Shankly: Nature’s Fire, BBC2, 10pm
THE World Cup may be over but pretty much everyone is still football crazy, so it’s a good job that the new league season is just a few weeks away. To keep fans occupied until then there’s a chance to take a nostalgic trip into the past for a documentary about one of the key figures in the development of the modern beautiful game. Although born and raised in Scotland, he spent most of his playing career in England, and on his retirement in 1949 turned to management. His name is now synonymous with Liverpool FC; he arrived there in 1959 and turned the team from second division also-rans into one of the best in Europe. The secrets of Bill Shankly’s success are detailed in this fascinating profile.
Imagine – Rose Wylie: This Rose Is Bloomin, BBC1, 10.30pm
PAINTER Rose Wylie is known for creating exuberant, large-scale works of art on un-primed canvas and her recent rise has been nothing short of meteoric, exhibiting and selling pieces all over the world. Here, Alan Yentob meets the 84-year-old painter and discovers how her memories and experiences, including her childhood in the Blitz during the Second World War, have helped mould her into the artist she is today. Wylie also explains how she transforms the stuff of everyday experience into new and hitherto unseen painterly visions.
Countryfile, BBC1, 7pm
AN episode from Cumbria celebrates Countryfile’s 30th anniversary, in which veteran presenter John Craven introduces a countdown of the show’s 30 most memorable moments from the past three decades.
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