MUST-SEE SHOWS
QUEER AS ART
Tonight, BBC2, 9pm POPULAR culture, including the visual arts, literature, theatre and film, has always provided a haven for those growing up creative and gay, long before the 1967 change in the law occurred.
This documentary explores the subject, asking whether artists’ sexuality shaped their field of expertise. Their work has brought new types of characters to screens large and small, and gender ambiguity to pop music.
But has homosexuality’s move towards the mainstream made exploration of its themes less urgent and interesting?
Among those addressing the subject are Stephen Fry, Val MacDermid, Sandi Toksvig, Alan Cumming and Russell T Davies.
LOVE ISLAND: THE REUNION
Tomorrow, ITV2, 9pm SOME highbrow critics might have written off this latest run of sun-kissed romance on the basis of it being as shallow as a saucer of milk. However, healthy ratings have helped the show no end.
Now the dust has almost settled on this series, won by Kem and Amber, Caroline Flack reunites this year’s contestants and finds out how things have changed since they left the villa.
NADIYA’S BRITISH FOOD ADVENTURE
Monday, BBC2, 8.30pm FORMER Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain is in East Anglia as she continues her culinary road trip around Britain.
She goes out to sea with Norfolk fisherman Richard Matthews to catch crabs for Vietnamese-style summer rolls,
She then heads to Ely in Cambridgeshire to meet potato farmer and crisp factory owner Ross Taylor, using his snacks to make a crisp, chocolate and salted peanut dessert.
Back in her kitchen, Nadiya creates a ploughman’s cheese and pickle tart.
OLD PEOPLE’S HOME FOR FOURYEAR-OLDS
Tuesday, Channel 4, 9pm FOR some people, just the idea of spending six weeks with 10 four-year-olds may be enough to make you feel very tired.
But could it have the opposite effect on a group of pensioners?
That’s what this documentary sets out to discover as it establishes a new nursery in a retirement village near Bristol, and invites 11 pensioners to follow the same timetable of work and play.
Over the course of six weeks, the older group will undergo tests to see how their contact with the young kids affects their mood, memory and mobility.
Could the experiment transform the way Britain cares for its ageing population?