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Behind every good man appears to be an overbearing mother. As JENNI MURRAY hosts an event that examines the often torrid relationship between matriarchs and their male offspring, we ponder a nap hand of lads under their mums’ thumbs.
Tony Soprano He may have tried to smother her with a pillow and called her a ‘demented cunt' in therapy. but the New Jersey mobster lived his life by Livia's word. He even started sleeping with women who reminded him of her: remember Gloria and her taunting ‘poor you' as he squeezed the life from her? Norman Bates Norm loved his mummy so much, he kept her rotting corpse for years and couldn't resist slipping into her Laura Ashleys. This was after he had caught her in bed with ‘another man' and bludgeoned her to death in a jealous rage.
The Krays Like all good East End boys. they loved their ma. did Ronnie and Reggie. They always spared a thought for her when they were slicing a snitch's head open or kebabing a foe to a snooker table.
Busta Rhymes In his recent hit 'I Know What You Want'. rapper Rhymes expl0red his softer side. Towering over a distinctly non- mumsy Mariah Carey, Busta whispered: ‘sssh, mammi listen'. Now was this a paean from a gentle giant to his dear mother? Or was it code for some bitch he wanted to hump?
Mark Thatcher When the chap- friendly PM's dotty son went missing in the desert. she wept buckets in public for the first time. Renowned for always preferring male company. and such was her reputed lack of caring when it came to women, had lispy daughter Carol been pillaged by the Taliban. Mags would probably have needed the onions to elicit a similar show of emotion.
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'riake for ‘irrrr trends or deadly enemies? A pair of so fact fitters argue the fuss
Jackie Kay, AL Kennedy 8. Nancy Lee (J ’iopnr, 57‘ if?» Jackie Kay's reputation has groWn since her early poetry days to her debut novel Trumpet and book of short stories Why Don't You Stop Talking and she is turning out to be one of the country's foremost literary talents. See Sun 1/ for Kennedy and 1? 30pm today for l ee,
Jake Arnott Spin. 5 / 41"» David Home is a big fan. And so is the BBC. as it is planning a series based on his crime novel. The Long Fir/n Imprisoned Writers 5.30pm, free tickets. Peter Hitchens pops up to deliver extracts from Middle Eastern writers.
David Steel (5.30pm. £38 (£6). The former Liberal leader presents the Donald Dewar Lecture. usmg the opportunity to defend (maybe) the Scottish Parliament.
The Writing Business 6.45pm. £5 (L‘Bi, Alison Bave stock offers setind adVice on getting published
AL Kennedy 7pm, {38 (£6). See Sun
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George Monbiot 7. 30pm, [‘8 (lie). The first of some speCial 90-minute events With the antiglobalisation guru. entitled Five Rounds With Monbiot. Go on. ask him about the Ernpathetic Principle. Dare you.
Julian Baggini, William Deedes, Roy Greenslade & Peter Hitchens 8pm. 1‘8 (5‘6). What's the deal With the UK press? Can we honestly still claim to have the best papers in the world? Could we ever? Are we ruled by the cult of celebrity? These men have the
Mark Shand 8.30pm, {‘8 (£6). Travels on My Elephant won Shand the 1992 Travel Writer of the Year Award. 80 he knows what he's talking about when it comes to iourneying across the Indo— Tibet border.
Curtis Gillespie & Quentin Jardine 8.30pm. l.‘8 (£36). The gentlernanly Edinburgh crime writer hooks up With Gillespie. who was born in Canada but moved to his beloved Scotland. writing about it evocativer in Playing T hrough: A Year of Life and Links Along the Scottish Coast.
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Janice Galloway & Jackie Kay 70.30am, E7 (E5). Can you imagine a nicer way to rouse yourself for the day than haVing these two ladies murmuring lyrical stuff in your ears? Me neither. See Mon 18 for Kay.
Antonia Swinson 70. 30am, [7 (E5). The author of The Love Child and Root otA/l EVil? gives us her lowdown on spirituality and sayings.
Julian Baggini l lam, £7 (£5). Philosophers in the press can't be two a penny. but Baggini has written for The Guardian. Observer. New Humanist and The Sceptic while publishing books With names such as Atheism: A Very Short Introduction and The Philosopher's Too/kit. Here. he discusses how the two can pOSSibly connect
Pat Barker 7 7.30am, C 7 (E5). She's probably best known for her First World
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Evelyn Doyle & Catherine Gildiner Noon, 3‘7 do). Have you seen Pierce Brosnan in Evelyn? If so. and you really loved it lots. why not meet the lady behind the true story of one family's fight against a repressive state? Plus. Gildiner has written a memoir entitled Too Close to the Falls. in which she gets lost in a snow storm, learns to gamble and meets Marilyn Monroe John Fowler & TC Smout 72.30pm, {‘7 (CSi. Getting to the root of the Scottish tree Situation are these two. Smout has written the rather relevant People and Woods in Scotland and happens to be the Historiographer ROyal f0r Scotland while Canongate author Fowler knocked off Landscape and Lives: The Scottish Forest Through the Ages.
William Deedes & Nicholas Rankin 7.30pm. £7 (£5). Want to find Out the real st0ry behind Waugh's Scoop? Ask William Deedes. Want to find out the real stOry behind Guernica? Ask Nicholas Rankin.
Kate Clanchy & Roddy Lumsden 2pm. £7 (85). If awards were cash. then Clanchy would be absolutely loaded. hawng scooped a number of gongs for her poetry collections Slattern and Sammarkand. St Andrews born Lumsden has done perfectly well for himself, too. thanks. His publications include The Book of Love and the splendidly titled Roddy Lumsden is Dead.
Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall 2. 30pm. [.7 (£35). Now. she's got a familiar double barrel. Gardens are her thing as she proves With tomes such as The Garden: An English Love Affair —- One Thousand Years of Gardening and Peon/es.
James Buchan 3pm. f7 ([75). Offspring of famous writers has been one of the key motifs of this year's beanfeast and here comes another celebrity grandson. as we hear all about the good old days of Edinburgh and the Enlightenment.
Isla Dewar & Eileen Ramsay
3. 30pm, £7 (£5), You should probably never Judge a book by its title. but Ramsay's include Walnut She/l Days. A Cookery Book for SOS Villages and Lace for a Lady. Of her existential drama The Woman who Painted her Dreams. Our reviewer believed that 'Isla Dewar is remarkably good at setting a period'.
Bella Bathurst 8: Camilla Gibb 4pm. C7 (C5). After writing about the Stevenson family and their lighthouse business. Bathurst went on to pen a novel ab0ut teenage girls in Special. And London-born, Toronto-raised Gibb gained acclaim with her debut Mouthirig the Words.
Jane Corbin 4.30pm, £7 (£5). The Panorama reperter tries to get to the bottom of al anda. Aaron Barschak is not invited.
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall 5pm. £7 (535). How weird. Someone else With the Surname Fearnley-Whittingstall appearing today. Hugh bangs on in an eccentrically amusmg manner ab0ut scran and the seasons.
Imprisoned Writers :\ n‘ilzvrr. two tickets Pat Barker chats about prison diaries
The Writing Business ti -15‘l"'l. lto‘i lhat hoary old beast. poetry is the sublei‘l of today's discussion
Derek Malcolm 3pm 2‘8 Hit The ex Guard/an film critic chats about family secrets. as told in his iriemoir entitled. almost unbelievably, lam». .‘Jix‘retr; And boy. did his lot have some See the surreal nonsense of Pundits t‘hoii‘e George Monbiot ,' a‘lliirn. :‘h‘ .l‘ti‘ See Mon 18
Marina Warner 8pm. t‘h‘ mm The mistress of myth chats about more iconic figures from ancient and modern history. Of her short story collection, Murderers I Have Known. we noted that she 'creates an intriguing blend of London. American imagination. reality and the supernatural. and it's an arresting concoction
Norman Davies 8- Julian Jackson 8.30pm, 5‘8 lf‘bi. What on earth is to becorne of Europe?
Christopher Logue aaopin, l‘a il‘o‘i It takes a cedain sort of chap to even consider calling their memoir Prince Charming. The expert of Homer lthe writer rather than the iconic Iumpi admirably (lid that four years ago
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Christopher Logue & Alan Spence 70.308"), 5.7 (55). See Tue 19 for Logue and Mon 18 for Spence
Paul Scott 70.30am, l‘f ll‘.‘)i. ‘Schools "teach Scots to lack selfresteem“ blazed the Sunday paper headline last month. Top academic Scott tells us what's behind that banner slogan. Richard Southwood 7 Iain, l‘x’ (l‘fii. Natural history and all that rnalarkey. Michael Dibdin ll 30am, l‘/' (515). If Zen detectives are your thing, [)ibdin's your man. Dark Specter. Vendetta and Dead Lagoon are among his works. Stephen Dorril Noon, M (£16). The spying game is up for discussion With the author of M16: 50 Years of Special Operations, Black Shirt: Mosley and the Rise of Fascism and I he Silent Conspiracy.
John Simmons 12.30pm, l.‘/ (£16). l—or those seeking an antidote to all this anti-globalisation stuff, the author of The lriVISihle Grail: In Search of the True Language 0/ Brands should sate that deSire.
Charles Freeman 8. Andrew Wheatcroft 7.30pm, £7 (£5). Richard Holloway continues on his merry chairing way With this pair to chat ab0ut the tenSion between Christians and Muslims.
Colin Tudge 2pm, {‘7 (£35). The three- times Winner of the SCience Writer of the Year Award has published books such as Last Animals at the Zoo. The Impact of the Gene and The Second Creation: Dolly and the Age of Biological Control.
William Brodrick & Alan Judd 2.30pm. £7 (£5). The shadow of the Nazis Will probably never leave us. And despite the horrors. we need authors like these two to keep reminding the w0rld, so that it can‘t happen again. ThOugh you COuld argue that Na2i-Iike atrocmes go on around the world every day.