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push((api) => api.addSlot({"key":"card","index":"1","searchTerm":null,"fullSearchTerm":null})); In My Own Words: Billy Connolly Comedy Documentary and factual Summary: The comedian looks back on his life and career, reflecting on his diagnosis with Parkinson's disease, the joys of growing older and wiser and his triumphs and failings as an entertainer, husband and father. Featuring access to a wide range of archive materials capturing key moments from his life RT says:: BBC Arts launches a “fresh, contemporary series of unmediated interviews” with creative figures.
Or, in other words, clip shows: artists looking back on their professional highs and lows. Billy Connolly has recently done retrospectives on both ITV1 and Gold, but it’s still a pleasure to hear him reflect on his career. These days, the Connolly voice emerges from billowing clouds of white beard and hair, like a comedy Methuselah, and what strikes you is his warmth and positivity.
“It’s lovely watching yourself age,” he says. “It’s not a scary process, it’s the truth.” The clips transport him back to his early stand-up (“I was hopeless”), the routine that inspired Peter Kay, and a touching goodbye from his friend Robin Williams.
DAVID BUTCHER How to watch The Tower Season 3 Season 3 4 episodes Drama RT says:: The superior crime drama returns for a third series, telling another story in which both London society and its police force seem to be fraying at the edges. On the street, a black teenager is brutally stabbed to death, prompting another investigation for stoically determined detective Sarah Collins (Gemma Whelan). We are almost two years on from the previous series: Collins’s old partner Steve Bradshaw (Jimmy Akingbola) is now deep undercover, gathering intelligence on a local crime boss under the supervision of Collins’s old professional nemesis, DI Kieran Shaw (Emmett J Scanlan).
Collins, with her careful pursuit of justice for the murdered boy, is in danger of jeopardising the big sting, but has never listened to anyone telling her what not to do, and she’s not about to start now. With DC Lizzie Adama (Tahirah Sharif) soon caught in the middle of these competing agendas, the main characters are skilfully reshuffled. So begins a narrative that comments intelligently on how black-on-black crime is seen by the authorities.
Continues nightly until Thursday. JACK SEALE How to watch Sherwood Season 2 2024 Season 2 6 episodes Drama Crime/detective Summary: The return of the crime drama starring David Morrissey. RT says:: This is one of those series you want to soak up every moment of — even when things get unbearably fraught.
There’s one such scene tonight, as Daphne Sparrow (Lorraine Ashbourne) and Ann Branson (Monica Dolan) meet face to face in the pub to discuss what happened on the coast. That’s tense enough, but Daphne is reluctantly working with Ian St Clair (David Morrissey) and the police. She’s wearing a wire in a bid to gather enough evidence to put away the Bransons.
The episode builds to a climax that’s amplified by the stunning orchestral score that’s every bit as atmospheric and classy as the rest of this superlative drama. FRANCES TAYLOR How to watch America's New Female Right 2024 Documentary and factual News and current affairs Summary: In America, a new wave of young women who are championing extreme views on social media, including content that is increasingly shocking and - surprisingly - antifeminist. Journalist Layla Wright travels from her home town in Liverpool to meet influencers at the forefront of a new movement on the political right who use highly inflammatory language RT says:: To assume the young are progressive and their elders more conservative is, as Layla Wright discovers, naive.
On a trip to the US in this eye-opening documentary, the Liverpool-born journalist finds a growing number ` of inflammatory teenage female influencers, who appear rock-solid in their anti-feminist views. For them, women who embark on a career, or even cast their vote, are eroding American values — a standpoint that’s finding a sizeable audience on social media. Wright — who employs her mentor Louis Theroux’s tactic of considered rather than openly combative questioning — immerses herself in their lives to find out why they want to overturn hard-fought-for rights.
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push((api) => api.addSlot({"key":"card","index":"2","searchTerm":null,"fullSearchTerm":null})); Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? 2024 Documentary and factual News and current affairs Summary: Documentary examining the US's responsibilities as the world's only global superpower after the fall of the Soviet Union RT says:: Following the Second World War, the international community cried, “never again”. But if this series has taught us anything, it’s that the decades since have proved to be more a case of “yet again”.
Tonight’s atrocity: the ethnic cleansing of Darfur in Sudan and the response from, first, US President George W Bush, and then Barack Obama. Can either make a difference? Or are the actions of both destined to be considered toothless? At 11pm BBC4 takes us back to the 20th century, with Charles Moore’s examination of the love-in between Ronald Reagan and his like-minded ally in the UK, Margaret Thatcher. DAVID BROWN How to watch Politics Live 2018 News and current affairs Entertainment Summary: The latest stories from Westminster and beyond RT says:: If we can think of Westminster as having season finales, then Chancellor Rachel Reeves came up with a doozy of a cliffhanger back in July when she announced that the Conservatives had left the UK with a £22 billion hole in the public finances.
As recess was called, the only thing missing from the scene was a freeze-frame on the face of a fuming Jeremy Hunt. Now, following this handy “Previously on Politics Live” primer, lunchtime’s spiciest slanging match returns as MPs resume their duties. Expect Keir Starmer at Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, and for the Tory leadership contest to be fuelling gossip on the Opposition benches until early November.
DAVID BROWN How to watch We Might Regret This 2024 Drama Comedy Summary: A tetraplegic artist moves into her partner's house and asks her chaotic best friend to be her carer. Comedy drama, starring Kyla Harris, Darren Boyd and Elena Saurel RT says:: Chris O’Dowd and Rosamund Pike. Brendan Gleeson and Patricia Clarkson.
If Nick Hornby wanted to revive his marriages-in-crisis mini-series State of the Union, Darren Boyd and Sally Phillips would make perfect casting.The strongest scenes of this episode are between the pair as Abe and Jane. Having been apart for some while (they can’t even agree on how long), they’re now seeing a counsellor to help them divide up their assets.
But Abe wants the house for himself and Freya (Kyla Harris). Jane disagrees. Strain ensues.
Meanwhile, Freya takes delivery of her new power chair, but instead of it being liberating, it sends her into a downward spiral. FT How to watch Matt Baker: Travels with Mum & Dad Documentary and factual News and current affairs Summary: Matt Baker takes his mum Janice and dad Mike on some memorable, easy-to-reach excursions around their beloved North East, as they relive old memories and make new ones RT says:: I’d like to say that Matt Baker is a fan of the David Brown who’s writing this preview, but in this latest paean to the beauty of the North, he’s more enthused about the engineering company of that name that produced the vintage tractors on display at the Northumberland County show. Dad Mike, meanwhile, finds an ally in 83-year-old Derek, who tells a touching story about raising more than £100,000 for the Great North Air Ambulance through selling his homemade walking sticks.
And mum Janice enters two of her animals for possible prizes: cute terrier pup Archie and cockerel Stanley, who needs some talc and Vaseline. DAVID BROWN How to watch Waves Drama Romance 2019 Trey Edward Shults 136 mins 15 Summary: Drama starring Taylor Russell and Kelvin Harrison Jr. Tyler Williams seems to have it made: he's a popular student and a keen member of his high-school wrestling team.
When an injury threatens his career prospects, his life begins to spiral out of control, leaving his parents and his sister, Emily, to pick up the pieces. How to watch Prom 57: Ultra Lounge: Henry Mancini and Beyond Music Summary: Katie Derham presents live from the Royal Albert Hall as the BBC Concert Orchestra and guest singers celebrate the music of Henry Mancini and his contemporaries. Marking a century since flautist, composer and conductor Mancini's birth in Ohio, conductor Edwin Outwater and the BBC Concert Orchestra celebrate the man and his music in styles ranging from jazz to light classical and film music.
Among the classics are the slinky Lujon and themes from The Pink Panther and Peter Gunn, joined by gems from the lounge music and space-age pop genres Mancini helped inspire, including easy-going tracks by Burt Bacharach, Les Baxter and Juan Garcia Esquivel. Mancini: Charade (Main Title); Peter Gunn Theme; Baby Elephant Walk; Days of Wine and Roses; Moon River; Pink Panther Theme; Raindrops in Rio; Lujon. Quincy Jones: Soul Bossa Nova; Blues in the Night.
Juan Garcia Esquivel: Mucha Muchacha. Les Baxter Quiet Village Burt Bacharach: Alfie Martin Denny: Misirilou. Interval.
As part of tonight's celebration, Katie is joined by Henry Mancini's daughter Monica Mancini and son-in-law Gregg Field, both jazz musicians, to talk about his music and legacy. Laurie Johnson: The Avengers. Roberto Delgado: Hawaii 5-0.
Bacharach: The Look of Love. Herb Alpert: Casino Royale; Spanish Flea; A Taste of Honey Michel Legrand: The Windmills of Your Mind. Mancini: Party Poop; Hong Kong Fireworks.
Les Baxter: Shooting Star. Alpert: This Guy's in Love with You. Baxter: Saturday Night on Saturn.
Esquival Whatchamacalit Bacharach: What's New Pussycat? Andy Williams: Music to Watch Girls By. Les Reed/Gordon Mills: It's Not Unusual. Oliver Tompsett (singer), Rachel John (singer), Monica Mancini (singer), Liz Swain (soprano), Johanna Marshall (alto), Freddie Benedict (tenor), Kevin Fox (bass), BBC Concert Orchestra, Edwin Outwater (conductor) RT says:: Henry Mancini remains one of cinema’s finest composers, with Oscar-winning songs (Moon River, Days of Wine and Roses) and lush, jazz-infused scores for Charade and The Pink Panther among his credits, all of which feature in the Proms celebration of the centenary of his birth.
Mancini’s influence on “easy listening” is hailed, too, with a selection from contemporaries like Burt Bacharach, Hal David and Michel Legrand. Lounging never sounded so good. JEREMY ASPINALL How to listen.
