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The Way review: It's a scandal that Michael Sheen is allowed to spout his divisive poison on BBC1... I give it NO STARS, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS


CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Actor and director Michael Sheen 's spittle-flecked revolutionary rant The Way (BBC1) began with incoherent fury.

Dozens of Welsh refugees in a shanty town, living under tarpaulins, suddenly produced pristine red-hooded cloaks as identical disguises. Owen's East European girlfriend, Anna, suffered a complete personality transplant, changing from fiery freedom fighter to doe-eyed gormless sweetheart clinging on his arm. Fragments of 20th-century imagery crackled across the screen — a Carry On excerpt, a flash of Benny Hill, the cast of Dad's Army, footage of cricket on the village green, Floral Dance played by a brass band.

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