For full TV listings for the week, see thetimes.co.uk/tvplannerViewing guide, by James JacksonThe Central Park FivePBS America, 8.30pmThe American documentary-maker Ken Burns has said: “Race percolates to the surface of nearly every project I’ve worked on.” Those projects have taken in the American Civil War, jazz, country music and the Vietnam War. But rarely has the subject of race been so squarely in the centre of the frame as in his film from 2012. Eschewing his usual style of a narrator guiding us through an epic narrative, Burns keeps things tight, relying on fresh interviews to tell the story of an infamous miscarriage of justice. On the night of April 19, 1989, a young white woman was found assaulted and raped

Source: The Times August 20, 2020 22:52 UTC