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MARTIN FREEMAN aka Tim from The Office, picks the five jobs he’d least like to do in the world.
1 Army I'm glad that people want to do it. I wouldn‘t want to be without one. but I just wouldn't be very good in it.
2 Office I wouldn't want to work in one. but most of the country does. That's no denigration on them.
3 Journalist leing to get straight answers out of people must be hard.
4 Stand-up comedian Half the people I know have done it, but it’s just too frightening.
5 Someone who works with gorillas Again, I'm very glad people want to do it. but I wouldn't trust a silverback gorilla as far as I could throw it.
AILEEN RITCHIE, writer, filmmaker and soap addict, searches through the suds and chooses her favourite soap characters.
1 Blanche, Coronation Street As Deirdre Rachid‘s mother she is more like her evil twin deprived of moisturiser. Her acidity is a breath of fresh air in the show at the moment.
2 Bobby Grant, Brookslde A rare example of a soap character with strong political beliefs. When producerstriedtosellwthewalkedofi.
3 Isobel Blair, High Road The heart and soul of High Road. The
quiet shopkeeper. Losing her was the beginning of the end.
4 Barry Evans, EastEnders The Willy Loman of the East End. Long after the villains have gone. he'll still be slogging away.
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PREMIUM BOND
Britain’s cinematic champion of the working class, Mike Leigh, recently said he could never make any other kind of film. His James Bond, for example, would be ‘bollocks’. It’s an intriguing prospect, all the same. Just imagine Leigh regular Timothy Spall delivering the line: ‘The name’s Bond, James Bond.’ Pierce Brosnan is not going to be Bond forever, so try these cut-out and paste-on heads to determine his successor.
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