58 h. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Dan Snow & The Lost City: Like the foggy view, Dan Snow's trip to Machu Picchu is a damp squib

The fabled Inca citadel of Machu Picchu in Peru is apparently the wettest place in South America. It certainly was on the day Dan Snow visited.

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4 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews The Jackal Speaks: From his jail cell, terrorist Carlos the Jackal tells of his plan to nuke France

When Carlos the Jackal's girlfriend, terrorist Magdalena Kopp, was jailed, he threatened to blow up nuclear power stations until she was released.

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5 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Dover 24/7: Britain's Busiest Port

A single consignment of fruit from Ecuador can consist of three million bananas packed onto nearly 700 pallets.

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9 d. ago Explosive plot twists make this noirish cold case thriller sizzle: CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV

Are you a fan of Gary Oldman in Slow Horses? You'll like Dept Q. Love the cold cases on Unforgotten? Give Dept Q a try. Enjoy Rebus? You'll be at home with Dept Q.

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1 week ago The revealing inside account of how Baroness Bra came undone: CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews The Rise and Fall of Michelle Mone

Director Erika Jenkin's documentary builds to an infamous confrontation with the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg, with the Glasgow businesswoman squirming under questions about the PPE scandal.

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1 week ago This chippie owner took a battering trying to learn how to make sushi... CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV

Why anyone pays a fortune for sushi, those little Japanese rolls of fish, rice and vegetable, is a mystery.

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1 week ago Imagine being the nitwit publisher who rejected Jane Austen's work! CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV

The list of hapless nitwits who rejected megastars-to-be is a long one, but none blundered more badly than Thomas Cadell, writes Christopher Stevens.

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1 week ago Imagine being the nitwit publisher who rejected Jane Austen's work! CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV

The list of hapless nitwits who rejected megastars-to-be is a long one, but none blundered more badly than Thomas Cadell, writes Christopher Stevens.

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2 w. ago Poirot's on his hols, but all we get is a dreary lecture on the evils of empire: CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV

Sir David Suchet on a surfboard is quite the mental image. In a striped 1920s bathing costume, the great thespian would be a picture of Hercule Poirot on his holidays.

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2 w. ago Treating these children as guinea pigs and lab rats was unforgivable: CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV

The grief of mother Angela Newcombe is almost unbearable to witness. It hits you in the stomach and twists up towards the heart, a physical anguish.

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2 w. ago Don't put our Rose in danger, she's a national treasure in the making: CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV

Cruelty to puppies is one. Sneering at the late Queen is another. But most reprehensible of all, a crime beyond forgiveness, is being horrid to Rose Ayling-Ellis .

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3 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Forever Home: This property show felt like it would drag on for ever

These days, sex and money are all anyone ever wants to talk about, particularly on TV. But many other ordinary and innocent topics have somehow become off-limits.

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3 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews David Frost Vs...: Journalist's humbling of Richard Nixon is a masterclass in the interviewer's art

The interview gave an unparalleled opportunity to study Nixon's face, a picture of political cunning under a mask of suspicion, thanks to British chat show host David Frost's lenghty inquisition.

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3 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Change Your Mind, Change Your Life: The BBC's dire new therapy series is worse than rubbish

Apparently, it's completely fine to tell someone who is paralysed by anxiety to switch to 'automatic pilot' and go through life like 'a little robot'.

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3 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews The Game: Jason Watkins's golfing ex detective lifts this psycho thriller above par...

Was there ever a game invented more pointless than golf - the time-killing occupation that's apparently obligatory for every retired chap on TV?

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3 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews A Life Among Elephants: Extraordinary life of the elephant man who took on the poachers...

When Saba and Dudu Douglas-Hamilton were growing up in Uganda, they lived in a derelict house on the banks of the Nile that was once a lodge used by Queen Elizabeth.

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