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The week in TV: Bloodlands; Unforgotten; Blitz Spirit With Lucy Worsley; Grayson's Art Club

James Nesbitt looks understandably hard-pressed in a twisting new crime drama; Unforgotten pushes all the right buttons; and Grayson Perry returns

Bloodlands (BBC One) | iPlayer
Unforgotten (ITV) | ITV Hub
Blitz Spirit with Lucy Worsley (BBC One) | iPlayer
Grayson’s Art Club (Channel 4) | All 4

Is it possible for anyone outside the confines of Northern Ireland, outside all those gaunt, dripping branches and rolling green hummocks, to cram so many vowel sounds into a single-syllable word, eg the word “now”? As in “Leave, now! Naouiheaiuughea, I tell ye!” We were reintroduced to that grand Belfast accent courtesy of BBC One’s nicely wriggly four-parter Bloodlands, and I feel I can still hear the chill tattoo of hard rain on tin roofs.

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