DEBORAH ROSS: Black Narcissus starring Aisling Franciosi is all so sinfully slooow, sister 

Black Narcissus BBC1, Sunday-Thursday Rating: The Serpent BBC1, Friday Rating: Black Narcissus is based on the novel by Rumer Godden and was famously filmed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger in 1947, starring Deborah Kerr, but what that told so successfully in under two hours, this doesn’t manage in three.  This was soooooooo slooooooooow. It’s a … Read more

Private hospitals taken over by the NHS in fight against coronavirus left ‘sinfully empty’

Private hospitals taken over by the NHS in fight against coronavirus at the cost of hundreds of millions of pounds are ‘sinfully empty’ – leaving hundreds of the country’s top doctors ‘bored’ and ‘twiddling their thumbs’ As the COVID-19 crisis spread, many private hospitals were taken by the NHS  Health staff across the country could … Read more