TV review: David Bowie and the Story of Ziggy Stardust

There's one notable absence in this parade of talking heads paying tribute to the British pop's space oddity, and with good reason, perhapsDavid Bowie doesn't actually take part in David Bowie and the Story of Ziggy Stardust (BBC4), an excellent documentary about the making of the album, and the birth of the alter ego that catapulted him from just an androgynous 1970s oddball to unearthly android and icon, the biggest – and most important thing – in British pop since the Beatles. It would be...

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