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push((api) => api.addSlot({"key":"card","index":"1","searchTerm":null,"fullSearchTerm":null})); Brian May: The Badgers, the Farmers and Me 2024 Documentary and factual News and current affairs Summary: Queen guitarist Brian May has long been a critic of the practice of culling the badger population in the UK, which is used to stop the spread the of bovine TB. He believes the animals are being scapegoated and killed needlessly, and has sponsored a research programme into the causes of the disease.
This documentary following the rock star as he takes his case to a sceptical farming community, hoping to persuade enough of them to back his radical plans to stop the cull and help cure the cattle RT says:: Queen guitarist Brian May is a passionate voice in support of animal rights. “To me, it’s a mission,” he has said. “I feel we have a terrible debt to pay back to the creatures of this planet.
” Which is one reason he’s championed the cause of Britain’s badger population, wrongly blamed, he argues, for the spread of bovine TB. For this documentary, he tries to bring the polarised sides of the issue together: farmers understandably fearful for their cattle and outraged animal rights groups. “You realise in the end that shouting doesn’t do anyone any good,” May says, “because everybody’s trying to solve the problem.
” Is there a solution that could protect both cattle and badgers? Previews of the programme weren’t available, but it should be a thoughtful look at a burning issue for the countryside. Coincidentally, BBC4 majors on the more noodling side of May’s career tonight, with a string of Queen-focused repeats, starting at 10pm with Queen at the BBC. Two Freddie Mercury documentaries and The Story of Bohemian Rhapsody follow.
They will rock you. DAVID BUTCHER How to watch Pachinko 2022 Romance Drama 15 Summary: Based on Min Jin Lee's best-selling novel and adapted for the screen by Soo Hugh, Pachinko is a sweeping drama of forbidden love and longing told in Korean, Japanese and English as the story of a Korean immigrant family across four generations criss-crosses continents. Beginning in the early 1900s in South Korea, the saga follows resourceful matriarch Sunja (Youn Yuh-jung) as she triumphs against the odds on a quest to thrive away from her homeland.
Her struggles contrast, some 80 years later, with the affairs of her grandson Solomon (Jin Ha), who has been raised and educated in the west. Series 2 episode 1 — RT says:: Having skipped most of the Second World War, this masterful, epic drama following Korean exiles in wartime Japan, and the same family two generations later, returns. In Osaka in 1945, fear of a devastating US attack is growing, but for Sunja (Minha Kim), keeping her family fed is hard enough.
In 1989, her grandson is still struggling to be accepted as a Korean businessman in Tokyo. As ever, each scene is profound and beautifully shot, but with the lightest of dramatic touches; and although the show is inspired by the experiences of Koreans who came to colonial Japan at the start of the 20th century and never left, its depiction of the immigrant experience — and of making one’s way in a world that can be harsh and confusing — is universally recognisable. JACK SEALE How to watch Lady in the Lake 2024 Mystery Thriller Summary: Oscar winner Natalie Portman and Moses Ingram headline a seven-part limited series created and directed by Alma Har'el set in 1966 Baltimore.
A young girl vanishes without trace on Thanksgiving and the story grips concerned citizens. Jewish housewife Maddie Schwartz (Portman) embraces her dream to become an investigative journalist by seeking uncomfortable answers about the disappearance. Her enquiries lead her to fiercely determined mother Cleo Johnson (Moses Ingram), who is firmly tethered to political struggles within the city Episode 7 — RT says:: Beguiling and unsettling to the end, this fine drama delivers a finale in which every scene has a line or an image to savour.
Maddie (Natalie Portman) is handed the story that could make her career, as her narrative entangles with Cleo’s, and the criminals who run half of Baltimore come under threat from people who have nothing left to lose. Though Lady in the Lake has lost track of a few plot strands along the way, its unique flavour has steadily intensified. JACK SEALE How to watch Sven Documentary and factual Drama 2024 Claudia Corbisiero Summary: A documentary portrait of former football manager and player Sven-Göran Eriksson including his battle with pancreatic cancer RT says:: ”Whoever it is that said life is too short is right!” Former England football coach Sven-Goran Eriksson’s terminal cancer diagnosis lends this biography an affectingly wistful tone, as he surveys the beautiful landscapes of his homeland of Sweden and reflects on a career that took him far and wide.
His success as a manager is remembered (by David Beckham, among others), alongside a private life studded with beautiful women that was catnip to UK tabloids. There is much to look back at. JACK SEALE How to watch (window.
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addSlot({"key":"card","index":"2","searchTerm":null,"fullSearchTerm":null})); BBC Proms Music Summary: Annual classical music extravaganza. RT says:: This concert, held last Friday and hosted by Clive Myrie, delivers a lot of capital Ms and contented mmms. Anthony McGill is performing Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A, a heavenly work he’s been playing for some 35 years and likens to “the most beautiful, intricate, chamber-style opera.
In fact, the clarinet almost mimics the sound of a soprano at some points.” This is McGill’s Proms debut. Then we have Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
It’s subtitled “incidental music” because it was conceived to accompany the play in 1840s Prussia, and tonight’s performance is augmented with Shakespearean readings. Everyone will be familiar with the Wedding March from this work. Following her success last year with The Firebird, New Zealander Gemma New returns for a second season conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and NYCOS Chamber Choir.
PATRICK MULKERN How to watch Darts City Episode 2 Documentary and factual News and current affairs Summary: Documentary following the fortunes of four players as they aim for a place in the final in one of the biggest darts leagues in Europe. Paul is hoping to take his team into the final and retain their trophy and Anna attempts to make the ladies final, hoping to add another trophy to her cabinet. Joiner Dylan aims to make his mark in Budapest and move up the European rankings and Martin Carvill is supported by wife Patricia as he refuses to let a life-limiting illness stop him playing the sport he has loved for 50 years RT says:: Never mind the Olympics.
If you want to find rich and engrossing sports stories, step up to the oche of the amateur darts league in Newry, Northern Ireland, as we follow four players trying to earn a place in their local league’s gala night. Dylan took on teen sensation Luke Littler last year and dreams of using success to springboard a career into the pro ranks, but can he do it? Meanwhile Anna only got into the game after her divorce but hopes to make the ladies’ final, while Paul’s psychological condition makes it a battle just to be able to play at all. And then there’s Martin, who isn’t going to let a life-limiting medical condition stop him from playing the game that he loves.
CERI THOMAS How to watch Marilyn: The Movie Star That Changed the World Documentary and factual News and current affairs RT says:: Although she appeared in only 32 films, Marilyn Monroe’s star power remains undimmed. This documentary reassesses how Hollywood’s golden girl was undervalued by studio bosses and frustrated by her typecasting as the “dumb blonde”. On learning co-star Frank Sinatra was due to be paid three times her salary, she quit her studio contract and set up her own production company.
However, after failed marriages and multiple miscarriages, she slid into drug and alcohol abuse. As well as interviews with Monroe herself, we hear personal memories from those who knew her intimately. MICHAEL HOGAN How to watch Fatal Flight: Shoreham 2023 Documentary and factual Summary: In 2015, a fighter jet crashed into a busy main road during The Shoreham Air Show, killing 11 people, and injuring many more.
This is the story of the disaster, its aftermath and a seven-year fight for justice and truth. RT says:: When a Hawker Hunter aircraft taking part in an air show crashed onto the A27 in West Sussex in 2015, 11 men died. It’s nine years on from the Shoreham air disaster but the shock of that day hasn’t dimmed.
First available on Discovery+ last year, this one-off documentary features accounts from victims’ loved ones and survivors — many of whom are speaking for the first time — about how a Saturday that began so ordinarily ended in such tragedy. But alongside the upset is also anger. Pilot Andy Hill survived, but as the families fight for justice, it proves frustratingly elusive to get answers about what happened on that terrible August day.
FRANCES TAYLOR How to watch Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes Drama Sci-fi 2024 Wes Ball 144 mins 12A Summary: Director Wes Ball breathes new life into the global, epic franchise with this action-adventure spectacle from 20th Century Studios. Set several generations in the future following Caesar's reign, apes are living harmoniously as the dominant species - and humans have been reduced to living in the shadows. As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all that he has known about the past and to make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.
Some flashing lights sequences or patterns may affect photosensitive viewers. How to watch Champions: Full Gallop 2024 Sport Documentary and factual Summary: The stories of lives, journeys, and adventures - both human and equine - which make horse racing so dramatic and compelling RT says:: The behind-the-stable-door horseracing documentary thunders into the finishing straight. With two weeks left in the season, it’s a three-horse (well, person, really.
..) race for the British trainers’ championships.
Irish supremo Willie Mullins is back in it after his win in the Grand National, but reigning champ Paul Nicholls won’t meekly let his title go. And they’d both better watch out for Dan Skelton as Nicholls’s former protégé sneaks up on the rails. Even for those who aren’t into horse racing, this has been a solidly entertaining series, full of drama, rivalries and memorable characters.
It deserves to saddle up for another ride. CERI THOMAS How to watch.
