For full TV listings for the week, see thetimes.co.uk/tvplannerViewing guide, by Ben DowellSponsoredSpringwatch 2021BBC2, 8pmSumer is icumen in, something that of course has an even greater symbolic power this year. Because just as nature emerges blinking into life, so (hopefully) do we after 16 months of privation, with the stern hope that those pub gardens start warming up. And so the Springwatch team have decided that this will be a special series with an overarching theme that even has a name, “A Vision for the Future”, with the stated aim to have a “vision of hope, inspiration, beauty and co-existence, brought to the audience from every nation in the British Isles”. How very Auntie BBC of them. The watcher team are

Source: The Times May 24, 2021 23:00 UTC