Dead Long Enough

Reaching 40 is hard enough, even if you are not a TV personality who admits only to being 39. For Harry MacDonald, the presenter of a hip archaeological programme, the solutions are two-fold: first, he cuts off his trademark ponytail and shaves his head; second, he takes his three old university friends, Ben, Jan and the Wop, for a night in Ireland, returning to the pub where 15 years earlier he had encountered the mysteriously tattooed Schnade and her terrorist lover Styx . . .