TOMB RAIDER TONY’S A TREASURE

“What’s that, dear, your grandfather had multiple secret families and lied at every turn? Yes, we saw it on BBC1. Pass the cranberry sauce.”

In a stranger-than-fiction tale that hit screens on Tuesday, the star of The Affair plays Alison, her own grandmother, the title’s Mrs Wilson. It is a bizarre and compelling reallife story of spies and betrayal that Ruth confesses she’s been carrying around for years, wondering if she could – or should – tell it on screen. I’m glad she did.

Ruth says: “I would tell people the story, and they all said, ‘You’ve got to get this made.’” It was a slow-ish start, despite a death in the first two minutes, but Ruth was so captivating that I was glued.

After Alison’s husband Alec, played by Iain Glen, dropped dead of a heart attack, there were clues that something was off.

IF you managed to miss 20 years of Time Team, I suggest you,ou, ahem, dig out Tony Robinson’s new

w series Egyptian Tomb Hunting, whichhich arrived on Channel 5 this week.

The Blackadder actor, right, foundund himself knee-deep in trouble.

A tomb suddenly flooded whilee he and his team were 15 metres down,wn, forcing them to get out quick.

and Elsewhere Tony, 72, braved snakes sat on a disdismembered mummy.

The besbest moment was when he held the 4,0004,000-year-old heart of an Egyptian ruler. The organ is usually

a placed baback inside a mummy but mix-up mmeant that a bag of salt had been putpu there instead. This show wawas a real treasure with some

astoundinga discoveries.