TV tonight: a rebel history of Britain with a Portishead soundtrack

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From remarkable rave-and-rituals documentary Arcadia to Torvill and Dean impersonations in the Dancing on Ice final, here’s all the best TV to tune in for

Arcadia 9pm, BBC Four Paul Wright’s remarkable collage documentary uses the BFI’s collection of films of rural Britain to weave a beautiful, funny and deeply disquieting narrative that eventually amounts to an alternative national history. It’s simultaneously expressionistic and polemical, asking questions about ownership, exploitation and our vexed relationship with nature, celebrating a strain of rebel Britishness that has manifested itself in everything from folk ritual to rave culture.

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