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Toby Manning

Toby Manning writes about TV, film, books and music and is currently completing a PhD on John le Carré and the cold war

January 2015

  • Gripping and scary … Clémence Poésy and Stephen Dillane in The Tunnel. Photograph: Sky

    Your next box set
    The Tunnel box set review: a Brit/French reworking of The Bridge with a style all its own

    Toby Manning: Stephen Dillane’s jokey, flirty Karl and Clémence Poésy’s po-faced oddball Elise are odd-couple cops who discover unexpected common ground in the hunt for the Truth Terrorist

September 2014

  • Bob Peck and Joanne Whalley in Edge of Darkness. Photograph: Alamy

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    Edge of Darkness box set review – a deep and doomy apocalyptic thriller

    Toby Manning: Bob Peck is mesmerising as a wry and heartbroken copper who stumbles into a nuclear conspiracy while trying to find his daughter’s killers

February 2014

  • Peter Egan and Zoe Wanamaker in Paradise Postponed

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    Paradise Postponed - box set review

    Toby Manning: John Mortimer's socialist riposte to Thatcherism is beautifully acted and simply oozes nostalgia for a bygone Britain

January 2014

  • Damian Lewis, Claire Danes in Homeland

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    Homeland – box set review

    Toby Manning: 'When was the last time you told the truth?' asks Carrie Mathison – it's a question that haunts this mesmerising, complex war-on-terror thriller

June 2013

  • The Sandbaggers

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    The Sandbaggers: box set review

    Toby Manning: This 70s spy drama about a cold war dirty tricks department is cynical, tough – and has a compelling star in Roy Marsden's brute in a well-cut suit

December 2011

  • BRITAIN GUINNESS

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    Your next box set: Smiley's People

    John le Carré's Smiley's People is next for the big screen treatment – but can it match the masterly BBC series starring Alec Guinness, asks Toby Manning

September 2011

  • Sex kitten with claws: Diana Rigg as Mrs Peel in the Avengers.

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    Your next box set: The Avengers

    The 60s "spy-fi" series is a gaudy and glamorous antidote to the archetypal gloomy depictions of cold war espionage

June 2011

  • Blue Valentine

    The mystery behind Blue Valentine

    Toby Manning: The strange tale of how an unreleased 1970 demo by a band nobody knows became a sleeper hit

May 2011

  • Captain Laure Berthaud in Spiral

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    Your next box set: Spiral

    Gritty, grimy and Gallic, the endlessly twisting police procedural Spiral is every bit the equal of The Wire or The Killing

March 2011

  • THE THICK OF IT your next box set

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    Your next box set: The Thick of It

    The Thick Of It creates an outrageously ugly picture of politics – and still makes you laugh, and laugh, writes Toby Manning

January 2011

  • Alec Guinness as George Smiley

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    Your next box set: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

  • Toby Manning

    My father the stranger

February 2003

  • Pirate paranoia

    Since the advent of the unholy trinity of internet, MP3 and CD burner, the music industry has gone into piracy tailspin. Toby Manning feels like a hunted man

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