march2014
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BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL
cover 35 DIWRNOD by S4C
04roundup
“It’s like a sort of foreplay; you kind of make them
open”
10upfront
35 Diwrnod is coming to S4C! It’s all here –
whodunits, suspense, and subtitles? You bet. You’ll
see new and familiar faces like Rhys ap Hywel,
Rhys ap William and Olwen Rees... and they’ll all be
signing autographs (if asked)
26film
Notionally innocuous phrases in Keiron Self’s reviews
this month which have left me weirdly disturbed
include “felty romp”, “fanboy froth” and “Nick
Hornby’s novel, a comedy drama”
28food&drink
Adrienne Walker talks about what (custom dictates)
you should be eating on St Patrick’s Day, citing her
Northern Irish heritage as a knowledge base. Next
month, we’ll run a rebuttal from a spokesman from the
Ulster Unionist Party. We won’t really
32previews
In an incredible, bizarro-world turn of events, the
photos on this month’s music preview page are 100%
woman (apart from the two blokes from Chvrches)!
It’s not all bad news for any guys feeling threatened
though: we also preview a DJ called Agnes who’s
actually male, and Richard Herring, who has been
known to treat women poorly and then extract
comedy from this
40reviews
There’s something satisfying about the way the
initials of this month’s singles run B-B-B-P-Q-RS-T. Brings to mind a drunk driver spluttering with
incredulity at the suggestion he can’t correctly recite
the alphabet
46sport
An admiring writeup on the gruelling hill walk that
is the Three Peaks Trial, but once again no coverage
of the Peek Freans Trial, where I sit in an office chair
and eat an entire tin of biscuits
48travel
The country of Ireland is on the up this month,
blessed with yet another page in this dusty organ.
Let’s hear it for St Patrick who was, as our travel
piece notes, the man who brought Christianity to the
isle. Which worked out well
49listings
Just now on Radio 2, Steve Wright trotted out that
apocryphal stat about the average person swallowing
10 spiders in their lifetime, as part of the ‘krazy
facts’ segment. Lord Reith would be appalled. About
the lax attitude to facts, that is, not the spiders
70competitions
Q. What was Paul Potts’ father’s occupation? A.
General Secretary of the Communist Party of
Kampuchea
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