The Peterborough Evening Telegraph
FIVE THINGS FOR YOUR WEEK...
STREAMING Gaslit, StarzPlay, from Sunday
Slow Burn is a podcast, each series focusing on a different, headline-grabbing subject. The first took a deep dive into Watergate, and featured, among others, interviews with Bob Woodward, one of the journalists who broke the story. It was a huge success, both with critics and listeners, and has now been used as the basis of a new drama, which takes a look at the scandal from an unusual angle. Julia Roberts and Sean Penn are almost unrecognisable as Martha and John Mitchell, an Arkansan socialite and her husband, who was President Richard Nixon’s loyal Attorney General. It reveals how, despite her husband’s affiliation and closeness to the then most powerful man in the world, it was Martha who first publicly raised the alarm – forcing her husband to choose between them.
DRAMA Gentleman Jack, BBC1, 9pm, Sunday
The railway arrives in Yorkshire, and Anne Lister is immediately obsessed with the opportunities it may bring – she wastes no time asking the local businessmen what this travel revolution could mean for Halifax. But perhaps she should be concentrating on her private life a little bit more because there’s trouble brewing. She and Ann’s efforts to charm Ms Walker’s relatives look set to come to nothing, while Ann herself doesn’t like the idea of her wife visiting Mariana Lawton.
HOMES & GARDENS A Lake District Farm Shop, Channel 4, 8.15pm, Saturday
Tebay’s lead lifestyle buyer Tracey Clowes has a plan to turn the sheared sheep fleece from the service station’s farm into a bespoke tweed for blankets and cushions. Back in Cumbria, experienced weaver Laura Rosenzweig gets to work, with an inspirational trip to the glorious Howgill Fells. And, over in Keswick, preserves supplier Jake Winter, of Wild & Fruitful, wants to extend his savoury range, with the service station’s buyer Jane Karlicek intrigued by his new ketchup. Finally, head of food sourcing
Dan Pearson and farm shop buyer Alex Evans pay a visit to butter company Winter Tarn Dairy.
CLIMATE CHANGE Our Changing Planet, BBC1, 7pm, Sunday
In August 2021, the BBC’s Natural History Unit announced an epic new series was coming our way. It would be filmed over the course of the next seven years while charting changes to the environment in six key habitats around the world, including California, the Arctic and the Amazon rainforest. The tireless work of conservationists trying to preserve these places will also be followed. Now the first two instalments are ready to view, with the opener featuring Steve Backshall, left, Chris Packham and Ella AlShamahi as they embark on fact-finding missions in the Maldives, Iceland and Cambodia respectively.
SHOWBIZ Celebrity Catchpoint, BBC1, 6.45pm, Saturday
Nobody else but Paddy McGuinness could host this entertaining game show, proudly boasting the biggest balls on the box. If you haven’t seen it, two star teams want to win big for charity but only one can take home the catch of the day in the ultimate battle of brains and balls.