Art of Spain
Part three - The Mystical North

In the final episode Andrew Graham-Dixon looks at the last 200 years with most of the artists and archtects of significance being from (or associated with) Catalonia.

Some of the most important works have war as their subject matter including Goya's Disasters of War series of prints about the atrocities committed by the French in the Peninsular War and Picasso's famous painting Guernica about the bombing of the Basque town during the Spanish Civil War.

Flying Through Time
Episode two - F-14 Tomcat
Forces TV

The Grumman Tomcat succeeded the Phantom as the US Navy's main carrier born interceptor and was in service for 30 years from the mid 1970s. After the cold war ended and the threat from Soviet bombers armed with long range stand-off missiles receded it was also configured for ground attack and it saw action in The first Gulf War, the Balkan wars, Afghanistan and Iraq. Iran was the only other country which operated the F-14 and was used in the iran-Iraq War in the 1980s. The Tomcat was the aircraft which Tom Cruise and his chums flew in the film "Top Gun"

Also featured was the Lockheed F-35 Lightning which is the new carrier fighter bomber in service with the US Navy and Marines and is just coming into service on the Royal Navy carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth.

Springwatch
2019 Episode 5

A lot of the standard fare that's been seen umpteen times before. Blue tit nest anyone?

The most interesting feature was a report on the decline in the numbers of salmon in Scottish rivers. I think they said the numbers are down by 70% in recent decades and so an ambitious academic study is ongoing called "The Missing Salmon Project" which aims to find out the reasons why.
Last year they tagged over 800 fish which were about to migrate from seven rivers into the North Sea. The tags have acoustic transmitters which are picked up by hundreds of receivers dotted along the rivers and stretched across the Moray Firth so the fish can be tracked along their route.
I checked the website for the results of these taggings and they say that about 50% of the smolts don't make it out of the rivers. The trouble is that as this is the first time this has been done they don't know whether this is a normal attrition rate.
They sensibly say "It’s easy for many to speculate on the cause of wild salmon’s decline, but unfounded speculation cannot and will not solve this problem."
Perhaps they could pass this message on to the saintly Attenborough who is already on the record blaming climate change, pollution and fish farming. For some reason he didn't mention overpopulation or plastic - probably just ran out of breath.