![]() ![]() “You can’t film me pissing,” he said indignantly to the camera crew when using the facilities in one squat.“You can listen. Metacritic TV Reviews, A Young Doctors Notebook - Season 2, A doctor (Jon Hamm) recalls his time a small Russian village in 1917 and gives advice to his younger self (Daniel Radcliffe) in this blac. He was less revolted by squatting by the end of the film, but for most viewers the unintentional Partridgean comedy would have been the best reason for watching. And when he was taken “skipping” (retrieving food from supermarket bins), he appeared dazed by this well-reported activity: “I had no idea that this was going on.” “This is the most surreal conversation I’ve ever observed,” he said later, as he presided over an encounter between a landlord and the squatter who was occupying his building (quite a claim, incidentally, from a man who presented This Morning for 13 years). “I know nothing about squatting,” he announced, before adding that the idea had always filled him with revulsion. ![]() Madeley Meets the Squatters also turned out to be a tale of wide-eyed innocence bumping up against the realities of the world, the innocent in this case being Richard Madeley, who seemed keen to persuade us that his chief virtues as a reporter are ignorance and naivety. “Did I really use to look like that?” he says disbelievingly as he watches his younger self fluster over his first patient. Dealing not only with the superstitious and poorly educated patients, but also with his own inner demons, the young doctor reveals doubts about his own competence and struggles with the immense burden of medical responsibility'-Container. And even the older Bulgakov seems surprised by the changes time has wrought. Hamm plays Bulgakov, first seen sitting helplessly in his Moscow apartment as unfriendly commissars search his office for evidence of counter-revolutionary subversion, and Radcliffe plays his fictional alter ego, Dr Vladimir. So it’s mildly startling to find them playing the same man in A Young Doctor’s Notebook, Sky Arts’ version of Mikhail Bulgakov’s autobiographical short stories about his experiences in his first medical posting after graduation, a remote country hospital 32 miles from the nearest streetlights. He’s about six inches taller, quite apart from anything else, and though age does increase some measurements, height isn’t usually one of them. If you were to take a guess at what Daniel Radcliffe might look like 20 years from now, I’m not convinced you’d come up with Jon Hamm as your best shot. ![]()
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