SATURDAY OCTOBER 7
ONCE UPON A TIME IN NORTHERN IRELAND
Remembering the Troubles
Screening: Sky Arts, 7.30pm
Streaming: SkyGo
Like director James Bluemel’s earlier work, this is a fiveepisode documentary focused on the personal testimonies of people caught up (in some cases willingly) in bloody conflict. The proximity of the conflict to Britain means he also has plenty of archive footage – occasionally of the same people – to work with. “If you humanise the people on screen, you can then build empathy for theirpraised it as “a superb piece of work, not merely a litany of horrors but an opportunity for those involved to look back”. Quite what it’s doing on Sky Arts is just one of those programming mysteries.