James Delingpole James Delingpole

Happy talk

Imagine (BBC1); Ten O'Clock News (BBC1); That Mitchell and Webb Look (BBC2) 

issue 23 February 2008

Imagine (BBC1); Ten O’Clock News (BBC1); That Mitchell and Webb Look (BBC2) 

The Day of the Kamikaze (Channel 4, Monday) was really good, I’ll bet, but the Fawn wasn’t having it so I suppose I’ll have to watch it some other time on my own. She’d rather be watching some old rubbish like Ladette to Lady (ITV1), which I sympathise with up to a point. It’s so nice in these ghastly times to find a programme whose fundamental underlying assumption is that toffs are better than oiks.

As a compromise, we settled for Imagine (BBC1, Tuesday), the first in a new series of Alan Yentob documentaries. This one was about self-help books, which I personally became strangely convinced by after interviewing Paul McKenna for this magazine. Yentob had a similar epiphany.

I quite understand why people who don’t read self-help books hate them so much.

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