VIEWING GUIDE

What’s on TV and radio tonight: Tuesday, May 23

Ben Fogle in Montserrat for Ben Fogle and The Buried City
Ben Fogle in Montserrat for Ben Fogle and The Buried City
CHANNEL 5

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Viewing guide, by Ben Dowell
Ben Fogle and The Buried City
Channel 5, 9pm

In 1995 a volcano on the British overseas territory of Montserrat erupted. Nineteen people were killed and a large swathe of this tiny paradisal haven — measuring around ten miles by seven – was rendered uninhabitable. Enter Ben Fogle, a man more used to visiting people living in remote locations but who now casts his eye over a place made desolate by the departure of human life. In this film he is given access to the abandoned parts of the island, the exclusion zone, where Plymouth, the once bustling capital, now lies buried under tonnes of volcanic material. The sight of three-storey