned to
the Baltimore corners with We Own
This City, a story of police corruption
based on real events. Jon Bernthal
gives a standout performance as rogue
cop Wayne Jenkins that oozes cocky
charisma, but man (as they say in
Baltimore), does it feel preachy. While
The Wire had a broader canvas and
expressed its anger through a
compelling story, it feels as if Simon is
now so furious with the world that he
has climbed the steps of a pulpit.
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Emma Appleton in the TV adaptation of Dolly Alderton’s memoir