Television SATURDAY
SATURDAY 29 JUNE
MUSIC
Glastonbury from 5.00pm BBC2; from 7pm BBC4; 10pm BBC1 (if BBC1 isn’t showing football) Catch up via iPlayer
The thing about Glastonbury is, there’s alot of it. If you ever feel the BBC’s banquet of coverage is overgenerous, bear in mind it’s amere finger buffet compared with the real thing. The Somerset village of Pilton (pop. 998) swells to host afive-day party (pop. 200,000 or so), where the TV bits are top-sliced from a “festival of contemporary performing arts” that ranges far and very wide.
The cameras sometimes hint at the scale of it, but mostly we at home see acareful pick of acts and interviews, while the crush of fans at Worthy Farm becomes asea of happy faces and bendy flags. This weekend they’ll have much to enjoy, from headliners Coldplay (sure to feature in BBC coverage, at 10pm) to Scottish electro artist Barry Can’t Swim (less sure) and Australian prog rockers the Psychedelic Porn Crumpets (unlikely).
However, if you set your device to record everything, you can pick and choose later —or dip in via iPlayer. Today’s other big names include Camila Cabello, Johnny Flynn, Michael Kiwanuka, Little Simz, Nitin Sawhney, Cyndi Lauper, Keane and Ralph McTell. Jo Whiley and Jack Saunders are among our hosts.
ENTERTAINMENT
8.25am ITV1 Catch up via ITVX Comedian Chris
NEW SERIES
McCausland jokes that he’s “an overnight success, 20 years in the making”. He has reportedly signed up for this year’s Strictly, becoming the dance contest’s first ever blind contestant. Now he has landed his own Saturday-morning vehicle, to run over the summer. It sees the genial Liverpudlian chatting to guests who he’ll “immerse in his audio world”. We’re also promised live music, games and “general fooling about”. As McCausland says: “I can’t do autocue and don’t know where the cameras are. What can possibly go wrong?”
DOCUMENTARY
7.00pm Channel 5 Catch up via My5
Part baronial fortress, part French château, Balmoral’s architectural style is not to everyone’s taste. But this Aberdeenshire sanctuary, given to Queen Victoria by Prince Albert in 1852, was reportedly the late Queen’s favourite residence. Before her death in September 2022, she and other members of the royal family would holiday here every summer, away from media attention and the public eye. In this documentary first shown in 2017, we get apeek inside and discover what it takes to run the 50,000-acre 00 00 estate.
DOCUMENTARY
8.00pm 0p C4 Catch up via C4 streaming
Sadly, we’ve seen apair of royal funerals in recent years, with Prince Philip’s 2021 send-off followed 18 months later by the Queen
