TV Tonite BBC Four, 10PM: The Holocaust, Ken Burns Scathing New Documentary Takes Apart US Delusions
Television, TV tonight: Ken Burns’ scathing new documentary takes apart US delusions, The Guardian, Jan. 9, 2025.
- A family hoping to be allowed to find safety in the US, circa 1930, in The US and the Holocaust. -
The famed documentarian turns his attention to the US’s real record of providing shelter – or not – for the world’s huddled masses. Plus: affable architect George Clarke returns. * Here’s what to watch this evening
* The US and the Holocaust
10pm, BBC Four
Ken Burns’ scathing three-part documentary looks at how the US responded to Jews and others seeking refuge from the Nazis. “We all tend to think of the United States as the country with the Statue of Liberty poem ‘Give me your tired, your poor … ’” says historian Peter Hayes in this week’s first scene-setting episode. “But, in fact, exclusion of people and shutting them out has been as American as apple pie.” Hollie Richardson
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George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces
8pm, Channel 4
The affable architect returns to nose around more compact projects attempting design ingenuity in places where cat-swinging is inconceivable. There is a vehicular theme to this opener as Clarke runs the rule over plans to convert a leaky boat and a vintage caravan, while also cooking up an ambitious four-wheeled build of his own. Graeme Virtue
Hornby: A Model World
8pm, Yesterday
Hornby has given the Lilliputian treatment to the iconic Flying Scotsman 47 times. At the start of this second series that once again takes a magnifying glass to the beloved model-making company, product development director Simon Kohler commissions yet another version to take it up to date – while keeping the project as secret as possible. Ali Catterall
Meet the Khans: Big in Bolton
8.30pm, BBC Three
Faryal Makhdoom and Amir Khan return for a third season of inessential reality TV, with former pugilist Amir struggling to focus following his retirement from competitive sport. No time to wallow, however, as Faryal’s new makeup brand isn’t going to launch and market itself – and she’s much keener to start a new phase of life. Jack Seale...
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