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STREAMING
Monumental: Ellie Goulding at Kew Gardens, Amazon Freevee, streaming now
Global music icon Ellie Goulding puts on a show that promises to live long in the memory as she performs an intimate concert in the first of a series of Amazon musical specials. This hour-long spectacular sees the singer-songwriter perform tracks from her recently released fifth studio album Higher Than Heaven. Besides being an award-winning superstar, Goulding is also an ambassador for the United Nations and the World Wildlife Fund. It is fitting, then, that such an event is being held at London’s Kew Gardens – the largest botanic gardens in the world. Behind-the scenes footage and exclusive interviews are just some of the additional treats set to feature in this highly memorable experience.
REALITY
Challenge Anneka, C5, 8.30pm, Saturday
Once again Anneka Rice is corralling a group of volunteers in a bid to help others. This time, Age UK need assistance in creating a village for people with dementia, which they hope will feature seven shops, an outside space for the residents to enjoy, and an on-site cafe where carers can relax. But can it all be completed within just three days? It sounds like a tall order, but the challenge gets off to a flying start – it’s only when it becomes clear that materials are in short supply that what lays ahead proves daunting.
MUSIC
Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim, BBC2, 7.35pm, Saturday For one night only, Ol’ Blue Eyes is back in action. He may have been dead for 25 years, but he remains one of the most respected and revered performers ever to grace the silver screen or produce a
record. For fans and those who are maybe not as familiar with Sinatra as they’d like, there’s a chance to see three programmes that prove his brilliance, followed by High Society at 9.20pm. One of his costars from that film, Grace Kelly, can also be seen in 1970’s Frank Sinatra: At the Royal Festival Hall at 8.25pm, in which she introduces him onto the stage. It’s preceded by Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music, a TV special featuring Ella Fitzgerald and Antonio Carlos Jobim, from 1967.
PERFORMANCE
A Vision Of Loveliness: The Read, BBC Four, 8pm, Sunday
Bafta-nominated actress Liv Hill (Three Girls, Jellyfish) performs performs a creative reading of A Vision Of Loveliness, from the novel by Louise Levene. It’s a darkly comic tale that reveals the seedy underbelly of London in the 1960s, as we follow a young woman, Jane ‘Janey’ James as she rises through the social ranks of her peculiar world.
DOCUMENTARY
Wild Isles, BBC1, 7pm, Sunday
David Attenborough follows the course of our freshwater as it journeys through our landscapes, from highland burns in the Scottish Cairngorms to vast mudflats in Norfolk. Along the way, we see how determined Atlantic salmon battle their way upstream in one of the greatest migrations on the planet. Plus, beavers slow the flow with their expert dam-building and spiders become deadly assassins.