From Russian godfathers to the mean streets of Paris
The whole initially leisurely, elegantly directed, geographically far-flung series is fiction derived from investigative journalist Misha Glenny’s non-fiction book McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime
Reviewed this week
McMafia: BBC One
Spiral: BBC Four
The Real T Rex with Chris Packham: BBC Two
‘You can take the boy out of the bog, but you can’t take the bog out of the boy” is a bit of Irish begrudgery which, for all its mocking tone, sometimes conveys a little of the truth of an successful individual’s personality and their rise to prominence. That and phrases like “black cat, black ...
