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HEALTH • MONEY • TRAVEL • RECIPES • FASHION • TECHNOLOGY

D I G E S T

APRIL 2019

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S M A L L
A N D
P E R F E C T LY

Ralph
Fiennes
On Ballet And
Boundaries

I N F O R M E D

Defying Death
HOW TO MAKE PEACE
WITH MORTALITY

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A P R I L

CULTURE

Chris Stein


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Stories Of Life
In Blondie

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Contents
APRIL 2019

Features
16 IT’S A MANN’S WORLD

20

Olly Mann rediscovers the joys
to be had in Britain’s libraries
with help from his young son

p

ENTERTAINMENT


20 INTERVIEW:
RALPH FIENNES
Our chat with the elusive
actor turned director unearthed
more mysteries than it solved

30 “I REMEMBER”:
CHRIS STEIN
One half of the legendary new
wave band Blondie looks back
on his incredible career
HEALTH

82

p
72

Exploring the surprising new
movement demystifying dying

40 EVERY ARTHRITIS
QUESTION ANSWERED
This painful joint disease is
actually a collection of ailments.
Here’s what you need to know
INSPIRE

60 BEST OF BRITISH:

WILDLIFE
We round up the best spots
in Britain to dust off your
binoculars this bank holiday

DANCING WITH DEATH

82

TR AVEL & ADVENTURE

VAN GOGH IN LONDON
Did you know that Vincent van
Gogh spent three years living in
London? We went on the trail of
the legendary artist

90 LOST PLACES
Discovering the other-worldly
beauty of these abandoned spots

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HEALTH
Advice: Susannah Hickling
Column: Dr Max Pemberton


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INSPIRE
If I Ruled the World:
Howard Jones

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100

TRAVEL & ADVENTURE
My Great Escape
Cycling Holidays

102

MONEY
Column: Andy Webb

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FOOD & DRINK
Tasty recipes and ideas
from Rachel Walker
HOME & GARDEN
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FASHION & BEAUTY
Column: Lisa Lennkh on
how to look your best
Beauty

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ENTERTAINMENT
April’s cultural highlights

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BOOKS
April Fiction: James Walton’s
recommended reads
Books That Changed
My Life: Michelle Paver

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TECHNOLOGY
Column: Olly Mann


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EDITORS’ LETTERS

Like so many youngsters before me, I grew up wanting
to be Debbie Harry. Watching and rewatching clips of
Blondie performing “Sunday Girl” on Top of the Pops,
I was as transfixed by her androgynous suit and huge
peroxide blow-out as I was by the cool character
stood slightly behind her on guitar, with the skinny
tie and the shock of black hair. My younger self would
hardly believe that one day I’d interview Chris Stein
in the flesh (if you’ll pardon the pun), and that he’d
be just as hip and humble as I’d hoped. Turn to p30 for his memories
of being one half of the coolest band on the planet, as well as his
recollections of 9/11, growing up in Brooklyn and the best live
concert he ever saw—Bob Marley in Texas, does it get any cooler?

Anna

Death is a natural part of the life cycle, so why are so
many of us afraid of it? Are we scared of the unknown or
is it just down to our unwillingness to accept that the
world will go on without us after we’re gone? But to live
your life in death anxiety is to waste your precious time
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I have recently relocated from Egypt to Leeds,
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OUT WITH THE OLD
Olly Mann’s column about repurposing his old files really made
me chuckle. My dad is a hoarder and always urged us to hang on
to all our old school work and books, just in case they one day
came in useful. I took his advice for a while and then I realised
that I was never going to read through all that stuff
again. So, I recycled it. Except, like Olly, I couldn’t
bear to part with the university essays. I doubt I
will ever refer to them again, but it’s comforting
to know they are there; a physical reminder of
times gone by. I donated the empty folders to
my dad in the hope they’d help him sort his own
vast collections of papers.
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FORGIVE AND FORGET

Richard E Grant’s interview was
a compelling article. His career
in the entertainment industry is
going from strength to strength
even after two decades in the
business. I best know him from
his roles as Dr Zander Rice in
the film Logan and Izembaro in
the sixth season of Game of
Thrones—a particular favourite
of mine.
I did find it a shame, however,
that he said he was not a very
forgiving person. It took me a
long time to recognise what
forgiving someone can do for
your soul.
I’ve spent a lot of my life

holding onto things I didn’t
know I was holding onto for fear
of appearing weak if I forgave
and moved on. However, I soon
realised that when you start
building walls to protect

yourself from one person, your
entire head, heart and way of
thinking is surrounded by
roadblocks. You are holding
onto a grudge so tight it spills
into all your other relationships.
I hope one day Richard finds it
in his heart to be more
forgiving. He would feel much
better about himself if he did. I
know I did about myself.
Corrina C Williams, Denbighshire
APRIL 2019 • 9


OV E R TO YO U

THE SKIN YOU’RE IN
Skin says it all in her article, “If I ruled
the World.” Feminism means equality
with men—that’s it. We only complicate
the issue by demanding other pointless
changes. I also agree with her thoughts
that youth clubs are essential for young
people and motorbikes deserve the use of
the road as much as other vehicles.
Most of all, we need to ditch the blame culture
and use argument and discussion more often. We
should be prepared to accept differences of opinion with
humour, tolerance and honesty. Having another point of view does not make

you right or wrong, but debate gives you an insight into the views of others
and, most importantly, why they think differently.
Philippa Sampson, Devon

MAKING SOUNDWAVES
I was very interested to read
your article about the book Last
Train to Hilversum: A Journey in
Search of the Magic of Radio.
Like the author Charlie Connelly
I remember how back in the
Sixties a radio was huge and had
names such as Hilversum printed on
the wavelength selector. As a child, I
always listened to Children’s Hour on
the BBC Home Service, and I managed
to appear on the programme several
times—first, as a contestant in
Regional Round. Later, I was invited to

talk about my love of clarinet
music. This led to becoming a
Young Critic, for which I visited
the theatre, cinema and art
exhibitions. My name was even
printed in Radio Times!
Naturally, after leaving school
I went to work for the BBC. I spent a
few years in their press office and met
many celebrities, including an

astronaut from the Apollo missions.
Reading about this book brought back
all my happy memories of the time
I worked in radio.
Lucy Pesaro, Middlesex

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IT’S A MANN’S WORLD

Parenting By

The Book


Fatherhood finds Olly Mann reigniting
his adolescent love for libraries

I

spent school lunchbreaks in the
library. This was neither nerdy
reclusion nor hipster affectation:
I could, conceivably, have joined the
cool kids behind the tennis courts,
but I didn’t smoke; and, if an
aspirational geek culture around
comic books and computer games
existed in the early 1990s, it had yet
to reach north Hertfordshire. No, I
went to the library simply because it
had central heating, and large tables
around which my mates and I made
each other laugh, and it wasn’t the
sick room. Students who hung
around with Matron in their leisure
time had mummy-issues. This I
knew, even then.
It felt lightly subversive, sneakily
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sharing crisps and bantering
boisterously in the reading room as
the occasional teacher tutted. Plus,
we were spared the school bullies,
who tended not to frequent the
library. Bullies aren’t big readers.
That building, with its peppery
carpet tiles and phlegm-coloured
radiators, bequeathed me many fond
memories. It housed an industrialsized photocopier, for example, from
which I pumped out 200 weekly
copies of the school newspaper
(under my editorship, we went
tabloid. “Worm Found On School
Potato!” was the sensational
highlight.) The library also contained
the school’s sole copy of Microsoft
Encarta, the “digital encyclopaedia”
CD-Rom.
Encarta was a bit like Wikipedia, in
the same way that a rainy car-boot
sale is a bit like Amazon. It proffered
thousands of articles, analogue
equivalents of which were already
accessible in the school’s dusty



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IT’S A MANN’S WORLD

copies of Britannica—but with the
thrilling opportunity to click on a
short accompanying video
illustrating some of the entries. I
suppose this was intended to inspire
related reading. Instead, I just
watched the small selection of videos
on endless repeat, and became
unhealthily obsessed with hideous
moments from history. Thus, aged
13, I could recite Herb Morrison’s
report from the Hindenburg disaster,
verbatim. Oh, the humanity!
After that, libraries never seemed
as much fun. Indeed, during my
university years, the library was
perhaps the only building on campus
where fun was specifically
prohibited. I did enjoy an occasional
nap in there—slumped over a book
of Anglo-Saxon grammar in the hope
its contents would absorb into my
brain by osmosis—but basically my
perception of libraries became

linked with work, not pleasure. What
a shame! Just glancing down the list
of the most-borrowed authors in
the UK— Jeffrey Archer, James
Patterson, Jaqueline
Wilson— it’s clear
that the majority of
borrowers are,
essentially, enrolled
for entertainment.
Nonetheless, for over a
decade I didn’t set
foot in a library. What
was the point, I
reasoned, when I could
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buy whatever book I wanted—at
second-hand prices if I didn’t want to
shell out the RRP—and get it
delivered to my door with the click of
a mouse? Libraries, or so it seemed
to me, were nothing more than
day-care centres for the
technologically illiterate.
Then I became a dad, and, like
many parents, re-discovered the joy
of libraries. My three-year-old son,
Harvey, seemingly had no need for
library membership: his bedroom

shelf heaves with brilliant books by
Judith Kerr, Alan Ahlberg, and
probably more works by Julia
Donaldson than even Julia
Donaldson has in her personal
collection. They amassed at great
speed when I clocked that—since
Harvey has a knack for emotionally
manipulating me into buying him
some tchotchke or trinket every time
we hit the high street—that thing
might as well be a book, rather than
some cover-mounted plastic
plaything en route
to landfill.
But I sensed Harvey had
begun to see books as
rather too available, too
unremarkable.
I want him to be
familiar with,
and undaunted
by, the habit of
reading. But I
also recall, from
my own


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“The notion of respecting
other readers—rather
than running around like
you’re at soft-play in a
chocolate factory—took
some time
to teach”
childhood, that a certain scarcity can
add to the magic of discovering a
favourite new tome. I still recall the
excitement of unearthing wonderful
stories, deep at the back of the
communal shelves, and my mixed
emotions at having to return them,
three weeks later, for another child to
enjoy. I wanted Harvey to have
experiences like that. So, we joined
our local library.
At first, the idea of ordering a book,
then waiting a week for it to arrive,
completely foxed him. He’s grown

accustomed to the idea that
whatever content he desires can be
summoned up with a tap of a
smartphone. Also, the notion of
respecting other readers—rather
running around the room like you’re
at soft-play in a chocolate factory—
took some time to teach. But now

Harvey is a firm fan of the library
experience. He has his own little
card, understands his
responsibilities to return the books
he borrows, and is exposed to a
broader range of the community
than elsewhere: pupils revising for
their GCSEs, local poets and authors,
and those old chaps who ostensibly
turn up each day to read The
Telegraph, but really, I suspect, are
there for the company. Last week,
indeed, Harvey was so excited to visit
the library that he did a wee on the
floor. The staff were very sympathetic.
Fatherhood, then, has rekindled
my affection for libraries. But I must
say, I miss the banter. n

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Ralph Fiennes
Goes Off Script

M

y shirt is soaking wet. It’s
not a particularly hot day
though, and—no—I haven’t
been caught in the rain or sprinted to
the office—I’ve been on the phone to
Ralph Fiennes for the last half an hour.
He called me from New York, where
he’s taking a few days off from filming,
and from the moment I answered the
phone and heard a frostily composed:
“Hello, Eva. This is Ralph Fiennes,”
I knew I had my work cut out.
I’m on the phone to Ralph to
discuss his third directorial venture,
The White Crow—a biographical
drama about the world’s most
prolific ballet dancer, Rudolf
Nureyev, detailing his life from
the poverty-stricken childhood
in eastern Siberia to his dramatic

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defection from the USSR in 1961.
In addition to directing the film,
Ralph also plays Nureyev’s teacher,
Alexander Pushkin, performing the
role entirely in Russian.
The film, he tells me, wasn’t an
easy one to make, especially from
a financial perspective. “It was
extremely difficult. A lot of drama
is made on TV now, and this was a
film with a lot of scenes in Russian
and French, which is a tough sell
because English-language movies
are more commercially attractive in
the market place. I also wanted an
unknown dancer who could act the
role. I suppose people were looking
for global names which help to sell a
movie. Not having any always makes
it hard.”

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The distinguished actor chats to Eva Mackevic about his
latest passion project, The White Crow, working with
Anthony Minghella and the importance of kindness. But
he’s not too happy about it



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INTERVIEW: RALPH FIENNES

excited
“Ifbyyou’re
the things

It is a tad odd then that far from
relishing the opportunity to sing
the praises of his pet project, Ralph
sounds bored and annoyed, as if he’d
rather be getting his teeth pulled than
having this conversation with me
right now.
As we’re chatting about The White
Crow, including the intricacies of
shooting heavily choreographed
scenes and working with a firsttime actor (Nureyev’s portrayed
by the James Dean-esque Russian
ballet soloist, Oleg Ivenko), drawing
questions out of Ralph actually feels
like pulling teeth—each answer is
preceded by a heavy sigh and a pause
that feels like an eternity. When it
finally does surface, it inevitably
begins with, “It’s very hard to talk
about these things,” “I don’t know how
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to answer your question,” or some
intricate variation of the two.
I get it, though. With such a rich
and distinguished filmography under
his belt, Ralph can afford to be a tad
capricious. After all, he’s worked with
everyone from Steven Spielberg to
Wes Anderson, has been nominated
for two Oscars and his stage
credits are what any Shakespeare
interpreter’s dreams are made of.
He is, however, best known for his
menacing, villainous film roles,
such as the sadistic SS officer in
the war epic, Schindler’s List, or the
fearsome Lord Voldemort in the
Harry Potter franchise.
“I look for some point of
identification with a character. As an
actor, if you’re excited by the things

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your character is
doing, that gives
you the fuel to
play the part”



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(Top left) Ralph
directing Russian
dancer Oleg Ivenko on
the set of The White
Crow; (top right) as
Lord Voldemort in the
Harry Potter films;
(above) as Amon Goeth
in Schindler’s List

that your character is doing, if your
imagination is stimulated by a scene…
that gives you the fuel to play the part,
whether they’re good, bad, gentle,
kind—or evil monsters. You want
to feel how it’s written, I want my
imagination to be stimulated by that.”
When I ask him whether he feels
more comfortable playing villains
or good guys, like The White Crow’s
kind-hearted if slightly meek dance
teacher, Pushkin, Ralph practically
scolds me for asking such a simplistic
question: “I don’t think it’s healthy to
think in terms of, Am I comfortable
or not, it’s more useful to think, Am I
closer to getting to some kind of truth
here? That’s what you want to be

asking yourself.”
I attempt to steer our conversation
towards the similarities between him
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