![]() ![]() ![]() An Oscar-winning Maximilian Schell is exceptional. Key characters include retired US judge Dan Haywood (Spencer Tracy), tasked with bringing the four to justice defendant Ernst Janning (Burt Lancaster), a respected scholar accused of sentencing Jews to death a German widow (Marlene Dietrich) and a timid witness (Judy Garland). Judgment at Nuremberg is an epic courtroom drama depicting a (fictional) version of the 1947 Judges’ Trial, held after the Second World War, in which four judges and prosecutors (as opposed to the real 16) stand accused of committing crimes against humanity under the Nazis. ![]() No director has done more to expose the world’s evils than Stanley Kramer: America’s great moralist took on issues including racism (Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner), nuclear war (On the Beach), creationism versus evolutionism (Inherit the Wind)), and here, fascism. In the opener we learn about how two brothers and their adopted sibling fell out over their inheritance in a case that eventually reached the Supreme Court – and how turkey magnate Bernard Matthews’ will ruffled a few feathers.įilm of the week: Judgment at Nuremberg (1962, b/w) ★★★★★ In the wake of the channel’s same-titled drama (starring Larry Lamb), this documentary series tells real-life stories about “families dragged through the courts by grief and greed”. The harrowing thriller is shaping up well for next week’s finale.Īnother glimpse of life in the slow lane as old pals Bob and Paul fish for roach, dace and river carp in the Avon in Hampshire and muse on life’s important subjects – including the etiquette of doggie dating for Ted the terrier. The formerly naked chef is off to Tunisia to sample its “heady mix” of European and African cuisine as ever, lucky lad, he scoffs his way through an array of mouth-watering dishes, including brik (stuffed savoury pastry) and bambalouni (doughnuts) – and tries his hand at making couscous, a task that is traditionally strictly women-only.Īfter last week’s revelations of the death certificates and what they indicate of the nuns’ wrongdoing in Irish mother-and-baby homes, Lorna (Ruth Wilson, excellent) and detective Colman (Daryl McCormack) team up to get to the bottom of the mess. It screams luxury and top-end design, but, as ever, Rinder is on hand to undercut any pretensions with his seemingly innocuous asides to camera. Monica Galetti and Rob Rinder rest their heads in Italy this week at Borgo Egnazia in Puglia its USP is that the recently constructed building is designed to look like a 200-year-old village. In Glasgow’s Pollok Country Park the finds include a rare Victoria Cross medal awarded to a Sikh soldier in the Second World War, while the modern sculptures one visitor brings along – which he rescued from a free bin outside a charity shop – may turn out to be the bargain of the series. ![]() One of those he meets is Pulp frontman and proud Yorkshireman Jarvis Cocker, who shares Davies’s love of the novel. After is a welcome repeat of Greg Davies: Looking for Kes (at 9.05pm) in which the Taskmaster host travels to Hines’s hometown – Hoyland Common in Barnsley – to visit the book’s locations and meet the people who inspired its characters, plus family and friends of the author. The programme, recorded at Oldham Coliseum, is the first in three-part series The Read the others follow later this year. It’s a grim read in parts as Hines does not sugarcoat life in a dilapidated Yorkshire mining village, or what impact growing up in a fractured home can have on young lives. It follows Billy, a young working-class boy troubled at home and at school, who finds and trains a kestrel that he names Kes. But this new series of performance readings of classic British novels allows us to slip back into that comforting past as Christopher Eccleston reads from Barry Hines’s 1968 book, better known by the title of its film adaptation, Kes, directed by Ken Loach. Being read to is a pleasure many of us leave behind when we depart either childhood or higher education. ![]()
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