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From the Editors

THIS WEEK • THE TEN BEST SHOWS TO WATCH, LISTEN TO & STREAM

GRAPEVINE • The TV stories that are getting us talking…

A GIANT TALENT • Cracker writer Paul Abbott on the humour, principles and vintage car habit of his friend Robbie Coltrane

ANDY SERKIS & JAY LYCURGO • What can the man who played Gollum teach his young star about making fantasy real?

to be a movie monster • Spanish horror star Javier Botet found his dream job becoming your worst nightmare

THE POWER OF LOVE • The care system got me to Hollywood — now it needs our support, says Jimmy Akingbola

THIS WEEK IN RT… 1—7 NOV 1980

MY BIG PROBLEM WITH STRICTLY • Why don’t middle-aged women win?

ROGUE MALES • Is Steven Knight’s drama about the SAS far-fetched? Historian Ben Macintyre says it’s the most unbelievable things that turn out to be true…

TOUGH ENOUGH? • What did it take to step into the boots of the men who made a myth?

AGAINST ALL ODDDS • Malorie Blackman overcame poverty and prejudice to become one of our best-known writers. Now the Noughts and Crosses author tells RT why she’s reinventing children’s literature

‘I don’t want to be in a permanent state of fury’ • Sir Bob Geldof changed the world with Live Aid. Four decades later, does he still consider 13 July 1985 to be the best day of his life?

‘It’s the holy grail’ • Meet Anna Haugh, the new face of MasterChef: the Professionals

TOO SOFT TO WIN? • There’s no greater test than leading your country — is Jos Buttler up to it?

SIMON’S THREE TO WATCH

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RIGHT IN THE AFTERNOON? • How do you follow “one of the finest broadcasters in the world”? Scott Mills says he won’t be out of his comfort zone replacing Steve Wright on Radio 2

PICK OF THE WEEK

The Archers this week…

TICKET FOR TWO • Jools Holland and Jim Moir join up to go on some very strange journeys

JAMES NAUGHTIE • The wartime origin of today’s BBC news

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