David Bowie: Five Years gets a welcome screening on BBC 4 ( 10.40pm) while The Saturday Game Live (6.30pm RTÉ2) features the Munster Senior Football Final replay between Kerry and Cork. Melvyn Bragg Wigton to Westminster - which documents the life of the arts broadcaster - can be seen on BBC Two at 9.15pm.
David Bowie: Five Years
10.40pm BBC 4
An intimate documentary spanning five key years in the Thin White Duke’s career, featuring a wealth of unseen footage and charting the star's continual evolution through various roles, making him an icon of our times. The portrait explores Bowie's regeneration in Berlin, and his numerous critical triumphs, and features interviews with all of his closest collaborators.
The Saturday Game Live
6.30pm RTÉ2
Darragh Maloney is joined by Colm O’Rourke and Joe Brolly for live coverage of the Munster Senior Football Final replay between Kerry and Cork from Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney. Commentary from Ger Canning and Martin Carney, throw-in, 7.00pm.
Melvyn Bragg - Wigton to Westminster
9.15pm BBC Two
Having been responsible for nearly 750 episodes of the South Bank Show, it’s extraordinary that no one has turned the documentary cameras on Melvyn himself. Only now, at 75 years of age and showing no signs of slowing down, has Melvyn agreed to a BBC Two programme about his own life and work. Bafta-winning producer and director Olivia Lichtenstein (whose recent credits include Prince Philip At 90 and Broadmoor) was given complete access to Melvyn for this film. With contributions from a wealth of well-known figures, from Dame Judi Dench to Howard Jacobson, this documentary charts Melvyn’s career highlights . It takes it from his early days in radio, to a memorable lunch with the artist Francis Bacon and Dennis Potter’s poignant last interview. Returning to his home town of Wigton, Melvyn meets his school friends and an inspirational history teacher.
