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Friel Life On the Street ; Anna Got Tips From Real Street Worker for Role

ANNA Friel might not look like she's aged a day since Brookside, but it's almost 17 years since she achieved stardom in the Channel 4 soap. After making a conscious decision to leave her TV roots behind, and establish herself as a film actress, Anna struggled for recognition throughout her twenties. But her determination has now paid off and she is now juggling an enviable range of Alist parts.

Sniffing Out Crime at the Sharp End

FORGET PC Stamp and Inspector Lynley. Everybody's favourite police officers are the ones that come with wet noses and waggy tails. So it's no surprise that a series showing their hard work at the sharp end of policing is back in a new run.

Good Telly Fun at Others' Expense

WATCHING someone being made to look stupid purely for your own entertainment may sound morally dubious, but there's no getting away from the fact that it makes good telly. Candid Camera (remember that?) and You've Been Framed are proof enough.

Go On, Admit He Makes You Laugh

THERE'S nothing particularly clever about Lee Evans's comedy. He doesn't do characters, and doesn't do anything post-modern or ironic. Even his practiced selfdeprecation and the physical jerks which punctuate his act seem truly genuine. He's been endlessly likened to Norman Wisdom, and his brand of comedy has been derided as "lowest common denominator" stuff.

Artists Who Pushed the Limits

THE grandly named PreRaphaelite Brotherhood, rebelled against the art establishment of the late-19th century by refusing to adopt accepted rules of composition, subject and style. Now a new BBC drama focuses on the often torrid private lives of the group's leading members. Their most famous works are now instantly recognisable, and to some, a bit too chocolateboxy, so it can be difficult to imagine how controversial they were in their day.

Digital D-Day ; S4c Gearing Up for the Big Switchover

CIRCUS performers joined S4C stars for the launch of a campaign to highlight the digital switchover. Currently programmes in Welsh on S4C are interspersed with Englishlanguage shows from Channel 4. But after digital switchover, which starts in North Wales in October, S4C will be entirely in Welsh and all Channel 4 content will be broadcast separately. Angharad Mair, who hosts magazine programme Wedi 7, quizmaster Morgan Jones, presenter Sara Elgan and comedian Tudur Owen went out onto the str...

Bethan's Big Moment

TV presenter and Daily Post Cymraeg columnist Bethan Gwanas will be right at home at the Royal Welsh Show once again this year - she grew up on a farm near Dolgellau. But this year - her third stint at the Builth Wells showground - will give her more of an adrenalin rush because she's going to be in front of the camera for the first time, rather than summarising unseen. She'll be doing pieces to camera on different themes each day.

What to Watch

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (Sky Movies Premier, 6pm) Girls everywhere-and their mums are in for a treat with this feelgood movie that follows the romantic woes of an Eastbourne teenager. Life is forever black when you're fourteen, wear a school uniform, hate your looks and can't get enough kissing practice. This is a great film from start to finish, with an impressive lead role played by sixteenyear-old Georgia Groome. Anonymous (ITV1, 6.30pm) Stephen Mulhern is having the time of his...

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What To Eat Now (BBC2, 8.30pm) Tonight, the enviable Valentine Warner is enjoying his lovely carefree life barbecuing on a Cornish beach. He's cooking whatever his mates are able to catch and he's taken by surprise when a total stranger emerges from the sea with (his favourite) a sea bass impaled on his spear-fishing gun (that's not something you see everyday!). He leaves the beach to chase a guinea fowl around a Wiltshire farm and later cooks a feast for a birthday party in a local west Afri...

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Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium (Disney Cinemagic HD 6pm) Molly Mahoney was a promising composer and piano player when she was a girl, and now she is a twenty-three year-old insecure woman that feels stuck in her job as manager of Mr. Magorium"s Wonder Emporium. Among the costumers of the Emporium is the lonely hat collector, Eric Applebaum, who has only Molly and Mr. Magorium for friends. This movie is timeless. It is like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory only without Roald Dahl"s childhood t...

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Rick Stein's Far Eastern Odyssey (BBC2, 8pm) Rick crosses into Vietnam and its clear that the chef has an affection for the pungency, heat and freshness of the food here and he makes short work of everything from herb-strewn food to the much-prized clams prepared in highclass hotel kitchens. He also dons a conical hat that doesn't really suit him and he eats the local cuisine with so much gusto you'd think he hadn't eaten for weeks. New Tricks (BBC1, 9pm) The old geezers are drawn into what l...

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Athletics (BBC2, 6pm) Don't blink or you'll miss him! Yes, Usain Bolt, the fastest man in the world, is due to run the 100m at the London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace tonight and fans will be hoping for another electric performance. The Jamaican sprint sensation, who has been taking time out from training to teach kids in London how to run faster, dashed to a world record 9.69sec at the Beijing Olympics last year and reckons he can lower that figure to 9.5 sec. But, for now sit back and enjoy...

Up Close with ... Gary Lineker

Name Gary Lineker Image Mr Nice Guy Best Known For Being an England football hero, a TV pundit and crisps promoter Early Life Born Gary Winston Lineker on November 30, 1960, in Leicester, where his parents had a grocery stall. Has a younger brother, Wayne, who hit the headlines last year when he was jailed for fraud. Gary's final school report after leaving with just four O-levels said "Must devote less of his time to sport if he wants to be a success." Career After making his name as a free-...

Soapbox ... ; (Week Beginning Monday December X)

NEIGHBOURS (FIVE) Paul's suspicious behaviour convinces Elle that he's responsible for the hit-and-run incident that killed his half- sister, Jill Ramsay. Lucas urges her to report her father to the police, but after he's arrested for manslaughter, she's tormented by guilt. HOLLYOAKS (C4 & S4C) Ravi's eagerness to make Ash proud is the reason he's agreed to take part in illegal street fights, despite having a life-threatening brain aneurism. Ash is left stunned when his brother collapses afte...

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Wine Notes

KINGSLEY Amis wrote of a group of ladies who spent the day swimming around in a sea of Soave. A decade or more after the old devil departed, the same scenario is the ladies revelling in a river of ros, for once again ros is the popular drink this summer.

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Berry Good Puds for the Summer

PEOPLE can be quite rude about raspberries - the phrase "blowing a raspberry" is hardly friendly. Perhaps it's because they are slower to mature and thrive best in a cooler climate, which along with their longer growing season and hardiness gives them a distinctly rich flavour. Raspberries come in two guises: the more common summer fruiting such as Glen Magna, which grow on their cane one year and flower and bear fruit the next, allowing them to crop in July; and autumn fruiting varieties suc...

Sunday Lunch Is a Historic Affair

tastetest Lisa Markham at Penrhos Arms, Cemmaes, Machynlleth M RS Hefina Markham is a wonderful cook but today she's having the day off. It's always such a pleasure taking my mum-in-law out, but I wonder how my husband Ken will cope with both of us on "holiday".