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Pianist Roman Rabinovich performs at the
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Erkki-Sven Tüür (Sow the Winddd); Mussorgsky
(Songs and Dances of Deathhh); Tchaikovsky
(Symphony No 2 in C minor, Op 17 “Little
Russiannn”); Schubert arr Mahler (String
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Serenade in E, Op 22)
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Exploring Beethoven’s Ode to Joyy (r)
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and Janacek (Taras Bulbaa) (r) - 00 Jazz Japan
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1 0.45 The Essay: My Life in Food
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restaurants’ menus have lived up to her
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writers of the calibre of Elizabeth David and
MFK Fisher whom Joanna read avidly as a
teenager. Now it is chips with everything it
seems. Fate has one good surprise in store
however as Joanna’s local baker, where she
gets her daily morning bread, has just been
crowned the best baguette-maker in Paris (r)
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Jazz Japan
Radio 3, 10pmJapan and jazz are two
words that normally don’t
go together, but in this
programme the musician
and journalist Katherine
Whatley, above, explores
the surprising history of
jazz in the country. During
the Second World War it
was banned as “enemy
music”, but during the
postwar American
occupation of Japan jazz
was embraced by the
music-loving population,
so much so that it was once
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highest proportion of jazz
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an American who grew
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thetimes.co.uk/bulletinsThe Black Full Monty
Channel 4
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ood lord, The Black Full
Monty didn’t leave much to
the imagination. Rarely
have I polished my
spectacles so vigorously. I
imagine the nation’s TV pause buttons
had a busy night too. When they said
that the shows would be extreme and
explicit, they were not pulling our
plonkers. They might also have added:
“Warning: some male viewers may
experience despondency.” Because the
managers of the Chocolate Men,
Dante and Louis, an all-black, all-muscle stripper troupe, made no bones
that they were chosen for their
physiques and dimensions”.
Specifically: eight inches minimum,
enhanced by a suction pump.
“That’s why you’re coming to the
show. You are coming to see big black
willies,” said Louis, a man not given to
mincing his words. To judge from the
squealing women, eyes on stalks, that
was a fair assessment. “The fascination
of the black man is high right now,”
Dante said, and here lay the film’s
petticoat of public interest: was this
empowerment or exploitation?
Reinforcing racial stereotypes or
people making a decent living selling
a fantasy to a happy audience? It
didn’t answer one way or the other;
the answer was possibly both.
However, the strippers did not seem
to feel exploited. One was paying off
his student debts; another once used
food banks, but now had a decent
wage (£200 a night). For centuries
black men were oppressed and
humiliated, but here they were taking
back power, it was argued, even if
some might consider it sleazy. They
certainly seemed to rather like the
screaming adulation, throwing women
round their necks and simulating acts
I won’t spell out in a family newspaper.
Django let a woman do something
to him that was strictly off-limits.
Dante and Louis were furious. They
suspended him and told him toapologise to her, although I presume
she wasn’t complaining. I have never
seen women look so delighted. “I left
my husband and turned to the other
type. Which was black men,” said
Norma, a white woman of 71,
practically salivating. Two women
were asked post-show what they
thought. “There was more penis than
I was expecting,” one said. What
would they give it out of ten? “Eleven.”
Call Guinness World Records! Billie
Piper starred in the “longest solo sex
scene ever on British TV” in I Hate
Suzie, with her character “pleasuring
herself for seven minutes and four
seconds”, not that the Daily Mail
was counting. Cor, exciting.
Except it was quite dull and the
weakest episode yet. On it dragged,
her ferreting under the duvet in her
skanky pyjamas trying to find the right
fantasy and veering off on tangents
until, surprisingly for a comedy that
has been all sharp, lean efficiency, it
felt bloated and self-indulgent.
This was a rare misstep for Piper
and her co-creator, Lucy Prebble.
Single-theme episodes are always a bit
“meh” (think Fly in Breaking Bad). I felt
for the actor who had to play “middle-
aged businessman masturbating on
train”. How many takes were required?
But if anyone is thinking of bailing
out, don’t. Next week’s episode deals
with a working-class wedding and is
The Black Full Monty profiled a popular group of male strippers the unmissable jewel of the series.Stripping the race debate down to its essentials
LEE BROWN/CHANNEL 4Carol
Midgley
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