Nigella: Cook, Eat, Repeat (BBC2, 8pm)
IT’S getting colder, the nights are fair drawing in and a lot of us are facing the prospect of more hours indoors for reasons unrelated to the season. It seems like the perfect time for comfort food, and few celebrity chefs make food seem as comforting as Nigella Lawson. In her new series, she’ll be exploring how food is woven into our everyday lives and the sense of connection it can provide. She begins by sharing a recipe she heard about on Twitter, which mixes familiar ingredients in an unexpected way.
Hospital (BBC2, 9pm)
EARLIER this year, BBC2 broadcast two documentaries following the staff of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust as they dealt with the challenges of treating thousands of Covid-19 patients, with normal work largely suspended. This new series returns to the hospital to explore the ramifications of turning the NHS into what one consultant describes as “A National Covid Service, not a National Health Service”, and what that could mean for patients whose diagnosis and treatment for other life-threatening conditions were delayed.
Berlin 1945 (BBC4, 10pm)
ON May 2, 1945, after one of the most intense battles in history, the guns stopped firing among the ruins of Berlin. According to veterans, the silence that followed was deafening. Less than four years after his attack on the Soviet Union, Hitler’s self-proclaimed thousand-year Reich had ceased to exist and the Fuhrer was dead. However, the human cost of the battle for Berlin had been enormous. This three-part documentary chronicles the city’s most fateful year, through the eyes who lived it.
My Family, the Holocaust & Me with Robert Rinder (BBC1, 10.45pm)
THIS year marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. As we move further away from the Holocaust, there are fewer survivors left to tell their stories, but as Robert Rinder points out in his two-part documentary, the trauma continues to affect subsequent generations. He’s exploring what it means to be the children and grandchildren of Holocaust victims and survivors, including looking at his own family’s history.
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