The Times - UK (2022-05-28)

44 saturday review Saturday May 28 2022 | the times

● S4C 6.00am Cyw: Crads Bach y Traeth

(r) 6.05 Jamborî (r) 6.15 Abadas (r) 6.30

Bach a Mawr (r) 6.45 Sbarc (r) 7.00

Olobobs (r) 7.05 Timpo (r) 7.15 Y Diwrnod

Mawr (r) 7.30 Pablo 7.45 Awyr Iach (r)

8.00 Shwshaswyn (r) 8.10 Halibalw (r)

8.20 Digbi Draig (r) 8.30 Llan-ar-goll-en

(r) 8.45 Twt (r) 9.00 Nico Nôg (r) 9.10 Sam

Tân (r) 9.20 Rapsgaliwn (r) 9.35 Stiw (r)

9.45 Gwdihw (r) 10.00 Crads Bach y

Traeth (r) 10.05 Jamborî (r) 10.15 Abadas

(r) 10.30 Bach a Mawr (r) 10.45 Sbarc (r)

11.00 Eisteddfod yr Urdd 2022 12.00

News 12.05pm Eisteddfod yr Urdd 2022

2.00 News 2.05 Eisteddfod yr Urdd 2022

3.00 Eisteddfod yr Urdd 2022 3.30 Live

Eisteddfod yr Urdd 2022. The rest of the

secondary school competitions 6.30

Arfordir Cymru: Sir Benfro (r) 6.57 News

S4C 7.00 Heno 7.30 News 7.50 Yma o Hyd

8.00 Eisteddfod yr Urdd 2022. Highlights

of the day from the National Urdd

Eisteddfod 9.25 Ffion Hague: Y Frenhines

a’r Jiwbili. A personal journey to find out

more about Queen Elizabeth II, who has

been Head of State for 70 years (r) 10.25

Stori Jimmy Murphy. Geraint Iwan talks to

Jimmy Murphy about unexpected links

between famous football moments (r)

11.25-12.55am Eisteddfod yr Urdd 2022 (r)

(r) repeat (SL) In-vision signing

● BBC1 N Ireland As BBC1 except:

11.40pm The Ulster Rugby Show (r)

12.10am FILM Brooklyn (2015) Drama

starring Saoirse Ronan 1.55-6.00 News

● BBC2 N Ireland As BBC2 except:

10.00pm The Ulster Rugby Show. A look

at Ulster Rugby’s latest matches in the

United Rugby Championship 10.30 FILM

Yesterday (2019) Danny Boyle’s comedy

starring Himesh Patel and Lily James

12.20-12.50am BBC News

● BBC1 Scotland As BBC1 except:

10.40pm River City. Bob learns a valuable

lesson (r) 11.10 The Queen: 70 Glorious

Years. Celebrities share their experiences

of meeting the Queen (r) 12.10am FILM

Brooklyn (2015) 1.55 Weather for the

Week Ahead 2.00-6.00 BBC News

● STV As ITV except: 12.10-3.00am

Teleshopping 3.50-5.05 Unwind with STV

● BBC Scotland 7.00pm My Kind of Town:

Stornoway (r) 7.30 Loggerheads (r) 8.00

Beechgrove. Carole Baxter demonstrates

how viewers can do their bit for the

environment 8.30 Landward. Dougie

Vipond and chef Nick Nairn head to

Shetland 9.00 The Nine 10.00 Growing

Up Scottish. Comedians look at art and

weddings 10.30 Away with the Tartan

Army: Scotland’s Best Moments (r)

11.30-Midnight Mirror Mirror (r)

Borgen: Power

and Glory

Netflix

Twelve years after a post-
election vacuum in Danish
politics catapulted the idealistic
Moderate Party leader Birgitte
Nyborg into power, Borgen
returns for a fourth series.
Netflix has resurrected the hit
Danish political thriller, with
Sidse Babett Knudsen reprising
her role as Nyborg, who has a
new role as Denmark’s foreign
minister, dealing with a dispute
over Greenland that threatens
to become an international
crisis. Elsewhere, Nyborg’s
former head of press, Katrine
Fonsmark (Birgitte Hjort
Sorensen), has landed a job at
a top Danish TV station. JC

Trooping the

Colour

BBC1, 10am

More than 1,400 soldiers, 200

horses and 400 musicians will

appear in the traditional parade

to mark the Queen’s official

birthday. It is usually held on

the second Saturday in June,

but has been brought forward

to open the four-day bank

holiday weekend in celebration

of the Platinum Jubilee. Huw

Edwards, Kirsty Young

(returning to the BBC for the

first time since 2018 after

illness) and JJ Chalmers will

present the coverage, which

culminates with the six-minute

RAF fly-past over Buckingham

Palace watched by the Queen

and royals from the balcony. JC

Live Platinum

Beacons: Lighting

up the Jubilee

BBC1, 8pm

Kirsty Young hosts as beacons

are lit all over the country for

the jubilee. Carol Kirkwood,

Gethin Jones and Holly

Hamilton report from across

the UK, while Jermaine Jenas is

outside Buckingham Palace,

where members of the royal

family will light the principal

beacon. Celebrity guests join

Young to share memories of

meeting the Queen. Earlier at

7.30pm the jubilee episode of

EastEnders has the residents of

Albert Square (and two very

special guests) enjoying a

street party. JC

Making Sense of

Cancer with

Hannah Fry

BBC2, 9pm

In January 2021, at the age of

36, the maths professor and

broadcaster Hannah Fry was

diagnosed with cervical cancer

and started to question the

way we treat the disease by

digging into the statistics.

In this thought-provoking

edition of Horizon, Fry records

her cancer journey in

emotional footage while

looking into whether we are

too risk-averse in our attitudes

and if we accept treatments

without fully understanding

the often marginal benefits

they can give. JC

The Royal Tenenbaums (15, 2001)

GREAT! Movies, 9pm

The Tenenbaums live in seedy grandeur and are a family of

geniuses: the dodgy patriarch Royal is played by Gene Hackman;

the mother by Anjelica Huston; the financial whizz-kid Chas by

Ben Stiller; the tennis prodigy Richie by Luke Wilson. Last, but not

least, the adopted Margot, a nine-fingered budding playwright,

is played by Gwyneth Paltrow. It’s one of Paltrow’s weirdest and

best performances, as her character goes on an outlandish sexual

odyssey and ends up with a bearded older husband, amusingly

downplayed by Bill Murray. With an omniscient narrator (Alec

Baldwin) and mass emotional breakdown that must be tidied by

the end, the spaghetti-stranded plot is expertly untangled by the

director Wes Anderson. (110min) Kate Muir

Films of the day

Cat People (PG, 1942)

BBC4, 9.05pm

Irena (Simone Simon) is a Serbian immigrant to the US who fears

that if sexually aroused she will turn into a killer black panther.

A fashion artist, she happens to be sketching a panther at the zoo

when she meets Oliver (Kent Smith, above with Simon) and falls in

love. They marry, but she refuses to sleep with him. Oliver meets

another woman, Alice, and a jealous Irena follows her to where she

is swimming alone in the basement pool of a hotel. We watch Alice

panic as horrific animal sounds erupt and feline shadows race

around the wall, but nothing is found except her shredded, clawed

clothes. The film was remade in 1982 by Paul Schrader, but this

original, directed by Jacques Tourneur, is a classic spine-chiller that

relies on the rabid power of the imagination. (73min) KM

Regional programmes

Catch

up

Noughts + Crosses

BBC iPlayer

Series two of the drama based

on Malorie Blackman’s novels,

which imagine an alternative

world history in which white

people live under the yoke of

often brutal black

oppressors. The

first series (also

available on

iPlayer) followed

an interracial

couple —

the white,

or

“Nought”,

Callum

(Jack

Rowan) and the privileged

politician’s daughter and

“Cross” Sephy (Masali Baduza,

below with Rowan) — who

found love in a divided

community beset by racist

government oppression. It

concluded with them escaping

together. This four-episode

series brings their tale of star-

crossed love to a conclusion.

The action opens with them at

peace in a lakeside retreat, but

their tranquillity is short-lived

because Sephy’s

father, the

hardline home

secretary Kamal

Hadley (Paterson

Joseph), is cracking

down on

insurrections

and desperate to

find his daughter.

Ben Dowell

Thursday 2 | Viewing guide

Critic’s choice

The Midwich Cuckoos

Sky Max/Now, 9pm

John Wyndham’s 1957 sci-fi
novel has been adapted for
screen twice under the title
Village of the Damned (first in
1960, then again by John
Carpenter in 1995). This is the
first television version, with
the main writing credit going
to David Farr (The Night
Manager, McMafia). If you
don’t know the story, stop
reading because it is hard not
to give away the main concept
of Wyndham’s text — a sleepy
English commuter town
becomes the breeding
laboratory for an army of
malevolent alien children. Like
all the best sci-fi ideas, the
story reflected the anxieties of
its era and in the book (and
films) the children were blond
— the concept of a master
race of Teutonic sprogs bent
on world domination struck a
chord after the fall of Hitler.
There were theories that it
was a comment on the
postwar generation gap.

However, for this effective

adaptation the youngsters are

from all races and we meet

one in the opening scene,

admonishing a couple trying

to flee the village, which is

being patrolled by the army.

“Mummy, what have you

done?” the child inquires, with

an unblinking, reptilian stare.

We then go back five years to

meet Dr Susannah Zellaby

(Keeley Hawes, pictured), a

psychotherapist who must

offer support when, after a

mysterious blackout, every

woman of child-bearing age

inside the village (including

Susannah’s daughter, Cassie)

inexplicably becomes

pregnant. It is important that

our protagonist is a therapist

since this eight-part

adaptation is using

Wyndham’s story as a way

of exploring modern

parenthood and our anxieties

around bringing up children.

Joe Clay