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There are just too many of us living on this planet

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he arts world is currently running a laudable campaign to stem population growth. It started in celluloid with I Don’t Know How She Does It, We Need to Talk About Kevin and the recently released Friends With Kids - three 100-minute ads for getting your tubes tied, so miserable do they make motherhood appear.

Now, making the case with greater intent, comes Ten Billion at London’s Royal Court, the title a reference to the likely size of the global population by the end of this century.

Ten Billion isn’t really a play, more an impassioned sermon. It is given by a real Oxbridge scientist, Stephen Emmott. This modern-day Malthus, who accidentally channels Hugh Laurie in House thanks to a back injury and a shared “thinking woman’s crumpet” appeal, paints a bleak picture of the environmental impact of our rapid multiplication.

It feels well-timed. Last week the first slew of data from the 2011 Census was released, showing that

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We need manageable population decline across the world says ROSAMUND URWIN England and Wales are currently in the middle of a mini baby boom.

The number of children under one is up a fifth on a decade ago. This was expected. Immigration means there are more women of childbearing age, immigrants tend to have bigger families and those (mostly British-born) women who delayed having children in their twenties have had them in their thirties and forties instead.

And, as the baby-boomers’ children are now having children themselves, fertility may well remain elevated for some years.

Of course, the UK birth-rate spike is small fry in a world growing ever bigger. But what was typical about the reaction to it is that economics trumped environment. The pes-

simists fretted about the impact on primary school places and housing, while the optimists - such as Tory MP Elizabeth Truss - saw only a financial boost in having more young people to pay for the elderly.

It showed how desperately we need more voices like Emmott’s, who can make the case for manageable population decline across the world.

The old argument goes that we will “technologise” ourselves out of envirogeddon but, as Emmott notes, we have “technologised” ourselves into our problems in the fi rst place. I am a fully paid up member of the Climate Change Club (a wholly-inadequate £3 a month to Greenpeace) but even those who aren’t should fear resources becoming ever more stretched.

Walking home slightly dazed after Ten Billion, the old (inaccurate) quip by Sam Levenson stuck in my head. “Somewhere on this globe a woman gives birth to a child every 10 seconds. She must be found and stopped.” I suspect by 2100, if we are 10 billion or more, that joke will have worn thin.

The joy of text - simple, cheap and here to stay

By Lucy Tobin Mouths, you’re going out of fashion.

The nose was always better at breathing - quieter, less spitty – and as for eating, well, everyone’s on a diet anyway.

The mouth’s major use was always talking. And we’re not doing so much of that any more. Instead, fingers: this is your moment.

Texting is now the most popular form of daily communication for Britons, new research shows. Ofcom, the telecoms watchdog, reported that the average Briton now sends 200 texts a month, more than double the number four years ago. More than half of UK adults use texts at least once a day to communicate with family and friends, more than those who do so in person, on a mobile, or even via social networking.

Meanwhile, the average time spent yabbering on a mobile fell for the first

time last year, while calls made on landlines continued to drop by 10 per cent. I remain loyal to using the kind of phone that doesn’t freeze more frequently than a branch of Iceland, as my BlackBerry does, but clearly my daily (landline) calls to my mum aren’t frequent enough to skew the figures.

It was obvious the text was going mainstream when my dentist started pinging me missives reminding me of upcoming appointments. Yes, they were unwanted, but much better to receive a snap text that darkened my mood for mere seconds than have a drawn-out conversation where both his bored secretary and I have to pretend to care how the other one is.

Which is why I’m surprised to hear of moaning within the Ofcom survey, with three-quarters of British adults saying they would prefer to meet their text-buddies in person, or speak on

the phone, than communicate by text.

Leaving aside the needless whinge factor, there’s a reason why texting is more popular. It’s quick: even oldies nowadays speed along with their onefingered approach. It gives people the option of reading your missive when they’re free, rather than you hissing down the phone from a meeting or forcing everyone in earshot to hear your conversation.

We also need to stop nostalgically harking back to a past when we had long chats with neighbours over fences and saw friends daily because they lived across the sheep field. This hasn’t been a reality for anyone in living memory. Today, most of our friends live further away and phone calls take place during snatched minutes.

We don’t need to lament the fact that we’re finding new ways to stay in touch.

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it’s time patient care was at the centre of medical policy

Centre of the universe I was meeting an old pal, consultant in a local hospital, for lunch. Our meeting place was the Casualty Department as it’s next to the car park. I was there five minutes early and sat in the waiting area. Almost at once I heard crying and snivelling and around the corner came a big, bonny mum propelling a crying, ten-year-old lad. Years of experience and the sight of his wrist told me he had a Colles’ fracture. It’s ‘dinnerfork’ deformity was obvious. He was supporting the injured hand and was clearly alarmed at the horribly unnatural shape of his forearm. It was nothing serious but he was frightened, hence the tears, not of pain but of fear. At that moment it was 12:55pm.

The casualty sister called to the duty doctor who was in one of the cubicles. He came out, glanced across at the lad’s wrist and made the same diagnosis I had. Then he looked at his watch and said “OK, Sister, it’s lunch time. I’ll see to that,” he nodded towards the lad, “After lunch”.

He left the room. He left the patient without a word. He left me horrified.

How could he, I wondered?

There was no danger and there was no pain, it’s true. Clinically it was all trivial. But to go for lunch without a word of reassurance was downright callous. If I had done that - an event I deny even as a possibility, my chief would’ve hit me - and justifiably so. Things have obviously much changed since then.

When I was a house surgeon it was customary to work about a ninety hour week. Even then for some of the ‘free time’ one would be on ‘second call’ and by no means really free. For that working week, six months pay was £425. Say £17 a week, or two bob an hour (about two quid an hour at today’s equivalent). What’s more we thrived on it. We saw it as a huge privilege. We were tired, but we loved our work. We cared about our patients, deeply.

Many was the night if I’d a seriously sick kid on my ward I’d get up at 2am and go down there to

Everything is now geared, primarily, not to patient needs but to completing the banal paperwork demanded of staff.

There are forms for everything and exact data must be kept

see he was OK. It mattered to me and, after all these years, it still does.

Since the episode described, last summer, I’ve been observing what is different about the current modus operandi. To start with, everything is now geared, primarily, not to pa-

tient needs but to completing the banal paperwork demanded of staff. There are forms for everything and exact data must be kept. Time-wasting compilation of trivia is a major part of the work load. We never had time or need of such bumf. The sole motive nowadays is to see how near to the numerous and ludicrous set targets things can get. And that is all so some manager, district controller and, eventually, minister can cover his arse and show that whatever went wrong it was not his fault.

I’m not tarring all staff with the same brush. Not every nurse says ‘Sorry, can’t help you, - I’m not on Mrs.Smith’s case,’ when some troubled relative enquires.

Plenty still go the extra mile and bless them every one.

Curiously, or perhaps not, I have found a different attitude prevalent in the hospice system.

There, if the patient gets in the way of the form fi lling it’s the forms that wait. If a patient has a problem, the aim of staff is to fi nd a way around it. Obstructive

rules are minimised and so are managerial meetings. Things should be like that throughout the entire medical universe. Everything should focus on the needs of the patients. Medicine is a vocation, not just a job. The weight of ‘managerism’ needs relegating. Government’s job is not to cheesepare and check up on, but to devote it’s entire effort to making the money needed to pay for it all. Any rule that imposes on patient needs must be marginalised. Matrons should be put back in charge of everything. Now, as always, the patient is the centre of the medical world and it is around this centre alone that all medical services must revolve. Patients matter extremely, doctors and nurses a little here and there, and managers almost not at all.

Medical achievements are better today but what a lot today’s patients have lost. And though medical salaries are so huge, what treasure so many of today’s doctors have squandered.

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Early retirement

More oil sought

per cent of traffic accident victims in Cyprus are in the 18 to 24 age group, as opposed to the European average of 19 per cent, delegates to the 4th European Road Safety Day heard in Cyprus this week.

“The tragic loss of young lives on European roads is unacceptable….I am most concerned by accidents due to drugs or alcohols especially among young men and women,” said Siim Kallas, the European Commission’s vice president responsible for transport.

Szabolcs Schmidt, head of the European Commission’s Road Safety Unit said that Cyprus has a long way to go in slashing its road fatalities in half, adding that in Europe around 61 people in every one million are killed in traffic accidents whereas in Cyprus the relative figure is 88.

Traffic accidents are still the first cause of death and of disability in young people, in both the world and Europe.

Greek Pontian suspects in the murder of five people in Ayia Napa last month look due to be sent to the island following an instruction by the Greek Supreme Court.

According to a police spokesman, the suspects – aged 29 and 41 – had the right to appeal the decision within 24 hours, while the court has 30 days to accept or reject the appeal.

“If they don’t appeal, we will need to collect them and transfer them to Cyprus within 10 days,” the spokesman said.

Five men – three Cypriots aged 28, 33 and 35, and two Romanians aged 25 and 33 – were killed in late June after the black BMW they were in was sprayed with bullets on a side-street off Ayia Napa’s busy nightclub scene.

Four of the five worked as security for Famagusta businessman Phanos Kalopsidiotis.

workers in the civil service applied for early retirement in the first six months of this year, up from the 240 for the whole of 2011 after uncertainty over the future of retirement lump sums, the head of the Public Service Commission (PSC) said this week.

After presenting President Demetris Christofias with the Commission’s 2011 annual report, PSC head Pavlos Papageorgiou said even though Christofias stated the one-off payment would never be touched, Papageorgiou said that with the constant speculation in the media, requests for early retirement continued to increase and were still rising.

Asked if these applications would be approved by the end of the year, Papageorgiou said the law offered public servants the right to seek early retirement and if there weren’t any objections, the PSC was obliged to approve them.

million tonnes of gasoil and fuel oil is being sought for next year’s power generation, a 15 per cent increase from the island’s 2012 purchase, as its electricity resources remain stretched.

Cyprus’ main power generating facility at Vassilikos, which generated more than half the island’s electricity, was almost totally destroyed by a blast of decaying munitions stored at a nearby navy base in July 2011.

The Electricity Authority of Cyprus is now seeking 408,000 tonnes of 0.1 per cent sulphur gasoil for delivery into Vassilikos over December 2012 to January 2014, a tender document showed.

It is also seeking 405,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil with maximum one per cent sulphur for delivery into Vassilikos Power Station and another 418,000 tonnes for delivery into Dhekelia and/or Moni Power Stations, over the same period.

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Greek actor Alexis Georgoulis is currently in Cyprus playing in Miss Julie. Having honed a stubborn streak, he likes to talk, finds THEO PANAYIDES

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lexis Georgoulis is late for our meeting, so I get chatting to a young woman in the offices of Xmas Group, the company that’s bringing him over for a stage production of Strindberg’s Miss Julie (actually the Patrick Marber adaptation; just a few performances left, in Limassol on August 2 and 3). The young woman leads me to a conference room where the interview’s due to take place, switches on the air-conditioning and asks if I’d like a glass of water. Then she giggles, and her eyes take on a faraway look.

“So Alexis is coming,” she muses, then pats her hair in the universal gesture of flustered women everywhere. “Better go fi x myself up a bit!”

She’s joking – or is she? In the week leading up to our interview, women of all ages and descriptions have reacted in precisely the same way when they heard who I was meeting: a sharp intake of breath and a girlish ‘oooh!’

Maybe they didn’t literally pat their hair like the girl at Xmas Group, but I’m pretty sure they did so metaphorically. Alexis Georgoulis is a sex symbol, though of course it would take a whole book to explain why exactly.

Maybe it’s the eyes, which are brown and manage the rare knack of being both playful and penetrating.

Maybe it’s the way he carries himself.

He bounces in, banters casually with the chatty young woman and meets me at the door of the conference room: “Alexis Georgoulis, how do you do?” he says in a mainland-Greek singsong, simultaneously smiling, cocking his head and giving a modest, almost fey little wave. The wave reinforces his position as a TV and movie star – it implies: ‘Alexis Georgoulis, as if you didn’t know!’ – but it’s also charming, as if to say ‘Isn’t it silly that we have to introduce ourselves like this?’. He’s a man who’s aware of his image, and determined to wear it lightly.

That image (I now realise) got in the way for me. I’m not sure what exactly I expected – all I’ve really seen him in is the mediocre Nia Vardalos comedy My Life in Ruins, where he played a hunky Greek called ‘Poupi Kakas’ – but certainly not someone so loquacious and articulate, especially about what it means to be an actor. With hindsight, I did a terrible job. I should’ve asked more personal questions, even gossipy questions – what famous people is he friends with? Where does he like to go on holiday? Most importantly, does he have a girlfriend? – but I thought I’d show my journalistic bona-fides with a few serious questions about acting (not expecting him to say very much), and we never looked back. Alexis loves to talk about his craft. Indeed, he loves to talk, tending to answer a question as soon as he’s got the gist – before it’s even finished – and supplying long, inventive answers.

His speciality is the quirky analogy. The relationship of an actor and his audience is like that of a priest and his congregation, he explains: in both

On set: Alexis Georgoulis preparing for a staging of Miss Julie Photo Christos Theodorides

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cases something abstract and intangible (whether God or a writer’s conception) is given flesh and blood by a devoted go-between. An actor must be like a boat on a river, he says later, drifting where the river takes him. TV is like a road sign, he claims, the kind of road sign that sets an absurdly low speed-limit. ‘Why should I slow down to 40mph to negotiate this bend in the road?’ you may wonder (he acts out someone wondering this), but in fact the speed-limit must be such that the bend can be negotiated safely by

the world’s worst driver, at night, in a snowstorm. (He could just as easily have said that TV panders to the lowest common denominator, but this way is more entertaining.) Then there’s the analogy that explains the Greek recession in terms of someone throwing their phone against the wall, but I don’t think I got that one.

No surprise that Alexis is imaginative and articulate, of course. In the first place he’s a writer as well as an actor, and scripted an entire TV series (Kinoumeni Ammos) in collabora-

tion with Sonia Milioni. In the second place, though he made his name on TV – initially with the hit comedy Eisai to Tairi Mou in 2001 – Miss Julie is by no means his first foray into serious theatre, previous roles having included Jimmy Porter (the archetypal Angry Young Man) in Look Back in Anger.

His own take on the heartthrob image is philosophical: “When I started out, the media – whether because of a gap in the market, I don’t know – made out that I look like a sex symbol. So OK, lead with that. Sex symbol, sex sym-

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Heartthrob: Alexis Georgoulis in Miss Julie (left) and My Life in Ruins

Bank suggestion Central Bank governor Panicos Demetriades (below) who this week reportedly asked the island’s two main banks to suspend the employment of senior figures ahead of an external investigation into the circumstances which led to the banks’ overexposure to Greek bonds. That would for once be a case of bolting the door before the horse runs.

Parkinson’s doctors

The doctors who this week carried out pioneering surgery to make the lives of Parkinson’s sufferers radically better. A 55-year-old man who had been suffering with the debilitating condition for seven years underwent the nine-hour procedure on Monday to give improved movement.

bol, vote for the greatest sex symbol of all time, stuff like that. It appears that’s what people want to read – but in fact it’s what the media like to feed them. When you actually talk to people – well, there’s that, but there’s also another side where they don’t see me as a sex symbol, or a handsome guy or jeune premier or whatever. There are people who realise there’s more to it, that I do something more behind that surface layer.”

But don’t his fans mostly care about the surface layer?

“I don’t think the 15-year-old fans see the same thing as the 55-year-old fans,” he demurs, then smiles wryly: “In theory, the fans see what they want to see. In reality, they see what the media want them to see.”

Either way, I note, he himself seems irrelevant to the equation.

“I’m somewhere in the middle,” he admits. “And that’s why I say that as long as there’s no ego, everything works fi ne. Once you start to have an ego, that’s when you start to lose touch with reality.”

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he question of ego is a delicate one. I’ve always thought that an actor needs a well-developed ego – if only to have enough self-confidence to go on stage every night and believe that people will like him – but Alexis shakes his head firmly: “It’s exactly the opposite! The greatest actors have the smallest ego. Because when you have a big ego, you don’t allow things to happen to you”.

He himself has always tried to curb his ego, he adds, “because I know that it’s always growing, so the more you fight it the more balance you’ll find”. It sounds like typical actorbabble – but he tells me a remarkable story that suggests he may indeed worry about these things, and suggests something stubborn and steely behind the pleasant demeanour.

When Alexis was around nine years old, in the fourth form at primary school – this was in Larissa, where he was born in October 1974 to a schoolteacher and a kiosk-owner, the third of four children – there was a fight in the classroom one day. Just a typical childish fight – but everyone

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blamed Alexis, even though he wasn’t to blame. As punishment, the teacher ruled that no-one should speak to him for the entire day. Bristling with injustice, the boy turned to the other kids and made a promise: if you don’t speak to me today, he vowed, I’ll never speak to any one of you again – “and I didn’t.

Right up to the sixth form, I never spoke to any of those kids again”.

Seriously? He didn’t speak for two years?

“Two and a half years. Because I had such a big ego, I couldn’t take it back. I was waiting for them to apologise.”

Well… didn’t a teacher intervene in all that time?

The teachers didn’t know, he explains. He talked normally in class – he just wouldn’t talk to anyone at break-time. Basically, “I stopped having friends at school for two and a half years”. His family didn’t know either.

He didn’t tell anyone till many years later – just held it in and refused to back down, ruled by stubborn pride.

(At this point Fivos Liasidis, the producer of Miss Julie, pokes his head in the door of the conference room.

Almost time to leave, he warns; they have to be somewhere at three o’clock.

“Wait a bit,” calls Alexis charmingly.

“Give us some more time. It’s going really well!” I feel flattered – I’ve bonded with a movie star! – then I recall he’s been doing 95 per cent of the talking.)

Mention of his childhood brings us to his father, and the awful time in 2008 when Georgoulis Sr was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Alexis was in the US, having just begun a fourmonth Scriptwriting course at NYU when he found out his dad had only three months to live. His whole body erupted in rashes, he recalls; it does that in times of stress (there’s a small red rash on his arm now, though he says it could just be the heat). Needless to say, he left New York prematurely – but America has loomed ever larger in his thoughts, especially after making My Life in Ruins. That role gave him a foothold in the States, though he wasn’t even planning to try out for it; the producer (a woman) saw his photo in a Greek magazine, then the director played his audition tape while other producers (all of them women, including Nia Vardalos and Tom Hanks’ wife Rita Wilson) were having lunch – and

knew he was right for the role when they all stopped having lunch to look at him. It’s that heartthrob image again.

For the past year he’s alternated between Greece and LA, trying to get projects off the ground. “It’s an exploration,” he says wryly. “I’ve adapted to the LA lifestyle, which is, you get home at 10pm – and that’s already late – go to bed at 11.30-12, wake up at 5.30-6. And of course, being Greek, I take a little siesta in the afternoon too!” The other kind of culture shock is harder to get used to, “starting from zero” after being such a celebrity in Greece. You can see it on YouTube, in a joint interview he did with Vardalos for a US website; clearly, the interviewer cares about Vardalos (an Oscar nominee, a personal friend of Tom Hanks), hardly at all for this fuzzy foreigner. “So you discovered this guy in Greece?” he asks. “Yes, she found me in a kiosk,” jokes Alexis – but it must’ve hurt his ego, that poor battered ego, though his stubborn prideful side would never admit it.

He shrugs when I mention it, sitting in the air-conditioned conference room, and quotes Cavafy: “As you set out for Ithaki / Hope that the voyage is a long one”. He’s right, of course: for an actor, it’s all experience – a door he can open, as he puts it, something to invoke in his mind when a role calls for it. Acting is about transmutation, says Alexis Georgoulis: feelings come as physical sensations – a rash, a dizziness, a heart beating fast, an endorphin rush – but the actor transmutes them into words, using the “doors” of experience to perform the alchemy. “The actor’s job,” he asserts, “whether on stage or in front of the camera, is to be totally open to any experience. To be vulnerable, to be like a little child. To have no idea how to protect himself.”

Life is different, of course – and Alexis can talk about that too; he’ll talk all day if you let him – you have to protect yourself or you’d go nuts, but acting is special. Acting is a calling, a vocation; that priest analogy is significant. He doesn’t prepare before he goes on stage, he insists: no Method acting, no technical exercises. “I just open myself up,” says Alexis, “and plunge, shall we say, naked into the deep waters, and wait for things to be created in the moment”. That’s right girls, he said ‘naked’.

Mr Gay Cyprus Kiri Spanos who will be the first Cypriot to take part in the Mr Gay Europe competition, taking place on August 11 this year in Rome. He said he wants to bring more visibility to the difficulties of being homosexual in Cyprus.

Defecting diplomat The Syrian representative to Cyprus has become the third diplomat to defect from the Bashar al-Assad regime. Chargé d´Affaires Lamia al-Hariri has defected and left for Qatar, where she joined her husband, also a Syrian diplomat who defected. It’s a sorry state when she feels she has to resort to such measures.

Early retirement The members of the civil service who have applied for early retirement, which shot up in the first half of 2012, after uncertainty over the future of retirement lump sums. There had been 250 applications in the first half of this year, whereas there were 240 for the whole of 2011.

Terrorist suspect The man suspected of planning attacks on Israeli urt on interests in Cyprus was detained by a court the island for the third time this week as Israel’s leader once again accused Hezbollah militants and Iran over the alleged plot.

Out and about The members of the police charged withh watching the main prosecution witness in the Andis Hadjicostis murder trial, who is being held in protective custody and has been sneaking out from the shouse where he is staying, police spokesman Andreas Angelides confirmed. Protected witness Fanos Hadjigeorgiou hass reportedly managed to sneak out twice..

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Loud, energetic and spiritual The village vi of Lofou will be transfo transformed this coming weekend as it hosts host the annual Fengaros Festival says ZOE CHRISTODOULIDES

Top act: Electric Jalaba

Fengaros Festival

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alk through an elaborate maze of winding cobble-stoned streets, stop and catch your breath on a scenic hilltop, let yourselves unwind, and prepare for a good dose of rather tantalising inspiration. This coming Saturday, the quiet, picturesque village of Lofou is about to take on a rather different character as talented musicians descend on the area to work their magic. But this is set to be a curious kind of magic; the type that urges audiences to expect the unexpected as the highly anticipated Fengaros Festival springs to life.

While the yearly event organised

by Louvana Records is well known for stirring the waters, one of the biggest highlights of this year’s event is somewhat different to say the least as electric grooves meet the sounds of the Morrocan Gnawa with a performance by Electric Jalaba. Expect songs that tell tales of mysterious women, men that divide oceans, as armies of soul conquerors weave themselves among enormous infectious grooves, analogue effects and warped guitars. “It’s all based on tribal music from Morocco, very rhythmic trance inducing music that we infuse with funk and rock,” says lead band member Olly Keen. “But that would really be pigeon-holing the whole thing. Let’s put it this way: it’s all very danceable, loud, energetic and spiritual.”

It all started when eclectic London based groove adventurers Soundspecies and Moroccan Gnawa Master musician Simo Lagnawi joined forces to create something unique. “We met Simo last year at a festival and we were all so blown away. We had a jam session with him

and it all took off from there,” recalls Olly. Having mostly played in London so far, the band has also been busy with various festival performances around the UK this summer, with Olly speaking about a recent gig at the well known Secret Garden Party as well as other shows in Dorset and Brighton.

With the upcoming performance at the Fengaros Festival marking the band’s premiere in Cyprus, impressive vocals will transport you to another world as the band travels relentlessly through a range of beautifully unearthly melodies. Expect inexhaustible energy, moments of soulful calm and pinnacles of ecstatic mayhem, plus some dance moves you’ve probably never seen before.

“This word ‘fusion’ is a bit of a dirty word,” declares Olly. “I think what we do well is that the fusion of genres and sounds feels natural - it hits you without picking it apart. It’s a natural organic sound mixed from so many influences. I could reel off a list of genres but we defi nitely all listen to strongly rhythmic music, be it funk or dance. But our primary influences are from Brazil, Africa and rock music.”

But Electric Jalaba aren’t the only highlight of the agenda as there are going to be plenty of other sounds guaranteed to arouse your senses.

The festival will open with the Cypriot Odyssey group , the trio that plays folk and rock from the 60s and 70s with an emphasis on triple resonance, making a resurgence this year after 37 years absence. Then there’s the much loved Trio Tekke, having returned from a busy summer in the UK marked by performances at various events including the highly coveted Latitude Festival. With their unique twist on traditional Greek rembetika, the band has made waves with their music both in Cyprus and abroad. While retaining old style musical elements and fusing them with a modern edge, every performance is fi lled with swagger and passion that has captivated audiences around the

w world.

T h e i r second album named Sao the mas earned them a Battle of M Bands award on the World Music Network and a nomination for Best presti Newcomer Act for the prestigious 2012 Songlines Awards. At the event the band will be playing songs from both their albums - including their beyond fi rst Ta Reggetika - and beyond. p Crowds can also await perforje mances by Yiannis Aggelakas jetting over from Greece; a unique song songwriter who’ll present music from his new album. Aggelakas was the voice of the historic Greek rock band Trypes and has undertaken personal work in the past ten years. Then there’s

‘It’s a natural organic sound mixed from so many influences. I could reel off a list of genres but we definitely all listen to strongly rhythmic music, be it funk or dance’

With an exciting line-up of different local and foreign bands and performers. August 4. Lofou Primary School, Limassol district. Start: 4pm.

Ticket Prices €25 presale, €30 euro entry (TBC). facebook.com / Fengaros Pavlina Konstantopoulou with songs that waver between acoustic, folk and ethnic.

Keep in mind that this year’s event will be upgraded in comparison to previous years. Apart from the main stage, visitors will have the opportunity to follow other musical trails with various events taking place around the village. Particular attention will be given to improving the food choices, with upgraded camping facilities also available around the festival site. It’s also worth noting that a pre-festival party will be organised on August 3 at the The Arches tavern with free admission. With some lovely places to stay in the surrounding area you might want to make a weekend of it while exploring the vicinity. With the village itself built over a series of rolling hills, visiting the place is an adventure in itself with buildings that take you back to a glorious forgotten time.

The normally peaceful Lofou village

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07 Filming at the abandoned Nicosia International Airport

As the Lemesos International Documentary Festival opens this week, NAOMI LEACH speaks to one of the filmmakers

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e want to address the elephant in the room. Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots can be sat in the same room, on the same table and they won’t beat each other up,” pauses journalist and fi lmmaker Stefanos Evripidou, with a smile.

“In 2003 the checkpoints opened and there has been almost zero confl ict. They’ll eat, drink and do what Cypriots do but the moment you talk about a person’s understanding of history you hit a brick wall. There is nothing wrong with accepting another person’s point of view and engaging in a dialogue. From the moment you accept, whether right or wrong, when you allow yourself to even have a dialogue, what arises are many variations of the truth,” he stresses.

But in their debut documentary, Stefanos and co-director, cinematographer and editor Stephen Nugent were not interested in examining these confl icting accounts to find a universal truth. Instead, Birds of a Feather aims to illustrate that history is shaped by “perception and memories of truth”. The fi lmmaking duo were galvanised by the opportunity to initiate difficult, previously unspoken discussions between Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots. The documentary was designed to create a space for mutual understanding and to highlight the need for fresh debate.

The fi lm, set to be shown at this week’s International Documentary Festival in Limassol, unravels the Cyprus Problem by juxtaposing each community’s official histories with personal memories and anecdotal accounts of people who lived through the events of the 1960s and 1974.

“We’re not trying to provide an assessment about what really happened we want to stimulate questions. It’s about questioning the norm, questioning the official narrative you’ve grown up with and seeing that there

Challenging history ‘It interested me how scared some people were of questioning anything that has been taught for the past 38 years.

Regardless of politics, things need to change over time’ Turkish Cypriot farmer Osman Raifoglu in Katokopia

is another one. There must be something more, regardless of the answer, if you go on the journey of deeper understanding of why things happen,” enthuses Stefanos.

This dogged compulsion to probe further into events is natural to Stefanos as a newspaper journalist with over 10 years experience in Cyprus. As a political writer, he has always been interested in education on the island.

He explains that once the AKEL Education Minister of 2008 refused to have his appointment approved by the Archbishop, he became fascinated by the backlash.

“It interested me how scared some people were of questioning anything that has been taught for the past 38 years. Surely, regardless of politics, things need to change over time with multiple perspectives and multiple sources?”

Stefanos had ties to The Association for Historical Dialogue and Research who asked him to make a series of five-minute educational video blogs. He teamed up with childhood friend, Stephen, an award-winning cinematographer who is currently in the Arctic Circle fi lming for Greenpeace, to produce the videos. Some months later, the pair, with a grant from the Norwegian foreign ministry,

embarked on their next joint project - Birds of a Feather, a “dense and intense” 40-minute documentary.

The co-director’s differing skills complemented each other well with Stephen’s camera know-how and Stefanos’ ability to reduce complex matters into simple journalistic content ensuring they could agree on the fi nal result. It helped that the pair had decades of friendship behind them.

“We were the perfect comedy duo.

We’d end up arguing in front of people and make them laugh. Steve was the creative, artistic cinematographer and I was the serious, responsible producer,” explains Stefanos.

The fi lm took three months to complete with the pair assembling a diverse cast of both Greek and Turkish Cypriots, found in the north and south, in former mixed community villages and in the buffer zone. Personal narratives were chased and characters linked to these memories were discovered across the island.

The fi lm conjured unique moments and coincidences, evolving and escalating into unexpected avenues as the project developed.

“We’d get people, Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots, who used to live somewhere and get them all together to talk about the same event ( a man

Debate: Greek and Turkish Cypriots from former mixed village Peristerona discuss their history

Lemesos International Documentary Festival 1 to 8 August 2012, Birds of a Feather will be screened on Monday August 6 at Theatro Ena in Limassol at 10pm. Find the screening programme on www. filmfestival.com.cy who got shot in the shoulder and why) for the first time in a village where Turkish Cypriots go back every weekend yet they never talked about politics, memory or history. We’d invite them all to the coffee shop to debate, refute, reject and argue. Tensions were raised a little bit but this was the first time they had ever debated these things, and it was on camera,” says Stefanos.

The challenge of perception in the fi lm, isn’t confined to just the witnesses of the events, even historians were brought together to debate the Cyprus Problem and each offered a contrasting version of events. The pair were keen to address the confl ict but without falling into the NGO trap of “extreme equality” where every point of view and every loss is matched person for person on each side of the experience. Stefanos admits this approach of emphasising the spectrum of perspectives, ruffled feathers on both sides and he was disappointed that some officials showed concern with their attempts to challenge traditional historical accounts. Although the fi lm does not include a young voice, Stefanos says it illuminates the importance of an honest and respectful dialogue and how it could benefit the education system for future generations.

Stefanos hopes that Birds of a Feather is received by audiences as a call to action. “Don’t believe everything, engage in debate. Get rid of the elephant in the room and allow two people with passionate views to actually listen to each other,” he insists.

For more details of festival see page 17

July 29, 2012• SUNDAY MAIL

08 TRAVEL

Etihad Airways enhances connectivity to and from Seoul Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has announced changes to its fl ight schedule to South Korea that will deliver improved connectivity over its Abu Dhabi hub and access to more destinations.

The changes will see Etihad Airways move to a same-time-daily fl ight schedule between Abu Dhabi and Seoul.

From January 2103, Etihad Airways flight EY876 will depart Abu Dhabi at 10.05pm and arrive at Seoul’s Incheon airport at 11.45am the next day. Flight EY873 will depart Seoul (Incheon) at 00.45am and arrive in Abu Dhabi at 6.50am the same day.

James Hogan, Etihad Airways President and Chief Executive Officer, said the new schedule would enhance the airline’s appeal to travellers on the South Korean route and contribute to sustainable profitability. ”The schedule changes in early 2013 will boost connectivity over the Abu Dhabi hub and deliver major customer benefits.

“Travellers will have more choice, convenience and flexibility – particularly for travel between South Korea and the GCC, Middle East, Africa and Europe, and South America when Sao Paulo comes online in July 2013.”

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t the beginning of Ridley Scott’s science-fiction epic Prometheus, Noomi Rapace’s character discovers the key to our cosmic beginnings in a cave on the Isle of Skye. She should have headed further around the coast to the Orkney Islands, where she would have found even more complicated riddles about the earliest days of mankind: grand stone circles, burial chambers and Neolithic villages so well preserved it is as if prehistoric man walked out of his granite doorway just yesterday.

Five thousand years ago this northerly huddle of more than 70 low-lying islands was one of Europe’s most important religious centres, but today the Orkneys are a sleepy outcrop of the United Kingdom; the flat, green landscape devoted to farming, tourism and twitching. The largest town on the largest island (called, imaginatively, Mainland) is Kirkwall, and it is such a cosmopolitan place that one of the fi rst things I saw was a sign warning: ‘Watch out, otters crossing.’

It was a short drive to our accommodation, East Heddle, a lovingly converted croft with slate floors heated by a ground-source pump, with fancy kilims and antique farmhouse furniture. The cottage nestles in a shallow valley and overlooks wild grassland where a pair of short-eared owls hunted most evenings (the Orkneys are a

GAVANNDRA HODGE steps back in time in the Orkney Islands haven for birds and birdwatchers alike). East Heddle is also very close to the ‘Heart of Neolithic Orkney’, a cluster of archaeological wonders, the most awesome being the Ring of Brodgar. This would have once comprised 60 twinned standing stones - today only 27 tall and slender slabs remain - set between two lochs, the rolling glacial landscape rising up on all sides in a magical

360-degree panorama.

A short walk away is the grassy mound that marks the Neolithic tomb of Maeshowe, considered the fi nest extant example of Neolithic engineering in the world. It is entered via a long, narrow tunnel, through which the setting sun shines directly on the winter solstice, casting light on to the back wall of the tomb. This is also the place where a posse of Vikings sought shelter from a storm in the mid-12th century, and remained for three days, carving runes and pictures of mythic creatures into the old stone.

The ring of Brodgar

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09 Popular: Brighton

East Heddle

Come rain or more rain, Brits holidaying at home

By Jonathan Cable and Yati Himatsingka

The Vikings fi rst came to Orkney in the 9th century, and remained until the 14th, building the red sandstone St Magnus cathedral in Kirkwall and their longhouses all over the islands. Today the Norse connections remain, with Norway Day celebrated every year and Orkney boasting its own delicious brand of pickled herring.

Near to Brodgar is the port of Stromness, a handsome grey stone town curved around Haven Bay. The town was once the haunt of pirates and whalers but today it is most notable for Pier Arts Centre, which is devoted to the collection of Margaret Gardiner, who was friends with Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson. There is also an

The islands get battered by ferocious winds, but we were only caught out once when we visited Skara Brae, a Neolithic village that remained undiscovered until a particularly vicious storm in the 19th century tore off the sand dunes that concealed it excellent chippie and a bakery selling drop scones and Orkney fudge - both very welcome after a day exposed to the elements.

The islands get battered by ferocious winds, but we were only caught out once when we visited Skara Brae, a Neolithic village that remained undiscovered until a particularly vicious storm in the 19th century tore off the sand dunes that concealed it, revealing a collection of single-room dwellings, each with a hearth, stone beds and dressers.

We took refuge in a reconstructed house, complete with plastic lobsters and fur throws for that authentic Neolithic experience.

The sun shone for our trip to South Ronaldsay, the most southerly of the islands, and accessible via a road that connects it to Burray and the Mainland. Here we found a white-sand beach next to the town of St Margaret’s Hope and had a lunch of fresh scallops at Skerries Bistro, in the car park of which is a recently discovered Neolithic tomb.

The restaurant owners offer ad hoc tours of the tomb and its human remains. We opted instead for a glass of the local Highland Park whisky, a singularly Orcadian pleasure.

July 29, 2012• SUNDAY MAIL

Don’t Fly. An odd advertising slogan for an airline but more and more Britons appear to be following the advice as they holiday at home rather than jetting off to sunnier climes.

That’s despite the gloomiest British summer in living memory, as rain of mythical proportions has meant little sunshine for months.

“The weather has been dreadful but why would you want to go away? We love staying in cottages in the countryside,” said David Kitching, who was visiting London for the day with his 13-year-old daughter from Leicestershire, in the midlands of England.

“There’s nothing to do when you are abroad but sit by the pool. Here, we’ve been to farms, National Trust places, Leicester Square, shops, restaurants, and we’re going to watch the cricket next week,” the warehouse manager added.

British Airways says its latest advertising campaign, “Don’t Fly. Support Team GB” is a tongue-in-cheek encouragement for Britons to cheer on their athletes in this summer’s London Olympics and Paralympics.

With predicted gridlock in the capital and three hour queues at airport immigration, more people are looking to ‘staycation’ or ‘nearcation’ the idea of vacationing at, or near, your home.

The latest government statistics show visits abroad in the 12 months ending in May 2012 are one per cent lower than in 2011.

And as Britain wallows in its second recession in four years, cash-strapped holidaymakers are facing rising unemployment and wages that have failed to keep up with price rises.

“We have seen a renaissance in domestic tourism since the height of the credit crunch in 2009 and once people realised what Britain had to offer, they wanted to do it again,” said Sarah Long, head of corporate communications at VisitEngland.

Britons represent some of the most lucrative visitors for euro zone tourist hotspots like Greece and Spain, whose troubled economies are unlikely to be helped by UK holidaymakers staying at home.

But that might give the stagnant British economy an unexpected, if mild, perk.

Tourism contributed £97 billion to the economy in 2011, employing more than two million people, and last year saw a record level of expenditure by both foreign and domestic holidaymakers in England.

London will attract the highest international visitor spend this year, topping MasterCard’s Worldwide Index of Global Destination Cities, just ahead of New York as it offers better value for money, the credit card company said last month.

“London is amazing... but the UK has many more facets than what you see in London,” said Sabine Vinck who is on a two-week driving holiday around the country with her sister.

Britain boasts ancient castles, world-leading museums, art galleries, gleaming shopping malls and huge national parks, as well as gastronomic delights from Michelin-starred restaurants to quaint village pubs serving traditional jellied eels.

Hoteliers in Brighton, a popular seaside resort just an hour from London, are also cashing in on people escaping the capital.

“Brighton has always been a traditional destination for Londoners wanting to leave London.

We run at around 96 per cent occupancy, of which the lion’s share would be domestic people,” said Justin Manning, the general manager at The Queens Hotel.

“We’ve seen spectacular growth in the hotel since the downturn started in 2008, having already been one of the busiest hotels in Brighton we’ve seen in excess of 20 per cent growth,” he said.

10 FOOD & DRINK RECIPES

with Maria Socratous

Indulgent brunch Salmon-Filled Croissants Serves 4 4 large croissants 150g light cream cheese 6 cherry tomatoes, chopped 8 basil leaves, chopped 4 small gherkins, chopped Juice ½ lemon 160g smoked salmon Heat the oven to 170C/gas 3. Warm the croissants in the oven then remove and leave until cool enough to handle.

Mix together the remaining ingredients except the salmon, and season.

Fill each croissant with the cheese mixture and the salmon and serve.

Bacon and Maple Pancakes Serves 6 225g plain flour 2½ tsp baking powder 1 tsp chopped thyme 2 eggs 1 tsp caster sugar 300ml milk 25g butter, melted and slightly cooled

When you are in a holiday mood serve an indulgent brunch for your loved ones olive oil, for cooking 12 rashers streaky bacon 50g pecans, toasted and chopped Maple syrup or honey, for drizzling In a bowl, sift the flour, baking powder and a large pinch of salt. Stir in the thyme. Whisk together the eggs, sugar, milk and butter. Make a well in the centre and gradually whisk in the egg mixture, incorporating the flour until smooth. Heat the oven to 140C/ gas 1.

Heat a large non-stick frying pan and brush with a little oil. Place 2tbsp batter per pancake in the pan. Cook for 1 minute or until they turn golden brown, fl ip over and cook for another 45 seconds. Keep the cooked pancakes warm in the oven, covered with foil, while you cook the rest.

Grill the bacon until crisp, then stack the pancakes and bacon on a

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Baked Eggs with Mushrooms Serves 6 25g butter 250g small chestnut mushrooms 1 garlic clove 3tbsp dry sherry 175g spinach leaves, washed Grating fresh nutmeg 6tbsp fresh cream 6 large eggs 1 tbsp finely sliced chives Heat the oven to 190C/gas 5. Melt the butter in a large frying pan, add the mushrooms and fry for 5 minutes. Add the garlic and sherry, season and cook for a further 5 minutes until golden and most of the liquid has evaporated. Meanwhile, wilt the spinach in another pan with just the water clinging to it. Season; add the nutmeg. Drain in a sieve and squeeze out the excess moisture with the back of a spoon.

Butter 6 large ramekins. Divide the mushrooms and spinach between the

ramekins, making a dip in the centre.

Pour 1tbsp cream over each and crack an egg in the centre.

Put the ramekins in a roasting tin and pour boiling water so it comes halfway up the sides of the ramekins.

Bake for 10 to 15 minutes until the egg whites are set but the yolks still runny. Remove from the tin, scatter over the chives and serve with crusty bread.

Five-minute Chocolate Pots Serves 6-8 200g good-quality dark chocolate, chopped ½ tsp vanilla extract 300ml fresh cream 1 large, free-range egg Whizz the chocolate, vanilla and a pinch of salt in an electric blender.

Bring the cream to the boil in a saucepan, remove from the heat, pour over the chocolate and blend. Add the egg, blend, then pour into the ramekins.

Chill in the fridge for 3 hours before serving, decorate with physalis or other fruit of your choice.

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11 WINES with George Kassianos

A drinking trip to Greece

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any wine shops organise seminars on understanding the world of wine or present the wines of the partner wineries they distribute on the island, preferably in the winemaker or a representative’s presence. Some they have the expertise to organise trips abroad to certain wine regions where they can experience the place of origin of some of their favourite wines.

One such trip took place last month in Greece. It was organised by La Bodega wine shop in Paphos. It was a short trip to a couple of wineries in the Peloponnese region. I spoke to some of the wine aficionados who took part and they all seem to have enjoyed it, in fact, they were asking for the next wine adventure. But good memories are not enough, and the ever ebullient Panikos Georgiou, owner of the Cava, decided to bring back the memories by organising a meze dinner matched with wine from the wineries that they have just visited. The dinner took place at the well known Paphos tavern, Hondros.

2011 Kallisto Mercouri Estate, Assyrtiko Robola, Protected Geographical Indication Ilia, Abv 12.5% The meze classic starters were accompanied by a clever blend of two indigenous Greek grape varieties, Assyrtiko and Robola. Assyrtiko is considered by many experts to be the greatest white grape in Greece, a productive and versatile varietal. It adapts well to different soil types and is known for having both high alcohol and high acidity.

Robola is Greece’s white wine star.

Its bright acidity, peach and citrus overtones make it an excellent choice for a summer aperitif or to drink with grilled chicken or fish. Robola is a dry white wine. A grape as well as a wine, Robola is grown almost exclusively on the Ionian islands of Western Greece in the Adriatic Sea, primarily on the island of Cephalonia.

Kallisto of Mercouri Estate is a fresh and vibrant wine, with bright and

La Bodega at Hondros light yellow nuances in colour. It gives forth perfumes of ripe citrus fruits citron and fresh lemon - and mineral notes. In the mouth the wine is smooth and round. The citrus flavours mellow while the crisp acidity and slightly salty mineral notes make every taste bud stir. It has also a flavour of ‘heat’ balanced with hints of pear in the aftertaste. It can accompany fish and shellfish, white or red meats served with sweet or creamy sauces, cheeses and fruits and it was very refreshing in the summer heat and matched the standard meze starters. €11.50, Cava To Dionysion

2010 Gerovassiliou Sauvignon Blanc Fumé, Protected Geographical Indication Epanomi, Abv 13% The alcoholic fermentation of this wine follows at approximately 20C in new French oak barrels. The wine remains with its primary yeast lees for six months with periodical stirring.

It has a bright golden yellow colour.

It opens with a shy and gentle pear aroma with additional scents of green grass and blending of summer and exotic fruits such as mango and pineapple. In the background there are scents of smoked vanilla and aromatic herbs.

The flavour profi le is green pear with hints of grapefruit and melon rind.

There was also a touch of gentle minerality. The finish is dry and subtle.

Due to its oak contact the wine is well balanced, structured and mature.

Ageing potential… it can go up to seven years. Enjoyed with the stuffed vine leaves or the grilled lountza and halloumi, also try with chicken picata or steamed mussels with sundried tomatoes. €17.80 Cava To Dionysion

2011 Driopi Rose Agiorgitiko, Protected Geographical Indication Peloponnese Abv 13% The vineyards for this summery

rosé can be found in Nemea. Pomegranate in colour at fi rst sniff you discover intense aromas of red cherries, red fruit in abundance and also summer peaches and a hint of strawberry and black pepper fi ll your nostrils and are quickly followed by herbal notes.

At first sip, the seductive aromas expand in your mouth. There are flavours of sour cherries, strawberries and stone fruits with hints of mint, and hibiscus. The acidity keeps the luscious fruit flavours in check and makes the wine as alive on the tongue as it is to the eye. Round, smooth and juicy, this rosé begs you to take another sip.

What I had in mind for this delectable rosé was a juicy veal steak and king prawns a ‘Surf & Turf’ in other words or pork kebabs, chicken souvla, aubergines with tomato sauce and grated haloumi, Spanish Paella and tapas, Szechuan and many Chinese dishes and Thai cuisine. €10.90, Fereos

Va Value for money French wine 2009 Le Foncanelles Cinsault Rosé, 200 Vin de Pays D’Oc, Abv 13% T The fruit is selected from the Enséru sérune winery at Biterrois plateau. It h an attractive pale pink colour, this has is a light and refreshing rosé from the Languedoc region of Southern France. Cinsault lends itself particularly well to the production of rosé, and this dry, unoaked example can be enjoyed as an aperitif or with a wide range of Mediterranean dishes like octopus salad with olive oil and balsamic vinegar, fried red mullet or grilled rock fish or sea bream also excellent with tagliatelle pasta with Bolognese sauce or grilled lamb chops. It possesses a complex nose reminiscent of red berries, cherry, redcurrant and raspberry and fresh ripe white peaches with hints of spic-

2010 Papaioannou Agiorgitiko, Protected Geographical Indication Peloponnese, Abv 13% Agiorgitiko grape (aka, St. George) is capable of producing deeply coloured, full-flavoured yet velvety wines, and this is no exception. Medium-deep ruby colour with aromas of wild cherry, blackberry, freshly turned earth and plum blend harmoniously with aromas of clove, vanilla and spices. Dry and quite fruity, this mature, round wine is drinking beautifully but will also continue to do so for two plus years. Like a Southern Rhône red, it will work well with roast leg of lamb with rosemary and garlic, lamb kleftiko and pork souvla. €8.10 All wines available at La Bodega 7 Akamantidos Street Paphos ness es. It embraces the palate with liveliness ghtand a pleasant and harmonious lightness. €6.50

2008 Les Foncanelles Merlot Vin de e Pays D’Oc, Abv 13% The fruit is selected in the Aude and Herault departments in the Languedoc-Roussillon region of Southern France. Brilliant garnet red colour, this is a fruit driven wine with wild strawberry aromas, soft plum cherries and red current notes, thyme and pepper. On the palate it is delicate with coffee and toasty aromas, more plum and red cherry flavours. It is harmonious, fi ne and elegant, offering a round structure and a soft finish. It is enjoyed with simple pasta dishes with meat and tomato sauce, meatloaf and burgers, roast turkey or smoked ham and chorizo type sausages. €6.50

Presidential chefs swap recipes for world diplomacy

By Vicky Buffery

Μembers of the Club des Chefs des Chefs in Paris

July 29, 2012• SUNDAY MAIL

A handful of people in the world know that German Chancellor Angela Merkel loves popping over to Paris because of her penchant for French cuisine, while it’s best to avoid serving artichokes to French President Francois Hollande.

They are the top chefs from the kitchens of the world’s leaders, masters of the art of sweetening international relations with a sumptuous meal, who gathered in Paris this week to swap recipes and tips on dinner-party diplomacy.

If Winston Churchill was right when he said a century ago that “the stomach governs the world”, then this club of 27 culinary maestros have an unseen influence on leaders’ moods as they seal decisions on everything from the crisis in Syria to the euro zone’s debt

woes.

In a wink at the cooks’ importance, the club’s name - “Le Club des Chefs des Chefs” - plays on the fact the French word for chef and leader is the same.

Attending the gathering from the White House kitchen is Cristeta Comerford, chef to Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and now Barack Obama. From Paris comes veteran Bernard Vaussion, chef to French leaders for nearly 40 years.

The chefs met in Berlin last week as part of a week-long annual get-together. They arrived in Paris on Monday for a three-day tour of the French capital, to sample ingredients and share recipes.

Chefs throughout history have played a vital, behind-the-scenes role in diplomacy, helping to ease

fraught relations and smooth the way for talks.

As Gilles Bragard, the French businessman who started the club recounts, the great French strategist Talleyrand, credited with the rise of the diplomatic banquet, once told Napoleon Bonaparte: “Give me a good chef and I shall give you good treaties.”

Keen to smooth tensions over the euro zone crisis when Hollande and Merkel met this month to mark 50 years of Franco-German reconciliation, French chefs chose to reproduce the famous meal of filet of beef and raspberry macaroons prepared in 1962 for postwar leaders Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer when they signed their friendship treaty.

The chefs, some of the few people who have daily access to the

world’s power-brokers, have the utmost trust of their employers.

The chefs are fi rmly discreet regarding any secrets they pick up from the world of diplomacy though they spill the beans more freely on former leaders, relating anecdotes that can give insight into presidents’ and prime ministers’ characters.

London-based Anton Mosimann, a visiting chef to 10 Downing Street who has cooked for a string of British prime ministers, recounts how Margaret Thatcher once asked for a lavish meal to entertain the then French President Francois Mitterrand.

During a conversation several years later, the famously frugal Thatcher congratulated him on the meal but added with a frown: “It was very expensive.”

12 FOOD & DRINK RESTAURANT REVIEW by Nathan Morley OTHER PLACES TO TRY NICOSIA DISTRICT Akakiko Makarios Avenue, Tel: 77778022 Bonzai Holiday Inn Hotel, Tel: 22 712712 Chopsticks Galaxias Shopping Centre, Tel: 22 817070 Dragon Stasinou Street, Tel: 22 591711 India India Nikis street, Tel: 22 490440 Sushi La Pindaou Street, Tel: 22 375036 Sushi Yam Yam Kennedy Ave, Tel: 77776464 Wagamama Themistoklis Dervis and Menandrou Streets, Tel: 22 870140 Zen Fusion Spyros Kyprianou Avenue, Tel: 22 755060

LIMASSOL DISTRICT Akakiko Apollonia Beach Hotel, Tel: 25 323351 Chi Lounge Uptown Square, Tel: 250025555 King’s Garden Kolonakiou street, Tel: 25 311166 Pagoda Ambelakion Street, Tel: 25 312000 Roku Profiti Ilia, Tel: 70009777 Shanghai Far East Griva Digeni and Riga Feraiou Streets, Tel: 25 748777 Zen Room Amathounda Avenue, Tel: 25 812659

LARNACA DISTRICT Ganga Indian Restaurant Larnaca-Dhekeleia Road, Tel: 24 824949 Lai Chinatown Makarios Avenue, Tel: 24 629508 Masalas Dhekelia Road, Tel: 24 644950 Nippon Bistro Grigoris Afxentiou Street, Tel: 24 657555 Sushi la Athenon Avenue, Tel: 24 628882 Taipei Town Makarios Avenue, Tel; 24 621399

PAPHOS DISTRICT Asiachi Amathus Hotel, Tel 26 883300 Bombay Brasserie Poseidonos Avenue, Tel: 26 964083 Chloe’s Chinese Restaurant Poseidonos Avenue, Tel: 26 934676 Gold Sakura Poseidon Avenue, Tel: 26 947492 O’Shin Sushi Bar Elysium Hotel, Tel: 26 844444

You choose: local or oriental cuisine Noodlemama, Ayia Napa

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fter an appalling evening at a restaurant in Protaras last Saturday night, with cocky over familiar waiters and overpriced, under-cooked food, I decided drastic action was needed to fi nd an alternative place to review. I do wish when hiring staff, restaurant owners would give a crash course to new waiters, with a few choice tips such as: don’t call the customers ‘mate’, don’t shout across the room and the cardinal sin - don’t smoke outside the entrance in full view of the poor buggers you are serving.

Sadly, at this time of year restaurants in the resorts hire so many unqualified waiters that the service can be odd at best in some places.

So, determined as ever to pursue something good down here on the coast, we spent last Sunday afternoon at the brand new Limanaki/ Noodlemama restaurant which is in

There’s nothing “everyday” about this restaurant – it’s got a wonderful setting right on the sea and even better, a double set of menus a superb position facing Ayia Napa harbour – it’s only been open a few weeks and already has become a bit of a hit.

There’s nothing “everyday” about this restaurant – it’s got a wonderful setting right on the sea and even better, a double set of menus - a combination of Mediterranean and oriental cuisine.

The restaurant, which is covered by a large canopy, is on the terrace of the newly refurbished Limanaki Hotel, which is accessible from the main path. Luckily, the harbour area is less aimed at partygoers than discerning couples and families, so you can rest assured you won’t be drowned in garage, R&B and House music from nearby pubs and cafés.

The Asian menu is perfect, with an impressive selection of duck dishes; choices include crispy aromatic duck (a full half bird), pancakes, bbq sauce and steamed vegetables for €18.90 or Honey Glazed Duck at €15.90.

Not wanting too much spice in these hot summer afternoons, I started with the ever safe duck in orange sauce. Duck is something I’m hopeless at cooking, so duck for the Morleys is now only consumed in restaurants. Anyway, it was divine, and the huge breast was not cooked to within an inch of its life – as happens in so many places. It was served on a bed of Chinese cabbage, surrounded by matchstick-thin orange slices and a large bowl of pan-fried egg rice.

The orange is refreshing - much better than sickly sweet plum sauce, but I did have reservations about the bed of cabbage, which I felt was a bit out of place.

Other oriental offerings included Sweet Chilli prawns and Japanese Teriyaki steak.

The standard local menu is stuffed with local meat, fish, salads, with the boss opting for salmon and chips (yes, it’s a favourite – so, I won’t bother mentioning it, but she was happy).

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The mains went well, and all was OK with the world until, much to my wife’s dismay, for dessert I ordered something that I knew was risky – a fantastic-looking calorie busting pancake. As I tucked into the dish, which was a bit squidgy, being covered with chocolate sauce, M&Ms and vanilla ice cream, I could not help thinking about that report last week which claimed that on a typical ten-day break to Cyprus, an adult would add 3.3lb to their waists.

I explained to my wife, who comes from Finland, which admittedly is not the home of gastronomy - that you only live once and life should be enjoyed. Looking at my pot-belly, she remarked, “Not much longer if you keep eating like that.”

Limanaki is a perfect place to relax and soak up the view and atmosphere away from the crowds. An extra bonus came when I discovered this was the only restaurant I know which serves the delicious Lavazza Espresso, a drink which up until now, I could only fi nd in Brussels, Bulgaria and Italy.

SUNDAY MAIL• July 29, 2012

games Spec Ops The Line Spec Ops: The Line’s emotional narrative unfolds within the destroyed opulence of Dubai. Once a playground for the world’s wealthiest elite, now Dubai has been reclaimed by Mother Nature, buried underneath the most devastating sandstorm ever recorded. Spec Ops: The Line allows gamers to play as Captain Martin Walker, leader of an elite Delta Force team ordered to infiltrate the treacherous region and bring home US Army Colonel John Konrad.

Heightening the narrative are ultra-realistic operations against enemies who are unafraid of death and hell bent on destruction. Players must use a variety of combat tactics, authentic military weaponry and the environment to survive. Spec Ops: The Line offers Dynamic Sand that can be used to thwart foes. A well placed shot can cause an avalanche of sand, but sand has no loyalty and can help or hinder

discs Asia

XXX I’m quite old, so I remember this lot. They were dubbed a supergroup in the early Eighties.

Asia featured the most uncharismatic of all the famous guitarists of the age, a chap called Steve Howe, who strummed for Yes. And a bloke called Geoff (now Geoffrey) from Buggles. This is, unsurprisingly, a throwback of a record. Asia is a different continent. It’s called the Eighties. Please understand this was a group that in their heyday spent half their lives in identikit hotel rooms and the other half getting there.

They still think finding 1201 is like giving the wife a quick peck and putting the dog out. Now listen to Al Gatto Nero, Bury Me In Willow and Faithful and laugh your bottom off. The dinner party for which this might be the soundtrack would be fine if you have guests who think seeing the same thing two million times is the same as making sense of it.

By Pete Clark

A lot of people really dig their kicks. But athletes need something else, something specific. These? These are made for running.

But oh yes, there’s something else about them. These shoes will catch everyone’s attention on the track, not just because they’re gold, but also because they were made on a 3D printer. Who needs an Olympic medal? pi Dubbed “Designed to Win”, the golden th July Ju ully y 29, 29, 2 2012• 01 0 12• SUNDAY MAIL

extravagant structures.

Dynamic Sand: Turn the tables on foes by crushing them under a cascade of sand cast down by a strategically placed shot - but beware of oncoming sandstorms and their gale-force winds. The sweeping sands of Dubai feel almost alive, serving as a powerful but unpredictable force that will both help and hinder the mission, while opening up a variety of new interactions and tactics.

Brutal, In-Your-Face Action: Join forces with intelligent, resourceful squad mates in feverpitched gun battles. Accessible combat and squad controls will get you in the fight quickly, where you’ll experience the raw destructive force of your authentic weapons as well as engage in extremely physical close-quarters battles.

Formats available: PC, PS3, Xbox 360

Newton Faulkner

Adam Lambert

Write It On Your Skin I have a problem with Newton’s music – it needs to be listened to in some groovy field with wafts of marijuana. Unfortunately, I am at home - in the kitchen extension - with some Colombian coffee on the go. To be fair to Faulkner, this is not an ideal environment, as he has an acoustic guitar-thumping schtick. He has red dreadlocks and pale skin, which is not a good look. He recommends, in the title track, the burning of one’s clothes, which is probably a good idea if personal hygiene is an issue. It also makes him a nudist. Having an opening track called Pulling Teeth is brave, having a song called Pick Up Your Broken Heart is not so challenging. Go and see this man in a field, otherwise, don’t bother.

By Pete Clark

Trespassing Eyebrows were raised when Adam Lambert, runner-up in the 2009 series of American Idol, secured the Queen singer’s job in February, but he has his own career too. Trespassing is his second album of impossibly perky, relentless electropop which, Lambert claimed, made him the first openly gay solo artist to top the American album charts. It outstays its welcome over 17 not entirely dissimilar tracks, but there are moments to treasure, not least the flag-waving Runnin’ and the Bruno Marshelmed Never Close Our Eyes. Best of all though is the eye-popping, finger-clicking title track: it’s Pharrell Williams of The Neptunes’ best work in years and nothing here comes close to eclipsing it.

By John Aizlewood

colour really embodies this ethoss combined with a bit of Olympic flair. The shoes themselves are designed to be tailored specifically to an athlete, as a 3D scanner takes note of the athlete’s feet, and creating the shoes using a manufacturing process called selective laser sintering - basically a form of 3D printing that involves lasers.

Was this beautiful kettle inspired by a London landmark?

As far as electric kettles go, DeLonghi’s Brilliante is a run-of-the-mill way to heat water.

Ther There’s no timer, no temperature set settings, not even a whistle. But wh what it lacks in functionality, it makes up for in form with a faceted body reminiscent oof London’s 30 St. Mary Axe tower or, as everyone else tow kknows it, the Gherkin.

The world’s most aerodynamic triathlon bike even has streamlined snack storage Often in athletic competitions an athletes biggest advantage comes from their gear.

So if you’re a cyclist after a first place finish,

Do nothing for two minutes So you can’t sit still at your computer, think you may be suffering from ADD, why not set yourself a two minute challenge and try to Do Nothing for 2 Minutes?

Alex Tew, who brought us Million Dollar Homepage way back in 2005 when he was a student, came up with this very simple idea last year. Not surprisingly it’s a website and Alex challenges you to do absolutely nothing for two minutes. Easy you might think, as you’re asked to ‘Just relax and listen to the waves. Don’t touch your mouse or keyboard.’

Enjoy the photo of the sun setting over the ocean, the sound of waves lapping at your elbows and a ticker counting down from two minutes to zero.

You’re going to be tested as you’ll find your fingers surreptitiously moving back towards the keyboard without you even realising it. If you do, the movement will be picked up and you’ve FAILED and will need to start again. www.donothingfor2minutes.com

Draw a stickman Fancy turning your hand to a bit of animation.

Draw a Stickman will set you on your way.

It’s very simple, just choose either Episode 1 or Episode 2, draw your stickman and he or she will star in their very own adventure. As the story progresses, you’re asked to draw in props for the stickman to avoid a sticky ending. Once the episode is over, share your adventure on Facebook and Twitter or even order your very own Stickman T-shirt.

Want to waste five minutes? You’ve got to give this one a go. www.drawastickman.com

Cervélo’s P5 triathlon/time trial bike has been designed and engineered to be the most aerodynamic ride on two wheels.

To ensure the bike slips through the air with as minimal resistance as possible, Cervélo has gone to great lengths to minimise drag.

Including hiding every single wire and cable inside the P5 s curvaceous frame, and using unique surface finishes on different parts of the bike to optimise airflow. And since the P5 is designed for longer competition rides, there’s even streamlined spots for stashing water bottles and snacks.

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the mission.

Spec Ops: The Line packs a full range of single and multiplayer features complete with competitive and team-based modes, as well as the ability to rank up and customise characters from two different factions.

Deep, Mature Narrative: The story of Captain Walker’s rescue mission will challenge players to make tough choices between what’s moral and what’s necessary, as Walker’s journey pushes him to his very limits.

Blasted Opulence: The events unfold in a stunning, haunting setting - the remains of Dubai, once one of the wealthiest cities on Earth, now stripped bare. Dubai’s bold and luxurious architecture still shines through, in spite of the sandstorms threatening all that’s left. Opulent interiors contrast sharply with the vertigo inducing heights and mass destruction outside of the

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by Preston Wilder

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Through the decades:1982 2 Here’s the third instalment in our summer feature, going back in cinematic history a decade at a time 1982 facts and figures: Top 5 Money-Makers (US): E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Rocky III On Golden Pond Porky’s An Officer and a Gentleman Best Film Oscar: Gandhi Best Actor Oscar: Ben Kingsley, Gandhi Best Actress Oscar: Meryl Streep, Sophie’s Choice Cannes Festival ‘Golden Palm’ (tie): Missing (US) and Yol: The Way (Turkey) Remember 1982? Probably not, seeing as it comes from an era when fi lms were at a low point. Fewer people were going to the movies than ever before, the older generation were staying home to watch TV while the younger, post-Star Wars fi lm fans weren’t yet old enough to create the blockbuster mentality that still holds true today.

And, as if all that weren’t enough, a new interloper had just been invented – the VCR, threatening to kill cinemas off once and for all.

For Hollywood, hope lay in the golden duo of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, both in their mid-30s and creating one gigantic hit after another. Lucas was busy shooting Return of the Jedi in ’82, but Spielberg came up with a stunning one-two punch – Poltergeist (which he produced) and E.T. (which he directed). sed almost simultaThe fi lms, released ke good-and-evil neously, were like burbia as the twins, using suburbia setting for scary horror and heart-warming boy-andspectively. alien picture, respectively. sive hits – Both were massive but especially E.T., which st successbecame the most e. ful fi lm of all time. scars couldn’t Alas, the Oscars es to award Best bring themselves tle-faced alien: E.T. Picture to a turtle-faced got nominated – in a strong field also e and Costa-Gavras’ including Tootsie ssing – but Richard controversial Missing Attenborough’s Gandhi swept all before it. At least Missing had the satisking an angry statefaction of provoking ment from the State Department, hocking acrepudiating its shocking lvement in count of US involvement lso won Chile – and it also m Festhe Cannes Film tival, tying with Yol, urkthe first-ever Turkish winner.

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trends, but lots of good fi lms being made. In Europe, Peter Greenaway made a splash with his first fi lm, The Draughtsman’s Contract, and there were major fi lms by veterans like Andrzej Wajda (Danton), Werner Herzog (Fitzcarraldo) and Jean-Luc Godard (Passion). In the US, there was torpor in Hollywood but lively action on the fringes: a teenage director named Sam Raimi had a cult hit with The Evil Dead, Sean Penn was the archetypal ‘stoner’ in highschool comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Paul Newman played a washed-up lawyer in The Verdict, and Julie Andrews played a man in Victor / Victoria. Oh, and Pink Floyd made Pink Floyd – The Wall.

Here’s our Top 10, plus 15 other fi lms that marked the th year: 1. FANNY AND ALEXANDER. ALE Two children go throug through three different families: one warm and fun-loving, the second austere auster and oppressive, the third myster mysterious and magical. Ingmar Bergman’s Berg swansong cap is a leisurely, capacious treasurechest of a movie, ble blending childhood hi old obsessions. memories with all his Even the deluded few who hate Bergthi one. man tend to love this 2. MY FAVOURITE YEAR. Who is dru Alan Swann? A drunken movie star Fly based on Errol Flynn.

A charmer, womaniser and larg larger-than-life hellraiser. Peter O’Toole (who, in real life, l retired from acting last month) in his funniest role, wheth whether getting drunk woma in a lavatory: or placating a woman “This is for lad ladies only!”; “So is this, madam madam. But every now and then I have to run a little water through t it…”

3. YOL: THE WAY. Five Turkish prisoners go on a oneone-week furlough, fannin out across a fanning nearnear-feudal Turkey rule ruled by ‘honour’ and misogyny.

Vivid colours, both literal and metaphorical, in this potent road movie, rising to heights of melodrama and some stunning landscapes – but the anger is palpable, not least because it was written and directed from prison (via detailed instructions to assistant Serif Goren) by Yilmaz Guney.

4. DINER. Four young men negotiate the years between school and real life, spending way too much time chatting idly – but hilariously – in a diner. Warm, semi-autobiographical and perfectly proportioned, as well as razor-sharp on the whims and fi xations of the post-adolescent male.

MVP: Mickey Rourke as ‘Boogie’.

5. TOOTSIE. Dustin Hoffman as a woman? Absolutely – and he should’ve won the Oscar over Ben Kingsley, too. Against the odds, an 80s classic.

6. BLADE RUNNER. The most influential fi lm of 1982, laying down a ‘hot’, dazzling look that became the Hollywood norm (though its view of the future is questionable, and we’re still waiting for those flying cars). A dreamlike fi lm noir fi ltered through excessive, overheated images that make everything obscure and ambiguous – including the little matter of whether Harrison Ford might himself be a “replicant”. Bonus points for a somersaulting Daryl Hannah.

7. SHOOT THE MOON. Divorce, and its aftermath. Albert Finney and Diane Keaton scream, fight, beat their children, shed their civilised veneer and fi nd occasional moments of tenderness in Alan Parker’s coruscating drama. “When you see Shoot the Moon,” wrote Pauline Kael, “you recognise yourself in it.”

8. LIQUID SKY. Aliens come to Earth (part 1). Not remotely sci-fi, a campy, tawdry tale of New York bohemians done with super-saturated colours, freakshow performances, an outrageous premise and the synth-

iest of early-80s synth scores. Gloriously weird, and more fun than any other fi lm on this list.

9. E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL. Aliens come to Earth (part 2).

Not really sci-fi, more like the greatest boy-and-dog picture ever made, directed by Steven Spielberg with near-religious fervour and three of the most natural child performances of all time (the whole thing would be worth it just for the way seven-yearold Drew Barrymore says “Alligators in the sewers…”). My only foolish problem? E.T. himself always looks a little plastic to me.

10. THE NIGHT OF THE SHOOTING STARS. Everyone’s a bit of a madman in this magical-realist reminiscence of Tuscany in the last days of WW2, directed by the Taviani Brothers. War co-exists with comedy, impossible humanity and outright fantasy. A WW2 movie like no other.

15 OTHER MUST-SEE FILMS FROM 1982: THE DRAUGHTSMAN’S CONTRACT (Peter Greenaway) FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (Amy Heckerling) FITZCARRALDO (Werner Herzog) GANDHI (Richard Attenborough) A GOOD MARRIAGE (Eric Rohmer) MISSING (Costa-Gavras) MOONLIGHTING (Jerzy Skolimowski) PASSION (Jean-Luc Godard) POLTERGEIST (Tobe Hooper) SOPHIE’S CHOICE (Alan J. Pakula) STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN (Nicholas Meyer) TENEBRE (Dario Argento) THE THING (John Carpenter) THE VERDICT (Sidney Lumet) VICTOR VICTORIA (Blake Edwards)

SUNDAY MAIL• July 29, 2012

15 THE DICTATOR DIRECTED BY Larry Charles STARRING Sacha Baron Cohen, Anna Faris, Ben Kingsley

See you la later, dictator

US 2012

83 mins

The Dictator is more conventional than Borat and Bruno - but it’s also funny, and politically sharp

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dmiral-General Aladeen, the Gaddafi-like dictator of the East African country of Wadiya, is such a megalomaniac that, among other things, he’s changed 300 words in the Wadiyan language to ‘Aladeen’. They include the words for ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ – which leads to some problems, for instance when a Wadiyan man goes to his doctor. “I have aladeen news, and I have aladeen news,” says the doctor. “Give me the aladeen news first,” says the man.

“You’re HIV-aladeen!” proclaims the doctor – and the man smiles broadly at this wonderful news … then thinks about it, and looks crestfallen at this tragic news … then thinks some more, and smiles broadly at this wonderful news…

You might think that joke is a little musty, but at least it’s a joke. It has a set-up and a punchline; you could tell it to someone in the pub. Jokes are an endangered species in Hollywood comedy at the moment, especially in don t the hipper kind of comedy.. They don’t o riffs. “Kodo jokes anymore; they do eet was a riff rean Jesus” in 21 Jump Street n Jesus! He (“Stop f**kin’ with Korean busy! With Korean shit!”). The “pickle nerd” in The Five-Year Engagement was a riff. Riffs are little nuggets of drive-by outrageousness, unburdened e. The most by structure or relevance. memorable comedy scene of the year ised ‘mirror so far, Paul Rudd’s improvised t, is a total monologue’ in Wanderlust, riff. oes riffs Sacha Baron Cohen does e as well – no surprise, since he started out in sketch comedy – but in fact there’s always been something old-fashioned in his e humour. Ali G Indahouse d had scenes of sustained innuendo worthy of a Carry On movie, and now The Dictator tells a farcical plot with a knockaboutt tone that’s smart and sur--

It brims with a bracing political incorrectness, from Zoey’s ‘vegan cooperative’ with its organic garden and ‘lesbian bathroom’ to Baron Cohen’s sharp political worldview

prisingly consistent. This wasn’t liked in America (SBC’s promotional antics didn’t help, especially gate-crashing the Oscars in character as Aladeen), and admittedly it doesn’t feature the audacious meta-comedy of Borat and Bruno; Baron Cohen isn’t walking a tightrope here, making you cringe in embarrassment and admire his fearlessness at the same time – but he’s still outrageous outrageous, and just as fearless in his hatred of ca cant and hypocrisy. His real venom isn’t reserved for Gaddafilike dictators – it’s reserved for the West’s self-righ self-righteous bleating about “democracy”, a codeword for opening up Third World countries to greedy corporate inter interests. Aladeen refuses to sell his count country’s oil (OK, that bit is a little implausi implausible) so his venal righthand man plots plot to kill him and take over, after which he’ll sell out the (nowdemocratic) cou country to the world’s oil comp companies and buy a house on Lake Como next to Ge George Clooney.

Baron Cohen uses the ine inevitable big-speech clima max (Aladeen addressing the UN) for subversive end ends, the Dictator becoming himself again – and lay laying out the fi lm’s sop phisticated point, viz. tthat US capitalism isn’t ffar removed from a dic-

tatorship – instead of repenting. The fi lm subverts clichés in small ways as well, as when Aladeen, roaming the streets of New York like Prince Akeem in Coming to America, must think fast when introducing himself to dictatorhating Zoey (Anna Faris). “What’s your last name?” she asks; he looks around frantically, and his eye alights on a sign for ‘Haffezi’s Burgers’ – but instead of saying ‘Haffezi’, like a thousand movie heroes before him, he says ‘Burgers’, and goes through the rest of the fi lm as ‘Alison Burgers’.

There are tangents, of course. The scene where Aladeen discovers masturbation (!) is the equivalent of the nude wrestling in Borat, a gratuitous detour designed to be talked about – but it’s still funny, especially when his epiphany is cross-cut with dolphins leaping and birds flying free.

Later there’s a severed head, later still a woman giving birth (Aladeen nearly forgets his phone in her vagina), all of which makes it sound like outrageousness for its own sake. So it is, to an extent – but it never feels complacent, never wallows in its own daring. The jokes keep coming, from a crack about Crocs to an Edward Norton cameo (it’s a long story) and a torture instrument – the “Kandahar cock-wrench” – that was “banned in Saudi Arabia for being too safe”. And you’ve never heard R.E.M.’s ‘Every-

body Hurts’ till you’ve heard it sung in Arabic, a language Baron Cohen seems to find intrinsically funny. He has a point.

I hesitate to say ‘I found The Dictator funny’ and leave it at that – because someone else might find it totally unfunny, and where does that get us?

But please note this fi lm is 83 minutes long, when something as disposable as Get Him to the Greek was 109 minutes (Bridesmaids was over two hours), and it keeps zapping you with gags when so many Hollywood comedies meander self-indulgently. Not to mention its blissfully silly sense of humour, like the sign on the door of a Wadiyan restaurant: “Come in, We’re Aladeen” / “Sorry, We’re Aladeen”.

Above all, it brims with a bracing political incorrectness, from Zoey’s “vegan co-operative” with its organic garden and “lesbian bathroom” to Baron Cohen’s sharp political worldview – neither buying into the democracy-as-panacea groupthink nor mindlessly ‘anti-liberal’ like Team America: World Police some years ago. Instead, here’s a fi lm where the “One Year Later” epilogue fi nds democracy having come at last to the long-suffering people of Wadiya – meaning, in effect, that Admiral-General Aladeen is now Admiral-General-President-PrimeMinister Aladeen! No wonder it was hated in America.

filmsummaries The Dictator General Admiral Aladeen (Sacha Baron Cohen), the dictator of Wadiya, is developing nuclear weapons, and the UN delivers an ultimatum for him to address the General Assembly personally or face the world’s wrath. The demented Dictator and his henchman Tamir (Ben Kingsley) head for New York, where a plot to assassinate him and turn Wadiya into a democracy so its oil can be exploited – by those inside the country as well as some outside – is in the making. But when an anti-Aladeen protester (Anna Faris) mistakes the now beardless Aladeen for a fellow traveller, the Dictator’s complicated predicament even becomes more

complicated. Also starring Jason Mantzoukas.

Directed by Larry Charles. (Comedy, 83 mins.)

Our rating:

The Lucky One After a fierce battle in Iraq, US Marine Logan Thibault (Zac Efron) sees a photo of a pretty young blonde in the rubble and goes to pick it up – a move that saves his life. He carries the photo everywhere, like a good-luck charm, and survives his third tour of duty. Once back in the US, he vows to find the girl in the photo, and soon tracks her down: her name is Beth (Taylor Schilling), she lives with her grandmother Nana (Blythe Danner) and young son

Ben, and is grieving for her brother who’s been missing in action for a year, also in Iraq. With Logan’s arrival, Beth’s life begins to change for the better – but her ex Keith (Jay R. Ferguson) is hovering over her, and threatening to destroy her newfound stability. Also starring Riley Thomas Stewart. Directed by Scott Hicks.

(Drama, 101 mins.)

Our rating:

The Amazing Spider-Man Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) is an outcast highschooler who was abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben (Martin Sheen) and Aunt May (Sally Field). He’s

trying to figure out who he is, meanwhile also finding his way with his first high-school crush Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone). Peter finds a mysterious briefcase that belonged to his father, and begins a quest to solve the mystery of his parents’ disappearance – leading him directly to Oscorp and the lab of Dr. Curt Connors (Rhys Ifans), his father’s former partner. Along the way he also inadvertently acquires extraordinary powers – and, as Spider-Man, is set on a collision course with Connors, who transforms himself into ‘The Lizard’. Also starring Denis Leary and Campbell Scott. Directed by Marc Webb. In 3D. (Comicbook action, 136 mins.)

Our rating: TURN TO PAGE 16

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The Dark Knight Rises It’s been eight years since Batman (Christian Bale) vanished into the night, turning, in that instant, from hero to fugitive.

Assuming the blame for the death of D.A. Harvey Dent, the Dark Knight sacrificed everything for what he and Commissioner Gordon both hoped was the greater good. For a time the lie worked, as criminal activity in Gotham City was crushed under the weight of the anti-crime Dent Act – but everything will change with the arrival of Selina (Anne Hathaway), a

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cunning cat burglar with a mysterious agenda. Far more dangerous, however, is the emergence of Bane (Tom Hardy), a masked terrorist whose ruthless plans for Gotham drive Bruce Wayne out of his self-imposed exile. But even if he dons the cape and cowl again, Batman may be no match for Bane. Also starring Michael Caine, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard and Gary Oldman. Directed by Christopher Nolan. (Comic-book action drama, 164 mins.)

Our rating: ***

Ice Age 4: Continental Drift Scrat’s nutty pursuit of the cursed acorn, which he’s been after since the dawn of time, has world-changing consequences – causing a continental cataclysm that creates the Earth as we know it and triggers the greatest adventure of all for Manny the mammoth (voiced

by Ray Romano), Diego the saber-toothed tiger (voiced

by Denis Leary) and Sid the sloth (voiced by John Leguizamo). In the wake of these upheavals, Sid reunites with his cantankerous Granny, and the herd encounters a ragtag menagerie of seafaring pirates determined to stop them from returning home. Also with the voices of Peter Dinklage and Nick Frost. Directed by Steve Martino and Mike Thurmeier. In 3D. (Kids’ cartoon, 94 mins.)

Our rating:

cate Wendy (Elizabeth Banks) gets a taste of her own advice when pregnancy hormones ravage her body; while Wendy’s husband Gary (Ben Falcone) struggles not to be outdone by his competitive alpha-Dad (Dennis Quaid), who’s expecting twins with his much younger trophy wife Skyler (Brooklyn Decker). Photographer Holly (Jennifer Lopez) is prepared to travel the globe to adopt a child – but her husband Alex (Rodrigo Santoro) isn’t so sure, and tries to quiet his panic by attending a ‘dudes’ support group. Then there’s Rosie (Anna Kendrick) and Marco (Chace Crawford), who run competing snack-food carts and succumb to a night of passion. Also starring Chris Rock. Directed

by Kirk Jones. (Romantic comedy-drama, 110 mins.)

Our rating:

Haywire Mallory Kane (real-life MMA fighter Gina Carano) is a highly-trained operative who works for a government security contractor in the dirtiest, most dangerous corners of the world. After successfully freeing a Chinese journalist held hostage, she is double-crossed and left for dead by someone close to her in her own agency; suddenly the target of skilled assassins who know her every move, Mallory must find out the truth in order to stay alive. Using her black-ops military training, she devises an ingenious – and dangerous – trap. But when things go haywire, Mallory realises she’ll be killed in the blink of an eye unless she can find a way to turn the tables. Also starring Ewan McGregor, Michael Fassbender, Antonio Banderas, Michael Douglas and Channing Tatum. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. (Action thriller, 93 mins.)

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Snow White and the Huntsman Snow White (Kristen Stewart) is the only person in the land fairer than the evil queen (Charlize Theron). Unable to tolerate the insult to her vanity, the evil queen decides that Snow White must die. The queen sends a huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) to kill Snow White.

However the huntsman finds himself unable to murder the innocent young woman, and instead ends up training her to become a warrior capable of threatening the queen’s reign. Also starring Ian McShane, Bob Hoskins and Ray Winstone. Directed by Rupert Sanders. (Adventure fantasy, 127 mins.)

Our rating:

What to Expect When You’re Expecting Five couples find their lives turned upside-down by the challenges of impending parenthood. TV fitness guru Jules (Cameron Diaz) and dance-show star Evan (Matthew Morrison) find that their high-octane celebrity lives don’t stand a chance against the surprise demands of pregnancy. Baby-crazy author and advo-

Le Mepris [Contempt] Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli) is a writer who’s hired by producer Jeremy Prokosch (Jack Palance) to make a script for a film version of ‘The Odyssey’ more commercial. Paul leaves his wife Camille (Brigitte Bardot) alone on a drive with Prokosch – and she, believing he’s used her to ingratiate himself with the producer, suddenly feels contempt for him, putting the relationship in danger. Directed by Jean-Luc Godard in 1963.

In French, with Greek subtitles. (Drama, 103 mins.)

Our rating:

What’sonwhere NICOSIA The Dark Knight Rises (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.30 and 10.15pm, and (Screen 2) at 8pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 1) at 5.30 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 1.30pm, and (Screen 2) at 8pm, weekends also at 11.30am and 3.30pm.

Tel: 7777-8383 The Dictator (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.30, 8 and 10.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 4) at 5.30, 8 and 10.30pm, weekends also at 11.25am, 1.30pm and 3.30pm.

Tel: 7777-8383 The Lucky One (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 5.30, 8.15 and 10.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) at 10.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Amazing Spider-Man (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.45 and 10.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 7.45 and 10.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in 3D, in Greek) at 5.25pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in 3D, in English) at 5.25pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in 2D, in Greek) at 5.25 and 8pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 1) (in 3D, in Greek), weekends only at 11.30am; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) (in 3D, in English) at 5.25pm, weekends also at 11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.25pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) (in 2D, in Greek) at 5.25 and 8pm, weekends also at 11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.25pm.

Tel: 7777-8383 Haywire (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 10.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Summer Open-Air Marathon (tonight: Le Mepris) Konstantia Open-Air Cinema, Wednesday to Sunday at 9pm.

Tel: 22-348203

LIMASSOL The Dark Knight Rises (12) Rio 1 at 7.45 and 10.30pm, weekends also at 4.45pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.30 and 10.15pm, and (Screen 2) at 8pm. Tel: 77778383 The Dictator (15) Rio 3 at 8.20 and 10.10pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.30, 8 and 10.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Lucky One (K) Rio 5 at 6.30, 8.20 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 4.45pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 10.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Amazing Spider-Man (12) Rio 2 at 8 and 10.30pm, weekends also at 5.30pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.45 and 10.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (K) Rio 2 (in 3D, in English), daily (except weekends) at 6.20pm.

Rio 3 (in 3D, in Greek) at 6.30pm, weekends also at

4.45pm. Rio 4 (in 2D, in Greek) at 6.30, 8.20 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 4.45pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in 3D, in Greek) at 5.25pm.

K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in 3D, in English) at 5.25pm. K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in 2D, in Greek) at 5.25 and 8pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Haywire (15) Rio 6 at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends also at 5.30pm. Tel: 25-871410

LARNACA The Dark Knight Rises (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.30 and 10.15pm, and (Screen 2) at 8pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Dictator (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.30, 8 and 10.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383

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The Lucky One (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 5.30, 8.15 and 10.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Amazing Spider-Man (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.45 and 10.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in 3D, in Greek) at 5.25pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in 3D, in English) at 5.25pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in 2D, in Greek) at 5.25 and 8pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Haywire (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 10.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383

PAPHOS The Dark Knight Rises (12) Rio 1 at 5, 7.45 and 10.30pm. Tel: 26-207000 The Dictator (15) Rio 5 at 6, 8 and 10pm, weekends at 4.30, 6.20, 8 and 10pm.

Tel: 26-207000 The Lucky One (K) Rio 4 at 6, 8 and 10pm, weekends at 4.30, 6.20, 8.10 and 10pm. Tel: 26-207000

The Amazing Spider-Man (12) Rio 7 at 5.30, 8 and 10.30pm.

Tel: 26-207000 Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (K) Rio 3 (in 2D, in Greek) at 6, 8 and 10pm, weekends at 4.30, 6.20, 8.10 and 10pm. Rio 6 (in 3D, in English) at 6 and 10pm, weekends at 4.30, 6.20 and 10pm. Rio 6 (in 3D, in Greek) at 8pm, weekends at 8.10pm. Tel: 26-207000 What to Expect When You’re Expecting (K) Rio 2 at 6 and 8pm, weekends at 4.30, 6.30 and 8.30pm. Tel: 26-207000 Snow White and the Huntsman (12) Rio 2 at 10pm, weekends at 10.10pm. Tel: 26-207000 Films change on Friday. Check the Cyprus Mail for details of new films for Friday and Saturday (K) All Audiences (12/15/18) No admittance to Under-12s/15s/ 18s (N/A) Not Available

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17 Limassol International Documentary Festival With 28 films, workshops and talks, as well as parallel parties. August 1-8. Second Municipal Market of Limassol (Theatro Ena)

with some repetitive screenings also taking place at Sousami. Tel: 77 77 25 52, or e-mail info@filmfestival.com.cy or browse www.filmfestival.com.cy and facebook: “Lemesos International Documentary

The Limassol Documentary Festival provides much food for thought says ZOE CHRISTODOULIDES

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very summer, the heart of Limassol beats to a rather different pulse as cutting edge documentaries bring the old historic quarter to life. With the Limassol Documentary Festival in its 7th edition, there is much to anticipate with some of the most renowned and awarded documentary fi lms of the year to be shown for the first time in Cyprus. Taking place between August 1 and

ry of the Earth Liberation Fron , exploring two of America’s most pressing issues - environmentalism and terrorism. That’s not to forget the local documentaries set to stir the waters, with Birds of a Feather by Stefanos Evripidou and Stephen Nugent of particular interest. The documentary looks at the contrasting personal memories formed in a post-confl ict space after decades of physical separation. Then there’s Athenian Mam-

Intense images and emotions 8, there is much to feast your eyes on.

Financial crisis, sustainable development and the fight of man for survival are only some of the topics tackled in the 28 documentary fi lms to be showcased this year. From New York to Bangladesh, and from Amsterdam to the heart of Africa, the documentaries will lead the viewer on a journey bursting with unprecedented images and intense emotions.

Parallel to the main screenings at the central festival area (Municipal Market-Theatro Ena) some repeat screenings will also take place at Sousami, just a few metres away from the main festival space in the heart of the old city.

The festival will be welcoming directors and producers of the

fi lms to be screened throughout the nine days, and viewers will have the chance to initiate a creative dialogue with the fi lmmakers who will jet over for the highly coveted event.

The festival will open this Wednesday evening with the award winning 5 Broken Cameras that tells the story of Palestinian farm labourer Emad who recorded his village’s resistance to Israeli oppression through five broken cameras. Each of them tells a different part of the story of his village’s resistance. Emad lives in Bil’in, just west of the city of Ramallah on the West Bank. Sympathisers from all over the world, including Israel, provide help as resistance develops, but when the situation intensifies, people are arrested and vil-

lagers are killed. Emad keeps on fi lming despite pleas from his wife who fears reprisals. This is an engrossing, out-of-the-ordinary fi lm about the Israeli-Palestinian confl ict, with violence written on the cameraman’s own body.

Also be sure not to miss the groundbreaking documentary The Ambassador; a tragic comedy about the bizarre and hidden world of African diplomacy. A strange, enigmatic and decadent white European, who looks like a mixture of Henry Stanley and Karl Lagerfeld, arrives in the former French colony the Central African Republic (CAR) with diplomatic credentials to spearhead a diplomatic mission representing Liberia. Sit back and watch a world where gin and tonics flow on a daily basis while dia-

mond hustlers and corrupt politicians run free.

For something rather different, you might like to watch Gspotting: A Story of Pleasure and Promise offering an investigation into the heart of the fascinating world of scientific sexology. A joyful and surprising fi lm, colourful characters explore science, sexual liberation, ideological conflicts and, of course, pleasure.

On a heavier note, Khodorkovsky narrates the drama of the rise and fall of former Russian oligarch and businessman, all the way from a socialist believer to a perfect capitalist who subsequently became the most known Russian prisoner.

Then there’s the Academy Award nominated documentary by Marshall Curry, If a Tree Falls: A Sto-

Exhibition

What’sonlistings

Maniera Cypria: Lemesos, Fabula, Historia, Memoria

Exhibitions

Exhibition dedicated to ancient findings. Until August 12. Evagoras Lanitis Centre, Lanitis Carob mill, Limassol.

5pm-9pm daily except Mondays.

Tel: 25-342123

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Nicosia district Armenian-Cypriot Painters and Photographers Group exhibition. Until July 31. Casteliotissa Hall, old Nicosia. Monday-Friday: 10am-1pm and 5pm-8pm. Saturday-Sunday: 6pm-9pm.

Tel: 22-800970 Nicosia International Airport Solo photography exhibition by Andreas Efstathiou. Until August 30. Is Not Gallery, 11 Odysseus, Chrysaliniotissa. MondaySaturday: 10am-1pm and 4pm-8pm. Tel: 22-343670 Twice a Stranger Multimedia exhibition. Until September 2.

The Leventis Municipal Museum, Temporary Exhibitions Hall, Hippocrates Street, Laiki Yitonia. Open: 3.30pm-5.30pm. Tel: 22-661475 I Will Follow your to the end of the World - Immigrating for Love Exhibition by visual artist Lia Lapithi influenced the story of Queen Caterina Cornaro.

Until September 2. The Leventis Municipal Museum, 15-17 Hippocrates Street, Laiki Yitonia. Open: 3.30pm -5.30pm. Tel: 22-661475 Diaspora Exhibition by visual artist Nkos Kourossis. Until September 2. The Leventis Municipal Museum, 15-17 Hippocrates Street, Laiki Yitonia.

Open: 3.30pm -5.30pm. Tel: 22-661475 Nicosia: Topographies of Memory From Ermou Street to the Buffer Zone Presents the research of Anita Bakshi, who sought to uncover the memories of Ermou Street using maps that were created from memories and narratives provided by shopkeepers who once worked or lived in this area. Until September 30. Home for Cooperation. Tel: +90 542 8506681/22-445740. www. home4cooperation.info/www.ahdr.info

mals by Yiorgos Apostolopoulos, Ioakim Mylonas and Panayiotis Fotiou and Christoforos Savva by Yiannis Yapanis. More information on all of the screenings can be found on the festival website.

Keep in mind that parallel events include DocsTalk, a series of workshops aimed at offering Cypriot directors, producers and cinema professionals the opportunity to expand and promote their skills in documentary making all free of charge. Parallel parties will also be taking place with crowds heading to the lively Sousami for a post-screening drink. The bar will be officially hosting both the opening party and closing party as plenty of chatter is bound to resonate about all that’s being shown on the big screen.

Our Lady of Nicosia Exhibition about the church of Phaneromeni and it relics. Until September 30. Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, 96-90 Phaneromenis Street, old Nicosia. Monday-Sunday: 10am-7pm. Tel: 80-000800 Terra Mediterranea – In Crisis Group contemporary art exhibition curated

by Yiannis Toumazis scrutinising the current turbulence experienced globally, from both a political and a poetic stance. Until December 30. Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre 19, Palaias Ilektrikis. Tuesday-Saturday: 10am-3pm and 5pm-11pm. Sunday: 10am-4pm. Tel: 22-797400. info@nimac.org.cy. www.nimac. org.cy The project includes a second contemporary art exhibition curated by Re Aphrodite team.

The exhibition deals with the unwritten feminine histories of Cyprus and their private and public structure. Until December 30.

Ethological Museum – The House of Hagjigeorgakis Kornesios, 20, Patriarxou Grigoriou. Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 8.30am-3 .30pm. Wednesday: 8.30am-5pm. Saturday: 9.30am-3.30pm. Tel: 22-305316 AnThrOPOS: Faces of Cyprus through the Ages An exhibition that explores the human form as it is represented in the art of Cyprus from the Neolithic period until today, focusing specifically on depictions of the human face.

Until January 18, 2013. The Cyprus Museum 1 Special Exhibition Hall, Museum Street.

Tel.: 22-865854. www.mcw.gov.cy Cyprus Icons and Mosaics Makarios III Foundation, Archbishopric, old Nicosia. Monday-Friday 9am-4.30pm and Saturday 9am-1pm. Tel: 22-430008 Old Maps and Engravings 16th-19th Century Permanent exhibition: Cyprus and other Greek lands, Europe and America. Viewing by appointment. Gallery Leventis, 6 Polykleitos St. Tel/Fax: 22-348451, 99-658694.

Cyprus Yesterday and Today Permanent exhibition. Diachroniki Gallery Idalion, 32 Makarios Ave., Dhali. Open Monday-Saturday 11am-5pm. Tel: 22-525691

Larnaca district Dimitris Mihlis Solo painting exhibition. Until August 30.

Gallery Kypriaki Gonia, 45 Stadiou Street.

Monday-Saturday: 10am-1pm & 4.30pm-8pm. Sunday:11am-2pm & 4pm-7pm. Tel: 24621109 Helen Tumelty’s Mosaic Studio Permanent exhibition of mosaic pictures, tables and mirrors. Just off Zenon Kitieos St. Studio also offers mosaic classes in a small friendly environment throughout the year.

Tel: 99-925315 Cyprus Artists Pieces from the Larnaca municipality’s permanent collection on display. Larnaca Municipal Gallery. Monday-Friday: 9am-4pm, Saturday: 10am-1pm. Tel: 24-657745

Limassol district Another Paradise Solo painting exhibition by Katie Sabry.

Until July 31. Dinos Art Café, 62-66 Irinis Street. Monday-Saturday: 10.30am to midnight and Sunday: 4pm to midnight. Tel: 25-762030 Maniera Cypria: Lemesos, Fabula, Historia, Memoria Exhibition dedicated to ancient findings. Until August 12. Evagoras Lanitis Centre, Lanitis Carob mill. 5pm-9pm daily except Mondays.

Tel: 25-342123 The Area is Sacred Solo art exhibition by Panagiotis Mina. Until September 13. 50-1 Gallery. Monday-Friday: 11am-1pm and 4pm-8pm. Saturday: 11am1pm. Tel: 99-522977

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18 WHAT’S ON What’sonlistings Summer 2012 Group exhibition of paintings and sculptures. Until September 30. Morfi Gallery, 84 Agkyras St. Monday-Saturday: 10am-1pm.

Tuesday-Friday: 5pm-8pm.Tel: 25-378733. www.morfi.org Blackdove Art Studio Permanent exhibition of artwork in oils, acrylic, print and mixed media, including painted driftwood, by Mary-Lynne Stadler. commissions welcome and art tuition on offer in a number of media. Tel: 99-048369. www.marylynnestadler.com.

Anoyira Mosaic Artwork Discover the magic of mosaics and Anoyira.

Friday-Sunday 10am-4pm, other times by appointment. Tel: 99-108710 Art by Susanne Gallery with contemporary artwork. Shop 2, Marina Beach, Amathus Avenue. Daily 10am4pm. Percentage of profits go to children with Cystic Fibrosis. Tel: 99-247668 Theomaria Art Gallery Permanent exhibition of Vera Parlalidou’s ceramics. 7 Vassilisis Karlotta St. Monday-Friday 8am-1pm. Tel: 25-745777 Michael Owen Galleries Permanent exhibition of oil and watercolour paintings. Lania. Tel. 25-432404. www. michaelowengallery.com Olivera Papathoma Permanent exhibition in City Art Gallery.

255A Saint Andreas St. Monday-Friday 9am1pm, 4pm-7pm. Sat. 9am-2pm Sea King Permanent exhibition of old aviation photos (Tiger/Gypsy Moths, Hurricane, Spitfire, etc.).

Sea King restaurant, near Akrotiri base. Tel: 25-954500

Paphos district Judith Constantinou Permanent exhibition of watercolours.

The Studio, Stephanie Village, Tala. Tel: 26652760 Stewart B Johnson Open house viewings of Scottish artist’s works by appointment. G. Xenopoulou st.

Tel: 26-930525 Gallery at Home with Theresa French Watercolours, prints and cards. 2 Modestou Panteli, 2 Nicolas Cliff, Yeroskipou. Tel: 26962597/ 99-316485 Stone Sculptures Permanent exhibition by Andreas Constantinou. Polis Chrysochous, near central square.

Call artist for viewing. Tel: 99-585543 Michael Gorman Figurative paintings and prints. 20 Theodorou Kolokotroni, Peyia. Open daily. Tel: 99952376/99-006832/26-621424 Harry and Sheila Hawkins Art by Harry Hawkins and books by Sheila Hawkins. Ayias Zonis St., Neo Chorio. Open daily. Tel: 26-321123 Herbs and Wild Flowers Arts and crafts inspired by the flora of Cyprus. Medicinal herbal teas and oils available.

Information Centre for the Akamas National Park at the School of Pano Arodes. Tel: 99616748 David Lester Working Studio in Peyia, with permanent exhibition of oil paintings and other works by the author of ‘Wishful Thinking’. Tel: 26621130

Famagusta district Blue Spice Restaurant Permanent exhibition of Carolina Alotus’ works. Blue Spice, 29 Aphroditis St (between Perneras and Protaras rd), Ayia Napa. Tel: 23832088. www.CarolinaAlotus.com Where are the Rights of the Children of Karpasia?

Permanent photographic exhibition. Famagusta Cultural Centre, 35 Evagorou St, Dherynia. Closed Sundays. Monday-Friday 7.30am-4.30pm and Saturday 9.30am-4 .30pm. Tel: 23-740860

Music Nicosia district Dorsaf Hamdani One of the leading representatives of contemporary Arabic music performs live within the framework of Summer Nights. July 30.

Faneromeni Square, old Nicosia. 8.30pm.

Free Voices and Songs from Cyprus A performance-feast with songs and dances from two of the most important representatives of the new generation in traditional Cypriot music. July 31. Polihoros 77, Phaneromenis 75-77. 9.30pm. 10. Tel: 22-680804

Larnaca district Haris Alexiou and Dimitra Galani Two of the greatest female voices from Greece present a programme with popular songs by great composers as well as songs written by themselves. July 31. Pattichion Municipal Theatre. 9pm. €35. Tel: 25-878744

Limassol district Dorsaf Hamdani One of the leading representatives of contemporary Arabic music performs live within the framework of the Ethnic Festival. July 29.

Heroes Square, Limassol. 8.30pm. Free. Tel: 77- 777745. www.rialto.com.cy. The performances will also be held in Nicosia within the framework of Summer Nights

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Haris Alexiou and Dimitra Galani Two of the greatest female voices from Greece present a programme with popular songs by great composers as well as songs written by themselves. July 29. Municipal Gardens Theatre. 9pm. €35. Tel: 25-878744

Theatre & Dance Nicosia district The Frogs Play by Aristophanes performed by the Magdalena Zira and her Theatre Group, Cyprus, within the framework of the International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama.

July 29. Makarios III Amphitheatre. 9pm. €10/17. With English and Greek subtitles.

Tel: 77-772717/25-324015/26-947037. www. tickethour.com Yialloura Satiriko Theatre presents Cypriot play by Michalis Pashiardis, based on the poem by Dimitris Lipertis. Until July 29. Vladimiros Kafkarides Cultural Centre, 11-15 Vladimiros Kafkarides Street, Αglantzia. Every Saturday and Sunday at 8.30pm. In Greek. €12/7. Tel: 22-312940/22-421609 Miss Pepsi Anemona Theatre presents classic comedy

by French author Pierrette Bruno. Until July 29. Anemona Theatre, 7 Archagelou Street, Latsia. Every Friday through Sunday at 8.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 22-573031 Sharing Stories A travelling dance performance by Amfidromo Dance Company. Part of the official cultural programme of the EU Presidency. July 30 and 31. Starting at Solomou Square. 7pm.

Tel: 99698691. Email: info@amfidromo.com Antigone Opera by Tommaso Traetta based on play

by Sophocles and performed by the Skull of Yorick Productions, United Kingdom, within the framework of the International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama. July 31. Makarios III Amphitheatre. 9pm. €10/17. With English and Greek subtitles. Tel: 99-542165/77772717/25-324025/26-947037. www.tickethour.com My Friend, Lefterakis Theatro Skala presents the Greek theatrical comedy by Alekos Sakellarios. August 1. Famagusta Gate, Athina Avenue. 9pm. In Greek. €7/12. Tel: 22-430877

Limassol district Summer Contemporary Dance Festival Five choreographers will create dance pieces inspired by urban landscape, the stories, the history or even the architecture of different places. July 24-29. Multiple locations in Limassol. 7.30pm. Tel: 77-772552 www.neakinisidance.com.cy Antigone Opera by Tommaso Traetta based on play

by Sophocles and performed by the Skull of Yorick Productions, United Kingdom, within the framework of the International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama. July 30. Curium Ancient Theatre. 9pm. €10/17. With English and Greek subtitles. Tel: 99-542165/77-772717 /25-324025/26-947037. www.tickethour. com Miss Julie XMAS Production presents the classic work

by August Strindberg as adapted by Patrick Marber. August 2-3. Municipal Garden Theatre. 9pm. In Greek. €20/45. Presale tickets available at selected So Easy Kiosks in all cities (Kiosks Time Out and Stokkos in Paphos).

Tel: 70-003313

Other Events Nicosia district Summer Movie Marathon Open-air screenings. Until September 9. Konstantia Open-air Cinema, 15 Solonos Michailides Street. 9pm. Screenings every: Wednesday-Sunday. €5/free entrance for children in elementary school. Tel: 22-348203 Rooftop Theatre Group Regular play script-writing workshop. In the room next to Kala Kathoumena coffee shop in old Nicosia (Phaneromeni Square). 6pm. In English. Tel: 22- 661354 Kindermusik with Vaso Come and see how music and movement can stimulate your young child’s developing mind and body. Classes every Tuesday. St. Paul’s Church Hall, Byron Avenue. 5pm. Tel: 96-693462. For full details please visit: www. kindermusikwithvaso.com. kindermusikwithvaso@gmail.com Childrens African DrumagiQ Includes: Drums and rhythm tuition with educational approach, psychological expertise, culture, customs, games, dance and innovative creative techniques. Every Friday. Kisa Centre, old Nicosia. 5-6pm for children under 12, 6-7pm for children 12-15. Tel: 22-878181 Tango Argentine Classes Regular Tango with Julia Gorina and guest maestros. La Excelencia Pilates & Dance Studio, Nikitaras str. 6. (parallel street to 28th October). Mondays: 7.30pm-8.30pm beginners class / practica for improvers and 8.30pm-10pm improvers. Wednesdays: 7.30pm-8.30pm beginners class / practica for improvers and 8.30pm-10pm improvers.

Tel: 99-406032 or info@tangocyprus.net www.tangocyprus.net

EXHIBITION

A closer look at the natural environment While many galleries firmly close their doors for the summer months taking a break from the scene and preparing for their autumn exhibits, Kypriaki Gonia Gallery seems to be intent on luring in the crowds throughout the coming month with no plans to hibernate for the holiday season. Head down to the venue and you’ll spot the works of Dimitris Mihlis, an artist who is now showing his latest work presenting natural evolution at its best. Presenting scenes with vibrant colours, they are all inspired by the Cypriot landscape: trees and tree trunks, enlarged flowers, endless seas and skies. Then there’s a series of expressive male faces in the mix that comprise the artist’s latest and inspired work emitting a strong life force energy.

Mihlis was born in the Famagusta district in 1954 and studied art at the St Martin’s School TANGO-y-TU presents Eight week foundation course every Wednesday. Athena’s School of Dance, 13 Prince Charles St, Ayios Dometios - opposite Asty Hotel. 7.30-9pm €16 per class €55 prepaid for 4 weeks + free CD. Improvers/Intermediate Class. 9pm-10.30pm - €16 per class or €55 for 4 prepaid. Tel: 99-377102 www.tango-y-tu. com - email: janetvakis@googlemail.com Tango Argentine Classes Tango classes and bi-communal Milonga.

Regular classes every Sunday. Ledra Palace, 12 Markos Drakos Street. Classes: for beginners and advanced on Sundays. 9pm. Tel: 99651706. www.ledratango.com Contemporary Dance, Yoga, Pilates and Latin Contemporary dance: Tuesday 5pm for beginners. Yoga: Wednesday 6pm and Saturday 10.30am. Pilates: Saturday 11.30am. Latin: Fridays: 8pm. Equus gym. €60 for any two classes a week or €40 for one. Tel: 99-618556 Adult Tap Classes Weekly adult tap lessons every Thursday, 7pm. Engomi. Payment is with a voucher of 12 lessons for €90, allowing flexibility in attendance, ideal for working mothers. First trial lesson free. Tel: 99-522821 Belly Dancing Belly dancing at Fanous Lebanese Restaurant. Every Saturday. 7C Solonos Street, old Nicosia. Tel: 22-666663. www.fanous.eu Fly-in-Dance With weekly classes in belly dance, latin and club dance, hip hop, body ballet and yoga (power and astanga). Fly-in-Dance, Archimidus, Engomi. Tel: 99-896490 Tai Chi Tai Chi classes every Monday. Bubishi Dojo, Aglandjia. 7pm-9pm. Tel: 96-515355 Yoga at the Life Centre Hatha yoga, advanced yoga, pregnancy yoga, baby yoga and massage for all levels offered throughout the day. Private sessions available. First class free. The Life Centre, 4 Persefonis St, Flat 301, Acropolis. Tel: 22377630, 99-413707. email: info@life-centre. org, www.life-centre.org Yoga and Pilates Studio Yoga and Pilates sessions, mornings and evenings with a fully-qualified instructor. Private classes also available. Tel: 99-373776 Hatha Yoga Classical Hatha Yoga. Asanas, breathing, relaxation. Small groups and individual private lessons. Also private meditation instruction.

4 Kikeronas St, Strovolos. Tel: 99-435687 or visit www.livingwithvision.com Reiki - Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki Japanese system of natural healing instruction, attunement & certification. Reiki Master with over 20 years teaching & practical experience. Tel: 97-801472 or email to reiki.training.cyprus@gmail.com Yoga for Health and Beauty Sivananda, Hatha and Dynamic Yoga offered.

Daily Yoga sessions, mornings and evenings with a qualified teacher. 128 Kyriakou Matsi St, Agios Dometios. Tel: 99-375471. email: chrkyp@spidernet.com.cy Ashtanga Yoga Traditional Ashtanga Yoga primary series for all levels with a qualified instructor. Small group classes and individual tuition. Archangelos. Tel: 99-290202 The Terra Centre Offering Hatha Yoga, Beginners Power Yoga.

First class free. Discounts for couples and students. Reiki classes for adults and kids. Energy healing sessions, hypnosis and regression sessions, counselling, workshops and more.

Near the European University. Tel: 99-538163

of Art in London with well-known professors such as Poland’s Joseph Herman. When back in Cyprus, he worked at the Art Workshop in Limassol with his brother Pambos Mihlis and other artists. Since then he has been busy presenting his work in numerous solo and group exhibitions both in Cyprus and abroad.

Dimitris Mihlis Local artists presents his latest paintings.

Until August 30. Kypriaki Gonia Gallery, 45 Stadiou St, Larnaca. Monday to Saturday: 10am – 1pm and 4.30pm-8pm. Tel: 24621109

Serenity House Yoga, tai chi and anger management, self awareness seminars traditional Thai and classic massage, and more. Serenity House, Einstein St, Ay. Omologites. Tel: 99-434353, Rebecca (Yoga), 99-487927, splishys@cytanet.com.cy Healing Rooms Free 20 minutes healing sessions for the wellbeing of spirit, mind and body in a loving atmosphere. Confidential. Every second and fourth Thursday of the month. 8-9.30pm.

225 Strovolos Avenue, near Metro roundabout. Tel: 99-771084 Inter-faith prayers and meditation Every Friday. Baha’i Centre, 11 Parthenonos, Kaimakli. Tel: 22-624283 HIV Discussion Group Discussing issues around HIV for sufferers and friends of sufferers. Every Thursday.

UNESCO Amphitheatre, Intercollege, Makedonitissas Ave. 7pm. Free Nicosia Horrible Hash House Harriers Exercise, eat, drink and be merry with Nicosia Hash House Harriers. Meetings every Tuesday 7.30pm for a walk, jog or run around Nicosia. For directions to the run or more info, Tel: 99-308436 or visit www.nh4.com.cy Toastmasters Crusaders Club Improve your public speaking skills. Meetings every three Fridays. Tel: 99-851102. www.tmcrusaders.com Nicosia Writers’ Workshop If you enjoy creative writing and want to meet people with similar skills, then the Nicosia Writers’ Workshop is the place to be, so bring your ideas and we’ll open a new world together. Papantoniou Institute, Byron Avenue every Sunday. 11am-1pm Writing Workshops Unleash your creative side with Rhay Christou. Rhay’s Studio, Old Nicosia. Tel: 99 522333 Italian for Beginners Lessons offered by the Dante Alighieri Society and the Italian Embassy. Monday and Wednesday 6.30pm-8pm.Tel: 99-339644 Children’s Theatre Workshop Dionysus Theatre brings kids closer to theatre. Three different age groups, ranging from 6-18+. Classes are in Greek. Dionysus Theatre, 29 Diagorou St. Tel: 22-818999/99-621845 or visit www.music.net.cy/dionysos Play in a Day Fun theatre workshops geared towards adults. Every Thursday 6-8pm. (lessons for youths between 14 and 17 also take place on Wednesday 5pm-7pm). €15 per session or €50 per month. Taught in Greek and English.

For registration Tel: 99-130916/99-552654. theatrenicosia@gmail.com Arts & Moods Creative workshops for children of all ages.

15 Averoff Street, Strovolos. Tel: 22313142. email: artsandmoods@cytanet.com.cy Brocante Antique and vintage furniture market. Every Sunday 9am-7pm. In front of the old municipal market in old Nicosia and outside the Akanthos workshop space. Tel: 22-100984. www.facebook.com/akanthos.furniture St Paul’s Thrift Shop Thrift Shop for clothes and bric-a-brac every Saturday from 10am- midday in St Paul’s Cathedral car park. Lots of bargains on offer at very reasonable prices. Tel : 22-445221 St Paul’s Babies and Toddlers Non-religious, non-political and multi-national organisation that caters for newborn to pre-school kids with activities including outdoor and indoor play equipment and toys. St Paul’s Church Hall, Byron Avenue. No membership required. babiesandtoddlers. googlepages.com

Cans for Kids Quiz Nights First Friday of every month. 8.30pm. Esogba, behind the Junior School. €5. Drinks and home cooked food available. Tel: 99-666011. www.cansforkids.org Cyprus Go Association Meetings every Saturday to learn the game and improve skills. Oktana Café, 2 Aristidou St. 5pm. Tel: 99-476253. cyprus@europeango.org, cyprus.european-go.org Porcelain Painting Paint your own dinner set or special gift for your loved ones. Beginners classes morning and afternoon. Strovolos. Tel: 99-620992 Saint Andrews Bridge Club Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 4pm, Saturday 7pm-10pm; 15 Heroes Avenue. Tel: 22781063 or 96-510121 Tarot Card Game Lessons Not lessons in the divination art but rather the strategy and memory game. Every Wednesday evening. Brasserie Au Bon Plaisir, 15 Alasias Street. 8pm. Tel 96-755111 The World of Wine Beginners and advanced specialised courses for enthusiasts who wish to become more confident in understanding and enjoying fine wines and spirits. Tailormade courses, wine classes and tasting can also be organised on request. Spectus shops, Nicosia and Limassol. Tel: 22511521/25-341525 Coffee Morning A warm welcome for all women. Interesting talks and a chance to get together socially.

Second Thursday of the month. (except July and August). 9.30am St.Paul’s Church Hall, Byron Avenue. In English. Tel: 22-329293/99924363 Walking Tours of Nicosia Mondays: Chrysaliniotissa and Kaimakli: the past restored guided bus and walking tour. Thursdays: walking tour of Nicosia; Friday, Nicosia outside the walls guided bus and walking tour. In English. Start from the CTO office in Laiki Yitonia at 10am. Free. Tel: 22-674264 The Love Bus Guided tours through the north of Cyprus focussing on the Kyrenia area. Leaving from Eleftheria Square and locations around Nicosia. €25. Tel: 99-761761/97-761761 Bird Watching in Cyprus Birdlife Cyprus regularly arranges bird watching trips around the island. Tel: 22-455072, 99-059541. www.birdlifecyprus.org Horse Races Every Wednesday and Sunday at the Nicosia Race Club. Tel: 22-782727. Subject to change check website. www.nicosiaraceclub.com.cy

Larnaca district Hooves and Grooves Monthly family fun days with horse ride and drum orchestra. Farm visits, horse/pony rides & drumming. Drapia Horse Farm, Kalavasos.

4pm-6pm: Horse journeys/pony rides. 6pm7.30pm: Sunset drum orchestra. €22/12.

Bookings for horse journey: 97-836005. To reserve your drum: 99-238660 Transformative Tarot Course Fun & educational, meet other like-minded people. Tuesdays and Wednesdays. 7.30-9 .30pm. contact: seekersofthetarot@yahoo. com for more details Angel Workshops Call Susan Rudd Master Teacher of the Diana Cooper School of Angels for full details. 97648218, email spiritandsole@hotmail.com, www.spiritandsole.com

Yogalife Hatha yoga, meditative breathing, stress management, singing bowls meditation, private and group sessions. Call for introductory lesson. ALSO Yoga for young people (6-12yrs and 13-18yrs). Yoga Life, Nik Milona and Gr Afxentiou St, opposite American Academy.

Tel: 24-623123 or www.yogalifecyprus.com The Living Tao Centre Weekly classes in Tai Chi, Chi Kung, Tao Ying Yoga, Hatha Yoga and meditation. Living Tao Centre, 2 Dimokinou St. Mondays-Fridays.

Tel: afternoon classes- 99 658217, morning classes- 99-304202. living@cytanet.com.cy Kara – Mind & Body Centre Unique opportunity to gain a certificate in Tarot Reading, starting this September. An 18-week course will cover symbology, colourology, numerology and much more. KARA Mind & Body Centre, Oroklini. Tel: 99-029952. tarotcyprus.yolasite.com/about-us.php Fisu Meditation Learn Fisu Meditation. Free introductory talks on why meditate and what meditation is all about. Book by appointment, 24532479/99-665330 Reflexology, Reiki and Ear Candle Treatments Relax, revitalise and improve your health and well being. Tel: 97-648218 Larnaca Hash House Harriers Every Monday, 5pm. For more information call Fred-the-web on 24-647175 Kition Hash House Harriers Run/jog/walk from a pub/taverna round the town and back. Wednesday evenings, 7.30pm. All welcome. Join us and have some fun. Tel: 24-647283 Antidote Theatre Workshops Drama workshops for children aged 5- can attend weekly workshops to learn about theatre through games and play, and participate in productions staged at the end of each year. Theatre Antidote also offers its students the Trinity Guildhall drama examinations in June, a useful qualification for university applications. Antidote Theatre, Apothikes st.Lazarus. Tel: 24-822677. info@theatreantidote.com/ www.theatreantidote.com Baby Antidote Brings the young tots up to 3yrs in touch with theatre, by combining storytelling, fairytales and play. Through interactive performances inspired by favourite children’s books, the heroes come to life as the little ones embody them in their own unique way. Apothikes st.

Lazarus. Every Monday and Friday, 9.30-11 .30am. Entrance is €4 per family, and includes refreshments and snacks.

Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffalos Social and benevolent organisation supporting charitable groups. The James Mercury Lodge meets at Dhekelia Barracks. Every Tuesday, 7.30pm. Next to ‘George’s Taxi’ on the South Road. Tel: 24-635812 RAFA Larnaca Bay Branch Social gathering taking place on second Tuesday of each month. Beachcomber Restaurant, Makenzie Beach . 7pm. Tel: 24363752. www.rafacyprus.co.uk/larnaca Writing Group Creative writing group meets bi-weekly in Larnaca, Episkopi and possibly Paralimni.

Every participant will have work published online and in a print anthology. New and established writers welcome. €15 per meeting.

Tel: 99-046237. www.writingcyprus.com Writers’ Workshop Unleash the writer within. Classes for all ages with writing coaching also available. Classes in Larnaca. Tel: 99-522333. rchristou@cytanet.com.cy Larnaca Writers’ Group Established, friendly and informal group; who love to write. Meetings are a mixture of writing news, workshop exercises and ongoing projects. Welcomes new members and are looking for writers of poetry and prose, at all levels of experience. Every alternate Saturday Oroklini village. 11am. Tel: 99-321927. larnaca.writers82@gmail.com Larnaca Reading Group If you enjoy reading and debating the pros and cons of a book, you are welcome to join, the group endeavours to read a diverse selection of books. Larnaca Reading Group (LRG) meets the first Monday of each month in the Reading Lounge, upstairs in the Academic & General Bookshop, address: 41 Hermes Street. Tel: 24-628401/99-597094 /99-925315 Cash Bingo Eyes down every Wednesday, 8.30pm, and Sunday, 8.30pm, Makedonas restaurant, Dhekelia road. Food and drinks available at venues. Tel: 99-108391 Line Dancing Every Friday, 8pm. Makedonas restauraunt, Dhekelia road. Tel: 99-108391 Tango Argentine Classes Regular Tango with Julia. School of Dancing Art in Aradippou. 28 Pavlou Michaila, 7104, Aradippou. Sundays: 4pm-5.30pm – beginners. Tel: 99-406032, info@tangocyprus.net TANGO-y-TU presents Eight week foundation course every Friday.

Deborah’s School of Russian Ballet, 192 Faneromenis Avenue. 7.30-9pm - €15 per class or €50 for 4 prepaid. Improvers/Intermediate Class every Monday. 8-10pm - €15 per class or €50 for 4 prepaid. Free tango practica at Cafe da Vinci, St Lazarus Square. www.tango-tu. com - Tues nights 8.30pm. Tel: 99-377102. www.tango-y-tu.com Royal Engineers’ Association Meets on second Tuesday of the month at venues around the island. For details of next meeting Tel: Bob Beer (Chair) on 97-633728

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19 Nightlife Nicosia district Pixides Live On the occasion of the recording of their first album Greek rock band play live. July 30. Avlea Music Stage, 2 Emanuel Roidi, Strovolos. 10pm. Tel: 22-675638

Phil in the Gap A music programme featuring rock, reggae, blues and more. August 2. Avlea Music Stage, 2 Emanuel Roidi, Strovolos.

9pm. €8. Tel: 22-675638

Live Jazz Event Jazz music with band ‘D Lirious’, food and drinks available. Every Friday night at Baroque Lounge Bar, Cleopatra Hotel. 9:30pm.For reservations contact 22844000

Music Nights Entechno and folk music at RED. Every Saturday. Red, Dionysus 15, old town hall square. Tel: 22-767711. www.music.net. cy/red

Agapiou Escuela de Danza Parties Latin parties every Sunday at Sitio Cafè, 20 Makarious Avenue, Nicosia.10pm

Milonga/Argentinean Tango Regular Milonga/Argentinean Tango every Thursday at Enallax,16-17 Athinas Avenue, Nicosia. 10pm

Blue Wine and Lounge Bar Serving over 140 selected wines from across the world. 96 Rigenis St, Classic Hotel, Old Nicosia. Open daily except Sunday. 12 noon until late at night. Tel: 22-664006

Marco Polo Playing live Latin music. Marco Polo Bar, Holiday Inn rooftop, 70 Regina St. 11pm until late. Monday- Thursday €10 with one drink. Friday and Saturday €20 including two drinks. Tel: 22-712712

Baroque

Times Bar

Molly Malones

Live music every Thursday night from the 70s, 80s and 90s, 9.30pm until late. Open on a daily basis as regular bar from 10am2am.Baroque Lounge Bar, Cleopatra Hotel. Tel: 22-844000

‘Manic Sundays’ with Manic Mike playing progressive/electro. 73 Athens Avenue, Finikoudes Promenade. Tel: 24-625966

Irish pub playing live jazz, Latin and blues music on Thursday and Sunday nights. 80 Amathountas Ave. Tel: 25-821082

DMC

Woodman’s Pub

An uplifting atmosphere with a range of stimulating weekly events. Laiki Gitonia, 1 Watkins St, Finikoudes. Open daily from 9.30pm. Tel: 99-458138

Traditional English pub, serving an excellent range of foods including Sunday Roast. Big Screen TV’s, Karaoke every Friday evening and a quiz with a rolling jackpot every Monday. 73 Georgiou Avenue. Tel: 25-879082

The Petsteppers Trio playing live every Monday. Lotofagi Bar, 8 Athinas Avenue, Old Nicosia. 10pm.

Tel: 22-347573

Funky Jelly at Domus With DJ Yiotis and Theo playing uplifting lounge tunes. Domus lounge bar, 5 Korai St, Old Nicosia. 10pm until late. Tel: 22-433722

Arabesque Sundays With belly dancers and ethnic music.

Mberdema Gold, 30 Nikiforou St, Famagusta Gate. 11.30pm until late. Tel: 22345946

Club Red Live Greek music and various events. 15 Dionysiou St, Old Municipality Square, Nicosia. Thursdays-Sundays, 10pm onwards. Tel: 99-516799/ 22-767711

Lush Club playing R&b, hip-hop, basement and old school music. Friday and Saturday, 11.30pm. Former Ekriksi Club, 6 Evagorou Avenue. Tel: 99- 853333

Scorpios Platinum With various theme nights from Wednesday-Sunday. Stasinou 3, Engomi.

Wednesday and Thursday 11pm- 3am, and Friday and Saturday 11pm-4am. Tel: 99-545690

Skaraveos Restaurant, café and bar with Persian Cuisine. Wednesdays: electronic music, Thursdays: reggae and Fridays: progressive psychedelic and Saturdays: rock and funk. 11pm-2am. 4 Nikokreontos St. Tel: 99-935777

Get your groove on for Claydee event All arms will be raised high in the air for Claydee this week as the artist gives lovers of pop a reason to enjoy a good old party. Set to play his tunes at Drops Beach Bar in Limassol this Friday night, Claydee Lupa is a young songwriter/producer based in Athens. As many of his fans will know, he has made a great impact on the European music scene with his major hit ‘The End’ and followed his success with ‘Last Summer’ and ‘Call Me’, all three of which became instant hits shortly after their release.

Currently one of the most popular producers in Greece in his genre, he is intent on giving local crowds a night to remember with his dynamic tunes. At the party he’ll be playing his latest hit ‘Mamacita Buena’ as well as big hits Ithaki Bar Charismatic bar with outdoor summer area. 33 Nikiforou Foka St. Old Nicosia.

7pm-2am expect Mondays. Tel: 22434193

Avlaia Music Stage Hosting live bands on weekdays and regular Greek music weekends with George Arestis and Dimitris Makris. Avlaia, Corner of Emmanuel Roidis and Prodromou St. Tel: 22 675638

Chateau Status A café/bar and restaurant with various theme rooms catering to different tastes.

Ledra Palace Road. Monday-Sunday 10am-2am. Tel: 77771167

Potopion to Ellinikon With live Greek music on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Potopion to Elinikon, 18 Theophani Theodotou St, Zina Palace building. 9pm until late. Tel: 22-722760

Brew Lounge and tea bar. Brew, 30b Hippocrates St, Nicosia. 11.30am-2am on weekdays, 11.30am-3am on weekends. Tel: 22-100133

Mystiagogia Relaxed bar playing both Greek and English rock, and a selection of chill out music. Mystiagogia, 42 Areos St, Old Nicosia.

Open daily 8pm-2am. Tel: 99-788486

Amalfi Lounge Bar Every Thursday, Friday and Saturday live music with Yiota Louka, Christos Andreou, Konstantinos Koutras and Yiannos Hadjiloizou. Enjoy exotic cocktails, finger food and Cuban cigars daily from 5pm2am. Hilton Park Hotel. Tel: 22-377777

Enallax With various live music shows each week, with a focus on English and Greek rock.

Athinas St. old Nicosia. Wednesdays & Thursdays 11pm-2pm, Fridays-Saturdays 11.30-3pm. Reservations: 99-617820

Orpheas Piano Bar With live jazz and piano on various nights. Orpheas Piano Bar, 24 Athinas St, old Nicosia. Free entrance. Tel: 22439311/99-697259

Larnaca district Pixides Live On the occasion of the recording of their first album Greek rock band play live. July 31.

Wanted Saloon Bar, Corner of Stylianou Apostolide & Kalogera. 10pm. Tel: 24-653636

Playmen feat. Demy Dance pop duo perform live DJ set. August 1. XS Night & Day Club, Mackenzie.

10pm. Tel: 97-885151/70-002355

Anna Vissi Live Famous Cypriot singer performs live. August 3. XS Night & Day Club, Mackenzie.

11pm. Tel: 97-885151

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Salsa Island Regular event every other Friday featuring DJ Escobar. Music includes Pure Salsa, with a twist of Pure Salsa, Merengue, Mambo, Son and Cha Cha Cha. Blitz Roof and Pool Bar Terrace, 4th Floor, Kition Hotel. 10pm until late. Tel: 96-717271

Horseshoe Pub 60s, 70s and 80s music from MondaySunday. Horseshoe Pub, Larnaca-Dhekelia road, opposite Palm Beach Hotel. Tel: 24-646111

Limassol district Natasa Theodoridou Popular Greek singer performs live. August 1. Breeze Bar, 90 Georgiou A Avenue, Yermasogeia. 11pm. €30. Tel: 70-005868

Pixides Live On the occasion of the recording of their first album Greek rock band play live. August 2. Kingston Rock City, 33 Navarinou Street. 10pm. Tel: 99-427323

Claydee Pop artist playing his hit tunes. August 3.

Drops Beach Bar, Ayios Tychonas. 11pm.

Tel: 99584868 Noche Imperial Nightlife/ 25310310 Drops Beach Bar.

Cuba Tropical Local band playing live Cuban-Latin sounds every Sunday. Wet Beach Bar, Amathountos Avenue. 9pm-11.30pm.

Tel: 25-320006

Paphos district

Every Friday Jezebel sings golden oldies 9pm – midnight in the Moonlight Bar inside the Aloe Hotel on the harbour road in Kato Paphos. Free entry

The Sea Gypsies Live acoustic blues and country music every Friday from 10pm. The Old Fishing Shack Ale and Cider House, Margarita Gardens, Tefkrou Street, Kato Paphos. Tel: 99-805390/99-170667

Latin Nights at Notos Latin music in a rooftop bar. Notos, Harbour area. Every Thursday and Saturday.

10 pm until late. Tel: 26-939616

Paphiessa Hotel Thursday: Dave Roberts sings hits, Paphiessa Hotel, Kato Paphos. Tel: 99185952

Pizza Express Sundays: N-Tyme play funk jazz & soul, 9pm.

Pizza Express, Pafiana Seaview, Paphos Harbour. Tel: 26923034

Harleys Café Bar

Mandaloun With Lebanese food and DJs every Friday and Saturday night playing a variety of ethnic, world and chill out music.

Mandaloun, opposite Le Meridien Hotel.

7pm-2am. Tel: 25-636845

Graffiti House, tribal house, oriental and mainstream hits. Enjoy your drink with finger food and nargile. Wednesdays- Saturdays, 9pm-2am. Graffiti bar, 236 Ayios Andreas St. Tel: 25-747552

Jazzy B With live jazz music on various nights each week. JazzyB, Corner of Anexartisias & Athinon str. €8. 10.30pm. Tel: 99605502

Half Note Blue velvet play classic soul, funk and RnB every Saturday night. Half note Music Bar, cnr Saripolis and Socratous st. Tel: 25-377050

Movida Sky, Limassol

Moonlight Bar

Pop artist playing his is hit tunes. August 3. Drops ops Beach Bar, Ayios Tychonas, chonas, Limassol. 11pm.

Tel: 99 584868 Noche he Imperial Nightlife/ 25 310310 Drops Beach Bar

Quality house, techno and minimal beats with guest DJ. Every other Friday. Barfly, 1 Elenis Paleologinas St. 10pm until late. www.myspace.com/pmdj

Limassol at your feet

Every Monday Jezebel & Lisa-Marie present a themed show 9.45pm for an hour at Cyprotel Cypria Bay Hotel - turn left facing the Amathus Hotel and it’s one of the big hotels along that road heading towards the water park. Free entry

Claydee

Electronic music at Barfly

By Constantina Georgiadou

Cyprotel Cypria Bay Hotel

nd love. that people know and Apparently, Claydeee will be accompanied by two good looking models and dancers. What better excuse for getting your groove on?

Open all day with happyy hour 10am6pm. Every Tuesday, pub games g es night. gam Every Thursday, quiz night. i ht Special ig theme nights once a fortnight. Near Esso station, Amathus Area. Tel: 25-328533

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Square Bistro Saturdays: David East entertains on the guitar. 8 pm. Square Bistro, Tala Square.

Tel: 26-930408/99-966139

Famagusta district Vegas Live Greek hip-hop band perform live. August 4. Makronissos Beach Club, Ayia Napa.

11.30pm. €20/25. Tel: 96-336649

Sirena Bay Bar Playing a diverse range of music, from chill out to upbeat electronic tunes. Sirena Bay, near Golden Coast Hotel, Paralimni. 7am-1am. Tel: 99-511701

Guru Bar DJ Dimi, bongos and dancers. Guru Bar, 11 Odysseos Elitis Street, Ayia Napa. Every Thursday, 10pm. Tel: 23 - 721838

Vanilla Bar Playing funky house tunes. Vanilla Bar, 41 Makarios III Avenue, Ayia Napa. MondaySunday 9am-2am. Tel: 23-721126

Cliff Bar Open air bar/café playing chill out music and offering a great selection of cocktails.

Grecian Park Hotel, Konnos Bay, Cavo Creco, Protaras. 12noon-2am daily. Tel: 23-832000

Every town has its favourite summer hotspot, a venue that guarantees a good night out every night of the week and has something which appeals to all tastes. In Limassol, that venue would be Movida Sky; the only rooftop bar in town ven with a unique view of the town’s seaside, the twinkling ships in tthe distance and a cool night breeze.

Movida Sky opened its doors in the summer of 2011 but has Mov returned more dynamically this summer, with a variety of retu summer events every night of the week and a number of sum guest DJs. Frequently playing at the bar is renowned Cypriot gue DJ El E Gato and the music agenda ranges from commercial hits to Greek music and even to lounge and chill out music.

Tuesdays at the bar are known as ‘Lounge Tuesdays’, ThursTue days as ‘Greek Thursdays’ and at weekends one can go out day and dance the night away to all the summer hits and commercial beats. Movida Sky is a great place to start a night me out seeing as its doors open at 22:00, making it perfect for pre-drinks on a big night out, but its club atmosphere also pre makes it suitable as a place to spend the entire night partyma ing away.

The décor of the bar has a pink-purple theme and the setting is extremely modern with its walls painted purple and the lampshades and table lamps fuchsia. Fencing the bar all aaround are big glass panes through which one can enjoy the gorgeous view. Movida Sky is divided into an upper and a lower lo level, each area with its own bar, painted purple of course, and with a dark wooden surface. The tables are also cou of a dark wood and the chairs and stools are all of white leather.

It is best to make a reservation at this very popular bar as it tends to be packed throughout the summer and one can of course enjoy a variety of alcoholic beverages and cocktails served with fruit and nuts at your own private table.

Movida Sky Where: Prousis Str. Amathous, Limassol, (On the rooftop of Caravel Hotel) When: 22:00 – 04:00 Contact: 99 147070

Larnaca Chicago Bridge Club Thursdays, 9.30am-1pm. Tel: Pete on 24424899 Larnaca Walking Tours Wednesdays: Larnaca Past and Present, 10am from CTO office in Vassileos Pavlou Square.

Fridays: Skala and its Craftsmen, 10am from Larnaca Fort. Tel: 24-654322 Leon Friendly Darts League Meetings carried out at selected pubs: Tuesdays, 8.30pm. Tel: Bob Johnson on 24427275 Mazotos Camel Park Adventures for the family. Camel rides, swimming, play areas and more. Tel: 24991243/99-416968. www.camel-park.com

Limassol district Cyprus Services Rambling Club Come on a beautiful walk: Kato Platres, Circular Walk – No buses, 4 Miles, Grade 2 (followed by a meze). August 5, book by mid-day Wednesday August 1. Bookings to 99-292092 or email . Full details of the walk are available on www.csrc.ws Limassol International Documentary Festival With 28 films, workshops and talks, as well as parallel parties. August 1-8. Second Municipal Market of Limassol (Theatro Ena) with some repetitive screenings also taking place at Sousami. Tel: 77-772552, or e-mail info@ filmfestival.com.cy or browse www.filmfestival.com.cy and facebook: Lemesos International Documentary Festival.

Fengaros Music Festival Music festival featuring an excellent mix of acts from Cyprus, Greece and the United Kingdom. August 4. Lofou Elementary School. 4pm. Pre-festival party will be taking place on the August 3 (the night before the festival) at the Lofou tavern Oi Kamares. Tel: 70-007610 International Christian Fellowship East Please join us, Sundays 10.30am, Angel’s English Nursery School, 37 Ampelakion, Germasogia. Sunday school available, small groups meet midweek. Tel: 99-815033. www.icf.org.cy International Women’s Association of Limassol Our aim is to extend the hand of friendship to all women regardless of race, culture or creed. We meet on the first Tuesday of the month at St Barnabas Church Hall at 7.30 for 8pm, when we have a speaker, a raffle and social time. During the month we have social, cultural and recreational activities. Tel: 99-768943/99-457617 Day out in Lania Visit the museum, church, olive mill, wine press and the artists’ galleries. Lania. Glennis208@gmail.com Island Blend Barber shop group sing a wide repertoire of songs at events and raise money for Friends for Life. Every Thursday at UKCA, 4pm-6pm.

Tel: 25-397456 Tango Milonga Tango social dancing parties for all. Los Amigos Club. 7 Themidos Street, Limassol old town. Every Friday, Curium Palace Hotel.

Free. 10pm-1am. Tel: 25-822842/ almajg@ spidernet.com.cy Tango Argentine Classes Regular Tango with Julia Gorina and guest maestros. Hallmark Dance Studio, Mefanos str.10. Tuesdays: 7.30pm-8.30pm beginners class / practica for improvers. 8.30pm-10pm – improvers. Thursdays: 7.30pm-8.30pm beginners class / practica for improvers.

8.30pm-10pm – improvers. Tel: 99-406032 or info@tangocyprus.net www.tangocyprus. net Line Dancing Every Tuesday from 9.30am for Beginners, Improvers and Intermediate. Sunquest Hotel, Tel: 99-434131 Line Dancing Tuesdays 9.30am–10am absolute beginners and 10am-12 noon improvers-intermediate at Sunquest Hotel. Tel: 99-434131 Adult Dance A series of improvised movement based workshops. Dance House Lemesos. Every Wednesday: 7pm-8.30pm. €35/25. Tel: 77777798/99-662927 Morris Dancing The Cyprus Morris meet on Mondays 10am12noon in Kivides and the 1st & 3rd Wednesday of the month 7pm-9pm. Tel: 97-722576 Irish Dancing Come along and join in the fun getting fit, and learning or brushing up on Irish dancing skills for a ceili. Sessions in Limassol on Tuesday evenings from 7.30-9.00pm. For further details contact info@cyprusireland.net or Tel: 97-715131 The World of Wine Beginners and advanced specialised courses for enthusiasts who wish to become more confident in understanding and enjoying fine wines and spirits. Spectus shops, Nicosia and Limassol. Tel: 22-511521/25-341525 Food for Friends Vegetarian social group, with monthly lunch-time outings to tavernas and short presentations on related subjects. Monthly lunch on last Saturday of month. Tel: 25634487/25-634487 Rising Star Youth Theatre of Limassol Theatre workshop for aspiring actors and actresses from the age of 6 years and up. Call 99-608826 for information.

Children’s Theatre Workshop Organised by the Versus theatre group.

Theatro Ena, Limassol Municipal Market, old town. Classes for ages: 5-9, 10-13, 17-17.

Saturdays 9am-3pm. Tel: 99-428691. www. theatroversus.com

Magic Craft Supplies For the latest on Magic Craft Supplies & Penny’s Parties, please visit www.pennycyprusmagic.com 25-634487/99-304237 Theatre Workshops Open to students between six and 16. Every Saturday. ETHAL Theatre. Basement, 76 Franklin Roosevelt Ave. Tel: 25-877827 Premiere Group Theatre group producing annual musicals.

The group conducts monthly social events including camping, picnics and sports evenings. Tel: 25-775922. www.premiere.com.cy Writers’ Workshop Unleash the writer within. Classes with writing coaching also available. Classes in Nicosia, Limassol, Larnaca. Tel: 99-522333. email: rchristou@cytanet.com.cy Toastmasters International Limassol Improve speaking, listening and thinking skills while giving the opportunity to develop leadership ability and gain self-confidence. Atlantica Mirame Beach Hotel. For reservation and details call SAA Bob Buckerfield 25-470582/99-754042 or visit www. limassol-toastmasters.com Help Me Grow Lecture on child development by the Health Ministry. Every Wednesday. Lecture hall, New Limassol Hospital. 6pm. In Greek. Free Women’s Group Self development discussions by life coach Laura Michael. Topics include anxiety, assertiveness, knocking out negativity. Tel: 25326692/99-352879 Yoga Hatha Yoga classes all levels, beginners welcome. Monday to Friday, 8.30am-9.30am and 6pm-7pm. First class free. Therapolis, Potamos Germasogeia. Tel: 25-328585. info@ therapolis.com. www.therapolis.com Satyananda Yoga Centre Yoga and meditation classes mornings, afternoons and evenings, Tai Chi and Kung Fu classes, counselling and self-development groups. Tel: 25-364690 Reflexology, Reiki and Ear Candle Treatments Relax, revitalise and improve your health and well being. Tel: 97-648218 Working with Angels Six classes over 12 weeks, each class will cover different topics including guardian angels, angel messages, Archangel Michael plus much more. Soap Shack. 6.30pm-9.30pm.

Tel: 97-648218 Baha’is of Limassol Weekly discussion circle. Tel: 25-340021 Happy Valley Hash House Harriers Weekly runs on Thursdays around the southwest of the island, times vary, see www.hvh3. org.uk. Tel: 99-434794 Amathus Hash House Harriers Run, jog or walk every Sunday afternoon. For more info Tel: 99-905746. www.ah3.freeservers.com Limassol Walks Get to know the historical centre of Limassol.

Mondays at 10am. Walks begin at the CTO Information Office, 115A Spyros Araouzos St. Free. Tel: 25-362756 Limassol Crusaders Rugby Club Training on grass for Cyprus League matches, or just to get fit, Tuesdays 6.30-8.30pm and Thursdays 7-9pm, AEK Katholiki Stadium, Tagmatarchou Pouliou St. Seniors and Juniors. Tel: 96-323962. www.limassolcrusadersrfc.com Table Tennis Monday and Friday at 10 am at UKCA, 37 Termopilis Street. Contact Antonio 99-334706 Limassol Bridge Club Mondays and Fridays, 3.30pm at Limassol Sporting Club. Tel 99-645338 Car Boot Sale Every Saturday and Sunday at Moni Station.

Tel: 25-323525/25-365102 The Flea Market For clothes, furniture, fruit’n’veg. Asomatos village, Fassouri. Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. 9am-7pm. Tel: 77-778828 Linopetra Corner Car boot sale on Saturdays, 8am-2pm. Tel: 99-612832 Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes Social and benevolent organisation. Aphrodite Bitter Lake Lodge meet at the UKCA Club. Wednesdays, 6pm. Tel: 99-425527. The Troodos Pride of Cyprus Lodge meets at the UKCA Club. Every other Sunday, 10am. Tel: 99-345384 Riding for the Disabled Horse riding for disabled riders from The Red Cross and Theotokos Foundation every Thursday morning 8.30am-11.30am. Happy Valley, Episkopi. Volunteers greatly needed to assist with rides. Tel: 25-773058. Email: rdaroster@gmail.com RAFA Aphrodite Branch Social Meeting First Wednesday of every month. Sergeants Mess. Akrotiri. No food provided. 7.30pm.

Tel: 25-932196

DANCE

Sharing stories through dance Solomou Square in Nicosia will be marking the start a rather exciting movement this week. But this particular event has little to do with crowds gathering to make a political statement or march for a particular cause.

Instead, the focus turns to ‘sharing stories’ through creative dance as the well known Amphidromo Dance Company attempts to stir the waters in the capital.

Choreographed by Elena Christodoulidou from Cyprus and Ido Tadmor from Israel, the duo join forces as eleven dancers make their way through the streets of Nicosia to challenge passersby to RAF Akrotiri Voluntary Band The band plays a large repertoire of classical music at military dinners, Episkopi Fete and charity fund raisers. Meetings every Monday: 7.30pm. Padre’s Centre at RAF Akrotiri.

Tel: 99-925524 The Royal Military Police Association The Cyprus branch seeks new members.

First Friday of every month. The RMP Corporals Mess, WSBA Episkopi. 2pm. Tel: 26642120/99-453867 Cyprus Donkey Sanctuary Visitor centre with shop, refreshments, hillside walk and picnic area. Friends of the Cyprus Donkey, Vouni. Daily 10am-4pm. Tel: 25-945488 Ocean Bar Restaurant Every Thursday: Bingo Night, 8pm. Tel: 96381509. Every Friday: Multi Media Quiz with many prizes to be won, 8.30pm. Tel: 99032876. Ocean Bar Restaurant, 10 Christina Court, Onicilliou St, Ayios Tychonas

Paphos district Xorko Art Collaboration Movement A village music festival featuring various local DJs and musicians playing live. July 27-29. Arminou Village. €5 - general 3 day entrance. €10 – camping. http://www.facebook.com/XorkoFestival.Arminou The Elvis & Elton Show & Dance Two of the top tribute acts in Cyprus combine with one amazing performance to celebrate American and British music at its best starring Chris King as Elvis Presley, Andrew Oliver as Elton John. Every Tuesday until July 31. Pentaras Hall, Coral Bay Road, Paphos. 8.30pm. €10. Show reservations essential - Tel: 99832538. Book online - www.xcitepromo.com. Meals available in the restaurant - Tel: 26271130 Guided Meditation Weekly Gatherings for the purpose of stilling the mind, balancing & healing the soul and uplifting the emotions. Every Wednesday morning 10am - 11am & Wednesday evening 7pm - 8pm held in Stroumbi. For full details www.yvebrooks. org or Tel 97-801472 Spiritualist Meetings.

Monthly ‘Modern Spiritualists in Cyprus’ meetings are held on the last Sunday of the month in Stroumbi. 7pm start. For full details www.yvebrooks.org or Tel 97801472

think in new ways. Taking place both tomorrow and Tuesday evening, the general public is encouraged to follow the dance team in a trip that will last about 70 minutes, going from the parliament to the public garden and beyond. The performance is inspired by the history of sites visited as well as the issues and themes that they reveal. Slowly, you’ll notice emotions and moods change, as viewers are encouraged to shift their thoughts between tangible everyday reality and the elusive dream.

Sharing Stories A travelling dance performance by Amfidromo Dance Company. Part of the official cultural programme of the EU Presidency. July 30 and 31.

Starting at Solomou Square, Nicosia. 7pm. Tel: 99698691.

Email: info@amfidromo.com Morning Cooking Workshops Tuesday Morning Cooking Workshops at Kasparis Restaurant on the Tombs of the Kings Road (opp. Helios Bay Hotel) with Zoe and Elena (Orexi Catering). Cypriot, Italian, Lebanese and Greek cuisine. Be an active participant or watch closely while we prepare everything from scratch using fresh ingredients that have been either grown or caught by the cooks! €30 per person including coffee, snacks, lunch and a glass of wine.

From 9am-2pm. Tel: 99-887293 or email : elena@orexicyprus.com Paphos Flower Club Courses in flower arranging. Anglican Church Hall, Kato Paphos. Beginners 2pm, intermediate classes 12.30pm. Beginners.

Tel: 99-475564/99-533704. Intermediate: 99744635 Orphean Singers Three times a year this well established singing group delights audiences with an entertaining concert. Meetings every Friday at Kamaras club, 9.30am-12pm. Tel: 26-913249 Paphos Light Music Society A new group starting up in Paphos for the appreciation of light opera, Gilbert and Sullivan etc. Non-singers also welcome. Meetings every fourth Monday at 3.00pm in Paphos area. Tel: 26- 723002/ 99-370883 Paphos Town Centre Walking Tour Get acquainted with the newest part of the city and learn how the town evolved from the late Byzantine and Mediaeval times. Every Thursday, 10am. CTO Information Office, 3 Gladstonos St. Tel. 26-932841 The Corona Society Go along and meet new friends at monthly meetings held every second Wednesday of the month, 2.30pm – 4pm. Coffee mornings held every last Tuesday of the month, 10.30am – 12.00pm. Annabelle Hotel. All proceeds go to local charities. Tel: 99- 177479 Scottish Country Dancing With the St Andrew’s Society, Paphos, at the Latin Parish Hall every Tuesday evening from September to May 6-8pm. Beginners welcome 5.30pm. Tel: 99-298512 Adult Tap Dance Tuesdays 6.30pm–7.15pm and Wednesdays 9.00am- 9.45am. Also stretch and tone intensive class, Mondays 9.00am–10.00am. With professional instructors. Shogun Karate/ Dance studio, 133 Nicolaou Elina, Emba. Tel: 99-891811/99-892478

Greek greats in series of shows Three concerts featuring two great stars of the Greek music scene will be wowing the crowds this week. As Haris Alexiou and Dimitra Galani unite, the concert series kicks off with a performance this evening at the Municipal Gardens Theatre in Limassol. Shows will then follow in Nicosia and Larnaca as the singers present a programme with popular songs by great composers topped off by their own original music.

Haris Alexiou and Dimitra Galani Two of the greatest female voices from Greece unite. July 29: Municipal Garden Theatre, Limassol.

July 30: Makarios III Amphitheatre, Nicosia. July 31: Pattichion Municipal Amphitheatre, Larnaca 9pm. €35.

Jazzercise Dance fitness routines choreographed to the latest music. Mesogi Community Centre.

Wednesday and Friday 9am-10am and Monday and Thursday 6.15pm-7.15pm. Classes also held at Shogun Karate Club, Emba. Tuesday and Friday: 9am-10am, in Peyia School, Tuesday and Thursday: 6.15pm-7.15pm. €8 per class or €47 per month. Tel: 99-990348 Salsacise Get fit and fabulous while having fun. The class combines basic salsa moves in an aerobic workout. Burn calories and lose weight.

Beginners welcome. Every Wednesdays 6-7 pm in B.M.S.Studio, Peyia (above Spirou).

Every Tuesdays 11-12 am at Crowns Resorts Spa and every Fridays 4-5 pm at Crowns Resorts Spa. Tel: 99981294 Hand-made bijoux displays Beautiful hand-made jewellery for the perfect gift at affordable prices starting from €10-35, including elegant packaging. Every Wednesday and Thursday mornings from 10am - 12pm. Please call Niki on 99-858734 Timi Village Car Boot Market Every Sunday 7am-1pm all through the year.

Tel: 99-611637 Weekly Summer Evening Craft Market A fine selection of handmade and imported gifts available. Angelika Restaurant, St George’s traffic lights, Tombs of the Kings Road. Every Friday to September 28, from 5pm through to 9pm. Tel: 99-387311or mail@ in-any-event.biz Evans Plus Evans Comedy Magic Show, at the New Kikkos Bar Coral Bay - Alternate Tuesdays.

9.30pm. Tel 99-173801 Singles Nights at Ollie’s Bar Every second and fourth Saturday of the month. Ollie’s Bar, Trimithousa. 8pm. Tel: 99769899 Quiz Nights Play for weekly prizes and a jackpot. Every Friday. Kings Hotel, Tomb of the Kings Road.

8.30pm. €2. Tel: 26-939075 Quiz night Quiz at the New Olympus Hotel. Every second Thursday of the month. 7.30pm. To register your team call: 26-932020 New Friendly Bridge Chicago bridge every Tuesday with all bridge partnerships welcome. Fantasia Club.

6.45pm. Tel: 26-937551 Table Tennis Club Night Coaching for all levels by Gordon Allen. Every Wednesday night. New venue, 7pm. Tel: 99841471, 26-652763 Badminton Club Atromitos Badminton Club for children and adults meets four times a week, days and evenings, to suit all levels, coaching available or play just for fun. Tel: 99-971150/99-519504. badmintonpaphos@cytanet.com.cy www. atromitosbadmintonclub.org Emba Badminton club Emba Badminton club meets on Saturday mornings, and Tuesday and Friday afternoons. All levels of play are catered for. Tel: 99-276192. www.EmbaBadmintonClub.org.

Paphos Cycling Club Newly founded to help promote cycling in Paphos as a great form of exercise, meeting and making new friends and a perfect way to see areas of beauty in Cyprus you would never normally see. We are an informal club and we welcome new members from all walks of life and abilities. We meet every Sunday at Hectors Barin Coral Bay at 9am. Tel: 99320213. www.paphoscyclingclub.com Paphos Adonis Lions Club Meetings every second and fourth Monday of the month at Paphos Gardens Hotel Resort. New members welcome as well as visiting members of other Lions Clubs. Tel: 26-622810/97-635883 Alzheimer Self-Help Group Offers dementia sufferers and their carers the opportunity to meet others with this condition, share feelings and exchange experiences. Every first Wednesday of the month. Crazy Spoon Centre Coral Bay Road, opposite Paphian Sun Hotel, Kissonerga.

10am. Tel: 26-621530/ 26-622234 Cancer Patients’ Support Group Association’s Day Centre - 84 Ellados Avenue, near Carrefour on Polis Road. Tel: 26-952478.

Coffee morning on the second Tuesday of the month, 10.30am. Craft group meet every Thursday, 10am-12pm. New members always welcome. Quiz nights and meal on Thursdays and meal, 7 for 7.30pm. Tel: 26654007, www.cancerpatientssupport.net Cancer Patients’ Support Group – Paphos Information Help Line Trained volunteers who will listen and assist anyone needing information, emotional support, befriending or referral to an appropriate professional. Available from 9am-1pm Monday to Friday. Tel: 97-760989 Paphos Bereavement Support Group If you’ve suffered a loss or death, either recently or in the past, you are welcome to share your feelings with others in a safe and confidential environment. Group meets on the first Monday of each month, 2pm-4pm.

Association’s Day Centre, 9 Dimitriou Mavrogenous, (the road alongside Co n s t a n t i n i d e s Bakery opposite CYTA). Tel: 26952478

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Gamblers Anonymous Support group for gambling addicts, partners and families. Meetings every Tuesday.

Ayia Kyriaki Anglican Church Hall, Kato Paphos. 7.30pm. Tel: 26-622289 Self-Improvement and Fulfilment Dr. Eva Bratslavsky clinical psychologist and psychotherapist weekly discussion group meetings on self-confidence, self-esteem, relationship enhancement, assertiveness.

3pm. Tel: 99-495467 Hemi-Sync sound technology of The Monroe Institute Metamusic CDs for quantum learning, deep relaxation, meditation, workshops. Contact Linda Leblanc, accredited Outreach Trainer of The Monroe Institute. Tel: 26-621272/ psygnos@spidernet.com.cy Krhem Workshops Learn to use this powerful yet gentle, loving energy healing system evolved from Ancient Egypt. Three day course in a warm, friendly environment. Krhem is not a level of Reiki and it is not necessary to have trained in Reiki first. Reiki workshops also available.

Also: EFT Level 1 workshops: Learn a most effective self help and self development technique. EFT will enhance health and wellbeing for you, friends and family. A one day workshop taught in a fun, friendly environment. You will become more confident and gain a brighter, happier outlook on life. Tel: 26-934319/99-479426. lfirth@cytanet.com. cy. www.hypno-krhem.co.uk Reiki Training Philip Westwood, Reiki Master/Teacher is now taking bookings for Reiki 1 & Reiki 2 training courses.Tel: 99-407526/26-271640 or email philipreiki@cytanet.com.cy Pilates Classes Small group classes morning and evening.

Kissonerga, Yeroskipou and Skoulli, Polis. Tel: 99-172504. purepilates@cytanet.com.cy Pilates Mat based exercises for all levels, to tone and stretch the whole body. Tuesdays: 7.45-9pm in Central Paphos old town. €10. Tel: 99266783 or georginacrowther@hotmail.com Seeing Anew: The Artist’s Eye Ongoing workshop in visual art, breaking through inhibitions, developing confidence and fostering creative process. Studio 7, Kallepia. €80. Tel: 99-048367 Yoga Pure traditional yoga. Caroline has over thirty years experience, and is trained in the Iyengar method of hatha yoga. In her fully equipped studio she instructs both small groups and individual students. Tel: 99-834470 Polis Charity Bookshop, Crafts and More Now open six days a week. Monday- Saturday, 10am- 1pm. Large stock of books, videos, talking books, jigsaws and greeting cards. Proceeds donated to local charities.

Goods in first rate condition always needed.

Arch. Makarios Avenue, Polis Chrysochous.

Tel: 99-867511 Art Courses Pencil drawing, watercolour, pastels and acrylic. Ring Caroline Ludwig 26967008.

Mums ‘n’ Toddlers Group Mums, Tots & Babies - Join us for a fun filled morning of Music & Movement, Story time, Arts & Crafts, Free Play, snack & coffee time etc. Spacious garden at our new location in Chloraka. Five groups per week offered. Also ongoing sale of nearly new clothing (1Euro per item) raising funds for local charities. Tel: 99-867662.

First Time Mums’ Club Come and join us for a cup of tea. Bring baby with you and meet other mums and get tips, ideas and advice on caring for your little infant. Weekly meetings where topics include breastfeeding, bottle feeding, sleeping tips for baby and mom, milestones, what works and lots more. Thurs 10-12. Cholorakas. Tel: 96-429659 Apollo Branch of the Royal Air Forces Association Meeting on the third Thursday of every month. UKCA Clubhouse, Tombs of the Kings Road. 7pm. Tel: 26-991615 New PAWS charity shop Yeroskipou next door to Pet Stop. Open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, 9am-5pm. Saturday 9am-4pm. Tel: 97695857 Basic Dog Training and Grooming Fridays. 3pm. Kallepia. Tel: 26-643079/99105557

Famagusta district Tempo Dance and Theatre School Running two classes a week. Pernera Area, Protaras. Monday 7-30pm-8.30pm for advanced dancers. Wednesday 6.45-7.45pm for beginners. €40 per month. Tel: 99-416821. info@cyprusdanceschool.com Tours around Ayia Napa Ayia Napa and the Sea: a different dimension. Mondays in English and German; Fridays in English and Swedish, 10am from CTO office. Tel: 23-721796 Folk Art Workshop Art workshop for children. Cultural Centre of Famagusta, Evagorou 35, Dherynia. Tel: 23-721140 Bingo and Games Every Tuesday night. Quiz, bingo and games every Thursday night. Party night every Saturday. Woody’s Inn, Protaras. Tel: 23-831690 Charity Boot Sale Every Tuesday morning. Woody’s Inn, Protaras. 10am-12pm. Tel: 23-831690 Open Air Market Every Wednesday. St Thekla Beach restaurant, Ayia Thekla, 500m from the church.

9am-4pm. Tel: 23-743778

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FASHION 21 Pink and orange from Raoul Lilac and biscuit from Cos

Purple and green from Hobbs

If ever there was a time to rip up the rule book and inject a little colour into our existence, this is it. Preferably two tones and don’t be timid says KAREN DACRE

The new co-ordinates I

f heaven were a colour, it would undoubtedly be navy blue.

A deliciously rich, wonderful navy blue. Perfect for the office and lovely teamed with white, there truly is no safer or less intimidating hue. But where’s the fun in playing it safe? Fashion’s not always supposed to friendly. It’s supposed to be a bit scary, nerve-racking, even. If it weren’t, we’d all be walking around looking like one of the doomed extras from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, or cabin crew for BA - neither of which looks like much of a laugh to me.

This summer, with so much anxiety in the air, it seems essential that we cheer things up - at least it does to me, a self confessed navy blue obsessive - which is where the new colour tag teams come in. Forget everything you know about colour co-ordination and instead prepare yourself for a summer of intensive experimentation. If there was ever a time to rip up the rule book and inject some serious pigment into your wardrobe, this undoubtedly is it.

While we’ve been habitual

“matchy matchy” dressers, teaming navy with black, yellow with grey, and camel with crimson red, this season is different. Suddenly there’s a host of new colour combinations to play around with - and they’re brighter, bolder and, yes, a wee bit more terrifying than ever before.

From pillar-box red teamed with cornflower blue, to fluorescent or-

A sugary sweet pink dress is perfectly complemented by a neon orange blazer ange teamed with pastel yellow, the defining feature of this summer’s new colour couples is that they involve very few neutral tones. Reinterpreting the colour-blocking trend (fashion speak for wearing more than one block colour at once) is this season’s way to wear colour and it requires that you incorporate two bright shades into your look at any time. A sugary sweet

Navy and primrose from Erdem

pink dress is perfectly complemented by a neon orange blazer, while a bottle green blazer looks stunning with a pencil skirt in deep pink.

Remember, key to mastering this look is experimentation. So when you slip into your red shift dress tomorrow morning don’t immediately reach for a black blazer to cover your shoulders but instead attempt to think out of the box. As a general rule, any colour that is vivid in form should work well alongside another shade with the same components just be wary of pairing colours that are in any way similar.

Teaming two printed items together can be an effective option but it’s a far more complex process, so seek out plain tops, skirts and jackets. Incorporating accessories in clashing shades is a clever way to trial the new colour-tag teams without making a major style statement.

A yellow bag will work wonders on a simple royal blue dress, while shoes in fuchsia pink look great teamed with canary yellow. Still feeling blue?

Louis Vuitton lures China’s super-rich with custom ‘art’

By Melanie Lee Louis Vuitton is courting China’s wealthy with one-of-a-kind shoes and bags it is branding as unique works of art to reclaim its exclusive cachet in the luxury market.

The luxury brand opened its largest China store in Shanghai last weekend, complete with a gilded spiral staircase and an invitation-only private floor where big spenders can get their hair done while dreaming up designs for custom bags.

“The made-to-order concept is the ultimate luxury,” Louis Vuitton Chief Executive Yves Carcelle said.

“It’s the same with art. If you are interested in art, the ultimate is to commission an artist rather than buy a piece that is already done,”

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Carcelle said.

Louis Vuitton routinely ranks among the most admired brands in surveys of Chinese consumers. But ultra-luxury names such as Hermes are making inroads, and some toptier consumers now look down on Louis Vuitton as too common.

The company hopes to cement its exclusive luxury status with the Shanghai store, which boasts steel sculptures and carries a wide array of goods ranging from chic coats and hats to brightly coloured bags made from python or alligator skin.

It also sells carrying cases for tiles used to play the Chinese game mahjong and made-to-order trunks for tea sets.

The Louis Vuitton maison, one

of 16 similar boutiques in the world, is located in Shanghai’s address for luxury goods: the swanky Plaza 66 mall, where rival brands such as Chanel and Prada also have stores.

Spanning four levels and with more than 100 staff, the store is currently the only one in China that offers custom bags and shoes.

“Being in this made-to-order market needs sophisticated customers who know what they are talking about and own several bags, if not dozens of bags,” Carcelle said.

“That’s why the haute maroquinerie and made-to-order-shoes... are important to demonstrate in China,” he said, using the French word for luxury leather crafts.

“As long as we didn’t have this

space to show them to our clients, in a world that is changing fast, we were missing our weapons,” he said.

Carcelle declined to comment on the state of the Chinese economy or its impact on luxury spending, but said he sees more “maisons” opening up in the capital Beijing and Hangzhou, a thriving trade hub in eastern China.

He said Chinese consumers had rapidly matured into luxury connoisseurs, and the company needed to cater to both fi rst-time buyers and sophisticated shoppers.

“Maybe in the West, this trend took 20 years but here it takes five from the first purchase to the willingness to have more sophisticated products and services,” Carcelle said.

Colour block crepe dress from Roksanda Ilincic

A model presents a creation

by Marc Jacobs for the Louis Vuitton fashion show in Shanghai

22 BEAUTY LOOKING GOOD

with Ilia Georgiou

To tan or not?

With the summer in full swing are you sporting a healthy glow or remaining pale and interesting?

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s soon as summer hits, everyone wants to get a tan. What is so good about being tanned and why do so many strive to attain as dark and noticeable a colour as possible? Up until the days of the early twentieth century, at least in certain countries, tanned skin was perceived as the domain of the poor or peasant field worker. White skin was coveted and was protected with gloves, parasol and hat when outdoors to retain its whiteness. In the last few decades, tanned is deemed desirable and trendy. However nowadays, most of us know that overdoing sun exposure can lead to premature skin ageing or even skin cancer. Despite this, a darkish tan is still sought after by most of the younger generation.

A tan is something new and different for part of the year, it makes dimply or chubby bits of the body look smoother and slimmer. It is sexy and offsets summer clothing, giving us the chance to change our look through both clothes and cosmetics.

As far as health is concerned, a certain amount of sun is necessary, as vitamin D is produced in the body by sun exposure. Also, sunshine is a mood elevator and lack of it can cause depression in some people.

Too much sun however can cause premature ageing, sun stains and wrinkling of the skin. Using copious amounts of sunscreen is not necessarily the way to go, as sunscreen products contain a lot of questionable chemicals which may do more harm than good when used on skin that is sun exposed. The most sensible thing to do is to pace yourself and sun bathe for short sessions at a time while gradually building up your tan. Do of course use sun-

Blue chip: half moon manicures now have the most style kudos - as seen here in L’Oréal’s Miss Candy campaign

screen, but don’t assume you can sit in the sun for hours just because you are wearing it. Cover up with a hat and loose clothing or sit in the bathing shade after your short sunbathing session or walk in the sun.

IMMACULATE REDUCTION On the subject of chubby y or y, I dimply areas of the body, weighed myself yesterday and o to discovered I had lost two hout three kilos in a week without even trying! The reason for this s? I miraculous turn of events? athic was advised by a naturopathic practitioner not to eat any dairy, w weeks sugar or wheat at all for a few lso some as I have candidiasis and also sort of parasitic thing going on in my uite a bit intestines! I had put on quite s I was of weight since February, as aneating in an addictive man-

ner, to help compensate for nicotine withdrawal. Since February I developed the good old o Mediterranean thunder thigh syndrome s with accompanying dimply cellulite. I wasn’t that tha bothered about iit,, since I reasoned it is it b be tter to t give up (or in my better case reduce) smoking and be b chubby/dimply than dead de and skinny!

Since following the naturopa naturopath’s instructions, ha nothing to do which had with weig weight loss, the change leg is amazing, they in my legs are slimmer slimm and less dimonl one week. As a ply in only bonus, I am not craving food tim It just goes to all the time. show, that ou our food habits have become warped and erroneous in the last hundred y years or so, mainly advertisin influences. Cutdue to advertising

ting out processed foods, sugar and reducing dairy products can have miraculous effects on the figure and the health.

FAKE FLUTTERERS The trend for semi permanent lash extensions has caught on here in Cyprus, but to a lesser extent than in the UK. This is possibly because money is tighter over here. I have to say though, that all the lash extensions I have seen here, do look professionally and well done. False lashes, whether the normal strip sets that you can remove at the end of the day or the semi permanent individual hair type using stronger glue that lasts around a month, do look wonderful on almost any woman, but overkill will just make you look like a you have a tarred feather on your face.

The French manicure is dead - long live the reverse

By Emma McCarthy As we all know, the French are eternally chic. Claiming ownership of some of the most iconic items in fashion’s lineage - Repetto ballet pumps, Eric Bompard cashmere jumpers and Chanel 2.55 bags to name but a few - the Parisian’s relationship to style is one of lasting commitment to a uniform of staple items from which they construct their daily wardrobe.

The same can be said for their beauty regimes. Fresh faces, loose chignons and scarlet-red lipstick serve as classic examples but one element has fallen out of

favour with the continental style set: the French manicure.

Despite its name, the French manicure has failed to stand the test of time, experiencing instead a transformation from the naturally chic nails of 1920s Paris into the WAG-tastic, Tipp-Ex white acrylic creations we have come to know.

But all is not lost for the once stylish varnish. It seems that a much more effective strategy than changing a classic completely is to simply reverse it. A far more illustrious lacquer currently occupying the most fashionable fi ngers, the reverse man-

icure blends the classic French manicure with a love affair with nail art.

From contrasting half-moons to colour matching tips with cuticles, anything goes - as long as the trademark style is given a twist. After being spotted on the catwalks of Dior, Marc Jacobs and Philip Lim, the half-moon style - which places the coloured tips at the top of the nail - soon amassed a celebrity following that includes Lady Gaga, who paired a flesh toned varnish with a glossy black accent, and Rihanna, who topped off a metallic pink nail with a gold nail-bed.

Dita Von Teese has also been loyal to her bare half-moon and pillarbox red nails ever since she fi rst slid into the spotlight.

Now it seems that the style has hit the mainstream. Miss Candy, the new collection from L’Oréal, features pretty halfmoon manis in sugary shades of peppermint and powder pink, while Orly has packaged up alternative manicure kits for DIY solutions to achieving fluoro tips and metallic accents.

When it comes to this season’s nails, just remember: if it’s upside down, then it’s the right way round.

SUNDAY MAIL• July 29, 2012

HEALTH 23

Plantoftheweek

BY ALEXANDER MCCOWAN

The ‘new Viagra’, testosterone not only puts lead in your pencil, it increases weight loss, builds muscle, and can help with your winning streak. No wonder men are queuing up to try it says DAVID MORTON

MAN UP!

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estosterone is the male body’s magic bullet. A decent, naturally occurring dose of the hormone can increase muscle size, decrease body fat, improve stamina and clear up bumps and bruises, while the competitive edge it provides spurs you on to crush your opponents. It is what makes a man a man.

But here’s the rub. A man’s ability to produce testosterone declines from around the age of 30, dropping by about one per cent a year. Lower levels can mean a loss of sex drive, erectile dysfunction, a decrease in bone and muscle mass, even depression. It has been dubbed the ‘andropause’ - androgens being the group of hormones associated with male characteristics. “It’s actually a terrible term,” says Paul Pennington, chief executive of the Andropause Society. “But some of the symptoms do mimic those of the menopause: irritability, trouble sleeping, putting on weight and loss of libido.”

Reversing those symptoms has become very big business. In the US, 5.6 million prescriptions for Testosterone Replacement Therapy (TRT) were handed out in 2011, in a variety of forms: topical gels and creams to smear on to the shoulders, chest and abdomen; an inoculation of oil prodded into the upper buttock every few weeks; and, of course, injections.

Global Industry Analysts Inc predicts that sales will triple to $5 billion by 2017 and the number of specialist ‘low T’ practitioners setting up shop in Harley Street suggests that UK men now want in, too.

You can see what’s got their peckers up. Trumpeted as ‘the new Viagra’, TRT promises to reverse erectile dysfunction in seven out of ten men, and boost sexual desire and stamina. It’s a chain that the pharmaceutical companies are all too happy to yank away on. A website hosted by Abbott Laboratories – manufacturer of AndroGel - features an image of a man sitting despondently on a bed, his back to the fe-

male partner we can only assume he has been unable to satisfy. Another shows a tubby chap on a set of bathroom scales, his head hung in shame.

If he were on TRT, he could expect to see near-instant effects as his body’s metabolism switched from manufacturing fat cells to generating muscle.

A study published in The New England Journal of Medicine found that

Senior managers on Wall Street and in the Square Mile are buying into testosterone injections as a way to stay on top and fight off the young guns shooting for their salary subjects given ‘T’ injections over a ten-week period displayed larger triceps and quadriceps and had significantly upped their weights for bench presses and squats.

The physical boost has obvious benefits for athletes, as does the increased will to win. The notion that TRT gives sportsmen an unfair advantage was at the heart of the investigation into the 2006 Tour de France winner Floyd Landis who tested positive for elevated testosterone after staging a remarkable comeback during one of the race’s more gruelling days. He simply refused to be beaten. But it’s not just the pros. The 17-year-old son of Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman was recently banned from rugby for several months after admitting to taking banned substances, including testosterone.

That aggressive tang also makes TRT a tasty prospect for men who prefer suits to shorts. Senior managers on Wall Street and in the Square Mile are buying into testosterone injections as a way to stay on top and fight off the young guns shooting for

their salary.

Higher levels of testosterone suppress the production of the stress hormone cortisol; City boys on the ‘T’ report less anxiety and better stamina in the face of rising office hours.

Dr Lionel Bissoon, a Manhattan TRT practitioner, says that 90 per cent of his patients are involved in finance; Alpha Dog v2.0 is available for anyone who can afford it.

There are potential costs to a man’s health, too. According to Dr Jim McVeigh of Liverpool’s Centre for Public Health, it is probable that a man on ‘T’ will experience a huge testosterone crash should he stop the treatment. More worryingly, the quantity of red blood cells in the body may escalate, leading to possible complications such as an increased risk of blood clots in the legs. If you are genetically likely to lose your hair, TRT will jolly that process along for you; similarly it might encourage preexisting prostate cancer. Remember the acne and oily skin of your teenage years? Higher-than-normal testosterone can bring it back, along with the unexplained aggressive mood swings of a 15-year-old.

“Testosterone also affects cholesterol balance,” says McVeigh. “You can get a furring of the arteries, posing cardiovascular risks.” And ironically, taking ‘T’ can recondition you to “display some female characteristics”. The sudden surplus triggers the production of extra oestrogen to redress the balance, causing some men to grow female breast tissue. But Pennington has not experienced any side effects. Diagnosed with low testosterone last year, aged 48, he has since lost five stone. “Now I run 20 miles a week and feel like I did when I was 30. It’s a good feeling,” he says.

It is a feeling that more men in the UK are seeking out. From weights rooms to corner offices to the bedroom, TRT is being lauded as the answer to male hormonal recession.

Whether the men shooting up will go bust after the boom remains in the balance.

Poisonous plant is said to halt the ageing process Name: Japanese Star Anise (Illicium anisatum) Otherwise known as: Cardomom Tree, Sanki, Mang Tsao Habitat: An evergreen tree member of the Illiciaceae family growing to about 17m with shiny, elliptical leaves, yellow flowers with aromatic glossy brown, star-shaped seedpods, each point containing a seed. A native of Japan, it is poisonous in all parts.

What does it do: It has been used externally for over a thousand years in Japan to treat respiratory disorders such as bronchitis and whooping cough, various skin diseases, such as scabies, psoriasis, ringworm, athletes foot; and rheumatics in the elderly.

The main constituents are Shikimin and Shikimic acid and a volatile oil which contains Eugenol and Saffrole.

The plant is neuro-toxic, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant. The Japanese believe it heightens awareness and the Filipinos claim it halts the ageing process.

The plant came to prominence during the Avian flu (H5N1) crisis. The tree is one of the principal sources of Shikimic acid and was at the centre of the controversy relating to the production of Tamiflu by the pharmaceutical manufacturer, Hoffman LaRoche.

Tamiflu is not a cure for Avian flu but its ingestion inhibits the protein Neuraminidase - which is the N1 in bird flu - from migrating through the cell walls.

An interesting Cyprus connection is that Shikimic Acid is found in two of our native plants, namely Pistacia lentiscus, the mastic tree, and Opuntia ficus-indica, the prickly pear. Recent experiments in Germany indicate that plant extracts may promote hair growth.

The burned seeds are responsible for the aroma in Shinto temples in Japan.

Next dangerous plant

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You just can’t buy happiness

Language master: John Banville

Ancient Light

By John Banville

By Andrew Neather

Illuminating journeys into unreachable past

By Jane Shilling One of the most poignant sensations of a reading life is the feeling of bereavement that comes when you finish a book and realise that your acquaintance with these characters is at an end. Harry Potter fans have the malaise in its most virulent form. But even the (presumably) more emotionally continent admirers of John Banville may have suffered a twinge of regret at the end of Banville’s novel Eclipse, published in 2000.

That novel told of a passage in the life of Alexander Cleave, a classical actor who fled the stage and returned to his childhood home in Ireland in the forlorn hope of fi nding comfort there. In 2002, the suicide of Cleave’s daughter, Cass, of which we learned at the end of Eclipse, became the starting point for Shroud, a novel that introduced the one-eyed literary theorist Axel Vander.

Now Vander in turn reappears in Banville’s latest novel, Ancient Light. We know, though Cleave does not, that Cass, a literary scholar, had tracked Vander to Italy before her death, to confront him with damning evidence of his wartime past. A decade after her suicide, Cleave remains haunted by the mystery of her death.

Cleave is occupied in writing an account of his first love: a passionate liaison when he was 15 with Mrs Gray, the 35-year-old mother of his best friend. While he is thus engaged, there comes a telephone call offering him

the title role in a fi lm of the life of Axel Vander, to be called The Invention of the Past.

This is a novel full of journeys into the unreachable past, fi lled with a Proustian yearning for a time which seems at once unreachably distant and vividly present. Banville’s writing is fi lled with moments of vision: an extraordinary passage describes Alexander lying in bed while a pinpoint of light between the tightly drawn curtains projects an image of the outside street onto the bedroom ceiling like a camera obscura.

Banville’s mastery of language is an intense delight. Who else could write of “an imbricated array of banana sandwiches on a wooden tray”, a “squamous pineapple” or “leporine uncertainty”. Yet the glitter of the language is never meretricious; always it is the servant of the narrative - mysterious and fractured though that is, and populated with enigmatic figures - a well-spoken tramp, a saturnine stranger in a Ligurian hotel who confides that “everywhere we look, we are looking into the past”.

At the end of the novel, one mystery is solved while another remains, in pursuit of which, Alexander reveals, “JB and I are to travel together, an ill assorted pair, I know.” Their destination is an Axelvanderfest at the University of Arcady, “where I am told there are no seasons”. So perhaps we haven’t heard the last of them yet.

Major economic crises tend to provoke reconsideration of the principles of capitalism, of the economic lives we lead. So it was that back in the teeth of another recession, in 1930, John Maynard Keynes struck a defiantly optimistic note in a short essay entitled Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren. The great economist predicted that by 2030 the world’s developed countries would be so rich that people would have to work just 15 hours a week. Humans would devote most of their time to leisure and most work would be done by machines.

This, he believed, would prompt a fundamental shift in our values: “We shall once more value ends above means and prefer the good to the useful.”

How could he have got it so wrong?

And do we now need to rethink our economic values? That is the question which Keynes’ biographer Robert Skidelsky, and his philosopher son Edward, examine here. On the face of it their thesis is a truism: that the endless pursuit of money is a blind alley that does not lead to the good life. When asked how rich they want to be, most people will say something on the lines of “enough to live a good life”. Indeed even David Cameron has pronounced himself dissatisfied with GDP as the sole barometer of the nation’s wealth: this month the Office for National Statistics will publish the first official survey of Britain’s national wellbeing.

And yet we still chase after money and consumer goodies. The problem isn’t just our difficulty in saying “that’s enough”. Rather, the Skidelskys write, “the material conditions of the good life already exist, at least in affluent parts of the world, but… the blind pur-

How Much is Enough: The Love of Money and the Case for the Good Life

By Robert and Edward Skidelsky

suit of growth puts it continually out of reach”. Surveys of Britons’ happiness show little real change since the mid1970s - despite a far bigger economy and much greater affluence today.

The failure of Keynes’ prediction is partly down to the growing inequality of advanced capitalist societies over the past three decades. The rich have taken a greater share of the fruits of productivity gains driven by technology. At the same time, though, Keynes failed to appreciate capitalism’s dynamism in creating new needs and desires. He never dreamt of whole industries built around mobile phone ringtones, pre-washed salad leaves or dog-walking services. Thus, for most of us, life is no longer simply a Faustian bargain with capitalism to secure our basic needs.

Yet even if we can defi ne what we mean by the “good life” - and I hope it will be more fun than the Skidelskys’ attempt to do so - how we re-gear capitalism to serve it remains far from clear. The authors call for a “non-coercive paternalism” by the state. Some of what that would entail is sensible enough - more job sharing, limits on advertising. Other aspects would be politically tricky even where popular, such as shorter working hours, or where less so, such as taxes on personal consumption above a certain level. And their call for higher taxes to fund a basic state income scheme and higher public sector salaries is clearly going to find few takers.

Yet the Skidelskys are right to ask such questions. At a time when politicians of all parties remain fi xated on the return of economic growth, we have to ask: will it really make us happy?

New needs: few economists predicted a whole industry built around dogwalking services

How to take on the jihadists

By Nirpal Dhaliwal When western hand-wringers blame Islamic terrorism on Anglo-American imperialism, they conveniently forget all the other conflicts raging around the world in which Islam is a central component. Jihad is spreading across SouthEast Asia, with conflagrations in the Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand. The last is the setting for Pure, the first novel by the thrice Booker-shortlisted Timothy Mo since his 2000 work, Renegade.

The author’s perfectly reasonable terror of a fatwa-decreed death sentence keeps him well clear of any direct criticism of the religion itself. Instead, Islamic fundamentalism becomes a mere foil for silliness and lazy humour rather than a subject of genuine scrutiny. Mo has created an excruciatingly tedious lady-boy, called Snooky, who, after a life of relentless drug-taking and casual buggery, is implausibly recruited by the police to spy on a jihadi cell.

The trite humour and Mo’s refusal to excavate the real issues make this a very boring read. Rather than insight, his characters offer only glib and often stupid readings of history. For instance: “the FO had dreadful relations with the Indians and good ones with the Pakistanis. The former had a chip on its shoulder about the Empire which the other lacked”.

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PAPERBACKS

Shady habit: The Reader of Novels, 1853, by Belgian painter Antoine Wiertz

By William Leith The Caller

By Karin Fossum

Karin Fossum reminds me of Patricia Highsmith. Her books are exquisitely sinister. In this one, a middle-class couple sit down for a meal while their baby sleeps outside.

Afterwards, the baby’s mother walks up to the pram and finds her child covered with blood. She fears the worst, but it’s just a horrible prank.

She notices changes in her husband; he’s protective but also full of rage.

Meanwhile, ageing cop Inspector Sejer, a sort of Nordic Morse, ponders the crime. He’s a widower with a dog and a wonderful brain for detection.

He makes a guess at the criminal shy, creative, lives alone or with his mother. When will he strike again?

Do women read so very differently?

A question that this book fails to adequately answer says MELANIE MCDONAGH

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he blurb for The Woman Reader promises that “this lively books tells a story never told before: the complete history of women’s reading and the controversies it has inspired... The book introduces frustrated female readers of many different eras: disappointed ancient poetesses, Babylonian princesses calling for women’s voices to be heard, rebellious nuns, confidantes questioning Reformation theologians ...”

The author’s introduction observes: “Women’s access to the written word has been a particular source of anxiety for men... almost from the start, since time immemorial, reading has been deemed subversive, disruptive or threatening to the stability of a relationship, a community, even a nation or a worldwide Church”.

I don’t think I’ve ever come across a work where the actual book so completely undermines the promise of the dust jacket. It’s a well-intentioned attempt to trace women’s reading habits all right, but it’s not an account of female subversion and male oppression, unless, as Belinda Jack does, you count Nora Barnacle refusing to read Ulysses, by her husband, James Joyce.

However, Joyce did send her letters, which here counts as male pushiness.

“Like so many women readers... she was as good as obliged to read her husband’s letters...”. Men! A tip: if you’re looking for the feminist

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substance, you’re better off sticking with the feisty introduction, which may be just what its admirers, including Naomi Wolf, have done.

The problem with The Woman Reader is its sheer scale: from the mists of antiquity to the present age, mostly Western Europe, but with quick about turns in China and the Islamic world. It seeks to be comprehensive, but for much of pre-modern history the question of women reading is indistinguishable from women’s social standing.

An account of literate women and their tastes pretty quickly turns into a catalogue of well-born or influential women, the ones with the books, the tuition and the patronage, and it ends up being heavy going. And there’s a pardonable confusion between reading and writing, between books and ideas.

So Hildegard of Bingen, Christine de Pisan and Julian of Norwich were readers? They were also a mystic, author and saint. And in the case of someone like Margery Kemp, it’s not clear whether she was a reader or a listener: a problem that affects much of the earlier period.

As for that reference to the baleful influence of the Catholic Church, well, from late antiquity to the 17th century and beyond it’s clear that the Church was a dominant force in promoting women’s literacy, from the abbesses who loom large in the earlier period, to the convent schools that taught girls reading.

While history isn’t the author’s home ground - French literature is -

The Woman Reader

By Belinda Jack

there are some embarrassing slips.

She seems to suggest, for instance, that St Brigit of Ireland, a popular, shadowy figure, “had been influenced” by St Bridget of Sweden, who flourished about a millennium later. But the real question: whether the reading habits of women were fundamentally different from those of men, simply remains unproven, except that women, as you’d expect, are keen on devotional works in the earlier period and on sentimental novels in the later, and less keen on philosophy. And women were at least as priggish as men: the real work of Bowdler was done, unnoticed, by his sister Henrietta.

There are, though, some lovely elements. The pictures are delightful, including a lascivious 19th-century piece by Antoine Wiertz, The Reader of Novels, showing a nude woman reading books pushed onto her bed by a little devil. Her treatment of the novel - patently the pre-eminent women’s literary form - is assured.

She’s good on the culture of the salons. There’s a brilliant account of the controversies surrounding the reception of Samuel Richardson’s revolting Pamela. But she’s remarkably unjudgmental throughout about what women actually read, whether it’s the earnest works of Mrs Humphrey Ward or dispiriting modern erotica. Where does Belinda Jack stand, say, on Fifty Shades of Grey, the popularity of which suggests that The Woman Reader of our day is a sucker for badly written pornography? Subversive, eh?

The Sound of Gravity

By Joe Simpson

You’ve probably heard of Joe Simpson because he wrote Touching the Void, a brilliant memoir of mountaineering in which he described his escape from a near-death situation peerlessly. In this novel, a mountaineer and his girlfriend, having slept on a high ledge, are waking up. She begins to slide on the ice. For some reason, she is not held by her harness. The clip is undone. For a frozen moment, they look at each other. He tries to hold her. But he can’t. She falls to her death. And now the man is stuck on the ledge with the weather getting worse. Simpson makes you feel as if you’re up there too.

The 12th Victim

By Katia Lief

Karin lives in Brooklyn. She’s a former cop who is now a private detective. Her life is full of tragedy.

Her first husband and daughter were murdered. Her best friend, also a cop, has had his eye shot out. Now he’s got post-traumatic stress disorder - but he’s in denial. Karin has rich neighbours. Someone comes into their house and blasts their faces off with a shotgun. And now, the infamous ‘Working Girl Killer’ strikes in the neighbourhood. He kills sex workers with a specific knife. When Karin goes to her Chinese housekeeper’s house, there she is. In the bath. Dead. A gory thriller. But done rather well.

26 MARKETPLACE

Complete renovation and upgrade of Hilton Park Nicosia Hilton Park Nicosia, the hotel which has for decades been a leader of social and business events in the capital, has undergone an extensive renovation of all rooms and communal spaces.

The aesthetics of every room in the Hilton Park have experienced dramatic changes with brand new rooms to accommodate guests in a completely different warmer atmosphere and a new decor containing earthy colours significantly raising the level of hospitality.

In addition, the central ballroom has been completely renovated and updated with new colours, equipment, and an entirely new atmosphere specifically for high classs events. st room The room, with a total area of 1,100m2, is the largest with unobstructed views for conferences, events, wedegrated ding receptions, parties and other events, with integrated

audiovisual media services and any facilitation possible.

The Hilton Park Nicosia’s renovations have also added a brand new conference and Events and Business centre, which provides every facility to both event participants and guests of the hotel. Also included in the renovations are the Olympia restaurant where the decor and aesthetics have been changed, thus contributing to the overall upgrade of the hotel.

Finally, the health and beauty centre Sana Hiltonia has essentially been renewed and also enriched now offering wide range of world-class treatment services such as those of industry giants Carita, Decleor and Neoderma.

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New strained Charalambides mbides Light yoghurt Following on from the success of the enriched Charalambides active yoghurt and Charalambides bio, Charalambides presents its new strained yoghurt Charalambides light with only three per cent fat.

Charalambides light is produced from fresh Cypriot milk, that gives it its authentic, rich taste of strained yoghurt. It is available in 300g and one kilo

packs.

It’s ideal for the whole amfamily. Strained Charalambides Light yoghurt is the answer to a light lunch that every family member can enjoy, either with fresh fruit, sert or cereal or a healthy dessert snack. You can also usee it to tional make a delicious, traditional ecipes. ‘tzatziki’ or any other recipes.

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SOCIETY 27

Stavros Stavrou, Minas Mina, Giorgos Zoppis and Cosmas Adamou

Horoscope

WITH SALLY BROMPTON

ARIES There are no shortcuts to success. No matter how brilliant your ideas and insights only consistent effort will turn them into more than dreams. Of course your efforts won’t have to March 21 - April 20 be quite so strenuous if you plan in advance rather than leave everything to the last moment.

TAURUS

Victoria Constantinides, Costas Siamtanis and Sveta Shapovalova

Fokionas and Maria Hadji-ioannou

April 21 - May 21

This is an important time for career matters and the most important thing is not to let your emotions get in the way of what needs to be done. Get it right and you could find yourself moving up in the world very soon. If someone has to miss out make sure it’s not you.

GEMINI

May 22 - June 21

Others will come to you with their tales of woe this week and although you won’t really be interested you should make the effort to listen and, where appropriate, offer relevant advice.

All they will really want, of course, is a sympathetic ear, and it is up to you to provide it.

CANCER

June 22 - July 22

Whatever happens this week you must not betray what you believe in, even if you are offered a fortune to do so. Once you’ve accepted a bribe, because that’s what it is, there will be no going back. A principle broken can never be mended: be true to yourself and decline.

LEO

Blue wine evening to get to know Kyperounta Winery An unforgettable oino-gastronomic event was held recently at Blue Wine Bar, where guests tried red and white wines from Kyperounta Winery. Over complementary dishes, they were able to discover

July 23 - Aug 23

the wine’s secrets. Among other those presented were Petritis, Kyperounta Chardonnay, Kyperounta Cabernet Sauvignon and the recently launched Commandaria.

You may have been looking at financial and business matters in a negative light just recently but what happens over the next few days will cheer you up considerably and make you realise just how fortunate you really are. There is nothing wrong with your life that cannot be cured by a better perspective. And a bit of patience with colleagues and loved ones around the time of Thursday’s Full Moon!

VIRGO Aug 24 - Sep 23

Say what you have to say to resolve some kind of argument or dispute this week. Even if you have to admit responsibility for something that was not remotely your fault you should do so, simply because your time is too precious to waste on things that don’t really matter.

LIBRA Kyriakos Ilia, Athos Potamos and Harris Christis with promotors

Sept 24 -Oct 23

You will be exceedingly outspoken this week and not everyone will take kindly to what you have to say about them. But only criticize people you don’t like as someone you usually get along with might overreact and decide that your friendship is over and that would be sad.

SCORPIO Oct 24 - Nov 22

A Full Moon in one of the more sensitive areas of your chart means your emotions could get the better of you over the next few days.

Rather that, however, than someone else get the better of you.

Kick up a fuss if you feel you are being taken advantage of`.

SAGITTARIUS

Nov 23 - Dec 21

You may be tempted to argue with someone whose opinions you find childish at best and offensive at worst but if you are wise you’ll say nothing. A Full Moon warns this is not the time to get involved in pointless debates about things of only minor importance.

CAPRICORN Christina Kokkinidou, Panayiota Pantazi, Maria Hadjiioannou and Michalis Papas

Dec 22 - Jan 20

Self-belief is all-important just now as the planets indicate that self-doubt could lead to a loss of momentum. Whatever course you are embarked upon let nothing turn you aside.

Your confidence will return with a vengeance by the end of the week.

AQUARIUS Jan 21 - Feb 19

You will reach an important decision this week, the type of decision that has long-term repercussions. But just because you have reached it does not mean the world needs to know.

Keep your thoughts to yourself at least until you have worked out some of the details.

PISCES

Feb 20 - March 20

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Partners and loved ones will want to confide in you this week and even if you are one of those Pisceans who keeps thoughts and feelings pretty much to themselves you will want to respond in kind. So much good can be done by those three little words: I Love You.

28 A MINUTE WITH...

Ianthi Sparsis Co-owner of Nicosia eatery Silver Pot

Where do you live?

About half-an-hour outside of Nicosia toward Machairas mountain range with my daughter, our dog Flo and numerous cats

Best childhood memory?

Seeing penguins for the fi rst time at the London zoo.

Most frequented restaurant and absolute favourite dish?

Grecos (no longer in existence) was by far the best restaurant in Cyprus. All its dishes were absolutely delicious.

Fond memories: the Ionian islands and The Jungle Book

What food would you really turn your nose up to?

Favourite holiday destination?

What’s your dream trip?

The Greek islands. All of them!

Three months on a yacht going island hopping in the Ionian and the Aegean.

Baked beans.

What music are you listening to in the car at the moment?

What did you have for breakfast?

Mozdzer-Danielsson-Fresco

A tiny pancake!

What is always in your fridge??

Would you class yourself as a day or night person?

What’s your idea of the perfect night/day out?

Chocolate

Dream house: rural retreat or urban dwelling? Where would it be, what would it be like?

Depending on the season, I can an ay be both! The perfect night/day w! out is one in which there is flow!

and author of nine books.

Anything and anywhere provided it’s cosy and combines privacy with a great view.

Best book ever read?

If the world is ending in 24 hours what would you do?

Spend most of the time with my daughter and the rest making love to my man.

Too many to mention. Histori-cal novels, non-fiction, poetry.

If you could pick anyone at all (alive or dead) to go out for the evening with, who would it be?

What is your greatest fear?

Favourite film of all time?

Dimitris Liantinis (23 July 19421998), professor of the School of Philosophy of the University of Athens

Tell me a joke…

The original Jungle Book.

Perhaps not: baked beans

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I want to live forever!

The penguins at London Zoo

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1 As far as I can see, it’s a help in landing (10) 8 Reconstructed part of study (3) 9 Type of dish directed at the moon? (9) 10 Plants are forced under it (6) 11 Likely holding of French expert (5) 13 Treat badly when one’s caught in thought (6) 15 Signal when Oriental is taken in by philosopher (6) 17 Support for model in dunes (5) 18 A cult, a new order that is genuine (6) 21 Used drill by day one (9) 22 Levy on nails, say (3) 23 Some defence used to tie a game (10)

1 Bad habit of singer dropping round (4) 2 It is designed to take one along the road (6-6) 3 Primary scab I removed (5) 4 Rubbish, it’s a stretcher (6) 5 Cultivating until silver is initially excavated (7) 6 Disillusioned – no longer spellbound? (12) 7 Defeat flogging (7) 12 Person of dazzling charm who’s a wrecker (7) 14 Cocktail required, a cider’s ordered (7) 16 Was uncooked up in the capital (6) 19 Old style of architecture for the house (5) 20 Alex fixed the wheel pivot (4)

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Answers to Double Crossword 2146 CRYPTIC: Across – 5 Jack; 7 Out of shape; 8 Evensong;10 Tina; 11 Anna; 13 To be sure; 15 Stranded; 16 Nail; 17 Afar; 18 Bypassed; 21 Translator; 22 Trey. Down – 1 Mope; 2 Down; 3 Assorted; 4 Bang; 5 Jettison; 6 Cornerwise; 9 ‘Vanity Fair’; 12 Alacrity; 14 Budapest; 18 Brat; 19 Shaw; 20 Dark.

QUICK: Across – 5 Alps; 7 Sleepyhead; 8 Spinster; 10 Lush; 11 Knot; 13 Commence; 15 Compiler; 16 Yeti; 17 Inns; 18 Colorado; 21 Relentless; 22 Eddy. Down – 1 Isis; 2 Bean; 3 Mystical; 4 Bear; 5 Adultery; 6 Persecuted; 9 Pinpointed; 12 Tapestry; 14 Maryland; 18 Cold; 19 Roll; 20 Oust.

Answers to the crossword will appear in Tuesday’s newspaper SUNDAY MAIL• July 29, 2012

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08.00 Concert 09.30 Kypros Ena Taxidi (rpt) 10.15 O Kyprou Makarios 11.30 Makarios, Mnimi Kai Mnimosini 12.00 Istories Tou Horkou (rpt) 13.00 Apo Mera Se Mera 15.30 Syn Plyn Local talk-show with studio discussion and viewers calling in.

17.00 Kypros Ena Taxidi (rpt) 17.30 Entehnos (rpt) 18.00 News 18.15 Candid Camera Unsuspecting people react to bizarre events.

18.30 Ta Paidia Den Paizei 20.00 News / Weather / Financial Report 21.00 Vimata Stin Ammo (rpt) Local period drama, based on true events.

21.30 Swimming Women’s 200m Backstroke - Final, Men’s 100m Butterfly - Final, Women’s 800m Freestyle - Final, Men’s 50m Freestyle - Final and Women’s 50m Freestyle Semifinals.

22.30 FILM: Gracie!

Story of British actress and singer Gracie Fields covering her career before the Second World War and the decline in her popularity during the war. Made-forTV biopic, starring Jane Horrocks and Tom Hollander.

2009. With News at 23.30.

00.15 Repeats

08.00 Kids’ TV 11.30 Track & Field Men’s Shot Put - Qualification, Women’s Heptathlon - 100m Hurdles, Women’s Triple Jump Qualification, Women’s 100m - Preliminaries, Women’s Heptathlon - High Jump, Men’s 400m Hurdles Round 1, Men’s Hammer Throw - Qualification, Women’s 400m Round 1 and Men’s Steeplechase Round 1.

15.45 Rowing Women’s Double Sculls - Final.

17.00 Archery Men’s Individual - Bronze Medal Match and Men’s Individual - Gold Medal Match.

18.00 Judo Women’s +78kg Gold Medal Final and Men’s +100kg Gold Medal Final.

18.40 News In English 18.50 News In Turkish 19.00 Beach Volleyball Women’s Round of 16 - Match #41 and Women’s Round of 16 - Match #42.

21.00 Track & Field Women’s Heptathlon - Shot Put, Women’s 100m - Round 1, Women’s Discus Throw - Qualification, Men’s Long Jump Qualification, Men’s 1500m - Round 1, Men’s Shot Put - Final, Women’s Heptathlon - 200m and Women’s 10,000m - Final.

00.00 Volleyball Women’s Group A Match #24. Algeria vs. Italy.

01.30 Olympic News Channel

06.30 Proini Enimerosi 07.00 Tis Ellados Ta Paidia (rpt) 07.30 Oi Men Kai Oi Den (rpt) 08.00 Fast Money (rpt) 08.45 Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) 09.30 To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) 10.20 To Evdomo Kleidi (rpt) 10.50 Deixe Mou To Filo Sou (rpt) 11.30 Santa Yiolanta (rpt) 12.15 Tin Patisa (rpt) 13.00 News 13.15 Galileo (rpt) 14.00 Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) 14.10 Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) 15.30 To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) 16.20 Krifa Monopatia (rpt) 17.10 Mi Mou Les Antio (rpt) 18.00 News 18.10 Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt)

06.30 Paralliloi Dromoi (rpt) 07.00 Yia Sena (rpt) 08.40 Mia Stigmi Dio Zoes (rpt) 09.20 Dennis O Tromeros 10.00 Proino Mou Lifestyle programme that features entertainment, music and more.

12.00 Yia Banaki 15.00 I Dada (rpt) Greek comedy series.

16.00 I Ora I Kali (rpt) Greek comedy series.

17.40 Mia Stigmi Dio Zoes Greek drama series, based on the popular Latin American telenovela about mistaken identities.

18.20 News 18.30 Mousiko Kouti (rpt) Greek game show, testing contestants on their music knowledge.

19.20 Peninta Peninta (rpt) Greek comedy series.

20.10 News 21.20 Eftyhismenoi Mazi (rpt) Greek comedy series.

22.20 I Zoi Pou Then Ezisa (rpt) 23.30 Singles (rpt) 00.00 News 00.10 The Shield Police drama series chronicling the turbulent day-today life of the Strike Team, a group of corrupt Los Angeles cops.

01.00 Yia Banaki (rpt) 04.15 Proino Mou (rpt)

07.00 Erotas Me Epidotisi 07.45 An M’ Agapas 08.40 Oi Takkoi 09.45 Vourate Geitonoi (rpt) 10.20 I Kouzina Tis Mamas (rpt) 11.15 Eho Ena Mistiko (rpt) 12.00 Vasiliki (rpt) 12.50 Spiti Ki Egine (rpt) 13.40 Efialtis Stin Kouzina (rpt) 14.30 Oikogeneiakes Istories (rpt) 16.40 Baywatch (rpt) Glossy surfside drama with the Malibu lifeguards.

17.30 Pame Paketo (rpt) With News at 18.00.

18.40 Tropico Latin American telenovela.

19.30 The Del Monte Heirs 20.20 News 21.20 Irthe Ki Edese 22.10 To Kokkino Domatio 23.20 The 4400 First season. ‘Trial

By Fire’. A journalist looks to make a scandal out of the mysterious reappearance of the 4,400 returnees and publicises their names and addresses - a situation which gives rise to a series of lifethreatening firebombings.

23.45 News 23.50 Sex And The City (rpt) 00.45 Istories Tou Astinomou Beka (rpt) 01.40 Allou Ximeromenoi (rpt) 03.00 Alithinoi Erotes (rpt) 03.40 Eleni (rpt) 05.30 Tropico (rpt)

06.45 Star News 07.45 Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of 09.15 Kids’ TV 11.50 Ta Kopelia Local comedy series.

12.30 Thema Gevsis Cookery show.

13.30 Star News 14.15 Max Adventures 14.25 Rastamouse 14.35 Bo On the Go 15.00 King 15.25 Martha Speaks 15.45 Teen Days 16.15 Exelixeis Stin Showbiz 16.45 Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of (rpt) 17.50 Mila Best Of (rpt) Discussions about various issues based on woman’s life.

18.50 Nistikoi Praktores (rpt) Cooking show, with helpful tips on eating well and nutrition.

19.40 Fotis - Maria Live Best Of (rpt) Entertainment magazine featuring segments on cooking, health, fashion, lifestyle issues and more.

21.00 Exelixeis Stin Showbiz (rpt) 22.00 FILM: A Dangerous Place An innocent woman, Claire Scully is drawn into a terrorist plot to kill people through the mail using a deadly strain of TB. Thriller, starring Kristen Dalton. 2012.

23.40 LTV Sports News 00.45 Star News 01.00 Repeats

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Tin Patisa (rpt) Eva Luna News Aiyia Fuxia (rpt)

22.45 Einai Stigmes 23.30 News 23.45 Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) 00.35 Kai Oi Pantremenoi Ehoun Psihi

PICK OF THE DAY Red Riding Hood (LTV, 21.00) Saucer-eyed Amanda Seyfried is Red Riding Hood, a.k.a. Valerie, turned from a child into an adolescent like Alice in the recent Alice in Wonderland. Val lives in a small snowbound village that’s been plagued by a Wolf for decades - though in fact he (she? it?) has only just resumed killing people after a 20-year hiatus, his fi rst victim being Valerie’s sister. Maybe she was chasing a boy, says one villager, which of course is significant because the Wolf is now a symbolic Wolf, a punishment for

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Alpha News Kids’ TV Magikos Kosmos I Kori Tou Mistral Deste Tous Greek FILM: Agonia FILM: For Love And Country Story of renowned Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, who struggled to find success under Castro’s oppressive regime. Biopic, starring Andy Garcia. 2000.

O Anthropos Tis Thalassas Melrose Place With News at 18.30.

News Sports Time Rubi FILM: I Spy A hapless secret agent goes undercover as assistant to an egotistical boxing champion in an attempt to catch an arms dealer.

Espionage comedy, starring Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson. 2002.

FILM: Silent Predators Mankind comes under threat from mutated snakes threatening to run amok across the globe. Ecological horror, starring Harry Hamlin. 1999.

FILM: Killer Instinct: From The Files Of Agent Delong An FBI agent decides to devote herself to raising her child - but is lured back to work to catch a mysterious serial killer. Crime drama, starring Jean Smart. 2003.

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female sexuality - and this dire fi lm could be called a feminist update of the old fairy tale but in fact it does nothing so provocative, turning instead into a tedious whodunit called ‘Who’s the Wolf?’. Is Val’s grandma (a tired-looking Julie Christie) the Wolf? Is Peter, her bad-boy boyfriend, the Wolf? Surely it isn’t Gary Oldman as Father Solomon, a fi re-and-brimstone type who not only eats his steak bloody but eats it with his bare hands? The fi lm gets increasingly incoherent, its plot more suited to a cheap horror movie, reaching a kind of nadir when the Wolf talks to Valerie (!),

Red Riding Hood

playing the chummy card like Blofeld with 007: “You and I are the same, Valerie...” Made in 2011.

Pompeii: Cellar of Skeletons (History Channel, 22.00) We know how the people of Pompeii died - their death-throes being literally preserved for all eternity - but how did they live? “The biggest-ever forensic investigation into skeletal remains in Pompeii is now under way,” proclaims the synopsis for this onehour special, “and the secrets of the rich and poor are revealed, from their sex lives, to their diet, to their extraordinary racial origins and the priceless treasures they were found with”. The main subjects

07:00 Baboons With Bill Bailey 07:25 Chris Humfrey’s Wild Life 08:15 Dick ‘N’ Dom Go Wild 08:40 Breed All About It 09:10 Penguin Safari 10:05 Monster Bug Wars 11:00 Wildlife Sos 11:25 Gorilla School 11:55 Animal Cops Philadelphia 12:50 E-Vets: The Interns 13:45 Animal Precinct 14:40 Monster Bug Wars 15:30 Baboons With Bill Bailey 16:00 Dick ‘N’ Dom Go Wild 16:30 Jeff Corwin Unleashed 17:25 Must Love Cats 18:20 Dogs 101 19:15 Wildlife Sos 19:40 Gorilla School 20:10 Living With The Wolfman 20:35 Animal Battlegrounds 21:05 Monster Bug Wars 22:00 Deadly Waters 22:55 I Was Bitten 23:50 Miami Animal Police 00:45 Crime Scene Wild 01:40 Untamed & Uncut 02:35 Deadly Waters 03:30 I Was Bitten 04:25 Monster Bug Wars 05:20 Living With The Wolfman 05:45 Animal Battlegrounds 06:10 E-Vets: The Interns

01:00 The Weakest Link 01:45 Keeping Up Appearances 02:15 Monarch Of The Glen 03:00 Eastenders 03:30 Doctors 04:00 Twenty Twelve 04:30 Supernova 04:55 Monarch Of The Glen 05:45 The Weakest Link 06:30 The Old Guys 07:00 Teletubbies 07:25 The Roly Mo Show 07:40 Forget Me Not Farm 07:55 Fimbles 08:15 Teletubbies 08:40 The Roly Mo Show 08:55 Forget Me Not Farm 09:10 Fimbles 09:30 Keeping Up Appearances 10:00 Supernova 10:30 The Weakest Link 11:15 Eastenders 11:45 Doctors 12:15 Monarch Of The Glen 13:05 The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee: Highlights 14:35 The Old Guys 15:05 Keeping Up Appearances 15:35 Eastenders 16:05 Doctors 16:35 Inspector Lynley Mysteries 17:25 Doctor Who Confidential 17:35 Supernova 18:05 The Weakest Link 18:50 Elephant Diaries 19:40 Doctors 20:10 Doctor Who 21:00 The Cup 21:30 Twenty Twelve 22:00 New Tricks 22:50 The Impressions Show With Culshaw & Stephenson 23:20 Allo Allo 23:50 BBC Electric Proms 2007: Paul McCartney 00:40 Little Britain

07:00 Fifth Gear 07:25 Dirty Jobs 08:15 Deadliest Catch 09:10 Extreme Fishing 10:05 Mythbusters 11:00 How Do They Do It? 11:30 Destroyed In Seconds 11:55 Ultimate Survival 12:50 Wheeler Dealers 13:45 Fifth Gear 14:40 American Chopper 15:35 Dirty Jobs 16:30 Mythbusters 17:25 Deadliest Catch 18:20 Extreme Fishing 19:15 River Monsters 20:10 How It’s Made 20:40 How Do They Do It? 21:05 Curiosity 22:00 Swamp Loggers 22:55 Weapons That Changed The World 23:50 A Haunting 01:40 Curiosity 02:40 Swamp Loggers 03:40 Weapons That Changed The World 04:40 A Haunting 05:35 How It’s Made 06:00 Overhaulin’

04:00 Rowing: Summer Olympic Games London 04:45 Canoeing: Summer Olympic Games London 06:15 Gymnastics: Summer Olympic Games London 07:00 Olympic Games: Together To London 07:30 Olympic Games: English Breakfast 09:30 Swimming: Summer Olympic Games London 10:30 Multisports: Summer Olympic Games London 12:00 Athletics: Summer Olympic Games London 15:40 Olympic Games: London Eye 15:45

07:00 Pawn Stars 08:00 Ancient Discoveries 09:00 High Hitler 10:00 Pawn Stars 11:00 Ax Men 12:00 Ice Road Truckers 14:00 High Hitler 15:00 Ancient Discoveries 16:00 Ice Road Truckers 18:00 High Hitler 19:00 Ancient Discoveries 20:00 Pawn Stars 21:00 Ax Men 22:00 Pompeii: Cellar Of Skeletons 23:00 Tony Robinson Down Under 00:00 Pawn Stars 01:00 Ax Men 02:00 Pompeii: Cellar Of Skeletons 03:00 Tony Robinson Down Under 04:00 Ancient Discoveries 05:00 High Hitler 06:00 Ax Men

07:30 Revolutionary Road 09:30 Alvin And The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel 11:00 Action Zone 11:30 Ye Olde Times 13:30 Romancing The Stone 15:20 Hollywood Buzz 15:50 Friends 16:50 The Peacemaker 19:00 Friends 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 Red Riding Hood 23:00 Serious Man 01:00 Hustler TV 02:45 Horseman 04:30 Hesher 06:30 LTV Sports News

True Grit (Novacinema1, 22.00) Multisports: Summer Olympic Games London 18:00 Weightlifting: Summer Olympic Games London 19:15 Cycling: Summer Olympic Games London 20:40 Olympic Games: London Eye 20:45 Multisports: Summer Olympic Games London 21:30 Swimming: Summer Olympic Games London 22:30 Athletics: Summer Olympic Games London 00:00 Olympic Games: Together To London 00:30 Volleyball: Summer Olympic Games London 01:30 Weightlifting: Summer Olympic Games London 02:30 Athletics: Summer Olympic Games London

05:30 The Amazing Race 06:15 Family Guy 07:05 Lost 07:50 How I Met Your Mother 08:40 Terriers 09:30 Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior 10:15 The Amazing Race 11:00 Family Guy 11:50 Lost 12:35 How I Met Your Mother 13:25 Terriers 14:10 Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior 15:00 Neighbors From Hell 15:25 Bob’s Burgers 15:50 The League 16:15 The Amazing Race 17:05 Family Guy 17:55 Lost 18:40 How I Met Your Mother 19:30 Terriers 20:15 Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior 21:00 Neighbors From Hell 21:25 Bob’s Burgers 21:50 The League 22:15 Call Me Fitz 22:45 Terriers 23:30 Neighbors From Hell 23:55 Bob’s Burgers 00:20 The League 00:45 Call Me Fitz 01:15 The Amazing Race 02:05 Family Guy 02:55 Lost 03:45 How I Met Your Mother 04:35 Terriers

07:00 Baby Looney Tunes 07:25 Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs 08:15 Steven Spielberg Presents Tiny Toon Adventures 08:40 Loonatics Unleashed 09:05 Scooby-Doo Where Are You! 09:30 Superman: The Animated Series 09:55 Big Cartoonie Show 10:20 Tak & The Power Of Juju 10:45 Fanboy & Chum Chum 11:10 X’s 11:35 Ni Hao, Kai-Lan 12:00 Dora The Explorer 12:25 Spongebob Squarepants 13:15 Mighty B! 13:40 My Life As A Teenage Robot 14:05 Hey Arnold! 14:30 Icarly 14:55 Icarly 15:20 Batman: The Brave And The Bold 17:00 Irc 2012: Romania 17:30 Planet Speed 18:00 Barclays Premier League World 18:30 ATP World Tour Uncovered 19:00 PGA Tour Classic Films 20:00 Best Basket League OPAP Games Of The Season 22:00 2011 World’s Strongest Man 22:30 Makeover: Hunt Dog Edition 23:00 Best Soccer Games Of The Season: Barclay’s Premier League 01:00 Grand American Series 2012 02:00 PGA Tour Classic Films 03:00 Best Soccer Games Of The Season: Barclay’s Premier League 05:00 2011 Figure Skating Championships

07:15 Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles 08:00 Two And A Half Men 08:30 Chuck 10:00 Friends 10:25 V I 11:15 Mentalist 12:45 Supernatural 13:30 Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles 14:15 Chuck 15:45 Big Bang Theory 16:15 According To Jim 17:00 Sons Of Anarchy 18:45 Supernatural 19:30 Desperate Housewives 20:15 Trust Me 21:00 Friends 21:30 Hawaii Five-0 23:05 True Blood 00:05 Dummy 01:35 Batman Begins 03:55 Big Bang Theory 04:20 According To Jim 05:05 Sons Of Anarchy

08:00 Pleasantville 10:15 Troy 13:00 Black Balloon 15:00 Red Violin 17:30 Ghost Writer 20:00 8 Seconds 22:00 Preacher’s Kid 00:05 Daring! TV 04:15 All About Steve 06:00 Passed Away

Shining Through 11:00 Mrs. Brown 12:45 Enemy Of The State 14:55 I Ypografi 17:05 Transformers: Dark Of The Moon 19:40 Stars In Style 20:15 Gospel Hill 22:00 True Grit - 2010 23:55 Cedar Rapids 01:25 Choose 03:00 Sling Blade

06:05 Malena 08:00 Burlesque 10:00 Alpha And Omega 11:35 Cine News 12:35 Easy A 14:10 The Romantics 15:50 Guess Who 17:40 Spotlight On 18:15 Love And Other Impossible Pursuits 22:00 Country Strong 00:00 Oranges And Sunshine 01:50 Black Hawk Down 04:15 Cine News

19:35 (L’armee Du Crime) 22:00 (Royals And Loyals) 23:00 «Bloody Fridays» Walled In 00:40 (Cine News) 01:30 (Kaylani Unleashed) 03:25 Eternal

19:20 Le Dernier Vol De Lancaster 21:00 Good Night, And Good Luck. 22:40 Life As We Know It 00:35 Against All Odds 02:35 The Social Network 04:35 Eyes Wide Shut

21:00 Born Yesterday 22:45 Fun With Dick And Jane

01:30 Mobil 1 The Grid 02:00 MLB: Miami Marlins at Atlanta Braves 05:00 PGA Tour: Reno-Tahoe Open Rd. 1 07:00 Feherty - John Daly 08:00 School of Golf - Chapter 23: Putting Under Pressure 08:30 Golf Now - Ka’anapali 09:00 Golf Central International 09:30 The Golf Fix 10:00 MLB: Miami Marlins at Atlanta Braves 13:00 Hard Parts: South Bronx Diet Joe 13:30 Pass Time 14:00 Car Warriors ‘86 El Camino 15:00 PGA Tour: Reno-Tahoe Open Rd. 1 17:00 Web.com Tour Cox Classic Rd. 2 19:00 Champions Tour: 3M Championship Rd. 1 20:30 MLB: Miami Marlins at Atlanta Braves 23:30 Hard Parts: South Bronx Diet Joe 00:00 Pass Time 00:30 Car Warriors ‘86 El Camino

07:00 Globe Trekker 08:00 Planet Sports 09:00 Cruising The Amazon 10:00 Planet Food 11:00 The Thirsty Traveler 11:30 Chef Abroad 12:00 Globe Trekker 13:00 Planet Sports 14:00 Out Of Country 14:30 Essential 15:00 Nomad’s Land 16:00 Globe Trekker 17:00 The Thirsty Traveler 17:30 Chef Abroad 18:00 Planet Food 19:00 Globe Trekker 05:00 Planet Food 06:00 The Thirsty Traveler 06:30 Chef Abroad

06.00 Tender Trap, The 07.55 Tortilla Flat 09.40 Flipper’s New Adventure 11.15 American in Paris, An 13.05 Blackboard Jungle 14.45 Grand Prix 17.35 Ben-Hur 21.00 Sweet Bird Of Youth 22.55 Ryan’s Daughter 02.05 V.I.P.S, The 04.00 Love Me Or Leave Me

06:15 London 07:50 Cine News 08:50

BBC World Service (1323 MW) 00:01 BBC News 00:06 Assignment 00:30 BBC News Summary 00:32 Science In Action 00:50 From Our Own Correspondent 01:01 BBC News 01:06 World Briefing 01:30 BBC News Summary 01:32 World Business Report 01:50 Sports News 02:01 BBC News 02:06 World Briefing 02:30 BBC News Summary 02:32 Business Daily 02:50 Sports News 03:01 BBC News 03:06 World Briefing 03:30 BBC News Summary 03:32 World Business Report 03:50 Witness 04:01 BBC News 04:06 HARDtalk 04:30 BBC News Summary 04:32 World Football 05:01 BBC News 05:06 Newsday 05:30 BBC News Summary 05:32 Newsday 06:01 BBC News 06:06 Newsday 06:30 BBC News Summary 06:32 Science In Action 06:50 From Our Own Correspondent 07:01 BBC News 07:06 Newsday 07:30 BBC News Summary 07:32 The Strand 07:50 Witness 08:01 BBC News 08:06 Newsday 08:30 BBC News Summary 08:32 Newsday 09:01 BBC News 09:06 Newsday 09:30 BBC News Summary 09:32 Newsday 10:01 BBC News 10:06 World Football 10:30 BBC News Summary 10:32 Business Daily 10:50 From Our Own Correspondent 11:01 BBC News 11:06 HARDtalk 11:30 BBC News Summary 11:32 Science In Action 11:50 Sports News 12:01 BBC News 12:06 World Update 12:30 BBC News Summary 12:32 World Update 13:01 BBC News 13:06 World Briefing 13:30 BBC News Summary 13:32 The Strand 13:50 Witness 14:01 BBC News 14:06 World Have Your Say 14:30 BBC News Summary 14:32 Business Daily 14:50 Sports News 15:01 BBC News 15:06 Newshour 15:30 BBC News Summary 15:32 Newshour 16:01 BBC News 16:06 HARDtalk 16:30 BBC News Summary 16:32 World Football 17:01 BBC News 17:06 World Briefing 17:30 BBC News Summary 17:32 Science In Action 17:50 From Our Own Correspondent 18:01 BBC News 18:06 World Briefing 18:30 BBC News Summary 18:32 Sport Today 18:50 Witness 19:01 BBC News 19:06 World Briefing 19:30 BBC News Summary 19:32 World Business Report 20:01 BBC News 20:06 World Have Your Say 20:30 BBC News Summary 20:32 World Have Your Say 21:01 BBC News 21:06 World Briefing 21:30 BBC News Summary 21:32 Business Daily 21:50 From Our Own Correspondent 22:01 BBC News 22:06 World Football 22:30 BBC News Summary 22:32 The Strand 22:50 Witness 23:01 BBC News 23:06 Newshour 23:30 BBC News Summary 23:32 Newshour

BFBS 1 (N’sia 91.7, WSBA 92.1, ESBA 99.6 FM) 02.00 Groove Collective 04.00 BFBS Shuffle 05.00 Ops Breakfast 06.00 Cyprus Breakfast With Neil Skinner 09.00 Chris Pearson 11.00 Charlie Fife 13.00 Total Ops Connection 15.00 Wez Thompson 18.00 Charlene Guy 21.00 Jessie Aru 00.00 The Vibe BFBS 2 (Ni’sia 89.7, WSBA 89.9, ESBA 95.3 FM) 03.00 BFBS Radio News 03.03 BFBS Gold With Dave Windsor 04.00 Up All Night 07.00 Morning Reports 07.30 Wake Up To Money 08.00 Today 11.00 Simon Marlow 14.00 BFBS Gold With Dave Windsor 15.00 World At One 15.45 Simon Guettier 19.00 PM 20.00 6 O’Clock News 20.30 Five Live Olympics 00.30 Late Night Olympics

LiveCyBC2 (91.1, 92.4 FM) 06.00-07.30 Programmes in Turkish with News at 7.30 07.40 Good morning Cyprus 10.00-12.00 Kalimerhamba 12.00 Gunortasa 12.45 Greek Cyprus Press 13.00 Turkish Music 13.15 News in Turkish 13.30 News in English 13.45 PM Classics 16.00 Greek Radio 16.15 Our country doesn’t divide 16.50 News in Turkish 17.00-18.00 Programmes in Armenian; News at 17.15 18.0020.00 Round & About 20.00 News in English 20.10 Welcome to Cyprus in French and German 20.40 Ship of Fools with Robert Camassa 22.00 News in English 22.00 International Music 00.0006.00 Rebroadcast of the evening’s programme

Radio Napa (106.3 FM) 06.00 Morning Music 08.30 BBC World Today 09.00 News, Weather and Exchange 09.05 Nathan Morley 12.00 BBC News 12.06 Lunchtime Classics 15.00 BBC News 15.06 Chris Yearley 18.00 News 18.06 Michael Godin 19.00 The Juke Box 98.5 Rock FM The Breakfast Show - Tony Newell - 07:00-10:00 2 Hours With Bejay Browne 10:00-12:00 Rock Fm’s Lunch Box - Jason Collins - 12:00-14:00 Non Stop Music 14:00-15:00 Valentina 15:00-18:00 Monday - Tuesday - Thursday - Friday Liquid Radio Show - Pavlos - 15:00-18:00 Wednesday Drive Time - Johny G. 18:00-20:00 Monday - Tuesday Johny G. 18:00-20:00 Wednesday (Mix @ 6) The Cocktail Show - Antonis - 18:00-20:00 Thursday - Friday Panic In The Year Zero - 20:00-22:00 Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday Radioactive Metal - 20:00-22:00 - Thursday Live Dj Set- Dj Allen D 20:00-22:00 - Friday 22:00-24:00 The Gathering - With Your Hosts Dj Mr Smith And Mc Svennyb – Live Wednesday & Friday Night Train 24:00-07:00 Monday To Friday

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MONDAY-FRIDAY 05:00 That Was The Year 06:00 Easy Going Gold 10:00 The Juke Box 17:00 That Was The Year 18:00 Oldies Overnights - Hear the greatest hits of all time playing non stop during the darkest hours.

Walled In are 74 men, women and children who hid in a cellar (in vain, of course) as Vesuvius raged - though I’m not sure how the show plans to illustrate its fi ndings, hopefully not through cheesy ‘reconstructions’ of Life in Pompeii. ‘Ave, Lucius!’ ‘Ave, noble Cicero! Does that volcano look bigger today, or is it just me?...’

Walled In (Novacinema3, 23.00) Never mind a cellar of skeletons, here’s a whole building full of skeletons. “Do you know the history of this building?” asks the inevitable sinister housekeeper.

“The architect buried people alive in the walls of this building”. You’d think a fi replace and a couple of bay windows would be enough of a selling-point, but

you know what these architects are like with their design features - though in fact our heroine (Mischa Barton) is initially there to demolish the building, before fi nding out about its dark past. She talks to residents (“Did you live here when the murders happened?” “They were more like sacrifices...”) and decides to dig deeper - but it seems the murderous architect (or his ghost) may still be around, looking for new victims to entomb. Fair Friday-night thrills though the problem, as so often, is that everything’s scary as long as it’s mysterious, turning into routine heroine-in-peril action once the secrets are actually revealed. Also with Cameron Bright (the creepy kid from Birth) as a rather odd teenager. Made in 2009.

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SundayMail Melancholia Much acclaimed film about depressed bride

Sharing an Island Local documentary about bicommunal harmony

Monday, NovaCinema1 10pm

Wednesday, CyBC1 6.15pm

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Super 8 Sci-fi action movie with glorious incidental detail Sunday, NovaCinema1, 10pm

Complete guide to what’s on the small screen this week, including our selections and satellite choices

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07.50 Concert 09.30 Chef Ston Aera (rpt) Cooking show offering viewers quick, simple and economical recipes.

10.05 Reload Summer 12.10 Istories Tou Horkou (rpt) Two episodes of local comedy series, which happens to be the longest-running show on TV. 13.00 Apo Mera Se Mera 15.30 Syn Plyn Local talk-show with studio discussion and viewers calling in.

Hosted by Vivian Kanari 17.00 Global Ideas (rpt) Documentary series.

17.30 Paraskinio (rpt) 18.00 News 18.15 O Simeos Theatrical production based on the life and work of a local archaeologist. Part 1 of 2.

19.00 Paphos Apo To Hthes Sto Simera A documentary about the city of Aphrodite from the years of Independence until today: looking at its development, economy and culture.

20.00 News 21.00 Vimata Stin Ammo (rpt) Local period drama, based on true events.

21.45 I Limni (rpt) Local mystery series.

22.15 Code Europe Local investigative show.

23.30 News 23.45 Repeats

01.15 Euronews 08.00 Kids’ TV 12.00 Swimming Women’s 200m Freestyle - Heats, Men’s 200m Butterfly - Heats and Women’s 200m IM - Qualification.

13.10 Beach Volley Women’s Group C - Match #17 and Women’s Group D Match #19.

14.50 Tennis And Sailing Men’s Finn - Race 3, Women’s Elliott 6m - Round Robin and Men’s Star Race 3.

17.00 Diving Men’s Synch. 10m Platform - Final.

17.55 Judo Women’s 57kg Gold Medal Final and Men’s 73kg Gold Medal Final.

18.30 Beach Volleyball Women’s Group E Match #21.

18.50 News In English 19.00 News In Turkish 19.10 Gymnastics Men’s Team Final.

21.30 Swimming Women’s 200m Freestyle Semifinals, Men’s 200m Freestyle - Final, Women’s 100m Backstroke - Final, Men’s 100m Backstroke - Final, Women’s 100m Breaststroke - Final, Men’s 200m Butterfly - Semifinals and Women’s 200m IM Semifinals.

23.15 Handball Women’s Handball Group B Match 12. Sweden vs.

Norway.

00.45 Olympic News Channel

05.00 Krifa Monopatia (rpt) 05.45 Mi Mou Les Antio (rpt) 06.30 Proini Enimerosi 07.00 Tis Ellados Ta Paidia (rpt) 07.30 Oi Men Kai Oi Den (rpt) 08.00 Fast Money (rpt) 08.45 Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) 09.30 To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) 10.20 To Evdomo Kleidi (rpt) 10.50 Deixe Mou To Filo Sou (rpt) 11.30 Santa Yiolanta (rpt) 12.15 Tin Patisa (rpt) 13.00 News 13.15 Galileo (rpt) 14.00 Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) 14.40 Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) 15.30 To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) 16.20 Krifa Monopatia (rpt) 17.10 Mi Mou Les Antio (rpt) 18.00 News 18.10 Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) 18.50 Tin Patisa (rpt) 19.30 Eva Luna 20.20 News 21.20 Tin Patisa (rpt) 22.10 Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) 22.45 Einai Stigmes (rpt) 23.40 News 23.45 Ekeines Ki Ego (rpt) 00.35 Kai Oi Pantremenoi Ehoun Psihi 01.20 Ellas To Megaleio Sou (rpt) 02.10 Tmima Ithon (rpt) 03.00 News 03.50 Skertsakia (rpt) 04.20 Fili Zois (rpt)

MEGA 06.30 Paralliloi Dromoi (rpt) 07.00 Yia Sena (rpt) 08.40 Mia Stigmi Dio Zoes (rpt) 09.20 Batso Agapi Mou (rpt) 10.00 Proino Mou 12.00 Yia Banaki 15.00 I Dada (rpt) 16.10 I Ora I Kali (rpt) 17.40 Mia Stigmi Dio Zoes Greek drama series, based on the Latin American telenovela about mistaken identities.

18.20 News 18.30 Mousiko Kouti Greek game show.

19.20 Peninta Peninta (rpt) 20.10 News 21.20 Eftyhismenoi Mazi (rpt) 22.20 I Zoi Pou Den Ezisa (rpt) 23.20 Singles (rpt) 00.10 News 00.20 The Shield Police drama series chronicling the turbulent day-today life of the Strike Team, a group of corrupt Los Angeles cops.

01.00 Yia Banaki (rpt) 02.00 Yia Sena (rpt) 03.30 I Agapi Tis Gatas (rpt) 04.15 Proino Mou (rpt)

PICK OF THE DAY Melancholia (Novacinema1, 22.00) Do you get depressed? I don’t mean feeling bored and a little bit down, and buying yourself an icecream to cheer you up - I mean crushing depression, the kind that leaves you paralysed and makes everything seem worthless and meaningless. Kirsten Dunst has apparently suffered from depression (she sought treatment in 2008), and maverick director Lars Von Trier certainly has: he actually made this fi lm - like his previous fi lm, Antichrist - as a way of coping with depression, that being the problem plaguing Dunst’s character. She’s

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06.05 The Del Monte Heirs (rpt) 07.00 Erotas Me Epidotisi 07.45 An M’ Agapas 08.40 Oi Takkoi 09.45 Vourate Geitonoi (rpt) 10.20 I Kouzina Tis Mamas (rpt) 11.15 Eho Ena Mistiko (rpt) 12.00 Vasiliki (rpt) 12.50 Spiti Ki Egine (rpt) 13.40 Efialtis Stin Kouzina (rpt) 14.30 Oikogeneiakes Istories (rpt) 16.40 Baywatch (rpt) 17.30 Pame Paketo (rpt) With News at 18.00.

18.30 Tropico 19.10 The Del Monte Heirs 20.20 News 21.20 Irthe Ki Edese (rpt) 22.00 To Kokkino Domatio 23.20 The 4400 First season. Pilot episode of the sci-fi series. FBI agents Tom Baldwin and Diana Skouris are assigned to investigate the sudden reappearance of 4,400 people who mysteriously vanished at some point during the previous 50 years, hoping to explain how and where they went.

23.45 News 23.50 Sex And The City (rpt) 00.45 Istories Tou Astinomou Beka (rpt) 01.45 Allou Ximeromenoi (rpt) 02.20 Alithinoi Erotes (rpt) 03.05 Eleni (rpt) 05.20 Tropico (rpt)

06.45 Star News 07.45 Mesimeriani Meleti - Best Of 09.15 Kids’ TV 11.50 Travelbook 12.30 Thema Gevsis Cookery show.

13.30 Star News 14.15 Max Adventures 14.25 Rastamouse 14.35 Bo On The Go 15.00 King 15.25 Martha Speaks 15.45 Teen Days 16.15 Exelixeis Sti Showbiz (rpt) 16.45 Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of (rpt) 17.50 Mila Best Of (rpt) Discussions about various issues based on woman’s life. Hosted by Tatiana Stefanidou.

18.50 Nistikoi Praktores (rpt) Cooking show, with helpful tips on eating well and nutrition.

19.40 Fotis - Maria Live Best Of (rpt) 21.10 Exelixeis Sti Showbiz (rpt) 22.00 Fringe (rpt) FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, a scientist, Walter Bishop, and his son Peter investigate unexplained events with paranormal or terrorist connections.

22.45 FILM: 300 Killers Thriller, starring Johnny Andrews and Tierra Peterson. 2010.

See Pick Of The Day. 23.30 LTV Sports News 00.30 Star News 01.00 Repeats

CAPITAL 08.00 10.30 11.30 13.15 15.10

17.20 18.15

19.15 19.50 20.05 21.00

22.40

00.45

Kids’ TV Igeia & Zoi (rpt) Deste Tous Greek FILM: Yia Ena Tagari Dolaria FILM: Raising Helen After her sister and brother-in-law die in a car accident, a young woman becomes the guardian of their three children.

Romantic comedy drama, starring Kate Hudson. 2004.

O Anthropos Tis Thalassas Melrose Place Glossy drama following the lives of eight LA women who inhabit a plush apartment complex. With News at 18.30.

News Sports Time Rubi FILM: Code 11-14 FBI agents fly to Australia to arrest a serial killer and take him back to the US. But during the return journey, they learn they’ve got the wrong man.

Thriller, starring David James Elliott.

2003.

FILM: The Thomas Crown Affair A thrill-seeking millionaire with a taste for cat burglary meets his match in a cunning female insurance investigator. Crime adventure remake, starring Pierce Brosnan. 1999.

FILM: Going Back A documentarian brings six veterans back to Vietnam to confront their issues about the war. Action, starring Casper Van Dien, 2001.

By Preston Wilder

just gotten married to a perfectly nice man, the fi rst half being her wedding reception in the country home belonging to her sister (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and brother-in-law (Kiefer Sutherland) - but the pressure of her awful family and obnoxious boss pushes her over the edge into (yes) melancholia. The second half takes place some days or weeks later, with Kirsten now severely depressed and a rogue planet called Melancholia apparently on a collision course with Earth - and this sounds like the more intriguing half but in fact the

Melancholia

focus shifts to Gainsbourg’s character, and she’s just not as interesting as troubled Kirsten. Still a muchacclaimed fi lm, albeit not for all tastes; depressives will weep, and call it a masterpiece. Made in 2011.

Born on the Fourth of July (Novacinema2, 22.00) Ron Kovic was born on the fourth of July - and Tom Cruise was born on the third of July, which may be why the 27-year-old Cruiseter was able to identify so strongly with the hero of this Oscar-winning drama.

Kovic was an all-American boy, born to a patriotic small-town family - at least till he went to Vietnam, got wounded in action and found himself not only

17:30 Page Eight 19:20 Films & Stars 19:55 Super 8 22:00 Melancholia 00:25 Trust 02:15 Cine News 02:45 Point Blank 04:15 Grace 07:00 Ned Bruha: Skunk Whisperer 07:25 Austin Stevens Adventures 08:15 Dick ‘N’ Dom Go Wild 08:40 Breed All About It 09:10 Jeff Corwin Unleashed 10:05 Monster Bug Wars 11:00 Wildlife Sos 11:25 Gorilla School 11:55 Animal Cops Houston 12:50 New Breed Vets With Steve Irwin 13:45 Animal Precinct 14:40 Monster Bug Wars 15:30 Ned Bruha: Skunk Whisperer 16:00 Dick ‘N’ Dom Go Wild 16:30 Baby Planet 17:25 Dogs/Cats/Pets 101 18:20 Dogs 101 19:15 Wildlife Sos 19:40 Gorilla School 20:10 Living With The Wolfman 20:35 Animal Battlegrounds 21:05 Monster Bug Wars 22:00 Great Animal Escapes 22:55 Cats 101 23:50 Animal Cops Houston 00:45 Your Worst Animal Nightmares 01:40 Untamed & Uncut 02:35 Great Animal Escapes 03:30 Cats 101 04:25 Monster Bug Wars 05:20 Living With The Wolfman 05:45 Animal Battlegrounds 06:10 New Breed Vets With Steve Irwin

01:20 BBC Electric Proms 2007: Paul McCartney 02:15 Blackadder The Third 02:45 Ideal 03:15 Doctor Who 04:00 Life On Mars 04:50 Spooks 05:40 Blackadder The Third 06:10 Fimbles 06:30 Bobinogs 06:45 Nina & The Neurons 07:00 Teletubbies 07:25 The Roly Mo Show 07:40 Charlie & Lola 07:50 Fimbles 08:10 Tellytales 08:20 Bobinogs 08:30 Nina & The Neurons 08:45 Teletubbies 09:10 The Roly Mo Show 09:25 Charlie & Lola 09:35 Allo Allo 10:10 The Impressions Show With Culshaw & Stephenson 10:40 Supernova 11:05 Elephant Diaries 11:55 Doctors 12:25 Coast 13:25 New Tricks 14:15 Allo Allo 14:50 The Weakest Link 15:35 The Impressions Show With Culshaw & Stephenson 16:05 Doctors 16:35 Elephant Diaries 17:25 New Tricks 18:15 The Weakest Link 19:00 Eastenders 60 19:30 Doctors 20:00 Coast 21:00 One Foot In The Grave 21:35 Katy Brand’s Big Ass Show 22:00 Spooks 22:50 Dinnerladies 23:20 As Time Goes By 23:50 London Hospital 00:40 Gavin & Stacey

07:00 Fifth Gear 07:25 Dirty Jobs 08:15 Deadliest Catch 09:10 Extreme Fishing 10:05 Mythbusters 11:00 How Do They Do It? ; 11:30 Destroyed In Seconds 11:55 Ultimate Survival 12:50 Wheeler Dealers 13:45 Hot Rod Apprentice 14:40 American Chopper 15:35 Dirty Jobs 16:30 Mythbusters 17:25 Deadliest Catch 18:20 Extreme Fishing 19:15 River Monsters 20:10 How It’s Made 20:40 How Do They Do It? ; 21:05 The Real Hustle 22:00 One Man Army 22:55 Nothing Personal 23:50 Robson Green’s Extreme Fishing Challenge 00:45 I Shouldn’t Be Alive 01:40 The Real Hustle 02:40 One Man Army 03:40 Robson Green’s Extreme Fishing Challenge 04:40 I Shouldn’t Be Alive 05:35 How It’s Made 06:00 Overhaulin’

04:00 Weightlifting: Summer Olympic Games London 05:00 Gymnastics: Summer Olympic Games London 06:00 Swimming: Summer Olympic Games London 07:00 Olympic Games: Together To London 07:30 Olympic Games: English Breakfast 09:30 Swimming: Summer Olympic Games London 10:30 Multisports: Summer Olympic Games London 12:00 Swimming: Summer Olympic Games London 13:45 Multisports: Summer Olympic Games Lon-

06:45 In Love And War 08:40 Cine News 09:00 Summer Kids Zone 10:50 De-Lovely 13:00 The Green Hornet 15:00 Final Analysis 17:05 Cine News 17:40 XXX 19:50 Midnight Run 22:00 Born On The Fourth Of July 00:30 Rosemary’s Baby 02:50 Kiss Of Death 04:30 Cine News

20:05 Route Irish 22:00 C.S.I. 22:50 The Next Three Days 01:05 Adult Zone

19:10 Sleepless In Seattle 21:00 La Chance De Ma Vie 00:15 London Boulevard

Burn After Reading (LTV3, 22.00) don 15:30 Canoeing: Summer Olympic Games London 17:00 Diving: Summer Olympic Games London 18:00 Weightlifting: Summer Olympic Games London 19:15 Gymnastics: Summer Olympic Games London 21:15 Swimming: Summer Olympic Games London 23:15 Olympic Games: Together To London 23:45 Handball: Summer Olympic Games London 01:00 Weightlifting: Summer Olympic Games London 01:45 Swimming: Summer Olympic Games London 03:00 Canoeing: Summer Olympic Games London

05:30 The Amazing Race 06:20 Family Guy 06:45 Lost 07:35 How I Met Your Mother 08:25 Terriers 09:20 Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior 10:05 The Amazing Race 10:55 Family Guy 11:45 Lost 12:30 How I Met Your Mother 13:20 Terriers 14:05 Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior 14:50 24: Day 16:20 The Amazing Race 17:05 Family Guy 17:55 Lost 18:40 How I Met Your Mother 19:30 Terriers 20:15 Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior 21:00 24: Day 22:30 Terriers 23:20 24: Day 00:50 The Amazing Race 01:40 Family Guy 02:30 Lost 03:15 The Life & Times Of Tim 03:45 How I Met Your Mother 04:35 Terriers

07:00 Pawn Stars 08:00 Ancient Aliens 09:00 Britain At War 10:00 Pawn Stars 11:00 Ax Men 12:00 Beyond The Big Bang 14:00 Britain At War 15:00 Ancient Aliens 16:00 Beyond The Big Bang 18:00 Britain At War 19:00 Ancient Aliens 20:00 Pawn Stars 21:00 Ax Men 22:00 Irt: Deadliest Roads 23:00 Pawn Stars 23:30 American Restoration 00:00 Pawn Stars 01:00 Ax Men 02:00 Irt: Deadliest Roads 03:00 Pawn Stars 03:30 American Restoration 04:00 Ancient Aliens 05:00 Britain At War 06:00 Ax Men

07:30 Caddyshack 09:30 That Darn Cat 11:05 Kings Of Mykonos 12:40 L’ Etoile Du Soldat 14:25 And Soon The Darkness 16:00 Friends 17:00 Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard 18:30 Videofashion 19:00 Friends 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 Flirting With Flamenco 23:00 Bitch Slap 00:55 Hustler TV 02:45 Lethal Weapon 2 04:45 Forget

Paris 06:30 LTV Sports News

07:00 Baby Looney Tunes 07:25 Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs 08:15 Steven Spielberg Presents Tiny Toon Adventures 08:40 Loonatics Unleashed I 09:05 Scooby-Doo Where Are You! 09:30 Superman: The Animated Series 09:55 Big Cartoonie Show Nickelodeon 10:20 Tak & The Power Of Juju 10:45 Fanboy & Chum Chum 11:10 X’s 11:35 Ni Hao, Kai-Lan 12:00 Dora The Explorer 12:25 Spongebob Squarepants 13:15 Mighty B! 13:40 My Life As A Teenage Robot 14:05 Hey Arnold! 14:30 Icarly 15:20 Justice League Unlimited 17:00 Best Soccer Games Of The Season: Barclay’s Premier League 19:00 Best Soccer Games Of The Season: Primera Division 21:00 2010 Women’s Tournament Of Champions 22:00 Auto Auction Shows 22:30 Planet Speed 23:00 Best Soccer Games Of The Season: Barclay’s Premier League 01:00 Best Soccer Games Of The Season: Bundesliga 03:00 Best Soccer Games Of The Season: Primera Division 05:00 Best Soccer Games Of The Season: Fa Cup

07:15 Friends 07:45 Hawaii Five 09:30 The Big Bang Theory 10:00 According To Jim 10:45 Sons Of Anarchy 12:30 Supernatural 13:20 Trust Me 14:10 Hawaii Five 15:45 The Office 16:10 House M.D. 16:55 Boardwalk Empire 18:45 Supernatural 19:30 Desperate Housewives 20:15 V I 21:00 Friends 21:30 The Mentalist 23:05 Desperate Housewives 00:05 Feeling Minnesota 01:45 A Perfect Getaway 03:25 The Office 03:50 House M.D. 04:35 Boardwalk Empire 06:30 Desperate Housewives

08:00 Cop Out 10:00 World According To Garp 12:20 Stand And Deliver 14:15 Slammin’ Salmon 16:00 Due Date 18:00 Indian 20:00 Serious Man 22:00 Burn After Reading 23:35 Action Zone 00:05 Daring! TV 04:00 Shattered Silence 05:30 Action Zone 06:00 Swing Kids

05:55 Trespass 07:30 Killing Bono 09:25 Blue Crush 2 11:20 Stars In Style 11:55 Cyberbully 13:25 Captain America: The First Avenger 15:35 Tt: Closer To The Edge

21:00 The Last Tycoon 23:05 Cover Girl

02:00 Nationwide Tour Nationwide Children’s Hospital Invitational Final 04:00 2012 American Le Mans Series Mosport from Ontario, Canada 07:00 The Golf Fix 07:30 Celebrity Golf – Dennis Morgan 08:00 Feherty – Peter Alliss 09:00 Golf Central International 09:30 School of Golf – Chapter 22: Adding More Distance 10:00 2012 American Le Mans Series Mosport from Ontario, Canada 13:00 Strangers in Danger Bangladesh 13:30 Thrillbillies 4 Derek Jumps the Grand Canyon 14:00 Ball Up Streetball 15:00 LPGA Tour: Evian Masters presented by iete Geeale Final d. 19:00 Nationwide Tour Nationwide Children’s Hospital Invitational Final 21:00 PRE GAME 21:15 CHAMPIONSHIP LAIKI POPULAR BANK 2011–12: ARHS VS ETHNIKOS AXNAS 23:15 POST GAME 00:00 Ball Up Streetball 01:00 Golf Central International

07:00 Globe Trekker 08:00 Third Class Traveller 09:00 Out Of Country 09:30 Travel Today 10:00 Glutton For Punishment 11:00 The Thirsty Traveler 11:30 Chef Abroad 12:00 Globe Trekker 13:00 Departures 14:00 Think Green 15:00 The World’s Greatest Motorcycle Rides 16:00 Globe Trekker 17:00 The Thirsty Traveler 17:30 Chef Abroad 18:00 Glutton For Punishment 19:00 Globe Trekker 20:00 The World’s Greatest Motorcycle Rides 21:00 Megalopolis 22:00 Globe Trekker 00:00 Planet Sports 01:00 The World’s Greatest Motorcycle Rides 02:00 Megalopolis 03:00 Globe Trekker 05:00 Glutton For Punishment 06:00 The Thirsty Traveler 06:30 Chef Abroad

06:00 Boom Town 07:55 Two Weeks In Another Town 09:45 Invitation to the Dance 11:20 Young Bess 13:15 The Outriders 14:45 G-Men 16:10 Seven Women 17:35 Skyjacked 19:15 Hearts Of The West 21:00 Wild Rovers 23:10 Cannery Row 01:05 The Formula 03:00 Spinout 04:30 Above Suspicion

BBC World Service (1323 MW) 00:01 BBC News 00:06 The Forum 00:30 BBC News Summary 00:32 The Forum 00:50 Witness 01:01 BBC News 01:06 World Briefing 01:30 BBC News Summary 01:32 Science In Action 01:50 More Or Less 02:01 BBC News 02:06 World Briefing 02:30 BBC News Summary 02:32 Healthcheck 02:50 Sports News 03:01 BBC News 03:06 World Briefing 03:30 BBC News Summary 03:32 World Business Report 03:50 Witness 04:01 BBC News 04:06 Rendezvous With Zeinab Badawi 04:30 BBC News Summary 04:32 Outlook 05:01 BBC News 05:06 Newsday 05:30 BBC News Summary 05:32 Newsday 06:01 BBC News 06:06 Newsday 06:30 BBC News Summary 06:32 One Planet 06:50 From Our Own Correspondent 07:01 BBC News 07:06 Newsday 07:30 BBC News Summary 07:32 The Strand 07:50 Witness 08:01 BBC News 08:06 Newsday 08:30 BBC News Summary 08:32 Newsday 09:01 BBC News 09:06 Newsday 09:30 BBC News Summary 09:32 Newsday 10:01 BBC News 10:06 Outlook 10:30 BBC News Summary 10:32 Business Daily 10:50 From Our Own Correspondent 11:01 BBC News 11:06 Rendezvous With Zeinab Badawi 11:30 BBC News Summary 11:32 One Planet 11:50 Sports News 12:01 BBC News 12:06 World Update 12:30 BBC News Summary 12:32 World Update 13:01 BBC News 13:06 World Briefing 13:30 BBC News Summary 13:32 The Strand 13:50 Witness 14:01 BBC News 14:06 World Have Your Say 14:30 BBC News Summary 14:32 Business Daily 14:50 Sports News 15:01 BBC News 15:06 Newshour 15:30 BBC News Summary 15:32 Newshour 16:01 BBC News 16:06 HARDtalk 16:30 BBC News Summary 16:32 Outlook 17:01 BBC News 17:06 World Briefing 17:30 BBC News Summary 17:32 One Planet 17:50 From Our Own Correspondent 18:01 BBC News 18:06 World Briefing 18:30 BBC News Summary 18:32 Sport Today 18:50 Witness 19:01 BBC News 19:06 World Briefing 19:30 BBC News Summary 19:32 World Business Report 20:01 BBC News 20:06 World Have Your Say 20:30 BBC News Summary 20:32 World Have Your Say 21:01 BBC News 21:06 World Briefing 21:30 BBC News Summary 21:32 Business Daily 21:50 From Our Own Correspondent 22:01 BBC News 22:06 Outlook 22:30 BBC News Summary 22:32 The Strand 22:50 Witness 23:01 BBC News 23:06 Newshour 23:30 BBC News Summary 23:32 Newshour

BFBS 1 (N’sia 91.7, WSBA 92.1, ESBA 99.6 FM) 02.00 BFBS Rocks 04.00 BFBS Shuffle 05.00 Ops Breakfast 06.00 Cyprus Breakfast 09.00 Chris Pearson 11.00 Charlie Fife 13.00 Total Ops Connection 15.00 Wez Thompson 18.00 Charlene Guy 21.00 Jessie Aru 00.00 Lip Locked BFBS 2 (Ni’sia 89.7, WSBA 89.9, ESBA 95.3 FM) 03.00 BFBS Radio News 03.03 BFBS Gold With Dave Windsor 04.00 Up All Night 07.00 Morning Reports 07.30 Wake Up To Money 08.00 Today 11.00 BFBS Radio News 11.03 Simon Marlow 14.00 BFBS Gold With Dave Windsor 15.00 World At One 15.45 Simon Guettier 19.00 PM - BBC Radio 4 20.00 6 O’Clock News 20.30 5 Live Olympics 00.30 Late Night Olympics LiveCyBC2 (91.1, 92.4 FM) 06.00-7.30 Programmes in Turkish with News at 7.30 07.40 Good morning Cyprus 10.00-12.00 Kalimerhaba 12.00 Gunortasa 12.45 Greek Cyprus Press 13.00 Turkish Music 13.15 News in Turkish 13.30 News in English 13.45 PM Classics 16.00 Greek Radio 16.15 Our country doesn’t divide 16.50 News in Turkish 17.0018.00 Programmes in Armenian; News at 17.15 18.00-20.00 Round & About 20.00 News in English 20.10 Welcome to Cyprus in French and German 20.40 Ship of Fools with Robert Camassa 22.00 News in English 22.00 International Music 00.00-06.00 Rebroadcast of the evening’s programme

Radio Napa (106.3 FM) 06.00 Morning Music 08.30 BBC World Today 09.00 News, Weather and Exchange 09.05 Nathan Morley 12.00 BBC News 12.06 Lunchtime Classics 15.00 BBC News 15.06 Chris Yearley 18.00 News 18.06 Michael Godin 19.00 The Juke Box 98.5 Rock FM The Breakfast Show - Tony Newell - 07:00-10:00 2 Hours With Bejay Browne 10:00-12:00 Rock Fm’s Lunch Box - Jason Collins - 12:00-14:00 Non Stop Music 14:00-15:00 Valentina 15:00-18:00 Monday - Tuesday - Thursday - Friday Liquid Radio Show - Pavlos - 15:00-18:00 Wednesday Drive Time - Johny G. 18:00-20:00 Monday - Tuesday Johny G. 18:00-20:00 Wednesday (Mix @ 6) The Cocktail Show - Antonis - 18:00-20:00 Thursday - Friday Panic In The Year Zero - 20:00-22:00 Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday Radioactive Metal - 20:00-22:00 - Thursday Live Dj Set- Dj Allen D 20:00-22:00 - Friday 22:00-24:00 The Gathering - With Your Hosts Dj Mr Smith And Mc Svennyb – Live Wednesday & Friday Night Train 24:00-07:00 Monday To Friday

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300 Killers crippled but betrayed by the country he fought for, an experience that turned him into a fiery anti-war activist. The fi lm is long (144 minutes) and sprawling but always engrossing, director Oliver Stone - a Vietnam vet himself, who made this as the follow-up to Platoon - clearly empathising with Ron’s mixed emotions; Cruise was Oscar-nominated (his fi rst of three nods) but lost to Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot, an even more intense real-life story. Made in 1989.

300 Killers (PlusTV, 22.45) Beware, take care! August is coming - the dog-days of summer - and TV is throwing up low-budget (make that no-budget) monstrosities like 300 Killers, a fi lm

that’ll steal 90 minutes of your life and not even have the decency to apologise. “Violent crime has risen 500 per cent. One in 10 people are hooked on heroin.

One in five people will be assaulted or murdered,” we’re informed, the setting being an urban jungle where things are out of control - and Johnny Andrews (who?) is our hero, a cop trying to fight back by any means necessary. “300 killers. You do the math!” says the trailer, rather puzzlingly (what math? 300 killers are ... 300 killers). “Take a tour of a town gone mad. All victims of the bloodthirsty DRUG CULT!” says the synopsis written by the fi lm’s director - and yes, those capital letters are actually part of the synopsis. Be afraid. Be very afraid. Made in 2010.

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06.45 News (rpt) 08.00 I Plateia (rpt) Two episodes of local drama series.

09.00 Code Europe (rpt) Local investigative show.

10.00 Concert 11.30 Entehnos (rpt) 12.15 FILM: Anything Goes A pair of Broadway stars visiting Paris each sign up the ‘ideal’ leading lady for their new show : but neither celebrity lets the other one know of their find.

Musical comedy, starring Bing Crosby. 1956.

14.00 News 14.35 Parev Documentary about the Armenian Diaspora in Cyprus.

15.30 My Cypriot Kitchen (rpt) An introduction to Cyprus and the country’s food.

16.10 Water Polo Men’s Group A Match #23. Greece vs. Spain.

17.30 Stin Akri Tou Paradeisou (rpt) Local period drama.

18.00 News 18.15 Candid Camera Hidden cameras document various pranks.

18.30 Five Broken Cameras Documentary about a Palestinian farm labourer. 2011.

See Pick Of The Day. 20.00 News / Weather / Financial Report 23.00 Peri Kyprou 23.15 News 23.30 Swimming Men’s 4x100m Medley Relay Final.

01.00 Repeats

08.00 Kids’ TV 11.00 Beach Volleyball Women’s Preliminary Round.

12.00 Track & Field Men’s 100m Preliminaries, Women’s Heptathlon - Long Jump, Women’s Pole Vault Qualification, Men’s 400m - Round 1, Women’s Steeplechase Round 1, Women’s Heptathlon - Javelin Throw and Men’s 100m - Round 1.

16.00 Tennis Tennis Order of play available evening before.

18.30 Olympic Games No further details supplied.

18.45 Volleyball Men’s Group B Match #20. Russia vs. USA. 20.15 News In English 20.25 News In Turkish 20.35 Olympic Games No further details supplied.

20.50 Track & Field Men’s 400m Hurdles Semifinals, Women’s Discus Throw - Final, Women’s 100m Semifinals, Men’s Long Jump - Final, Women’s 400m - Semifinals, Women’s Heptathlon - 800m, Men’s 10,000m Final and Women’s 100m - Final.

00.00 Basketball Men’s Basketball Group A Game #47. Nigeria vs.

Argentina.

02.00 Olympic News Channel

06.00 Kai Sera... Sera (rpt) 06.50 Proini Enimerosi (rpt) 07.20 Kids’ TV 08.00 Dada Yia Oles Tis Douleies (rpt) 08.40 Super Babas (rpt) 09.30 Akros Oikogeneiakon (rpt) 10.20 Deixe Mou To Filo Sou (rpt) 11.10 Tychi Vouno (rpt) 11.50 Santa Yiolanta (rpt) 12.30 Kos Kai Ka Pels (rpt)

06.00 Paralliloi Dromoi (rpt) 07.00 Yia Banaki (rpt) 10.00 An Thimitheis To Oneiro Mou (rpt) 11.00 Glykes Alhimies (rpt) Cooking show focusing on desserts, hosted by famed Greek pastry chef Stelios Parliaros.

12.00 Mpoukia kai Sychorio (rpt) A virtual tour through Greece, the Mediterranean and Europe that focuses on local cuisine and culture.

13.00 Oi Kipouroi Tou Mega 13.50 Baba Min Treheis (rpt) 14.40 Savvatogennimenes (rpt) 15.30 An Ipirhes Tha Se Horiza (rpt) 16.10 Kati Treheu Me Tous Dipla (rpt) 16.40 I Ora I Kali (rpt) 17.30 Epta Thanasimes Petheres (rpt) With News at 18.00.

19.20 Peninta Peninta (rpt) 20.20 News 21.05 Pername Kala 23.30 I Oikogeneia Vlaptei (rpt) 00.00 News 00.10 Damages A New York litigator becomes embroiled in a class action lawsuit, starring Glenn Close.

01.00 Hawthorne US medical drama.

07.30 Zoi Podilato (rpt) 08.50 Pink Panther Show 09.40 Barbie Fairytopia Animated adventure, dubbed in Greek.

10.50 Jungle Book Animated adventure, dubbed in Greek.

12.30 The Del Monte Heirs (rpt) 14.00 Vourate Geitonoi (rpt) 14.40 I Kouzina Tis Mamas (rpt) 15.40 Oi Atromitoi (rpt) 16.30 Eho Ena Mistiko (rpt) 17.30 Entimotatoi Keratades (rpt) 18.20 News 18.25 Oikogeneiakes Istories (rpt)

07.50 Kids’ TV 11.00 Exelixeis Sti Showbiz (rpt) 11.30 Ta Kopelia 12.05 LTV Sports News (rpt) 13.00 Star News 13.30 Kostakis Ki Yioi 14.00 Mila (rpt) 15.30 Fotis - Maria Live (rpt) 17.00 Exelixeis Sti Showbiz 17.30 Mesimeriani Meleti (rpt) 19.00 Nistikoi Praktores (rpt)

08.00 Kids’ TV 11.30 Deste Tous 13.15 The Adventures Of Shirley Holmes 13.45 Greek FILM: Enas Mangas Sta Bouzakia 15.55 Johnson County War With News at 18.30.

19.15 News 20.05 Remington Steele 80s detective drama, starring Pierce Brosnan.

21.00 FILM: View From The Top A small-town girl dreams of a highflying career with a prestigious airline, but her plans get in the way of true love.

Romantic comedy, starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Mike Myers. 2003.

22.45 FILM: Detonator II: Night watch An investigation into art forgery leads to trouble for two UN troubleshooters who uncover a fiendish plot masterminded by a cunning millionaire.

Crime thriller, starring Pierce Brosnan. 1995.

00.25 FILM: Shark Attack 3: Megalodon Sailors go to sea to hunt for a prehistoric shark previously thought to be extinct.

Horror, starring John Barrowma.

2002.

02.05: FILM: Letters From A Killer A man wrongly imprisoned for murdering his wife has his conviction overturned - only to discover he has been framed for three more killings.

Thriller, starring Patrick Swayze.

1998.

13.30 Galileo 14.20 Dis Madiam (rpt) 15.10 Plaka Mou Kaneis (rpt) 16.00 Deligianneio Parthenagogeio (rpt) 16.50 Eleftheros Ki Oraios (rpt) 17.40 Me to Deksi (rpt) With News at 18.00.

18.40 O Polemos Ton Astron (rpt) 20.20 News 21.20 Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) 22.00 Ellada Eheis Talento (rpt) 23.20 News 23.30 FILM: Badge Of Betrayal A female cop sets out to expose her crooked boss, who’s been blackmailing the very townspeople he is supposed to have been protecting. Drama, with Harry Hamlin.

1997.

01.00 Top Chef Repeat of Greek cookery show.

02.30 Tolmires Istories (rpt) 03.20 News 04.10 To Monopati Tis Agapis (rpt) 05.00 S’Agapo Yia Panta (rpt)

02.00 Meli Gala (rpt) 04.00 Mana Einai Mono Mia (rpt) 04.30 Ola Ta Kaka Tis Moiras Mou (rpt) 05.00 O Ios Tou Patera (rpt) 05.40 Paralliloi Dromoi (rpt)

PICK OF THE DAY Treasure Buddies (Novacinema1, 17.40) There’s a place and time for straight-to-video Disney fi lms about talking puppies - and that place and time, if we’re going to be honest, is probably Novacinema at 6 o’clock on a Saturday afternoon. The puppies (cuddly furry Golden Retriever types) ‘speak’ with the voices of annoying American kids and say things like “That’s fo’ shizzle!” or “Desert? I thought you said dessert!” - the desert in question being in Egypt, where the “buddies” (a.k.a. the talking dogs) go in search

19.20 Baywatch 20.15 News 21.20 Pame Paketo (rpt) Talk-show that deals with human interest stories such as reuniting people, fulfilling dreams.

22.20 FILM: At First Sight An architect embarks on a whirlwind romance with a blind masseur and helps him regain his sight. Romantic drama, with Val Kilmer and Mira Sorvino. 1999.

00.00 News 00.05 CSI: NY (rpt) Third season.

Second spin-off from the Crime Scene Investigation series, starring Gary Sinise as a hard-boiled investigator and tackling crime around the seamy side of New York City.

01.10 Mes Tin Kali Hara (rpt) 04.00 Eleni (rpt)

19.45 Star News 21.00 Greek FILM: Oi Boukadoroi Comedy.

22.45 One Tree Hill Second season.

‘Lifetime Piling Up’. Nathan lies comatose in a hospital bed, dreaming of what might have happened if Dan hadn’t married Deb, but stayed with Karen and Lucas instead.

In this alternative reality, he imagines growing up on the wrong side of the tracks, while his half-brother lives an affluent existence in Tree Hill.

23.35 Supernatural (rpt) Fourth season.

‘Yellow Fever’.

The brothers investigate the deaths of several men who suffered from a mystery ailment and then apparently dropped dead of fright. When Dean becomes infected, Sam and Bobby must find the root of the disease before he dies and is sent back to Hell.

23.30 LTV Sports News 00.15 Star News 01.00 Repeats

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of ancient treasure in a kind of canine Raiders of the Lost Ark. Actually part of a franchise that’s become Disney’s biggest straight-to-video moneymaker (previous entries include Snow Buddies, Space Buddies and Spooky Buddies), the audience for talking puppies being apparently almost as large as the audience for kittens doing cute things with balls of yarn - speaking of which there’s a cat here too, inevitably bent on world domination. “Why do they always make the cats the bad guys?” asks an unhappy cat-lover in the YouTube comments. Because they’re evil, OK? Made in 2012.

Treasure Buddies

5 Broken Cameras (CyBC1, 18.30) We mentioned this before [see Wednesday], ‘this’ being the late-afternoon slot tying in with the Limassol Documentary Festival - but it’s worth mentioning again because 5 Broken Cameras is among the most high-profi le titles in the Festival, having recently opened in the US to rave reviews. “For anyone who retains an interest in the human contours of the situation ... the movie is necessary, if difficult, viewing,” wrote A.O. Scott in the New York Times, the situation in question being the intractable confl ict between Israel and Palestine. Emad Burnat is a Palestinian farmer protesting against a separation barrier being built by the Israelis which threatens

Radio 07:00 Karina: Wild On Safari 07:25 Meerkat Manor 07:50 Bondi Vet 08:15 Corwin’s Quest 09:10 Dick ‘N’ Dom Go Wild 09:35 Breed All About It 10:05 Crocodile Hunter 11:00 Dogs/Cats/Pets 101 11:55 Michaela’s Animal Road Trip 12:50 Wildlife Sos 13:45 Michaela’s Animal Road Trip 18:20 Wild France 20:10 Killer Jellyfish 21:05 Wildest Africa 22:00 Cats 101 22:55 Great Animal Escapes 23:50 Untamed & Uncut 00:45 Deadly Waters 01:40 Animal Cops Houston 02:35 Cats 101 03:30 Great Animal Escapes 04:25 Wildest Africa 05:20 Killer Jellyfish 06:10 Dogs/Cats/Pets 101

01:10 The Weakest Link 02:00 Elephant Diaries 02:50 The Impressions Show With Culshaw & Stephenson 03:20 Doctors 03:50 The Weakest Link 04:40 Coast 05:40 Elephant Diaries 06:30 The Impressions Show With Culshaw & Stephenson 07:00 Teletubbies 07:25 The Roly Mo Show 07:40 Forget Me Not Farm 07:55 Fimbles 08:15 Teletubbies 08:40 The Roly Mo Show 08:55 Forget Me Not Farm 09:10 Fimbles 09:30 Doctor Who 10:15 One Foot In The Grave 10:50 Dinnerladies 11:20 As Time Goes By 11:50 Coast 12:50 Elephant Diaries 13:40 Robin Hood 14:25 Doctor Who 15:10 Casualty 16:00 Eastenders 18:00 Monarch Of The Glen 18:50 Doctor Who 19:35 The Weakest Link (Primetime): All Singing All Dancing 20:25 One Foot In The Grave 21:00 Getting On 21:30 Gavin & Stacey 22:00 BBC Proms 2010: Jamie Cullum 22:30 The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee: Highlights

07:00 Fifth Gear 07:25 Rides 08:15 Fifth Gear 09:10 Mega Builders 10:05 Mighty Ships 11:00 Dirty Jobs 14:40 Extreme Engineering 15:35 Deconstruction 16:30 Huge Moves 17:25 How It’s Made 17:55 How Stuff’s Made 18:20 Crisis Control 19:15 Battle Machine Bros 20:10 How It’s Made 21:05 Dynamo: Magician Impossible 22:00 An Idiot Abroad 22:55 Ultimate Survival 23:50 Dual Survival 00:45 Moments Of Terror 01:40 Dynamo: Magician Impossible 02:40 An Idiot Abroad 03:40 Ultimate Survival 04:40 How It’s Made 05:05 Dual Survival 06:00 Battle Machine Bros

04:00 Swimming: Summer Olympic Games London 05:00 Cycling: Summer Olympic Games London 06:00 Weightlifting: Summer Olympic Games London 07:00 Olympic Games: Together To London 07:30 Olympic Games: English Breakfast 09:30 Athletics: Summer Olympic Games London 10:30 Multisports: Summer Olympic Games London 12:00 Athletics: Summer Olympic Games London 15:40 Olympic Games: London Eye 15:45 Multisports: Summer Olympic Games London 16:30 Diving: Summer Olympic Games London 18:00 Cycling: Summer Olympic Games London 20:40 Olympic Games: London Eye 20:45 Multisports: Summer Olympic Games London 21:30 Swimming: Summer Olympic Games London 22:30 Athletics: Summer Olympic Games Lon-

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don 00:00 Olympic Games: Together To London 00:30 Volleyball: Summer Olympic Games London 02:00 Weightlifting: Summer Olympic Games London 02:45 Swimming: Summer Olympic Games London

05:30 Family Guy 08:00 Life On Mars 10:15 Family Guy 10:40 Neighbors From Hell 11:05 Bob’s Burgers 11:30 How I Met Your Mother 15:40 Terriers 19:30 24: Day 21:00 Lights Out 22:30 The League 22:55 Call Me Fitz 23:25 American Horror Story 00:10 The Walking Dead 01:00 Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior 03:20 How I Met Your Mother

Drive Angry (Novacinema3, 22.00) 07:00 The Universe 10:00 Modern Marvels 13:00 The Universe 16:00 Top Shot 17:00 Tony Robinson Down Under 18:00 Ancient Discoveries 19:00 American Pickers 20:00 Pawn Stars 20:30 American Restoration 21:00 American Pickers 22:00 American Restoration 22:30 Pawn Stars 23:00 American Pickers 00:00 Pawn Stars 01:00 American Pickers 02:00 Pawn Stars 02:30 American Restoration 03:00 American Pickers 04:00 American Restoration 04:30 Pawn Stars 05:00 American Pickers 06:00 Pawn Stars

07:30 Perfect Storm 10:00 Last Days Of Disco 12:00 Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs 13:40 Action Zone 14:10 Nanny Diaries 16:00 With Honors 17:45 Twilight Saga: New Moon 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 Witches Of Eastwick 23:00 X-Men Origins: Wolverine 00:50 Hustler TV 03:00 Corruptor 05:00 Cleaner 06:30 LTV Sports News

07:00 Baby Looney Tunes 07:25 Legion Of Super Heroes 07:50 Loonatics Unleashed 08:15 Wonder Pets 08:40 Dora The Explorer 09:05 Ni Hao, Kai-Lan 09:30 Spongebob Squarepants 09:55 Tak & The Power Of Juju 10:20 Fanboy & Chum Chum 10:45 X’s 11:10 Mighty B! 11:35 My Life As A Teenage Robot 12:00 Hey Arnold! 12:25 Icarly 13:15 Looney Tunes Show 13:40 Young Justice 14:05 2010 Women’s Tournament Of Champions 15:00 PGA Tour Classic Films 16:00 Makeover: Hunt Dog Edition 16:30 ATP World Tour Uncovered 17:00 Isu World Figure Skating Championship 19:15 Best Soccer Games Of The Season: Primera Division 21:00 Best Soccer Games Of The Season: Barclay’s Premier League 23:00 2009 International Speed Pool Challenge 01:00 Best Soccer Games Of The Season: Primera Division 03:00 Boxing Ringside 04:30 Planet Speed 05:00 Best Soccer Games Of The Season: Barclay’s Premier League

07:05 Trust Me 08:00 Friends 08:30 Big Bang Theory 09:00 According To Jim 10:00 Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles 10:45 Mentalist 11:30 Sons Of Anarchy 12:20 Boardwalk Empire 13:25 Chuck 14:10 Hawaii Five-0 15:00 Grey’s Anatomy 19:30 Ncis: Los Ange-

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08:00 Fantastic Mr Fox 09:30 Ye Olde Times 11:30 Ready To Rumble 13:30 La Vie En Rose 16:00 Rock Star 18:00 48 Hrs 20:00 Red Riding Hood 22:00 Serious Man 00:05 Daring! TV 04:05 Squanto: A Warrior’s Tale 06:00 Hesher

01:30 PGA Tour: Reno-Tahoe Open Rd. 2 03:30 Champions Tour: 3M Championship Rd. 1 05:00 Prime/Time Boxing 07:00 All Star Golf - Dow Finsterwald v Tommy Jacobs 08:00 Playing Lessons Justin Rose 08:30 Golf Now - Las Vegas 09:00 Golf Central International 09:30 Academy - Johnny Miller: Short Game 10:00 THE PLAYERS 2012 Official Film 11:00 Champions Tour: 3M Championship Rd. 1 12:30 Golf Central International 13:00 Super Bowl Highlights: XX: Chicago v New England 13:30 Super Bowl Highlights: XXI: New York Giants v Denver 14:00 America’s Game: 1992 Dallas Cowboys 15:00 Speedway World Cup Bydgoszcz, Poland 16:00 Speedway World Cup King’s Lynn, Great Britain 17:00 PGA Tour: Reno-Tahoe Open Rd. 2 19:00 Inside the PGA Tour 19:30 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Poncono Raceway 22:30 Mobil 1 The Grid 23:00 Champions Tour: 3M Championship Rd. 2 01:00 Speedway World Cup King’s Lynn, Great Britain

05:15 The Son Of No One 06:50 Cine News 07:35 The English Patient 10:15 Azur Et Asmar 11:55 The Longest Yard 13:50 Rumor Has It... 15:30 How I Met Your Mother 16:00 Burn Notice 16:50 Cine News 17:40 Treasure Buddies 19:20 A Better Life 21:00 Burn Notice V 22:00 Bloodworth 23:55 Super 8 01:50 Con Air 03:45 The Names Of Love

05:00 Identity 06:30 Thegirl Next Door 08:20 The Tempest 10:15 Cine News 11:10 Green Card 13:00 One True Thing 15:10 Cine News 15:55 Never Let Me Go 17:45 Paul 19:35 He Got Game 22:00 Manhattan Murder Mystery 23:50 Barney’s Version 02:05 The Adjustment Bureau 03:55 Cine News 04:30 Bad Teacher

05:20 Stay 07:00 Sanctum 08:50 The Tourist 10:35 Battle: Los Angeles 12:30 The Pelican Brief 16:30 Monsters 18:05 What Lies Beneath 20:15 Starsky & Hutch 22:00 Drive Angry 23:50 The American 01:40 Naughty Nanny 03:35 I Predatori Del Camerun

07:10 Cine News 09:20 The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader 11:10 La Tigre E La Neve 13:05 Cine News 13:40 From Time To Time 15:20 The Emperor’s Club 17:15 The Back-Up Plan 19:05 Wonder Boys 21:00 Ta Delfinakia Tou Ambrakikou 22:40 What Women Want 00:50 Six Degrees Of Separation 02:40 Cyrus

21:00 The End Of The Affair 22:50 From

07:00 Globe Trekker 08:00 Planet Sports 09:00 Flavours Of Chile 09:30 Essential 10:00 That Crazy French Woman 11:00 Planet Food 12:00 Globe Trekker 13:00 Planet Sports 14:00 Secrets Of Ancient China 15:00 Cruising The Amazon 16:00 The World’s Greatest Motorcycle Rides 18:00 Nomad’s Land 19:00 Globe Trekker 20:00 Flavours Of Chile 21:00 Essential 21:30 Out Of Country 22:00 Departures 23:00 Globe Trekker 00:00 Third Class Traveller 01:00 Out Of Country 01:30 Essential 02:00 Planet Food 03:00 Cruising The Amazon 04:00 Globe Trekker 05:00 Flavours Of Spain 05:30 Flavours Of Chile 06:00 Planet Food

06.00 Grand Prix 08.45 Swordsman Of Siena, The 10.25 Shoes of the Fisherman, The 13.00 On the Town 14.35 Ride The High Country 16.10 Royal Wedding 17.40 Hearts Of The West 19.20 Hooper 21.00 Wild Rovers 23.10 Enter the Dragon 00.50 Doctor Zhivago 04.00 Ten Thousand Bedrooms

00:01 BBC News 00:06 HARDtalk 00:30 BBC News Summary 00:32 One Planet 00:50 From Our Own Correspondent 01:01 BBC News 01:06 World Briefing 01:30 BBC News Summary 01:32 World Business Report 01:50 Sports News 02:01 BBC News 02:06 World Briefing 02:30 BBC News Summary 02:32 Business Daily 02:50 Witness 03:01 BBC News 03:06 World Briefing 03:30 BBC News Summary 03:32 Global Business 04:01 BBC News 04:06 Your World: Southern Tracks 04:30 BBC News Summary 04:32 One Planet 04:50 More Or Less 05:01 BBC News 05:06 World Briefing 05:30 BBC News Summary 05:32 In The Balance 06:01 BBC News 06:06 Top Of The Pops 06:30 BBC News Summary 06:32 Top Of The Pops 07:01 BBC News 07:06 World Briefing 07:20 Sports News 07:30 BBC News Summary 07:32 The Fifth Floor 08:01 BBC News 08:06 The World Today Weekend: The World Today 08:30 BBC News Summary 08:32 The World Today Weekend: The World Today 09:01 BBC News 09:06 The Forum 09:30 BBC News Summary 09:32 The Forum 09:50 More Or Less 10:01 BBC News 10:06 Top Of The Pops 10:30 BBC News Summary 10:32 Top Of The Pops 11:01 BBC News 11:06 From Our Own Correspondent 11:30 BBC News Summary 11:32 In The Balance 12:01 BBC News 12:06 World Briefing 12:20 Sports News 12:30 BBC News Summary 12:32 One Planet 12:50 Witness 13:01 BBC News 13:06 World Briefing 13:30 BBC News Summary 13:32 Global Business 14:01 BBC News 14:06 Your World: Southern Tracks 14:30 BBC News Summary 15:01 BBC News 15:06 Newshour 15:30 BBC News Summary 15:32 Newshour 16:01 BBC News 16:06 World Book Club 17:01 BBC News 17:06 Sportsworld 18:01 BBC News 18:06 Sportsworld 19:01 BBC News 19:06 Sportsworld 20:01 BBC News 20:06 World Briefing 20:30 BBC News Summary 20:32 In The Balance 21:01 BBC News 21:06 The Documentary: An Unspeakable Act 21:30 BBC News Summary 21:32 Discovery 21:50 Witness 22:01 BBC News 22:06 World Briefing 22:30 BBC News Summary 22:32 Global Business 23:01 BBC News 23:06 Newshour 23:30 BBC News Summary 23:32 Newshour

BFBS 1 (N’sia 91.7, WSBA 92.1, ESBA 99.6 FM) 02.00 The Chill Out Room 04.00 BFBS Shuffle 05.00 Ops Breakfast 08.00 Cyprus Saturday Breakfast 10.00 UK Saturday Breakfast 12.00 Luisse Shaw 16.00 Vicki And Adam’s Saturday Show 20.00 Club Culture Live 23.00 Groove Collective BFBS 2 (Ni’sia 89.7, WSBA 89.9, ESBA 95.3 FM) 03.00 BFBS News 03.03 Nigel Rennie Country 04.00 BFBS News 04.03 The BFBS Radio 2 Saturday Show 06.00 BFBS News 06.03 Soul On 2 07.00 Morning Reports 08.00 5 Live Olympic Breakfast 12.00 5 Live Olympics 00.30 Late Night Live

LiveCyBC2 (91.1, 92.4 FM) 06.00-7.30 Programmes in Turkish with News at 7.30 07.40 Good morning Cyprus 10.00-12.00 Kalimerhamba 12.00 Gunortasa 12.45 Greek Cyprus Press 13.00 Turkish Music 13.15 News in Turkish 13.30 News in English 13.45 PM Classics 16.00 Greek Radio 16.15 Our country doesn’t divide 16.50 News in Turkish 17.00-18.00 Programmes in Armenian; News at 17.15 18.00-20.00 Round & About 20.00 News in English 20.10 Welcome to Cyprus in French and German 20.40 Ship of Fools with Robert Camassa 22.00 News in English 22.00 International Music 00.00-06.00 Rebroadcast of the evening’s programme Radio Napa (106.3 FM) 06.00 Morning Music 08.30 BBC World Today 09.00 News, Weather and Exchange 09.05 Nathan Morley 12.00 BBC News 12.06 Lunchtime Classics 15.00 BBC News 15.06 Chris Yearley 18.00 News 18.06 Michael Godin 19.00 The Juke Box

98.5 Rock FM The Breakfast Show - Pafian Paul 08:00-10:00 The Weekend Link 10:00-12:00 Frock Fm - Philippos - 12:00-14:00 Double Dutch - Joep - 14:00-16:00 My Big Fat Arts Show - Kathleen Ruddy - 16:00-18:00 Non Stop Music - 18:00-20:00 Ready To Blow Up The Seen - With Your Hosts Dj Mr Smith And Mc Svenny B – Live 20:00-22:00 22:00-24:00 Saturday Live Dj SetDj Allen D Night Train 24:00-07:00

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Bloodworth to engulf his land - and the fi lm, shot over five years, is a kind of video diary, not just a polemic (though it’s obviously political) but also an account of living, and trying to raise children, in the midst of mayhem.

By all accounts, a must-see. Made in 2011.

Bloodworth (Novacinema1, 22.00) “Whisky wasn’t my undoing. It was music,” says Kris Kristofferson in his honeyed-gravel voice, then strums a few notes on his guitar; “My bane and my salvation!”. Kris is Bloodworth, E.F. Bloodworth to be precise, who comes back to his home - a corner of rural Tennessee - 40 years after having abandoned his family. “The wife he walked out on has withered

and faded, his three sons are grown and angry,” explains the synopsis; his only hope is his grandson, an aspiring writer who tries to escape his cursed family, helped by the love of a good girl (Hilary Duff, of all people). Country music and rural heartache led to Oscars for Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart and Robert Duvall in Tender Mercies but this low-budget indie is more of a Deep South melodrama, focusing on family dynamics (Val Kilmer plays the youngest son, a womanising alcoholic); the result “feels longer, lazier and more stifl ing than a hot summer afternoon,” scoffed Variety - but some of us like the languid feel of hot summer afternoons, especially with country music playing in the background. Made in 2010.

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08.00 I Plateia (rpt) Two episodes of local drama series.

09.00 Paraskinio (rpt) 09.35 Peri Kyprou 09.45 Kypouremata (rpt) Gardening show.

10.30 I Ypaithros (rpt) Farming show.

11.00 Girismata Travel show exploring the beauty of Greece.

12.00 Water Polo Men’s Group A Match #1: Greece vs Croatia.

13.00 I Kypros Konta Sas Local show looking at Cyprus past and present.

14.00 News 14.40 Kyprion Ena Taxidi (rpt) 15.30 My Cypriot Kitchen (rpt) An introduction to the island and the country’s food.

16.00 Stin Akri Tou Paradeisou (rpt) Local period drama, based on true events.

16.20 Reload Summer (rpt)

00.30 Euronews 08.00 Kids’ TV 12.00 Swimming Women’s 100m Backstroke - Heats, Men’s 200m Freestyle - Heats, Women’s 100m Breaststroke Heats, Men’s 100m Backstroke - Heats, Women’s 400m Freestyle Heats and Men’s 4x100m Freestyle - Qualification.

14.15 Basketball Men’s Basketball Group B Game # 8: Brazil vs. Australia.

16.00 Shooting Women’s Skeet Final.

16.50 Gymnastics Women’s Qualification Subdivision 3 & 4.

20.10 News In English 20.10 News In Turkish 20.20 Fencing Men’s Indiv.

Sabre - Semifinals.

Men’s Indiv, Sabre - Bronze Medal Match and Men’s Indiv. Sabre - Gold Medal Match.

21.30 Swimming Women’s 100m Butterfly - Final, Men’s 100m Breaststroke Final, Women’s 400m Freestyle - Final, Men’s 100m Backstroke - Semifinals, Women’s 100m Backstroke Semifinals and Men’s 4x100m Freestyle - Finals.

23.35 Handball Men’s Handball Group A Match 5.

France vs. Great Britain. Men’s Handball Group B Match 6: Hungary vs. Denmark.

00.45 Olympic News Channel

06.50 Proini Enimerosi 07.20 Kids’ TV 07.30 Oi Men Kai Oi Den (rpt) 08.00 Ano Kato 08.40 Super Babas (rpt) 09.30 Akros Oikogeneiakon (rpt) 10.20 Deixe Mou To Filo Sou (rpt) 11.00 Tychi Vouno (rpt) 11.50 Santa Yiolanta (rpt) 12.40 Kos Kai Ka Pels (rpt) 13.30 Galileo 14.20 Dis Madiam (rpt) 15.10 Plaka Mou Kaneis (rpt) 16.00 To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) 16.50 Eleftheros Ki Oraios (rpt) 17.40 Me to Dexi (rpt) With News at 18.00.

18.40 O Polemos Ton Astron (rpt) 20.20 News 21.20 Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) 22.00 FILM: The Royal Tenenbaums The estranged father of three geniuses learns his ex-wife is about to remarry, so he pretends to be dying to gain their sympathy. Comedy, starring Gene Hackman. 2001.

23.40 News 23.50 FILM: Life Is Not A Fairytale The 2004 winner of American Idol plays herself in an account of her struggle to overcome poverty, abuse and illiteracy.

Also starring Viola Davis. 2004.

01.40 Istories Mystiriou 02.30 Trito Stefani (rpt) 03.20 News 04.20 To Monopati Tis Agapis (rpt)

07.00 Church Service 10.00 An Thimitheis To Oneiro Mou (rpt) 11.00 Glykes Alhimies Cookery show focusing on desserts, hosted by famed pastry chef Stelios Parliaros.

12.00 Boukia Kai Sihorio (rpt) 13.00 Oi Kipouroi Tou Mega (rpt) 13.50 Baba Min Treheis (rpt) 14.40 Savvatogennimenes (rpt) 15.30 An Iperhes Tha Se Horiza (rpt) 16.10 Parea Stin Kouzina

06.40 Oi Takkoi (rpt) 07.30 Zoi Podilato (rpt) 09.10 Pink Panther Show Adventures with the ever-popular funky feline.

10.00 Mes Stin Kali Hara 13.10 Barbie As The Princess And The Pauper Animated drama, dubbed in Greek.

14.40 FILM: Shiloh II The heroic pup returns for another adventure, this time facing the terrible prospect of being sent back to his abusive owner. Appealing adventure sequel, starring Zachary Browne. 1999.

16.30 Oikogeneiakes Istories (rpt) 17.30 Pame Paketo (rpt) Greek popular talk-show now in its fourth year, that deals with human interest stories such as reuniting people. With News at 18.00.

19.20 Baywatch (rpt) Glossy surfside drama with the Malibu lifeguards, starring David Hasselhoff.

20.20 News 21.30 FILM: Barbershop A Chicago barber and his staff have just one day to earn enough money to stave off a loan shark with plans to convert his shop.

Comedy, with Ice Cube and Cedric the Entertainer.

2002.

23.05 CSI: New York (rpt) 00.00 News 00.05 Alithinoi Erotes (rpt) 01.00 Mes Tin Kali Hara (rpt) 04.10 Eleni (rpt)

07.50 Kids’ TV 12.05 LTV Sports News (rpt) 13.00 Star News 13.30 Kostakis Ki Yioi 14.00 Mila (rpt) Discussions about various issues based on woman’s life.

15.30 Fotis - Maria Live (rpt) 17.00 Exelixeis Sti Showbiz 17.30 Mesimeriani Meleti (rpt) 19.00 Nistikoi Praktores (rpt) Cooking show, with helpful tips on eating well and nutrition.

19.45 Star News 21.00 LTV Sports News 22.00 FILM: The Legend Of Zorro The masked hero investigates a mysterious explosion linked to a French count, who is plotting to stop California from joining the United States - and discovers that his wife Elena is somehow involved.

Swashbuckling adventure sequel, starring Antonio Banderas. 2005.

00.00 Supernatural (rpt) Fourth season.

‘Monster Movie’.

When the brothers investigate several murders at a beer festival, they discover the first victim was found with vampire-like bite marks on her neck, while the second has wounds that look like a werewolf attack. Episode of the fantasy drama shown entirely in black and white.

01.30 Star News 02.00 Repeats

08.00 Kids’ TV 11.35 Deste Tous 13.15 Greek FILM: Sinnefiasmenoi Orizontes 14.55 FILM: Kiss Shot A single mother loses her job and decides to brush up her old skills as a pool player to raise some cash.

Romantic comedy, starring Whoopi Goldberg. 1989.

16.00 Maharaja’s Daughter With News at 18.30.

19.15 News

17.25 18.00 18.15 18.30 19.00

20.00 21.00 22.00

23.30 23.45

01.30

Oi Filodoxoi (rpt) News Peri Kyprou Airplay Charts Paizoume Kypriaka (rpt) Two episodes of local game show, asking questions having to do with Cypriot dialect.

News EPI 2 - Best Of Gymnastics Women’s Qualification Subdivision 5.

News Volleyball Men’s Group B Match #6. Brazil vs.

Tunisia.

Repeats

16.30 I Ora I Kali (rpt) 17.30 Epta Thanasimes Petheres (rpt) With News at 18.20.

19.20 Peninta Peninta (rpt) 20.20 News 21.05 FILM: Are We Done Yet? A newlywed couple’s plans to fix up a ramshackle house go badly wrong, especially when an eccentric contractor gets involved. Comedy sequel, starring Ice Cube and Nia Long. 2007.

23.20 I Oikogeneia Vlaptei (rpt) 00.20 News 00.30 Damages A New York litigator becomes embroiled in a class action lawsuit.

01.20 Hawthorne US medical drama.

02.00 Meli Gala (rpt) 04.00 Mana Einai Mono Mia (rpt) 04.30 Ola Ta Kaka Tis Moiras Mou (rpt) 05.00 O Ios Tou Patera (rpt) 05.40 Paralliloi Dromoi (rpt)

PICK OF THE DAY t

A Cry in the Dark (Capital TV, 21.00) It’s official: a dingo did steal her baby! ‘She’ is Lindy Chamberlain (played by Meryl Streep) whose baby daughter Azaria disappeared from the family tent during a camping trip to Ayers Rock in 1980 - and last month an Australian coroner ruled, based on the evidence, that a wild dog was indeed responsible for Azaria’s death (her body was never found). Too late for Lindy, perhaps, who served six years in jail after being charged and convicted of murdering the child and making it look like a dingo attack - and this fi lm does a fi ne job of telling the tale, laying special emphasis on the poisonous role of the tabloids in whipping up public hatred against a supposed

20.05 Remington Steele 21.00 FILM: A Cry in the Dark Story of a mother who is accused of murdering her baby, despite claims that a wild dog had taken the child. Fact-based drama, starring Meryl Streep. 1988 23.15 FILM: Bats Genetically engineered mutated bats escape from a research facility and terrorise a Texas community.

Horror, starring Lou Diamond Phillips.

1999.

00.50 FILM: Double Bang A respected policeman is thrown into a world of murder and corruption when he comes up against a crooked partner and a sinister killer.

Action thriller, starring William Baldwin. 2001.

02.35 FILM: Arachnid After crashing onto a small island, a group of people discover the presence of a strange breed of killer arachnid.

Horror, starring Chris Potter. 2001.

By Preston Wilder

murderess. Streep, inevitably, won an Oscar nomination, though Sam Neill is just as good in his lowkey way as husband Michael, who fi nds the media attention and courtroom drama to be more than he can handle. Intelligent and even-handed, if perhaps a bit anti-dingo. Made in 1988.

A Serious Man (LTV, 21.00) Why so serious? A comedy (despite the title), set among American Jews in the late 1960s, with Michael Stuhlberg as a milquetoast physics professor whose life is a series of disasters: his wife is

leaving him for another (very annoying) man, his kids only want him around to fi x the TV, his deadbeat brother has been sleeping on the couch for ages and someone’s writing anonymous letters about him to the college authorities, threatening his longawaited tenure. The fi rst half is often funny (best scene: the goy’s teeth), the third quarter drags a bit and the ending is downright bizarre, with divine punishment (the tornado) about to rain down - as if to say our hero should’ve heeded the warning in the fi lm’s opening caption:

A Serious Man

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07:00 Fifth Gear 07:25 How Do They Do It? ; 08:15 American Chopper 09:10 Mythbusters 10:05 Destroyed In Seconds 11:00 Extreme Engineering 11:55 Swamp Loggers 12:50 Dirty Jobs 13:45 Swords: Life On The Line 14:40 Auction Hunters 15:35 Auction Kings 16:30 How Sports Are Made 17:00 I Could Do That 17:25 Mighty Ships 18:20 Deadliest Catch 19:15 River Monsters 20:10 Extreme Fishing 21:05 Hillbilly Handfishin’ 22:00 Human Body: Ultimate Machine 22:55 Stan Lee’s Superhumans 23:50 Fight Quest 00:45 Surviving The Cut 01:40 Deadliest Catch 02:40 River Monsters 03:40 Extreme Fishing 04:40 How It’s Made 05:05 Fight Quest 06:00 Mighty Ships

04:00 Weightlifting: Summer Olympic Games London 05:00 Swimming: Summer Olympic Games London 06:00 Gymnastics: Summer Olympic Games London 07:00 Olympic Games: Together To London 07:30 Olympic Games: English Breakfast 09:30 Swimming: Summer Olympic Games London 10:30 Multisports: Summer Olympic Games London 12:00 Swimming: Summer Olympic Games London 15:00 Multisports: Summer Olympic Games London 16:30 Cycling: Summer Olympic Games London 18:00 Weightlifting: Summer Olympic Games London 19:15 Gymnastics: Summer Olympic Games London 20:00 Diving: Summer Olympic

05:55 Devil 07:15 Cine News 07:35 Flight Of The Phoenix 09:30 Knight And Day 11:20 Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son 13:10 Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost 14:45 Housebroken 16:20 The Ghost And The Darkness 18:15 The Other Guys 20:10 16 Blocks 22:00 After The Sunset 23:45 The Expendables 01:35 Adult Zone

05:40 Prom 07:25 The Client List 08:55 Cine News 09:40 Scusa Ma Ti Chiamo Amore 11:30 The Back-Up Plan 13:15 The Last Flight 14:55 Old School 16:30 Cine News 17:20 Skellig 19:10 Soul Surfer 21:00 Rabbit Hole 22:35 Lies In Plain Sight 00:05 Who Is Clark Rockefeller? 01:35 Mad Dog And Glory 03:15 Holy Smoke

Water for Elephants (Novacinema1, 09.10) Games London 20:45 Multisports: Summer Olympic Games London 21:30 Swimming: Summer Olympic Games London 23:15 Olympic Games: Together To London 23:45 Gymnastics: Summer Olympic Games London 00:30 Weightlifting: Summer Olympic Games London 01:00 Basketball: Summer Olympic Games London 02:00 Swimming: Summer Olympic Games London 03:00 Cycling: Summer Olympic Games London

05:30 How I Met Your Mother 06:20 Family Guy 08:00 The X-Files 09:30 Stargate Universe 10:15 Family Guy 11:05 Neighbors From Hell 11:30 Bob’s Burgers 11:55 No Ordinary Family 14:10 Lost 15:40 Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior 19:25 The Glades 20:10 The Chicago Code 20:55 Falling Skies 21:40 Camelot 22:35 American Horror Story 23:20 The Walking Dead 00:10 Sons Of Anarchy 01:00 Terriers 03:25 How I Met Your Mother

07:00 Investigating History 10:00 Lost Worlds 12:00 Top Shot 13:00 Irt: Deadliest Roads 14:00 Ice Road Truckers 16:00 Storage Wars 17:00 Pawn Stars 17:30 American Restoration 18:00 No County For Old Men 19:00 The Universe 20:00 Ancient Aliens 21:00 Decoded 22:00 Beyond The Big Bang 00:00 Top Shot 01:00 Beyond The Big Bang 03:00 Top Shot 04:00 The Universe 05:00 Ancient Aliens 06:00 Decoded

07:30 Tumbleweeds 09:30 Diamonds 12:40 Lethal Weapon 3 14:45 Indian 16:30 Demolition Man 18:30 Shattered Silence 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 A Serious Man 23:00 Charlie Valentine 00:40 Hustler TV 02:10 Eruption 03:45 Hollywood Buzz 04:15 Outbreak 06:30 LTV Sports News

07:00 Baby Looney Tunes 07:25 Legion Of Super Heroes 07:50 Loonatics Unleashed I Nickelodeon 08:15 Wonder Pets

08:40 Dora The Explorer 09:05 Ni Hao, Kai-Lan 09:30 Spongebob Squarepants 09:55 Tak & The Power Of Juju 10:20 Fanboy & Chum Chum 10:45 X’s 11:10 Mighty B! 11:35 My Life As A Teenage Robot 12:00 Hey Arnold! 12:25 Icarly 13:15 Looney Tunes Show 13:40 Young Justice 14:05 K9 Nation 14:45 2012 Formula 1 17:15 Rugby World Cup Winners 18:30 Planet Speed 19:00 Best Soccer Games Of The Season: Barclay’s Premier League 21:00 Best Soccer Games Of The Season: Coupe De France 23:00 Three For The Show 00:00 Ironman 01:00 Best Soccer Games Of The Season: Laiki Bank Championship 03:00 Best Basket League Opap Games Of The Season 05:00 Best Soccer Games Of The Season: Primera Division

07:15 Friends 07:45 Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles 08:35 According To Jim 09:00 Two And A Half Men 09:30 30 Rock 09:55 V I 10:45 The Mentalist 11:30 Sons Of Anarchy 12:20 Boardwalk Empire 13:20 Chuck 14:05 Hawaii Five 15:00 The Mentalist 15:45 Brothers & Sisters 00:05 Inception 02:45 Desperate Housewives 05:00 True Blood Iv 06:00 According To Jim 06:30 Desperate Housewives

07:20 Ed Wood 09:30 Before Sunrise 11:30 Before Sunset 13:00 Run 14:35 Monsters Vs. Aliens 16:15 Education N 18:15 Fighting 20:15 Einstein And Eddington 22:00 Bound By Honor 01:00 Daring! TV 04:10 New York Stories 06:15 King Solomon’s Mines

06:45 Happythankyoumoreplease 08:30 Cine News 09:10 Water For Elephants 11:15 The Adjustment Bureau 13:05 Win Win 15:00 Cine News 15:30 How I Met Your Mother 16:50 X-Men: First Class 18:40 Cine News 19:10 Page Eight 22:00 Super 8 00:00 Conan The Barbarian 02:00 Cine News 02:30 Priest 04:00 Room In Rome

06:20 The Emperor’s Club 08:10 Cine News 09:00 Summer Kids Zone 10:45

21:00 For A Few Dollars More 23:15 Alfie 1966

01:30 LPGA Tour: Evian Masters presented by iete Geeale 05:30 Nationwide Tour Nationwide Children’s Hospital Invitational 07:30 Inside the PGA Tour 08:00 Playing Lessons – Bua Watson & Johnny Damon 08:30 Golf Fitness – Power 09:00 Golf Central International 09:30 Big Break Atlantis: X Marks the Sport 10:30 Big Break Academy: Playing Through with Two 11:00 LPGA Tour: Evian Masters presented by iete Geeale 3 15:00 PRE GAME 15:45 CHAMPIONSHIP LAIKI POPULAR BANK 2011–12: APOLLON vs OMONOIA 17:45 POST GAME 18:30 RED BULL 19:00 LPGA Tour: Evian Masters presented by iete Geeale Final 23:00 European Tour: Austrian Golf Open presented by Lyoness Final

07:00 Globe Trekker 08:00 Planet Sports 09:00 People Of The Sea 10:00 The World’s Greatest Motorcycle Rides 11:00 Cruising To The Northern Lights 12:00 Globe Trekker 13:00 Third Class Traveller 14:00 Departures 15:00 Out Of Country 15:30 Travel Oz 16:00 Globe Trekker 17:00 Short History Of Convict Australia 18:00 Travel Today 18:30 Essential 19:00 Globe Trekker 20:00 Cruising The Amazon 21:00 Nomad’s Land 22:00 Megalopolis 23:00 Globe Trekker 00:00 Departures 01:00 Third Class Traveller 02:00 Nomad’s Land 03:00 Megalopolis 04:00 Globe Trekker 05:00 Planet Food

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01.00 BFBS Hosts 03.00 Heavens Gate 05.00 BFBS Shuffle 06.00 The Vault 08.00 UK Sunday Breakfast 10.00 Cyprus Sunday Brunch 12.00 Access All Areas 16.00 Forces Life 17.00 Sim Courtie 20.00 Music First 22.00 Elevation 00.00 Chill Out Room

BFBS 2 (Ni’sia 89.7, WSBA 89.9, ESBA 95.3 FM) 03.00 BFBS News 03.03 The BFBS Radio 2 Sunday Show 04.00 BFBS News 04.03 Nigel Rennie on Sunday 06.00 BFBS News 06.03 The Gentle Breeze 07.00 Morning Reports 08.00 5 Live Olympic Breakfast 12.00 5 Live Olympics 16.00 5 Live Olympics 20.30 5 Live Olympics 00.30 Late Night Olympics

(Five Live) LiveCyBC2 (91.1, 92.4 FM) 06.00-7.30 Programmes in Turkish with News at 7.30 07.40 Good morning Cyprus 10.00-12.00 Kalimerhaba 12.00 Gunortasa 12.45 Greek Cyprus Press 13.00 Turkish Music 13.15 News in Turkish 13.30 News in English 13.45 PM Classics 16.00 Greek Radio 16.15 Our country doesn’t divide 16.50 News in Turkish 17.00-18.00 Programmes in Armenian; News at 17.15 18.00-20.00 Round & About 20.00 News in English 20.10 Welcome to Cyprus in French and German 20.40 Ship of Fools with Robert Camassa 22.00 News in English 22.00 International Music 00.00-06.00 Rebroadcast of the evening’s programme Radio Napa (106.3 FM) 06.00 Morning Music 08.30 BBC World Today 09.00 News, Weather and Exchange 09.05 Nathan Morley 12.00 BBC News 12.06 Lunchtime Classics 15.00 BBC News 15.06 Chris Yearley 18.00 News 18.06 Michael Godin 19.00 The Juke Box

98.5 Rock FM 06:00 An American in Paris 07:55 King Solomon’s Mines 09:40 Three Little Words 11:25 The Yearling 13:35 Seven Brides For Seven Brothers 15:20 The Liquidator 17:05 Father’s Little Dividend 18:30 Love Me Or Leave Me 21:00 Point Blank 22:30 Victor/Victoria 00:40 Somebody Up There Likes Me 02:35 White Heat 04:25 Never Let Me Go

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Super 8 “Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you”. Call it the story of Job transplanted to the days of the counter-culture - though even that doesn’t really capture how rich and strange it is, right from the bizarre (but significant) prologue in which a Jewish husband and wife argue over whether an unexpected visitor is a respectable rabbi or in fact an evil golem.

Directed by those wacky Coen Brothers in 2009.

Super 8 (Novacinema1, 22.00) Lovely fi lm, shame about the plot. Incidental detail is magnificent in this sci-fi action movie - though it’s actually closer to Stand By Me or The Goonies, a fi lm about a gang of kids having adventures - but the

monster-movie plot is tired, and lets it down. The time is 1979, and Joe (Joel Courtney) is mourning the death of his mother - but he and his pals are also making a Super-8 zombie fl ick (note to younger readers: Super 8 was what people used for home movies before camcorders took over), which is how they witness a train crash and later connect it with strange goings-on caused by an alien monster. Everything to do with the monster is weak and generic; everything to do with the kids is fresh, sweet and beautifully observed - especially the bits between Joe and the girl he likes, scarily precocious Elle Fanning, who takes a role in the zombie fl ick and stuns her little-boy costars with her grown-up intensity. Made in 2011.

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CYBC 1 08.00 Concert 09.30 Chef Ston Aera (rpt) Cookery show.

10.10 Reload Summer 12.10 Istories Tou Horkou (rpt) Local comedy series.

13.00 Apo Mera Se Mera 15.30 Canoe / Kayak Whitewater: Men’s C-2 Semi-Final, Whitewater: Women’s K-1 SemiFinal, Whitewater: Men’s C-2 Final and Whitewater: Women’s K-1 Final.

18.30 News 18.45 Candid Camera Unsuspecting people react to bizarre events.

19.00 Blood In The Mobile Eye-opening documentary by Danish film director Frank Piasecki Poulsen exposing the link between the war in DR Congo and our mobile phones.

2010.

20.00 News / Weather / Financial Report 21.00 Vimata Stin Ammo (rpt) Local period drama, based on true events.

21.40 Basketball Men’s Basketball Group B Game #36. Spain vs.

Great Britain.

23.45 News 00.00 Repeats

CYBC 2

ANTENNA

MEGA

SIGMA

01.30 Euronews 07.00 NRG Music Channel 08.00 Kids’ TV 11.30 Olympic Games: Volleyball Men’s Group B Match #15. Serbia vs. Germany. See Pick Of The Day. 13.30 Tennis Tennis Order of play available evening before.

16.30 Table Tennis Men’s Singles - Bronze Medal Match and Men’s Singles - Gold Medal Match.

18.30 News In English 18.40 News In Turkish 18.50 Gymnastics Women’s Individual All-Around.

20.20 Water Polo Men’s Group A - Match #15.

Kazakhstan vs.

Greece or Men’s Group B - Match #16. Great Britain vs. USA. 21.30 Swimming Men’s 50m Freestyle SemiFinals, Women’s 200m Breaststroke Final, Men’s 200m Backstroke Final, Women’s 200m Backstroke SemiFinals, Men’s 200m IM Finals, Women’s 100m Freestyle Final and Men’s 100m Butterfly Semi-Finals.

23.10 Volleyball Men’s Group B Match #18. Brazil vs. USA. 00.15 Basketball Men’s Basketball Group A Game #35. USA vs.

Nigeria.

02.00 Olympic News Channel

05.00 Krifa Monopatia (rpt) 05.45 Mi Mou Les Antio (rpt) 06.30 Proini Enimerosi 07.00 Tis Ellados Ta Paidia (rpt) 07.30 Oi Men Kai Oi Den (rpt) 08.00 Fast Money (rpt) 08.45 Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) 09.30 To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) 10.20 To Evdomo Kleidi (rpt) 10.50 Deixe Mou To Filo Sou (rpt) 11.30 Santa Yiolanta (rpt) 12.15 Tin Patisa (rpt) 13.00 News 13.15 Galileo (rpt) 14.00 Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) 14.40 Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) 15.30 To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) 16.20 Krifa Monopatia (rpt) 17.10 Mi Mou Les Antio (rpt) 18.00 News 18.10 Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) 18.50 Tin Patisa (rpt) 19.30 Eva Luna

06.30 Paralliloi Dromoi (rpt) 07.00 Yia Sena (rpt) Local talk-show.

08.40 Batso Agapi Mou (rpt) 09.20 Dennis O Tromeros 10.00 Proino Mou (rpt) Lifestyle programme features entertainment, music and more.

12.00 Yia Banaki 15.00 I Dada (rpt) Greek comedy series, based on a popular US sitcom.

16.10 I Ora I Kali (rpt) 17.40 Mia Stgmi Dio Zoes Greek drama series, based on the popular Latin American telenovela about mistaken identities.

18.10 News 18.30 Mousiko Kouti (rpt) Greek game show, testing contestants on their music knowledge.

19.20 Peninta Peninta (rpt) Greek comedy series.

20.10 News 21.20 Eftyhismenoi Mazi (rpt) Greek comedy series.

22.20 I Zoi Pou Den Ezisa (rpt) Greek comedy series.

23.30 Singles (rpt) 00.00 News 00.10 The Shield Police drama series chronicling the turbulent day-today life of the Strike Team, a group of corrupt Los Angeles cops.

01.00 Yia Banaki (rpt) 04.15 Proino Mou (rpt)

06.10 The Del Monte Heirs (rpt) 07.00 Erotas Me Epidotisi 07.45 An M’ Agapas 08.40 Oi Takkoi 10.00 Vourate Geitonoi (rpt) 11.00 I Kouzina Tis Mamas (rpt) 11.15 Eho Ena Mistiko (rpt) 12.00 Vasiliki (rpt) 12.50 Spiti Ki Egine (rpt) 13.40 Efialtis Stin Kouzina (rpt) 14.30 Oikogeneiakes Istories (rpt) 16.40 Baywatch (rpt) 17.30 Pame Paketo (rpt) With News at 18.00.

18.40 Tropico 19.40 The Del Monte Heirs 20.20 News 21.20 Irthe Ki Edese 22.30 Kokkino Domatio 23.20 The 4400 First season.

‘Becoming’.

Tom and Diana investigate a murder that bears a striking resemblance to crimes committed by a serial killer 25 years previously.

The first suspect is Oliver Knox, a member of the 4400 - but he has an alibi for the night of the murder and another man later confesses to all the crimes.

23.45 News 23.50 Sex And The City (rpt) 00.45 Istories Tou Astinomou Beka (rpt) 01.45 Allou Ximeromenoi (rpt) 02.20 Alithinoi Erotes (rpt) 03.05 Eleni (rpt) 05.20 Tropico (rpt)

20.20 News 20.15 News 21.20 Tin Patisa (rpt) 22.10 Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) 22.45 Einai Stigmes (rpt) 23.30 News 23.45 Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) 00.35 Kai Oi Pantremenoi Ehoun Psihi (rpt) 01.20 Ellas To Megaleio Sou (rpt) 02.10 Tmima Ithon (rpt) 03.00 News 03.50 Skertsakia (rpt) 04.10 Fili Zois (rpt)

PICK OF THE DAY Olympic Games (CyBC2, from 11.30) Would you watch Kazakhstan take on Greece at water polo? Not necessarily, not if it were offered in itself - but that’s the thing about the Olympic Games, you get caught up in the excitement of the event and watch sports you barely even knew existed. Besides, didn’t the Kazakhstan team plan to fortify themselves with specially-imported horsemeat sausages, horse being a big part of the traditional Kazakh diet? It’s worth watching just to see how that turned out - and there’s an even better reason to watch the Gymnastics a little earlier, because for the fi rst time there’s a Cypriot gymnast competing (Chrystalleni Trikomiti, from Aradippou), though I’m not sure if

“He made a career out of ripping off criminals,” intones Mr. Trailer Man in the trailer. “Until he stole from the wrong man!” Cue scenes of

07.45 Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of 09.15 Kids’ TV 11.50 Ta Kopelia 12.30 Thema Gevsis Cookery show.

13.30 Star News 14.15 Kids’ TV 16.15 Exelixeis Stin Showbiz 16.45 Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of (rpt) 17.50 Mila Best Of (rpt) 18.50 Nistikoi Praktores (rpt) 19.40 Fotis Maria Live Best Of (rpt) 21.10 Exelixeis Stin Showbiz 22.00 The Forgotten ‘Mama Jane’. The Forgotten Network sets out to discover the identity a 40year-old woman who was murdered in a bar almost a year earlier.

22.45 Supernatural (rpt) Fifth season. ‘The End’. Sam wants to rejoin Dean in the battle of the apocalypse, but Dean thinks they are better off apart; Dean wakes up five years in the future and is attacked by humans infected with a demonic virus.

23.30 One Tree Hill Second season.

‘I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning’. Lucas joins Nathan when he is taken on a trip to the racetrack by his uncle. Dan lets Andy’s classmates know about his clandestine relationship with Karen, and Deb’s dependence on pills gets worse.

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Kids’ TV Magikos Cosmos I Kori Tou Mistral Deste Tous Greek FILM: O Cowboys Tou Metaxourgeiou FILM: The Ultimate Gift Story exploring the relationship between wealth and happiness with this spiritualminded tale about a privileged young man who receives a most unexpected inheritance. Drama, starring Drew Fuller, 2006.

O Anthropos Tis Thalassas Melrose Place With News at 18.30.

News Sports Time Rubi FILM: Breaking In an ageing burglar takes on a young partner who has a lot to learn.

Comedy, starring Burt Reynolds.

1989.

FILM: Sharpshooter A CIA assassin hired for one last job before his retirement suspects he has inadvertently become involved in a conspiracy.

Action thriller, with James Remar.

2007.

FILM: Blessed A woman unknowingly becomes pregnant with Satan’s spawn after she and her husband visit a fertility clinic.

Horror, starring Heather Graham 2004.

FILM: Fargo Comedy thriller, with Frances McDormand. 1996.

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she’s taking part in today’s Women’s Individual AllRound event. Also on today’s bill: tennis, table tennis, swimming, volleyball, basketball and canoeing/ kayaking, the last-named on CyBC1. Tiddlywinks and dwarf-tossing still not IOC-approved, alas...

Charlie Valentine (LTV3, 22.00)

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macho he-man types (I doubt there’s even a glimpse of a woman in the whole trailer) shooting guns, beating each other up and gazing with satisfaction at neat piles of money - and it’s worth mentioning that one trailer at the Internet Movie Database is for over-17s only (you have to register and prove you’re over 17 just to watch the trailer!), just as the fi lm itself was rated ‘R’ in the States for “strong bloody violence, sexual content and pervasive [bad] language”.

Charlie Valentine is a rather nasty villain who unwisely steals from even bigger villains - so he goes on the run, ending up in LA where he tries to reunite (and recon-

Charlie Valentine

Radio Moro 11:55 The King’s Speech 15:45 Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps 18:00 Hollywood 1 On1 18:35 Billy Madison 20:10 Your Highness 22:00 The Beaver 23:35 Animal Kingdom 01:30 The Resident 03:05 Cine News 03:50 The Tree Of Life

07:00 Baboons With Bill Bailey 07:25 Crocodile Hunter 08:15 Dick ‘N’ Dom Go Wild 08:40 Breed All About It 09:10 Natural Born Hunters 10:05 Monster Bug Wars 11:00 Wildlife Sos 11:25 Gorilla School 11:55 Animal Cops Philadelphia 12:50 Escape To Chimp Eden 13:45 Animal Precinct 14:40 Monster Bug Wars 15:30 Baboons With Bill Bailey 16:00 Dick ‘N’ Dom Go Wild 16:30 Penguin Safari 17:25 Bad Dog 18:20 Dogs 101 19:15 Wildlife Sos 19:40 Gorilla School 20:10 Living With The Wolfman 20:35 Animal Battlegrounds 21:05 Monster Bug Wars 22:00 Whale Wars 22:55 Venom Hunter With Donald Schultz 23:50 Miami Animal Police 00:45 I’m Alive 01:40 Untamed & Uncut 02:35 Whale Wars 03:30 Venom Hunter With Donald Schultz 04:25 Monster Bug Wars 05:20 Living With The Wolfman 05:45 Animal Battlegrounds 06:10 Escape To Chimp Eden

01:20 The Weakest Link 02:05 Life On Mars 02:55 Eastenders 03:25 Doctors 03:55 Casualty 04:45 My Family 05:15 Roger & Val Have Just Got In 05:45 The Weakest Link 06:30 Last Of The Summer Wine 07:00 Teletubbies 07:25 The Roly Mo Show 07:40 Forget Me Not Farm 07:55 Fimbles 08:15 Teletubbies 08:40 The Roly Mo Show 08:55 Forget Me Not Farm 09:10 Fimbles 09:30 My Family 10:00 Last Of The Summer Wine 10:30 The Weakest Link 11:15 Eastenders 11:45 Doctors 12:15 Casualty 13:05 Bleak House 14:05 My Family 14:35 Last Of The Summer Wine 15:05 Roger & Val Have Just Got In 15:35 Eastenders 16:05 Doctors 16:35 Casualty 17:25 Bleak House 18:25 The Weakest Link 19:10 Eastenders 19:40 Doctors 20:10 Monarch Of The Glen 21:00 Keeping Up Appearances 21:30 Ideal 22:00 The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee: Highlights 23:30 Supernova 00:00 The Old Guys 00:30 Twenty Twelve

07:00 Fifth Gear 07:25 Dirty Jobs 08:15 Deadliest Catch 09:10 Extreme Fishing 10:05 Mythbusters 11:00 How Do They Do It? 11:30 Destroyed In Seconds 11:55 Ultimate Survival 12:50 Wheeler Dealers 13:45 Rides 14:40 American Chopper 15:35 Dirty Jobs 16:30 Mythbusters 17:25 Deadliest Catch 18:20 Extreme Fishing 19:15 River Monsters 20:10 How It’s Made 20:40 How Do They Do It? 21:05 Sons Of Guns 22:00 Nothing Personal 22:55 American Chopper 23:50 Inside Death Row 00:45 Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero 01:40 Sons Of Guns 02:40 Nothing Personal 03:40 American Chopper 04:40 Inside Death Row 05:35 How It’s Made 06:00 Overhaulin’

04:00 Cycling: Summer Olympic Games London 05:00 Weightlifting: Summer Olympic Games London 06:00 Gymnastics: Summer Olympic Games London 07:00 Olympic Games: Together To London 07:30 Olympic Games: English Breakfast 09:30 Swimming: Summer Olympic Games London 10:30 Multisports: Summer Olympic Games London 12:00 Swimming: Summer Olympic Games London 14:15 Rowing: Summer Olympic Games London 15:00 Multisports: Summer Olympic Games London 16:30 Canoeing: Summer Olympic Games London 17:40 Olympic Games: London Eye 17:45 Canoeing: Summer Olympic Games London 18:30 Gymnastics: Summer Olym-

20:00 Gran Torino 22:00 (Short Fuse) 23:00 (The Mechanic) 00:35 (Cine News) 01:00 (Inseminacion Anal) 03:00 Anna, Apprentie Soubrette

19:25 To Eteron Imisi 21:00 Man On The Moon 23:00 The Kids Are All Right 00:50 La Chance De Ma Vie

21:00 There Is A Girl In My Soup 22:40 The Harder They Fall

Larry Crowne (Novacinema1, 12.05) pic Games London 20:10 Olympic Games: London Eye 20:15 Multisports: Summer Olympic Games London 21:30 Swimming: Summer Olympic Games London 23:00 Olympic Games: Together To London 23:30 Multisports: Summer Olympic Games London 00:45 Basketball: Summer Olympic Games London 02:00 Swimming: Summer Olympic Games London 03:30 Gymnastics: Summer Olympic Games London

05:30 The Amazing Race 06:15 Family Guy 07:05 Lost 07:50 How I Met Your Mother 08:40 Terriers 09:25 Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior 10:10 The Amazing Race 10:55 Family Guy 11:45 Lost 12:30 How I Met Your Mother 13:20 Terriers 14:05 Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior 14:50 Falling Skies 15:35 The Chicago Code 16:20 The Amazing Race 17:05 Family Guy 17:55 Lost 18:40 How I Met Your Mother 19:30 Terriers 20:15 Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior 21:00 Falling Skies 21:45 Camelot 22:40 Terriers 23:25 Falling Skies 00:10 Camelot 01:00 The Amazing Race 01:45 Family Guy 02:35 Lost 03:20 The Life & Times Of Tim 03:50 How I Met Your Mother 04:40 Terriers

07:00 Pawn Stars 08:00 Ufo Files 09:00 Britain At War 10:00 Pawn Stars 11:00 Ax Men 12:00 Lock N’ Load 13:00 Top Shot 14:00 Britain At War 15:00 Ufo Files 16:00 Lock N’ Load 17:00 Top Shot 18:00 Britain At War 19:00 Ufo Files 20:00 Pawn Stars 21:00 Ax Men 22:00 Ice Road Truckers 00:00 Pawn Stars 01:00 Ax Men 02:00 Ice Road Truckers 04:00 Ufo Files 05:00 Britain At War 06:00 Ax Men

07:30 Eagle Eye 09:30 The Boy Who Could Fly 11:30 Ladyhawke 13:30 Hollywood Buzz 14:00 Thelove Guru 15:50 Friends 16:45 Ghost Writer 19:00 Friends 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 All About Steve 23:00 Dummy 00:30 Hustler TV 02:00 Boiler Room 04:00 Babel 06:30 LTV Sports News

07:00 Baby Looney Tunes 07:25 Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs 08:15 Steven Spielberg Presents Tiny Toon Adventures

08:40 Loonatics Unleashed 09:05 ScoobyDoo Where Are You! 09:30 Superman: The Animated Series 09:55 Big Cartoonie Show 10:20 Tak & The Power Of Juju 10:45 Fanboy & Chum Chum 11:10 X’s 11:35 Ni Hao, KaiLan 12:00 Dora The Explorer 12:25 Spongebob Squarepants 13:15 Mighty B! 13:40 My Life As A Teenage Robot 14:05 Hey Arnold!

14:30 Icarly 15:20 Ben 10 17:00 Best Soccer Games Of The Season: Barclay’s Premier League 19:00 PGA Tour Classic Films 20:00 Planet Speed 20:30 ATP World Tour Uncovered 21:00 Barclays Premier League World 21:30 Irc 2012: Romania 22:00 2012 WTCC 22:30 Makeover: Hunt Dog Edition 23:00 Boxing Ringside 00:30 Planet Speed 01:00 2011 World’s Strongest Man 01:30 Spirit Of Yachting 02:00 PGA Tour Classic Films 03:00 Best Soccer Games Of The Season: Primera Division 05:00 Grand American Series 2012 06:00 Ironman

07:15 House M.D. 08:00 United States Of Tara 08:30 Boardwalk Empire 10:25 Trust Me 11:10 Hawaii Five-0 12:40 Supernatural 13:20 House M.D. 14:05 Boardwalk Empire 16:05 Friends 16:30 V I 17:15 Mentalist 18:45 Supernatural 19:30 Desperate Housewives 20:15 Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles 21:00 Two And A Half Men 21:30 Chuck 23:05 True Blood 00:05 Kiss The Girls 02:00 Lesbian Vampire Killers 03:50 Friends 04:15 V I 05:00 Mentalist 06:30 Desperate Housewives

08:15 Officer And A Gentleman N 10:30 Too Big To Fail 12:30 Creation 14:30 Phenomenon (1996) 16:45 Eye Of The Dolphin 18:30 Twilight 20:05 Clash Of The Titans 22:00 Charlie Valentine 00:05 Daring! TV 04:05 Boxer (2009) 06:00 Season Of The Witch

05:20 Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star 06:55 Cold Mountain 09:25 Cine News 10:15 A Far Off Place 12:05 Larry Crowne 13:50 Spotlight On 14:35 The Deep End Of The Ocean 16:30 Miral 18:25 Manolete 20:05 Love And Other Drugs 22:00 Street Kings 2: Motor City 23:40 Page Eight 01:25 Traffic 03:50 Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer

08:00 Cine News 09:00 Mia Fora Kai Ena...

01:30 Inside the PGA Tour 02:00 THE PLAYERS 2012 Official Film 03:00 MLB: Los Angeles Angels at Texas Rangers 06:00 MLB Player Poll 06:30 Inside the PGA Tour 07:00 Big Break Academy Champion Lessons 07:30 Morning Drive 08:30 Pipe Dream - In the Driver’s Seat 09:00 Golf Central International 09:30 Pipe Dream - Q-School 10:00 MLB: Los Angeles Angels at Texas Rangers 13:00 The Moto: Inside the Outdoors Unadilla National 13:30 The Moto: Inside the Outdoors Southwick National 14:00 Race Freaks 15:00 Mobil 1 The Grid 15:30 MLB Player Poll 16:00 Web.com Tour Highlights Nationwide Children’s Hospital Invitational 17:00 THE PLAYERS 2012 Official Film 18:00 Inside the PGA Tour 18:30 Web.com Tour Cox Classic Rd. 1 20:30 PRE GAME(E) 20:45 CHAMPIONSHIP LAIKI POPULAR BANK 2011-12: ARHS VS ETHNIKOS AXNAS (E) 22:45 POST GAME (E) 23:15 The Moto: Inside the Outdoors Unadilla National 00:00 The Moto: Inside the Outdoors Southwick National 00:30 Race Freaks

07:00 Globe Trekker 07:30 Essential 08:00 Planet Sports 09:00 Flavours Of Chile 10:00 Glutton For Punishment 11:00 The Thirsty Traveler 11:30 Chef Abroad 12:00 Globe Trekker 13:00 Planet Sports 14:00 American Civil War Trail 15:00 Cruising The Amazon 16:00 Globe Trekker 17:00 The Thirsty Traveler 17:30 Chef Abroad 18:00 Glutton For Punishment 19:00 Globe Trekker 20:00 Departures 21:00 Out Of Country 21:30 Essential 22:00 Nomad’s Land 23:00 Globe Trekker 00:00 Planet Sports 01:00 Departures 02:00 Out Of Country 02:30 Essential 03:00 Nomad’s Land 04:00 Globe Trekker 05:00 Glutton For Punishment 06:00 The Thirsty Traveler 06:30 Chef Abroad

06.00 Day They Robbed The Bank Of England, The 07.25 Tribute to a Bad Man 09.00 Casablanca 10.40 Swan, The 12.25 What’s Up, Doc? 14.00 Flipper’s New Adventure 15.35 Tender Trap, The 17.30 American in Paris, An 19.20 Blackboard Jungle 21.00 Whose Life Is It Anyway?

22.55 Color Purple, The 01.25 Where Eagles Dare 04.00 Billy Rose’s Jumbo

BBC World Service (1323 MW) 00:01 BBC News 00:06 HARDtalk 00:30 BBC News Summary 00:32 Healthcheck 00:50 From Our Own Correspondent 01:01 BBC News 01:06 World Briefing 01:30 BBC News Summary 01:32 World Business Report 01:50 Sports News 02:01 BBC News 02:06 World Briefing 02:30 BBC News Summary 02:32 Business Daily 02:50 Sports News 03:01 BBC News 03:06 World Briefing 03:30 BBC News Summary 03:32 World Business Report 03:50 Witness 04:01 BBC News 04:06 Assignment 04:30 BBC News Summary 04:32 Outlook 05:01 BBC News 05:06 Newsday 05:30 BBC News Summary 05:32 Newsday 06:01 BBC News 06:06 Newsday 06:30 BBC News Summary 06:32 Healthcheck 06:50 From Our Own Correspondent 07:01 BBC News 07:06 Newsday 07:30 BBC News Summary 07:32 The Strand 07:50 Witness 08:01 BBC News 08:06 Newsday 08:30 BBC News Summary 08:32 Newsday 09:01 BBC News 09:06 Newsday 09:30 BBC News Summary 09:32 Newsday 10:01 BBC News 10:06 Outlook 10:30 BBC News Summary 10:32 Business Daily 10:50 From Our Own Correspondent 11:01 BBC News 11:06 Assignment 11:30 BBC News Summary 11:32 Healthcheck 11:50 Sports News 12:01 BBC News 12:06 World Update 12:30 BBC News Summary 12:32 World Update 13:01 BBC News 13:06 World Briefing 13:30 BBC News Summary 13:32 The Strand 13:50 Witness 14:01 BBC News 14:06 World Have Your Say 14:30 BBC News Summary 14:32 Business Daily 14:50 Sports News 15:01 BBC News 15:06 Newshour 15:30 BBC News Summary 15:32 Newshour 16:01 BBC News 16:06 Assignment 16:30 BBC News Summary 16:32 Outlook 17:01 BBC News 17:06 World Briefing 17:30 BBC News Summary 17:32 Healthcheck 17:50 From Our Own Correspondent 18:01 BBC News 18:06 World Briefing 18:30 BBC News Summary 18:32 Sport Today 18:50 Witness 19:01 BBC News 19:06 World Briefing 19:30 BBC News Summary 19:32 World Business Report 20:01 BBC News 20:06 World Have Your Say 20:30 BBC News Summary 20:32 World Have Your Say 21:01 BBC News 21:06 World Briefing 21:30 BBC News Summary 21:32 Business Daily 21:50 From Our Own Correspondent 22:01 BBC News 22:06 Outlook 22:30 BBC News Summary 22:32 The Strand 22:50 Witness 23:01 BBC News 23:06 Newshour 23:30 BBC News Summary 23:32 Newshour

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BFBS 2 (Ni’sia 89.7, WSBA 89.9, ESBA 95.3 FM) 03.00 BFBS Radio News 03.03 BFBS Gold With Dave Windsor 04.00 Up All Night 07.00 Morning Reports 07.30 Wake Up To Money 08.00 Today 11.00 Simon Marlow 14.00 BFBS Gold With Dave Windsor 15.00 World At One 15.45 Simon Guettier 18.30 Sitrep 19.00 PM 20.00 6 O’clock News 20.30 Five Live Olympics 00.30 Late Night Live

LiveCyBC2 (91.1, 92.4 FM) 06.00-7.30 Programmes in Turkish with News at 7.30 07.40 Good morning Cyprus 10.00-12.00 Kalimerhamba 12.00 Gunortasa 12.45 Greek Cyprus Press 13.00 Turkish Music 13.15 News in Turkish 13.30 News in English 13.45 PM Classics 16.00 Greek Radio 16.15 Our country doesn’t divide 16.50 News in Turkish 17.00-18.00 Programmes in Armenian; News at 17.15 18.00-20.00 Round & About 20.00 News in English 20.10 Welcome to Cyprus in French and German 20.40 Ship of Fools with Robert Camassa 22.00 News in English 22.00 International Music 00.0006.00 Rebroadcast of the evening’s programme

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Street Kings 2: Motor City cile) with his estranged son, meanwhile pursued by both cops and robbers. Straight-to-video fare with lots of bloody mayhem, featuring (claim LTV with a straight face) “a superb cast including Raymond J. Barry, Michael Weatherly, James Russo and Tom Berenger”. If you say so, LTV. Made in 2009.

Street Kings 2: Motor City (Novacinema1, 22.00) It’s a good (i.e. bad) night for cheap violent movies in prime slots on pay-TV. Street Kings was a grittybut-generic cop drama with one unusual feature, the casting of dreamy Keanu Reeves as the toughest cop in LA; this straight-to-video sequel doesn’t even

have that - and in fact it’s not even a sequel, moving the action to the streets of Detroit where “the only way to serve and protect is to break the law,” according to the trailer. Ray Liotta is our hero (a more convincing cop than poor Canoe), teaming up with a young homicide detective to investigate the murder of his (Ray’s) partner, bumped off by a cop killer. “I’m saying I’m gonna do whatever it takes to catch the motherf***er who did this!” snarls Ray heroically - and the truth turns out to be a little more complex, the dead partner revealed as corrupt, but it’s still mostly shootings, blood, a touch of sex and a gruff Captain (in this case female) barking out orders. Missable, to put it mildly; made in 2011.

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07.50 Concert 09.30 Chef Ston Aera (rpt) Cooking show offering viewers quick, simple and economical recipes.

10.10 Reload Summer 12.00 Istories Tou Horkou (rpt) 13.00 Apo Mera Se Mera 15.30 Syn Plyn Local talk-show with studio discussion and viewers calling in.

17.00 Global Ideas (rpt) 17.30 Entehnos 18.00 News 18.15 O Simeos Theatrical production based on the life and work of a local archaeologist. Part 2 of 2.

19.15 Lemesos Me To Vlemma Strammeno Stin Thalassa (rpt) 20.00 News / Weather/ Financial Report 21.10 Vimata Stin Ammo Repeat of local period drama, based on true events.

21.45 I Limni (rpt) Two episodes of local mystery series.

22.15 Oi Mahes Ton Ellinon Documentary series on 20thcentury Greek history focusing on the battles (both military and ideological) that shaped modern day Greece.

23.10 Oi Erasters Ton Kimaton (rpt) 23.40 News 00.15 Baskerball Men’s Basketball Group A Game #23. Tunisia vs.

USA. 02.00 Repeats

01.15 Euronews 07.00 NRG Music Channel 11.30 Volleyball Men’s Group B Match #7. Serbia vs. Tunisia and Men’s Group A Match #9. Poland vs. Bulgaria.

13.30 Tennis And Sailing Tennis Order of play available evening before.

Men’s Finn - Race 5, Men’s 49er Race 3, Men’s RS-X - Race 1, Women’s Laser Radial - Race 3 and more.

16.00 Shooting Men’s Skeet - Final.

17.00 Diving Women’s Synch.

10m Platform Final.

17.45 Water Polo Men’s Group A Match #12. Greece vs. Italy.

19.10 Gymnastics Women’s Team Final.

20.30 Beach Volley Women’s Group A Match #14.

21.30 Swimming Men’s 100m Freestyle Semifinals, Women’s 200m Freestyle - Final, Men’s 200m Butterfly - Final, Women’s 200m Butterfly Semifinals, Men’s 200m Breaststroke - Semifinals, Women’s 200m IM - Finals and Men’s 4x200m Freestyle Finals.

23.20 Beach Volley Men’s Group C Match #18.

23.50 News In English 23.55 News In Turkish 01.30 Olympic New Channel

05.00 Krifa Monopatia (rpt) 05.45 Me Mou Les Antio (rpt) 06.30 Proini Enimerosi 07.00 Tis Ellados Ta Paidia (rpt) 07.30 Oi Men Kai Oi Den (rpt) 08.00 Fast Money (rpt) 08.45 Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) 09.30 To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) 10.20 To Evdomo Kleidi (rpt) 10.50 Deixe Mou To Filo Sou (rpt) 11.30 Santa Yiolanta (rpt) 12.15 Tin Patisa (rpt) 13.00 News 13.15 Galileo (rpt) 14.00 Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) 14.10 Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) 15.20 To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) 16.20 Krifa Monopatia (rpt) 17.10 Mi Mou Les Antio (rpt) 18.00 News 18.10 Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) 18.50 Tin Patisa (rpt) 19.30 Eva Luna 20.20 News 21.20 Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) 22.45 Enopion Tou Laou 23.40 News 23.45 Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) 00.35 Kai Oi Pantremenoi Ehoun Psihi 01.20 Ellas To Megaleio Sou (rpt) 02.10 Tmima Ithon (rpt) 03.00 News 03.50 Skertsakia (rpt) 04.10 Fili Zois (rpt)

MEGA 06.30 Paralliloi Dromoi (rpt) 07.00 Yia Sena (rpt)

08.40 Mia Stigmi Dio Zoes (rpt) 09.20 Dennis O Tromeros 10.00 Proino Mou 12.00 Yia Banaki 15.00 I Dada (rpt) Greek comedy series, based on the popular US sitcom.

16.10 I Ora I Kali (rpt) 17.40 Mia Stigmi Dio Zoes Greek drama series, based on the Latin American telenovela about mistaken identities.

18.20 News 18.30 Mousiko Kouti Greek game show, testing contestants on their music knowledge.

19.20 Peninta Peninta (rpt) 20.10 News 21.20 Eftyhismenoi Mazi (rpt) 22.20 I Zoi Pou Den Ezisa (rpt) 23.20 Singles (rpt) 00.00 News 00.10 The Shield Police drama series chronicling the turbulent day-today life of the Strike Team, a group of corrupt Los Angeles cops.

01.10 Yia Banaki (rpt) 04.15 Proino Mou (rpt)

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06.10 The Del Monte Heirs (rpt) 07.00 Erotas Me Epidotisi 07.45 An M’ Agapas 08.40 Oi Takkoi 10.00 Vourate Geitonoi (rpt) 11.00 I Kouzina Tis Mamas (rpt) 11.15 Eho Ena Mistiko (rpt) 12.00 Vasiliki (rpt) 12.50 Spiti Ki Egine (rpt) 13.40 Efialtis Stin Kouzina (rpt) 14.30 Oikogeneiakes Istories (rpt) 16.40 Baywatch (rpt) 17.30 Pame Paketo (rpt) With News at 18.00.

18.30 Tropico 19.10 The Del Monte Heirs Latin American telenovela.

20.20 News 21.20 Irthe Ki Edese 22.10 To Kokkino Domatio 23.20 The 4400 First season. ‘Pilot - Part Two. The returnees come to realise the world has moved on without them and that living a normal life is now an impossible dream.

Agents Baldwin and Skouris discover some of them have begun to exhibit mysterious abilities.

23.50 News 23.50 Sex And The City (rpt) 01.20 Istories Tou Astinomou Beka (rpt) 01.45 Allou Ximeromenoi (rpt) 02.20 Althinoi Erotes (rpt) 03.05 Eleni (rpt) 05.20 Tropico (rpt)

07.45 Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of 09.15 Kids’ TV 11.50 Ta Kopelia 12.30 Thema Gevsis 13.30 Star News 14.15 Kids’ TV 16.15 Exelixeis Stin Showbiz 16.45 Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of (rpt) 17.50 Mila Best Of (rpt) Discussions about various issues based on woman’s life.

18.50 Nistikoi Praktores (rpt) Cooking show, with helpful tips on eating well and nutrition.

19.40 Fotis Maria Live Best Of (rpt) 21.10 Exelixeis Stin Showbiz 22.00 The Forgotten Crime drama. ‘Mr John’. A man falls to his death from the top of a skyscraper after returning from overseas. When two people claim to be related to the deceased, the detectives examine the physical discipline of urban free running to determine which of them is telling the truth.

22.45 Supernatural (rpt) Fifth season of fantasy drama.

‘Good God, Y’all’.

Bobby, Sam, and Dean are asked to deal with a demon infestation in a town, but soon discover a more horrifying truth. Meanwhile, Castiel seeks the only entity that can defeat Lucifer.

23.30 LTV Sports News 00.30 Star News 01.00 Repeats

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Kids’ TV Call Of The Wild Deste Tous Greek FILM: Kouverantan Yia Olous Mila Mou Prasina FILM: Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius Story of golfer Bobby Jones, who wowed the sporting world with his prowess in the 1920s, but struggled to cope with the pressures of success. Biopic, starring Jim Caviezel. 2004.

O Anthropos Tis Thalassas Latin American telenovela.

Melrose Place Glossy drama following the lives of eight LA women who inhabit a plush apartment complex. With News at 18.30.

News Sports Time Rubi FILM: Excess Baggage A spoilt rich girl fakes her own kidnapping to get her father’s attention - only to get abducted for real. Comedy, with Alicia Silverstone.

1997.

FILM: Spartan Thriller, starring Val Kilmer. 2004. See Pick Of The Day. FILM: Blue Sky Army wife in the 1950s embarks on an affair with her husband’s commanding officer, prompting her to question her life and marriage Drama, starring Jessica Lange (who won an Oscar) and Tommy Lee Jones. 1994.

By Preston Wilder

Flirting With Flamenco (LTV3, 20.00) “Flamenco, Sylvia. All that sensual passion and fi re.

Not really you, is it?” says a bitchy friend - but she’s clearly got it wrong because sensible Sylvia (Holly Davidson) not only thrives in the world of Latin dancing but even gets the hot Spanish fl amenco teacher asking her to be his partner in the regional fl amenco contest (“But I’ve only been doing it for a couple of weeks,” bleats Sylvia, sensibly). Haven’t seen this British comedy-drama but it sounds like another case of Buttoned-Up Person Liberated by the Power of Dance, like Strictly Ballroom and that Jennifer Lopez thing whose name escapes me (Shall We Dance, was it?). “There’s nothing actually wrong with any of

it,” sighs a British viewer at the Internet Movie Database. “But somehow the whole is less than the sum of the parts ... In a way it missed its mark by going to cinema as I think it would have found a welcome home in the TV schedules.” Sounds about right - and at least it’s on the TV schedules now, so enjoy all that sensual passion and fi re. In a sensible way, of course. Made in 2006.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (LTV, 21.00) Why isn’t this a major cult movie?

Maybe because it tries too hard to be a major cult movie - but maybe

it’s also too smart for the pot-addled midnight crowd.

Kisses and bangs, to be sure - but also jokes, movie references and manic energy, sparked by a suitably wild Robert Downey Jr performance. He’s a petty thief posing as an actor in LA (what better place to pose as an actor?), teaming up with gay private eye Val Kilmer and his old highschool sweetheart - the petty thief’s, not the gay private eye’s - to solve a murder. Film buffs will enjoy it most, those who know that the title is taken from a book by Pauline Kael and the neo-noir plot is a sly riff

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

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Spartan on Chinatown, another fi lm about LA, family secrets and a smart-aleck innocent wising up. On the other hand, it’d take a very joyless person not to enjoy it at least a little bit: Downey narrates, cheerfully breaking the fourth wall, and trades banter with Kilmer as increasingly exasperated ‘Gay Perry’. “Look up ‘idiot’ in the dictionary, you know what you’ll fi nd?” “Um ...

A picture of me?” “No, the defi nition of the word ‘idiot’. Which you are!”. You tell him, Val. Made in 2005.

Spartan (Capital TV, 22.45) How much Val Kilmer can you handle? “My name’s Curtis,” says a guy named Curtis in this splendidly macho political thriller; “Do I need to know that?”

replies Val Kilmer. “If I want camaraderie, I’ll join the f***in’ Masons”. Val’s a secret agent and a bit of a maverick, trying to fi nd the scumbags who snatched the President’s daughter and sold her to a sex-slavery ring - but the fi lm’s real MVP is former playwright David Mamet (of Glengarry Glen Ross fame) who not only writes staccato dialogue but gives the fi lm a rhythm to match, taking out neat transitions and withholding information to keep the audience on their toes. The plot isn’t airtight - why would a girl in trouble draw a secret sign known only to her friends on the wall of her prison (as opposed to ‘Help’ or something)? - but the tone is sleek and Val is implacable. “Indicate that you heard me!” Made in 2004.

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07.45 Stin Poli Ton Oneiron Kai Ton Poiton No further details supplied.

09.30 Chef Ston Aera (rpt) Cooking show offering viewers quick, simple and economical recipes.

10.10 Reload Summer Local show aimed at teens.

11.30 Volleyball Women’s Group A - Match #13.

Dominican Republic vs. Japan.

13.00 Apo Mera Se Mera Current affairs programme.

15.30 Lottery Draw 15.35 Syn Plyn Local talk-show with studio discussion and viewers calling in.

17.00 Global Ideas (rpt) Documentary series.

17.30 Entehnos Local cultural programme.

18.00 News 18.15 Sharing An Island Local documentary.

See Pick Of The Day. 20.00 News / Weather/ Financial Report 21.00 Vimata Stin Ammo (rpt) Local period drama, based on true events.

21.30 Fencing Women’s Indiv.

Sabre - Bronze Medal Match, Men’s Indiv. Epee Gold Medal Match and Women’s Indiv.

Sabre - Gold Medal Match.

22.50 I Skoteini Plevra Tou Fengariou (rpt) Local drama series about drugs.

23.30 News 23.45 Repeats

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14.40 Basketball Women’s Basketball Group A Game #26. China vs. Angola.

16.00 Handball Women’s Handball Group B Match 15.

France vs. Sweden.

17.00 Diving Men’s Synch. 3m Springboard - Final.

17.45 News In English 17.55 News In Turkish 18.05 Judo 18.30 Gymnastics Men’s Individual All-Around.

21.30 Swimming Men’s 200m Breaststroke Final, Women’s 100m Freestyle SemiFinals, Men’s 200m Backstroke SemiFinals, Women’s 200m Butterfly Final, Men’s 100m Freestyle Final, Women’s 200m Breaststroke SemiFinals, Men’s 200m IM Semi-Finals and Women’s 4x200m Freestyle Finals.

23.30 Beach Volleyball Men’s Group D Match #31.

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20.20 News 21.20 Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) Local smash-hit comedy series, with village setting.

22.45 Einai Stigmes (rpt) 23.30 News 23.45 Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) 00.35 Kai Oi Pantremenoi Ehoun Psihi 01.20 Ellas To Megaleio Sou (rpt) 02.10 Tmima Ithon (rpt) 02.45 News 03.50 Skertsakia (rpt) 04.10 Fili Zois (rpt)

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16.10 I Ora I Kali (rpt) 17.40 Mia Stigmi Dio Zoes Greek drama series.

18.20 News 18.30 Mousiko Kouti Greek game show, testing contestants on their music knowledge.

19.20 Peninta Peninta (rpt) Greek comedy series.

20.10 News 21.20 Eftyhismenoi Mazi (rpt) 22.20 I Zoi Pou Then Ezisa (rpt) 23.20 Singles (rpt) 00.00 News 00.10 The Shield Police drama series chronicling the turbulent day-today life of the Strike Team, a group of corrupt Los Angeles cops.

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07.00 Erotas Me Epidotisi 07.45 An M’ Agapas 08.40 Oi Takkoi 10.00 Vourate Geitonoi (rpt) 11.00 I Kouzina Tis Mamas (rpt) 11.15 Eho Ena Mistiko (rpt) 12.00 Vasiliki (rpt) 12.50 Spiti Ki Egine (rpt) 13.40 Efialtis Stin Kouzina (rpt) 14.30 Oikogeneiakes Istories (rpt) 16.40 Baywatch (rpt) 17.30 Pame Paketo (rpt) With News at 18.00.

18.15 Tropico 19.10 The Del Monte Heirs 20.20 News 21.20 Irthe kai Edese 22.10 To Kokkino Domatio 23.30 The 4400 First season. ‘The New and Improved Carl Morrissey’.

One of the 4400 returned abductees uses his new-found powers to become a vigilante and fight crime in his neighbourhood - a decision that proves fatal.

Meanwhile, Lily is thrown in jail for violating the restraining order while looking in on her daughter and ex-husband’s new life.

23.45 News 23.50 Sex And The City (rpt) 00.45 Istories Tou Astinomou Beka (rpt) 01.45 Allou Ximeromenoi (rpt) 02.20 Alithinoi Erotes (rpt) 03.05 Eleni (rpt) 05.20 Tropico (rpt)

07.45 Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of 09.15 Kids’ TV 11.50 Ta Kopelia Local comedy series.

12.30 Thema Gevsis Cookery show.

13.30 Star News 14.15 Kids’ TV 16.15 Exelixeis Stin Showbiz 16.45 Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of (rpt) 17.50 Mila Best Of (rpt) Discussions about various issues based on woman’s life.

18.50 Nistikoi Praktores (rpt) Cooking show, with helpful tips on eating well and nutrition.

19.40 Fotis Maria Live Best Of (rpt) 21.10 Exelixeis Stin Showbiz 22.00 FILM: Mad City A disgruntled security guard takes a group of innocent museumgoers hostage in a bid to gain attention from his employer.

Drama, starring John Travolta and Dustin Hoffman.

1997.

23.30 Supernatural (rpt) Fifth season of fantasy drama.

‘Free to Be You and Me’. Sam vows to stop hunting, but has difficulty keeping to his decision when he receives a surprise visit. Dean and Castiel try to find the Archangel Raphael in their bid to stop the Apocalypse.

00.50 LTV Sports News 01.50 Star News 02.40 Repeats

CAPITAL 08.00 10.30 11.00 11.30 13.15 15.00 17.20 18.15 19.15 19.50 20.05 21.00

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Kids’ TV Magikos Kosmos I Kori Tou Mistral Deste Tous Greek FILM: O Thiroros Mas Apodrasi Ston Athina O Anthropos Tis Thalassas Melrose Place With News at 18.30.

News Sports Time Rubi FILM: Jack Reed: Death And Vengeance A Chicago police detective links immigrant murders to a Russian con artist, not a local labour dispute.

Action, starring Brian Dennehy 1996.

FILM: The Premonition A police officer survives a horrific car crash, but after he recovers, he begins to have visions of impending disasters. Thriller, starring Casper Van Dien. 2004.

FILM: Hollywood Flies An Italian expat and his sister set out on a trip across America, but their decision to pick up two hitchhikers puts them in danger. Crime drama, starring Vinnie Jones.

20054.

FILM: My Name is Modesty A woman running a casino engages in a battle of wits with a bandit leader who has taken the customers hostage.

Crime thriller, starring Alexandra Staden. 2003.

By Preston Wilder

Sharing an Island (CyBC1, 18.15) You’d be forgiven for assuming that CyBC’s scheduling department are all on holiday this week (since our state channel’s schedule is mostly made up of Olympics coverage) - but someone must be in the office because they’ve come up with this excellent tie-in, marking the Limassol Documentary Festival (which starts tonight) with daily documentaries in the late-afternoon slot. Tomorrow’s sounds especially good (Blood in the Mobile, a Danish doc exploring the links between the

war in Congo and minerals used in the manufacture of mobile phones) but today’s is also worthwhile, an earnest plea for bicommunal harmony. Six young Cypriots - three from each side - share a house for five days and travel across the island, telling stories from their respective pasts and looking forward to a future together; the result is a case of preaching to the converted, but still very heartfelt (things get quite emotional) and certainly more interesting than the usual fluffy talk-shows in this slot. In English, Greek and Turkish; made in 2011.

Sharing an Island

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (LTV, 21.00) I seem to be the only person who likes Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, but I have a secret weapon: I can’t stand the smug, self-regarding Matthew McConaughey which is usually a problem when it comes to enjoying Matthew McConaughey fi lms but in this case is an asset, because his character is supposed to be obnoxious. He’s a fashion photographer and inveterate ladies’ man, fi rst seen breaking up with three girls simultaneously via video-conference; “Love is magical comfort-food for the weak and uneducated,” he scoffs, putting it on a par with “the Easter Bunny and strippers with a heart of gold” - but things change when he goes to his brother’s wedding, gets reunited

Charlie St. Cloud (Novacinema4, 22.30) 07:00 Baboons With Bill Bailey 07:25 Corwin’s Quest 08:15 Dick ‘N’ Dom Go Wild 08:40 Breed All About It 09:10 Growing Up... 10:05 Monster Bug Wars 11:00 Wildlife Sos 11:25 Gorilla School 11:55 Animal Cops Houston 12:50 Rescue Vet 13:45 Animal Precinct 14:40 Monster Bug Wars 15:30 Baboons With Bill Bailey 16:00 Dick ‘N’ Dom Go Wild 16:30 Natural Born Hunters 17:25 Trophy Cats 18:20 Dogs 101 19:15 Wildlife Sos 19:40 Gorilla School 20:10 Living With The Wolfman 20:35 Animal Battlegrounds 21:05 Monster Bug Wars 22:00 Wildest Latin America 22:55 Speed Of Life 23:50 Animal Cops Houston 00:45 I’m Alive 01:40 Untamed & Uncut 02:35 Wildest Latin America 03:30 Speed Of Life 04:25 Monster Bug Wars 05:20 Living With The Wolfman 05:45 Animal Battlegrounds 06:10 Rescue Vet

07:00 Teletubbies 07:25 The Roly Mo Show 07:40 Forget Me Not Farm 07:55 Fimbles 08:15 Teletubbies 08:40 The Roly Mo Show 08:55 Forget Me Not Farm 09:10 Fimbles 09:30 After You’ve Gone 10:00 2 Point 4 Children 10:30 The Weakest Link 11:15 Eastenders 11:45 Doctors 12:15 Bleak House 13:15 London Hospital 14:05 Lead Balloon 14:35 After You’ve Gone 15:05 2 Point 4 Children 15:35 Eastenders 16:05 Doctors 16:35 Bleak House 17:35 London Hospital 18:25 The Weakest Link 19:10 Eastenders 19:40 Doctors 20:10 Casualty 21:00 My Family 21:30 Beautiful People 22:00 Life On Mars 22:50 Roger & Val Have Just Got In 23:20 Last Of The Summer Wine 23:50 Going For Gold - The 48’ Games

07:00 Fifth Gear 07:25 Dirty Jobs 08:15 Deadliest Catch 09:10 Extreme Fishing 10:05 Mythbusters 11:00 How Do They Do It? 11:30 Destroyed In Seconds 11:55 Ultimate Survival 12:50 Wheeler Dealers 13:20 Wheeler Dealers 13:45 Futurecar 14:40 American Chopper 15:35 Dirty Jobs 16:30 Mythbusters 17:25 Deadliest Catch 18:20 Extreme Fishing 19:15 River Monsters 20:10 How It’s Made 20:40 How Do They Do It? 21:05 Flying Wild Alaska 22:00 Gold Rush 22:55 Extreme Fishing 23:50 River Monsters 00:45 Hillbilly Handfishin’ 01:40 Flying Wild Alaska 02:40 Extreme Fishing 03:40 River Monsters 04:40 Hillbilly Handfishin’ 05:35 How It’s Made 06:00 Overhaulin’

04:00 Diving: Summer Olympic Games London 05:00 Weightlifting: Summer Olympic Games London 06:00 Gymnastics: Summer Olympic Games London 07:00 Olympic Games: Together To London 07:30 Olympic Games: English Breakfast 09:30 Swimming: Summer Olympic Games London 10:30 Multisports: Summer Olympic Games London 12:00 Swimming: Summer Olympic Games London 15:00 Cycling: Summer Olympic Games London 15:45 Multisports: Summer Olympic Games London 16:55 Olympic Games: London Eye 17:00 Cycling: Summer Olympic Games London 18:00 Weightlifting: Summer Olympic Games London 19:15 Gymnastics: Summer Olympic Games London 21:25 Olympic Games: London Eye 21:30 Swimming: Summer Olympic Games London 23:15

ber Four 16:10 Something Borrowed 18:05 Films & Stars 18:40 Don Juan De Marco 20:20 La Fille De Monaco 22:00 Shoot’em Up 23:30 Color Of Money 01:35 Company Men 03:25 Cine News 04:25 Marrying Man

20:00 The Conversation 22:00 Worst Nightmare 23:00 Leaves Of Grass 00:50 Cine News 01:30 Mafia Girls 04:05 Superpepito

19:15 You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger 21:00 Enid 22:30 Charlie St. Cloud 00:10 Cemetery Junction

Olympic Games: Together To London 23:45 Diving: Summer Olympic Games London 00:15 Volleyball: Summer Olympic Games London 01:30 Weightlifting: Summer Olympic Games London 02:30 Swimming: Summer Olympic Games London

05:30 The Amazing Race 06:15 Family Guy 07:05 Lost 07:50 How I Met Your Mother 08:40 Terriers 09:25 Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior 10:10 The Amazing Race 10:55 Family Guy 11:45 Lost 12:30 How I Met Your Mother 13:20 Terriers 14:05 Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior 14:50 Lights Out 16:20 The Amazing Race 17:05 Family Guy 17:55 Lost 18:40 How I Met Your Mother 19:30 Terriers 20:15 Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior 21:00 Lights Out 22:30 Terriers 23:20 Lights Out 00:50 The Amazing Race 01:40 Family Guy 02:30 Lost 03:15 The Life & Times Of Tim 03:45 How I Met Your Mother 04:35 Terriers

07:00 Pawn Stars 08:00 Ancient Aliens 09:00 Britain At War 10:00 Pawn Stars 11:00 Ax Men 12:00 American Pickers 13:00 American Restoration 13:30 Pawn Stars 14:00 Britain At War 15:00 Ancient Aliens 16:00 American Pickers 17:00 American Restoration 17:30 Pawn Stars 18:00 Britain At War 19:00 Ancient Aliens 20:00 Pawn Stars 21:00 Ax Men 22:00 Lock N’ Load 23:00 Top Shot 00:00 Pawn Stars 01:00 Ax Men 02:00 Lock N’ Load 03:00 Top Shot 04:00 Ancient Aliens 05:00 Britain At War 06:00 Ax Men

07:30 Double Jeopardy 09:30 Hotel For Dogs 11:30 Creation 13:30 Too Big To Fail 15:30 Action Zone 16:10 Videofashion 16:45 Lost In Space 19:00 Friends 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past 23:00 Lesbian Vampire Killers 00:35 Hustler TV 02:30 American History X 04:45 Due Date 06:30 LTV Sports News

07:00 Baby Looney Tunes 07:25 Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs 08:15 Steven Spielberg Presents Tiny Toon Adventures 08:40 Loonatics Unleashed 09:05 Scooby-Doo Where Are You! 09:30 Superman: The Animated Series 09:55 Big Car-

toonie Show 10:20 Tak & The Power Of Juju 10:45 Fanboy & Chum Chum 11:10 X’s 11:35 Ni Hao, Kai-Lan 12:00 Dora The Explorer 12:25 Spongebob Squarepants 13:15 Mighty B! 13:40 My Life As A Teenage Robot 14:05 Hey Arnold! 14:30 Icarly 15:20 Legion Of Super Heroes 17:00 Makeover: Hunt Dog Edition 17:30 2011 World’s Strongest Man 18:00 ATP World Tour Uncovered 19:00 PGA Tour Classic Films 20:00 2009 International Speed Pool Challenge 22:00 Best Soccer Games Of The Season: Primera Division 00:00 Isu World Figure Skating Championship 02:30 Best Soccer Games Of The Season: Primera Division 04:30 Best Soccer Games Of The Season: Barclay’s Premier League 06:30 Spirit Of Yachting

07:15 According To Jim 08:00 Big Bang Theory 08:25 Sons Of Anarchy 10:05 Two And A Half Men 10:30 Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles 11:15 Chuck 12:45 Supernatural 13:30 According To Jim 14:20 Sons Of Anarchy 16:05 Friends 16:30 Trust Me 17:15 Hawaii Five-0 18:45 Supernatural 19:30 Desperate Housewives 20:15 House M.D. 21:00 United States Of Tara 21:30 Boardwalk Empire 23:30 Desperate Housewives 00:15 Chloe 02:00 8 Seconds 03:50 Friends 04:15 Trust Me 05:00 Hawaii Five-0 06:30 Desperate Housewives

08:30 Legend Of 1900 10:45 Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 13:15 Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun-Li 15:00 Action Zone 15:30 Batman Begins 18:00 Free Willy 20:00 Alice In Wonderland (2010) 22:00 All The President’s Men 00:20 Daring! TV 04:05 Inception 06:45 Crimson Wing : Mystery Of The Flamingos

06:10 The Edge Of Love 08:00 Alfie 09:45 Habemus Papam 11:40 Happy Gilmore 13:15 The Portrait Of A Lady 15:40 Oranges And Sunshine 17:30 Water For Elephants 19:35 Spotlight On 20:15 Happy thank you more please 22:00 It’s Kind Of A Funny Story 23:50 The Woman Who Dreamed Of A Man 01:30 Along Came A Spider 03:15 Old School 04:45 Cine News

06:15 Thor 08:15 My Life So Far 09:50 Cine News 10:35 Just Go With It 12:35 America’s Sweethearts 14:20 I Am Num-

21:00 The Owl And The Pussycat 22:45 Three On A Couch

03:30 Golf Now - Dominican Republic 04:00 Nationwide Tour Highlights Nationwide Children’s Hospital Invitational 05:00 MLB: Arizona Diamondbacks at Los Angeles Dodgers 08:00 PGA Tour Highlights RBC Canadian Open 09:00 Golf Central International 09:30 Mobil 1 The Grid 10:00 MLB: Arizona Diamondbacks at Los Angeles Dodgers 13:00 Props 7 Euro BMX 13:30 Props 7 Four Corners 14:00 Wrecked I Just Need a Good Wreck 14:30 101 Cars You Must Drive The Bird is the Word 15:00 Web. com Tour WEB.COM Children’s Hospital Invitational Final Rd. 17:00 Inside the PGA Tour 17:30 Mobil 1 The Grid 18:00 MLB: Arizona Diamondbacks at Los Angeles Dodgers 21:00 PRE GAME(E) 21:15 CHAMPIONSHIP LAIKI POPULAR BANK 2011-12: APOLLON VS NEA SALAMINA (E) 23:15 POST GAME (E) 23:30 Props 7 Four Corners 00:00 Wrecked I Just Need a Good Wreck 00:30 101 Cars You Must Drive The Bird is the Word 01:00 Golf Central International

07:00 Globe Trekker 08:00 Planet Sports 09:00 Megalopolis 10:00 Glutton For Punishment 11:00 The Thirsty Traveler 11:30 Chef Abroad 12:00 Globe Trekker 13:00 Planet Sports 14:00 Planet Food 15:00 Flavours Of Chile 16:00 Globe Trekker 17:00 The Thirsty Traveler 17:30 Chef Abroad 18:00 Glutton For Punishment 19:00 Globe Trekker 20:00 American Civil War Trail 21:00 Cruising The Amazon 22:00 Third Class Traveller 23:00 Globe Trekker 00:00 Planet Sports 01:00 American Civil War Trail 02:00 Cruising The Amazon 03:00 Third Class Traveller 04:00 Globe Trekker 05:00 Glutton For Punishment 06:00 The Thirsty Traveler 06:30 Chef Abroad

06.00 Ada 07.45 Clash By Night 09.30 Day They Robbed The Bank Of England, The 10.55 The Letter 12.30 Ziegfeld Follies 14.15 Tribute to a Bad Man 15.50 Travels With My Aunt 17.35 Swan, The 19.20 Casablanca 21.00 What’s Up, Doc? 22.35 Dark Of The Sun 00.15 Rhapsody 02.10 White Heat 04.00 The Sea Of Grass

BBC World Service (1323 MW) 00:01 BBC News 00:06 The Documentary: An Unspeakable Act 00:30 BBC News Summary 00:32 Click 00:50 From Our Own Correspondent 01:01 BBC News 01:06 World Briefing 01:30 BBC News Summary 01:32 World Business Report 01:50 Sports News 02:01 BBC News 02:06 World Briefing 02:30 BBC News Summary 02:32 Business Daily 02:50 Sports News 03:01 BBC News 03:06 World Briefing 03:30 BBC News Summary 03:32 World Business Report 03:50 Witness 04:01 BBC News 04:06 HARDtalk 04:30 BBC News Summary 04:32 Outlook 05:01 BBC News 05:06 Newsday 05:30 BBC News Summary 05:32 Newsday 06:01 BBC News 06:06 Newsday 06:30 BBC News Summary 06:32 Click 06:50 From Our Own Correspondent 07:01 BBC News 07:06 Newsday 07:30 BBC News Summary 07:32 The Strand 07:50 Witness 08:01 BBC News 08:06 Newsday 08:30 BBC News Summary 08:32 Newsday 09:01 BBC News 09:06 Newsday 09:30 BBC News Summary 09:32 Newsday 10:01 BBC News 10:06 Outlook 10:30 BBC News Summary 10:32 Business Daily 10:50 From Our Own Correspondent 11:01 BBC News 11:06 HARDtalk 11:30 BBC News Summary 11:32 Click 11:50 Sports News 12:01 BBC News 12:06 World Update 12:30 BBC News Summary 12:32 World Update 13:01 BBC News 13:06 World Briefing 13:30 BBC News Summary 13:32 The Strand 13:50 Witness 14:01 BBC News 14:06 World Have Your Say 14:30 BBC News Summary 14:32 Business Daily 14:50 Sports News 15:01 BBC News 15:06 Newshour 15:30 BBC News Summary 15:32 Newshour 16:01 BBC News 16:06 HARDtalk 16:30 BBC News Summary 16:32 Outlook 17:01 BBC News 17:06 World Briefing 17:30 BBC News Summary 17:32 Click 17:50 From Our Own Correspondent 18:01 BBC News 18:06 World Briefing 18:30 BBC News Summary 18:32 Sport Today 18:50 Witness 19:01 BBC News 19:06 World Briefing 19:30 BBC News Summary 19:32 World Business Report 20:01 BBC News 20:06 World Have Your Say 20:30 BBC News Summary 20:32 World Have Your Say 21:01 BBC News 21:06 World Briefing 21:30 BBC News Summary 21:32 Business Daily 21:50 From Our Own Correspondent 22:01 BBC News 22:06 Outlook 22:30 BBC News Summary 22:32 The Strand 22:50 Witness 23:01 BBC News 23:06 Newshour 23:30 BBC News Summary 23:32 Newshour

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(N’sia 91.7, WSBA 92.1, ESBA 99.6 FM) 02.00 BFBS Bass’d 04.00 BFBS Shuffle 05.00 Ops Breakfast 06.00 Cyprus Breakfast With Neil Skinner 09.00 Chris Pearson 11.00 Charlie Fife 13.00 Total Ops Connection 15.00 Wez Thompson 18.00 Charlene Guy 21.00 Jessie Aru 00.00 BFBS Rocks

BFBS 2 (Ni’sia 89.7, WSBA 89.9, ESBA 95.3 FM) 03.00 BFBS Radio News 03.03 BFBS Gold With Dave Windsor 04.00 Up All Night 07.00 Morning Reports 07.30 Wake Up To Money 08.00 Today 11.00 Simon Marlow 14.00 BFBS Gold With Dave Windsor 15.00 World At One 15.45 Simon Guettier 19.00 PM 20.00 6 O’Clock News 4 20.30 Five Live Olympics 00.30 Late Night Olympics

LiveCyBC2 (91.1, 92.4 FM) 06.00-7.30 Programmes in Turkish with News at 7.30 07.40 Good morning Cyprus 10.00-12.00 Kalimerhamba 12.00 Gunortasa 12.45 Greek Cyprus Press 13.00 Turkish Music 13.15 News in Turkish 13.30 News in English 13.45 PM Classics 16.00 Greek Radio 16.15 Our country doesn’t divide 16.50 News in Turkish 17.00-18.00 Programmes in Armenian; News at 17.15 18.00-20.00 Round & About 20.00 News in English 20.10 Welcome to Cyprus in French and German 20.40 Ship of Fools with Robert Camassa 22.00 News in English 22.00 International Music 00.00-06.00 Rebroadcast of the evening’s programme

Radio Napa (106.3 FM) 06.00 Morning Music 08.30 BBC World Today 09.00 News, Weather and Exchange 09.05 Nathan Morley 12.00 BBC News 12.06 Lunchtime Classics 15.00 BBC News 15.06 Chris Yearley 18.00 News 18.06 Michael Godin 19.00 The Juke Box 98.5 Rock FM The Breakfast Show - Tony Newell - 07:00-10:00 2 Hours With Bejay Browne 10:00-12:00 Rock Fm’s Lunch Box - Jason Collins - 12:00-14:00 Non Stop Music 14:00-15:00 Valentina 15:00-18:00 Monday - Tuesday - Thursday - Friday Liquid Radio Show - Pavlos - 15:00-18:00 Wednesday Drive Time - Johny G. 18:00-20:00 Monday - Tuesday Johny G. 18:00-20:00 Wednesday (Mix @ 6) The Cocktail Show - Antonis - 18:00-20:00 Thursday - Friday Panic In The Year Zero - 20:00-22:00 Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday Radioactive Metal - 20:00-22:00 - Thursday Live Dj Set- Dj Allen D 20:00-22:00 - Friday 22:00-24:00 The Gathering - With Your Hosts Dj Mr Smith And Mc Svennyb – Live Wednesday & Friday Night Train 24:00-07:00 Monday To Friday

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Shoot’ Em Up with an old sweetheart (Jennifer Garner) and starts seeing ghosts who take him back through a lifetime of casual encounters. It’s a mixture of The Hangover (written by the same people) and A Christmas Carol, and it works surprisingly well, funny and whimsical if perhaps a bit too laddish for the usual rom-com crowd. Does it also work if you like Matthew McConaughey? Sorry, can’t help you there. Made in 2009.

Shoot ’Em Up (Novacinema2, 22.00) How cartoonish is this action comedy? Note that Clive Owen (as our hero, ‘Mr. Smith’) likes to munch on a carrot, Bugs Bunny-style. How violent is this action comedy? Note that he uses the carrot as a back-

up weapon, taking out a thug with a bit of carrot-fu when all else fails. Clive is walking down the street minding his own business when he sees a heavily pregnant woman being chased by a gang of killers so of course he kills the killers, delivers the woman’s baby then tries to save the now-orphaned newborn from a bad guy (Paul Giamatti) who wants him dead.

Nice one, Clive. Also featuring Monica Bellucci as a lactating hooker (!), Clive and a villain having a shoot-out while skydiving (!!), Clive spanking some random woman (!!!) and other cult-movie madness, distracting from the fact that plot and characters range from weak to non-existent. How insane is this action comedy? Well ... pretty insane. Made in 2007.

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