![]() It’s almost impossibly bleak stuff, buoyed by the chemistry between the pair, but suffers thanks to an ill-considered third act. On the way, he tries to impart the life lessons that she will need to survive after he is gone. After Max is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumour, he takes his daughter on one last road trip across America with the intent of locating her estranged mother. DBĭon’t Make Me Go (2022) Amazon Prime Video John Cho and Mia Isaac star as father and daughter Max and Wally Park in a tear-jerking adventure-drama. As ever, they are joined by a panel of guests to make things more lively, which tonight includes the never-dull Miriam Margolyes. The Last Leg Channel 4, 10pm Adam Hills, Alex Brooker and Josh Widdicombe are back for a 25th series of this quadruple-Bafta-winning comedy/current affairs show. There are insights about Judi Dench’s strict Quaker upbringing, early roles in British theatre, four Bafta wins, and the renewal of her career in her sixties via roles such as M in the Bond films and Queen Victoria in Mrs Brown. Judi Dench: Our National Treasure Channel 5, 9pm A glowing documentary of archive footage and interviews about the rise of one of our best actors. Here we visit Villars-sur-Var to see how olive oil is still made using thousand-year old methods, sample caillette – a pork meatball – in Annot, and end the day dangling 600 feet over Digne-les-Bains, an essential stop for rock-climbing enthusiasts. World’s Most Scenic Railway Journeys Channel 5, 8pm The Bill Nighy-narrated travel show continues to trundle on, this time stopping off in Provence, France. Live from the Artists Den Sky Arts, 7pm Sky Arts airs a wonderfully atmospheric 2009 performance from reliable American hard-rockers The Black Crowes at the historic Lyric Theatre in Oxford, Mississippi, with songs such as She Talks to Angels and Twice as Hard from their hit 1990 mega-hit album Shake Your Money Maker. Close-up shots abound of self-seeded geraniums, a honeysuckle hedge and the pinks and crimsons of foxgloves. With summer underway the garden is exploding with life – particularly the Brick Garden, which looked rather dead in the spring. This time she’s asking us to get our hands dirty, whether that be in a garden plot or simply a window box. DBĬarol Klein’s Summer Gardening Channel 5, 7pm We’re back with Carol Klein at Glebe Cottage in north Devon. In this packed opener, he bumbles across Sicily: sneaking a selfie-stick into a 12th-century church, fishing in the sea, buying a house for €1 and awakening a fondness for Afrobeat and bagpipes. James May: Our Man in Italy Amazon Prime Video Season two of James May’s travel show sees the perpetually bothered man decamp from Japan to Italy in search of la dolce vita, trying to work out why the Boot boasts “the most enviable lifestyle on the planet”. The broadcast will be presented by Clive Myrie and Katie Derham, while the performance is slated to kick off at 7.30pm – lasting for 84 minutes without an interval. ![]() Sakari Oramo conducts, while the four solos are a gifted line-up: soprano Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha (last year’s winner of Cardiff Singer of the World Song Prize), mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston, tenor Freddie De Tommaso (who filled the star role of Puccini’s Tosca mid-performance last year when Bryan Hymel suddenly took ill) and bass-baritone Kihwan Sim. While it’s generally considered too operatic for religious use, it’s a wonderful choice for this event, balanced finely between bombastic peaks of high drama and relative lulls for more measured reflection. This is a staggering choral setting of the Catholic funeral mass, performed here in full by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus and the Crouch End Festival Chorus. And entirely appropriate, for a nation still learning the best way to mourn those who we have lost, that we should start off this Proms season with an unusual single billing – Verdi’s Requiem. First Night of the Proms BBC Two, 7.15pm It’s a welcome return to normalcy for a packed Royal Albert Hall after two years of pandemic performances to limited audiences.
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