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family. As Mrs McHugh was to learn, and as one man reminded her forcefully as she went door to door in Dublin to publicise her cause, more than 130 children had been killed in the Troubles before Warrington.
Leather, who won a Bafta for 2017’s Murdered for Being Different, knows that God is in the dramatic detail, and it was the smallest moments here that were the most unforgettable, as when the Parrys entered Tim’s hospital room to find every inch of him bandaged save for a toe. Mum almost ran to caress it. Heartbreaking, but superb.
If you were in the mood to learn anything last thing on a Sunday, The Imitation Game (STV, Sunday, 10.05pm) showed that, when it comes to impressions, Cheryl Cole and Sir David Attenborough are this generation’s Harold Wilson and Frank Spencer.
Both the Geordie singer and the naturalist popped up several times as host Alexander Armstrong gave four mimics – Luke Kempner, Jess Robinson, Rory Bremner and Debra Stephenson – silly things to do. The producers had borrowed from almost every other game show, their debt to I’m Sorry…, and Blind Date particularly evident.
It took a while to get going, and 45 minutes was pushing its luck, but what made this worth catching was Kempner. His talents previously confined to Murder in Successville, truly a star was born on mainstream television last Sunday. He was so good that in the Blind Date round, when one contestant had to choose the real Christopher Biggins from a line-up of Bremner, Kempner and old CB himself, Kempner won. From Andy Murray (brilliant) to Donald Trump, there did not seem to be any voice that was beyond him. He did eventually reveal one weak spot: his Bowie was not much cop. He should try to ring the ch-ch-ch-changes on that.
finds himself with a new partner after Bruce gets himself injured.