It’s got a stellar cast, including Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers, Sally Ann Howes and Michael Redgrave, and is most famous for its chilling final segment, which features Redgrave and an evil, insane ventriloquist’s dummy. It ended up scooping her the prestigious Golden Lion.ĭead of Night (1945) ★★★★★ Talking Pictures TV, 5.55pm Horror films were banned in Britain during the war, making this terrifying (but sporadically funny) anthology from Ealing Studios feel even more revolutionary. Alan Yentob follows her as she constructs her piece: a moving installation called the Devotional Collection that is centred on the lives of black women in the British music industry. Imagine: Sonia Boyce: Finding Her Voice BBC One, 10.40pm NI, 11.15pm not Wales This year, artist Sonia Boyce became the first black woman to represent Great Britain at the Venice Biennale. This was the decade that saw a boom in British game designers but, of course, the seat of honour goes to Tim Berners-Lee, whose World Wide Web changed everything. Made in the 80s: The Decade That Shaped Our World Channel 4, 10pm The documentary series concludes with a look at Britain’s influence on technology in the 1980s. Adapted by Emma Rice and starring Lucy McCormick and Ash Hunter, it is a playfully meta reinterpretation, featuring a range of big comic turns, song-and-dance numbers and puppets. Wuthering Heights Sky Arts, 9pm The gothic tragedy of Emily Brontë’s novel is given a brazenly camp makeover in this stage production, recorded at Bristol’s Old Vic theatre last year. This week’s fascinating episode of the documentary series follows the undercover cops who were tasked with infiltrating hooligan firms in the hope of neutralising them before the competition began. Italia 90: When Football Changed Forever Channel 4, 9pm The violent reputation of England’s fans was so dire that Italian authorities relocated England’s Italia 90 group games to Sardinia. He has brought with him a present: information from Christine’s (Rakie Ayola) past that she is desperate to keep buried. The Pact BBC One, 9pm The dreary drama hits a high note this week, as the sinister Connor (Jordan Wilks) turns up uninvited to Megan’s (Mali Ann Rees) wedding. Dispatches reporter Sophie Morgan investigates why that abuse so often goes unreported, and reveals the shocking lack of services available for disabled survivors. Trapped, Disabled & Abused: Dispatches Channel 4, 8.30pm In the UK, disabled people are twice as likely to experience domestic abuse than non-disabled people. All four episodes are available on demand. Interspersed with context from real-life historical experts, the dramatic scenes lack the dazzling production values of more conventional drama, but are certainly a step-up from bog-standard documentary reconstructions. In the background, meanwhile, is future Kaiser Wilhelm, played with theatrical malice by Evan Milton. More controversially, her sisters Elisabeth (Phoebe Marshall) and Alix (Kat Ronney) are to marry into the Russian royal family, against the wishes of their formidable grandmother (played by Some Mothers Do ’Ave Em’s Michele Dotrice, aka Betty Spencer). She is due to marry Prince Louis of Battenberg (Forbes Masson), whose line will eventually lead to King Charles III. In this week’s first episode, Princess Victoria Hesse (Josie Dunn) talks us through the complex dynamics of the royals. This four-part series, an engaging mixture of documentary and drama, follows the sisters as they navigate the petty rivalries of monarchs and cousins – rivalries that would lead to the horrors of the First World War. Royal Mob Sky History, 9pm The four favourite grandchildren of Queen Victoria, the Hesse sisters, each married into one of the great royal houses of 19th-century Europe.
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