66 LISTENER MARCH 7 2020
THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT
on Saturday and Sunday with
a bunch of shows featuring
strong female leads, includ-
ing Wonder Woman (1975-79),
Maude (1972-87) and, for some
lovely West Auckland scenery
and a lesbian subtext, Xena:
Warrior Princess (1995-2001).Brian Johnson’s A Life on the
Road (Prime, 8.30pm). This
week, Johnson meets Dolly
Parton. DOLLY PARTON.MONDAY MARCH 9
Cosmos: Possible Worlds
(National Geographic, Sky 072,Cosmos: Possible Worlds,
Monday.next week’s magazine with the
series’ creator, Ann Druyan,
who began the Cosmos journey
40 years ago with her husband,
Carl Sagan.TUESDAY MARCH 10
Overthrow the Social Order
(Sky Arts, Sky 020, 6.05pm). A
world without gender label-
ling is just one of the ideas in
this documentary following
British artist Martin Firrell,
who is known for his social
art and large-scale statement
billboards. Film-maker Oliver
Guy-Watkins followed Firrellas he created digital billboards
to mark 50 years since the
partial decriminalisation of
homosexuality in England and
Wales. Bold statements such
as “Embrace lesbianism and
overthrow the social order”
and “Overturn the ideology
of hetero male supremacy”
must have given Londoners
on their morning commute
something to think about,
as did the “gender think-in”
Firrell organised that was
inspired by the think-ins held
by the Gay Liberation Front
in the early 1970s. “No otherFeras Fayyad almost didn’t
make it to the 2020 Academy
Awards, where his film The
Cave (National Geographic,
Sky 072, Sunday, 7.30pm) had
been nominated in the Best
Documentary category. It
took a concerted campaign to
persuade the US State Depart-
ment to reverse its refusal togrant him a visa.
But the Syrian director is
no stranger to adversity: after
his previous film, Last Men in
Aleppo, he was detained and
tortured by the Assad regime.
In the course of making The
Cave, four members of his film
crew were killed.
The film follows the struggleDocumentariesby RUSSELL BROWN
The Cave, Sunday.Monday, 8.30pm). The Cosmos
team step into the Ship of the
Imagination again for some
crystal-ball gazing – although
not really, because that would
be unscientific. The follow-up
to Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
uses scientific discovery to
speculate on possible futures
for humankind and tells the
stories of early pioneers and
searchers, including a shout-
out to the early Polynesian
sailors who took great leaps of
faith based on their knowledge
of the sea, wind and stars.
Watch out for our interview in