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flamboyant boxer Prince Naseem Hamed) and his fellow asylum seekers, who are marooned on

a remote Hebridean island while they wait for their asylum applications to be processed. They

are put up in basic hotels in the back of beyond, are not allowed to work and have to queue at

the local phone box to call home. Omar has injured his hand so can’t even while away the hours
by playing his grandfather’s oud. The film was shot on North and South Uist, where Omar and

his fellow asylum seekers endure a cultural awareness lesson from an oddball pair of locals.

(104min) Joe Clay

Stan & Ollie (PG, 2018)
BBC1, 11.40pm

The dying days of Laurel and Hardy are the subject of this thoughtful and moving biopic. It is

set in 1953 and mostly in the UK during the duo’s initially inglorious theatre tour (doing classic

“bits” from their most popular films to almost empty regional venues). It is driven forward by a

series of deeply contemporary themes and ideas (the fake self versus the real self) and by the
unspoken tension and simmering resentments between our protagonists, astonishingly captured

by Steve Coogan as Stan Laurel and John C Reilly as Oliver Hardy. Thanks to impeccable

make-up effects, sharp vocal impersonation and two hugely empathetic characterisations, the

actors don’t just deliver impressions: they incarnate their subjects. (93min)

Radio choice, by Joe Clay

Radio 3 in Concert

Radio 3, 7.30pm

Radio 3 in Concert marks the 75th anniversary of Aldeburgh Festival. Martin Handley presents

four concerts from this year’s edition, which is recorded at or broadcast live from Snape

Maltings Concert Hall in Suffolk. Today you can hear a concert recorded on Saturday that
recreates the first Aldeburgh Festival concert, in 1948. The programme includes the premiere of

Robin Haigh’s trumpet concerto for Matilda Lloyd and Britten Sinfonia. Tomorrow Steven

Osborne features in a programme that combines the last two of Schubert’s sonatas with three

miniatures by Judith Weir.

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