The Sunday Times - UK (2022-04-24)

l Did Tina Brown miss the

scoop of her life? In 2010

she was invited to a dinner

with Prince Andrew, Jeffrey

Epstein and Woody Allen

— the famous “predator’s

ball” the prince is supposed

to have thrown to welcome

Epstein out of prison.

Brown turned down the

invitation — something she

now describes as a “relief”.

Books, p28

l Arlene Phillips may now

be one of the nation’s

favourite choreographers,

but before she formed the

dance troupe Hot Gossip

she had a very different job

— as the film director

Ridley Scott’s cleaner.

Theatre, p8

CONTENTS 24.04.2022

ARTS

4
Cover story
Who you gonna call? Jack
Davenport on his role in the
British Call My Agent!

6
Theatre
Jerusalem is back — James
Graham reflects on what it
says about our country now

14
Film
How well does Nicolas Cage
play Nicolas Cage?

16
Television
Camilla Long’s verdict on the
true crime drama The Thief,
His Wife and the Canoe

20
Music
Classical festivals to book now

BOOKS

28

Lead review

Camilla Long gets swept up

by the gossip in Tina Brown’s

new book on the royals

30

Science

Sebastian Faulks hails a

shocking history of psychiatry

and its centuries of failures

34

History

Being a pacifist in Second

World War Britain was not an

easy option, finds John Carey

35

Fiction

Johanna Thomas-Corr on the

new novel from Goon Squad

author Jennifer Egan, below

32

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