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But Stewart has long confounded our notions of the ordinary and the extraordinary, and her brilliantly prismatic performance is both a natural extension of her image and a nervy departure from it. Her flinty naturalism took on a paradoxical radiance. Those means might look conventional on the surface: a blond wig, a British accent and an array of actorly mannerisms — hushed, breathy intonations, nervously darting eye movements — that are a little jarring on first encounter.

But by the time Diana arrives at Sandringham, where she retreats to her chambers and shows little intention of emerging, the illusion has eerily seized hold. And amid the shadows of Sandringham handsomely appointed by production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas , cinematic allusions spawn and multiply.

Diana, forever an outsider, has more meaningful interactions with her few allies on the palace staff, especially her favorite dresser, Maggie the always wonderful Sally Hawkins , who urges her to stay strong and power through.

More combative if not entirely unsympathetic is the equerry, Maj. Alistar Gregory an excellent Timothy Spall , who keeps the proceedings on schedule and warns Diana about the prying eyes of the paparazzi huddled outside their windows.

Sandringham happens to be located not far from the estate where she grew up — boarded up now, but still a potent repository of memories, rooted in happier, more innocent times.

Justin Chang has been a film critic for the Los Angeles Times since All Sections. But they are, they admitted, worried about him. Richard Ratcliffe, 46, is an accountant from West Hampstead, starving himself on the steps of the Foreign Office to plea for the UK government to secure the release of his wife, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, from Iranian prison.

Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian aid worker, was taking Gabriella to visit her Iranian parents when she was arrested in Tehran and found guilty of spying charges, which she has always denied, in There is something visceral about sitting with a man who is starving himself.

I returned the following afternoon to interview him, on day 13 of his hunger strike. He stopped feeling hungry on day three, but he was colder, weaker, more tired, his voice almost a whisper. He finds it tricky when Gabriella eats a packet of crisps in front of him, in the evenings when she joins him after school. His eyes are tired, but he is full of warmth and humour. Yeah, a lot of kindness. He has these moments of emotional intensity multiple times per hour — four times during our interview — which is a challenge as his hunger strike draws on.

Despite its notoriously bad weather, this stretch of coast didn't experience many shipwrecks, but the lighthouse was built to generally improve shipping safety. Along the walkway, look out for sea birds as well as fur seals and the odd Hector's dolphin and orca. Cape Foulwind, the surrounding cliffs and the offshore islets are important breeding and nesting grounds for sea birds.

These include sooty and fluttering shearwaters, fairy prions, and Australasian gannets. There are even some little blue penguin burrows on the lower slopes of predator-free Wall Island. The rocky islet opposite the fur seal colony may look small, but it is one of the most important seabird colonies on the West Coast.

A range of long-legged wading birds can also be seen around the wide beach of Tauranga Bay, including a variety of different tern, heron, dotterel, and oystercatcher species. Just don't be a stereotypical North Islander and whisper-shout "Kiwi! They're not nocturnal and they will steal your food don't feed them! Whatever the weather brings to you on the day, a walk along the Cape Foulwind walkway is an invigorating alternative — or supplement — to seeing those fabulous West Coast rainforest-meets-sea views from a vehicle on a road trip.

NZ Herald. Gourmet grazing along NZ's West Coast.