A good sob’s just the job
JUST out of interest, have you ever looked into the benefits of crying? Well, don’t worry if you have been a bit too busy because I’ve gone ahead and done it for you. By which I mean I’ve tapped “the benefits of crying” into Google to see what comes up.
Quite a lot, as it happens. It turns out that crying can do all sorts of good stuff.
Among other things, it can apparently detoxify your body, improve your mood, help you self-soothe (not really sure what that one means) and reduce pain.
Crying sounds great, doesn’t it?
Which is good to know because, once again, I shall be doing a great deal of it tonight during the PRIDE OF BRITAIN AWARDS (ITV, 8pm).And for that I make no apology at all.
No other event on TV comes close to matching this one for humbling, heart-rending stories of courage, kindness and selflessness.
Hosted by CarolVorderman and Ashley Banjo, and coming from a celebrity-packed Grosvenor House in London’s Park Lane, it’s two hours-plus of television that really does restore your faith in human nature, which lately may have taken a bit of a knock.
So, yes, I shall sob, in the very best sense of the word.Try stopping me.
Also tonight, Channel 5 begins its new drama series DALGLIESH (9pm), celebrating the career of Liverpool football legend Kenny. (Yes, OK, that joke would have been at least mildly less lame if Channel 5’s Dalgliesh were spelt without an E, the way Liverpool’s is.) The chap we’re really talking about, of course, is Detective Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh, the character created in the 60s by P.D. James.
Previously portrayed by Roy Marsden – and briefly by Martin Shaw – Dalgliesh is played in this latest adaptation by the splendid Bertie Carvel.
Set in the mid-70s, the series is split into three, two-part stories (going out Thursdays and Fridays). The first takes place in January 1975, when a student nurse is fatally poisoned during a training demo at a nursing school.
Dalgleish is sent in to investigate, along with his partner DS Masterson (Jeremy Irvine), and begins by taking statements from the other nurses.
Later, he scores an absolute belter against Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Sorry.
Elsewhere, we start a new series of SORTYOUR LIFE OUTWITH STACEY SOLOMON (BBC1, 8pm), the show where families agree to declutter their homes by ditching half their possessions.
These must include any DVDs they currently own of the Channel 5 series Nick Knowles’ Big House Clearout, the show where families agree to declutter their homes by ditching half their possessions.