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Dark Matter: A History of the Afrofuture
9pm, BBC Four
Writer Ekow Eshun, artist Hew Locke, curator Elvira Dyangani Ose and other black diaspora thinkers provide a communal narrative for this fascinating film, explaining the history of the cultural movement of afrofuturism. From Turner’s battle of commerce versus humanity in The Slave Ship to Drexciya’s techno utopias, we trace how the trauma of slavery and racism translated into an imagined othering of black existence – a fertile space for new creation.
Ammar Kalia
8pm, BBC One
It’s September 1966 in the cosy-yet-crusading Sunday night drama, and a post-birth emergency leads Sister Frances (Ella Bruccoleri) to start a scheme for South Asian women wary of medical intervention. Trixie (Helen George) is also trying to help a poverty-stricken mum, but her efforts are far less welcome.
Over the course of its ten seasons,
Call the Midwife the beloved BBC show about the midwives of London s East End in the 1950s and 60s has introduced fans to a large cast of charming characters. While some, like Sister Julienne (Jenny Agutter), Shelagh Turner (Laura Main), and Trixie (Helen George) have been a part of the show since the beginning, there have also been a number of nurse and nuns who have walked from the halls of Nonnatus House and on to new adventures.
Easily among the most missed of these departed characters has to be Camilla Fortescue Cholomondely-Browne (later Noakes) aka Chummy the endearing, clutzy, endlessly kind nurse played by Miranda Hart in the first four seasons of the show. And while most of the cast members who have stepped away from
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Oh, Mr Scarisbrick. Charm is all very well, but what the modern young woman expects is moral substance. And yours is looking slightly soggy.
The suavely suited director of the Lady Emily Clinic in fashionable Mayfair was ladling compliments over Nurse Trixie (Helen George) as Call The Midwife (BBC1) continued its foray into the refined world of Up West.
‘Another very soignee ensemble,’ he purred at the sight of Trixie, who marched into his office in a woollen teal jacket with a choirboy collar and buttons as big as side plates.
As a devotee of The Great British Sewing Bee, these days I can’t help noticing such things.
Call the Midwife: How old the beloved stars are in real life including Cambridge s own Stephen McGann
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Dr Patrick Turner. Photographer: Coco Van Oppens (Image: BBC/Neal Street Productions/Coco Van Oppens)
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