KURT COBAIN: MOMENTS THAT SHOOK MUSIC

BBC Two, 9.25pm

A suitably moody look back at how the suicide of Nirvana frontman and godfather of grunge,

Kurt Cobain, impacted his family, his fans, his home city of Seattle and the world, back in April 1994. News clips, home-movie footage and interviews help to build a picture of a major talent struggling to cope with his success and his fragile mental health – and a picture, most pointedly, of the day he took his own life. In the end, it is his wife Courtney Love’s angrily accusing reading of his suicide note to a gathering of fans at a vigil in Seattle that becomes the real emotional core of this film.

There’s a chance to see the band in action – and to remember Cobain as a musical genius – in the UK from their debut

1989 tour to headlining Reading Festival in 1992, in the documentary When Nirvana Came to Britain (BBC Two, 10.10pm) and there’s lots more from Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl, too, in the concert film that follows, Foo Fighters at Reading 2019 (BBC Two, 11.10pm), and also in Foo Fighters and More: Live Lounge Special (BBC Two, 1.10am), which also features performances by the Script, the xx and Chris Martin. Gerard O’Donovan where she unearths evidence of ancient human sacrifice. From there it’s on to explore churches, paintings and maritime history in the capital Tallinn, before heading west to visit the breathtaking boglands of Soomaa.

Kurt Cobain during the taping of MTV Unplugged in 1993