Mick Jagger and Princess Margaret’s love of partying is another Urban Myth for Sky

May 29, 2019

Telly Today: Midweek highlights include the enduring friendship between Mick Jagger and Princess Margaret.

One to Watch: Urban Myths, Sky Arts, 10pm

The fabulous Urban Myths continues with another look at the secret lives based on some true and not so true stories of the celebrities concerned. We thought it would be hard to top the Kenny Everett, Princess Diana and Freddie Mercury edition, but Sky Arts with this latest series continue to bring the laughs. Tonight its the turn of rocker Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones fame and his old mate Margaret Windsor, the party girl of the palace.

Every year from 1997 to 2002, Tony Blair submitted the name of Mick Jagger for the Queen’s Honours List. And every year the Queen turned him down. This is maybe why…

Sky Arts tells the story of Mick Jagger’s decades-long relationship with the Queen’s sister Princess Margaret, much to her majesty’s disapproval. We flit between louche 1970s London and the tiny Caribbean island of Mustique, where Margaret escaped for the winter and was allowed some respite from her royal duties and space to ‘entertain’.

But behind the hedonism, we explore the sweet, supportive relationship that went from a fling to a decades-long friendship until Margaret’s death in 2002.

The real Mick Jagger (right) meets Jools Holland on The Tube, where no conversation about Princess Margaret featured.

Location Location Location, Channel 4, 8pm

The show catches up with two couples from 2017 who were in a race against time to find homes. In Croydon, Phil Spencer helped local couple Cherelle and Leon, who were rapidly being priced out the area.

Phil was also out searching close to Reading, for teachers Richard and Jo, who had only six weeks to solve their property woes. With two teenage daughters in the mix, the search was never going to be plain sailing. Phil didn’t exactly get top marks and is back to see what happened next.

Victoria Sensations, BBC Two, 10pm

In the second episode of the series, actor Paul McGann – long fascinated by the art and culture of the decade – discovers how the works of H.G. Wells, Aubrey Beardsley and Oscar Wilde were shaped by fears of moral, social and racial degeneration.

Well-known as the Eighth Doctor in Doctor Who, Paul again travels through time, now seated in H.G. Wells’ Time Machine, to see how the author’s prophecies of a future in which humanity has decayed and degenerated, highlighted the fears and anxieties of the British Empire.

The Blitz, Channel 5, 9pm

It’s the last of the three-part series of this wartime look back. Tonight in the final episode the fate of those covered in the programme are revealed; Mary Lawson’s last-minute decision to stay above ground during the bombing had serious consequences, while the staff and patients at the maternity hospital were forced to deal with the terrible impact of the raids.

At the end of eight days of some of the worst bombing of the entire Blitz, Liverpool and Britain, emerged from this terrible time, seriously wounded, but not defeated. Presented by Michael Buerk, Angellica Bell and Rob Bell and using eyewitness accounts and recollections from relatives, ‘The Blitz: Britain on Fire’ tells the remarkable story of this period through a group of very different Britons caught up in the week’s terrible events.