All Critics articles – Page 74
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CriticsBilly Connolly’s Ultimate World Tour
“There was a strangely valedictory feel, as if that ’ultimate’ was being used in its older, purer, sense of ‘last’.”
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CriticsOld People’s Home for 4 Year Olds at Christmas
“The perfect balance between sentiment and straight talking was achieved”
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CriticsMrs Wilson
“In fictionalising so much of his life, Alec Wilson unwittingly provided the world with his most compelling story of all”
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CriticsSir Cliff Richard: 60 Years in Public and Private
“Some subtle questions about our relationship with celebrity, while only scratching the surface of the complicated man at its core.”
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CriticsEscape from Dubai: The Mystery of the Missing Princess
“A story so astonishing that at times even its participants are forced to admit that events sound far-fetched.”
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CriticsNorth Korea: Life Inside the Secret State
“A frightening, informative, look at life under the terror of a totalitarian regime.”
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CriticsRise of the Clans, BBC4
“A superbly vivid account of how bloodthirsty Scottish tribes joined forces in the early 1300s to drive out the English.”
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CriticsDeath and Nightingales
“The book’s complex, flashback narrative structure and claustrophobic mood proved surprisingly well suited to the small screen”
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CriticsMrs Wilson
“This complex blend of deception and romance proved to be even better than hoped”
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CriticsBabies: Their Wonderful World
“There was an orgy of cutesy background music, which added nothing except irritation, but there were useful snippets to confirm our adult prejudices.”
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CriticsA Great British Injustice
“Conveyed a visceral sense of the incomprehensible horror of being the victim of such injustice.”
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CriticsInside the Foreign Office
“After last week’s pompous and staid introduction to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, this was an upbeat episode loaded with eccentricity”
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CriticsHorizon: The Contraceptive Pill: How Safe Is It?
“An informative, thoroughly- researched and perhaps even too data-dense film”
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CriticsThe Final Table
“Imagine a cooking programme so bombastic it makes Gordon Ramsay’s latest look like Lark Rise to Candleford”
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