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Beautiful archive and A-list interviews from the likes of Dolly Parton combine in Ken Burns’s entertaining history. Plus: it’s the final of Junior Bake Off. Here’s what to watch this evening
Coinciding with the country music awards (highlights of which will be shown at 11.10pm), this nine-part series on the history of the genre begins with a double bill of episodes. Using beautiful archive clips and interviews with luminaries such as Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris, it documents how country out started as “hillbilly music” before reaching prominence with the Carter Family’s recordings in the 1930s. A toe-tapping anthropological history, told with Burns’s trademark informative light touch. Ammar Kalia Continue reading...