19May
Wild China: Shangri-La
You’d think after decades of nature programmes they’d have run out of weird creatures to show us, but this episode about Yunnan, a remote forest in southwest China, is full of jaw-dropping moments - from bats the size of bumblebees living in a bamboo stem, to villagers tying feathers to hornets, to the unearthly song [...]
05Mar
The Worlds of Fantasy
This programme about Tolkien and Mervyn Peake tries to set itself up as a battle between the two heavyweights of fantasy, uptight map-making vs moody surrealism, but it’s really interesting when it starts excavating all the pieces that the pair made their imaginary worlds out of - which apparently included the Somme, Worcestershire, ceremonial [...]
