Highlights and listings
DRAMA The Windermere Children
Broadcast to coincide with Holocaust Memorial Day, this drama tells the true story of the child survivors of the Holocaust who started a new life at the Calgarth Estate by Lake Windermere in the Lake District. Based on the testimony of survivors who arrived traumatised and malnourished, the account of horror and hope is led by Thomas Kretschmann, Romola Garai, Tim Mcinnerny and Iain Glen.
Charged with looking after the children is child psychologist Oscar Friedmann (Kretschmann), who along with his team of counsellors, including art therapist Marie Paneth (Garai), philanthropist Leonard Montefiore (Mcinnerny) and sports coach Jock Lawrence (Glen), have four months to help the children reclaim their lives.
By the lake, the children learn English, play football, ride bikes, express their trauma through painting – and begin to heal. When the Red Cross arrives with letters about the fates of their families, none of them receive good news, but in the absence of relatives, the children find family in each other.
Monday, BBC2, 9pm
REALITY Win The Wilderness: Alaska
Win The Wilderness is a new series where six British couples brave subzero temperatures, wild bears and predators as they compete to win a home in the Alaskan wilderness. The couples will retrace the steps of a man who was the last person to claim five acres of virgin land under the American Homestead Act, and now after living there for 35 years with his wife is looking for an heir to take over the legacy. Cue privation and challenges for our plucky contenders. Tomorrow, BBC2, 9pm
INSIGHT Keeler, Profumo, Ward And Me
As The Trial of Christine Keeler concludes on BBC1, Tom Mangold, who covered the story while he was a reporter on Fleet Street, hosts a programme on BBC2 looking at the various protagonists.
Previously unreleased audio tapes from interviews with Keeler and her friend Mandy Rice-davies by producers of the 1989 film
Scandal form the central part of the programme, which promises to offer new insight on the last hours of Dr Stephen Ward, the osteopath and portrait artist who introduced Christine Keeler to John Profumo.
The two women also talk about the weekend at Cliveden where Keeler and Profumo first met and reveal how they were pressured into giving evidence against Ward.
Tomorrow, BBC2, 10pm
REMEMBRANCE
Holocaust Memorial Day
Seventy five years after the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp, more than 150 survivors will attend a ceremony to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. Huw Edwards presents. Two harrowing but important documentaries to mark the occasion this week include Belsen: Our Story on Tuesday, BBC2 at 9pm and Auschwitz Untold: In Colour on Wednesday, Channel 4, at 10:30pm. Monday, BBC2, 7pm
NATURE
Winterwatch
Chris Packham, Michaela Strachan, Gillian Burke and Iolo Williams return to the Cairngorms to host a series of live programmes celebrating the wildlife of the mountain range. The cameras are poised to capture pine martens, red squirrels and golden eagles. This wilderness is home to rare cold-adapted species, but as the climate changes they are especially sensitive to warming temperatures. This makes them and the Cairngorm Mountains Britain’s early warning system for changing environments, so what can the Cairngorms reveal about winter now, and in the future? ■
Tuesday to Thursday, BBC2, 8pm, Friday, 8:30pm