What’s on TV this weekend: The National Theatre’s reimagining of Romeo & Juliet premieres on Sky Arts
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Gerard Gilbert
Friday
9pm, Channel 5
It’s probably necessitated by Covid regulations, but having the historians speaking unseen (talking non-heads, as it were) is refreshingly non-distracting. In the second episode of this life of Winston Churchill, Tessa Dunlop’s disembodied voice describes Churchill as “one of the most ambitious men who ever lived”, and by the time we reach the First World War, the 40-year-old Churchill is in charge of the British Navy and one of the five members of the war cabinet. And then he dreams up the idea of invading Germany’s ally Turkey by way of Gallipoli. In disgrace, Churchill enlisted for the trenches and began the long road back to power.