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BroadchurchCRIME DRAMA

MONDAY, STV, 9pm

PICK OF TV NEXT WEEK

The Great ComicRelief Bake Off

FOOD

WEDNESDAY, BBC1, 8pm

Wolf HallHISTORICAL DRAMA

WEDNESDAY, BBC2, 9pm

Reginald D.Hunter’s Songsof the South

REVIEW

Indian Summers(Channel4)

The Casual Vacancy(BBC1)

Ukip: The FirstHundred Days(Channel 4)

C hannel 4 and the BBC went head to head onSunday night with two multimillion-pounddramas. The commercial channel gave us

Indian Summers, a sprawling tale set against thebackdrop of the fading years of British rule in thesubcontinent, while the Beeb offered adramatisation of J.K. Rowling’s post-HarryPotter novel featuring the machinations of anEnglish village’s parish council. My firstthoughtwas that thiswas theworstmismatchsinceFrankBruno tookonMikeTyson, andsoit proved.Whatwould you ratherwatchona cold, grey

winter’s night – a bunch of boozed-up colonialsworking their way through the Kama Sutra in atropical paradise, or a scabby methadone addictlying in her own filth on a rundown council estate?And, much as I like Michael Gambon, he doesn’thave anything like the pulling power of thewonderful Julie Walters.Besides, there was a lot more to Indian Summersthan my earlier précis suggested. For once theindigenous folk get almost as much screen time astheir oppressors. There’s even a Romeo and Juliet-style romancebetweenahandsomeParseechapandhis beautiful Hindu girlfriend.Then we have the political unrest, symbolised by

the oldest terrorist/freedom fighter in history.Meanwhile, the Brits are heading for the hillswhere Julie Walters is running an up-marketbordello between grieving for her dead soldierhusbandandplayingatpolitics. She’sdetermined tosee Ralph promoted to viceroy and lures him intothearmsofAmericansteelheiressMadeleine, a ladywho dresses more like a 21st-century Oscarnominee, than a respectable 1930s matron.The heroine of the piece is Ralph’s sister Alice, a

sweet, innocent lass who doesn’t share the samefeeling of racial superiority as some of hercompatriots.By contrast the missionary’s wife looks down her

nose at the natives, while her husband is in theprocess of falling head over heels for his gorgeousmixed-race assistant.Then there’s the young Scot who is just asegalitarian as Alice and who is uncomfortable withbeing addressed as sahib. He has travelled from hishomeland to work at his uncle’s tea plantation.Unfortunately, thesaidunclepreferssomethingalotstronger than tea. That’s right, he’s a stereotypicalScottish drunk. His nephew compounds this racialslurbydrainingtheuncle’shipflask.Thenhewasoffto Julie’s place for a tryst with a married woman.

It’s all happening down Simla way, and definitelyworth another visit.

O ntheotherhand,Pagford, the fictional villageatthe centre of The Casual Vacancy, is much less

inviting. This Cotswolds dystopia is populated by apeculiarmixof right-wingsnobsandgraspinggentryontheoneside,while,ontheothersidewehavedrug-addled parents, foul-mouthed teenagers andtattooed villains. I think it’s supposed to be amicrocosm of England today. If that is Rowling’svisionofEnglandit’snotsurprisingshehaschosentolive north of the border.There is only one good guy in the village. That’sBarry Fairbrother (the clue’s in the surname). Barryis a solicitor who helps out the druggies from theneighbouring sink estate and who runs thecommunity centre donated by the late lord of themanor.Thecouncil is ledbyMichaelGambon’sdeliowner,

Howard Mollison. He wants to demolish thecommunity centre andbuild a luxury spa on the site.Barrymakesanimpassionedspeechindefenceof thecentre and then drops down dead, but he doesn’t gostraight to heaven as you would expect. Instead, hehangs around in cyberspace so that he can tormenthis enemies with angry e-mails and tweets. I’m notquite sure how he types the tweets now that hedoesn’t have any fingers, but then I never figured outhow Harry Potter was able to fly in that Quidditchgame.There’s a swipe at the social services when a nice

socialworker ladyappeals toherboss forhelp for thechild of one of the druggies. “We have to cut£3million from our budget,” says the boss.Elsewhere,Barry’sevilbrotherdecides totaketime

off from tormenting his children to run for Barry’sseat on the council. That’s where the title comes in.The cast are uniformly excellent but they’re intosow’s ears and silk purses territory with this heavy-handed piece of polemic. Keeley Hawes has beengiven the comic relief part, but it sits uncomfortablynext to the poverty porn that permeates the rest ofthe piece.In portraying the underclass as fecklesstroglodytes Rowling is actually providing somejustification for the very bourgeois attitudes sheseems to despise.

W hatwould happen ifNigel Farage andhis anti-immigrant followers swept to power in the

generalelection inMay?Thatwasthequestionposedby Ukip: The First Hundred Days.The answerwas thatwewouldbe able to smoke in

pubs again, and Britain’s borders would be closed toanyone not born here.The story was told through the eyes of a young

English woman from an Asian family who felt thatherpolitical careerwould flourishas thetokenfaceofher ethnic group. She sawtheerrorofherwayswhenshe took part in a raid during which a youngimmigrant was beaten up.It was all a bit predictable, and nothing like the

satire I was expecting, but if it costs Farage even ahandful of votes it will have been worthwhile.

DEREK LORD ON TVMY CHOICE

Host Jo Brand, above, sees anotherquartet of famous faces waving theirwooden spoons in the name of charity.Heading the line-up is Michael Sheen,who's more accustomed to playing larger-than-life characters such as KennethWilliams and Tony Blair than he ismaking cupcakes. Someone who willknow whether his Blair impersonation isaccurate or not is Sarah Brown, wife offormer prime minister Gordon Brown.The mixed bag of contestants iscompleted by Radio 1 DJ Jameela Jamiland comedian David Mitchell. They willhave to prepare 24 portions ofshortbread, six mini pork pies and atriple-tiered pavlova if they're to impressjudges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood.

It's the last in the series, and you don'thave to have read Hilary Mantel's sourcenovels to know that things aren't goingto end well for Anne Boleyn (Claire Foy,above). The Queen accuses Cromwell ofbetrayal when she finds out he tried toprotect Mary rather than her daughterElizabeth, but that's not the only signher influence is on the wane. Herenemies are circling, so it's a particularlybad time for Anne to forget herselfduring an argument with her sister-in-law and reveal that three men havedeclared their love to her. Jane happilyrushes to tell Cromwell the news, butalso hints that her husband George'srelationship with Anne is more thanbrotherly. Cromwell also extracts theultimate revenge on those who havedared to cross the King.

The murder of 11-year-old DannyLatimer rocked the small Dorsettown of Broadchurch in seriesone of the hit saga.The investigation of DI Alec

Hardy (David Tennant) and localofficer DS Ellie Miller (OliviaColman) helped make it ITV’shighest rated drama of 2013.Meera Syal jumped at the

chance to star in series two, butwhat was it about Chris

Chibnall’s scripts that attractedher?“He takes time,” she explains.

“It’s the time and space in hisscripts that he uses to delve intocharacter.“It’s what drew people to watchThe Killing. It’s so much moreabout what are the effects of theseevents on people and to delve intotheir inner lives.”As Judge Sonia Sharma, was

there a part of Meera that wasthrilled by the fact that she spentso much time sitting down?“Yeah,” she laughs. “I wonder if

Patrick Stewart felt like that whenhe did his bit in the X-Men

movies. He probably thought thesame thing: ‘Great, I just get to sitdown the entire film.’“I didn’t think that. I did think:

‘That’s going to be very long days,’because courtroom scenes take along time to shoot; every singleangle has to be covered and allthe reaction shots, so I knew Iwas in for long days, and theywere.”This week it’s the series finale,

so fans can expect plenty of twistsand turns for Alec and Ellie beforethose closing credits roll. Settleback and hopefully we’ll finallyget some closure on the mosttalked about drama of the year.

William McIlvanney: Living with WordsDOCUMENTARY

Friday, BBC2, 10pmWilliam McIlvanney is one of Scotland's greatest writers. His seminal novel Dochertywas recently voted in the top 10 Scottish novels of all time, and like much of his workcentres on working-class life in the west of Scotland. His Glasgow detective Laidlawinspired a whole a generation of crime writers, earning him the mantle ‘Godfather ofTartan Noir'. McIlvanney's evocative and powerful sense of Scottish identity andlanguage has inspired countless others. A lifelong socialist, he has been writingpassionately about Scotland's sense of political identity for decades. Thisdocumentary is an intimate portrait of the writer, which also features contributionsfrom David Hayman, Ali Smith and Ian Rankin among others.

Meera Syal asJudge SoniaSharma

SERIES FINALE

Time for the truth David Tennant andOlivia Colman asDI Alec Hardy andDS Ellie Miller

BBC2, Saturday, 10pmHillbillies, moonshine andDolly Parton. The comicencounters them all as heexplores the white music ofthe southern states.

Indian SummersChannel 4, Sunday, 9pmDoes civil service star Ralph(Henry Lloyd Hughes) haveany interest in wealthyMadeleine? And can he keepa lid on the shootingscandal? Intrigue at everyturn as the steamy yarnunfolds.

CriticalSky1, Tuesday, 9pmJed Mercurio’s reinvention ofthe medical drama ispowerful stuff: an hour ofreal-time emergency crisesand procedures that neverlets up.

SuffragettesForever! TheStory of Womenand PowerBBC2, Wednesday, 8pmAmanda Vickery takes usthrough the long and bloodyfight for women’s suffrage.

Reinventingthe RoyalsBBC2, Thursday, 9pmAfter Diana’s death, battlesbetween royalty and mediacame thick and fast. SteveHewlett expertly opens someold wounds.

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