For full TV listings for the week, see thetimes.co.uk/tvplannerViewing guide, by Chris BennionPaxman on the Queen’s ChildrenChannel 5, 9pmWhat could so easily have been a cut-and-paste, seen-it-all-before talking heads documentary series on the Queen’s offspring is transformed into something more incisive and compelling by the presence of “the great inquisitor”, as one interviewee dubs Jeremy Paxman. The former Newsnight host takes his trademark abrasive curiosity and applies it to Charles, Anne, Andrew and Edward for this entertaining two-parter. This is no mere sneer-fest either — Paxman, once a staunch republican, is now a monarchist (though out of his disdain for politicians, rather than any great love for the Windsors). He begins in the postwar era, when Charles and Anne were born, the…

Source: The Times February 05, 2019 00:00 UTC