![]() Poisoned: the Dirty Truth about Your Food ![]() ![]() Alex Kiehl’s film is unflinching on the sacrifices required for greatness. GTĬoming so soon after his premature withdrawal from the Tour de France after a crash (and with it a deferral, at least, of his dream to break Eddy Merckx’s record of 34 stage wins), this documentary has an elegiac feel as the greatest sprinter in cycling history considers the final curtain. And while the tone of tonight’s chinwag is chummy (“you are a winner and you have this incredible life”), Du Beke does movingly address his upbringing at the hands of an abusive father and his own long journey to fatherhood. “I’ll let your producer decide whether I’m a borderline national treasure or actually a national treasure,” he says at the conclusion of the brief clips package made available for preview: those with strong ideas on Du Beke are unlikely to have their preconceptions challenged. As such, it is hard not to imagine that the future guests for this 22nd series, Ruby Wax and Omid Djalili, might prove more headline-worthy guests than Anton Du Beke, a man who has never knowingly dodged a camera and whose love of performing may make him a fine judge and dancer, but a downright exhausting interviewee. The results were softer interviews in which public images tended to be burnished rather than challenged. ![]() Kate Garraway’s Life Stories: Anton du BekeĪs her first stint in the Life Stories chair once occupied by Piers Morgan demonstrated what she lacked in Morgan-style aggression, Kate Garraway made up for in empathy and optimism. ![]()
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