A wild true-crime tale. Plus Jamie Oliver’s ultimate barbecue and a gruelling trek with Bear Grylls and Matthew McConaughey. Here’s what to watch this evening
9.45pm, BBC Two
This heart-racing, three-part documentary tells the wild story of a casino bomb and the man behind it. In 1980, a ticking timebomb using 1,000lb of dynamite was wheeled through Harvey’s Wagon Wheel Casino in Lake Tahoe, with a note demanding $3m (£2.2m) attached to it. It was so sophisticated that, as one bomb squad member who was there remembers in the first episode, “all the usual techniques were thrown out of the window”. Hollie Richardson
The 73-year-old has been at the cutting edge of US independent cinema since the 1980s. As Father Mother Sister Brother opens in the UK, he talks about grief,...
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