Muhammad Ali: A Life in Ten Pictures
● DOCUMENTARY / 9pm (times vary) / BBC2
This fascinating series continues with 10 illuminating photographs of the man born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr in Louisville, Kentucky . The first image is of Cassius as a toddler, dressed in his Sunday best, and the second captures him with an Olympic gold medal, as he celebrates being light heavyweight champ. Yet in his home state, segregation was still the law and not even a glistening gold medal changed that. The film then follows his success as a boxer and as an inspirational leader, who was never afraid to speak up for what he believed in. The Oscar-winning documentary When
We Were Kings follows. ★★★★ JL