Summary
Television loves grotesques: Magnus Pyke, Patrick Moore, David Starkey, Jeremy Clarkson. The latest is the architectural writer Gavin Stamp, who fronts Gavin Stamp's Orient Express, which few people will see because they haven't heard of Gavin Stamp and it's on Channel 5 (Thursday). That's a pity, because he is compulsive viewing. For a start, he looks like Kenneth Williams from the side and Gordon Brown's younger brother from the front, which is not a combination you often see.
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Miracle Worker
Now and again someone recommends a programme, and you're very glad they did because it's the kind of show that television ought to make often and only rarely does. I Believe in Miracles (BBC2, Tuesday), a This World documentary, was like th...
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