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Irish Independent
21-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
‘Fake or Fortune' returns: Could a £140 painting from an antique fair be a real Churchill?
'Fake or Fortune' (BBC1) 4/5 Pat Stacey History might have been different if Adolf Hitler had succeeded in his ambition to become an artist. Unfortunately for humanity, Hitler's paintings, which slavishly copied the styles of 19th-century artists, were mediocre, lifeless and uninspired. Twice rejected by Vienna's Academy of Fine Arts, he might have made a competent architectural draughtsman, but he was certainly no artist.
Irish Independent
17-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
‘Home: The Story of Zak Moradi' review: Leitrim hurler embarks on emotional quest to reconnect with his past
Moving immigrant story shows best and worst of human nature Pat Stacey You may already be familiar with the subject of Trevor White's documentary Home: The Story of Zak Moradi (now streaming on RTÉ Player). You'll certainly know him if you're a hurling fan from Leitrim. He plays as a left-corner forward for the county's senior team. He was a part of the side that won the Lory Meagher Cup in 2016, a dream come true.
Irish Independent
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Meet Gabriel Book – the eccentric, whip-smart hero who is a worthy successor to Sherlock Holmes
Mark Gatiss's new six-part series 'Bookish' goes beyond mere cosy crime Pat Stacey It was probably inevitable that the supremely talented and versatile Mark Gatiss, co-creator of the BBC's Sherlock, would one day create an original character who gives Conan Doyle's detective a run for his money. Meet Gabriel Book: the eccentric, whip-smart hero of the hugely enjoyable six-part series Bookish (U&Alibi, Wednesday, July 16). Played by Gatiss, who shares scriptwriting duties with Matthew Sweet, Book owns an antiquarian bookshop – called Book's, naturally, which gives rise to an amusing exchange about apostrophes – in the immediate post-war London of bombsites, strict rationing and a burgeoning underworld.
Irish Independent
07-07-2025
- Irish Independent
‘Shoot to Kill: Terror on the Tube' – Met Police officer who shot Jean Charles de Menezes speaks out
'Shoot to Kill: Terror on the Tube' (Channel 4) 4/5 Pat Stacey It's been 20 years since the horrific bombings in London, generally referred to as 7/7, when four Islamist suicide bombers targeted commuters on public transport during the morning rush hour, killing 52 people of 18 nationalities and injuring nearly 800 more. Two weeks later, after an attempt by four more suicide bombers to wreak further carnage on the city failed when their devices did not detonate, Metropolitan Police officers shot dead an innocent 27-year-old Brazilian electrician called Jean Charles de Menezes, who was taking the Tube to work, believing him to be one of the would-be bombers.
Irish Independent
01-07-2025
- Irish Independent
To Catch a Stalker review: Women reveal the threat they live under in bone-chilling BBC documentary
BBC Three documentary To Catch a Stalker looks at shocking cases of women being stalked in the UK Pat Stacey What does a woman have to do to feel safe, to live a life in which something as routine as a trip to the supermarket, a night out with friends or the simple act of turning out the lights and going to bed at night isn't an ordeal filled with anxiety and dread? What does she have to do to be free of her stalker? By the end of To Catch a Stalker (BBC Three, 9pm and 9.45pm, Tuesday, July 1; repeated on BBC One, 11.40pm and 12.30am), the answer seems to be: wait and hope. And then wait and hope some more.
