44 saturday review 1GR Saturday November 14 2020 | the times
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News 9. 00 Jonathan. Including a look
ahead to Wlaes v Georgia 10. 00 Cerys
Matthews a’r Goeden Faled (r) 10. 30 -11. 35
Marathon Eryri 2020: Ras y Cewri (r)
(r) repeat (SL) In-vision signing● BBC One N Ireland As BBC One except:
10.45pmThe View 1 1. 25 Question Time
12. 2 5am Newscast 12 .55- 6. 00 BBC News
● BBC Two N Ireland As BBC Two except:
1 0.00pm-10.45 The Noughties: 2004
1 1.30Live at the Apollo: Access All Areas
1 2.00-12.30am Mock the Week
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12 .15pm Beechgrove Repotted (r)
12. 20 -1. 00 First Minister’s Questions
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Wales This Week 1 1.05-11.35Building
Nightmares: House of Horrors — Tonight
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Scotland Tonight 10 .5 0 STV News 1 1. 05
Building Nightmares: House of Horrors
— Tonight 1 1.35Rock On, Tommy: The
Bobby Ball Story (r) 12.00The Jonathan
Ross Show (r) 1 2.55am-3.00 Nightscreen
● UTV As ITV except: 1 1. 0 5pm-11. 35
Ainsley’s Food We Love (r)
● BBC Scotland 12.20pm-1.00 First
Minister’s Questions 7. 00 Beechgrove
Repotted (r) 7. 30 Scottish Vets Down
Under (r) 8. 00 Landward 8. 30 The
Mart (r) 9. 00 The Nine 10. 00 Selling
Scotland (r) 10. 30 Coming Oot!
The Fabulous History of Gay Scotland (r)
1 1. 30 -1 2. 00 Up for It (r)
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Jamborî (r) 6. 20 Tomos a’i Ffrindiau (r)Discovering Film
Sky Arts, 7pm
Daniel Day-Lewis is the only
actor to have won three
Academy awards for best
actor, and he has suffered for
his craft. One of the most
extreme proponents of Method
acting, he spent nights in a
prison cell for In the Name of
the Father, confined himself to
a wheelchair for My Left Foot
and trained as a butcher
for Gangs of New York.
Discovering Film celebrates this
extraordinary talent in suitably
florid prose, discussing his
early life and route into acting,
including his breakthrough role
in My Beautiful Laundrette, and
his Oscar-winning turns in My
Left Foot, There Will Be Blood
and Lincoln. JC
Saving Britain’s
Pubs with
Tom Kerridge
BBC Two, 8pmTonight’s episode starts in
January 2020, with the chef
and publican Tom Kerridge
visiting the Black Bull, a pub
near Loch Lomond that is
owned by the local community.
The villagers take it in turns to
do shifts, working behind the
bar, washing up etc, but
running a pub by committee
isn’t easy and the bottom line
is the same — profits. Kerridge
is full of ideas of how to
maximise these, but when
lockdown is enforced, all of the
pubs he is working with for this
series face catastrophe. JCOn the Road
ITV4, 8pmThe latest rival to Top Gear
(which started last week) is
presented by Tiff Needell,
formerly of the BBC’s motoring
magazine, and Paul Woodman,
host of the Lovecars YouTube
channel, which boasts
200,000 subscribers. Over the
course of six episodes more
than 50 cars, from brands such
as Alfa Romeo, Pagani and
Zagato, are featured, while
the guest “stars” will be known
to petrolheads only — the
James Bond stunt driver Ben
Collins and the Le Mans driver
Oliver Webb are among those
lined up for the series. The
team making it includes the
former Top Gear scriptwriter
Dan Read. JCCountry Music
Awards 2020
BBC Four, 10pmBob Harris introduces
highlights of the 54th annual
Country Music Awards from
Music City Center in Nashville.
Unlike most Covid-era awards
ceremonies, this one has an
audience. Reba McEntire
returns as host, joined by
Darius Rucker, who found fame
as the guitarist of Hootie & the
Blowfish, and in 2008 became
the first black artist to reach
No 1 on the Hot Country Songs
charts since Charley Pride in- The pair will perform, and
there will be live music from
the biggest stars of country
music, including Luke Combs
and Florida Georgia Line. JC
Catch
up
Aung San Suu Kyi:
The Fall of an Icon
BBC iPlayer
When Aung San Suu
Kyi, right, was
released after
15 years of house
arrest in Myanmar,
she was celebrated
as the poster
woman for
democracy and
universal human
rights across
the globe.
However,
the Nobel
prizewinner,
who stoodup to the country’s military
dictatorship, is now seen by
many as a pariah, condemned
for alleged complicity in
atrocities afflicting the
thousands of Rohingya
Muslims in her country. This
hour-long documentary speaks
to many who know her and
includes insights from
the former UN high
commissioner for
human rights Zeid
Ra’ad Al Hussein, as
well as from Derek
Mitchell, the former US
ambassador to Burma.
Was Aung San Suu Kyi
misunderstood?
Or did she lack
the necessary
skills to
succeed as
a politician?
Ben DowellThe phrase “following the
science” has been a familiar
one during the pandemic, but
Britain has still ended up with
one of the worst death rates in
the world. Decisions such as
authorising the Cheltenham
Festival to go ahead with large
crowds, and allowing 3,000
Atletico Madrid fans to travel
to Liverpool for a Champions
League match just days after
Madrid became the epicentre
of the Spanish coronavirus
outbreak, had drastic
consequences for the spread
of the virus. So how good
was the advice that the
government relied on? This
compelling documentary puts
the science of data modelling
under the microscope and
asks searching questions of
the scientists at the heart of
the government’s response
to the pandemic. Those
contributing include Professor
Graham Medley, a member of
the Scientific Advisory Group
for Emergencies (Sage), and
Professor Susan Michie from
the Independent Scientific
Pandemic Influenza Group on
Behaviours (SPI-B), who reveal
what happened behind the
scenes, discussing the
scientific advice given to the
government that led them
to make these choices. The
producers also meet some of
those affected by Covid-19,
including the family of 88-
year-old Michael Gibson, who
died from coronavirus in a
care home in Oxfordshire.
Since the start of the
pandemic, some 20,000 care
home residents in the
UK have died from the virus.
Was enough done to protect
them in the run-up to
lockdown? A vaccine may
be on the horizon, but it has
come too late for tens of
thousands of people, and this
film holds the science — and
the government — to account.
Joe ClayWonder (PG, 2017)
Film4, 6.45pm
Julia Roberts plays Isabel, the mother of a kindly ten-year-old tyke
called August Pullman (Jacob Tremblay, below with Roberts), who
has “a previously unknown type of mandibulofacial dysostosis”,
which means that his face is badly deformed and he gets bullied at
school. It’s adapted from RJ Palacio’s novel in which an entire page
is devoted to Auggie’s physical appearance: big bug-eyes halfway
down his face, no cheekbones, huge nose, no chin and so on. In the
film, however, we have Tremblay as Auggie, under a light dusting
of latex — eyes slightly downturned, nose a bit rubbery, but
otherwise kind of cute and mousy. This is an egregious dodge, but
thank the Lord for Roberts, who cruises through with mesmerising
kerpow. She is reason alone to watch. (113min) Kevin MaherFilms of the day
The Accused (18, 1988)
Sky Cinema Thriller, 11pm
Jodie Foster won an Oscar for her depiction of Sarah Tobias, a
hard-drinking, hard-partying fast-food waitress who is the victim
of a brutal gang rape in a roadside bar. Kelly McGillis is Kathryn
Murphy, the district attorney who takes on the case, but betrays
her client by negotiating a plea bargain. Murphy comes to realise
that she has ill-served Tobias by judging her in some way guilty for
the attack and tries to make amends by prosecuting the crowd of
onlookers who jeered and encouraged it. The director Jonathan
Kaplan’s worthy drama still has the power to shock and disturb
the audience. Foster was so convinced that her performance was
dreadful that she was preparing to quit acting and pursue a career
in academia. (110min) Wendy IdeRegional programmes
Thursday 19 | Viewing guide
Critic’s choice Lockdown 1.0:
Following the Science?
BBC Two, 9pm
Boris Johnson with Sir Patrick
Vallance, the government’s
chief scientific adviser