Gregory Porter’s Popular Voices

BBC FOUR, 10.00PM

Jazz musician Gregory Porter’s outstanding series continues with a focus on crooners. The usual suspects – Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole – are present but what makes this series so exceptional is the knowledge Porter brings to his subject. This episode dissects why Sinatra was “a little too presumptuous for the croon” as well as looking at how everyone from Iggy Pop to David Bowie used the technique.