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But the view is so lovely

Michael Wood: ‘Mr Wilder and Me’, 4 March 2021

Mr Wilder and Me 
by Jonathan Coe.
Viking, 245 pp., £16.99, November 2020, 978 0 241 45466 4
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... What follows are a series of closely focused scenes with lots of voiceover. Wilder, then called Billie, is in a relationship with a woman called Hella. They are on holiday in Switzerland when they hear the news that Adolf Hitler has been made chancellor:EXT. MOUNTAIN. DAYA ski run in Davos, Switzerland. ...

Across the Tellyverse

Jenny Turner: Daleks v. Cybermen, 22 June 2006

Doctor Who 
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Doctor Who: A Critical Reading of the Series 
by Kim Newman.
BFI, 138 pp., £12, December 2005, 1 84457 090 8
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... on children’s television: he started out as a producer on Why Don’t You?, the BBC’s summer holiday activities and crafts programme, then wrote two science-fiction serials for children’s slots, Dark Season (1991) and Century Falls (1993). These apparently and properly divergent interests fuse, brilliantly, at the centre of Davies’s Doctor Who, for ...

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