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A week weeping.

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(From The Daily Star)

Byline: MIKE WARD

I CAN'T believe how many shows had me shedding a tear last week. There were the final moments of that Doctor Who special, the conclusion of BBC2's excellent fly-on-the-wall effort The Choir (which I'd Sky-plussed and finally got around to watching) - and, most weep-inducing of the lot, the return of Challenge Anneka (ITV1, Boxing Day), helping all those poor sods in tsunami-struck Sri Lanka. Cynics can sneer all they like at shows like this. Me, I reckon you must have something a bit wrong in the head if you weren't deeply moved by the extraordinary achievements of Anneka and her workforce of volunteer ...

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