I haven’t found the one you’re looking for, but here’s a compilation of narrow grotesques:

• AG Condensed
• Agency
• Alternate Gothic
• Anzeigen Grotesk
• Aurora Condensed
• Balboa Condensed
• Baucher Gothic
• Benton Sans
• Block Gothic Extra Condensed
• British Inserat
• Brown Condensed
• Champion Gothic
• Compacta
• FF DIN Condensed and DIN Engschrift
• Folio Extra Condensed
• Franklin Gothic Compressed
• Futura Condensed
• Garage Gothic
• FF Good Condensed
• Gothic No.13
• Hanseatic aka Swiss 924
• Helvetica Ultra Compressed
• Helvetica Inserat and Impact and Haettenschweiler
• Heroic Condensed
• House Gothic Condensed
• FF Hydra
• Interstate Compressed
• Kenyan Coffee
• Knockout
• Modula Sans
• Neuzeit Grotesk Black Extra Condensed
• News Gothic Condensed
• Optio Giant
• Permanent Headline
• Placard Condensed
• Plak Black Extra Condensed
• Plakette
• Press Gothic aka Metropol
• Railroad Gothic
• Raleigh Gothic
• Rhode
• ITC Roswell
• Social Gothic aka Informal Gothic
• Titling Gothic
• Trade Gothic
• Trump Gothic aka Signum
• Univers 39 and Bee

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Thanks Florian, a handy list of typefaces there. It's really frustrating that I can't find an exact match for this, I really need it for a project. I thought it might be part of the Flama Ultra-Condensed family, and there are some similar ones there, but again not quite what I need. I might try and contact the art director of the magazine I found it in.

Hey Deadbolt... did you have any feedback as to what this typeface was that was used in the sunday times magazine?