Jasper Rees

Alienatingly sweet and warm: BBC2’s The Newsreader reviewed

Plus: the absorbing documentary My Insta Scammer Friend is a cautionary parable

Helen Norville (Anna Torv) and Geoff Walters (Robert Taylor) in BBC2's The Newsreader. Image: BBC / Werner Film Productions 
issue 30 July 2022
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