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TV review: Cèilidh na Bliadhn’ Ùire 2025 and 2025: The year from space
FOR New Year, I decided to forgo my annual hate-watch of Jools Holland’s Annual Hootenanny, and, on the advice of a Church Times reader, I tuned into BBC Alba’s Cèilidh na Bliadhn’ Ùire 2025 (31 December, iPlayer). This…
TV review: Cèilidh na Bliadhn’ Ùire 2025 and 2025: The year from space
FOR New Year, I decided to forgo my annual hate-watch of Jools Holland’s Annual Hootenanny, and, on the advice of a Church Times reader, I tuned into BBC Alba’s Cèilidh na Bliadhn’ Ùire 2025 (31 December, iPlayer). This…
TV review: See No Evil
SEE NO EVIL (C4, Wednesday and Thursday) tells the harrowing story of the biggest scandal in Church of England history: the awful crimes committed by the serial abuser John Smyth (News, 12 December). After reading Bleeding…
What’s the Monarchy For? and Jamie Cooks Christmas
WHILE the debate about the purpose and value of the BBC continues, the transmission of a three-part exploration of the Royal Family, an institution intimately entwined over the decades with our national broadcasting network,…
A road trip to remember and Prisoner 951
TWO men motorcycling through the outback of Australia would not usually be the sort of television I’d enjoy, but when it features my favourite Avenger (of the Marvel variety) I make an exception. When he’s not being Thor,…
Men of the Manosphere and Wild Cherry
AFTER reviewing Adolescence earlier this year (Media, 28 March) and observing the subsequent — and at times, overblown — discourse, I was fascinated to watch Men of the Manosphere (BBC3, 12 November, available on iPlayer). In…
TV review: Kingdom and Caroline Flack: Search for the Truth
IN A week of bad press for the BBC, the latest Sir David Attenborough nature documentary was a timely reminder of what our national broadcasting network still consistently gets right. Kingdom (BBC 1, Sundays, first episode 9…
Married to the cult, The Celebrity Traitors, and Empire with David Olusoga
THE MOONIES: Married to the cult (Prime, released 2 November) is a feature-length documentary examining the influential religious movement that became the byword for cults. The Unification Church was founded in 1954 in South…
TV review: Once Upon a Time in Space and Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
TO DATE, fewer than 700 people have ventured into space, but all that is rapidly changing, at least for the seriously wealthy. Humans are poised on the frontier of a new era of space travel — one when the maxim “Whoever rules…
Will AI Take My Job? Dispatches, and How Are You?
WILL AI Take My Job? Dispatches (Channel 4, Monday of last week) was fascinating, albeit existentially terrifying, viewing. Besides surveying 1000 companies about the current impact of AI on their business models, Dispatches…
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