FIVE THINGS FOR YOUR WEEK...
STREAMING Stowaway
Netflix, From Thursday April 22
If the cast is anything to go by, this sci-fi movie should be a real winner – Anna Kendrick, Daniel Dae Kim, Toni Collette and Shamier Anderson all feature. Directed by Brazilian filmmaker Joe Penna, who also co-wrote the script with Ryan Morrison, it focuses on the crew of a spaceship en route to Mars. However, someone has accidentally stowed away, causing severe damage to the craft’s life support systems. As their resources begin to dwindle, those on board must find a way to deal with their new circumstances or face certain death. While the ship’s commander and biologist favour a solution based on clinical logic, a medical researcher with a very different idea tries to stand up for what she believes in.
DRAMA
Lights Up: Orpheus In The Record Shop
BBC iPlayer
Inspired by the Ancient Greek myth, acclaimed rapper and playwright Testament (Black Men Walking, The Beatboxer) fuses spoken word and beatboxing with a cinematic score performed by members of the Orchestra And Chorus Of Opera North. Filling Leeds Playhouse’s
Quarry theatre with Orpheus’s dreams, Testament performs his reminiscences and his struggle for redemption. Orpheus In The Record Shop is a Leeds Playhouse and Opera North coproduction.
SPORT
Gymnastics: European Championships Highlights BBC Two Sunday, 6pm
Highlights from Basel, where the continent’s best gymnasts will battle it out for glory - and in some cases Olympic qualification. With the rescheduled 2020 Games now just three months away, the leading contenders will be looking to lay down a marker ahead of Tokyo.
The British team heading to Switzerland includes double Olympic champion Max Whitlock and twin sisters Jessica Gadirova and Jennifer Gadirova, who will compete at their first major senior Championships.
DOCUMENTARY
Lennox Lewis: The Untold Story
Sky Documentaries & NOW TV, Saturday, 9pm
Narrated by Dr Dre, Lennox Lewis: The Untold Story chronicles the life and career of one of the greatest undisputed heavyweight champions of our times. The film features unprecedented insight into Lennox Lewis’ journey from a troubled youth in West Ham, to uprooting to Canada and discovering a natural ability in the boxing ring, to the Olympics and professional ranks, where he established himself as one of the greats in the history of boxing
PODCAST The Line
In 2018, a group of Navy SEALs broke ranks and accused their chief, Eddie Gallagher, of murder— sucking them all into the biggest war crimes trial in a generation. Did a Navy SEAL cross the line in Iraq? Dan Taberski takes you inside that courtroom for the first time, peeling back the curtain on how America wages its wars now and revealing the story that the media covering the trial blew right past. Through intimate conversations with special operators, the series explores just how blurred the line between right and wrong has become.