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Sunday 12 October 2008

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Style and Travel

The magic of Morocco

The most memorable thing about Orson Welles’s film Othello — he gave one of his hammier performan-ces as the Moor, Micheál MacLiammóir played Iago as an old queen and Desdemona was completely lifeless even before her death — was the ramparts of Essaouira and the sea pounding below them. Welles shot much of the film here on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, and the town of Essaouira (then called Mogador under the French protectorate) showed its gratitude by naming a square after him.

Call of the wild

One Highlands estate is to become a wilderness reserve, writes Lisa Marie Johnson

To the manner born

James Sherwood discovers a new meaning to the phrase ‘fashion house’

The scars of war

Andrew Roberts is moved by the battlefields of southern Italy and the sacrifices made there

Home suite home

James Waldron investigates the new fashion for buying your own hotel room

Arts

In the doldrums

Hole in the Wall (BBC1, Saturday); American Future: A History (BBC2, Friday); John Adams (More 4, Saturday)

Fickle fortune

Tulips in Winter (BBC Radio 3); Soul and Skin (BBC Radio 4)

Books

The Best of Punch Cartoons

The Best of Punch Cartoons, by Helen Walasek

Terrors of the imagination

The Beacon, by Susan Hill

Style & Travel

Americans in Paris

Kimberly Quinn visits her mum, who deserted Beverly Hills for the French capital

All roads lead to Avignon

Sarah Carr-Gomm on Avignon

Amid the financial turmoil, Peter versus George is the key battle

Stand by for a mighty clash between two politicians, says Fraser Nelson. The now infamous dinner between Mandelson and Osborne was a cordial parting for power-brokers of different generations who will fight each other savagely for electoral advantage

Fraser Nelson

Maybe Polanski was right to flee America

P.G. Morgan goes in search of the truth about the great director’s flight from the US courts — and uncovers some uncomfortable truths worthy of a scene in Chinatown

P.G. Morgan

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