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The Fixer (BBC2)

Rachel Cooke loathes a makeover show packed with self-promotion.

Adapt or die

Adapt or die

In the battle of the Birdsongs, telly nicks it - just.

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We’ll Take Manhattan (BBC4)

Rachel Cooke wonders: Was fashion in the 1960s really this wet?

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Jonathan Meades on France (BBC4)

Rachel Cooke is mystified by a tour of tenuous connections in the Alsace.

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Sherlock’s sexy, but not sexist

Eternal Law (ITV1)

Rachel Cooke is entirely baffled by a soppy, celestial drama about lawyers.

Jeremy Clarkson lands himself in it yet again

Jeremy Clarkson lands himself in it yet again

The Top Gear presenter faces new complaints following the show's India Christmas special.

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Endeavour (ITV1)

When you've run out of ideas, don’t write a prequel, suggests Rachel Cooke.

When does it not pay to be Muslim?

When does it not pay to be Muslim?

Here's a revolutionary concept: how about a TV character happens to be a Muslim and the plot revolves around, say, her job?

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A year in culture: Television

Critics' Choice: The Best of 2011

The Secret Catacombs of Paris (Radio 4)

The Secret Catacombs of Paris (Radio 4)

The silence in the Paris catacombs is terrifying.

The Politics of Pandas (Radio 4)

The Fifth Floor (BBC World Service)

It’s about time the World Service beat its own drum.

Between The Ears - Obituary Notice (BBC Radio 3)

Some sounds are set into the brain like stains in wood.

Don't Log Off (Radio 4)

Conversations with strangers in cyberspace put Antonia Quirke in a trance.

Magic moments

Antonia Quirke on the best of Christmas listening, from the dull to the daft.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Radio 4)

Antonia Quirke is perturbed by a distorted Brontë adaptation.

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More Guitar Favourites (Radio 4)

Joan Armatrading is brilliantly breathless, writes Antonia Quirke.

Today (Radio 4)

Sarah Montague goes dizzy at the thought of Cranford mittens.

Affairs of the heart

Taming husbands has never been so much fun.

The value of a quiet voice

The value of  a quiet voice

The Fixer

The Fixer (BBC2)

Ralph Fiennes

The NS Interview: Ralph Fiennes

The Muppets return

Gilbey on Film: We need to talk about Kermit

A life in pictures

Charles Dickens: snapshots of a life

Hemingway's Boat

Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved  in Life, and Lost (1934-61)

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Our film awards

And the award goes to...

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