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THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT
Alice Levine to Tallinn, and
Bob Mortimer to Hamburg.QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY
The Name of the Rose (SoHo,
Sky 010, 9.30pm). French
director Jean-Jacques Annaud
adapted Umberto Eco’s novel
in 1986, with Sean Connery
as the Franciscan friar William
of Baskerville and a young
Christian Slater as Adso of
Melk. Its reception was, as
they say, mixed. Had he been
alive, Eco might have preferred
Italian director Giacomo Bat-
tiato, who gets eight episodes
to explore Eco’s sweeping
medieval murder mystery. It’s
an Italian-German production,The Name of the
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TUESDAY JUNE 4
Lost & Found (Three, 7.30pm).
It’s the final episode ever
of Lost & Found and David
Lomas is looking back on an
old, unresolved investiga-
tion. Two years ago, Kate was
looking for her birth father,
but a DNA test had revealed
that her mother had pointed
her towards the wrong guy.
After a rough couple of years
in which she has split from
her husband and had cancer
treatment, Kate is hoping to
finally meet her real father.
Don’t worry, there are more
family-finders’ stories to come
on Three: a new programme
about reuniting families andsolving family mysteries is in
the works, called David Lomas
Investigates.A Very British Country House
(Prime, 7.30pm). Among other
things, Cliveden House in
Berkshire is a five-star hotel
frequented by the aristo cracy
and the super-rich (it was once
owned by the Astor family
and in the 1960s, it was the
location of certain notori-
ous events related to the UK
political scandal known as the
Profumo Affair). This four-part
series follows a busy summer
season, when the posh splash
out on lavish weddings or holeHow the makers of Russia
from Above (Prime, Sunday,- 0 0 p m) got permission to fly
their drones over and around
that vast country is probably
a story for another day. Nev-
ertheless, after a nine-month
journey, here’s a five-part
series covering everything
from the metropolises of
Moscow and St Petersburg to
the glaciers of the Caucasus.
No doubt Egypt from Above
(National Geographic, Sky 072,
Tu e s d ay, 8. 30 p m) is equally
spectacular. Its first episode
features an aerial journey
along the Nile to illustrate that
mighty river’s importance
to the ancient empires. TheDocumentaries
Nolan: The
Man and
the Myth,
Monday.but made in English: John
Turturro is William, and
Rupert Everett puts on his
evil eyes to play inquisitor
Bernard Gui. The cast also
includes Michael Emerson,
Sebastian Koch and young
German actor Damian Har-
dung as Adso. Turturro told
Variety there is modern reso-
nance in the story set in 1327:
“Maybe more at this particu-
lar time than even when it
came out. You look at all the
stuff that’s exploding all over,
whether it’s the strongmen
who are in vogue, all of the
scandals in the church and
men’s oppression of women –
it’s all in the book.”Classic Albums: Elton John – Goodbye
Yellow Brick Road, Tuesday.