DEBORAH ROSS: Michael Palin is deliciously wry in Travels Of A Lifetime

Michael Palin: Travels Of A Lifetime Sunday, BBC2 Rating: Spitting Image Saturday, BritBox Rating: Michael Palin’s Around The World In 80 Days, originally broadcast in 1989, was the first ‘celebrity travelogue’, paving the way for the situation we have today where, in recent years, we’ve had Sue Perkins doing Japan, Paul Hollywood doing Japan, and … Read more

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Puffed-up baker Paul doesn’t do wry… unless it’s in a loaf of bread

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night’s TV: Puffed-up baker Paul doesn’t do wry… unless it’s in a loaf of bread By Christopher Stevens for the Daily Mail Published: 02:16 BST, 29 April 2020 | Updated: 02:16 BST, 29 April 2020 Paul Hollywood Eats Japan Rating: How To Keep Your Dog Happy At Home Rating: Let’s Fishing … Read more

Clothes… And Other Things That Matter review: Alexandra Shulman’s new book is both wry and candid

Alexandra Shulman’s Clothes… And Other Things That Matter is a wry and candid part-memoir, part-fashion history, part-social commentary By Kate Finnigan Published: 22:01 BST, 25 April 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 25 April 2020 Clothes… And Other Things That Matter Alexandra Shulman                            … Read more

Alanis Morissette review: She exudes wry humour and her singing is rivetingly powerful

Alanis Morissette                                        Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London  Touring September 28 to October 4 Rating: Mention 1996 to a music-lover and they will probably think of Oasis or the Spice Girls. But those bands, huge though they were, … Read more