The Real Crown: Inside the House of Windsor It’s covered in white paint which, the artist’s granddaughter suspects, may itself have been part of his process. The last in the series turns the spotlight on a possible canvas from expressionist Arshile Gorky. The results were shocking, and the complex repercussions implicated her accusers as much as Bach herself. Now forever associated with the mighty Derry Girls, Tara Lynne O’Neill (who played Mary Quinn) and Ian McElhinney (Joe McCool) are each given £400 and an expert guide to scour the shops of Aberdeenshire for vintage bargains.Īiring over the next three evenings, this uncompromising HBO docu-series follows the impact of Renee Bach, an American missionary whose charity in Uganda, Serving His Children, began treating ill children despite a lack of medical expertise. Next week’s conclusion picks up with Brexit on the horizon. The cumulative effect is to forensically pick apart the death spiral of financial boom, crash and then austerity in which developers, mortgage lenders, landlords and shareholders were favoured over those on average wages looking to buy or even just rent at a reasonable rate. The housing market and home ownership have taken on an increasingly totemic quality in the British economy and indeed psyche, and this explains how, why and with what consequences.īeginning in the late 1990s with the Labour landslide and Bank of England independence (although the programme could have dug even deeper and gone back to Margaret Thatcher’s council housing sell-off), James speaks to politicians including Michael Gove and Alistair Darling, but also bankers and developers, economists and campaigners. With a recent survey from the House Builders Federation determining England to be the worst place to find housing in the developed world, it is no surprise that the first hour of Victoria James’s excellent two-part documentary boils over with frustration and fury. Britain’s Housing Crisis: What Went Wrong?
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