TELEVISION
SUNDAY JUNE 5
EDEN: UNTAMED PLANET
Six perfect places
Screening: TVNZ 2, 6.00pm Yes, it’s another high-definition nature documentary series, but Helena Bonham Carter’s storybook voice-over does add something fresh. Produced by the BBC’s Natural History Unit for BBC America, the six-part series visits a halfdozen of the world’s relatively untouched places: the rainforests of Borneo, the parched but fruitful desert of Namib in south-west Africa, the African savanna, the Galapagos Islands, the mountains of Patagonia and the temperate forests in Alaska.
BETTY WHITE: PURE GOLD
The woman who was there at the start
The world might remember, but Betty White, who died on New Year’s Eve aged 99, was there at the birth of television, moving from radio to appear on camera in 1949 and, remarkably, producing her own show from 1952. This documentary runs to only 43 minutes of screen time, so it’s a canter through the story, with family, friends and co-stars paying tribute.
