As a boy I remember one of the delights of the Christmas holiday was scouring the pages of the Radio Times to see what festive treats the TV would serve up. These days, with on-demand movies, the joy has been taken from discovering that Back to the Future is being shown at 2.30pm New Year’s Day. So in the spirit of nostalgia allow me to recommend two wonderful new programmes set to be aired in the coming days.
The first is (Discovery+, available now), an eight-part series created and directed by Manish Pandey, the man behind from 2010. As we report on page 90, the series tells the story of Formula 1 through the lens of Bernie Ecclestone. Whether you see him as saviour or saboteur of the sport there is no denying his influence and as the new series makes plain this is very much his view of what happened and why. The title comes from Ecclestone’s claim that nothing was planned and it was all down to luck.
