28 saturday review Saturday May 28 2022 | the times
Ghosts in the Ruins
BBC4, 8pmThe opening of Coventry
Cathedral in 1962 was marked
with the premiere of Benjamin
Britten’s War Requiem. To
celebrate the 60th anniversary,
a new work from Nitin
Sawhney has been
commissioned for professional
and community musicians,
including the Choir With No
Name. They will appear in the
second part of the work when
the audience moves from the
new cathedral into the ruins of
the old one. Alongside the
choral and musical elements
are a series of poems by
Coventry poets, Wilfred Owen’s
Dulce et Decorum Est and
visuals from the artist Mark
Murphy. JC8.15 Grand Tours of Scotland’s Lochs (r)
8.30 Landward (r) 9.00 Paramedics on
Scene. A walker gets into trouble on one
of the hottest days of the year 10.00 Still
Game (r) 10.30 General Assembly.
Highlights of the Church of Scotland
gathering 11.00-Midnight Seven Days
● S4C 6.00am Cyw: Sam Tân (r) 6.10 Jen a
Jim Pob Dim (r) 6.25 Guto Gwningen (r)
6.40 Sbarc (r) 6.55 Cei Bach (r) 7.10
Jamborî (r) 7.20 Octonots (r) 7.30
Cacamwnci (r) 7.45 Pablo (r) 8.00 Amser
Maith Maith yn Ôl (r) 8.15 Blero yn Mynd i
Ocido (r) 8.25 Anifeiliaid Bach y Byd (r)
8.35 Awyr Iach (r) 8.50 Penblwyddi Cyw
9.00 Garddio a Mwy (r) 9.30 Pethe (r)
10.00 Teulu’r Castell (r) 11.00 Natur Gudd
Cymru (r) 11.30 Dechrau Canu Dechrau
Canmol (r) 12.00 Yr Wythnos 12.30pm
Adre (r) 1.00 Waliau’n Siarad (r) 2.00
Live Seiclo: Giro d’Italia. Coverage of the
21st and final stage, featuring a 17.1km
individual time-trial through Verona
4.20 3 Lle (r) 4.50 Sgwrs Dan y Lloer (r)
5.35 Ffermio (r) 6.10 Pobol y Cwm
Omnibws (r) 7.15 News 7.30 Dechrau
Canu Dechrau Canmol 8.00 Eisteddfod
yr Urdd 2022 9.00 Y Golau 10.00 Seiclo:
Giro d’Italia 10.30 Y Llinell Las (r)
11.00-11.35 Gwesty Parc y Stradey (r)
(r) repeat (SL) In-vision signing● BBC1 Wales As BBC1 except: 10.00am
Wanted Down Under Revisited (r) 10.45
Homes Under the Hammer. Properties in
Kent, Lancashire and the West Midlands
(r) 11.45-12.45pm Bargain Hunt (r) 4.20
The Hairy Bikers’ Bakeation. The duo
reach northern Spain (r) 4.50-5.20 You
Shall Go To The Ball: Our Lives (r)
● BBC2 Wales As BBC2 except:
6.10-7.10pm The Story of Welsh Art (r)
● BBC1 N Ireland As BBC1 except:
10.00-10.30am Sunday Politics Northern
Ireland 1.50-2.00pm Community Life
● BBC2 N Ireland As BBC2 except:
3.30pm Live The Championship: Derry
v Donegal. Mark Sidebottom presents
coverage of the Ulster Senior Football
Championship final, which comes from
St Tiernach’s Park, Clones 6.15 Gardening
Together with Diarmuid Gavin (r)
6.25-7.10 Flog It! (r) 10.00 Sunday
Politics Northern Ireland (r) 10.30 Louis
Theroux: Shooting Joe Exotic (r)
12.00-12.30am Live at the Apollo (r)
● BBC1 Scotland As BBC1 except:
10.00-10.30am The Sunday Show
● STV As ITV except: 6.45-6.59pm STV
News 3.50-5.05am Unwind with STV
● BBC Scotland 7.00pm Seven 7.15 How
the League Was Won. How the 2021/22
Scottish Premiership title was won (r)Wild Rose (15, 2019)
Film4, 11.20pm
Finally a film for everyone who went to see A Star Is Born and
found themselves gagging on the cheese. This is the gritty Britty
counterpart to that twee Tinseltown fable. The narrative beats are
essentially the same: talented singer from the wrong side of the
tracks escapes local restrictions to become a musical sensation.
Yet whereas A Star Is Born had Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper and
the perils of the celebrity scene, Wild Rose has council estates,
prison-issue ankle tags and a heroine who will knock your teeth
out for a chance to sing in a Gorbals dive bar. Her name is Rose-
Lynn Harlan, and she’s played by the unfeasibly talented Jessie
Buckley as a volatile cocktail of wounded rage, touching naivety
and shattering self-doubt. (96min) Kevin MaherFilms of the day
‘71 (15, 2014)
Channel 4, 12.55am
It is the basic premise of any number of war movies: a soldier is
stranded behind enemy lines and during his struggle for survival
begins questioning who the adversary really is. However, by
transposing the action to the backstreets of Belfast during the
Troubles, the TV director Yann Demange’s debut feature film
brings a fresh perspective and a piercing urgency. Jack
O’Connell, above, flexes every fibre of his star quality as a British
soldier, Gary Hook. His first outing, a mismanaged routine
operation in co-operation with the brutally gung-ho police,
rapidly ignites. From there we follow this wounded soldier as he
stumbles through the smoke-filled streets. Sean Harris and
Richard Dormer are among a superb cast. (95min) Wendy IdeTwo Daughters
BBC2, 9pmIn June 2020 the sisters
Bibaa Henry and Nicole
Smallman were stabbed to
death in Fryent Country Park,
northwest London. Their
mother is Mina Smallman,
Britain’s first black archdeacon
in the Church of England
(now retired), and she has
invited Stacey Dooley to help
her to tell the story of her
daughters and their murder.
The case became notorious
when two Metropolitan Police
officers were jailed for sharing
images of their bodies on
WhatsApp. Smallman’s faith
has helped her through her
grief, but her husband, Chris, is
not religious and has had to
find his own path. JCRegional programmes
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BBC iPlayer
“On November 16, 2016, a
former professional plunged
British football into its
biggest ever crisis and
changed the sport for ever,”
we’re told at the start
of this feature-
length drama. That
footballer was
Andy Woodward,
who waived his
anonymity to
speak publicly
about the abuse
he suffered at the
hands of a
predatory coach,Barry Bennell. Matt
Greenhalgh’s drama tells a dark
and troubling story that begins
in 1997 with the adult
Woodward (Gerard Kearns,
below) playing for Bury. After
the match he is approached
by two police officers
saying they are
investigating other
possible victims of
Bennell. The drama flits
back and forth from
Woodward’s
youth team
days when
Jonas
Armstrong’s
creepy
Bennell
eyed him
for
possible
glory. Ben
DowellGoodwoof
ITV, 3pm
Canine puns abound as
thousands of dogs have their
day at Goodwood. Goodwoof is
a celebration of man’s best
friend, presented by Julia
Bradbury, Radzi Chinyanganya
and the veterinary expert Dr
Paul Manktelow. There’s
“barkitecture”, showcasing the
latest kennel designs from
modern architects and
designers; high-energy
“barkour” stunts; a tribute to
Snoopy; and an official spaniel
parade led by the Duke of
Richmond, aka Charles Gordon-
Lennox, the owner of the
Goodwood estate. And even
dogs can’t escape the wellness
movement — there is dog yoga
and “sound healing”. JC
Elizabeth: The
Unseen Queen
BBC1, 7.45pmThe BBC’s week of
programmes to mark the
Queen’s Platinum Jubilee
begins with a new
documentary that uses
previously unbroadcast footage
from the Royal Collection to tell
the story of the life of Queen
Elizabeth II from childhood
(there is footage of “Lilibet” in
her pram) up to her coronation
in 1953. The videos were
recorded by the Queen, Prince
Philip, her family and others,
and much of the narration is
provided by the monarch from
archive recordings, along with
audio from newsreel
announcements. JCSunday 29 | Viewing guide
Critic’s choice Midsomer Murders:
25 Years of Mayhem
ITV, 7pm
On March 23, 1997, the first
episode of Midsomer Murders
was broadcast on ITV. In its 25
years on screen, according to
the Midsomer Murders Wiki,
fans of the crime drama have
witnessed more than 400
murders, which, when added
to the numerous suicides and
accidental deaths that have
taken place across the 22
series, makes the overall body
count in excess of 586. That’s
an awful lot of corpses for
a hammy crime drama that
gently sends up life in the
bucolic English countryside.
It is Britain’s most successful
detective TV export, selling in
200 international territories,
and if you’re a UK thespian
who hasn’t had a cameo then
you really should call your
agent. To mark its quarter of
a century, a new documentary
looks back over the previous
132 episodes, with cast
members past and present —
including the lead actors Neil
Dudgeon and John Nettles —
discussing what it is that
keeps millions of viewers all
over the world tuned in. A
Midsomer coach tour visits
some of the key locations,
while the documentary goes
back to the beginning, with
the story of how Anthony
Horowitz and Douglas
Watkinson brought the Chief
Inspector Barnaby book
series, created by Caroline
Graham, to life. To follow at
8pm is episode 133, which
takes place at the annual
Midsomer Scarecrow Festival.
The event takes a dark turn
when the body of a local
woman is found displayed like
one of the straw creations. “I
don’t do straw,” Annette
Badland’s forensic pathologist
Dr Fleur Perkins tells DCI
Barnaby (Dudgeon, right with
Nick Hendrix). If you suffer
from formidophobia, consider
yourself warned.
Joe Clay