What’s on this week
now reading Love Marriage Monica Ali
The first new novel in a decade from the bestselling author of Brick Lane.
Yasmin Ghorami has a lot to be grateful for: a loving family, a fledgling career in medicine, and a charming, handsome fiancee, fellow doctor Joe Sangster.
As the wedding draws closer and Yasmin’s parents get to know Joe’s firebrand mother, both families must confront the unravelling of long-held secrets, lies and betrayals.
Black Cake Charmaine Wilkerson
Eleanor Bennett won’t let her own death get in the way of the truth. So when her estranged children –
Byron and Benny – reunite for her funeral in California, they discover a puzzling inheritance.
First, a voice recording in which everything Byron and Benny ever knew about their family is upended. Their mother narrates a story about a young woman who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder.
now listening Fake Psychic BBC Sounds
If you wanted to speak to the dead in 1960s America, there was one man who was ready to help. A showman with big ambitions. A man who before your very eyes could bring back the dead.
Vicky Baker investigates the story of Lamar Keene, a renowned psychic who confessed to being part of an underground network that he called the psychic mafia.
From the team who brought you Fake Heiress, this is a story about the art of the con, belief, retribution, and possibly atonement.
Deep Cover: Mob Land Pushkin Industries
Deep Cover is a show about people who lead double lives, how far they’re willing to go in pursuit of a greater cause, and how sometimes, seemingly small decisions can change the course of history. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jake Halpern reveals webs of deception and dark underworlds, through interviews with federal agents and convicted criminals.
Season two, Mob Land, is about a high-rolling lawyer who joins forces with the feds to try to bring down one of the most powerful criminal syndicates in the country.
And listen back to season one, The Drug Wars, which tells the story of an FBI agent who goes undercover with a biker gang, and follows a trail of clues that eventually leads to the US invasion of a foreign country.
Underwater Disney+
Norah and her team find themselves in a dangerous situation as they work at the bottom of the Mariana Trench and clash against an unidentified species. Starring Kristen Stewart.
Fantasy Island Netflix
Blumhouse’s horror where visits that were supposed to fulfill fantasies turn into nightmares.
Virus Hunters Disney+
Documentary made at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, in which Chris Golden and James Longman embark on a worldwide journey to figure out how to stop the next pandemic.
The Sleepwalker NOW
Did a remorseful Randy
Herman Jr really commit a brutal murder in his sleep, or was it a convenient cover story? With exclusive access to Herman and his family, the defence and prosecution attorneys and journalists who covered the case, viewers gain an inside look at the shocking twists and turns of the controversial crime.
The Invisible Man Netflix
Elisabeth Moss stars in this horror about a woman escaping an abusive relationship but finds herself stalked.
Supernova NOW
Sam and Tusker, partners of 20 years, are on holiday travelling across England in their old campervan. Since Tusker was diagnosed with early onset dementia two years ago, their lives have had to change. Now, secrets are uncovered, private plans unravel and their love for each other is tested like never before.
Jay Blades: Learning to Read at 51 BBC iPlayer
Jay Blades, presenter of The Repair Shop, has decided it’s finally time to learn to read. He has been told he has the reading age of an 11-year-old. Throughout his life he has found ways of avoiding the written word, and this film digs deep into how this has shaped him. Munich – The Edge of War
Netflix
Adapting the best-selling novel from Robert Harris, this film documents the days leading up to the Second World War. Drama, starring George MacKay and Jannis Niewohner.
Lucy in the Sky Disney+
An astronaut returns to Earth from her first space mission and begins to feel disconnected from normal life.
Nobody NOW
Hutch Mansell is a nobody. An underestimated and overlooked dad and husband, taking life’s indignities on the chin, letting things slide and never rocking the boat. And when two thieves break into his suburban home one night, Hutch fails to defend himself or his family.
The New Air Force One: Flying Fortress
Disney+
National Geographic documentary that offers access to the crew of Air Force One, their two ageing planes, and the secret operation to replace them with a new aircraft.