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The glacial Tilda Smnton narrates Galapagos (BBCZ, Fri 29 Sep. 9pm) With a voice that would suggest she can barely believe her eyes. I know how she feels. The set of islands Just off the coast of South America was denounced by early pioneers as a hell on earth but upon which DarWin revelled in its harsh beauty. These days it has massive, fat iguanas emerging from the sea and male birds whose throats redden and extend when they want to get it on. Many of 25 Sep, 90m) as the guy who starts the Na/is who escaped Justice in 1945 floating towards the sky in the opening fled to the Galapagos near neighbour credits. this episode traces the story of Paraguay. but Nuremberg: The a blind and autistic man who has an Nazis on Trial (BBCQ, Mon 25 Sep. utter genius for musuc. The effect is marginally dashed by Jools Holland getting all groovy about early Jazz piano.
David Gillanders: Black and White (BBC2, Sun 24 Sep, 7pm) is an ArtWorks Scotland affair which should have you weeping into your Sunday roast as he targets his award- winning camera lens towards the street children of the Ukraine. While many of them appear happy and playful in between fixes. Gillanders
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The opener of three focuses on Albert nasty death. It makes the images he Five, Mon 2 Oct, 11pm
Speer, Hitler's architect who shoots of Glasgow knife crime seem
developed a conscience perhaps just gentlernanly by contrast. In Jane When a mound of grass in Peru started talking to David Icke, his life was a little too late to save his carcass from Eyre (BBCI, Sun 24 Sep, 9pm). the never to be the same again. Having plied his trade as a goalkeeper for spending 20 years in Spandau prison. wee lassie from Narnia also cuts a Coventry City before introducing snooker coverage for the BBC, his When he was released he opted to overnight transformation led to one of the most notorious chat show
appearances in the last 20 years, which considering that this period has included a slap-happy Grace Jones and booze-fuelled George Best is saying something. But when lcke strolled on to the Wogan show in 1991, he was mercilessly jeered at for appearing to insist he was the Son of God. Or maybe they were just laughing at the turquoise shellsuit.
Fast forward 15 years later and lcke is selling out Brixton Academy, his books are big sellers and maybe, just maybe, people might have to rethink his pronouncements about earthquakes and tsunamis and even some spooky Nostradamus-like warnings about a catastrophic attack on an American city. And it’s clear that he has a point to make when the police insist that his wife turns off the camcorder pointing towards Downing Street, when CCTV cameras follow our every move. And yes, he is on the money when taking Bush and Blair to task for their terrorist tendencies.
But then he goes and blows it all with the punchline that behind the human facade, our world leaders and royal figures are actually seven-foot tall lizards who drink children’s blood. The dilemma for lcke is that this is partly why his books and tours do so well but the reason why he will never be taken more seriously as a leading conspiracy theorist. (Brian Donaldson)
hang out with Holocaust denier David ering and died of a brain haemorrhage in London in 1981.
Kill Me to Cure Me (Channel 4, Mon 25 Sep. 9pm) also deals with matters of the cranium as we follow the story of Pennsylvanian chap Brett Kehrer who regwres surgery to destroy an aneurysm which threatens to kill him at any given second. Unfortunately. the only way to perform the operation is to have the patient cold and dead for around 15 minutes.
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chair all day in an all-girls school environment that is more Abu Gnraib than Miss Jean Brodie.
The kudos of Ricky Gervais has never been higher which suggests that it is set to plummet at any moment. Knowing when to quit while he was ahead with The Office. this will surely
be the final series of Extras (BBC2, have made their own. The Office: Thu 27 Sep, 9pm) which kicked off An American Workplace (ITV2, sluggishly but is mesmerising here Sun 24 Sep. 10.40pm) trundles into its with the help of David Bowie in a second series and remains a puzzle to musical and lyrical segment which anyone why the thing was created in epitomises the claustrophobic torture the first place. Looking forward to Le
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