Pick of the week
Ocean With David Attenborough
As David Attenborough passes his 99th birthday, here’s another landmark documentary to add to his collection – and one that’s more polemical than usual. His lucid message here is “If we save the sea we save our world”, as he talks us through what humanity has done to the Earth’s oceans and how we can protect them. Awe and anger intermingle – there are glorious images of aquatic life, such as the remote submarine seamounts that are “pitstops” for migrating fish or the kelp forests in coastal waters that capture carbon. But it’s the underwater footage of indiscriminate dredging by trawlers that has the most emotional impact – a picture of devastation that’s also a call to arms.
Sunday 8 June, 8pm, National Geographic/Disney+
