The Sunday Telegraph - 01.09.2019

30 ***^ Sunday 1 September 2019 The Sunday Telegraph

Television & radio

Martin Freeman and Joe Absolom star in A Confession; Jason Manford and Catherine Tyldesley in Scarborough (below, left)

Today

Untouchable: The Rise and Fall
of Harvey Weinstein

BBC TWO 9.00PM

Timed to coincide with the trial of
Harvey Weinstein, which has been
postponed until January following a
new indictment, director Ursula
Macfarlane’s documentary recounts
the allegations against him in damning
fashion. It charts the rise of the film
mogul from his stint as a concert
promoter to his glory days as the
Oscar-winning genius (with his
brother, Bob) of Miramax films. Soon,
the evidence against Weinstein
mounts – a female former employee of
Bob Weinstein tells how she quit after
learning of Harvey’s predatory
behaviour; other (male) ex-Miramax
executives describe their admiration
of Harvey’s brilliance while confessing
to shame at failing to act when claims
of his impropriety came to light. The
most compelling testimony is from
Weinstein’s alleged victims (he denies
all charges), including the actresses
Rosanna Arquette and Paz de la
Huerta. They and half a dozen others
graphically detail Weinstein’s abuse,
and the ongoing trauma resulting
from their experiences appears
palpable. This raw look at one man’s
alleged transgressions is
uncomfortable viewing. Vicki Power

Antiques Roadshow

BBC ONE, 8.00PM

In the glorious gardens of Morden Hall
Park, Fiona Bruce and the experts
return for a new series, and pore over
a plate by Pablo Picasso and a signed
self-portrait by John Lennon. VP

Monday

A Confession

ITV, 9.00PM

Jeff Pope, arguably the
best docudramatist at
work today, has done it
again. After the relatively
slight Hatton Garden
comes another
rigorous and
sometimes gruelling
interrogation of
how human
frailties can be
brutally exposed
on the wheels of
justice. The story
of six-parter
A Confession is a
fascinating one

We d n e s d ay

The Big Hospital Experiment

BBC TWO, 9.00PM; NOT SCOTLAND

Based on an initiative in Germany, this

eye-opening and often moving new

four-part series follows 14 young

volunteers as they spend a month on

the wards of the Royal Derby Hospital.

Could such a programme offer

a partial solution to the NHS staffing

crisis? The recruits are the usual

combination of eager beavers, natural

carers and layabouts primed to go on

“A Journey”. Following training,

indulged and unemployed smoker

Will, keen but nervous Deborah and

pampered rich kid Eric (who “loves a

bit of Casualty”) are our protagonists

in this opener, working on the cancer,

colorectal and head-and-neck wards

respectively. Initially, it appears that

the staff are supporting the volunteers

rather than vice versa, but bonds are

formed with patients, plenty of

squeamishness is overcome, and the

nursing teams are won over (in most

cases). It’s a classic set-up: the gamble

is big and the stakes are real. GT

Raiders of the Lost Past

with Janina Ramirez

BBC FOUR, 9.00PM

This occasional series returns with a

new face telling the stories of treasures

from history. Dr Janina Ramirez

begins with a look at the Anglo-Saxon

ship-burial of Sutton Hoo. GT

Thursday

The Hunt for Britain’s Slave Gangs

BBC ONE, 9.00PM; SCOTLAND, 10.35PM

The Home Office has estimated that

up to 13,000 people are victims of

trafficking and slavery in the UK today.

This film follows West Midlands Police

during the culmination of a three-year

investigation into a modern slavery

gang in the Black Country. Run by the

Brzezinski family from Poland, it

targeted the homeless, alcoholics and

ex-prisoners in Poland with offers of

work in Britain, then kept them here

in unspeakable squalor, stole their

wages and controlled them with

threats of violence. Cameras follow

officers as they make arrests and the

preparations for the trial at

Birmingham Crown Court. The

programme’s most poignant moments

are the testimonies from victims.

“People need to know that in the 21st

century people can be used for money

and treated like animals,” says a tearful

Mieczyslaw Chrostowski. This is a

fascinating look at dreadful crimes

being committed in plain sight. VP

Billy Connolly’s Great

American Trail

ITV, 9.00PM

The Big Yin follows the migratory trail

of the Scots through the US. The theme

is forgotten early on; instead Connolly

meets the usual mixture of eccentrics

and do-gooders in Massachusetts

while, despite his frailty, remaining

a jovial travel companion. VP

Friday

Scarborough

BBC ONE, 9.30PM

Diehard fans of Benidorm may be

disappointed by Scarborough; this is a

good thing. Whatever merits Derren

Litten’s ribald resort sitcom may once

have had were lost somewhere on the

Costa Del Panto by the time it limped

to a close in 2018 after 10 series.

Litten’s follow-up is a different beast:

less frenetic, more gentle observational

comedy, and all the better for it.

Anchoring the action, such as it is, are

Jason Manford’s Mike and 2019 Strictly

contender Catherine Tyldesley as

Karen, lovers reunited but on a break

after she caught him kissing another

woman (Claire Sweeney) behind a crab

stall. Meanwhile, Stephanie Cole, Steve

Edge and Maggie Ollerenshaw are

among the old hands ensuring events

on the periphery hold the attention.

The sense of place is impeccable and

affection for it palpable – this is a

Yorkshire seaside town subsisting on

tea, gossip and karaoke. If there are

plenty of smiles but not too many

laughs, at least that’s an improvement

on the show’s predecessor. GT

QI

BBC TWO, 10.00PM

After Scarborough comes another dose

of Jason Manford, as he joins Loyiso

Gola, Sarah Millican and Alan Davies

to answer questions from Sandi

Toksvig relating to the letter “Q”. GT

and, like Little Boy Blue et al, based on

real events. Martin Freeman plays DSI

Steve Fulcher, who leads the search

for Sian O’Callaghan, a Swindon

woman who went missing on a night

out, and immediately fears the worst.

Pope’s dramas are an adept balance of

the procedural and the personal, and

this one is smartly cast too. Freeman is

joined by a formidable ensemble that

includes Siobhan Finneran as Sian’s

mother, Imelda Staunton as the

mother of Becky Godden, another

young woman whose disappearance

eight years earlier may be connected,

and This Country’s Charlie Cooper, in

an accomplished dramatic debut, as

Sian’s boyfriend. False trails

are carefully laid, the

victims and their families

are treated sensitively, and

Freeman (who’s excellent)

lays the groundwork for a

character whose life and

career will be upended

by a single rash (but

perhaps defensible)

misstep. Gabriel Tate

Paxman: Why Are Our

Politicians So Crap?

CHANNEL 5, 9.00PM

Jeremy Paxman

asks why our representatives are

failing us, whether the two-party

system is fatally compromised, and

what can be done about it? At 10pm,

Jeremy Vine chairs a debate on the

subjects raised. GT

Tu e s d a y

The Capture

BBC ONE, 9.00PM; NORTHERN IRELAND, 10.35PM

Holliday Grainger stars as a brilliant

but flawed fast-track Metropolitan

detective inspector in this engrossing

new six-part conspiracy thriller. It

grips from the start, with a clever

premise that questions whether we

can believe everything that’s recorded

on the CCTV systems that surround

us in modern cities. Grainger, who

made an impact as Cormoran Strike’s

sidekick Robin in the BBC’s

adaptations of the Robert Galbraith

Strike novels, impresses again as DI

Rachel Carey who is transferred to

a Met homicide unit to broaden her

experience. At least that’s why she

says she’s been moved – but it could

also have something to do with her

private life. All goes well in the very

different world of the Met until a

CCTV monitoring team calls her

in when a soldier (Callum Turner),

who’s just had his sentence quashed

on appeal for the murder of an Isil

insurgent, is suspected of assault,

kidnap and perhaps murder. This

opening episode teases interest by

holding back information until a

crucial moment – making it all the

more shocking when it comes.

Gerard O’Donovan

Battle of the Brass Bands

SKY ARTS, 8.00PM

The gloves are off as 18 bands head

for the Royal Albert Hall to compete

at the most prestigious brass-band

bash, the National Championships

of Great Britain. GO

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The very best of the week ahead

The Capture: Holliday Grainger

Raiders of the Lost Past

Radio 1

FM 97.6-99.8MHZ

6.00am Weekend Breakfast with Matt

and Mollie 10.00 Radio 1 Anthems

with Jordan North 11.00 Jordan North

1.00pm Dev and Alice 4.00 Radio 1’s

Life Hacks 6.00 The Official Chart:

First Look on Radio 1 7.00 Phil

Taggart 9.00 Rock Show with Daniel P

Carter 11.00 Huw Stephens 1.00am

BBC Radio 1’s Residency 2.00 BBC

Radio 1’s Residency 3.00 Radio 1’s

Artist Takeover with 4.00 - 6.30am

Adele Roberts

Radio 2

FM 88-90.2MHZ

6.00am Good Morning Sunday 9.00

Steve Wright’s Sunday Love Songs

11.00 The Michael Ball Show 1.00pm

Elaine Paige on Sunday 3.00 Sounds

of the 70s with Johnnie Walker 5.00

Matt Lucas 7.00 Claudia on Sunday

9.00 The Years That Changed Britain

Forever 10.00 The Swing & Big Band

Show with Clare Teal 11.00 Don Black

12.00 Paddy O’Connell 3.00am

Sounds of the 60s with Tony

Blackburn 5.00 - 6.30am Vanessa

Feltz

Radio 3

FM 90.2-92.4MHZ

7.00am Breakfast 9.00 News 9.02

Sunday Morning 11.00 BBC Proms

2019 1.00pm Proms Chamber Music

2019 2.00 The Early Music Show 3.00

Choral Evensong 4.00 BBC Proms

2019 6.15 Words and Music 7.30 BBC

Proms 2019 10.00 Early Music Late

11.00 Roderick Williams: Three Years

with Schubert 12.00 Classical Fix

12.30am - 6.30am Through the Night

Radio 4

FM 92.4-94.6MHZ; LW 198KHZ

6.00am News Headlines 6.05

Something Understood 6.35 On Your

Farm 6.57 Weather 7.00 News 7.00

Sunday Papers 7.10 Sunday 7.54

Radio 4 Appeal 7.57 Weather 8.00

News 8.00 Sunday Papers 8.10

Sunday Worship 8.48 A Point of View

8.58 Tweet of the Day 9.00

Broadcasting House 10.00 The

Archers 11.15 The Reunion 12.00

News 12.01pm LW: Shipping Forecast

12.04 Just a Minute 12.30 The Food

Programme 12.57 Weather 1.00 The

World This Weekend 1.30 September

1, 1939 2.00 Gardeners’ Question

Time 2.45 The Listening Project 3.00

Drama: Inspector Chen: Enigma of

China 4.00 Bookclub. Aminatta Forna

discusses her novel The Memory of

Love 4.30 Mother Tongue. New series.

Poetry about injustices and citizenship

5.00 Rape Trials: Is The Jury Out?

Scrapping the use of juries in rape

trials 5.40 Profile. Mark Coles looks at

the life of Peter Navarro 5.54 Shipping

Forecast 5.57 Weather 6.00 Six

O’Clock News 6.15 Pick of the Week.

With Antonia Quirke 7.00 The Archers.

Peggy has some exciting news for one

of the Ambridge Conservation Trust

teams 7.15 Cooking in a Bedsitter

7.45 Stillicide 8.00 More or Less 8.30

Last Word 9.00 Money Box 9.25 Radio

4 Appeal 9.30 In Business 10.00 The

Westminster Hour 11.00 The Film

Programme 11.30 September 1,

1939 12.00 News and Weather

12.15am Mastertapes 12.45 Bells on

Sunday 12.48 Shipping Forecast 1.00

As World Service 5.20 Shipping

Forecast 5.30 News Briefing 5.43

Prayer for the Day 5.45 Farming Today

5.58 - 6.00am Tweet of the Day

Radio 5 Live

MW 693 & 909KHZ

6.00am Sunday Breakfast 9.00

SportsWeek 10.00 Tailenders 11.30 5

Live Sport 12.30pm Premier League

Football 2019-20 2.00 Premier

League Football 2019-20 4.00 5 Live

Sport 4.30 5 Live Sport: Premier

League Football 2019-20 6.30 6-0-6

8.00 Peter Allen and Chloe Tilley

10.00 Stephen Nolan 1.00am Up All

Night 5.00 Morning Reports 5.15 -

6.00am Wake Up to Money

Classic FM

FM 99.9-101.9MHZ

7.00am Aled Jones 10.00 Bill Turnbull

1.00pm Alexander Armstrong 3.00

Charlotte Hawkins’ Young Classical

Star Special 5.00 The Classic FM Chart

7.00 David Mellor 9.00 Everything You

Ever Wanted to Know About Classical

Music 10.00 Smooth Classics 1.00am

• 6.00am Sam Pittis

World Service

DIGITAL ONLY

6.00am Weekend 8.30 The Food

Chain 9.00 News 9.06 From Our Own

Correspondent 9.30 Heart and Soul

10.00 News 10.06 The World This

Week 10.30 Outlook 11.00 News

11.06 The Newsroom 11.30 The

Cultural Frontline 12.06pm BBC

Proms 2019 1.00 Newshour 2.00

News 2.06 The Documentary 3.00

News 3.06 The Forum 3.50 50 More

Things That Made the Modern

Economy 4.00 News 4.06 Sportsworld

5.00 News 5.06 Sportsworld 6.00

News 6.06 Sportsworld 7.00 The

Newsroom 7.30 In the Balance 8.00

News 8.06 Music Life 9.00 Newshour

10.06 The Cultural Frontline 10.30 In

the Dark 10.50 50 More Things That

Made the Modern Economy 11.00

News 11.06 The Newsroom 11.20

Sports News 11.30 Heart and Soul

12.00 News 12.06am People Fixing

The World 12.30 Discovery 1.00 News

1.06 World Business Report 1.30

Science in Action 2.00 News 2.06 The

Newsroom 2.30 Healthcheck 3.00

News 3.06 HARDtalk 3.30 The

Conversation 4.00 News 4.06

Newsday 5.00 News 5.06 The

Newsroom 5.30 - 6.00am

CrowdScience

Radio 4 Extra

DIGITAL ONLY

6.00am Bindi Business Omnibus 7.15

Mavis Gallant Stories 7.30 It’s a Fair

Cop 8.00 Whack-O! 8.30 A Life of

Bliss 9.00 My Name Is Why Omnibus

10.10 The Listening Project 10.15

Desert Island Discs Revisited –

Teachers 11.00 The Moth Radio Hour

11.50 The Fanthorpe Investigations

12.00 Whack-O! 12.30pm A Life of

Bliss 1.00 Bindi Business Omnibus

2.15 Mavis Gallant Stories 2.30 The

Offing Omnibus 3.45 Beryl Reid in

Conversation 4.00 Pen Pals 5.00

Poetry Extra: Time for Verse 5.30 It’s

a Fair Cop 6.00 Night Terrace 6.30

The Man in Black 7.00 The Moth Radio

Hour 8.00 My Name Is Why Omnibus

9.10 The Listening Project 9.15

Desert Island Discs Revisited –

Teachers 10.00 Comedy Club 12.00

Night Terrace 12.30am The Man in

Black 1.00 Bindi Business Omnibus

2.15 Mavis Gallant Stories 2.30 The

Offing Omnibus 3.45 Beryl Reid in

Conversation 4.00 Pen Pals 5.00

Poetry Extra: Time for Verse 5.30 -

6.00am It’s a Fair Cop

Today’s radio choice Charlotte Runcie

The Reunion: When

Rugby Turned Pro

RADIO 4, 11.15AM

‹ Before the rugby World

Cup this month, this episode

of The Reunion takes a look

at how rugby union turned

pro. When players of other

sports were being paid

astronomical salaries,

rugby union players in the

Nineties were still officially

playing for free, until the

World Cup of 1995 finally

turned the tide. Sue

MacGregor hears the story

from former players Brian

Moore, John Devereux and

Michael Lynagh, the former

Secretary of the English

Rugby Football Union

Tony Hallett, and the

Telegraph’s Mick Cleary.

September 1, 1939

RADIO 4, 1.30PM

‹ As part of a season of

programmes marking 80

years since the outbreak

of the Second World War,

Maria Margaronis explores

WH Auden’s poem about

the events, first published

in 1939, shortly after war

was declared. Auden

turned against the poem,

saying to one critic,

“Between you and me,

I loathe that poem”, but it

has lasted and come to be

revisited during any

turbulent period and the

emotions that swirl around

global political turmoil,

particularly the line,

“We must love one another

or die”.

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