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‘Dad said it was
one of the most
embarrassing
things he’d
ever seen’

Michael Sheen and David Tennant
on Neil Gaiman, friendship and families
— and why they’re the new Morecambe & Wise

Good Omens 2
Available to
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Prime Video

29 JULY—4 AUGUST 2023

THIS WEEK
The Killing Kind 6
Emma Appleton and Colin Morgan
team up for a new legal thriller

Grapevine special 7
What effect will the actors’ strike in
the USA have on our favourite shows?
David Tennant and
Michael Sheen star
in Good Omens 2

Sam Heughan 8
Ten questions with the star of
Outlander and Men in Kilts

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From the Editors
THE FIRST SERIES of Terry Pratchett
and Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens
emerged on television in the pre-Covid days
of 2019, despite Pratchett having died four
years before. It was a jolly, comic adaptation
of the pair’s 1989 novel, imagining what
would have happened if an angel and a
demon collided in an idyllic English village
to thrash out the end of days. The second
series, once again starring David Tennant
and Michael Sheen, arrives on our screens
this week like a good deed in a weary world.
The tale behind the making of Good
Omens 2 is almost as good as the story itself.
As Marc Burrows writes in this issue (see
page 14), Gaiman has worked with “a ghost
of an idea” to bring to life a conversation he
and Pratchett had sketching out a sequel to
their novel. The result is brought to glorious
life on Amazon Prime Video.
A happy by-product of the first series was
that the on-screen partnership of Tennant
and Sheen created an off-screen bond, too.
It’s one we glimpsed in Staged, the pair’s
Zoom comedy that enlivened our evenings
in lockdown. You can read all about their
friendship in our interview on pages 16.
Elsewhere we hear from Juliet Stevenson,
who this week stars in the chilling new BBC1
drama Wolf; Chris Packham, whose series
Earth has impressed critics and viewers; and
Alex James, whose band Blur is enjoying a
new lease of life 30 years on from their 90s
heyday. You can watch a night dedicated to
the band on Saturday on BBC2.
Meanwhile on radio, with the Proms in
full swing, this week is the perfect time to
visit a staple of the Radio 3 schedules.
Composer of the Week has been on air since
1943 and on page 110 we speak to the
presenters of the longest running classical
music show on the BBC.
Tom Loxley & Shem Law
Editors, Radio Times

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Viewpoint 11
If you’re searching for the roots
of surrealism, go to Birmingham

Jane Garvey 13
It’s easy to see why war dramas
make feelgood television — we’re
always cast as the good guys

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Juliet
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David Tennant and Michael
Sheen on friendship,
families and keeping
alive the magical world
of Terry Pratchett

Juliet Stevenson 18
She said no to Hollywood and
yes to starring in a British thriller
with full-on fear factor

Some Mothers
Do ’Ave ’Em 26
Fifty years on, Michael
Crawford’s slapstick
sitcom remains a classic

Shadow of Truth 28

Humans are great at walking, says
Chris Packham — so get out there
and take the world in your stride

Travel 134
Take your time to savour the
majestic landscapes of New
Zealand — go by train!

Money 136
Feeling lucky? Premium Bond prizes
have increased, says Paul Lewis

Blur 22
One of the biggest Britpop
bands are back together

Books 132

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Puzzles 137

Alex James

Your favourite brainteasers,
including the prize crossword

Feedback 142
You have your say

YOUR GUIDE…

A new documentary tells the
story of a murder and a wrongful
conviction — and an Israeli mother
who is still searching for justice

Streaming 32

Simon Barnes 31

Top-quality listings for the
week’s programmes

Your guide to the very best
of on-demand TV

Television 40

Purists may quibble, but the Hundred
has transformed women’s cricket

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Composer of the Week 110
The Radio 3 institution is
celebrating its 80th birthday

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STREAMING
Heartstopper
Available from Thursday Netflix
Charlie (Joe Locke) and Nick (Kit
Connor) head to Paris with their
friends on a school trip — but take
their relationship anxieties with them.
Season two of this delightful comingof-age drama broadens the scope,
but retains the feel-good atmosphere
that has made it a global smash.

Monday, Tuesday 9.00pm BBC1
TV Wolf
Nightmare-inducing police drama

Whitney
FILM Houston:

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Somebody 1111 h

starring Ukweli Roach as DI Jack Caffery,
a detective with a troubled past who’s now
facing a pitch-dark present. But be warned:
this is a crime drama mixed with a lot of horror.
INTERVIEW P18

From 28 July

Now/Sky Cinema
Naomi Ackie is
sensational in this
musical biopic
that follows the
rise and slow
fall of one
of pop’s
greatest
singers.
See review,
page 38.

The Lincoln
STREAMING Lawyer
Season 2, part 2 from Thursday Netflix
Mickey Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo)
may not be in a fit state to attend court
after that beating he received. Discover
his fate as the remaining episodes of
season two arrive — expect twists,
charm and plenty of legal theatrics.

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THE TEN BEST SHOWS TO

WATCH, LISTEN
TO & STREAM

Celebrity
TV MasterChef
Wednesday—Friday,
times vary BBC1
John Torode and Gregg
Wallace invite a new
batch of celebrities,
including Dani Dyer
(left), to show off
their culinary skills.
There are a couple of
comedians involved,
too, so you can expect
a dash of humour
with the food.

TV
Blur Night
Saturday from 8.25pm BBC2
This month has seen the Britpop
survivors sell out Wembley Stadium
and release new album The Ballad
of Darren. They perform tracks from
it in a special In Concert, which
accompanies a look at their best
Beeb performances and a reminder
of their 2009 Glasto triumph.
INTERVIEW P22

and Romesh vs Crufts
TV Rob
Wednesday 9.00pm Sky Max
The latest task facing the comedy duo is to
encourage their dogs (Fred and Reggie) to tackle
the agility course at Crufts. The results are mixed,
but it’s rude, irreverent and very, very funny.

PODCAST

of Truth
TV Shadow
Monday 10.00pm,
10.45pm BBC4
A compelling Israeli documentary
series about the horrific murder of a
young girl reveals some uncomfortable
truths about the country’s police
methods and the justice system.
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Composer
RADIO of
the Week:

Anniversary Special

Mon—Fri 12 noon Radio 3
To mark 80 years of CotW,
Donald Macleod revisits some of
his conversations with composers,
starting with Judith Weir (above).
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Agatha Christie
and the Dandelion
Poisoner
American journalist
Joe Nocera digs into
a 1920s murder
involving a solicitor
in Hay-on-Wye
— a case that
fascinated crime
queen Agatha
Christie.

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TOO CLOSE
FOR COMFORT
Above and right: Emma
Appleton and Colin Morgan
as Ingrid Lewis and John
Webster in The Killing Kind

EXCLUSIVE DRAMA PREVIEW

DEADLY STALKER…
OR SAVIOUR?
What happens when a lawyer and
their client get too close? That is
one of the questions posed in the new
Paramount+ thriller The Killing Kind.
Based on the 2021 novel by Jane
Casey, the six-part series follows
high-flying barrister Ingrid Lewis
(Emma Appleton) after she defends
the charming, enigmatic John Webster
(Colin Morgan) against a harassment
charge. “She begins to have a
relationship with him,” Appleton tells
RT. “Then madness ensues…”
Appleton, best known for her roles
in last year’s Everything I Know About
Love and Pistol, is anxious not to give
away too much, but it’s fair to say that
John isn’t quite as innocent as he first
appears. He proceeds to stalk Ingrid,
claiming that he’s the only one who can
protect her from a killer. “John is too
complicated to be called a villain,” says
Appleton. “The whole way through,
you’re not quite sure who to trust. It
keeps you guessing.”
Appleton describes Morgan, previously

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seen in TV series such as Merlin and
Humans, as a “super-collaborative”
scene partner. “The filming could be
intense, so it was a relief at the end
of the day to switch off and chat to
him about something mundane.”
To prepare for the role, the actress
studied the physicality of barristers.
“There’s something wonderfully
theatrical when they’re in court,” she
says. “Their posture is exact; they
gesticulate a lot. It is all so well
rehearsed, just like acting!”
She was also struck by the show’s
exploration of stalking. “There’s a
moment in the show where it’s said
that stalking and harassment cases are
the hardest ones to prove,” she says.
“Often there’s not enough evidence
until it’s too late. I hope the show
shines a light on that, because it’s
something that I don’t think is talked
about enough.” STEPHEN KELLY
The Killing Kind is coming soon
to Paramount+

GRAPEVINE SPECIAL
The actors’ and writer’s strike in the USA

Hollywood on strike
What’s actually happening?
For the first time in more than
60 years, actors’ and writers’
unions in the US have gone
on strike at the same time,
putting almost every major
US film and scripted TV show
on pause. The Writers Guild of
America has been on strike since
2 May, and on 13 July members of
the Screen Actors Guild — American
Federation of Television
and Radio Artists
downed tools too,
with stars including
Margot Robbie
(left), George
Clooney and Matt
Damon joining
them in support.
Why are actors striking?
Following the natural expiration of
an older contract, talks failed with
top studios and streaming services
over terms. Because platforms like
Amazon Prime and Netflix offer
shows and films constantly on
demand, actors earn less in
royalties than the repeat fees they
receive from traditional TV, and
unions want updated payment
terms to reflect this. They are also
calling for improved benefit plans,
help with funding audition tapes
and more regulation around the
use of artificial intelligence.
While union members’ concerns
about AI being used to replace
human writers and performers
might sound like science fiction,
studios have reportedly already
proposed scanning “background
actors” and making use of their
likeness for ever, without paying
more than the usual one-day fee.
Which TV shows are affected?
The writers’ strike had already put
late-night talk shows like The Daily
Show on hold, as well as returning
dramas such as The Last of Us,
Yellowjackets and Stranger Things.

But with actors now on strike as
well, even more series have been
paused, including The Simpsons,
Young Sheldon, NCIS and The
Sandman. Movies like Deadpool 3,
Ridley Scott’s upcoming Gladiator
sequel and the Disney musical
Wicked are also on hold.
Cameras had been due to
roll on Paddington 3 this
week but the presence
of Antonio Banderas
(left) in the cast could
complicate its
schedules.
Are there any exceptions?
As the British acting union Equity
cannot legally join this strike,
international shows with primarily
UK casts such as Industry and the
Game of Thrones prequel House
of the Dragon can keep filming.
Ostensibly British shows with some
American funding can continue too.
The next series of Doctor Who
(now a BBC/Disney co-production)
is already in the can, but the one
after could be limited in its use of
US actors if the strikes continue.
Many British actors and writers
belong to unions on both sides
of the Atlantic. Sharon
Horgan (right), for
example, is continuing
work on series two of
Bad Sisters, but has
put her US projects to
one side. Completely
UK-based TV shows
with British casts such as
Call the Midwife and Grantchester
aren’t affected by the strike.
What will this mean for US TV?
It will need more shows without
actors or writers — so American
viewers can expect wall-to-wall
reality shows, imported
programmes or repeats.
How will this impact British TV?
Striking actors and writers can’t
promote the films and TV shows
they have already filmed, so expect
a lot more Brits on the sofas of
Good Morning Britain, The One
Show, The Graham Norton Show
etc until the dispute has been
settled. ROBIN PARKER

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With stars boycotting
premieres and film and
TV productions on pause, what’s
behind the US writers’ and actors’
strike — and how will it affect the
shows you love watching?

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Forget Paris — Birmingham
was the real home of radical
art, says Ruth Millington
LONDON HAS ALWAYS
been seen as the centre
of Britain’s art world but
our overlooked regional
cities have long been
hotbeds of artistic innovation. Britain’s suburbs
are home to wild imaginations and abstract
visions, defined less by safe Sunday painters and
more by the likes of Barbara Hepworth.
Take Birmingham. British surrealism didn’t
begin in bohemian north London but in Balsall
Heath, a suburb in the Midlands. The strangest
cultural movement of the 20th century, surrealism is usually associated with Paris, where it was
founded by André Breton. It brings to mind
René Magritte, Salvador Dalí and Joan Miró,
who pictured the uncanny with paintings of cloudfilled eyes, elephants on stilts and melting clocks.

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LONGSIDE THEIR NAMES should be five
more surrealists: Emmy Bridgwater,
Conroy Maddox, Oscar Mellor, John
Melville and Desmond Morris. From the 1930s
to the 50s, Birmingham was home to these
artists, who not only joined the movement but
were some of its most subversive members.
It was in 1936 that surrealism officially arrived
in Britain, with the International Surrealist
Exhibition in London. Artists from Paris were
showcased alongside their British counterparts,
including Eileen Agar and Paul Nash. But none
of the Birmingham surrealists exhibited;
rumour has it that they refused to take part. In

SHAKE IT UP
Emmy Bridgwater (left)
and her 1943 oil
painting, Night Work Is
about to Commence

fact, one year before the
exhibition, Birmingham surrealism had already begun. Ringleader Maddox
joined forces first with Melville, then Mellor and
Bridgwater, to shake up the city’s art scene. And
shake it up they absolutely did.
Maddox transformed ordinary objects into
illogical items, sticking spikes to the keyboard of
Onanistic Typewriter I (1940). He also staged
scandalous photos in which he was naked and
accompanied by a drunk nun; the council put
a stop to his plans to stage these scenes in
shop windows.
Meanwhile, Bridgwater made automatic
drawings, letting her pen travel across the paper
freely to form images of unbridled imagination.
Impressed, Breton wrote: “Bridgwater brought a
new purity of outlook to British surrealism.”
Forging links directly with Breton, the Birmingham surrealists exhibited in Paris and were
invited by him to sign new manifestoes.
Back in Balsall Heath, defined by its culturally
diverse population, Maddox hosted fortnightly
parties at his huge, 11-room house. Among the
guests were dancers, singers and students from
the University of Birmingham. It was through
these gatherings that Morris, a zoology student

at the time, became involved with the movement. Police were soon called to investigate one
of his surrealist stunts, when he appeared to
have planted “a dinosaur in Broad Street”, as a
local newspaper announced.

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HE STRANGE, INDUSTRIAL Second City was
a perfect playground for the surrealists.
While the Parisian artists met in the chic
Café de Flore, Birmingham’s creatives shared
ideas in the Trocadero, which still serves pints
today. Great art can come out of apparently ordinary places, including the pub.
For too long, narratives have sidelined
regional artists who didn’t move to London but
chose to live and work locally. It’s a shame, as art
created beyond the capital is often more daring,
irreverent and inventive. The Blk Art Group was
born in Wolverhampton, LS Lowry took
Manchester as his muse, and British surrealism’s
most radical members thrived in Birmingham.
It’s about time that their stories – at least those
suitable for the airwaves – were shared.
Art critic and broadcaster Ruth Millington co-presents
The Balsall Heath Bohemians: Stewart Lee and the
Story of the Birmingham Surrealists, Tue 11.30am R4

Continuing our countdown to the centenary of Radio Times in September,
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THIS WEEK IN RT... 30 JULY—5 AUG 1988
Four centuries after the
English fleet sailed out to meet
the Spanish Armada, a BBC2 series
fired a broadside at existing accounts
of the famous clash. The intention,
also made clear by Peter Brookes’s
colourful Radio Times cover, was to
blow misconception from the water.
Alan Ereira, writer/producer of
Armada, wrote: “By going back
to original documents, drawing on
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the latest findings of underwater
archaeology and using the most
modern technology, we have brought
to the surface a whole new story.”
He concluded: “More than half the
Spanish died in their ships, long after
the battles were over. And so did more
than half the English. For the Spanish
sailors the final enemy was the
weather. For the English it was their
own government.” MARK BRAXTON

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THE WAR WE’LL
NEVER FORGET

IMPERFECT HERO
World on Fire’s
Harry Chase
(Jonah Hauer-King)

Why does TV still love the struggle against
the Nazis? Because we were the good guys
I WAS BORN in 1964, studied history up to
A-level, and was taught nothing about the
Second World War. I don’t think I’m unusual.
Much of what my generation knew, or thought
we knew, came from television or family memories. When I was a small child, I think my
ex-Home Guard grandad had convinced me he’d
won the war virtually single-handedly, with a bit
of help from Captain Mainwaring and Corporal
Jones. That seemed perfectly plausible to me.
One dismal night in September 1984, the BBC
showed Threads, about a thermo-nuclear attack
on Sheffield. It had no gloss, no heroics, and it
ended with the luckless survivors grinding
through a nuclear winter. I’m not attempting to
sell it to you – it’s available on Britbox – but, if
you haven’t watched it, I’d keep it that way. Far,

‘I wonder how the few
remaining veterans
judge our obsession’
far better to stick with what we know – a world
war we helped to win! Well, not us personally,
obviously… but you know what I mean.
British drama used to feature a great deal of
the stiff upper lip, and not a lot of nuance. The
ladies in Tenko did seem to fall out occasionally,
but then it was hot in the Far East. I thought I
knew all I needed to know about Colditz from
my vague recollections of a brooding young
David McCallum in his RAF jacket and a roll
neck jumper – then I recently read Ben Macintyre’s brilliant book and realised the series had
barely skimmed the surface.

There’s no getting away
from it, we do mention
the war. Whether it be
TENKO
LADIES
football chants or lazy
Stephanie
conversational
Beacham
cliché, Britain just
and Louise
won’t let it lie.
Jameson
And perhaps we
shouldn’ t. You
could certainly
argue we need
regular reminders that politicians
o ff e r i n g s i m p l e
solutions to complex
problems are best
avoided. There are few
people left alive who know
what it is like to fight a world war. All too soon,
there won’t be any. I do wonder how the few
remaining veterans judge our obsession with it.

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ND SO, JUST months after SAS Rogue
Heroes ended on BBC1, here is the second
series of World on Fire, airing on terrestrial TV at 9pm on a Sunday night. Clearly, reliving The War is considered the perfect way to
wind down after the weekend and pep yourself
up for the working week ahead. The last time we
met these characters was back in dear old innocent 2019, when no one knew the name of the
Chief Medical Officer and none of us washed our
hands enough, hence the thorough catch-up at
the beginning of the series. Did you remember
Kasia the Polish resistance fighter (Zofia
Wichlacz) and her British lover Harry (Jonah
Hauer-King)? I must confess I didn’t – though I

hadn’t forgotten Harry’s thinlipped, brittle mother Robina.
She’s played by Lesley Manville,
the best thing in this, but then
she’s the best thing in most things
she’s in. And here she has all the
best lines, too: “Every rock bun at
the Women’s Institute bears testimony to a woman’s rage”, for example.
She was never going to end up on the
losing side in any battle.
World on Fire is certainly an ambitious
attempt to view the war from a number of different perspectives and the action leaps from
Manchester to Berlin to the deserts of North
Africa. It’s pacey, expensive-looking stuff.
Perhaps I had forgotten how good it was, or this
is simply better than the first series. Characters
are allowed to be complicated and inconsistent.
Women get plenty of the action, too, rather than
being reduced to hapless bystanders. Our hero
Harry is not a one-dimensional good guy; he
treated his English lover Lois badly. The British
may well be plucky, but they’re also capable of
racism and snobbery; there are decent Germans
as well as hard-bitten Nazi thugs. I will watch all
of series two and look forward to the next. After
all, I know how it ends. Well done, us!
World on Fire is on Sunday at 9.00pm on BBC1

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Heartstopper talk
about season two.
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and Good Omens pay
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Good Omens 2

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F ALL THE dead authors in
t h e w o r l d ,” l e ge n d a r y
comedy producer John
Lloyd once said, “Terry
Pratchett is the most alive.”
And he’s right. Sir Terry is
having an extremely busy 2023… for someone
who died in 2015.
This week sees the release of Good Omens 2,
the second series of Amazon’s fantasy comedy
drama based on the cult novel Pratchett
co-wrote with Neil Gaiman in the late 1980s.
This will be followed in the autumn by a new
spin-off book from Pratchett’s Discworld series,
Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch,
co-written by Pratchett’s daughter Rhianna and
children’s author Gabrielle Kent. The same
month, we’ll also get A Stroke of the Pen, a collection of “lost” short stories written by Sir Terry for
local newspapers in the 70s and 80s and recently
rediscovered. Clearly, while there are no more
books coming from Pratchett – a hard drive
containing all drafts and unpublished work was
crushed by a vintage steamroller shortly after
the author’s death, as per his specific wishes –
people still want to visit his vivid and addictive
worlds in new ways.
Good Omens 2 will be the first test of how this
can work. The original book started life as a
5,000-word short story by Gaiman, titled
William the Antichrist and envisioned as a bit of
a mashup of Richmal Crompton’s Just William
books and the 70s horror classic The Omen.
What would happen, Gaiman had mused, if the
spawn of Satan had been raised, not by a powerful American diplomat, but by an extremely
normal couple in an idyllic English village, far
from the influence of hellish forces? He’d sent
the first draft to bestselling fantasy author
Pratchett, a friend of many years, and then
forgotten about it as he busied himself with
continuing to write his massively popular comic
books, including Violent Cases, Black Orchid
and The Sandman, which became a Netflix
series last year.
Pratchett loved the idea, offering to either buy
the concept from Gaiman or co-write it. It was,
as Gaiman later said, “like Michelangelo phoning and asking if you want to paint a ceiling”.
The pair worked on the book together from that
point on, rewriting each other as they went and
communicating via long phone calls and mailed
floppy discs. “The actual mechanics worked like
this: I would do a bit, then Neil would take it
away and do a bit more and give it back to me,”
Pratchett told Locus magazine in 1991. “We’d
mess about with each other’s bits and pieces.”
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch – to give it its full title
–was published in 1990 to huge acclaim. It was
one of, astonishingly, five Terry Pratchett novels

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Neil Gaiman overcome the small
matter of Pratchett’s death to
make another series of their
acclaimed divine comedy?
to be published that year (he averaged two a
year, including 41 Discworld novels and many
other standalone works and collaborations).

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T WAS ALSO, clearly, extremely filmable, and
studios came knocking – though getting it
made took a while. Two decades on from its
writing, four years after Pratchett’s death
from Alzheimer’s disease aged 66, and after
several doomed attempts to get a movie version
off the ground, Good Omens finally made it to
TV screens in 2019, scripted and show-run by
Gaiman himself. “Terry was egging me on to
make it into television. He knew he was dying,
and he knew that I wouldn’t start it without
him,” Gaiman revealed in a 2019 Radio Times
interview. Amazon and the BBC co-produced

with Pratchett’s company Narrativia and
Gaiman’s Blank Corporation production studios,
with Michael Sheen and David Tennant cast in
the central roles of Aziraphale the angel and
Crowley the demon. The show was a hit, not just
with fans of its two creators, but with a whole
new young audience, many of whom had no
interest in Discworld or Sandman. Social media
networks like Tumblr and TikTok were soon
awash with cosplay, artwork and fan fiction. The
original novel became, for the first time, a New
York Times bestseller.
A follow up was, on one level, a no-brainer.
The world Pratchett and Gaiman had created
was vivid, funny and accessible, and Tennant
and Sheen had found an intriguing romantic
spark in their chemistry not present in the novel.
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‘It was like
Michelangelo
phoning to ask if
I wanted to paint
a ceiling’
NEIL GAIMAN

CHEERS TO THAT!
The cast of Good
Omens 2 with
Michael Sheen
(left) and Tennant
centre stage

CREATIVE
INDUSTRY
Authors Terry
Pratchett (left)
and Neil Gaiman

RadioTimes 29 July–4 August 2023

There was, however, a huge problem. There
wasn’t a second Good Omens book to base it on.
But there was the ghost of an idea.
In 1989, after the book had been sold but
before it had come out, the two authors had laid
on twin beds in a hotel room at a convention in
Seattle and, jet-lagged and unable to sleep, plotted out, in some detail, what would happen in a
sequel, provisionally titled 668, The
Neighbour of the Beast.
“It was a good one, too,” Gaiman
wrote in a 2021 blog. “We fully
intended to write it, whenever we next
had three or four months free. Only
I went to live in America and Terry
stayed in the UK, and after Good Omens
was published, Sandman became

SANDMAN and Disc world became
DISCWORLD™ and there wasn’t a good time.”

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ACK IN 1991, Pratchett elaborated,
“We even know some of the main characters in it. But there’s a huge difference between sitting there chatting
away, saying, ‘Hey, we could do this, we could
do that,’ and actually physically getting down
and doing it all again.” In 2019, Gaiman pillaged
some of those ideas for Good Omens series
one (for example, its final episode wasn’t
in the book at all), and had left enough threads
dangling to give him an opening for a sequel.
This is the well he’s returned to for Good
Omens 2, co-writing with comic John Finnemore
– drafted in, presumably, to plug the gap left ▷

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◁ by Pratchett’s unparalleled comedic
mind. No small task.
Projects like Good Omens 2 are an important proving ground for Pratchett’s legacy:
can the universes he conjured endure without their creator? And can they stay true to
his spirit? Sir Terry was famously protective
of his creations, and there have been
remarkably few adaptations of his work
considering how prolific he was. “What
would be in it for me?” he asked in 2003.
“Money? I’ve got money.”
He wanted his work treated reverently
and not butchered for the screen. It’s why
Good Omens and projects like Tiffany
Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch are made
with trusted members of the inner circle
like Neil Gaiman and Rhianna Pratchett at
the helm. It’s also why the author’s estate,
run by Pratchett’s former assistant and
business manager Rob Wilkins, keeps a
tight rein on any licensed Pratchett material – it’s a multi-million dollar media
empire still run like a cottage industry.

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ND THAT’S HEARTENING. Anyone
who saw BBC America’s panned
2021 Pratchett adaptation The
Watch will know how badly these
things can go when a studio is allowed to
run amok with the material without oversight. These stories deserve to be told, and
these worlds deserve to be explored – properly. And there are, apparently, many plans
afoot for more Pratchett on the screen. You

‘No one is finally
dead until the
ripples they
cause die away’
T E R R Y P R AT C H E T T
can only hope that, somewhere, he’ll be
proud of the results.
After all, as he wrote himself, “No one
is finally dead until the ripples they cause
in the world die away, until the clock wound
up winds down, until the wine she made
has finished its ferment, until the crop
they planted is harvested. The span of
someone’s life is only the core of their actual
existence.”
While those ripples continue to spread,
Sir Terry Pratchett remains very much
alive. MARC BURROWS
Marc Burrows is a writer and journalist. His comic
lecture The Magic of Terry Pratchett is endorsed
by the Pratchett estate, and takes place at the
Edinburgh Festival from 2—28 August

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An angel and a
demon walk into
a pub… Michael
Sheen and David
Tennant on family,
friendship and
Morecambe & Wise

Divine
UTSIDE, IT’S A cold winter’s
day and we’re in a Scottish
studio, somewhere between
Edinburgh and Glasgow.
But inside it’s lunchtime in
The Dirty Donkey pub in
the heart of London, with both Michael Sheen
and David Tennant surveying the scene appreciatively. “This is a great pub,” says Sheen eagerly,
while Tennant calls it “the best Soho there can
be. A slightly heightened, immaculate, perfect,
dreamy Soho.”
Here, a painting of the absent landlord – the
late Terry Pratchett, co-creator, with Neil
Gaiman, of the series’ source novel – looms over
punters. Around the corner is AZ Fell and Co
Antiquarian and Unusual Books. It’s the bookshop owned by Sheen’s character, the angel
Aziraphale, and the place to where Tennant’s
demon Crowley is inevitably drawn.
It’s day 74 of an 80-day shoot for a series that
no one, least of all the leading actors, ever
thought would happen, due to the fact that
Pratchett and Gaiman hadn’t ever published any
sequel to their 1990 fantasy satire. Tennant
explains, “What we didn’t know was that Neil
and Terry had had plots and plans…”
Still, lots of good things are in Good Omens 2,
which expands on the millennia-spanning
multiverse of the first series. These include a
surprisingly naked side of John Hamm, and
roles for both Tennant’s father-in-law (Peter
Davison) and 21-year-old son Ty. At its heart,
though, remains the brilliant banter between the
two leading men – as Sheen puts it, “very Eric
and Ernie!” – whose chemistry on the first series
led to one of the more surprising saviours of
lockdown telly.

Good Omens is back — but you’ve worked together
a lot in the meantime. Was there a connective
tissue between series one of Good Omens and
Staged, your lockdown sitcom?
TENNANT Only in as much as the first series went
out, then a few months later, we were all locked in
our houses. And because of the work we’d done on
Good Omens, it occurred that we might do
something else. I mean, Neil Gaiman takes full
responsibility for Staged. Which, to some extent,
he’s probably right to do!
SHEEN We’ve got to know each other through
doing this. Our lives have gotten more entwined
in all kinds of ways – we have children who’ve now
become friends, and our families know each other.
There have been hints of a romantic storyline
between the two characters. How much of an
undercurrent is that in this series?
TENNANT Nothing’s explicit.
SHEEN I felt from the very beginning that part
of what would be interesting to explore is that
Aziraphale is a character, a being, who just loves.
How does that manifest itself in a very specific
relationship with another being? Inevitably, as there
is with everything in this story, there’s a grey area.
The fact that people see potentially a “romantic
relationship”, I thought that was interesting and
something to explore.
RadioTimes 29 July–4 August 2023

‘More and more,
I find it a real slog
doing this stuff ’
MICHAEL SHEEN
to go into politics or anything. But I’ll do what
I can from where I live.
Well, your son and your father-in-law are also
starring in this series. How about that, jobs
for the boys!
TENNANT I know! It was a delight to get to be
on set with them. And certainly an unexpected
one for me. Neil, on two occasions, got to bowl
up to me and say, “Guess who we’ve cast?!”
How do you feel about your US peers going
on strike?

THE ONLY
WAY IS UP
Tennant (left) and
Sheen shoot a
Soho pub scene for
Good Omens 2

‘I’m an actor. I’m not
about to give that up
to go into politics’
DAVID TENNANT
There was a petition to have the first series
banned because of its irreverent take on
Christian tropes. Series two digs even more
deeply into the Bible with the story of Job.
How much of a badge of honour is it that the
show riles the people who like to ban things?
TENNANT It’s not an irreligious show at all.
It’s actually very respectful of the structure of
that sort of religious belief. The idea that it
promotes Satanism [is nonsense]. None of the
characters from hell are to be aspired to at all!
They’re a dreadful bunch of non-entities.
People are very keen to be offended, aren’t
they? They’re often looking for something
to glom on to without possibly really
examining what they think they’re
complaining about.
Michael, you’re known as an activist,
and you’re in the middle of making
BBC drama The Way, which “taps
into the social and political chaos
of today’s world”. Is it important
for you to use your platform to
discuss causes you believe in?
RadioTimes 29 July–4 August 2023

SHEEN The Way is not a political tract, it’s
just set in the area that I come from. But it
has to matter to you, doesn’t it? More and
more as I get older, [I find] it can be a real
slog doing this stuff. You’ve got to enjoy it.
And if it doesn’t matter to you, then it’s just
going to be depressing.
David, Michael has declared himself a
“not-for-profit” actor. Has he tried to
persuade you to give up all your money too?
TENNANT What an extraordinary question!
One is always aware that one has a certain
responsibility if one is fortunate and gets to do a
job that often doesn’t feel like a job. You want to
do your bit whenever you can. But at the same
time, I’m an actor. I’m not about to give that up

TENNANT It’s happening because there are
issues that need to be addressed. Nobody’s
doing this lightly. These are important issues,
and they’ve got to be sorted out for the future of
our industry. There’s this idea that writers and
actors are all living high on the hog. For huge
swathes of our industry, that’s just not the case.
These people have got to be protected.
SHEEN We have to be really careful that things
don’t slide back to the way they were pre the
1950s, when the stories that we told were all
coming from one point of view and the stories
of certain people, or communities within our
society, weren’t represented. There’s a sense that
now that’s changed for ever and it’ll never go
back. But you worry when people can’t afford to
have the opportunities that other people have.
We don’t want the story that we tell about
ourselves to be myopic. You want it to be as
inclusive as possible.
Staged series 3 recently broadcast. It felt like
the show’s last hurrah — or is there more
mileage? Sheen and Tennant go on holiday?
TENNANT That’s the Christmas special! One
Foot in the Algarve! On the Buses Go to Spain!
SHEEN I don’t think we were thinking beyond
three, were we?
So is it time for a conscious uncoupling for
you two — Eric and Ernie say goodbye?
TENNANT Oh, never say never, will we?
SHEEN And it’s more Hinge and Bracket.

HAPPY COUPLES
Stars of Staged: Michael Sheen
(left) with wife, Anna Lundberg;
David and Georgia Tennant

TENNANT Maybe that’s what we do
next – The Hinge and Bracket Story.
CRAIG MCLEAN

Watch Good Omens 2 on Amazon Prime Video

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Wolf
Monday, Tuesday 9.00pm BBC1

DON’T

© LINDA NYLIND / EYEVINE

Juliet Stevenson
likes to face her fears
– and in her new
thriller they come
thick and fast…
OT MUCH FRIGHTENS Juliet Stevenson. Her determination to take
professional risks (spending her 61st
birthday swinging in the air for 2017
play Wings, turning down Hollywood blockbusters) and to
campaign for good causes remains as strong as
ever. But one fear has lingered since childhood.
“I’ve always worried about people coming into
the house,” she says, talking over Zoom from an
apartment in New York, where she is starring in
Robert Icke’s play The Doctor. “Until my
husband and family arrived here, every night
when I came back from the theatre, I would
check every cupboard, every door. It’s my only
real terror and I don’t know why. Wolf was the
realisation of that fantasy so it was a very strange
situation to find myself actually playing it.”
Shocking, mysterious and darkly funny,
Wolf casts Stevenson as Matilda Anchor-Ferrers,
a woman whose comfortable life of lemon drizzle and dogwalking on the sprawling Welsh
estate she shares with husband (Owen Teale)
and daughter (Annes Elwy) is turned upside
down when two men (Sacha Dhawan and
Iwan Rheon) appear at their house. Meanwhile,
traumatised cop DI Jack Caffery (Ukweli Roach)
grapples with a five-year-old double murder
that he’s convinced remains unsolved. ▷

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UKWELI ROACH
PLAYS DI JACK CAFFERY
Who or what is Wolf?
It’s a six-part crime thriller
adapted by Megan Gallagher from
Mo Hayder’s Jack Caffery books.
He’s a detective trying to solve the
mystery of his brother, who went
missing when they were children.
Why Wolf?
Well, something that one of the
characters is working on is referred
to as “Wolf ”, but it could also be
Jack’s nickname, as he develops
personality traits that are quite…
wolfish, I suppose. You could also
argue that the murderer behaves
like a wolf. There are quite a few
characters you could ascribe it to.
You’ve been in crime dramas
before, including your role in
Annika. How is Wolf different?
I imagine [as a viewer] you
think it’s going to be quite
straightforward at the beginning,
but it’s grittier, darker, more
hard-hitting. Jack is not a typical
police detective, he’s not a
weathered veteran with an alcohol
problem, in the middle of a
divorce. He is quite different
from that, although he certainly
has his issues. He’s younger and
has a real point to prove.

You started your career as
a dancer and choreographer.
Where might we have seen
your work?
My first ever job on film was in
StreetDance 3D (2010), which
I also choreographed. I’ve
performed on stage at Sadler’s
Wells and the Apollo Theater
in Harlem, New York. And I’ve
danced with Kylie Minogue
and Mariah Carey.
Does your dancing background
help with your acting?
Definitely. It’s being comfortable in
your body and knowing how to use
props. It comes in helpful with
fight sequences. Anything that is
movement-based, you feel very
comfortable, with an awareness
that non-dancers don’t have.
Taking the lead in a primetime
drama is huge — what’s the
biggest challenge it brings?
The schedule – I was filming
almost every day for five months,
always learning lines for the next
day. It was a constant carousel, so
I had to make a system to find time
to eat and sleep. But it’s a part of
great substance, there’s a lot to sink
your teeth into… CAROLINE FROST

TROUBLED
Ukweli Roach
as DI Jack
Caffery

‘I check every
cupboard, every
door. It’s my only
real terror’
JULIET STEVENSON

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◁ Over six episodes, the two stories gradually come together.
Matilda is described in the show’s publicity as “an intelligent yet neurotic housewife”.
It’s a series with a fair amount of unpleasantness: an intriguing choice for this warm, intelligent actor who has spoken out about perceptions of and opportunities for older women in
the industry and been distinctly unequivocal
about screen violence. Always up for a challenge,
Stevenson mulls the proposal over.
“It’s pretty extreme,” she concedes. “There
were moments which were really hard to take.
I’m very haunted by the death of Sarah Everard
[who was murdered in 2021 by off-duty police

‘I had to schmooze in
LA, which I hated
and was very bad at’
JULIET STEVENSON
officer Wayne Couzens] and the amount of
brutal violence there is towards women. I
suppose drama is sometimes saying: this
violence is very grotesque, but it does happen.
I don’t know how that helps anybody, but it isn’t
more outrageous than life is.
“On the other question, women my age often
play roles fulfilling a supportive function to the
man, but Matilda’s husband is very frail after a
heart operation and their daughter is processing
psychological trauma. She is fundamentally the
victim, but she shows a lot of ingenuity, cunning
and courage. And it’s a really cracking thriller.
I had no clue where it was going.”
She also spends a significant chunk of the
drama chained to a radiator – when she isn’t
being dangled upside down from the ceiling,
that is. “I did all of that!” she laughs. “You have
to acclimatise your brain, so every day they’d
hang me upside down on this weird seesaw
bed for a bit, at increasingly sharp angles. I

TRAPPED
Stevenson as
Matilda

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thought I might have a stroke… But I love
the physical side of acting – there’s quite
enough to play without having to pretend to
be uncomfortable. In some ways, the more
extreme, the better – after 45 years you have to
keep stretching yourself.”
The play she’s currently starring in, The
Doctor, provides a very different test, spilling
over with hot-button issues from identity politics to cancel culture through to abortion.
Stevenson relishes the reactions it has provoked.
“It’s offering up conversation they’re desperate
to have here [in New York] – often people stamp
and cheer, sometimes they walk out. It’s really
exciting – that silent conversation with an audience in live theatre still fascinates me.”
Stevenson made her reputation on stage, but
it was Anthony Minghella’s Truly, Madly,
Deeply – a 1990 TV film granted a cinematic
release – that thrust her perilously close to stardom for her portrayal of a woman f irst
comforted then irritated by the ghostly reappearance of her late partner (Alan Rickman).
“What happened to that film was completely
lovely and knocked things up to the next level, I
suppose. For a while, I got offered lots of lovable,
slightly daffy, slightly lost women in sitcoms. But
it also gave me some capacity to say yes or no, so
I turned those roles down because I’ve always
been really anxious not to get pigeonholed. I did
have to go and schmooze in LA, though, which
I hated and was very, very bad at. In the UK, you
can spend your whole life working, but I’m wary
of Hollywood’s flavour-of-the-moment thing.”

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MID ALL THE excellent, carefully chosen
screen work that followed, she remains
especially proud of 2002’s Bend It like
Beckham, and not only for giving
women’s football such an important platform.
“I was filming in Australia with a newborn
and a six-year-old, but I knew I had to do it by
page three of the script. It revealed to me how
complex it is to be a young Asian girl in the UK,
where inside your house is one set of values and
languages, then you step out into a world with
different values, beliefs and codes of behaviour
– to have to negotiate that on a daily basis. Of
course, I’m thrilled it was so innovative about
women’s football as well – it started conversations that really needed to be had.”
Stevenson’s empathy and horror of injustice
were established during an itinerant childhood
due to her father’s Army career. “I remember
thinking how unfair it was that my best friend
lived in barracks while I lived in a detached
house because my dad was an officer and his dad
was not. Right from the word go, difference and
inequality made me really cross.”
So would this lifelong Labour supporter ever
do a Glenda Jackson and venture into politics
herself? “Never! I wouldn’t have the diplomacy
or patience. I was in Antony and Cleopatra with
Glenda for two years, and I was surprised when
she got into politics: she was such a strong char-

PRIZED
Owen Teale
won a best
actor Bafta
Cymru in 2022
for his role in
Dream Horse

EXPOSED
Sacha Dhawan
as Honey

acter. Maybe she fell foul of whoever was
promoting people, but I saw somebody whose
fire for injustice had to package itself down into
party politics.”
Stevenson’s activism will undoubtedly endure,
however. “I used to think acting could change
the world. These days, I sometimes think
I might do something else, but then I wouldn’t
have a platform in these terrifying times. I have
a strong sense of leaving a legacy for people
coming afterwards, but that’s getting harder and
harder, isn’t it?”
She sighs and smiles, dauntless as ever. “But
you have to stay and fight the fight.”
GABRIEL TATE

RadioTimes 29 July–4 August 2023

OWEN TEALE PLAYS OLIVER ANCHOR-FERRERS

Do you scare easily?
I do now, but I never used to.
I had tremendous, perhaps
misplaced, faith in my physical
ability to avoid a situation or
stop a situation
where someone
was being
intimidated.
Now I’m older,

‘He’s in great
pain… trying
to do the
right thing’

and then that it isn’t – it’s amazing
to be part of something that can
generate that much interest. I do
think it was wrong that my
character got away with it, so it
would be good to bring him back
and give him his comeuppance. GT

I’m worn down by every newsflash
bringing a sense of physical fear to
me and my family. So I’m on a path
to make things as joyful as possible.

COUPLED
Teale and
Stevenson as
Oliver and
Matilda

The house in Wolf looks
amazing…
I grew up down the road from
there! It was so dark and creepy.
There’s a ruin in the grounds
called Ewenny Priory which we
were always told was haunted. My
brothers used to go there after a
few drinks and spook each other
silly, rambling over the rocks.
Is Line of Duty coming back?
I’ve heard that it is coming back,

SACHA DHAWAN PLAYS HONEY
You’ve starred in a great
variety of roles, from the
Master in Doctor Who to a romantic
younger man in Last Tango in Halifax.
Why did Wolf appeal?
I’m always looking for a challenge
or a character different to the last
I played. Having played Orlo (in
The Great) and the Master for the last
few years, this had a tone I really liked,
an amazing blend of drama, dark
humour and horror.
How did you prepare for this unusual
role of Honey, and do you feel you
understand him?
There’s a very specific intention behind
his actions, outlandish as they
sometimes are. He feels in some way
that society has let him down. I spent
time on Honey’s mental state as well as
my own physicality, because I wanted to
get a little bigger – partly because he’s
vain, but also because I wanted to be

‘I spent time on
Honey’s mental
state as well as
my physicality’
able to match [the characters played
by] Juliet, Owen and Annes. I needed
them to not know what I was going to
do, because if they feel like that, then
the audience should feel the same.
Have you recently had a call from
Russell T Davies about Doctor Who?
Well, I’m involved in a few things that
I can’t talk about, so who knows? I’m
also creating my own stuff because I
don’t necessarily just want to be moving
from job to job, but it’s not always easy.
The industry can feel quite isolating,
but I’m holding my nerve. GT

GETTY

A lot of the characters you
play are these intimidating,
malign figures of authority, such
as Chief Constable Philip
Osborne in Line of Duty…
Yes – I thought it would turn out
that Oliver’s the darkest, because
when you’ve got a job like that, you
call for Owen Teale! But he’s in
tremendous pain after a serious
operation, and he’s also trying to
do the right thing and hold
things together. Having said
that, he’s a very rich man and
there’s usually a tale there.

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Triumphant comeback gigs, a BBC
tribute night, a new album…
Britpop heroes Blur are on a roll,
but will it last, wonders Alex James
INTERVIEW BY

MAIN ATTRACTION
Blur play to a rapturous
crowd at Wembley
Stadium on 8 July 2023.
Left to right: Graham
Coxon, Damon Albarn,
Dave Rowntree and
Alex James

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GRAEME THOMSON

Blur Night Saturday from 8.25pm BBC2

E’S SO HIGH, for the first few
minutes of our interview, I’m
trying to scrape Alex James
down from the ceiling. The Blur
bassist’s elevated mood isn’t a
throwback to the Britpop days of
excess – well documented in his candid memoir,
Bit of a Blur, and long since over. This is a natural high, the afterglow of the two triumphant
shows the band played at Wembley Stadium the
previous weekend.
“What a week!” he beams, back home on the
Oxfordshire farm he shares with Claire, his wife
of 20 years, and their five children. “Career redefining. I think the best show we’d done prior
to this was Glastonbury 2009. That was
very emotional, but this weekend blew it
out of the water.” James beams again.
“I don’t know why it always
comes as a surprise when we
get back together: ‘Wow, people
really like this.’ Nile Rodgers’s ▷

‘You couldn’t
help but be
carried away by
the joy of it all’
ALEX JAMES

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formation in 1988. Their first single, She’s So
High, came out in 1990. They spent the rest of
the decade proving themselves the most innovative of the Britpop crop, constantly pushing their
sound on classic records such as Modern Life is
Rubbish, Parklife and their self-titled fifth
album. When relations within the band, particularly between singer Damon Albarn and guitarist Graham Coxon, soured in the early 2000s,
Blur took an extended hiatus, punctuated by
short periods back together. Although the internal dynamic has sometimes been tricky, the
mood within the camp currently seems upbeat.
“I haven’t laughed as much as I have this year,”
says James. “We’re just very lucky to have that
incredibly long history. I was 19 when I met
Graham; Graham and Damon were 12 when
they met. There was this incredible chemistry
between the four of us straight away. It worked

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Alex
James,
Graham
Coxon, Damon
Albarn and Dave
Rowntree in 1994
at the height of
Blur’s fame

STAR
POWER

Albarn
and James at
Glastonbury in
2009

…IN THE
COUNTRY…
James on his
200-acre farm in
the Cotswolds

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OW, A FEW days later, James is slowly
returning to earth. Domesticity helps.
“I’ve got five teenagers,” he smiles. “I
have to come home and wash up, it’s
so grounding. Actually, Blur has come at the
perfect time; I’ve never had so much respect
from my children. They were all there at the
soundcheck jumping up and down to Country
House in an empty Wembley Stadium. That’s the
bit I’ll remember. I don’t think you could help
but be carried away by the joy of it all.”
Nobody expected Blur to own this summer,
least of all the band members themselves.
Having not played together since 2015 (apart
from a one-off surprise performance in 2019),
initial soundings weren’t terribly promising.
“Incredibly, it was only last December that this
was all decided,” says James, still bouncy and
boyish at 54. “A meeting was called in London:
let’s try and play a few songs and see how much
we hate each other. I bumped into [drummer,
Dave] Rowntree outside and he was all pale, he
looked really frightened: ‘I don’t think it’s going
to happen.’ We went in, played a couple of songs
and ten minutes later, we’re doing Wembley and
we’re making a new record as well.”
Released on 21 July, the new album, The
Ballad of Darren, arrived 35 years after Blur’s

from the get-go and then we
spent years refining it. Now, it’s
very much a family thing. I don’t
think you can go through what we
went through this weekend and
not feel incredible affection for the
people that you did it with. There’s
just something about the four of us
making music together. It works
and it continues to work and that’s
really what draws us back together.”
Any band as well established as
Blur exists with one foot in the present and one in the past. To mark the
release of The Ballad of Darren, BBC2
is showing a special In Concert,
recorded at BBC Radio Theatre on 18
July in front of an audience a fraction
of the size of the crowd at Wembley.
James promises a mixture of classics,
some new songs and a few
surprises. “We’ve rehearsed
incredible amounts of material, pretty much everything
on every album, and a lot of
B-sides and extra tracks. It’s
wonderful to be revisiting
and celebrating those songs
all these years later.”
It’s showing as part of Blur
Night, which tracks the
band’s journey from their TV
debut on Saturday morning
kids’ telly in 1991, right
through to their legendary
Glastonbury performances.
James’s memories of it all are
suitably hazy. “Doing the
shows that I used to watch when I was a kid, it
was like going inside your own television,” he
says. “One early show we did, Take That were on
as well. We were like, ‘Who are these idiots?’ But
they were all really nice – apart from Barlow.
“We’ve actually been pulling an archive
together, it brings back so many memories. It’s a
wonderful thing to be confronted by something
you’d completely and utterly forgotten about. I
literally don’t know what the BBC have got. I’m
as excited as everyone else to see it.”
After more than three decades at the pop
coalface, it can be hard to get perspective on it
all. “We’ve been doing this since I was 19,” says
James. “You get glimpses sometimes, but you
never really know until years later what you’ve
done. Certainly, no one in the band thought
Song 2 was a single: it’s too short, and you can’t
hear the words. None of us thought Country
House was a single. I do remember how I felt
after Modern Life is Rubbish. It was something
along the lines of, ‘I don’t give a f *** what
anyone else thinks about this record because
I’m really proud of it’. That’s actually a good
indicator that you’re onto something, when
you feel like that.”
One reason the mood of the reunion is
so positive is that nobody in the band

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◁ manager said, ‘Honestly, I’ve never seen a
crowd react to anything the way they reacted to
Parklife’ – and he was at Live Aid. You can’t walk
out on stage at Wembley without thinking about
Freddie [Mercury] and the boys at Live Aid, it’s
the benchmark. It was overwhelming to be
confronted with that.” Another famous friend,
Banksy, had a slightly different take. “He said
afterwards, ‘It was like watching four blokes
having a kickabout in the park, but the park was
Wembley Stadium.’”

BEST DAYS
Blur at the Brit
Awards in 1995

needs to do it. All four members have
fulfilling and varied lives outside Blur.
Albarn fronts multiple music projects,
including Gorillaz. Coxon has a vibrant
career as a solo artist and as one half of
The Waeve, and last year published a
memoir, Verse, Chorus, Monster!.
When Blur went on hiatus, Rowntree
retrained as a criminal lawyer, became
a Labour councillor, and now hosts a
podcast and weekly radio show. And
James? Well, James is now almost
equally well known as a successful
cheesemaker, making a range of artisan and everyday cheeses on his
farm. He hosts music and food festivals and writes newspaper columns.
“Success in the music industry
tends to come quite quickly at a
young age, which can give you a
second-act problem in your life:
‘What do I do after that?’” he says.
“Blur was absolutely all we did for 15 years
and I didn’t really choose for it to just stop in
the way that it did, but it was probably what I
needed. We were still young enough to have
the energy and enthusiasm to do other stuff.
Everybody in the band has managed to have a
second act and that’s really what enables us to
come back to this with open hearts and say,
‘F*** it, let’s do Country House!’ So many
artists get tortured not just by each other but
by their big hits, but just the fact that we do
other stuff liberates us.”

M

AKING NEW ALBUM The Ballad of
Darren (the title honours Darren
“Smoggy ” Evans, the band’s
former long-term security guard
who still works with Albarn) was “a really
joyous process”, according to James.
“It’s potentially quite daunting making a
record at this stage of your career. What if it’s
crap? But it was completely weightless.
Maybe singers and guitar players have to feel
like they’ve suffered a little bit but, from a bass
player’s point of view, it went ‘Boom!’ straight
away. It’s four guys who have been doing this
for a very long time just playing together. A lot
of tracks are the third or fourth take of us
playing live, with a few overdubs and then
vocals. There’s something very special about
that, especially because we don’t do it very
often any more.”
Following the album’s release, Blur will play
more shows around the world this year. Then
what? “I hope it’s not back to years of silence
from Albarn and Coxon,” says James. “I never
know what’s going to happen next, but why
wouldn’t you want to do that again?
“A year ago, I really thought this
was never going to happen, and
suddenly we’ve got a new record
and we’ve done the best shows
of our lives.” He beams
one last time. “I might
start crying.”

MORE MUSIC DOCS

The bands play on
Get your music hit with these films featuring some
of the greatest headlining acts of recent times
■ Pulp: a Film about Life, Death
& Supermarkets 1hr 30mins, available on
YouTube, buy or rent on Amazon Prime/AppleTV

Jarvis Cocker’s (below) oddball outfit recently
reunited for a triumphant festival tour,
including a date at the Isle of Wight Festival
and an all-dayer in front of 50,000 at London’s
Finsbury Park, proving that their sweeping,
ironic songs of class,
sex and frustration are
eternally relevant. This
amusingly arty 2014
film by Florian Habicht
brilliantly tells their
story through the
eyes of the people of
their native Sheffield.

■ Oasis: Knebworth
1996 1hr 50mins, available
on Amazon Prime/AppleTV

Liam Gallagher recently tweeted
that he’d get back together with his brother
Noel if Manchester City won the European Cup.
Despite City’s triumph, a reunion is still off the
cards, but there remains an incredible interest
in Britpop’s most successful
act. As well as the
definitive 2016 doc
Supersonic (Netflix/
YouTube), this 2021
film of their mammoth
1996 Knebworth gigs
in front of 250,000
(over two nights)
serves as a wonderful
piece of misty-eyed
nostalgia, documenting a
pre-internet, pre-smartphone age.

■ Bono & the Edge: a Sort of
Homecoming with David Letterman
1hr 24mins, available on Disney+

The Irish band are usually shrouded
in an almost spiritual
mystique. Released in
March, Morgan Neville’s
film attempts to pierce
this inscrutability,
following veteran
US chat show host
David Letterman as
he shadows the pair
around Dublin on the
release of their Songs
of Surrender album.

■ Wham! 1hr 32mins, available on Netflix
This recently released biopic captures the
hedonistic joy of Wham!’s music
and their phenomenal global
fame. It also beautifully and
tenderly explores the shifting
dynamics of a teenage
friendship — between the
confident, good-looking,
heterosexual Andrew
Ridgeley and his
introverted, chubby,
gay best friend,
George Michael.

■ Reel Stories:
Pet Shop Boys
45mins, available on iPlayer

Neil Tennant (right) and Chris
Lowe’s deadpan, highbrow pop
has been the subject of several
documentaries over the years,
including the 2006 film
A Life in Pop. But the most
revealing piece might be
the BBC’s excellent recent
cut-and-clip show
Reel Stories, where
Dermot O’Leary
talks the pair
through
archive footage of
the band and their many
influences, from Bowie to Neighbours.

■ Moonage Daydream
2hrs 15mins, available on Netflix

■ Ziggy Stardust and
the Spiders from Mars:
the Motion Picture
1hr 42mins, in cinemas
(older version of 1hr 30mins
available on Amazon Prime,
iTunes and Qello Concerts)

There have been several
Bowie documentaries
over the
years. These are
now followed by Brett
Morgen’s epic Moonage Daydream,
and the theatrical release of Ziggy
Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, an
updated, 4k version of DA Pennebaker’s
film of Bowie’s final gig as his alter ego at
Hammersmith Odeon in 1973. JOHN LEWIS

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Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em Night
Tuesday from 8.00pm BBC4

IFTY YEARS AFTER he first stumbled
onto our television screens, Frank
Spencer remains a distinctive and
instantly recognisable figure. Adopt a
bewildered slouch, put one finger to
your mouth and utter “Ooh, Betty!”,
and the vast majority of people over 45 will
know exactly who you are emulating.
A simple, likeable idiot who unwittingly and
apologetically left a trail of devastation in his
wake, Spencer’s ineptitude and determination
to try everything led to many unforgettable
moments of comedy. There was his awkward
attempt at roller-skating, ultimately exiting the
skating rink, skimming under a passing lorry and
muttering, “Betty, I’ve been articulated!” Or that
moment when the couple enjoy a day trip to the
seaside and Frank hangs off the boot of the car…
over a cliff. There was Frank’s departure from his
old home only for the abode to slowly fall down,
brick by brick, into a pile of rubble.
Frank fared no better in the new house,
struggling with the water pipe, attempting loft
repairs, until his leg appeared through the

BBC PHOTOSALES; RADIO TIMES ARCHIVE; SHUTTERSTOCK; ALLSTAR

‘Frank Spencer
cast inspiration
over Mr Bean’
characters of all time. Just before his death last
October, series creator Raymond Allen readily
admitted that it was the only hit of his writing
career – but what a hit. At its peak, Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em enjoyed audience figures of
25 million viewers. By 1974, the show had
become so popular that the seasonal special
went out on Christmas Day itself, and
ratings-winning episodes followed on Christmas
Day 1975, and Christmas Day 1978. It was a
treat to be looked forward to, a jewel in the BBC
crown, and it proved a hugely popular part of
the schedules for years. And it isn’t just Britain
that took Frank to its heart; he has been sold
across some 60 countries.
Still, the road to Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em
was not a smooth one. Originally entitled Have
a Break, Take a Husband, Raymond Allen’s pilot
script saw the newly married Frank and Betty
Spencer enduring a mayhem-packed honeymoon. The then BBC head of comedy, Michael
Mills, liked the writing but didn’t like the title,
and felt the characters needed more breathing
space before taking them off on a hotel misadventure. That premise was instead held back
until the fourth episode for a second honeymoon, while the all-important title became a
phrase long in popular use, particularly in

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COMEDY GOLD
Above, Michael
Crawford as Frank
Spencer in 1978, and
on RT’s cover in 1974/5

Lancashire. Diminutive comedian Jimmy
Clitheroe had adopted it as a catchphrase
in reference to his mischievous schoolboy
the Clitheroe Kid. At every scrape in
which the lad found himself, someone was
bound to say: “Don’t some mothers ’ave ’em!?”
With plenty of crazy mishaps and eye-rolling
reactions – and that very hummable theme tune,
composed by Ronnie Hazlehurst and spelling
out the title in Morse code, played by a couple of
piccolos, the key factor to its success was in the
casting of Frank Spencer. Early front-runner
Ronnie Barker had always been happier in
wordplay than slapstick. Besides, 1973 saw the
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CLIFF
HANGER
On Dorset’s
Purbeck
coast in
1973

SWINGING
ON A STAR
Rehearsing
a stunt for
the 1974
Christmas
special

W

pilots for both Porridge and
Open All Hours secure his sitcom
future. Another actor in the frame
was long-time Ronnie Barker support player David Jason. At that time,
however, the BBC powers that be
thought he lacked the star quality
to carry his own series. Mange tout!
After another favourite, Norman
Wisdom, turned it down, producers
decided the role needed a younger
man, and cast an actor who had
previously played clumsy and
gauche in 60s cinema, notably
swinging sex comedy The Knack…
and How to Get It, and Hollywood
musical Hello, Dolly! They settled
on Michael Crawford, a decision
that proved to be inspired.

ITH HIS BERET at a jaunty angle, a
home-knitted tank top and beige raincoat, Frank Spencer remains comic
shorthand for a walking disaster,
someone to be relied upon to get everything
wrong. That he had a long-suffering but
ever-loving wife may seem to stretch believability, but Frank was, fundamentally, a good man,
with the best of intentions.
Moreover, the patient, pitch-perfect playing of
Michele Dotrice provided the cosy, reassuring
sounding board in the relationship – particularly
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when baby Jessica came along, and Frank’s manchild had a real child to contend with. He was a
natural, caring, affectionate dad, and, of course,
childlike. The “ahh” factor went through the roof.
Here was a sitcom character that battled with
his bosses, with inanimate objects, even with his
total inability to function in the real world. The
audience loved his infantile awkwardness; his
helpless attempts to make right on his mistakes;
his total innocence. He was a fool but he was
our fool. Whereas other sitcom leads like
Captain Mainwaring in Dad’s Army, Basil
Fawlty in Fawlty Towers or Terry Fletcher in
Happy Ever After blamed everybody but
themselves for their own mistakes, Frank took
full responsibility for his actions. This one-man
wrecking ball had integrity, and audiences
adored him, shaking their heads all the while.
When the programme came back for a third
and final series in 1978, Frank became more
assertive, even aggressive at times, but it was all
too late to halt countless impersonators using his
abstract mannerisms for instant recognition,
and instant applause. For Mike Yarwood, the
character was a godsend. It was a staple part of
Lenny Henry’s fledgeling variety act. And for a
young impressionist like Steve Coogan, Frank
was someone that could be taken off effortlessly.

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NEVITABLY, CRAWFORD HAD to fight to escape
the typecasting of a bumbling buffoon, and a
return to musical theatre proved the answer.
In June 1981 Crawford took on the lead role
in Barnum for its West End run, then, in 1986,
he created the forever template for Andrew
Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera. It
was as far away from Frank Spencer as he
could possibly get.
Still, despite a relatively small batch of just 22
episodes, Some Mothers’ shadow was still long
and lingering. Frank certainly cast inspiration
over the clumsy embarrassment comedy of
Rowan Atkinson’s Mr Bean, as well as the
slow-witted warmth of Ricky Gervais in Derek.
Ponderous and proudly daft, Craig Cash’s Dave
in The Royle Family was cut from the same
cloth, and there is a lot of Frank Spencer in
Charlie Cooper’s naive but upbeat character of
“Kurtan” in This Country. It is a trick that
sitcom writers should always try to deploy:
include a daft-as-a-brush character who can act
as a figure of fun within your series, but also
make sure the character is played with great
sensitivity and kindness.
Bravely but brilliantly, comedian Joe Pasquale
took on Frank Spencer for a smash-hit nationwide tour of Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em from
2018, a juggernaut of stage madness that only
Covid could scupper. That was “a bit of trouble”
even our lovable lunatic couldn’t conquer, but
the show and its leading character remain indelible, a symbol for everything that is wonderful,
annoying and just plain inevitable about the
human condition. Long may he crash through
our comic consciousness. ROBERT ROSS

MORE 70S
SITCOM HITS
Classic comedies and
how to watch them
BLESS THIS HOUSE 1971—76
Directed by future quiz-show
host William G Stewart, this
quintessential domestic sitcom
ran to 65 episodes and a film. Sid
James parlayed his Carry On leery
chuckle into a more paternal role as
Sid Abbott, an oft-confused family man
doing his best to understand his children’s
wild ways. Available on DVD

THE GOOD LIFE 1975—78
The show centred around
Tom and Barbara Good’s
determination to abandon
the rat race and become
self-sufficient. Big laughs came
from the contrast between the
Goods (Richard Briers, left, and Felicity
Kendal) and their posh neighbours Jerry and
Margo (Paul Eddington and a scene-stealing
Penelope Keith). On BritBox/ITVX

GEORGE AND MILDRED
1976—79 In this spin-off from Man

about the House, the titular duo
(Brian Murphy and Yootha Joyce)
bickered their way through five
series and a film, as well as testing
their neighbours’ patience. Four
decades after the show ended, the sight
of Mildred in the sidecar of George’s motorbike
is still instantly recognisable. On BritBox/ITVX

BUTTERFLIES 1978—83
Wendy Craig starred as Ria, the
stay-at-home wife of dentist Ben
(Geoffrey Palmer). While the
laughs came from standard fare
such as Ria’s terrible cooking
and their sons’ wayward
behaviour, Carla Lane’s script
delved into the dissatisfaction of a woman
who yearned for more. Available on DVD

TERRY AND JUNE 1979—87
The unambitious premise of an enthusiastic,
stubborn husband (Terry Scott),
his harebrained schemes
countered by his calmer wife
(June Whitfield), failed to dim
audiences’ affection for the
show, but even Scott finally
tired of the format — after
nine series. Available on
DVD. CAROLINE FROST

27

Shadow of Truth
Monday 10.00pm, 10.45pm BBC4 (full series on iPlayer from Monday)

MICHAEL GILADI/FLASH90; COURTESY OF ILANA RADA; YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90

‘I want people
to remember
who she was’
LMOST 17 YEARS have passed
since Ilana Rada was plunged
into a “pit of grief and anger”
when her 13-year-old daughter
Tair was brutally murdered at
school in a small town in the
Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. “I cherish all
the memories I had in the years I raised Tair,”
she says. “She was an amazing student who
loved to dance. Everything revolved around her
at home. She was a very special girl.”
Tair would now be 30, but her mother still
doesn’t know who killed the promising young
pupil, in a toilet cubicle, in her middle school in
the town of Katzrin. “The pain never goes away.
It doesn’t fade and it isn’t forgotten. On the
contrary, the more time passes, the harder it
becomes,” she says.
The torment continues for another family, too.
In 2010, Roman Zdorov, a 28-year-old Ukrainian-born man who’d moved to Israel in 2003,
was convicted of Tair’s murder and sentenced to
life in prison. He was acquitted by judges earlier
this year after social media effectively put the
Israeli legal system on trial, while the four-part
true crime series, Shadow of Truth, first shown
in Israel in 2016, then on Netflix, and starting
this week on BBC4, captivated the public. The
series exposes the fundamental flaws in the case
– that there was no DNA evidence linking
Zdorov with the crime scene, and the fact that
police built a case around the wrong man. But
Zdorov cannot get back
the 15 years he spent in
prison. “I’m happy that
I’m free and back with
my family,” Zdorov, now
45, tells me. “On the
other hand, of course I’m
angry because half of my
life was taken from me.
But I don’t think it’s
good to dwell on bitterness and anger.”
Zdorov discusses the

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True crime TV
acquitted one man
of Tair Rada’s
murder – now
her mother is
determined to
find her real killer

trial and his freedom in a new, fifth episode that
will be shown on BBC4 in a fortnight, after the
concluding parts of Shadow of Truth. Documenting his release from prison and Ilana’s
ongoing fight for the truth, it’s a heartbreaking
and powerful look at the murder of Tair Rada
and the way the Israeli justice system failed the
Rada and Zdorov families.
With Zdorov now acquitted, Ilana hopes that it
will put more pressure on the Israeli authorities
to find her daughter’s killer. “The truth is hiding
somewhere inside this case,” the 62-year-old says.
“You just need to want to find it.”
The evidence against Zdorov was, at best,
circumstantial: on the day Tair died he was
working at her school as a floor fitter and threw
away a pair of work trousers that were too small.
He had no alibi, but many thought he was innocent, including Ilana, who says now, “As soon as
the cops came to my house to let me know they
had found the murderer, I realised there was no
DNA or forensic evidence against Zdorov.”

‘I thought the only
way out would be
to confess’
R O M A N Z D O R OV

After his arrest, Zdorov protested his innocence, but then later confessed to the murder and
even re-enacted it at the school. Shortly afterwards, he withdrew his confession and said he’d
been pushed into giving it by the police. A police
informant masquerading as Zdorov’s cellmate
told him that he might get a shorter manslaughter conviction if he confessed and then fed him
information about how the murder unfolded.

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TARGETED
Roman Zdorov
lost an appeal in
2014 but has now
been released

DOROV SAYS NOW that the “police were
under a lot of pressure” to find the killer
and, as an immigrant, “I was an easy
target”. His false confession is, he says,
“hard to explain in a few words because it’s not
something that happened within a day or two…
At the beginning, the police kept lying to me
that they had all the evidence against me, when
there was no evidence. I trusted the police. The
informant in my cell kept telling me, ‘The police
don’t lie.’ So I thought that they had all these
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NEVER FORGET
Tair Rada was only
13 when she died.
Her mother Ilana
(left, and above
with Tair, aged four;
top: Tair, aged 12,
with her aunt) is
determined that
her story will stay
in Israelis’ minds

things against me, even though I knew that I
didn’t do it. Then they just gave me two options.
Either I don’t admit it and get life in prison, or [I
do] and get a reduced sentence. I came to think
that the only way out would be to confess.”
Zdorov spent 15 years in prison, unsuccessfully appealing twice during that time. Eventually, in 2021, he was granted a new trial and 85
witnesses testified over ten months. In March
this year, judges in Nazareth ruled 2-1 that there
was reasonable doubt Zdorov was the murderer
and he was freed to be reunited with his wife
Olga and two children – one of whom was born
a month before he was jailed and a second
conceived during conjugal visits.
Zdorov is trying to make up for lost time as a
father, but says, “There is no way to bring back
all the years that I lost.” And while he has said
that his door is always open and he’s more than
willing to talk, Ilana has no interest in meeting
him. “I’m not in touch with him and I have no
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empathy for him,” she says. “By confessing, he
made exposing the truth harder.”
Ilana says that after previous, unsuccessful
retrials, she was “surprised by the 2021 trial –
there was a new panel of judges and their only
goal was to leave no stone unturned and to find
the truth. I finally felt as though I was being
treated like a human being. We have our share of
horrible homicides in Israel, but it was very
important to me to stop Tair from being turned
into a statistic. I want people to remember who
she was.”
After Tair’s death, endless conspiracy theories
and rumours were debated on social media –
from satanic rituals to a woman with mental
health issues whose former boyfriend alleged to
the police, years later, that she had confessed to
Tair’s murder. For a while, Ilana thought her
daughter’s peers might have somehow been
involved. “I never thought I would lose my
daughter [in the way I did]. At first, I would

believe anyone who came to me with conspiracy
theories, including people from social networks
and all sorts of psychics and fortune tellers.”

I

LANA NOW SAYS that Tair’s murder “opened
the window for the Israeli public to see how
much corruption there is in law enforcement and the judicial system… Tair’s
murder was a huge tragedy, unbearable, and I
became so angry and frustrated with the systems
that I had always believed in without blinking.”
Almost two decades after her daughter’s
death, her courage shows no sign of waning.
I ask if there will ever be justice for Tair and she
offers a small smile. “I am hopeful the case will
be reopened. I am not alone – the public are
behind me. If I wasn’t optimistic, if I didn’t have
hope and faith, I wouldn’t be here today. Tair
won’t ever come back, but the least I can do for
my daughter is uncover the truth.”
AMY RAPHAEL

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CRICKET

‘MEN ARE
GETTING
BEHIND US’
The Hundred has revolutionised
women’s cricket, Lauren
Winfield-Hill tells Simon Barnes
ALTHOUGH IT’S NOW in its
third year, the Hundred
continues to divide cricket
supporters. Yet even the most
curmudgeonly opponents
of this pared-down and
gimmicked-up format agree
on one thing: it’s great for the women’s game.
Some will go further than that, among them
Lauren Winfield-Hill, who plays as batter and
wicketkeeper for the not inappropriately named
two-time winners Oval Invincibles. “It’s revolutionised women’s cricket in England,” she says.
“You’re seeing boys wearing shirts with a girl’s
name on the back. It’s not just women who are
supporting it – men are also getting behind
women’s sport. That’s really powerful.”
The format of the Hundred combines a men’s
and women’s competition without giving priority to either. The women’s game is not an add-on,
it’s central to the whole enterprise. “We’re playing the same game, on the same good surfaces

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‘Boys are wearing
shirts with a girl’s
name on the back’
with high-class facilities, and that just hasn’t
happened before,” says Winfield-Hill.
With each side facing 100 balls, bowlers delivering either five or ten consecutive balls, and the
fielding side changing ends after ten balls, there
are subtle differences between the Hundred and
the slightly longer and more conventional T20
format. “The tempo in the Hundred is very fast
indeed, so it can be hard to wrestle the initiative
back,” Winfield-Hill explains. “I find you get
fewer opportunities in this form of the game, so
they are more important.”
This year’s Hundred takes place after an
enthralling women’s Ashes series, one of shifting
advantage, character-defining reverses and
breathtaking moments of achievement. “It’s
been phenomenal,” says Winfield-Hill. “It’s
comfortably the best cricket I’ve been a part of.”
The only snag for England was that Australia
retained the Ashes after the mixed-format series
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SWING OUT, SISTER
Lauren Winfield-Hill
in action for Oval
Invincibles last year

was drawn. England won both the T20 and the but sitting in hotels thinking about the game.”
The worries broke into real life. “I’d be stressODI series-within-a-series but lost the one Test
match, and in the end that was decisive. But as ing about food shopping and what to have for
32-year-old Winfield-Hill says, “The progress is dinner.” She thought hard about giving up
cricket altogether. “I got through thanks to a
more powerful than the prize.”
“The most heavily weighted part of the Ashes psychologist, my wife, family and friends. And
was the Test, which is the format we play least of things are better – unrecognisably better. Cricket
all – but it was a global eye-opener. Australia is my happy space again, not my heavy space.”
have been the world’s best team for a long time,
but they lost those two series. And we saw some
AD PATCHES CAN be important if you get
evolving play with the development of the ‘360
through them – they give an opportunity
game’.” England batters are mastering a style
to set right your understanding of priorithat can access every part of the ground.
ties and motivations. Sport is all about thrilling
“Women’s cricket is now playing to sell-out highs and crushing lows. It’s a challenge to find a
crowds, and that’s astonishing when you
sane and happy balance in what is, more or less
think where we were ten years ago, when
by definition, a mad world. But Winfield-Hill
I was first playing. There have been
has – eventually – managed to do so, and now
huge changes even over the last five
the third edition of the Hundred awaits.
years. I’m about to go training and
“I’m feeling very good about it,” she says.
there will be ten pro players there. The
“You can’t have more confidence than
stresses about earning money so
winning it twice. Now there’s a new
you can play cricket are gone.
season and the squad has got better.
Worrying about the mortgage
This year we’re even stronger.”
can’t be good for performance.”
It’s fair to say that “we” applies to the
But other worries come with
whole of women’s cricket, too.
professionalism, greater exposure
This year’s Hundred begins on Tuesday
and higher expectations.
ASHES STAR
with Trent Rockets v Southern Brave at
Winfield-Hill went through a
Winfield-Hill
Trent Bridge. There is live coverage of
featured for
particularly bad patch when the
both the women’s and men’s matches
England
Covid lockdown was made worse
(play starts 3pm and 6.30pm respectively)
by Crohn’s disease. “Cricket became
on Sky Sports Cricket/Main Event/
all-consuming. I was doing nothing
Showcase, BBC2 and 5 Sports Extra

B

PICK
OF THE
WEEK’S
SPORT
ON TV

TEST CRICKET:
THE ASHES
ENGLAND v AUSTRALIA

FOOTBALL:
WOMEN’S
WORLD CUP

SUPER LEAGUE
RUGBY

Saturday—Monday
Sky Sports Cricket/
Main Event/5 Sports
Extra; highlights
BBC2 The fifth and
final Test at the Oval.

CHINA v ENGLAND

WIGAN WARRIORS v
LEIGH LEOPARDS

Tuesday 11.15am
(k/o 12 noon) ITV1
The Lionesses play
their final group
game in Adelaide.

Saturday 12.45pm
(k/o 1pm) C4 The
rivals meet in a game
dubbed the “Battle of
the Borough”.

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Streaming TELEVISION & FILM

FRANCES
TAYLOR

DRAMA

Heartstopper
All 8 episodes of series 2 available on Netflix on Thursday
When same-sex relationships are featured in
dramas and especially soaps, you’ll often find
that they’re filled with friction and fallingsout. But the key pleasure of Heartstopper
is the faith that Charlie (Joe Locke) and
Nick (Kit Connor) have in each other.
You really do feel that, no matter what
problems the pair navigate (and these latest
episodes spotlight Nick dealing with a largely
absent father as well as Charlie’s worrying
attitude towards food), the two of them
remain solid. As such, it’s a real step-change
in terms of representation and, in years to

come, Alice Oseman’s coming-of-age drama
will certainly be seen as one of the defining
shows of our era.
If anything, this second season does
even more to help a generation feel more
comfortable in their own skin, expanding as it
does on the portrayal of the boys’ friendship
group. The likes of Tao, Elle, Darcy and Isaac
all feature more prominently here than in the
original graphic novels — their concerns
adding fresh layers to what is already an
attractively progressive, positive depiction
of adolescence. DAVID BROWN

HEARTSTOPPER
IN NUMBERS
Q Young stars Kit
Connor and Joe
Locke are now
Instagram sensations,
with nearly nine
million followers
between them.

GETTY

Q In the month after
the release of season

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one in April 2022,
Heartstopper had hit
Netflix’s Top Ten list
in 54 countries —
including three where
those who identify
as LGBTQ+ are
criminalised
(Lebanon, Saudi
Arabia and Sri Lanka).

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Netflix

SPORT

Paradise 1111

Mark Cavendish:
Never Enough

Available from Thursday 27 July

q
ON TOUR
From left:
Isaac (Tobie
Donovan),
Tara (Corinna
Brown), Darcy
(Kizzy Edgell),
Charlie (Joe
Locke), Nick
(Kit Connor),
Tao (William
Gao) and Elle
(Yasmin Finney)

Q Sales have
rocketed for Alice
Oseman’s series
of books, which
have now sold
over six million
copies worldwide.
So far there are
four graphic
novels, with a fifth
set for release in
November this
year and a sixth
planned.

Q Reviews
aggregator website
Rotten Tomatoes
reveals the first
season to have a
rare 100 per cent
rating — meaning all
reviews of the show
were positive.

Q Season one also
made it on to
Google Trends’ list
of the Top Ten
most searched-for
shows in 2022.
Its popularity
has resulted in
Netflix not only
making season two,
but also announcing
the development
of a third
season. DB

TELEVISION & FILM Streaming

SCI-FI

Available from Wednesday

Silver-tongued salesmen
cajole the poor to donate
years of their lives to rich
benefactors in exchange for cash in
this intriguing, German-language
sci-fi thriller. When the wife of a
salesman is forced to age 40 years,
her husband discovers the shocking
truth behind the company he works
for. Director Boris Kunz creates a rich
and convincing dystopian future, and
there is dry wit amid the grimness.
Occasionally, the film threatens to
become just another shoot-’em-up,
but the unpredictable plot keeps
things on track with a succession of
twists.

The accident during Stage 8 of this
year’s Tour de France, which broke
Mark Cavendish’s collarbone and put
him out of the race, isn’t the news
background this documentary’s
producers would have chosen. Then
again, it is a story of struggle and
bad luck as well as great triumph.
With intimate access to Cavendish
himself as well as his family and
his colleagues, it charts how his
comeback performance in the 2021
Tour de France ended five years of
injury, illness and depression, and
brings home the sheer intensity of
elite-level cycling. JACK SEALE

DOCUMENTARY

ANIMATION

Untold: Jake Paul
the Problem Child

Grizzy and
the Lemmings

Available from Tuesday

Series 3 available from Tuesday

Netflix’s excellent series of one-off
sports documentaries returns and,
as usual, it focuses on the quirky or
controversial edges of the sporting
world. Such as the fact that some of
the most anticipated and analysed
boxing bouts of the past couple of
years have featured a YouTuber,
Jake Paul, whom many think is
making a mockery of their beloved
discipline. But is the pranksterturned-fighter really trashing a noble
art, or is he correct in his assertion
that boxing is just showbiz?
Interviews and training footage try
to get behind the phenomenon. JS

The beauty of a near-silent comedy
where the characters only speak
gibberish is that it can be easily
exported worldwide. This knockabout
French animation has duly aired in
76 countries at last count. As we
return for a third series of slapstick
action, it’s essentially Yogi Bear
versus Alvin and the Chipmunks,
with a dash of Looney Tunes’ Road
Runner. Long-suffering Grizzy is still
being plagued by the posse of
mischievous lemmings. As their
woodland cabin is magically
transported to China, it all goes a bit
Kung Fu Panda. MICHAEL HOGAN

MORE NETFLIX CHOICES

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Netflix
DEFENCE
STRATEGY

ALAMY; GETTY

Streaming TELEVISION & FILM

Will Mickey
(Manuel GarciaRulfo) make a
comeback?

LEGAL DRAMA

The Lincoln Lawyer Series 2 part 2 available Thursday
Anyone who suspects there’s a discrepancy between the
streaming shows that get written about and those watched by
the public could use this slick legal drama as exhibit A in court.
The first part of season two topped the Netflix TV charts for a
long stretch after it dropped. And yet there are so many more
articles about The Witcher than The Lincoln Lawyer. Go figure.
Those who are fans, though, recognise both quality and the
power of a good cliffhanger, which is why we’re all now dying to
see whether Mickey Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo) will survive
that brutal pasting he received. We’ve been waiting a month,
but answers are now coming. DAVID BROWN

THRILLER

SCI-FI ANIMATION

Bull 1111 z

Paprika 1111 j

Available from Tuesday

Available from Tuesday

q

q

There’s a Get Carter meets
Dead Man’s Shoes air to this
tough British gangster drama that
sees a former enforcer (Kill List’s
Neil Maskell) returning to his old
stomping ground to find his son
and dole out retribution to those
who have wronged him. Director
Paul Andrew Williams (London to
Brighton) crafts a pacey revenge
thriller that’s right out of the top
drawer, and Maskell is mesmerising
as the man who puts the fear of
God into the minions and family
of his old boss and father-in-law,
played by a bristling David Hayman.

JEREMY ASPINALL

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WHAT I’M STREAMING
KATHERINE PARKINSON
“I watch a lot of Sweet Tooth on Netflix
with my daughters,” says the actor. “It’s
sort of like The Last of Us — but for children.
“I’m also into Succession (Now) and I’m
especially enjoying Matthew Macfadyen
as Tom. Yellowjackets (Paramount+) is next on the box set list,
and when I’m away filming and I’m in a hotel room on my own,
I do enjoy a good cry to Long Lost Family (ITVX).”
Katherine Parkinson stars in Significant Other, available
to stream now on ITVX

This surreal anime from
2006 has been cited by
Christopher Nolan as an inspiration
for his 2010 dream thriller Inception.
It centres on a revolutionary
high-tech device that lets a
psychotherapist enter her patients’
dreams and analyse their neuroses
in situ. But after several of the
machines are stolen, the line
between reality and dreams
begins to blur. The film is too
labyrinthine for its own good, but
the cavalcade of images ensures
this animated offering for grown-ups
is always visually ravishing.
JAMIE RUSSELL

RadioTimes 29 July–4 August 2023

Sky Stream

DRAMA

DRAMA

The Flight Attendant

Last King of the Cross

Now streaming
Season one of this comedy-drama
introduced us to Cassie Bowden
(Kaley Cuoco), the alcoholic flight
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upside down when she wakes up
in a hotel room with a dead man,
and no idea how she got there.
After solving the mystery of what
really happened, Cassie returns
in season two, now sober and living
in Los Angeles with her handsome
new boyfriend. Everything seems
perfectly normal – except for one
part of her life: her part-time gig
as a CIA civilian asset.

Now streaming
Inspired by John Ibrahim’s bestselling memoir, this drama series
follows his rise from an impoverished
immigrant, with no education
or prospects, to Australia’s most
infamous nightclub owner. The story
spans his whole life, from his
childhood in war-torn Tripoli to his
family’s move to Australia in the
1980s and his subsequent career
in Sydney’s Kings Cross. Barely half
a mile long, the district is like a mini
Atlantic City, with almost every form
of criminality on offer – and John
(Lincoln Younes) is at the heart of it.

ALL THE
DRAMA
Enjoy award-winning shows on Sky
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D

DOCUMENTARY

DOCUMENTARY

Loons: a Cry From
The Mist

Who Killed Jill
Halliburton Su?

Now streaming
Join a team of biologists as they
race against the clock to find out
why Canada’s most famous bird
is suddenly in danger. Filmed over
the course of a year, this fascinating
documentary takes a look inside
the mysterious lives of the loon
population, examining the threats
they face – from global warming to
boat wakes disturbing their habitat.
Will these beloved birds continue
to compose summer’s soundtrack,
or will they go silent for ever?

Now streaming
Lifting the lid on a crime that
shocked a nation and cut to the
heart of Florida’s justice system,
this absorbing documentary covers
the events of September 2014,
when 59-year-old Jill Halliburton
Su was found brutally murdered
in her bathtub. All the evidence
points to one man – a 20-year-old
student, Dayonte Resiles – but with
no criminal record, history of
violence or discernible motive, the
case becomes even more complex.

RadioTimes 29 July-4 August 2023

o you love your drama? If so, you’ll know it can often
be overwhelming when you’re flicking between all the
streaming apps and channels, trying to find a new box
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So, you could opt for one of Netflix’s biggest new releases, such
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with the care of Princess Cirilla of Cintra (Freya Allan), he battles
to protect her as she’s pursued by multiple magical armies.
Then you could turn straight over to a pulse-racing Sky drama,
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Plus, there’s plenty more unmissable TV on offer, whether it’s
Succession or The Last of Us on Sky, or Netflix shows like Queen
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FLOWERS POWER
From left: Leah Purcell,
Frankie Adams, Alycia
Debnam-Carey,
Sigourney Weaver and
Asher Keddie

DRAMA

The Lost Flowers
of Alice Hart
Episodes 1—3 available Friday

TELEVISION & FILM Streaming

There are a few draws for this
new seven-part thriller: not only
does it come from the TV company
behind The Undoing, Big Little Lies
and Nine Perfect Strangers, it also
stars Sigourney Weaver.
She plays the stern grandmother
of nine-year-old Alice Hart (played
in episode one by Alyla Browne,
and then by Fear the Walking
Dead’s Alycia Debnam-Carey),
who at first appears to have an
idyllic if isolated life with her
parents on a remote Australian
farm. Very quickly, however, her
horrendous reality is laid bare.
Every scene hums with foreboding
and eventually a devastating
and unexplained tragedy envelops
her home. It’s a catalyst that
inspires Alice to search for
the secrets buried deep in
her family history.
FRANCES TAYLOR

ITVX

DRAMA

DOCUMENTARY

Vanishing Act

The Secrets of the Krays Leave No Trace 1111 h

All 3 episodes available Thursday

All 3 episodes available Thursday

Available from Tuesday

True-crime fans will enjoy this
three-part drama about Australian
fraudster Melissa Caddick (above),
who vanished in November 2020
after conning friends and family out
of $23 million. The series, played
with its eyebrow a little too arched,
stars Kate Atkinson as Caddick, who
becomes the ultimate unreliable
narrator as she voices her downfall.
Mercifully, the accompanying
documentary The Real Vanishing
Act: the Missing Millionairess is
less salacious. DAVID BROWN

As the Kray twins’ stranglehold on
east London in the 1950s and 60s is
still within living memory, there are
no shortage of family members and
craggy former associates lining up
here to offer their views. As a result,
this three-parter doesn’t quite know
whether to revile or admire Ronnie
and Reggie. But it’s at its strongest
when we see how the gangsters
extended their influence out into
the West End thanks to links with
Barbara Windsor and Conservative
peer Lord Boothby. DB

Winter’s Bone director Debra
Granik again reflects upon
the place of outsiders in American
society with this understated drama.
The story follows an ex-soldier (Ben
Foster) and his daughter (Thomasin
McKenzie) as their idyllic isolation in
the woodlands of Oregon is upset by
a chance encounter. Anchored by
excellent performances, Leave No
Trace is refreshingly free from
“traumatised veteran” tropes and is
sure to linger long in the memory.

RadioTimes 29 July–4 August 2023

DRAMA

q

JEREMY ASPINALL

DRAMA

Kaur Available now
The Sikh turban is a symbol of
respect, traditionally worn by men.
This acclaimed short drama explores
the decision by some Sikh women to
wear it, which can stir up controversy
within the Punjabi community. We
follow Avani (Parvinder Shergill),
a British girl who defies the wishes
of her father (Stephen Uppal) by
wearing one for the first time,
reminding him of his own trauma
when he emigrated from India. A
thoughtful story of family and faith,
it’s already being remade as a
feature film. MICHAEL HOGAN

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Streaming TELEVISION & FILM

AppleTV+

COMEDY DRAMA

Physical Series 3 episodes 1 and 2 available from Wednesday
Its storytelling is a little sluggish, but this dramedy still has a
wonderfully tart, reckless energy as it enters its third season. Sheila
(Rose Byrne) is fearsomely focused and very tightly leotarded as,
in California in 1983, she tries to grow her aerobics business. Her
divorce from hectoring environmentalist Danny (Rory Scovel) has
freed her up, the intrusive voices have stopped and she’s 60 days
without a destructive fast-food binge. But the arrival of glamorous
new rival Kelly (Zooey Deschanel) means Sheila must move with the
times and become… a TV fitness guru. Can she hack it? JACK SEALE

Now

FACTUAL DRAMA

Whitney Houston:
I Wanna Dance with
Somebody 1111 h

The Silent Twins 1111 z

q

America’s pop princess
Whitney Houston gets the
big-screen treatment in Kasi
Lemmons’s rise-and-fall biopic.
British actor Naomi Ackie is
sensational as Houston, as she goes
from singing gospel with her mother
Cissy (Tamara Tunie) to becoming
the most successful black recording
artist ever. Lemmons skilfully
handles her story; the tragedy as she
begins to damage her voice is there
for all to see. JAMES MOTTRAM

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THRILLER

Foundation

Hijack

Episode 4 available from Friday

Episode 7 available from Wednesday

Now we’re cooking. Four episodes
into season two and the story is
starting to gel. Revived hero Hari
(Jared Harris) appears before arch
ducker and diver Hober Mallow
(Dimitri Leonidas) and missionaries
Constant and Verisof (Isabella
Laughland and Kulvinder Ghir),
noting the Foundation has entered
its “religious phase” in his absence.
That quartet’s scenes have a nimble,
spiky wit. Grittier is General Bel’s
(Ben Daniels) new mission, during
which he happens upon a piece of
highly exotic contraband: a book. JS

Strap in and don’t worry

SERIES about it all making sense:
FINALE it’s time to land this
thing. After last week’s
neck-snapper of a twist aboard the
plane to London, inexplicably
authoritative passenger Sam (Idris
Elba) — everyone respects him, but
for no clear reason — has one final
race to gain control of the cockpit
and avoid a tragedy, aided by
inexplicably authoritative air-traffic
controller Alice (Eve Myles). Silly as
it is, those last 20 minutes are
breathtakingly tense. JS

To rent/buy

BIOPIC

Available from 28 July

SCI-FI

Available from Saturday

q

This drama tells the strange
— but true — story of June and
Jennifer Gibbons, twins who grew up
in 1970s Wales and communicated
only with each other. After a crime
spree, they were committed to
Broadmoor psychiatric hospital,
where they caught the interest of
an investigative journalist. Writer
Andrea Seigel and director
Agnieszka Smoczynska tell their
story with real emotional regard,
helped by affecting turns from Letitia
Wright and Tamara Lawrance as the
adult twins. STEVE MORRISSEY

FANTASY

The Little Mermaid 1111 g

Available now
Making a splash in Disney’s centenary year, The Little Mermaid
is one of the studio’s more successful live-action makeovers
of their animated back catalogue. Adapted from Hans Christian
Andersen’s fairy tale, it’s the story of mermaid Ariel (Halle Bailey),
who makes a pact with sea witch Ursula (Melissa McCarthy) to
become human so she can win the heart of Prince Eric (Jonah
Hauer-King). The film is surprisingly faithful to the 1989 original
and the musical routines are eye-poppingly staged. DAVE GOLDER

RadioTimes 29 July–4 August 2023

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Television SATURDAY

Blur’s Damon
Albarn and Alex
James on stage
at Wembley
Stadium earlier
this month

MUSIC

Blur Night
from 8.25pm BBC2 Catch up via iPlayer
suggests a band at the height of its popularity — and if that’s the case,
then Blur are only now peaking 35 years after they first formed. This
year’s latest reunion for the on-off group has seen the release of a
new album, The Ballad of Darren, headline slots at international
festivals and the aforementioned Wembley weekender, and tonight
they’re taking over BBC2.
A Radio 2 in Concert special recorded earlier this month is the big draw
at 9.25pm, with a rabble-rousing Damon Albarn relishing the opportunity
to get close to — and occasionally among — a crowd of 300 lucky fans at

QUIZ

DOCUMENTARY

DRAMA

DRAMA

Pointless Celebrities

Superpowered:
the DC Story

Casualty

Champion

8.25pm BBC1 Catch up via iPlayer

9.15pm BBC1 Full series on iPlayer

8.00pm Sky Documentaries
Catch up via Now

We pick up where we left off last
week, with Donna at the scene of
the road-traffic accident that she
essentially caused, having
momentarily fallen asleep at the
wheel. Only now, the whole mess
becomes a case of she said, he said,
as Donna and an occupant of the
other car square off over the matters
of compensation and culpability.
All parties eventually find their
way back to the ED, where emotions
are already running high, what
with there currently being more
relationship problems in this one
department than in an agony aunt’s
inbox. Teddy is mad with Sah and
Paige, while Cam hears the five
words from Jodie that he’s been
hoping she wouldn’t utter: “You’re
a proper good mate”. DAVID BROWN

Jo Martin could give Brad Pitt a run
for his money. He’s famous for eating
in many of his films, and Doctor Who
star Martin — who here plays Bosco
Champion’s hapless manager Dawn
— appears to being paying homage to
the Hollywood actor by having food
feature in most of her scenes in this
zippy music drama.
Last week’s cliffhanger ending saw
a drunk Bosco (Malcolm Kamulete)
having flipped the car that he was
driving. Now there’s the fallout, with
Memet (Kerim Hassan) taking the
heat for his friend and claiming he
was behind the wheel. Vita (Déja
J Bowens), meanwhile, has a glitzy
performance at a fashion show, but
an invitation to her mum ends up
backfiring spectacularly…

7.35pm BBC1 Catch up via iPlayer
I’m often surprised by the low scores
in the Pointless poll, and it appears
that I’m not alone — everyone in the
studio tonight is staggered when
a very familiar 70s disco hit gets a
single-digit score.
There’s also a round on world
geography (isn’t there always?) and
a sporting question that prompts one
celebrity to joke, “I’ll go and get me
coat now!” The trickiest round,
however, involves environmental
terms and features a pointless
answer that gets Alexander
Armstrong rather excited about
using the word. Richard Osman
immediately dashes that thought. “If
I ask you that question in ten minutes’
time, you’ll have forgotten the
answer,” he says. He’s probably right
— I certainly had. JANE RACKHAM

40

Broadcasting House’s Radio Theatre for a career-highlights set taking
in Girl & Boys, Beetlebum and recent single The Narcissist.
The tribute night begins with Blur at the BBC, which features the group’s
first TV appearance (performing There’s No Other Way on the kids’ show
Eggs ’n’ Baker) alongside interviews with Albarn and the rest of the band,
while later there are repeats of their emotional 2009 Glastonbury set
(ending in a massed audience singalong of Tender) and a Top of the Pops
special (featuring Oasis-beating chart-topper Country House) at 10.25pm
and 11.25pm respectively. JAMIE HEALY
See feature: page 22

Biff! Bang! Pow! It might have been
thoroughly eclipsed at the box office
by Marvel in recent years, but DC
can lay claim to being the original
and coolest comic book company.
This series tracing its rich history
continues with an episode exploring
the company’s attempts to address
social issues and reset the entire DC
universe amid declining comic book
sales. Covering the 1970s to the
1990s, it includes the advent of
their first black superhero, groundbreaking adult imprint Vertigo
Comics and a daring new Superman
movie. Once again, a veritable
VIP premiere full of Hollywood
heavyweights pop up as talking
heads. MICHAEL HOGAN

FRANCES TAYLOR TV PREVIEWS EDITOR

RadioTimes 29 July–4 August 2023

SATURDAY 29 JULY
LIVE SPORT

ALSO ON TODAY
Moneyball

9.15pm C4

Ian Wright (right) hosts
another edition of the
high-risk game show
where contestants can
win a fortune with the
roll of a ball.

Thomas and Catherine
organise a lavish
birthday party for
Elizabeth — but what
are their motives?

This Is Joan
Collins

8.00pm ITV1

10.40pm BBC4
A repeat of the 2022
documentary in which
the Dynasty star looks
back at her remarkable
life and career.

DOCUMENTARY

DOCUMENTARY

Nothing Compares

Buckingham Palace with Irvine Welsh’s Crime
10.00pm ITV1 Full series on ITVX
Alexander Armstrong

9.00pm Sky Documentaries
Catch up via Now

9.15pm Channel 5 Catch up via My5

DRAMA

Clean Sweep

Football: Women’s
World Cup
France v Brazil
10.45am (k/o 11am) BBC1
France can draw on the
experience of Eugénie Le Sommer
(above). Also today: Sweden v
Italy (k/o 8.30am) BBC2; Panama
v Jamaica (k/o 1.30pm) ITV4

Triathlon World Series
1.30pm BBC1
Sunderland hosts the sixth round.

Test Cricket: Men’s Ashes
England v Australia
10.15am (play starts 11am) Sky
Sports Cricket/Main Event
highlights 7.25pm BBC2
Day three at the Oval.

FILM OF
THE DAY

Television

What has 775 rooms, its
NEW own doctor’s surgery,
SERIES post office and ATM, and
would cost you around
£2 billion if it went on the market?
The answer is Buckingham Palace,
and Alexander Armstrong, Raksha
Dave and JJ Chalmers uncover some
surprising secrets about the royal
residence that was once a modest
house surrounded by fields.
We hear about Buck House’s
original bathroom arrangements (the
royal flush perhaps?) and what ladies
wore under their ball gowns 250
years ago, so it’s aimed at viewers
who prefer their history light-hearted
— but it’s no less enjoyable for that. JR

After that rather sudden
development last week, a series
where no episode feels exactly like
the previous one turns left again.
Serial child killer Gareth Horsborough
(John Simm), aka Mr Confectioner,
is in custody, acting as if he’s an
imperious master of mind games,
hissing out self-aggrandising
statements (“I dissssdain lawyers!”)
and trying to exchange information
on the fates of missing children for
the chance to torment poor DI Ray
Lennox (Dougray Scott).
Lennox, who is back on the lager
and the cocaine, doesn’t need any
help on that front. Like everything
in Irvine Welsh’s Crime, their pas de
deux is ragged and cartoonish, but
it just about grips. JACK SEALE

SATURDAY

Shortly after being introduced as
an artist who is “synonymous with
courage and integrity” by Kris
Kristofferson before performing at
a Bob Dylan tribute concert in 1992,
Sinéad O’Connor is greeted on stage
by a hurricane of boos and catcalls...
It is a smartly chosen opening for a
documentary about a singer whose
actions have made her a lightning rod
for everything from child abuse in the
Catholic church to warmongering US
nationalism. That recent years have
proved her right on both does not go
unacknowledged, while O’Connor
herself details the influence of her
difficult upbringing in voiceover.
An unflinching portrait of an
uncompromising life. GABRIEL TATE

DRAMA

9.00pm, 9.50pm BBC4
Catch up via iPlayer
Shelly Mohan (Charlene

NEW McKenna) is on life’s
SERIES treadmill. She has PTA

DARK SECRETS
Charlene McKenna
and Barry Ward
as Shelly and
Jason Mohan

groups to attend and kids
to ferry about — she’s so busy, in fact,
that the washing-up gloves stay on
for sex. It’s not a good look. But
there’s also a dark secret in her past,
and it’s one that leads to a presentday crime, which ends up being
investigated by her police detective
husband Jason (Barry Ward). He isn’t
yet aware of Shelly’s complicity, and
it’s almost a given that this six-part
Irish thriller will withhold that key
discovery until the final episode.
So, until then, Shelly will no doubt
dissemble and cover up her links to
a shady guy by the name of Charlie.
By the way, the actor who plays him
— Adam Fergus — has the worst fake
beard I’ve ever seen. Honestly, there
are department-store Santas with
more convincing facial hair. DB

The Full Monty 5 j
10.25pm BBC1
Gritty realism meets sparkling
comedy in this modern British
classic, which sees a group of
unemployed Sheffield men
(played by Robert Carlyle, above,
Mark Addy and Tom Wilkinson
among others) form a strip group
to make a little cash. (1997)

FILM REVIEWS
page 47

ALAMY; GETTY; ALLSTAR

Becoming
Elizabeth

41

SATURDAY Main Channels
DAYTIME
BBC1
6.00am Breakfast Naga Munchetty, Charlie Stayt. (S) (HD)
9.15 Saturday Kitchen Live Matt Tebbutt is joined by
chefs Bryn Williams and Cynthia Shanmugalingam and
singer Anne-Marie. Helen McGinn picks the drinks. (S) (HD)
10.45 LIVE Women’s World Cup France v Brazil
The Group F match at Brisbane Stadium (kick-off
11.00). The two sides met at the last-16 stage four
years ago, with France prevailing 2—1 after extra time.
Alex Scott presents. Highlights 7pm BBC3. Full replay
on the red button at 7.25pm. Watch live on iPlayer,
which also has highlights of other matches. (S) (HD)
1.15pm BBC News Weather (S) (HD)
1.30—5.00 LIVE Triathlon Day one of the World Series
event in Sunderland, featuring the men’s and women’s
sprint races. Day two is tomorrow 1pm BBC2. (S) (HD)

9

BBC2
6.00am Hey Duggee (R) (S) (HD) 6.15 Supertato (R) (S)
(AD) (HD) 6.20 Shaun the Sheep (R) (S) (HD) 6.30
Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed! (R) (S) (HD) 6.40 Boy
Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese (R) (S) (HD) 6.55 Game
On Grandparents It’s the grand final. (R) (S) (HD)
7.15 Countryfile The impact of increasing wildfires.
Signed repeat Monday 1.10am Shown last Sunday BBC1 (S) (HD)

8.15 LIVE Women’s World Cup Sweden v Italy
The Group G match at Wellington Regional
Stadium (kick-off 8.30). Sweden finished third
four years ago in France, while Italy reached the
quarter-finals. Full replay on the red button at 4.45pm.
Highlights 7pm BBC3. Watch live on iPlayer. (S) (HD)
10.30 A to Z of TV Gardening The letter R. (R) (S) (HD)
10.45 Sam and Shauna’s Big Cook Out Organising
a feast for Deri Rugby Club, near Caerphilly. (R) (S) (HD)
11.15 Caribbean Food Made Easy Levi Roots eats
yam mash with Usain Bolt’s family. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
11.45 Kangaroo Dundee and Other Animals Natural
World follows naturalist Chris “Brolga“ Barns. (R) (S) (HD)
12.45pm Sex Symbols: Talking Pictures Archive
interviews with pin-ups of the silver screen. (R) (S) (HD)
1.25 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes HHHH Musical
comedy starring Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell.
Available on iPlayer for 30 days. Review page 47.

Television SATURDAY

9

42

q

Director Howard Hawks (1953, U) (S) (W) (HD) Also showing Thu 9pm BBC4

2.55 Your Home Made Perfect 6/8 Series 4. A threebedroom house in Hertfordshire. Shown last Tue (S) (AD) (HD)
3.55—4.55 The Great British Sewing Bee 10/10
Series 9. The finalists compete. Shown last Wed BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD)

ITV1

BBC1

BBC2

2

Champion 9.15pm
Vita (Déja J
Bowens) must face
the music when
her career and
family life clash

Blur Night from
8.25pm There’s no
other way: a tender
look back at the
hits of Damon and
co over the years

5.00pm Garden Rescue

4.55pm Flog It!

Creating a bohemian fairy garden in Bristol.

Paul Martin presents from Gloucester as experts
Phillip Serrell and Michael Baggott discover some
rare gems among the antiques and collectables
brought to the city’s cathedral. (R) (S) (HD)

Director Steve Peet; Series producer Stephen Leigh (R) (S) (HD)

5.45 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
6.05 The Hit List

7/12 Series 6. With friends Cliff and Lynne from
Glasgow, twins Nyah and Neshah from Wolverhampton,
and father and daughter Ged and Erin from Preston.
Director Gary Brooks; Series producer Edwina Madden-Egan (S) (HD)

6.50 The Weakest Link
Kaye Adams, JJ Chalmers, Chizzy Akudolu, Linda
Robson, Shaparak Khorsandi, Sean Fletcher, Martel
Maxwell and Ed Gamble play for their chosen charities.
Director Barbara Wiltshire; Producer Gillian McNeil (R) (S) (HD)

7.35 Pointless Celebrities

Oduba, Judy Joo, Zoe Lyons, Mark Benton,
4Ore
Jacqueline Shepherd, Rusty Lee, Andrew

Maxwell and Kim Vithana aim for zero. See page 40.
Director Jan Genesis; Series producer Laura Turner (S) (HD)

8.25 Casualty

White Lies. A lie spirals out of control for
4Little
an already guilt-ridden Donna. See page 40.
Donna Jackson
Jaye Jacobs
Charlie Fairhead
Derek Thompson
Paige Allcott
Shalisha James-Davis
Dylan Keogh
William Beck
Rashid Masum
Neet Mohan
Stevie Nash
Elinor Lawless
Theodore “Teddy” Gowan Milo Clarke
Iain Dean
Michael Stevenson
Jan Jenning
Di Botcher
Sah Brockner
Arin Smethurst
Rida Amaan
Sarah Seggari
Ryan Firth
Eddie-Joe Robinson

Barney Walsh
Mia Streeks
Briana Shann
Stirling Gallacher
Kriss Dosanjh
Kai Owen
Mark Lewis
Amy Robbins
Lucas Button
Connor Curren
Keira Lucchesi

Cam Mickelthwaite
Amber Baptiste
Mia Barron
Ffion Morgan
Ashok Masum
Sgt Taylor
Sam Berridge
Ella Pollard
Scott Baker
Ashley Morgan
Kerry Morgan

9.15 Champion

4

5/8. I Love Her, Man. Vita’s attempt to build
bridges with her family backfires. The whole
series is available on iPlayer. See page 40.
Vita
Bosco
Aria
Beres
Honey
Memet
Chantelle
Mark
Tayo
Dawn

Channel 4

Gaz
Gerald
Dave
Jean

Déja J Bowens
Malcolm Kamulete
Nadine Marshall
Ray Fearon
Rita Ekwere
Kerim Hassan
Adeyinka Akinrinade
Tom Forbes
Genesis Lynea
Jo Martin

Lennox
Yemi
Laurent
Philip
Dev
Sophia
Paix
Seamus
AJ

Karl Collins
Rachel Adedeji
Francis Lovehall
Fergus Rees
Ranjit Krishnamma
Kaira Patki
Khairika Sinani
Mark Topping
Lucy Wells

Writers Emma Dennis-Edwards and Candice Carty-Williams
Producer Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor; Director Adeyemi Michael
Repeated Tuesday 11pm BBC3 (S) (AD) (HD)

10.05 BBC News Weather (S) (HD)
10.25 The Full Monty 5

drama. Unemployed Sheffield
qComedy
steelworkers Gaz and Dave come up with a bold
plan to restore their fortunes and capitalise on their
assets — taking their clothes off for money. Available
on iPlayer for 30 days. Film of the Day: page 47.
Robert Carlyle
Tom Wilkinson
Mark Addy
Lesley Sharp

5.25 Brief Encounter 5

romantic drama. A chance meeting in a
qClassic
railway station brings together Laura Jesson, a

happily married woman, and Dr Alec Harvey who is
also married. They fall in love, but their happiness is
marred by the furtive way they must carry on the
affair and the realisation that eventually a choice must
be made. Available on iPlayer for 30 days. Review p47.

Laura Jesson
Dr Alec Harvey
Fred Jesson
Albert Godby

Celia Johnson
Trevor Howard
Cyril Raymond
Stanley Holloway

Myrtle Bagot
Dolly Messiter
Beryl Waters
Stanley

Joyce Carey
Everley Gregg
Margaret Barton
Dennis Harkin

Director David Lean (1945, PG) (BW) (S) (HD)
Also showing Thursday 10.30pm BBC4

6.55 Dad’s Army
Series 4. Mum’s Army. Captain Mainwaring discusses
the possibility of recruiting some female members to
the platoon to release the men from some of their noncombatant activities. As a result, tongues begin to wag.
Writers Jimmy Perry and David Croft
Director/Producer David Croft (R) (S) (HD)
RT OFFER Radio Times: the War Years 1939—1946, a 116-page bookazine
offering a unique take on the conflict: visit radiotimes.com/waryears

7.25 Today at the Test
Action from day three of the fifth Test in the Ashes
series between England and Australia, from the Oval
in London. Isa Guha presents. More tomorrow 7pm.
Director Clair Goodwin; Executive producer Rob Williams (S) (HD)

8.25 Blur at the BBC

performances by the band, from their
4Archive
first television appearance on a Saturday

Writer Michelle Lipton; Producer Sarah Beardsall
Director Christopher McGill (S) (AD) (HD)

6.00am CITV See page 46
8.25 Oti Mabuse’s Breakfast Show With James
Haskell and Andi Osho. Signed repeat Thu 5.05am (S) (HD)
9.25 ITV News (S) (HD)
9.35 James Martin’s American Adventure The
chef explores Lafayette in Louisiana. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
10.35 Jason Atherton’s Dubai Dishes 2/10
Breakfast and brunch. Signed repeat Sun 5.05am (S) (AD) (HD)
11.40 Cooking with the Stars 4/6. Claire Richards,
Joanna Page and Samia Longchambon try to serve
up the perfect British dish. Shown last Tuesday (S) (AD) (HD)
12.45pm James Martin’s Great British Adventure
James travels along the Thames to Bray. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
1.15 ITV News Weather; Regional Weather (S) (HD)
1.30—4.00 LIVE Racing Four races from Ascot,
featuring the King George VI Stakes at 3.40, plus
action from York, including the York Stakes. (S) (HD)
5.55am Everybody Loves Raymond (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
7.05 The King of Queens Double bill. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
8.00 The Simpsons Eight episodes. (R) (S) (AD)
11.50 Undercover Boss USA The chief people officer
of a restaurant chain goes under cover. (R) (S) (HD)
12.45pm LIVE Rugby League Wigan Warriors v
Leigh Leopards The Super League clash at DW Stadium
(kick-off 1.00). The Warriors are among the favourites
for the title, but they can take nothing for granted
against the Leopards, who have been highly impressive
this term. Adam Hills and Helen Skelton present. (S) (HD)
3.15—4.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It Projects include
a clay-pigeon trap and a searchlight. (Revised rpt) (S) (HD)

1

Mandy
Lomper
Horse
Guy

Emily Woof
Steve Huison
Paul Barber
Hugo Speer

Director Peter Cattaneo (1997, 15) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)

11.50 Gringo HHH

crime comedy with David Oyelowo, Joel
qAction
Edgerton and Charlize Theron. A pharmaceuticals
executive discovers that his bosses plan to fire him.
Aiming to fleece his employers, he stages his own
kidnapping. On iPlayer for 30 days. Review page 47.

Director Nash Edgerton (2018, 15) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)

1.35am Weather for the Week Ahead (S) (HD)
1.40—6.00am BBC News (S) (HD)

BBC1 Freeview 1/HD 101 Freesat 101 Sky 101 Virgin 101

morning show hosted by Cheryl Baker to their
headlining slots at Glastonbury. Featuring hits such
as Country House, Parklife, Girls & Boys, Coffee & TV,
Beetlebum, Tender and Out of Time. See page 40.
Producer Shelley Talton; Series producer Simon Goretzki (S) (HD)

See feature: page 22

9.25 Blur: Radio 2 in Concert

recorded earlier this month in
4Atheperformance
BBC Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House

in front of a small audience. Featuring classics such
as Popscene and Tender, as well as songs from their
new album, The Ballad of Darren. See page 40.
Director Dave Hillier; Producer Nadia Dunn (S) (HD)

10.25 Blur at Glastonbury
Before the finale of the festival in 2009, Blur had only
played a handful of small gigs, making this their reunion
show — played on one of the world’s biggest stages.
Director Janet Fraser Crook; Producer Alison Howe (R) (S) (HD)

11.25 Top of the Pops: Blur
A compilation, first broadcast in 1999, of the band’s
appearances on the programme, featuring hits such
as Parklife along with numerous others. (R) (S) (HD)

11.55 Hot Chocolate at the BBC
A compilation of BBC performances and rare
interview extracts celebrating the British pop group
and its lead singer Errol Brown. First shown in 2015.
Producer Tamsin Curry (R) (S) (HD)

12.55am Couples Therapy 12/18 Series 3. Nadine gets
into an emotional state. Shown last Thursday (S) (AD) (HD)
1.25—3.20am Portrait of a Lady on Fire 5 Romantic
period drama starring Noémie Merlant and Adèle
Haenel. In 18th-century Brittany, artist Marianne is
hired to paint a portrait of reluctant bride-to-be Heloïse.
As the women spend more time together, they grow closer.
French, Italian +subtitles. Available on iPlayer for 30 days.

q

Director Céline Sciamma (2019, 15) (W) (HD)

BBC2 Freeview 2/HD 102 Freesat 102 Sky 102 Virgin 102

SATURDAY 29 JULY
ITV1

3

Channel 4

4

7 in Wales

BBC4

9

24 in Scotland

Moneyball
8.00pm One roll
of the ball could
earn big money
in the quiz show
with Ian Wright

Becoming
Elizabeth 9.15pm
Sibling rivalry:
Elizabeth (Alicia
von Rittberg)
takes sides

4.00pm The Living Daylights HHH

4.00pm Château DIY

7.00pm Our Coast

While renovating a new bridal bedroom, Julia
battles cracked plaster and expensive surprises.

Anglesey, Wales. Adrian Chiles and
Mehreen Baig cross the Menai Strait
to Anglesey — the largest island in the
Irish sea. Mehreen hears how, with
record levels of traffic crossing, the
island could be about to get another
bridge — of gigantic proportions.

q

Spy adventure. James Bond is assigned
to help a KGB general defect to the West,
sending him on a mission that uncovers arms
dealing and diamond smuggling. Review p47.

James Bond
Timothy Dalton General Leonid Pushkin
Kara Milovy
Maryam D’Abo
John Rhys-Davies
General Georgi Koskov Jeroen Krabbé Kamran Shah
Art Malik
Brad Whitaker
Joe Don Baker Necros
Andreas Wisniewski
Director John Glen (1987, PG) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
Licence to Kill tomorrow 3.55pm

6.30 ITV News
Weather; Regional News and Weather

(S) (HD)

7.00 Celebrity Catchphrase for
Soccer Aid

Director Geraldine Dowd
Executive producer Gary Chippington (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 Moneyball

2/6 Series 2. Ian Wright hosts the game show
where the contestants can win a life-changing
sum with the roll of a ball, as they take on the
Launcher, the giant money-making machine.
Director John L Spencer; Exec producers Michael Kelpie, Glenn
Hugill, Martin Scott, Barry Hart Rptd Sun 2.55pm (S) (AD) (HD)

Chizzy Akudolu, Jack Carroll, Andrew Pierce
and Sonja McLaughlan challenge one of the
fearsome Chasers. Bradley Walsh presents.
Executive producers Michael Kelpie, Martin Scott and
Helen Tumbridge (R) (S) (HD)

10.00 Irvine Welsh’s Crime

Lennox questions the prime suspect,
45/6.
but it’s now a race against time to find the
abducted girl, Kylie. Meanwhile, Lennox makes
an unsettling discovery about his family. The
whole series is available on ITVX. See page 41.

Ray Lennox
Dougray Scott
Amanda Drummond
Joanna Vanderham
Mr Confectioner
John Simm
Dougie Gillman
Jamie Sives
Stuart McCorkel Michael Abubakar
Avril Lennox
Ellie Haddington
John Lennox
Ewan Stewart
Sally Lockhart
Laura Fraser
Trudi Lowe
Angela Griffin
Bob Toal
Ken Stott

Kylie
Kayla Caldwell
Estelle
Allison McKenzie
Gillian Glover
Sarah McCardie
Young Lennox
Benjamin Scanlan
Alex
Reuben Joseph
Baxter McClelland Forbes Masson
Carly McCargill Sorcha Groundsell
Jackie Lennox
Emma Currie
Magda Lockhart
Fiona Ormiston
Bill Lockhart
Joe Cassidy

Writers Irvine Welsh and Dean Cavanagh
Producer/Director David Blair First shown on ITVX (S) (AD) (HD)

11.00 ITV News
Weather; Regional Weather

(S) (HD)

11.15 Fast & Furious 8 HHHH

adventure starring Vin Diesel. The
q Action
gang disperse to live quieter lives, but then

Dom is seemingly seduced into a life of techno
terrorism by the enigmatic Cipher. Review p47.
Dom
Vin Diesel
Hobbs
Dwayne Johnson
Cipher
Charlize Theron
Deckard
Jason Statham
Letty
Michelle Rodriguez
Magdalene Shaw
Helen Mirren

Roman
Tyrese Gibson
Tej Parker Chris “Ludacris” Bridges
Mr Nobody
Kurt Russell
Little Nobody
Scott Eastwood
Ramsey
Nathalie Emmanuel
Elena
Elsa Pataky

Series producer Matt Baker
Executive producer Joff Powell (Revised rpt) (S) (AD) (HD)

4.30 LIVE Formula E
Coverage of race one of the London ePrix at
ExCel (start 5.00), the final meeting of the
season. Great Britain’s Jake Dennis currently
leads the drivers’ championship. Coverage of
race two begins at 4.30pm tomorrow. (S) (HD)

6.30 The Dog House
Norman, a nine-year-old westie enjoys some
attention from mother and son Lorraine and
Oliver. Plus, will patterdale puppy Friday fulfil
young Rohan’s long list of requirements?
Series producer Victoria Bell; Executive producer Nick Mirsky
Repeated tomorrow 8pm 4seven (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

7.15 Channel 4 News Sport; Weather (S) (HD)
7.45 Formula One: Belgian Grand Prix
Qualifying — Highlights
Action from the battle for pole in the 13th round
at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. Max
Verstappen of Red Bull took pole here last year
before going on to win the race. Lee McKenzie
presents, with analysis from Mark Webber, Billy
Monger, Jamie Chadwick and Ariana Bravo.
Race highlights tomorrow 6.30pm. (S) (HD)

9.15 Becoming Elizabeth

3/8. Either Learn or Be Silent. The Lord
Protector Somerset must try to maintain the
delicate balance between the country’s two
religions after Elizabeth sides with one of her
siblings over the other. When Catherine’s sworn
enemy is released from the Tower, Elizabeth is
left stunned by what she has set in motion.
The whole series is available to stream.
Elizabeth Tudor Alicia von Rittberg
Mary Tudor
Romola Garai
Edward VI
Oliver Zetterström
Catherine Parr
Jessica Raine
Jane Grey
Bella Ramsey
Thomas Seymour
Tom Cullen
Kat Ashley
Alexandra Gilbreath
Pedro
Ekow Quartey

John Dudley
Duke of Somerset
Henry Grey
Guildford Dudley
Robert Dudley
Bishop Gardiner
Doctor

Jamie Parker
John Heffernan
Leo Bill
Jacob Avery
Jamie Blackley
Alex Macqueen
Ben Moor

Repeated Wednesday 3.20am 4seven
Signed repeat Thursday 12.55am Channel 4 (S) (AD) (HD)

10.30 Greed HHH

comedy. Fashion mogul Sir Richard
oSatirical
“Greedy” McCreadie hires a ghostwriter,
Nick Morris, for his autobiography. As Morris
uncovers more and more evidence of the tycoon’s
exploitative business practices, McCreadie’s
personal and professional lives swiftly go to pot.
Available to stream for 30 days. Review p47.
Sir Richard McCreadie Steve Coogan
Samantha McCreadie
Isla Fisher
Nick Morris
David Mitchell
Lily McCreadie
Sophie Cookson

Margaret
Shirley Henderson
Finn McCreadie
Asa Butterfield
Melanie
Sarah Solemani
Cathy
Pearl Mackie

Director Michael Winterbottom (2019, 15) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
Also showing Wednesday 11.05pm 4seven

12.35am Primal HHH Action thriller starring Nicolas
Cage. A big-game hunter intends to smuggle his
latest catches into the US aboard a freighter, but
when a fellow passenger sets the animals free, all hell is
soon breaking loose. Available to stream for 30 days.

Signed repeat 2.20am (R) (S) (HD)

8.00 How the Wild West Was
Won with Ray Mears

3/3. Deserts. How the landscapes of
America’s five great deserts challenged
the pioneers’ westward push. In
Monument Valley on the Arizona-Utah
state line, Ray discovers how the US
Cavalry struggled in the arid landscape.
Producers Phil Coles and Beth Sowersby; Exec producer
Andrea Cornes Rptd Sun 1.30am (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Clean Sweep

series. 1/6. Done Is Done
4New
Crime thriller starring Charlene

McKenna. Housewife and mother-ofthree Shelly Mohan is married to a
Galway detective, but finds her
humdrum existence is thrown into
turmoil when a man from her
distant past resurfaces. (S) (HD)
9.50 2/6. Post Mortem. Shelly’s
husband Jason is delighted to be
assigned to the case. While he and his
colleague Fiona focus on a sex worker,
Shelly realises she may have left
evidence in the dead man’s hotel
room. The whole series is available on
iPlayer from today. See p41. (S) (HD)
Shelly Mohan
Jason Mohan
Niall Mohan
Charlie Lynch
Derek Mohan
Billy Ryan
Emma Wilson
Fiona Uba
Caitlyn Mohan
Niall Mohan
Doireann Carrick
Tony
Eileen
Aelish Flaherty

Charlene McKenna
Barry Ward
Aidan McCann
Adam Fergus
Rhys Mannion
Benjamin Bergin
Nathara Dayananda
Jeanne Nicole Ni Áinle
Katelyn Rose Downey
Aidan McCann
Grace Collender
Evan Crimmins
Orla Cowley
Roísín Rankin

10.40 This Is Joan Collins
In this feature-length profile of one of
the last surviving stars from the golden
age of Hollywood, the celebrated
actress narrates her own rollercoaster
seven decades in showbiz. Illustrated
by archive and home-movie footage,
Dame Joan’s story showcases the
glitz, the glamour and enduring
moments of Hollywood history.

1.35am Tipping Point: Lucky Stars Ben Shephard
presents the game show. Shown last Sunday (R) (S) (HD)
2.30 Paul Sinha’s TV Showdown Quiz. (R) (S) (HD)
3.00 The Stasi: Secrets, Lies and British Spies The
story of East Germany’s secret police. (R) (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)
3.50 Unwind A sequence to calm the mind. (S) (HD)
5.05—6.00am Fishing Allstars Dean Macey and
Adam Rooney visit three venues. (R) (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)

Cast Tuesday and Friday (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)

ITV1 Freeview 3/HD 103 Freesat 103 Sky 103 Virgin 103
+1 Freeview 35 Freesat 112 Sky 203 Virgin 303

Channel 4 Freeview 4/HD 104 Freesat 104 Sky 104 Virgin 104
+1 Freeview 15 Freesat 121 Sky 204 Virgin 304

BBC4 F’view 9/HD 106 F’sat 108 Sky 116 Virgin 108

Director F Gary Gray (2017, 12) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)

Director Nicholas Powell (2019, 15) (S) (W) (HD)

2.20 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA A debtridden restaurant in Great Neck, New York. (R) (S) (HD)
3.15 Wonders of the World I Can’t See 4/4. Chris
McCausland and Liza Tarbuck head to Canada to
experience the majestic Niagara Falls. (R) (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)
4.10—6.15am Hollyoaks Omnibus edition.

5.00pm The Best
Dishes Ever 5.15—5.45
Weatherman Walking:
Derek Brockway visits
Portmeirion and
Dolaucothi

BBC2 WALES
3.55pm Flog It!: from
Gloucester Cathedral
4.25 FILM: Brief
Encounter 5.55 The
Wedding Dress Shop
6.25 Dad’s Army
6.55—7.25 Iolo: a Wild
Life: Iolo Williams
recalls 800 ravens
roosting in Newborough
Forest, Anglesey

STV
3.50—5.05am
Night Vision

BBC2
NORTHERN
IRELAND
4.55pm FILM: Brief
Encounter 5
Classic romantic
drama starring Celia
Johnson and Trevor
Howard. A chance
meeting in a suburban
railway station brings
together Laura Jesson,
a happily married
woman, and Dr Alec
Harvey who is also
married. They fall in
love, but their secret
happiness is marred by
the furtive way they
must carry on the
affair and the
realisation that
eventually a choice
must be made 6.25
A Stitch through Time:
fashion challenges
inspired by the crafts
of the Ards Peninsula
6.55—7.25 Barra’s
Return of the Wild:
reducing the methane
output of cows

Director Clare Beavan; Producers Karen Steyn,
Nick Taussig, Annabel Wigoder and Clare Beavan
First shown on BBC2 (S) (HD)

12.20am John Le Mesurier: It’s All Been
Rather Lovely A portrait of the actor who
was born in Bedford in 1912, charting his life
and prolific career. Shown last Tue (S) (AD) (HD)
1.20 Hancock’s Half Hour The Cruise.
Tony causes chaos on a cruise and has to be
locked up when he convinces himself the
ship is sinking. Shown last Tuesday (BW) (S)
1.50 Whatever Happened to the Likely
Lads? 13/13 Series 1. End of an Era
Terry deals with a nervous Bob as the
wedding day dawns. Shown last Tuesday (S)
2.20—3.20am Our Coast

q

BBC1 WALES

Television

9.00 The Chase Celebrity Special

Housewife
Shelly Mohan is
forced into a
desperate act

7.00pm The Seven
7.15 The Edit 7.30 The
Season That Was 8.30
The Mart: two young
farmers go head to
head at the rare breed
sale 9.00 Scot Squad:
the officers deal with
an expensive drop of
whisky 9.30 The Karen
Dunbar Show: a woman
has a coleslaw mishap
10.00 Ooh the Banter:
a celebration of
Scottish comedy
11.00 Short Stuff
11.15—12 midnight
Belladrum: highlights
from the festival,
including performances
by Olivia Dean, the
Zutons and Travis

SATURDAY

Brendan Cole, Seema Jaswal and Tim Lovejoy
guess the famous phrases in a bid to bank the
jackpot for charity. Stephen Mulhern presents.

Clean Sweep
9.00pm

BBC
SCOTLAND

Shown 7pm (S) (SL) (HD)

a RT Choice m Family 2 Red button (R) Repeat (S) Subtitles (SL) Signing (AD) Audio description (HD) High def FILMS i Premiere (W) Widescreen (BW) Black/white

Channel 5
listings are overleaf

Outstanding HHHH Very good HHH Worth watching HH Could be worse H Poor

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SATURDAY Freeview
Channel 5

5

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ITV3

10

Buckingham Palace with Alexander
Armstrong 9.15pm A royal history

Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of
Crisps 9.00pm Donna coaches Gaz

Midsomer Murders 9.00pm Is chef
Ruth Cameron hiding something?

5.35am Milkshake! See page 46
10.00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The team discovers an alien invasion. (S) (HD)
10.20 SpongeBob SquarePants
Larry opens a new gym. (S) (HD)

7.00pm New. Women’s World Cup
Highlights

10.35 Entertainment News (S) (HD)

Keanu discovers a custody battle could
take years. Shown last Monday BBC1
8.00 The stakes get high for Suki and
Kathy. Shown last Tuesday BBC1
8.30 Kim and Howie fall out. Shown last

6.00am Never the Twain (S) 6.35 A Touch
of Frost: Series 1. Care and Protection. Jack
searches for a missing child (S) (AD) 8.45
FILM Carry On at Your Convenience HH
Comedy. A slapstick series of catastrophes
ensue when the workers at the factory of
toilet makers WC Boggs go on strike (S) (AD)
10.45 Rosemary and Thyme 4/8 Series 2
The Invisible Worm. A school harbours
ancient secrets; 11.45 5/8. The Gongoozlers.
The duo are hired to work on a TV show (S)
12.45pm A Touch of Frost: Series 2. A
Minority of One. Jack investigates a police
informant’s death (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00 Agatha
Christie’s Marple: The Mirror Crack’d from
Side to Side. A film fan is poisoned at a party
held by a famous actress (S) (AD) (HD)

10.40 Friends Series 2. Ross babysits Ben.
11.10 The gang’s neighbour Mr Heckles dies.
11.40 Phoebe shocks everyone by
revealing that she is married. (S) (AD) (HD)
12.05pm Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun
Meeting Wayne, who grew up in
Manchester but now runs a Benidorm bar.
1.00 Pie shop owner Karen must find new
ways to lure hungry customers.
2.00 Eddie hopes to find singing jobs so he
can move from his caravan into a proper home.
Shown last Monday/Tuesday 5 Star (S) (HD)

Television SATURDAY

BBC3

3.05 22 Kids and Counting With half-term
approaching, Sue and Noel pull out all the
stops to keep the children entertained. (S) (HD)
4.00 A trip to a theme park goes wrong
when Hallie and Phoebe go missing. (S) (HD)

5.00pm Legoland: a World of Wonder
Massive models of pumpkins and
spiders are being designed and built
for the Halloween celebrations.
Directors/Producers Alex Scott and Jamie
O’Halloran (S) (HD)

5.55 Bicester Village: How Do
They Really Do It?
Fashion experts, former employees and
retail insiders reveal how Bicester
Village can sell premium fashion for less.
Director/Producer Roshan Samarasinghe (S) (HD)
6.45 5 News (S) (HD)

6.50 Isle of Wight: Jewel of the
South

4/6. Cameras follow Darcy Muncer as
he restores an ancient thatched roof.
Director Jim Ashley (S) (HD)

7.45 When Fergie Met the Monarchy
A look at what went wrong between
Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson. (S) (HD)

9.15 New series. Buckingham
Palace with Alexander Armstrong

1/8. The presenter reveals the stories
4
hidden behind the walls of Britain’s
most famous royal residence. This episode
begins in the late 18th Century, when
King George III bought the building as a
retreat for his wife Charlotte. See p41.
Directors Sam Bailey and Sam Elvin (S) (HD)

10.15 The Curse of Grace Kelly
How Princess Caroline, Prince Albert
and Princess Stéphanie were dogged
by controversy and tragedy following
the death of their mother. (S) (HD)

11.40 Greatest ABBA Cover
Versions Ever
Music experts, fans and performers talk
about the stories behind some of the
top cover versions of the band’s songs.
Director/Producer Verity Newman (S) (HD)

1.05am Home Shopping (S) (HD) 3.05 Rich
Holiday, Poor Holiday (S) (HD) 3.50 Secrets
of the Royal Flight (S) (HD) 4.40 Wildlife
SOS (S) (SL) 5.05 House Doctor (S) (SL)
5.30—5.35am Entertainment News (S) (HD)
C5 Freeview 5/HD 105 Freesat 105 Sky 105 Virgin 105
+1 Freeview 38 Freesat 128 Sky 205 Virgin 305

BBC4 listings are overleaf

Action from Sweden v Italy, France v
Brazil and Panama v Jamaica. (S) (HD)

7.30 EastEnders

Wednesday BBC1 Cast Tue/Thu BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Two Pints of Lager and a
Packet of Crisps

4/6 Series 9. Tim struggles to adapt
to his new life after coming out.
9.30 5/6. Tim searches for a boyfriend.
10.00 6/6. Gaz celebrates his 30th
birthday. A box set is on iPlayer. (S) (AD) (HD)

10.30 Dreaming Whilst Black

1/6. Comedy about an aspiring film-maker
trapped in a recruitment job. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.55 2/6. Kwabena moonlights as a food
delivery driver to finance his film. (S) (AD) (HD)

11.25 Gaia: a Death on Dancing Ledge

1/3. A mysterious death from 2017.
12.10am 2/3. Zara McDermott
uncovers a world of online grooming.
12.55 3/3. The inquest into Gaia
Pope-Sutherland’s death. (S) (HD)

1.40 Dreaming Whilst Black (S) (HD) 2.05 Two
Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps (S) (AD) (HD)
3.40—4.00am My Mate’s a Bad Date (S) (HD)
2 BBC SPORT ONLINE 4.00—7.00am Mixed
Martial Arts Live coverage of Bellator v Rizin 2
from Saitama in Japan, at bbc.co.uk/sport

BBC3 F’view 23/HD 107 (not Scot/Wales) F’sat 179/HD 107
Sky 115 (117 Wales; 141 Scotland) Virgin 107 (157 Scotland/Wales)

ITV2

6

6.00am Totally Bonkers Guinness World
Records (S) (HD) 6.20 Secret Crush (S) (SL)
(HD) 7.15 Celebrity Dinner Date (S) (AD) (HD)
8.20 Dress to Impress (S) (HD) 11.30 Ninja
Warrior UK: Race for Glory (S) (AD) (HD)
12.30pm FILM Step Up: All In HH (S) (AD)
(W) (HD) 2.45 FILM Dr Seuss’ The Lorax
HHH (S) (AD) (W) (HD) 4.35 FILM The Lego
Movie 2: the Second Part HHHH Animated
action adventure featuring the voice of Chris
Pratt. Bricksburg is attacked by invaders
from outer space. Review page 47 (S) (W) (HD)
6.40pm FILM Marley & Me HHH Comedy
drama based on a true story, starring
Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson. Following
their wedding, John Grogan buys his wife a
cute but irrepressible labrador puppy called
Marley, little realising that their lives will
never be the same again. (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
9.00 New. Love Island: Unseen Bits
A final compilation of unbroadcast footage
from the villa, featuring all the flirting, fun
and romance, plus the juiciest gossip. (S) (HD)
10.05 Family Guy Series 8. Lois urges
Brian to submit a script for a TV pilot.
10.35 A local news station reports Earth
will be destroyed by a black hole.
11.05 Peter bangs his head and develops
total amnesia. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.30 American Dad! Series 9. Jeff is
stranded on Roger’s home planet. (S) (AD) (HD)
12 midnight Roger pretends to be Jeff’s
imaginary friend. (S) (AD) (HD)

5.00pm Endeavour

Drama

20

Strike: the Silkworm 9.00pm

Cormoran looks for a missing author
7.10am Born and Bred: 8/10 Series 4
Ormston holds its antiques fair; 8.05 9/10
Donald returns to Ormston with bad news;
9.25 10/10. Donald fights a duel 10.45
Howards’ Way: 13/13 Series 1. A distraught
Polly watches as Abby is taken away by
an ambulance; 11.55 1/13 Series 2. The
Howards’ daughter is missing, but everyone
around Tom and Jan seems not to care (S)
1.05pm Last of the Summer Wine: Series 1
Compo adopts a spiritual outlook on life (S)
1.40 Pie in the Sky: 4/8 Series 5. A police
chief’s son is attacked; 2.40 5/8. Crabbe
babysits a hellraising footballer (S) 3.40
Campion: 7/8 Series 1. A murder interrupts
Albert’s holiday; 4.50 8/8. An art exhibition
featuring the work of a dead artist is
disrupted when two bodies are found (S)

3/4 Series 3. Prey. A seemingly routine
missing persons case leads DC Morse to
the Oxfordshire country estate owned by
the wealthy Mortmaigne family. (S) (AD) (HD)

6.00pm The Brokenwood Mysteries

7.00 Midsomer Murders

8.00 Father Brown

Series 16. Let Us Prey. Barnaby and his
team face the increasingly urgent task of
discovering who could be using ancient
torture methods in Midsomer St Claire
to punish modern-day sinners. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Wild Harvest. When wealthy farmer
Martin Strickland is slathered in truffle oil
and mauled to death by a wild boar,
suspicion falls on local celebrity chef
Ruth Cameron, who rules her restaurant
with a rod of iron. (S) (AD) (HD)

11.00 Maigret

Ep 1 Series 9. Brokenwood: the Musical
A theatre performance re-enacting
Brokenwood’s history goes awry. (AD) (HD)

2/10 Series 2. The Maddest of All. An
ex-serviceman dies suddenly in the street,
and Father Brown is called to investigate the
facility where he was a patient. (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Strike: the Silkworm

1/2. The second dramatisation of the
Cormoran Strike crime thriller novels
by Robert Galbraith. Private detective
Cormoran Strike is hired by Leonora Quine
to find her husband, the once-infamous
author Owen Quine. Robin is caught
between Strike and Matthew’s hopes. (S) (HD)
10.20 2/2. Cormoran and Robin delve
deeper into the hidden meanings and
concealed secrets of author Owen Quine’s
book as they try to unmask his killer. (S) (HD)

Dead Man. Crime drama starring Rowan
Atkinson as the French detective. A series
of vicious, murderous attacks on three
lucrative farms in Picardy make news
headlines and the elite Brigade Criminelle
at the Quai des Orfèvres is called upon
to lend its expertise in tracking down
the brutal gang responsible. (S) (AD) (HD)

3/4 Series 4. The Naming of the Dead
A government minister is killed in the
run-up to a world trade summit. (S)

1.00am Scott and Bailey: 5/6 Series 1
Rachel discovers something about her
ex-lover Nick that could end his career (S) (SL)
(AD) (HD) 2.05—2.30am Unwind (S) (HD)
ITV3 Freeview 10 Freesat 115 Sky 119 Virgin 117
+1 F’view 59 (9pm—4am) F’sat 116 Sky 219 Virgin 317

1.10am Kingdom: 5/6 Series 2. Peter’s old
professor draws him into a claim over research
papers 2.20—4.00am Small Island: 1/2
Drama starring Naomie Harris (S) (AD) (HD)
Drama Freeview 20 Freesat 158 Sky 143 Virgin 116
+1 Freeview 60 Sky 243 Virgin 316

ITV4

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6.00am World of Sport (S) (HD) 6.15 Minder:
‘Er Indoors goes missing (S) (SL) (AD) 7.15
Hornblower (S) (AD) (HD) 9.30 New. Racing:
the Opening Show: Oli Bell and the team are
at Ascot ahead of King George Day (S) (HD)
10.30 The Big Match Revisited (S) (HD)
12.35pm Great Racehorses (S) (HD) 1.00
LIVE Women’s World Cup: Panama v Jamaica,
the second match in Group F for both teams,
held at Perth Rectangular Stadium, Australia
(kick-off 1.30) (S) (HD) 3.50 Nijinsky’s Triple
Crown (S) (HD) 3.55 FILM Guns of the
Magnificent Seven HH Western (S) (W) (HD)
6.00pm Monster Carp Neil and Tom head to
the Lac du Der Chantecoq in France. (S) (HD)
7.00 Made in Britain A Birmingham firm
making ear-splitting whistles. (S) (AD) (HD)
8.00 FILM Rocky V HH Drama written by
and starring Sylvester Stallone. (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
10.10 FILM RoboCop 5 Satirical sci-fi
thriller starring Peter Weller. A young cop is
transformed into a cyborg officer. (S) (W) (HD)

12.25am Don’t Hate the Playaz: Jordan Stephens
presents (S) (HD) 1.10 All American (S) (HD)
2.05 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records
(S) (HD) 2.35—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

12.15am Robson and Jim’s Icelandic Fly-Fishing
Adventure (S) (HD) 1.20 Motorsport UK: Action
from Snetterton (S) (HD) 2.25 Auto Mundial: the
Lotus EV SUV. (S) (HD) 2.50 Unwind (S) (HD)
4.05—6.00am Hornblower (S) (AD) (HD)

ITV2 Freeview 6 Freesat 113 Sky 118 Virgin 115
+1 Freeview 29 Freesat 114 Sky 218 Virgin 315

ITV4 Freeview 26 Freesat 117 Sky 120 Virgin 118
+1 Freesat 118 Sky 220 Virgin 318

11.40 Rebus

ITVBe

28

7.00am The Real Housewives of Atlanta (S)
(HD) 8.00 Masters of Flip: working on a
classic brick home (S) (HD) 9.00 LittleBe (HD)
12 noon Be Beautiful (S) (AD) (HD) 12.10pm
Masters of Flip (S) (HD) 1.05 Little Women: LA
(S) (HD) 2.50 Great Chocolate Showdown (S)
(HD) 4.45 Dinner Date (S) (HD) 5.50 Celebrity
Dinner Date: with Casey Batchelor (S) (HD)
6.50pm FILM Confessions of a
Shopaholic HHH Romantic comedy starring
Isla Fisher and Hugh Dancy. Journalist
Rebecca Bloomwood’s dream is to work on
fashion magazine Alette. However, she
accidentally sends in a job application to a
business magazine, and ends up working for
the dashing Luke Brandon. (S) (W) (HD)
9.00 Botched After almost dying from plastic
surgery, a Brazilian woman has one last
Christmas wish to get her nose fixed. (S) (HD)
10.00 Kavos Weekender Head rep David is
quick to share his new mantra — “the pursuit
of excellence” — with the new staff. (S) (HD)
11.00 Totally Unbelievable Counting down
eye-popping celebrity fashion fails. (S) (HD)
12 midnight—1.00am For Real: the Story of Reality
TV: cast members of The Real World reunite (S) (HD)

ITVBe Freeview 28 Freesat 119 Sky 131 Virgin 119
+1 Virgin 319

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SATURDAY 29 JULY
More4

18

Sky Arts

11

Yesterday

27

5 USA

21

9.00am Murder, She Wrote (AD)
6.00pm Murder, She Wrote: three episodes.
A famous, but ailing, playwright tempts fate
by proposing to Jessica 7.00 Jessica hears
the final confession of a dying hit man
8.00 A wealthy businessman’s 75th birthday
party is interrupted by a sudden death (AD)
9.00 Criminal Minds Series 3. Double bill. A
murder victim’s best friend is abducted, then
a storage unit holds sinister contents 11.00
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Series 18
Double bill. A six-year-old boy goes missing,
then a woman is raped at a billionaire’s party
12.55am NCIS (AD) 1.55 Lucifer: two episodes
3.35—4.00am 999: Criminals Caught on Camera

Bettany Hughes’s Treasures of the
World 7.55pm The secrets of Cyprus

Grunge: a Story of Music and Rage
10.25pm Megan Jasper’s memories

Great American Railroad Journeys
7.00pm Setting off from Nevada

8.55am Food Unwrapped: how panettone
lasts so long (AD) 9.30 A Place in the Sun
12.30pm Bake Off: the Professionals (AD)
1.35 Come Dine with Me: from Devon (AD)
4.15pm Four in a Bed B&Bs in Cheshire,
Northumberland, Cornwall and Bournemouth.
6.55 My Floating Home Mark Evans
follows Suffolk couple Simon and Mary
Sparrow, who are designing and building a
unique floating home for themselves. (AD)
7.55 Bettany Hughes’s Treasures of the
World The historian explores the island of
Cyprus, which, according to tales from
mythology, was the birthplace of Aphrodite.
Bettany learns about the cult of the goddess
and visits her sanctuary at Palaepaphos. (AD)
9.00 24 Hours in A&E A father and son
are rushed in after being attacked at a family
birthday party by gate crashers, one of
whom was armed with a Samurai sword. (AD)
10.00 Construction worker William has been
trapped under a cherry picker, breaking his
leg in three places and crushing his chest.
Plus, widower Wilfred has had a nasty
accident while cutting vegetables. (AD)
11.05 Eight out of Ten Cats Does
Countdown Sean Lock and Isy Suttie take on
Jon Richardson and Richard Osman.
12.10am Sean Lock and Joe Wilkinson
take on Jon Richardson and Sara Pascoe.

6.00am André Rieu: the Flying Dutchman:
a concert by the violinist in Kerkrade, the
Netherlands 8.30 Tales of the Unexpected
(AD) 11.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1.00pm FILM The Adventures of Sherlock
Holmes HHHH Mystery starring Basil
Rathbone and Nigel Bruce (BW) (W) 2.40 Bill
Bailey’s Master Crafters: the Next Generation
(AD) 3.40 ELO Live at Wembley 1978 5.00
Paul Simon: Graceland — the African Concert
7.00pm The Rolling Stones: Charlie Is
My Darling An extended cut that was never
officially released of Peter Whitehead’s
film documenting the band’s gigs in Belfast
and Dublin in September 1965. (AD)
8.25 The Stones in the Park The Rolling
Stones’ 1969 Hyde Park concert.
9.25 Classic Albums The story behind
Nirvana’s Nevermind, released in 1991,
which catapulted them to fame.
10.25 Grunge: a Story of Music and Rage
The development of the genre and the
subculture it spawned. (AD)
11.40 PJ Harvey at Nuits de Fourviere
The singer/songwriter’s 2016 performance at
the festival, where she played songs including
Let England Shake, 50ft Queenie, Down by
the Water and To Bring You My Love.

6.10am Nazi Hunters 8.00 Bangers and
Cash: Restoring Classics (AD)
1.00pm Abandoned Engineering (AD)
4.00 Great American Railroad Journeys
6.00pm Great American Railroad Journeys
Michael Portillo rides the main line of
mid-America, and at rural Mattoon he
gets a taste of the tough early life which
shaped President Abraham Lincoln.
7.00 Michael discovers how the railroad
conquered the Wild West and transformed
California into America’s wealthiest area.
8.00 Michael’s journey through California
takes him to San Francisco, where he travels
through the city’s streets by cable car.
9.00 Michael Portillo visits Yosemite National
Park in California, beholding its granite cliffs,
sequoia trees and waterfalls, before hearing
about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
10.00 Porridge Fletch is entrusted with a
treasure map while sharing a ward with
Blanco in the prison hospital.
10.40 Godber takes up boxing.
11.20 A midday cuppa causes a stir.

8.00am Entertainment News 8.05
Criminals: Caught on Camera (AD) 8.35 Call
the Bailiffs: Time to Pay Up 12.35pm FILM
Superman IV: the Quest for Peace HH 2.30
FILM Dante’s Peak HHH 4.35 FILM Rise
of the Planet of the Apes HHHH Sci-fi
action adventure starring James Franco
6.40pm FILM Godzilla HHH Monster
movie starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson. The
mysterious giant creature known as Godzilla
emerges to take on two giant monsters who
are tearing their way from Japan to America.
9.00 FILM Kong: Skull Island HHHH
Fantasy adventure starring Tom Hiddleston.
A group of scientists and mercenaries are sent
to a newly discovered Pacific island, where
they face a battle for survival against the
island’s monstrous inhabitants. Review p47.
11.15 FILM Deep Blue Sea HHH Sci-fi
action thriller starring Saffron Burrows and
Thomas Jane and featuring Samuel L Jackson.

12 midnight Bangers and Cash: Restoring
Classics (AD) 1.00am Nazi Hunters
2.00—3.00am Forbidden History (AD)

1.25am Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts
2.25 Skin A&E 3.20 Criminals: Caught on
Camera 3.50—4.00am Entertainment News

Yesterday Freeview 27 Freesat 159 Sky 155 Virgin 129
+1 Sky 255 Virgin 329

5 Star Freeview 32 Freesat 131 Sky 128 Virgin 126
+1 Freesat 141 Sky 228 Virgin 326

Sky Arts Freeview 11 Freesat 147 Sky 130
Virgin 140/HD 123 BT 350/HD 365

E4

13

6.00am Modern Family 6.25 Don’t Tell the
Bride 8.20 Lego Masters New Zealand (SL)
(AD) 9.25 FILM Charlotte’s Web HHH
11.10 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA
2.05pm Modern Family: five episodes
4.45 Young Sheldon: double bill (AD)
5.45pm The Big Bang Theory 5/24
Series 4. Leonard realises that he’s the only
one of the gang without a girlfriend.
6.10 6/24. Raj’s alluring sister Priya visits.
6.45 7/24. Howard gets a call from the FBI. (AD)
7.15 FILM My Super Ex-Girlfriend HHH
Comedy fantasy starring Luke Wilson and Uma
Thurman. When architect Matt Saunders fell
in love with gallery curator Jenny Johnson
he was unaware of her alter ego G-Girl. Now,
as Jenny becomes increasingly possessive,
Matt discovers that it’s almost impossible to
dump a woman with special powers. (AD)
9.00 Celebrity Gogglebox Shows including
The Greatest Auction, Our Planet, Countdown
and Siren: Survive the Island are appraised. (AD)
10.00 Gogglebox Views on Coronation Street,
Love Island, Dancing on Ice and Catfish UK. (AD)
11.05 Critiques of Peaky Blinders, Japan
with Sue Perkins, The Great British Bake Off
and Jamie’s Meat-Free Meals. (AD)
12.05am First Dates: double bill (SL) (AD)
2.15 Celebrity Gogglebox (SL) (AD) 4.00—6.00am
Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA: double bill

E4 Freeview 13 Freesat 122 Sky 135 Virgin 106
+1 Freeview 30 Freesat 123 Sky 235 Virgin 306
E4 Extra Freeview 31 Freesat 181 Sky 138 Virgin 287

Really

17

6.00am Fantasy Homes by the Sea (AD) 7.00
Home Shopping 8.00 Antiques Road Trip 10.00
Dr Pimple Popper 1.00pm A Place in the Sun 3.00
The Yorkshire Auction House 4.00 Helicopter ER:
four editions 8.00 Cornwall Air 999 9.00 New.
The Dead Files 10.00 New. Death Walker with
Nick Groff: Nick examines spirits haunting the
Van Horn Mansion 11.00 Ghost Adventures
12 midnight The Haunted Museum 1.00am
Ghost Adventures 2.00 Home Shopping
4.00—6.00am Antiques Road Trip

4seven

49

12.05am Celebrity Gogglebox 2022 (AD) 1.10 The
Girl from Plainville (AD) 3.10 999: on the Front
Line 4.05—4.45am The Dog House (AD)

4seven Freeview 49 Freesat 127 Sky 137 Virgin 143
12

6.00am World’s Biggest Shipbuilders 7.00 British
Superbikes 8.00 Supercar Showroom 9.00
Wheeler Dealers (AD) 2.00pm FILM Rider on a
Dead Horse HH Western starring John Vivyan
(W) 3.45 Wheeler Dealers 4.00 Vintage Voltage
(AD) 6.00 Supercar Showroom 7.00 Salvage
Hunters: Classic Cars 8.00 Salvage Hunters: Drew
and Tee visit a brewery in St Austell 9.00 Who Do
You Think You Are?: Charles Dance researches his
family background 10.00 The Hotel Inspector
11.00 FILM Due Date HHH Comedy starring
Robert Downey Jr and Zach Galifianakis (W)
1.00am Street Cops UK 2.00 Inside the Heist 3.00
Hoffman Family Gold 4.00—5.00am How It’s Made

Quest Freeview 12 Freesat 172/HD 167 Sky 144 Virgin 137
Really Freeview 17 Freesat 160 Sky 142 Virgin 128
+1 Freeview 70 Freesat 168 Sky 244 Virgin 337
BBC News Freeview 231 Freesat 212 Sky 503 Virgin 601 Sky News Freeview 233 Freesat 202 Sky 501 Virgin 603 BT 313

RadioTimes 29 July–4 August 2023

7.10am Yianni: Supercar Customiser: double
bill (AD) 8.00 Rick Stein’s Long Weekends
(AD) 9.00 Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown

9.00am Come Dine with Me: dinner parties
in Manchester (AD) 11.30 Four in a Bed
2.00pm Sun, Sea and Selling Houses
4.00 A Place in the Sun: Home or Away
6.00pm A Place in the Sun A couple seek
their very own bolthole in Gandia, Valencia.
7.00 Newlyweds Debbie and John look for a
home in Benalmádena on the Costa del Sol.
8.00 George Clarke’s Old House, New
Home 3/4 Series 9. Architect George Clarke
heads to Kent to help Pete and Amelie tackle
an enormous Victorian house with 16 rooms,
two of which they would like to turn into a
playroom and a library. Shown last Wed C4 (AD)
9.00 Grand Designs Chef Ed Versluys and
pilates instructor Vicky Anderson hope to
convert a 1940s cow shed in Somerset into
a comfortable three-bedroom home. (AD)
10.00 Micky Flanagan: Back in the Game
The cockney comic performs a stand-up set
to a home crowd at London’s Hackney
Empire as part of his sell-out 2013 tour.
11.05 24 Hours in A&E Ron, 80, has fallen
out of bed and hurt his head, and staff are
concerned he may have a brain injury. (AD)

Quest

19

11.00 Storage Hunters UK: double bill
1.00pm Red Dwarf: double bill (AD) 2.20
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing:
double bill (AD) 3.40 Would I Lie to You?
4.20 Would I Lie to You? The Unseen Bits
5.00pm Soapbox Race An event in Barcelona.
6.00 Coverage from Atlanta, Georgia.
7.00 An extraordinary soapbox course at
the Yomiuriland Amusement Park in Tokyo.
8.00 Not Going Out 4/8 Series 9. Lee
and Lucy decide to get a family pet.
8.40 5/8. Lee and Lucy cancel dinner with
Toby and Anna at the last moment.
9.20 6/8. The school lollipop man gets on
the wrong side of Lee and Lucy.
10.00 Mock the Week With Maisie Adam,
Eshaan Akbar, Ed Byrne and Ed Gamble.
10.40 Maisie Adam, Ed Byrne, Ed Gamble,
Sukh Ojla and Mark Simmons guest.
11.20 QI XL With Colin Lane, Sarah Millican,
Noel Fielding and Alan Davies.
12 midnight Have I Got a Bit More News for You
1.00am Comedians Giving Lectures
1.40—4.00am Schitt’s Creek: five episodes

Dave F’view 19 F’sat 157 Sky 111 (Wales 112) Virgin HD 127
Dave Ja Vu Freeview 57 Sky 211 (Wales 212) Virgin 327

London Live

8

6.00am London’s Weekend 7.00 Skysurfer
Strike Force 8.00 Pocket Dragon
Adventures 9.00 Hitler’s Bodyguard 10.00
Castle Builders 11.00 FILM The Rocking
Horse Winner HHHH Drama starring Valerie
Hobson (BW) 12.50pm FILM The Water
Babies H 2.40 FILM The Trap HHHH
Romantic adventure starring Rita
Tushingham 4.50 FILM The Cup HH
Horse-racing drama 7.00 The Great Way
8.00 The Lion Queen 9.00 FILM
Everything Must Go HHHH Comedy drama
starring Will Ferrell 11.00 FILM Tales That
Witness Madness HH Portmanteau horror
12.45am FILM Jeffrey HHHH 2.45 Black

Hairapy 3.15 Secrets of London with Mark Monroe
3.30 News Rewind 5.00—6.00am Talking Points

London Live Freeview 8 Sky 117 Virgin HD 159
Available in London area only. Other regional stations
available on Freeview 7 or 8 around the country

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9.00am Entertainment News 9.15 Trucking
Hell: double bill 11.15 Police Interceptors
2.20pm FILM The Man from Laramie HHHH
Western with James Stewart. Review p107
4.25 FILM Escape to Victory HHH Second
World War drama starring Sylvester Stallone
6.50pm FILM Daylight HHH Disaster
movie starring Sylvester Stallone. A freak
explosion seals a New York river tunnel,
leaving a disparate group of motorists and
passengers trapped under ground — and
only discredited Emergency Services
troubleshooter Kit Latura can save them.
9.00 FILM Lethal Weapon 2 HHH Action
thriller sequel starring Mel Gibson, Danny
Glover and Joe Pesci. Detectives Riggs and
Murtaugh are back in action when the man
they are ordered to protect reveals his
involvement in a money-laundering racket.
11.15 FILM Ambushed HH Action drama
starring Dolph Lundgren and Vinnie Jones.
A top FBI agent faces killers and corrupt cops
when he tries to bring down LA’s cocaine trade.

Television

More4 F’view 18 F’sat 124 Sky 136 Virgin 147
+1 Freesat 125 Sky 236 Virgin 347

Dave

5 Star

SATURDAY

1.15 24 Hours in A&E (AD) 3.20—3.50am Food
Unwrapped: Andi Oliver visits an onion factory to
see how they are peeled on a gigantic scale (AD)

1.20am Live from the Artists Den: Tori Amos
performs 2.20 Chrissie Hynde Sings Bob Dylan:
Tomorrow Is a Long Time 4.00 Isle of Wight
Festival Greatest Hits 5.00 Discovering: Iron
Maiden (AD) 5.30—6.00am Discovering: Muse

5 USA F’view 21 F’sat 129 Sky 141 Virgin 120 (162 Scot)
+1 Freesat 130 Sky 241 Virgin 320

1.20am Sinkholes 4.10—5.00am Fights, Camera,
Action!: a seasonal edition of the programme

5 Action Freeview 33 Freesat 132 Sky 150 Virgin 130

5 Select

46

9.00am GPs: behind Closed Doors (AD)
11.00 Walking Britain’s Lost Railways
2.00pm Churchill: four editions
6.00pm Churchill It is 1945, and Winston
Churchill calls a general election.
7.00 The final years of Winston Churchill.
8.00 Secret Spitfires A look into the
secret history of the Spitfire aircraft.
9.00 FILM A Fistful of Dollars 5
Classic spaghetti western starring Clint
Eastwood. A mysterious gunfighter arrives in
a lawless town on the Mexican border, where
two rival families are eager to recruit him.
11.00 Adolf and Eva: Love and War
Drama-documentary about Eva Braun.
1.05am The Hindenburg Disaster: Ten Fatal
Mistakes 2.05 The Assassination of JFK: Ten Fatal
Mistakes 3.05 Flight 737 Crash: Ten Fatal Mistakes
3.55—4.00am Entertainment News

5 Select F’view (HD only) 46 F’sat 133 Sky 153 Virgin 138

FREEVIEW TV and film
channels continue overleaf

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SATURDAY Freeview & films
W

25

Food Network

43

PBS America

84

CHILDREN’S
Milkshake! on C5

My Family 8.00pm Susan and

Television SATURDAY

Ben celebrate Christmas
6.10am The Bill (S) 11.00 Tipping
Point: seven editions (S) (HD)
6.00pm My Family The Harpers
get stuck on the Underground.
6.40 The Harpers are trapped in
a department store overnight at
Christmas. Julian Clary guests.
8.00 The family celebrates
Christmas 2039, with 80-year-old
Ben as grumpy as ever. (S) (AD)
9.20 The Catherine Tate Show
Comedy sketches, featuring Paul
and Sam, the foul-mouthed Nan
and Bernie the incompetent nurse.
10.00 Nan visits a pound shop
and Lauren discovers she hasn’t
been invited to a party.
10.40 A death-row wife finds
love with a convicted murderer.
Peter Kay guest-stars. (S) (AD)
11.20 Women behind Bars with
Trevor McDonald An inmate who
spent 35 years on the run. (S) (HD)
12.25am One Born: What
Happened Next? (S) (HD) 1.35 Lives
on Fire (S) (HD) 2.20—3.00am
Inside the Ambulance (S) (HD)
W F’view 25 F’sat 156 Sky 132 Virgin HD 125
+1 Sky 232 Virgin 325

Pick

36

6.00am Nothing to Declare
11.00 Stop, Search, Seize (AD)
12 noon Highway Cops (AD)
1.00pm Motorway Patrol (AD) 2.00
New. Big Cat Country 3.00 New.
Kenya Wildlife Diaries 4.00 New.
Nomads of the Serengeti 5.00
New. Africa’s Wild Roommates:
How Animals Share Bed and Board:
how weaver birds, aardvarks and
termites share their homes with
other creatures 6.00 Road Wars
8.00 The Force: Manchester 9.00
Caught on Dashcam 10.00 SEAL
Team: radicals kidnap a foreign
service officer in Mumbai (AD) 11.00
Mark of a Serial Killer: the bizarre
rituals of cold-blooded serial killers
12 midnight Britain’s Most Evil Killers
1.00am The Force: Manchester 2.00
Border Security: America’s Front Line
(AD) 4.00—6.00am Highway Patrol

Pick F’view 36 F’sat 144 Sky 151 Virgin 135

HGTV

44

7.00am Escape to the Country 11.00
My Lottery Dream Home 12 noon
Barbie Dreamhouse Challenge
1.00pm My Lottery Dream Home
3.00 A Place in the Sun 8.00 Escape
to the Country: two horse enthusiasts
search for a new property in Suffolk
9.00 Your Home Made Perfect:
two architects compete to win a
commission to remodel a house on
Teesside 10.00 Escape to the
Country: triple bill. Searching for a
rural property in north Devon 11.00
A couple relocating from Shanghai to
Warwickshire 12 midnight Looking
for a traditional property in Somerset
1.00am Rock the Block 2.00
Escape to the Country: from Suffolk
3.00—4.00am A Place in the Sun

HGTV F’view 44 F’sat 166 Sky 158 Virgin 191
+1 Sky 258 Virgin 391

FREEVIEW channels
continued from overleaf

46

Hairy Bikers: Route 66
8.00pm From Oklahoma

Horatio’s Drive: America’s
First Road Trip 8.30pm

6.00am Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
(S) (HD) 8.00 The Pioneer Woman
(S) (HD) 1.00pm James Martin’s
Mediterranean (S) (HD) 3.00 River
Cottage to the Core (S) (HD) 7.00
Ottolenghi’s Mediterranean Feast:
chef Yotam Ottolenghi embarks on
a culinary journey (S) (HD) 8.00
Hairy Bikers: Route 66: Dave Myers
and Si King find out about
Oklahoma beef (S) (HD) 9.00 Man v
Food with Casey Webb: six editions.
Casey Webb’s culinary adventures
take him to North Carolina 9.30
Casey tries a cheesy chicken dish,
a signature sandwich and a huge
taco 10.00 In New Jersey, Casey
munches on homemade
mozzarella, a huge bagel and a
ridiculously spicy snack 10.30
Casey Webb takes on a waffle stack
challenge in California 11.00 Casey
attempts to eat a two-pound BBQ
challenge packed with all sorts of
meat, sauce and sides 11.30 Casey
Webb’s tasty travels take him to
San Antonio, Texas, where visits the
city’s oldest restaurant (S) (HD)

8.15am Lewis and Clark: the
Journey of the Corps of Discovery
1.15pm New. Horatio’s Drive:
America’s First Road Trip 3.35
Lewis and Clark: the Journey of the
Corps of Discovery: three editions
7.00pm Lewis and Clark: the
Journey of the Corps of
Discovery 4/4. Exploring
Meriwether Lewis and William
Clark’s early 19th-century expedition
around the then-unknown
western portion of America.
8.30 Horatio’s Drive: America’s
First Road Trip 1&2/2. Dr
Horatio Nelson Jackson’s 1903 bid
to cross the United States by
automobile. Setting out from
San Francisco, he faced a number
of logistical difficulties.
10.45 The Statue of Liberty
Documentary by Ken Burns
exploring the history of the
statue’s construction, along with
the evolution and meaning of the
ideal it was meant to represent.
12.20am Ice Age Footprints (S)
1.30—2.00am Beautiful Serengeti (S)
PBS America F’view 84 (1pm-12 midnight only)
Freesat 155 Sky 174 Virgin 187

12 midnight Mystery Diners (S) (HD)
2.00—3.00am Donal’s Irish Feast (S) (HD)

Food Network Freeview 43 Freesat 148
Sky 140 Virgin 190

Great TV

50

6.00am Highway to Heaven 8.00
Diagnosis Murder 11.00 Movie News
11.10 FILM Danielle Steel’s Full
Circle HH Melodrama 1.00pm Movie
News 1.10 FILM Danielle Steel’s
Secrets HH Romantic drama 3.00
Movie News 3.10 Danielle Steel’s
Family Album 6.50 Movie News 7.00
Diagnosis Murder 8.00 Diagnosis
Murder 9.00 An Aurora Teagarden
Mystery: The Disappearing Game
10.45 An Aurora Teagarden
Mystery: Reap What You Sew
12.30am Castle 3.00 Return of the
Saint 3.50—4.00am Movie News

Great TV Freeview 50 (limited) Freesat 142
Sky 157 Virgin 170 +1 Freesat 143 Sky 257

RealityXtra

68

9.00am Medical Detectives: six
back-to-back editions 12 noon
Forensics: double bill. Simon
Morton examines the death of an
Auckland taxi driver, then a
15-year-old girl goes missing
2.00pm Medical Detectives: six
back-to-back editions 5.00 Judge
Judy: real-life small-claims cases on
issues affecting family life
12.30am World’s Most Unexplained...
1.00 Psychic Private Eyes 4.00
Forensics 5.40—6.00am Judge Judy

RealityXtra Freeview 68 Freesat 134
Sky 147 Virgin 172

BBC Parliament 232
BBC News simulcast, with news hourly plus:
6.00am Breakfast 9.30 Briefing 10.30
Life at 50 Degrees 11.30 Business 12.30pm
Spotlight 1.30 Take Me to the Opera
2.30 Travel 3.30 Phone Hacking on Trial
4.30 This Cultural Life 5.30 Briefing
6.30 Sport 7.30 Sport 8.30 Click 9.30
Phone Hacking on Trial 10.30 Life at 50
Degrees 11.30 Our World 12.30am
Business 1.30 Take Me to the Opera
2.30 Our World 3.30 Life at 50 Degrees
4.30 Spotlight 5.30—6.00am Click

BBC Parliament Freeview 232 Freesat 201
Sky 504 Virgin 605

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6.00am Pawn Stars 8.00 Lost
Secrets of the Pyramid 9.00
Legends of the Pharaohs 10.00
The Proof Is Out There 12 noon
History’s Greatest Mysteries
2.00pm Ancient Aliens 8.00
Book of Secrets with Lance
Reddick: in 2020, Covid-19 brought
the globe to a standstill, elevating
pandemics to the most important
issue around the world. But is
something worse still to come?
9.00 New. Court Cam 10.00 New
What the Killer Did Next: the
manhunt spanned three countries
when Geoff Seggie was murdered
in his Derbyshire home 11.00 New
Crimes That Shook Britain: a profile
of serial killer Colin Ireland
12 midnight Evil Encounters 1.00am
Encounter: UFO 2.00 Mega Disasters
3.00—6.00am Hardcore Pawn

Blaze F’view 64 F’sat 162 Sky 164 Virgin 174

Challenge

48

7.00am The Chase 9.00 Wheel of
Fortune (AD) 11.00 Family Fortunes
1.00pm All Star Family Fortunes
2.30 Strike It Lucky: Michael
Barrymore hosts the madcap game
show 4.00 Tenable: five Hartlepool
United fans answer questions
about top ten lists, then try to score
a perfect ten in the final round.
Warwick Davis hosts 5.00 The
Chase: four editions of the quiz
show hosted by Bradley Walsh (AD)
9.00 The Celebrity Chase:
presenter Fern Britton, former
cricketer Matthew Hoggard,
entrepreneur Michelle Mone and
actor Neil Morrissey get their heads
together to raise money for charity.
Presented by Bradley Walsh 10.00
The Chase 11.00 Bullseye: quiz that
tests contestants’ skill at darts and
their general knowledge
4.00—6.00am The Chase

Challenge Freeview 48 Freesat 146
Sky 145 Virgin 139

5.35am Thomas & Friends 5.45 Paw
Patrol 6.00 Peppa Pig 6.10 Pip and
Posy 6.20 Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom
6.30 Shane the Chef 6.40 Noddy:
Toyland Detective 6.55 Fireman Sam
7.05 Thomas & Friends 7.15 Paw
Patrol 7.25 Pip and Posy 7.35 Peppa
Pig 7.50 New. Chip and Potato 8.05
The Adventures of Paddington 8.20
New. Santiago of the Seas 8.35
Pirata & Capitano 8.50 New series.
Kangaroo Beach 9.00 Meet the
Experts 9.10 Reu & Harper’s Wonder
World 9.25 New. Pop Paper City 9.35
Daisy & Ollie 9.45 Milkshake! Bop Box
Boogie 9.50—10.00am Sunny Bunnies

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CBeebies

202

6.00am Baby Jake 6.10 Twirlywoos
6.20 Bing 6.30 Love Monster 6.35
Chuggington 6.50 Go Jetters 7.00
Postman Pat: SDS 7.15 Bing 7.30 Hey
Duggee 7.50 Go Jetters 8.00 Peter
Rabbit 8.15 Octonauts 8.25
Chuggington 8.35 Bitz & Bob 8.45
The Furchester Hotel 9.00 Something
Special: We’re All Friends 9.20 Bluey
9.35 Hey Duggee 9.55 Supertato
10.00 Spidey and His Amazing Friends
10.25 Pfffirates 10.35 New. Get Set
Galactic 11.00 Pinocchio and Friends
11.10 Love Monster 11.20 Vegesaurs
11.25 Kiri & Lou 11.30 Colourblocks
11.35 Fred & Pete’s Treasure Tales
11.50 JoJo & Gran Gran
12 noon My World Kitchen 12.15pm
Old Jack’s Boat 12.25 Gecko’s Garage
12.30 Hey Duggee 12.45 Messy Goes
to OKIDO 1.00 Bitz & Bob 1.10 Love
Monster 1.25 Go Jetters 1.50 Dog
Loves Books 1.55 Roots and Fruits
2.00 Something Special: We’re All
Friends 2.20 Ranger Hamza’s Eco
Quest 2.35 Molly and Mack 2.50
Alphablocks 2.55 Pfffirates 3.05
What’s in Your Bag 3.15 Olga Da Polga
3.25 Gigglebiz 3.40 Andy and the
Band 3.55 Twirlywoos 4.05 Magic
Hands 4.15 Treasure Champs 4.30
Supertato 4.40 Bluey 4.50 Andy’s
Prehistoric Adventures 5.05 Maddie’s
Do You Know? 5.20 Waffle the Wonder
Dog 5.30 JoJo & Gran Gran 5.45
Sarah & Duck 5.50 Charlie and Lola
6.05pm Tee and Mo 6.10 Clangers
6.20 In the Night Garden...
6.50—7.00pm CBeebies Bedtime Stories

CBeebies F’view 202 F’sat 608 Sky 608 Virgin 702

CBBC

201

7.00am Shaun the Sheep 7.05
Sketchy Comedy 7.10 Danger Mouse
7.20 Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed!
7.35 Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese
7.45 New. Newsround 7.55 Ninja
Express 8.05 Odd Squad 8.20
Oswaldo 8.30 OOglies Funsize 8.40
Pokémon: Sun and Moon — Ultra
Adventures 9.00 New. Saturday
Mash-Up! 11.30 Blue Peter
12 noon The Next Step 12.20pm Grizzy
and the Lemmings 12.30 Dragons:
Defenders of Berk 12.50 Dragons:
Riders of Berk 1.10 Secret Life of Boys
1.35 So Awkward 2.30 Malory Towers
2.55 A Kind of Spark 3.20 Jamie
Johnson 3.50 Gym Stars 4.10 Pokémon:
Sun and Moon — Ultra Legends 4.55
The Deep 5.15 Dragons: Riders of Berk
5.40 Monster Loving Maniacs
5.50 Grizzy and the Lemmings
6.10pm We Bare Bears: two episodes
6.35—7.00pm Summer Camp Island

CBBC F’view 201 F’sat 607 Sky 607 Virgin 701

CITV

203

6.00am Dare Master 6.05 Lloyd of
the Flies 6.35 Looney Tunes Cartoons
7.05 Mystery Lane 7.30 Teen Titans
Go! 7.55 Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! 8.25
Ninjago: Master of the Mountain 8.55
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous 9.25
Buck and Buddy 9.30 Scooby-Doo!
Mystery Incorporated: Strange Kung Fu
wizards begin attacking the town 10.00
Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! 10.30 Teen Titans
Go! 10.45 Looney Tunes Cartoons 11.00
Teen Titans Go! 11.30 50/50 Heroes
12 noon Lego Scooby-Doo! Blowout
Beach Bash 1.30pm What’s New
Scooby-Doo?: the gang visits Africa.
2.00 Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
2.30 Mr Bean: the Animated Series
8.55—9.00pm Dare Master

CITV F’view 203 F’sat 602 Sky 612 Virgin 734

FILMS
Film4

14

11.00am The Pink Panther
HHHH A bumbling French
detective is assigned to protect a
famous diamond in this hilarious
comedy. David Niven, Peter Sellers (1963, PG) (S) (AD)
1.20pm Little Monsters H
Creative but patchy family fantasy.
Fred Savage, Howie Mandel (1989, PG) (S) (AD)

3.10 Monsters vs Aliens HHHH
Five freaks of nature stave off an
alien invasion in this charming
animated caper. Review p107.
Reese Witherspoon, Seth Rogen (2009, PG) (S) (AD)

5.00 Angus, Thongs and Perfect
Snogging HHHH This endearing
comedy about a 14-year-old girl
who is too clever for her own good
includes a fine performance from
Georgia Groome. (2008, 12) (S) (AD)

6.55pm Congo H Misfiring
adventure based on the Michael
Crichton novel. Dylan Walsh (1995, 12) (S) (AD)
9.00 Mean Girls HHHH Smart,
dark teen comedy in which new
girl Lindsay Lohan struggles to
find her way among the vicious
social hierarchies of high school.
Rachel McAdams, Tina Fey (2004, 12) (S) (AD)

10.55 Event Horizon HHH
Gripping sci-fi horror in which a
malevolent force takes over a
spaceship. Laurence Fishburne (1997, 18) (S)
12.45—3.35am i After Blue
HHH Trippy, erotic French sci-fi

fantasy set on a planet where only
women can survive, which follows
a teenager who embarks on a
dangerous quest. Paula Luna (2021, 18)
Film4 Freeview 14 Freesat 300
Sky 313 Virgin 428
+1 F’view 47 F’sat 301 Sky 314 Virgin 430

Talking
Pictures TV

82

6.00am No Lady HH
Overstretched slapstick comedy.
Lupino Lane (1931, U) (S) 7.25 Stranger
from Venus H Low-budget sci-fi
drama. Patricia Neal, Helmut Dantine (1954, U) (S)
9.00 Saturday Morning Pictures
Vintage serials, plus A Hitch in Time
(1978). (S) 12 noon Riders to the Stars
H Dry sci-fi account of astronauts on
a meteor hunt. (1954, U) (S) 1.40pm The
Outer Limits TV sci-fi. (S) 2.40
Fireball XL-5 TV sci-fi. 3.15 King of
the Khyber Rifles HH Lavish but
tepid Boys’ Own adventure. Tyrone
Power, Terry Moore, Michael Rennie (1953, U) (S)

5.15 The Adventures of Robinson
Crusoe HHHH Loneliness, rather
than survival, is the focus of surrealist
auteur Luis Buñuel’s exceptional yet
relatively restrained adaptation of
Daniel Defoe’s novel. Dan O’Herlihy (1952, U)
7.00pm In Suspicious
Circumstances TV drama. (S)
8.00 Maigret TV detective series. (S)
9.00 The Four Just Men
TV drama starring Richard Conte. (S)
9.30 Carry On Spying HHH
Barbara Windsor joins Bernard
Cribbins, Charles Hawtrey and
Kenneth Williams as a quartet of
agents in this merciless ribbing of
the spy genre. Review p97. (1964, U) (S)
11.15 Town on Trial HH Modest
whodunnit starring John Mills as a
detective hunting a murderer in a
London suburb. Charles Coburn (1956, 12) (S)
1.10am Anywhere but Here HHH
Old-fashioned tear-jerker from
director Wayne Wang. Susan Sarandon,
Natalie Portman (1999, 12) (S) 3.25 Secret
Rites HH Salacious pseudodocumentary about the practices
of a Notting Hill coven. (1971, 18) (S)
4.25—6.00am Powder River HH
Taut little western with Rory Calhoun
as a former lawman who seeks to
avenge his prospector partner. (1953, U) (S)
Talking Pictures TV Freeview 82
Freesat 306 Sky 328 Virgin 445

SATURDAY 29 JULY
Great Movies

34

9.10am Bullet to Beijing HH
Serviceable spy thriller. Michael Caine
(1995, 15) 11.25 Holy Man HH
Wearisome comedy drama. Eddie
Murphy, Jeff Goldblum (1998, PG) 1.40pm
Bewitched HH Tepid romantic
comedy fantasy. Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell
(2005, PG) 3.45 Annie HH Haphazard
update of the beloved Broadway
musical. Jamie Foxx, Quvenzhané Wallis (2014, PG)
6.10pm Seven Years in Tibet
HHH Adventure drama about an
Austrian mountaineer who befriends
the Dalai Lama. Brad Pitt (1997, PG)
9.00 Manhattan Night HH Noirlike mystery starring Adrien Brody
as a columnist who investigates the
death of a woman’s husband. (2016, 15)
11.15 Erin Brockovich 5
Julia Roberts plays the spirited
campaigner in this compelling
biographical drama. Albert Finney (2000, 15)
1.55am The Lease HH Far-fetched
but twist-packed psychological
thriller. Haylie Duff (2017) 3.45—5.50am
Running Wild HH An unnecessary
Tinseltown plot is added to this
wildlife drama. Brooke Shields (1992)
Great Movies Freeview 34 Freesat 302
Sky 321 Virgin 425
+1 Freeview 61 (limited 10pm-5am) Sky 322

Great Romance 52
6.00am A Wish Come True HH
Witty romcom. Megan Park (2015) 8.00
Forever in My Heart HH Perfectly
fine romance. (2019) 10.00 Summer
in the Vineyard HH Fun romance.
(2017) 12 noon The Wedding Ring HH
Wholesome romance. (2020) 2.00pm
The Perfect Bride: Wedding Bells
HH Glossy romance. Pascale Hutton (2018)
4.00 One Winter Proposal HH
Sweet romantic comedy. Taylor Cole (2019)
6.00pm Wedding of Dreams HH
A former teen pop star is torn
between a comeback tour and her
relationship. Debbie Gibson, Robert Gant (2018)
8.00 How to Find Forever HH
Formulaic romcom in which a
wedding planner finds Mr Right.
Erin Agostino, Aaron Ashmore (2021)

10.00 The Convenient Groom HH
A stood-up bride is offered help from
an old friend who has a crush on her
in this mildly creepy romance. (2016)
12.05am Love is a Piece of Cake
HH Sugary romance. (2020) 1.35 Hint
of Love HH Culinary romance. (2020)
3.05—4.00am Highway to Heaven
Great Romance Freeview 52 Freesat 303
Sky 319 Virgin 424
+1 F’view 63 (limited 10pm-5am) F’sat 304 Sky 320

Legend

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7.00am World’s Most Unexplained...
8.00 End of the World H
Apocalyptic disaster movie. J Jhey
Castles (2018, 15) 10.00 Walker, Texas
Ranger: five episodes 3.00pm Five
Golden Dragons HH Hokey crime
thriller. Robert Cummings (1967, PG) 5.05
Quatermass and the Pit HHH
Inventive British sci-fi in which a
spaceship is uncovered in the
London Underground. Andrew Keir (1967, 12)
7.00pm The Terrornauts HH
Cheap Cold War-era sci-fi about
researchers who come across a
savage alien race. Simon Oates (1967, PG)
8.30 The Twilight Zone TV sci-fi.
9.00 i The Most Dangerous
Game HH Shipwrecked survivors
become sport for a hunter in this
thriller remake. Chris “CT” Tamburello (2022, 15)
10.55 Fighting Back HHH Tom
Skerritt stars as the everyman who
becomes a media sensation for his
violent crackdown on crime. (1982, 18)
12.50am Prince of Darkness HH
Mechanical satanic horror. Donald
Pleasence (1987, 15) 2.50—4.30am Hostile
HHH Well-acted psychological
horror. Brittany Ashworth, Grégory Fitoussi (2017, 15)
Legend F’view 41 F’sat 137 Sky 148 Virgin 149

HorrorXtra

69

8.00am Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s
Sherlock Holmes HH Mockbuster
mystery take on Guy Ritchie’s
Sherlock Holmes. Ben Syder (2010, 12)
10.00 Meteor Moon H Plodding
sci-fi mockbuster in which a large
chunk of the Moon hurtles towards
Earth. Dominique Swain, Michael Broderick (2020)
12 noon Bigfoot H Two rival
musicians set out to catch the
elusive sasquatch in this no-frills
sci-fi adventure. Danny Bonaduce (2012)
2.00pm Eye of the Beast HH
The people of a small town battle
a giant squid in this over-the-top
horror thriller. James Van Der Beek (2007)
4.00pm Farscape Five episodes
of the TV sci-fi adventure.
9.00 Paranormal Activity HHHH
Tense no-budget horror in which a
young couple suspect that their new
home is haunted by a malevolent
entity. Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat (2007, 15)
10.50 The Golem HHH A Jewish
mother summons a violent
protector to defend her community
from persecution. Hani Furstenberg (2018, 15)
1.00—3.00am As 9pm
HorrorXtra F’view 69 F’sat 138 Sky 317
Virgin 171 +1 F’sat 139 Sky 318 Virgin 371

the visitors’ plans, and they
soon find themselves in peril.
TES (US 2017, violence, swearing, HD)

i Greed HHH
10.30pm-12.35am C4

j

COMEDY This is a thinly
disguised satirical takedown
of retail tycoon Philip Green
and his ilk from writer/director
Michael Winterbottom. His
film captures the folly and
hubris of the super-rich as
it charts the lavish 60th
birthday celebrations of Sir
Richard McCreadie (Steve
Coogan). Though a little
undisciplined, it remains
pertinent viewing. EMMA

FILM The Full Monty 5
OF THE 10.25-11.50pm BBC1
DAY

SIMMONDS (UK 2019, swearing, HD)

j

COMEDY DRAMA When the going gets tough,
the tough get go-going, in director Peter Cattaneo’s film.
Robert Carlyle plays a divorced father who forms a strip
act along with a group of other unemployed Sheffield
steelworkers while trying to maintain joint custody of his
son. Brilliantly performed by the ensemble cast, this is
about men’s emotional shortcomings as much as their dirty
dancing, and is jam-packed with wonderful moments — the
men absent-mindedly gyrating to the radio in a dole queue
is simply inspired. ALAN JONES (UK/US 1997, swearing, nudity, HD)

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
HHHH
1.25-2.55pm BBC2
y
COMEDY Marilyn Monroe’s
star was in the ascendant
when she took the role of
gold-digger Lorelei Lee in
this scintillating musical.
Monroe particularly shines
in the superbly staged
production numbers, most
notably Diamonds Are a Girl’s
Best Friend and her opening
duet with Jane Russell, Two
Little Girls from Little Rock.
TONY SLOMAN (US 1953, HD)

The Living Daylights HHH
4.00-6.30pm ITV1
g
SPY Timothy Dalton’s take on
James Bond is endearingly
human: he sweats, he bleeds
and he even falls in love —
with a Czech cellist (Maryam
D’Abo). The story segues
from Soviet defection and
arms dealing to the struggles
of the Mujahidin, and is
rooted more in reality than
other series entries. Dalton
returns as Bond tomorrow in
Licence to Kill. MARK BRAXTON
(UK 1987, may be edited for content, HD)

m

The Lego Movie 2:
the Second Part
HHHH
4.35-6.40pm ITV2

y

ADVENTURE A battle of
the toys ensues when aliens
invade Bricksburg in this fun

animated sequel. Chris Pratt
and Elizabeth Banks once
again lead the voice cast, with
Tiffany Haddish a noteworthy
addition as Queen Watevra
Wa’Nabi. The film may not
offer much that is new, but a
slick retread of past triumphs
is never a bad thing. TERRY
STAUNTON (US/Aus/Den/Can 2019, HD)

Brief Encounter 5
5.25-6.55pm BBC2
(starts 4.25pm in Wales;
4.55pm in N Ireland)

g

DRAMA Co-adapted by Noël
Coward from his own one-act
play Still Life, this is one of
the finest films ever made in
Britain. What makes the illicit
love between doctor Trevor
Howard and housewife Celia
Johnson so memorable is
their sheer ordinariness.
Romancing to the strains
of Rachmaninov’s Second
Piano Concerto, the leads
are outstanding. DAVID
PARKINSON (UK 1945, BW, HD)

Kong: Skull Island HHHH
9.00-11.15pm 5 Star
h
FANTASY Hollywood’s most
iconic primate returns in this
cracking adventure. In 1973,
a ragtag team (including
colonel Samuel L Jackson
and pushy scientist John
Goodman) journeys to the
island that is the lair of Kong
and sundry other beasties.
Naturally, events don’t follow

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Fast & Furious 8 HHHH
11.15pm-1.35am ITV1
h
ACTION In this thrilling entry
in the series, Dom (Vin Diesel)
seems to have betrayed those
closest to him by joining
forces with a cyber-terrorist
(Charlize Theron). It’s left to
Dom’s friends (Dwayne
Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez,
Tyrese Gibson) to foil her
plans. From the opening car
race in Cuba to the Arctic
finish, this is rip-roaring
action all the way. AJ
(US 2017, violence, brief swearing, HD)

Gringo HHH
11.50pm-1.35am BBC1

j

COMEDY In this actionpacked romp, businessman
David Oyelowo falls foul of
Mexican drugs cartels when
he’s sent south of the border
to oversee the creation of a
“weed pill”. Sharlto Copley
is the potty troubleshooter
assigned to rescue him, while
more laughs are provided by
Charlize Theron as a tough
drugs-firm bigwig. TES

Television

U – suitable for all; PG Parental Guidance – for general viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for young or sensitive children; 12, 15,18 –for viewers of these ages and over.

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7.15am Sky Cinema Preview
8.15 Armageddon Time 5
Thoughtful and moving coming-ofage drama set in 1980s New York.
Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong (2022, 15) 10.20
The Locksmith HH Standard crime
thriller. Ryan Phillippe (2023, 15) 11.55 As
6.30pm 2.20pm House Party HH
Frantic comedy. Jacob Latimore (2023, 15)
4.20pm Black Adam HHH
Punchy DC Comics adventure, with
Dwayne Johnson as the menacing
ancient warrior. Pierce Brosnan (2022, 12)
6.30 Whitney Houston: I Wanna
Dance with Somebody HHHH
Enthralling biopic of the pop
princess. Review p38. Naomi Ackie (2022, 12)
9.00 Babylon HHHH Riotous
account of the transition from silent
pictures to talkies. Margot Robbie (2022, 18)
12.15am The Silent Twins HHHH
Intimate, affecting drama. Review
p38. Letitia Wright, Tamara Lawrance (2022, 18)
2.15 Seriously Red HHH Delightful
Australian comedy. Krew Boylan, Rose Byrne,
Bobby Cannavale (2022, 15) 4.05 High Heat
HH Tongue-in-cheek action comedy.
(2022, 15) 5.45 It Is in Us All HHH
Moody drama. Cosmo Jarvis (2022, 15)
Sky Premiere Sky 301 Virgin 401
BT 501/HD 515 +1 Sky 312

SATURDAY

Great Action

6.00am Fall of Hyperion HH
Mediocre disaster thriller. (2008) 7.50
Prelude to War 9.00 Jesse James:
Lawman H Missable western. (2015, 12)
10.35 Kentucky Rifle HH Creaky
B-western. (1955, U) 12.15pm Brave
Warrior HH Brisk western. (1952, U)
1.45 Battle of Rogue River HHH
Entertaining B-western. Review p97.
George Montgomery (1954, U) 3.15 The
Nevadan HH Western. (1950, U) 5.00
The Last Frontier HHH Majestic
western. Victor Mature, Guy Madison (1955, PG)
7.05pm Gunman’s Walk HHH
Tab Hunter plays the hothead son
of former gunslinger Van Heflin in
this intense western. Kathryn Grant (1958)
9.00 Stash House HHH A young
couple discover a drug hoard in
their new house — and a bunch of
goons want it back. Dolph Lundgren (2012, 15)
11.05 The Quick and the Dead
HHH Sam Raimi’s stylish homage
to the spaghetti westerns of Sergio
Leone. Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman (1995, 15)
1.20am Machete HHH Action crime
thriller. Danny Trejo, Jessica Alba (2010, 18)
3.30—4.00am Wild West Chronicles
Great Action Freeview 42 (limited)
F’sat 305 Sky 323 Virgin 426 +1 Sky 324

FILM REVIEWS

Sky Premiere

(Aus/US 2018, violence, swearing, HD)

Sky Cinema picks
Matilda HHHH
7.40-9.25pm Sky Family
Magical adaptation. (1996, PG)
Sky 306; Virgin 406; BT 506/520

Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind HHHH
8.00-10.05pm Sky Drama
A romance to forget. (2003, 15)
Sky 310; Virgin 410; BT 510/524

The Way of the Dragon
HHH
10.05-11.55pm Sky Action
Bruce Lee fisticuffs. (1973, 18)
Sky 306; Virgin 406; BT 506/520

Films to stream from p32
Netflix, Amazon, Disney+ and more

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Satellite, cable

SATURDAY

Television SATURDAY

Sky Showcase

Sky Atlantic

Gold

Alibi

Batman v Superman:
Dawn of Justice 9.00pm

Game of Thrones 7.35pm

Warrior 10.00pm Young Jun

Varys has to choose sides

has worries about Father Jun

Only Fools and Horses
8.00pm Singer Tony Angelino

Inspector George Gently
8.00pm Secrets emerge

6.00am Monkey Life (S) (AD) 8.00
Modern Family (S) 10.00 Formula One
12 noon The Simpsons (S) 3.00pm
David Attenborough’s Global
Adventure: Home Planet (S) (AD)
4.00 Ancient Murders Unearthed
(S) 5.00 Cursed Treasures (S)
6.00pm New. Formula One
Highlights of the Belgian Grand
Prix Sprint Race, the 13th round at
Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps.
7.00 Rob and Romesh vs K-Pop
Ep 2 Series 5. The comedians
enter the world of the music
phenomenon of K-Pop, starting
their journey at a sold-out NCT
Dream gig at Wembley Arena.
8.00 New. Ashes Highlights
Day three of the Fifth and Final
Test between England and Australia.
9.00 Batman v Superman:
Dawn of Justice HHH
Superhero action adventure
starring Henry Cavill and Ben
Affleck. After an international
incident makes the US government
distrustful of Superman, Batman
takes it upon himself to find a way
to stop the Man of Steel. (S) (AD) (W)
11.45 An Idiot Abroad 1/8
Series 1. Karl visits China. (S) (AD)
12.45am The Force: North East (S)
1.40 Road Wars (S) 3.00—6.00am
Border Security: Australia’s Front
Line: six back-to-back editions (S)
Sky Showcase Sky 106 Virgin 109
BT 340/HD 355 +1 Sky 206

6.00am Fish Town (S) (HD) 9.00
Gomorrah: Italian +subtitles (HD)
6.35pm The Sopranos 1/13
Series 5. Tony tries to change
his relationship with Dr Melfi.
3.30 2/13. Tony meets with Jack
Massarone, unaware that his
fellow Mobster has turned on him.
4.35 3/13. Carmine Lupertazzi’s
death gives Johnny Sack the
chance to seize power.
5.35 4/13. Carmela and Tony try
to put their differences aside to
discuss their son’s future.
6.35 5/13. Tony’s feelings for
Adriana and his fear that he may
have skin cancer send him
running back to Dr Melfi. (S) (HD)
7.35 Game of Thrones 5/6
Series 8. Daenerys brings her
forces to King’s Landing.
9.00 6/6. Daenerys declares
her intentions for Westeros.
10.30 1/10 Series 1. Lord Eddard
Stark is asked to serve at the side
of King Robert Baratheon.
11.40 2/10. Bran clings to life as
Ned prepares to head south with
the king — only for the youngster
to come under attack again.
12.45am 3/10. A weary
Ned struggles to deal with the
politics of the king’s court.
1.50 Euphoria (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00
The Fear Index (S) (AD) (HD)
4.05—6.00am Fish Town (S) (HD)
Sky Atlantic Sky 108 (Wales 109)
BT 342/HD 357 +1 Sky 208 (Wales 209)

6.00am The Flash (S) (HD) 11.00
Fringe: four episodes (S) (HD)
3.00pm Hawaii Five-0 (S) (HD)
6.00pm Hawaii Five-0 15/25
Series 7. The team hears rumours
that a Nazi war criminal may be
hiding out in Hawaii. (S) (HD)
7.00 16/25. As McGarrett and
Danny celebrate Valentine’s Day,
the rest of the team investigates
the murder of a man taking a
class on how to land a date. (S) (HD)
8.00 A League of Their Own:
US Road Trip 2.0 1/7 Series 2
Starting the trip in LA, Jamie
Redknapp loses his temper when
he’s left injured following a hot-dog
eating competition. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Rob and Romesh vs K-Pop
Ep 2 Series 5. The comedians
enter the world of the music
phenomenon of K-Pop, starting
their journey at a sold-out NCT
Dream gig at Wembley Arena. (S) (HD)
10.00 Warrior 3/10 Series 2
Young Jun shares his worries about
Father Jun’s new men. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 4/10. As the police prepare
for retribution, Chao comes to Bill
with a proposal. (S) (AD) (HD)
12 midnight An Idiot Abroad (S)
(AD) (HD) 1.00am Road Wars (S) (HD)
2.00 New. Magnum P.I. (HD)
3.00 New. The Blacklist (HD)
4.00—6.00am Sun, Sea and A&E (S)
Sky Max Sky 113 (Wales 114) Virgin 111
BT 346/HD 361

7.10am Keeping Up Appearances
(S) 7.55 Ever Decreasing Circles (S)
8.35 Are You Being Served? (S)
9.15 Citizen Khan (S) (AD) (HD) 10.30
Only Fools and Horses (S) (AD)
6.55pm Only Fools and Horses
An audition gives Raquel the chance
of a lifetime — and perhaps more
importantly, an excuse to get out
of Nelson Mandela House. (S) (AD)
8.00 Del becomes a showbiz
entrepreneur after discovering a
sensational Tom Jones-style singer
— but it turns out the artist is not
all he is cracked up to be. (S) (AD)
9.05 Mrs Brown’s Boys Agnes
becomes concerned that there
are too many skeletons in her
family’s overcrowded closet. (S) (HD)
9.40 The Royle Family Barbara
and Jim argue over the TV show
Changing Rooms. (S) (AD)
10.20 Nana stays with the family
while she recuperates from her
cataract operation. (S) (AD)
11.00 Harry Enfield and Chums
Comedy sketches, with guest
star Dawn French. (S) (AD)
11.40 Featuring characters
including Kevin and Perry and
Tim Nice-But-Dim. (S) (AD)
12.20am The Royle Family: double
bill (S) (AD) 1.40 Harry Enfield and
Chums (S) (AD) 3.00—4.00am
My Favourite Sketch (S) (HD)
Gold Sky 110 (Wales 111) Virgin 124
BT 344/HD 359 +1 Sky 210 (Wales 211) Virgin 324

7.10am Murdoch Mysteries: triple
bill (S) (HD) 10.00 Hudson & Rex (S)
(AD) (HD) 2.00pm Death in
Paradise: four episodes (S) (AD) (HD)
6.00pm Death in Paradise 6/8
Series 3. A group of birdwatchers,
visiting Saint-Marie for a glimpse of
its famous green parrots, discover
one of their number stabbed to
death with his own knife. (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00 Father Brown 2/15 Series 5
The priest is asked to look after
Lady Felicia’s wayward niece
Bunty, who soon finds herself
suspected of murder. (S) (AD) (HD)
8.00 Inspector George Gently
1/2 Series 3. Gently and Bacchus
find themselves investigating
a family with unimaginable
secrets when a woman’s body is
discovered. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 Death in Paradise
7/8 Series 3. The team visits
neighbouring Sebastien Island to
investigate the shooting of the
wealthy property developer
who owned it. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 4/8 Series 4. A hen
party on the island ends in
tragedy when the bride-to-be is
found dead in her bath the
following morning. (S) (AD) (HD)
12 midnight Pretty Hard Cases (S)
(AD) (HD) 1.00—4.00am Hudson &
Rex: triple bill (S) (AD) (HD)
Alibi Sky 109 (Wales 110) Virgin HD 114
BT 343/HD 358 +1 Sky 209 (Wales 210) Virgin 314

q

Sky Sci-Fi
6.00am Most Haunted 8.00
Home Shopping 11.00 Merlin
4.00pm Stargate Atlantis
10/20 Series 1. A fierce storm
forces the team out of Atlantis.
5.00 11/20. Major Weir takes
on the soldiers who have
captured Weir and McKay.
6.00 12/20. The crew
investigates a mysterious satellite
and discovers the wreckage of a
Wraith ship on the planet below.
7.00 13/20. The city is forced to
shut down completely by the
outbreak of a potentially fatal virus.
8.00 14/20. The team discovers
an unexplored planet and plans to
make it the new home of all the
refugees displaced by the Wraith.
9.00 True Blood 9/12 Series 2
A wounded Eric gets inside
Sookie’s head, while Sam looks for
a way to escape from jail — and an
increasingly obsessed Maryann.
10.05 10/12. Bill learns a
surprising fact about Maryann.
Sookie tries to help Tara. Can
Jason rescue Sam?
11.05 Post Impact HH
Action adventure starring
Dean Cain. After a meteorite
hits Earth causing a new ice age, a
group of survivors struggle to gain
control of the satellite that could
help humans rebuild their lives.
1.00am Wynonna Earp: double bill
3.00 The Outpost: double bill
5.00—6.00am Star Trek: Voyager
Sky Sci-Fi Sky 139 Virgin 122
BT 348/HD 363 +1 Virgin 229

q

Sky Witness
6.00am Bondi Rescue: double bill
(S) (HD) 7.00 Border Patrol (S) (HD)
10.00 Stop, Search, Seize (S) (AD)
(HD) 11.00 Air Ambulance ER (S)
(HD) 12 noon UK Border Force (S)
(AD) (HD) 1.00pm Caught Red
Handed: double bill (S) (HD) 2.30
Caught on Dashcam (S) (HD)
3.30pm Nothing to Declare
Nine editions of the series
following the work of customs
officers in Australia. (S) (AD)
8.00 Blue Bloods 21/21 Series 13
Danny teams up with an old
partner to find a copycat killer. Frank
and Mayor Chase battle over the
best way to handle the city’s rising
homeless population. (S) (HD)
9.00 Law & Order: Special
Victims Unit 10/22 Series 24
Benson becomes the target of a
gang leader and Duarte takes the
case. Dixon offers to translate when
a deaf student is raped. (S) (HD)
10.00 Law & Order: Organized
Crime 10/22 Series 3. The task
force set their sights on a gang
making their mark on New York.
Jamie goes under cover but fears
he may be in over his head. (S) (HD)
11.00 The Good Doctor 14/22
Series 6. Shaun struggles to find a
cause for a stroke in a patient. (S) (HD)
12 midnight The Rookie (S) (AD)
(HD) 1.00am Bull (S) (HD)
2.00 Air Ambulance ER (S) (HD)
3.00—6.00am Border Security:
Australia’s Front Line (S) (HD)
Sky Witness Sky 107 Virgin 110
BT 341/HD 356 +1 Sky 207 Virgin 310

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Sky Replay
7.00am Dragons: Rescue Riders (S)
(HD) 9.05 Four Weddings (S) (HD)
11.00 Supergirl: seven episodes (S) (HD)
6.00pm Supergirl: three episodes.
J’onn frets over his decision to leave the
DEO, until he bumps into Manchester
Black 7.00 Kara publishes a string of
articles as she attempts to quell people’s
fear of aliens 8.00 Kara’s debate with
Ben Lockwood spoils her Thanksgiving,
while James and Lena come to blows
over the best way to deal with the
Children of Liberty (S) (HD) 9.00
Magnum P.I.: Higgins and Kumu try to
solve the murder of a beloved dog and
Rick accidentally loses Magnum’s pet
mouse (S) (HD) 10.00 The Blacklist: the
murder of a judge sheds new light on
an unsolved case (S) (HD) 11.00 Rob and
Romesh vs K-Pop (S) (HD) 12 midnight
A League of Their Own (S) (AD) (HD)
4.00—6.00am Four Weddings (S) (AD)

Sky Replay Sky 152 Virgin 156

Sky Crime
6.00am Brit Cops: Law & Disorder (S)
(AD) 7.00 Highway Patrol (S) 11.00 UK
Border Force (S) 12 noon Murders That
Shocked the Nation (S) 1.00pm
Forensics: Catching the Killer (S) (AD)
2.00 World’s Most Evil Killers (S) 4.00
Britain’s Most Evil Killers (S) 6.00 What
the Killer Did Next (S) (AD) 7.00 Killer
in My Village (S) 8.00 How I Caught the
Killer (S) (AD) 9.00 Murdered at First
Sight: the story of the murder of Mikey
Rainsford 10.00 I Love You, Now Die:
the Commonwealth vs Michelle Carter:
a woman accused of persuading her
boyfriend to commit suicide by text (S)
11.15 The Torso Killer (S) 1.00am
Britain’s Most Evil Killers (S) 2.00
World’s Most Evil Killers 3.00 Road Wars
(S) 5.00—6.00am Motorway Patrol (S)

Sky Crime Sky 122 Virgin 121 BT 349/HD 364
+1 Sky 222 Virgin 321

Sky Comedy

Discovery

8.00am Modern Family (S) (HD) 10.00
A.P. Bio (S) (HD) 10.30 Silicon Valley (S)
(HD) 1.30pm Will & Grace (S) (AD) (HD)
4.00 Girls (S) (AD) (HD) 6.30 The Office
US: five episodes. The staff members
endure an awards banquet 7.00 The
team receives a lesson in sexual
harassment 7.30 Jim and Pam arrange
an office Olympics 8.00 A fire forces
the staff out of the office 8.30 Michael
is ordered to sack one employee (S) (HD)
9.00 Curb Your Enthusiasm: triple bill.
Larry runs into an ex-girlfriend 9.35
Larry shocks all his friends by deciding
to take a job as a car salesman 10.10
Larry starts behaving strangely in front
of the neighbours (S) (HD) 10.45 And
Just like That... (HD) 11.45 My Dad
Wrote a Porno (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00am Vice
Principals (S) (AD) (HD) 2.20 Veep (S)
(AD) (HD) 3.40—5.00am Pen15 (S) (HD)

6.00am Expedition Unknown (S) (AD)
(HD) 12 noon Scrap Kings (S) (HD)
6.00pm Gold Rush: Mine Rescue with
Freddy and Juan (HD) 7.00 Deadliest
Catch: Captain Bill Wichrowski prepares
for a brutal winter season (S) (HD) 8.00
Tracked: tensions rise in Team Orange
when they lose their map again (S) (HD)
9.00 Hoffman Family Gold: Todd is
ready to get back in the mining game
(S) (HD) 10.00 Expedition Unknown:
Josh heads to the Holy Land to find a
lost city where Jesus performed many
of his miracles (S) (HD) 11.00 New
series. Serial Killer: Red Sea Feeding
Frenzy: investigating the recent
deadly shark attacks in Egypt (HD)
12 midnight Deadliest Catch (HD)
1.00am Moonshiners: Master Distiller
(S) (AD) (HD) 4.00—5.00am How Do
They Do It?: double bill (S) (HD)

Sky Comedy Sky 114 (Wales 115)
Virgin 112 BT 347/HD 362

Discovery Sky 125 Virgin 177 BT 320/HD 325
+1 Sky 225 Virgin 377

Comedy Central

Discovery History

8.00am Friends (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00pm
FILM Mirror Mirror HH Fantasy
adventure, a retelling of the Snow White
story, starring Lily Collins and Julia
Roberts (S) (HD) 4.05 Friends (S) (AD)
(HD) 9.00 FILM Along Came Polly
HH Romantic comedy starring Ben
Stiller and Jennifer Aniston (S) (HD)
10.40 Jason Manford Live: First World
Problems: Mancunian stand-up
comedian Jason Manford discusses the
more frustrating aspects of modern life
(S) (HD) 11.40 Jimmy Carr: Laughing
and Joking: stand-up comedy from
London’s Hammersmith Apollo (S) (HD)
1.40am Rhod Gilbert: the Book of John
3.25 South Park (S) (HD) 4.10—5.00am
The Comedy Bus (S) (HD)

Comedy Central Sky 112 (Wales 113)
Virgin 132 BT 345/HD 360
+1 Sky 212 (Wales 213) Virgin 332

6.00am Shed and Buried 9.00
Salvage Hunters: the Restorers (S)
12 noon Combat Dealers (S) (AD)
3.00pm HMS Ark Royal (S) (AD) 5.00
Combat Dealers: triple bill. The murky
secrets of Second World War spies
6.00 Bruce Crompton heads to a
martello tower in the Channel Islands
7.00 Bruce takes Hus on an Italian
road-trip (S) (AD) 8.00 Treasures of the
Terracotta Army: newly found artefacts
reveal the Terracotta Army soldiers’
supernatural enemy and ancient
China’s violent origins (S) 9.00 Lost
World of the Colosseum (S) 10.00
Greatest Events of World War II (S)
12 midnight Combat Dealers (S)
3.00—5.00am Salvage Hunters:
the Restorers: two editions (S)

Discovery History Sky 177 Virgin 181
+1 Sky 277 Virgin 381

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& sport
Sky Documentaries

Sky Nature

SATURDAY 29 JULY
SPORT
Sky Main Event

TNT Sports 1

Sky 401 Virgin 511/HD 501 BT 420/HD 440

Sky 410 Virgin 527 BT 408/HD 430
7.30am LIVE Australian Rules
Football Gold Coast Suns v
Brisbane Lions (bounce-up 7.35);
10.30 Adelaide Crows v Port
Adelaide Power (bounce-up 10.40).
1.30pm Triathlon 2.00 Wrestling
4.30 Classic Premier League (AD)
6.00 Back into the Sunshine (AD)
7.30 LIVE Boxing Liam Davies v
Jason Cunningham from Telford.
1.00—7.00am LIVE UFC Dustin
Poirier v Justin Gaethje.

6.00am Sky Sports News

An amethystine ‘scrub’ python

6.00am Discovering: Alain Delon
(S) 7.00 Discovering: Maggie Smith
(S) 8.00 The Directors (S) 9.00
Black Art: in the Absence of Light
(S) (AD) (W) 10.45 Well Groomed (S)
(AD) 12.30pm Once upon a Time in
Londongrad (S) (AD) 3.45 Mr
Dynamite: the Rise of James Brown:
the career of the musician (S) (AD)
6.00pm Dave Not Coming Back
The story of two divers who
embarked on a mission to retrieve
a dead body from a cave. (S)
8.00 New. Superpowered: the
DC Story With comic book
sales in decline, DC took a
gamble with Superman before
breaking boundaries with Vertigo
Comics. See page 40. (S)
9.00 New. Nothing Compares
The story of Sinéad O’Connor’s
rise to worldwide fame, and
how her iconoclastic personality
resulted in her exile from the pop
mainstream. See page 41. (S)
11.00 Love to Love You, Donna
Summer Following the artist’s
career, from the avant-garde music
scene in Germany to the bright
lights of New York discotheques. (S)
1.10am FILM Sergio Leone: the
Italian Who Invented America HHHH
(S) (W) 3.15 New series. Alexia:
Labor Omnia Vincit 4.15—6.00am
Stockton on My Mind (S)
Sky Documentaries Sky 121
Virgin 188 BT 352/HD 367

6.00am Untamed Valley (S) 9.00
Wild Tales from the Farm (S) (AD)
1.00pm Islands (S) (AD) 2.00 David
Attenborough’s Global Adventure (S)
(AD) 3.00 Pridelands: Wilderness
Reborn (S) 4.00 Supersenses (S) (AD)
6.00pm Supersenses The amazing
world of what animals experience
with their extraordinary senses,
thanks to remarkable CGI and
innovative film techniques. (S) (AD)
7.00 David Attenborough’s
Dragons and Damsels David
Attenborough delves into the lives of
dragonflies and damselflies. (S) (AD)
8.00 Deadly Australians From
the oceans and the forest to swamps
and deserts, a look at the toxic,
venomous and dangerous creatures
that Australia is home to. (S)
9.00 Planet Shark Cameras follow
nomadic sharks thriving in the
ocean’s depths, a lone blue shark
in the Atlantic and hundreds of
hammerheads in the Pacific. (S) (AD)
10.00 Patrick Aryee’s Wild
World Patrick Aryee asks whether
people’s appetite for salmon is
wiping out the lynx. (S)
11.00 Patrick travels to
Yellowstone National Park. (S)
12 midnight Deadly Australians (S)
1.00am Planet Shark (S) (AD)
2.00 Islands 3.00—6.00am
Animal Senses: six editions (S)
Sky Nature Sky 124 Virgin 189
BT 354/HD 369

4
4

Nat Geographic

Eden

8.00am Bid and Destroy (HD) 8.30
Made in a Day (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00
Car SOS: nine editions (S) (AD) (HD)
6.00pm Car SOS: seven editions. The
boys take on a rundown Renault Alpine
GTA 7.00 Tim and Fuzz take on the
challenge of restoring a 1953 Riley RMF
8.00 A 1986 Rover SD1 that has been
rotting away in a dirty lock-up 9.00 Tim
and Fuzz try to restore a tatty Mk.1
Toyota MR2 10.00 Fuzz Townshend
and Tim Shaw secretly restore another
classic 11.00 The duo revamp a VW
Wizard 12 midnight Tim and Fuzz take
on a 1969 Jensen Interceptor (S) (AD) (HD)
1.00am New. Seven Toughest Days
(HD) 2.00 Bid and Destroy (HD) 2.30
Money Meltdown (HD) 2.55 Lords of War
(HD) 3.20 Trials of the Wild (HD) 4.10
Secrets of the Zoo: Keeper Tales (HD)
4.35—5.00am Food Factory (S) (HD)

9.00am Abandoned Engineering (AD)
(HD) 1.00pm Underground Worlds (HD)
4.00 Abandoned Engineering (AD) (HD)
6.00pm Abandoned Engineering: six
editions. A group of rusting ships
stranded in a desert 7.00 An
abandoned prison beneath the water
and a tunnel in the heart of a mountain
8.00 Concrete channels hidden in a
mountaintop forest 9.00 A town
established by Henry Ford in the
Amazonian rainforest 10.00 An
advanced German battleship that
sank in a Norwegian fjord during the
Second World War 11.00 A highway
built in the Brazilian jungle as an escape
route in the event of an emergency at a
nuclear power station (AD) (HD)
12 midnight Abandoned Engineering (AD)
(HD) 5.30—6.00am David Attenborough’s
Natural Curiosities (AD) (HD)

Nat Geographic Sky 129 Virgin 183
+1 Sky 229 Virgin 383

Eden Sky 166 Virgin HD 176
+1 Sky 266 Virgin 376

Sky History

Animal Planet

6.00am American Pickers (HD) 7.00
Pawn Stars (HD) 8.00 Forged in Fire (HD)
9.00 Swamp People (HD) 11.00 Phantom
Signals (HD) 2.00pm Storage Wars (HD)
5.00 Ancient Murders Unearthed (HD)
6.00 Cursed Treasures: artefacts lost
during the falls of Ancient Egypt, Greece
and Rome (S) (HD) 7.00 Ancient Aliens:
double bill. Investigating whether
prophets came into contact with
extraterrestrials, then the mysterious
phenomenon of the Nazca Lines (HD)
9.00 Theodore Roosevelt: dramadocumentary recounting the story of
the US president (HD) 11.15 Ancient
Superstructures: the breathtaking
temple complex of Angkor Wat (S) (HD)
12.10am Salvage Kings (HD)
4.00—6.00am Ancient Aliens (HD)

8.00am Insane Pools: off the Deep End
(S) (HD) 9.00 Crikey! It’s the Irwins (HD)
10.00 Dr Jeff (S) (HD) 12 noon Insane
Pools: off the Deep End (S) (HD) 1.00pm
Crikey! It’s the Irwins (HD) 2.00 Sharks
vs Dolphins: Face Off (S) (HD) 3.00 Blue
Serengeti (S) (HD) 4.00 America’s
Cutest Pets (S) (HD) 5.00 Dr Jeff (S) (HD)
6.00 Insane Pools: off the Deep End (S)
(HD) 7.00 How Do Animals Do That? (S)
(HD) 8.00 Swimming with Monsters with
Steve Backshall (S) (HD) 9.00 Rugged
Justice (HD) 10.00 Alaskan Bush People
(S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 Intruders (HD)
12 midnight Monsters inside Me (S) (HD)
1.00am Alaskan Bush People (S) (AD)
(HD) 2.00 America’s Cutest Pets (S) (HD)
3.00 Dr Jeff (S) (HD) 4.00—5.00am
Insane Pools: off the Deep End (S) (HD)

Sky History Sky 123 Virgin 133
BT 353/HD 368 +1 Sky 223 Virgin 333

Animal Planet Sky 162 (NI 178) Virgin 178
+1 Sky 262 (NI 278) Virgin 378

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Sky Football
Sky 403 Virgin 513/HD 503 BT 422/HD 442
6.00am League Cup Retro 8.45 EFL
Greatest Games (AD) 10.00 League
Cup Retro (AD) 12 noon Championship
Season Review (AD) 1.00pm League
Cup Retro (AD) 2.00 Classic Play-Offs
5.00 Best Goals 6.00 Championship
Season Review 7.00 League Cup Retro
8.00 Ashes Highlights 9.00 Classic
Play-Offs 11.00 Greatest Games (AD)
12 midnight EFL Rivalries (AD)
1.00am Classic Play-Off Finals
4.00—6.00am League Cup Retro (AD)

Sky Golf
Sky 405 Virgin 515/HD 505 BT 424/HD 444
6.00am PGA Tour Golf 9.00 LPGA
Tour Golf 9.15 European Seniors Tour
9.30 Challenge Tour Golf 10.00 LPGA
Tour Golf 10.15 European Seniors Tour

10.30 LIVE LPGA Tour Golf Day
three of the Evian Championship.
4.00pm LIVE European Senior
Tour Golf Senior Open, day three.
7.30 LIVE PGA Tour Golf Day
three of the 3M Open in Minnesota.
11.00 LPGA Tour Golf 11.15 European
Seniors Golf 11.30 Rose v Fleetwood
12.30am Challenge Tour 1.00 PGA
Tour 2.00 LPGA Tour 2.15 European
Seniors Golf 2.30 School of Golf 3.00
Chronicles (AD) 3.30 LPGA Tour 3.45
European Seniors Golf 4.00 PGA Tour
Golf 5.00—6.00am Chronicles (AD)

International Rugby Union
3.05pm Amazon Prime

Scotland back Blair Kinghorn

Sky Premier League
Sky 402 Virgin 512/HD 502 BT 421/HD 441
6.00am Greatest Games 7.00
Premier League Years: 2018/19 (AD)
9.00 Stories 9.30 Soccerbox 10.00
Summer Series Football 12.10pm
Greatest Games 12.30 Highlights
7.00 Summer Series Football 9.10
Pep Guardiola Special 10.30 Retro
12.30—6.00am Classic Premier
League: memorable goals and games

Sky Cricket
Sky 404 Virgin 514/HD 504 BT 423/HD 443
6.00am Ashes Memories (AD) 7.00
Ashes Highlights 8.00 Ashes Bitesize
8.15 My Icon (AD) 8.30 Ashes
Highlights 9.30 The Fletcher Years
(AD) 10.00 Ashes Bitesize: day two

10.15 LIVE Ashes Cricket
England v Australia, day three of
the fifth and final Test at the Oval.
7.00pm Captain’s Log 8.00 Ashes
Highlights 9.00 Ashes Memories (AD)
10.00 Ashes Highlights 11.00 Ashes
Bitesize 11.15 Fletcher Years (AD) 11.45
Ashes Bitesize 12 midnight Ashes
Highlights 1.00am Captain’s Log 2.00
Ashes Highlights 3.00 Ashes Bitesize
3.15 Fletcher Years (AD) 3.45 Ashes
Greats (AD) 4.00 Ashes Highlights
5.00 Fletcher Years (AD) 5.30 Ashes
Greats (AD) 5.45—6.00am My Icon

TNT Sports 2
Sky 411 Virgin 528 BT 409/HD 431
6.00am What I Wore 6.15
International One-Day Cricket 7.15
Rallycross (AD) 8.15 Motor Racing

10.15 LIVE Motor Racing V8
Supercars from Australia, race 18.
12.30pm Major League Cricket
1.00 International One-Day Cricket
2.00 LIVE International
One-Day Cricket West Indies
v India from Barbados.
11.00 UFC: previews (AD)
12 midnight LIVE Major League
Baseball St Louis Cardinals v
Chicago Cubs (start 12.15am).
3.30am MLB (AD) 4.30 Premier
League Legends (AD) 5.00—6.00am
Serie A: Full Impact (AD)

TNT Sports 3
Sky 417 Virgin 529 BT 410/HD 432
6.00am LIVE Badminton The
Japan Open, continued coverage
of the semi-finals from Tokyo.
12.30pm Italian Football 3.30 Reload
4.00 Australian Rules Football

8.00 LIVE Major League
Baseball Toronto Blue Jays v
Los Angeles Angels (start 8.07).
11.30 MLB 12 midnight Surfing
3.00—6.00am LIVE Badminton
The Japan Open finals from Tokyo.
Coverage continues until 8.30am.

TNT Sports 4
Sky 421 Virgin 530 BT 411/HD 434

Sky F1
Sky 406 Virgin 516/HD 506 BT 425/HD 445
10.30am—12.40pm LIVE Belgian
Grand Prix The Sprint shootout.
2.30—5.30 LIVE Belgian Grand
Prix The Sprint race (start 3.30).

Sky Mix
Sky 416 Virgin 510 BT 429/HD 449
6.10—8.10am LIVE NRLW
St George Illawarra Dragons v
Parramatta Eels (kick-off 6.10).
9.45—11.45 LIVE World Cup
Netball Australia v Tonga.
2.45—7.00pm LIVE World Cup
Netball Scotland v Barbados;
5.00 England v Malawi.

Sky Arena
Sky 408 Virgin 518/HD 508 BT 427/HD 447
6.00am Rugby League

7.45 LIVE World Cup Netball
Zimbabwe v Fiji (centre-pass 8.00);
10.00 Jamaica v Wales.
12 noon Rugby League: highlights
12.45pm World Cup Netball
2.45 LIVE World Cup Netball
South Africa v Sri Lanka;
5.00 England v Malawi from
Cape Town (centre-pass 5.00).
7.00 Super League 8.00 Boxing
10.00 Darts 12 midnight World Cup
Netball 2.00am Rugby League

3.00—6.50am LIVE NRLW
Newcastle Knights v North
Queensland Cowboys (ko 3.00);
4.50 Wests Tigers v CronullaSutherland Sharks (kick-off 4.50).

Sky Action
Sky 407 Virgin 517/HD 507 BT 426/HD 446
6.00am NFL (AD)

7.45 LIVE World Cup Netball
New Zealand v Uganda.
9.45 My Icon (AD) 10.00 Rugby
Championship 10.30 Darts
10.35 LIVE Rugby Championship
Australia v New Zealand from
Melbourne (kick-off 10.45).
12.45pm Boxing: highlights
1.45 Rugby Championship
3.55 LIVE Rugby Championship
South Africa v Argentina from
Johannesburg (kick-off 4.05).
6.05 Rugby Championship 8.40 My
Icon (AD) 9.00 Rugby Union 11.10 My
Icon (AD) 11.30 Boxing Archive (AD)
1.00am Rugby Union 3.40 Darts
3.45 My Icon (AD) 4.00 Boxing

5.00—7.00am LIVE NRL
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs
v Dolphins (kick-off 5.00).

Eurosport 1
Sky 413 Virgin 521 BT HD 412
6.00am Cycling 7.00 Women’s Tour
de France 8.30 Olympics 9.30 SailGP
10.30 Climbing 11.30 Tour de France
12.30pm Women’s Tour de France

2.00 LIVE Cycling The San
Sebastián Classic from Spain.
4.00 LIVE Women’s Tour de
France Coverage of stage seven.
6.45 LIVE Speedway World Cup.
9.30 Cycling 12 midnight SailGP
1.00am Superbikes 2.00 Cycling
3.30 Olympics: One Year to Dream
4.00—6.00am Superbikes

6.00am World Rally (AD) 7.00 Rugby
Union 8.30 Major League Cricket
9.00 Wrestling 10.30 Ariel Helwani
Meets 11.00 Fishing (AD) 12 noon
Rallycross (AD) 1.00pm Badminton
(AD) 1.30 MLB 7.30 Major League
Cricket 8.00 Serie A: Full Impact (AD)
9.00 Wrestling 10.30 Australian Rules
Football 2.30am World Rally (AD)
3.30 Rallycross (AD) 4.30—6.00am
Champions League Football

Television

Deadly Australians 8.00pm

The Sinéad O’Connor story

SATURDAY

Nothing Compares 9.00pm

7.45 LIVE World Cup Netball
New Zealand v Uganda.
9.45 My Icon: Martin Offiah (AD)
10.00 Ashes Bitesize: day two
10.15 LIVE Ashes Cricket
England v Australia, day three of
the fifth and final Test at the Oval.
7.00pm LIVE European Senior
Tour Golf Senior Open, day three.
7.30 LIVE PGA Tour Golf Day
three of the 3M Open in Minnesota.
11.00 Sky Sports News
5.00—7.00am LIVE NRL
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs
v Dolphins (kick-off 5.00).

Amazon Prime
10.00am LIVE Tennis Hamburg
European Open, women’s doubles;
12.30pm Women’s singles final;
3.00 Men’s singles semi-finals.
3.05pm LIVE International
Rugby Union Scotland v Italy
from Murrayfield (kick-off 3.15).

Eurosport 2
Sky 414 Virgin 522 BT HD 413
6.30am Formula E 7.30 Superbikes

8.30 LIVE World Superbikes
Superpole races at Most Autodrom.
10.45 World Superbikes
11.15 LIVE World Superbikes
Supersport 300, race one;
12.45pm Superbikes, race one;
2.00 Supersport, race one.
3.15 Superbikes 3.30 Formula E
4.30 LIVE Formula E London
ePrix, race one (start 5.03).
6.35 British Superbikes 7.00 World
Superbikes 8.00 Motor Racing 9.30
Fencing 12.30am Women’s Tour de
France 2.00 Extreme E 3.00 World
Superbikes 4.00 Women’s Tour de
France 5.30—6.30am SailGP

49

FLYING HIGH

Television SUNDAY

David (Gregg
Sulkin) has
another
high-stakes
assignment

DRAMA

World on Fire
9.00pm BBC1 Catch up via iPlayer
Arriving at a picture-book Schloss in Brandenburg, Germany, young Marga (Miriam Schiweck) is
about to have her eyes opened in the most terrible way, greeted by the matron with “Welcome,
my little mothers”. It’s a chilling storyline in an episode that is powerful in different ways.
In Manchester, Polish refugee Kasia discovers the ulterior motives of house guest Sir James,
and confronts him about it; in Paris, the deadly game played by resistance-aiding nurse
Henriette unravels by the minute; and RAF hothead David — of whom we still have no real sense
as a person — is sent on another life-or-death mission.
However, the scenes to stay with you, apart from Marga’s, may be those in Libya involving
Rajib (Ahad Raza Mir) — leading a unit of the British Indian Army — and unreconstructed Stan
(Blake Harrison). It’s an alliance whose shaky ground is exposed in a powerful showdown.
Anyone who truly believes in the superiority of one nation over another should tune in and
be put straight. MARK BRAXTON
Jane Garvey: page 13

CRAFT

DRAMA

NATURE

MUSIC

Repair Lot

Hudson & Rex

A Year on Planet Earth

BBC Proms

6.00pm Dave Catch up: UKTV Play

7.00pm, 8.00pm Alibi
Catch up via Now

8.00pm ITV1 Full series on ITVX

8.00pm BBC4 Catch up via iPlayer

“If winter is the great
LAST
equaliser,” says Stephen
EPISODE Fry strolling through a
rainforest in Mexico,
“spring is for new beginnings,
summer the time of plenty, then
autumn is the season of change.”The
forests of Quebec, for instance, erupt
in a blaze of colour. There is some
staggering slow-motion footage here
of two chipmunks battling it out —
kung-fu style — for the nuts needed to
stockpile for winter. Yet the most
affecting scene takes place in
Zimbabwe, where an elephant stands
over the body of her calf. “Elephants
are one of the few animals that
grieve,” narrates a sombre Fry. It
makes footage of the mother chasing
away lions from their kill all the more
agonising. STEPHEN KELLY

Two women make their striking
Proms debut in a concert given on
17 July. In a teal three-piece suit that
looks like it’s been liberated from a
Time Lord’s wardrobe, German
conductor Anja Bihlmaier commands
the BBC Philharmonic. The big star
turn is South Korean soloist Bomsori
(she tends to operate under one
name), who tackles Bruch’s muchloved First Violin Concerto.
It’s always good to sample some
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, who was
long neglected by the establishment,
and tonight’s Ballade in A minor was
last performed at the Proms in 1929.
A diverse programme then looks
to Eastern Europe with Brahms’s
Hungarian Dances Nos 1, 3 and 10,
as well as Bela Bartok’s Concerto
for Orchestra. PATRICK MULKERN

Dave’s four-wheel drive Xerox of
The Repair Shop continues to be a
low-gear pleasure as its gang of
automotive experts bring oncecherished cars back to life.
This week’s headliner is clearly
meant to be the chunky black Dodge
Charger that they repair inside and
out, re-upholstering the seats in
hand-made new leather covers while
making sure the engine regains its
pit-of-the-stomach roar. However,
the job that sticks with you is the
revamp of a battered off-roading
VW Beetle. It may have once driven
around the world, but it’s now
haunted by an engine problem.
Working out just what’s causing it to
pack up after running for 20 minutes
requires some proper mechanical
detective work. CERI THOMAS

50

When TV detectives take a break,
they inevitably get a busman’s
holiday. So it proves for Charlie and
Sarah, whose romantic getaway in a
supposedly idyllic rural community is
marred by murder. Naturally, the
local sheriff couldn’t solve a word
search never mind a homicide, so it’s
left to the big city cops (and their dog)
to follow the clues.
Episode two, though, sees our
heroes back on home turf for a
mystery involving a victim with an
unfortunate name, at least for UK
viewers. Blake Harrison, who’s an
extremely shady physiotherapist
(and definitely not the actor currently
in World on Fire) is done in, and the
list of suspects with grievances
proves lengthy. DAVID BROWN

RadioTimes 29 July–4 August 2023

SUNDAY 30 JULY
LIVE SPORT

ALSO ON TODAY
Antiques
Roadshow

The Ascent of Man

7.00pm BBC1
With hay-making
season upon us,
Charlotte Smith (right)
travels to a farm on
Cornwall’s Lizard
Peninsula.

8.00pm BBC1

10.55pm, 11.45pm
BBC4

Presenter Fiona
Bruce is at Ham
House in London’s
Richmond-uponThames.

The 1973 docuseries
hosted by Dr Jacob
Bronowski continues
with a look at the
evolution of chemistry.

DOCUMENTARY

DOCUMENTARY

Our Guy in Colombia

Coastguard:
Magnum PI
Search and Rescue SOS 9.00pm Sky Max Catch up via Now

9pm C4 Catch up via C4 streaming

Is the mask beginning
to slip for Kim
Philby (Guy Pearce)?

The latest episode of this nervejangling series begins with a couple in
a dire state of emergency while
sailing around the Cornish coastline.
Their boat’s engine has packed up.
Fierce winds have forced them to run
aground on a jagged row of rocks —
and the vessel is capsizing.
Thankfully, a helicopter responds to
their panicked mayday message.
The coastguard heroes also rescue
a severely injured man who’s fallen
down a ravine, and an ailing yacht
crew adrift in the mid-Atlantic. Most
of these stories have comforting
conclusions, but Coastguard doesn’t
gloss over the sad fact that not every
rescue mission is a success.
PAUL WHITELAW

Magnum’s latest client is a real
mystery: they’re anonymous but
are pleading with him to dig into the
background of an ex-cop. TM wants
to get cracking, but Higgins is more
circumspect and believes whoever
made the request needs identifying.
Hence the two detectives starting
at different ends of the same case.
It’s a given that they’ll meet in the
middle at some point, but the two
trails pursued are equally well
plotted. Remind me again why
this show has been cancelled?
Meanwhile, Rick and TC (who never
seem to have much work of any kind
to do) are acting like neighbours
gossiping over a garden fence as they
try to puzzle out their friends’ secret
relationship. DB

DRAMA

A Spy among Friends

Formula One
Belgian Grand Prix
12.30pm (start 2.00pm) Sky F1
At 42, Aston Martin’s Fernando
Alonso is still a contender.

Cricket: Men’s Ashes
England v Australia
10.15am Sky Main Event/
Cricket, highlights 7pm BBC2
Day four of the fifth and final Test.

Football: Women’s World Cup
South Korea v Morocco 5.20am
Sat night (k/o 5.30am) BBC2;
Switzerland v New Zealand
7.30am (k/o 8am) BBC2;
Norway v Philippines k/o 8am
iPlayer; Germany v Colombia
10am (k/o 10.30am) ITV1

FILM OF
THE DAY

Television

SHADY INDIVIDUAL

9pm Channel 5 Catch up via My5

SUNDAY

Part two of this anything-butordinary travel documentary finds
Guy Martin explaining the “epidemic”
of Bogota’s stolen steel manhole
covers and why plastic replacements
didn’t stop thefts. “That’s Colombian
capitalism for you,” he concludes.
He samples a tea brewed from
coca leaves — “It tastes like green
tea” — while attempting to dissect the
history of Colombian sociopolitics.
The tea is legal in Colombia, but has
an effect and Martin even tests
positive for cocaine after drinking it.
Whether he’s talking to underworld
drug dealers or riding a new public
transport system — ski resort-style
cable cars helping to transform the
city of Medellin — it’s an adventure he
fully embraces. SHERNA NOAH

DRAMA

9.00pm ITV1
All episodes available on ITVX
The irony of the series title hits home
in episode four, which centres on Kim
Philby’s debriefing by the Soviets.
Here is a man who screwed over his
home country only to now be
mistrusted by his adoptive one. He’s
perceived as an ally to no one and
viewed with cynicism by all, and actor
Guy Pearce is so strong in the central
role that you can almost see that
oleaginous veneer slipping away.
The loss of Philby’s confidence is
there in the smallest moment, as he
stumbles on ice before failing to
light a cigarette when grilled by his
handlers. But it’s most apparent
when Guy Burgess (Thomas Arnold)
tells his fellow traitor that he’ll always
be seen by the Russians as a mere
spy rather than a communist. It’s
a real hammer and sickle blow to
Philby’s ego and the comment gets
a reaction that Burgess certainly
doesn’t see coming. DB

Ocean’s 8 111 h
10.25pm ITV1

Sandra Bullock leads the pack as
Danny Ocean’s sister, Debbie, in
this satisfying all-female spin-off.
Cate Blanchett (above), Helena
Bonham Carter and Rihanna are
among the all-star gang plotting
to stage an audacious heist at
New York’s Met Gala. (2017)

FILM REVIEWS
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GETTY; ALLSTAR

Countryfile

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SUNDAY Main Channels
DAYTIME

World on Fire

6.00am Breakfast Luxmy Gopal, Roger Johnson. (S) (HD)
9.00 BBC News (S) (HD)
10.00 Sunday Morning Live Topical debate. (S) (HD)
11.00 Becoming Parents: a Believer’s Guide 1/5
Exploring what faith can offer during some of life’s
most significant moments. (R) (S) (HD)
11.45 Homes under the Hammer Properties sold
at auction in London and Cheshire. (R) (S) (HD)
12.15pm Bargain Hunt From Shrewsbury. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
1.00 BBC News Weather for the Week Ahead (S) (HD)
1.15 Songs of Praise Claire McCollum visits the
Corrymeela Christian Community. (S) (HD)
1.50 Lifeline An appeal on behalf of Thrive. Rptd Tue 8.50am

9.00pm Lois (Julia

BBC2 (S) (HD) DONATIONS: call 0800 011 011, visit bbc.co.uk/lifeline or
post to Freepost, BBC Lifeline Appeal, with Thrive on the envelope

2/4 Series 2. Elephant. In southern Kenya, an
incredibly rare event presents a mother elephant
with the challenge of a lifetime — and pushes her
struggling family to its limits. Narrated by David
Attenborough. A box set is available on iPlayer.

4.50pm Garden Rescue

5.30pm Flog It!

In Swindon, Charlie Dimmock and Harry and David
Rich transform a family’s concrete jungle. (R) (S) (HD)

Paul Martin and experts Mark Stacey, Anita Manning
and David Fletcher are at Tatton Park in Cheshire
to assess items brought in by the public. (R) (S) (HD)

5.35 Dynasties II

BBC2

It’s hay-making season, so Charlotte Smith and Adam
Henson get stuck in and find out what makes one of
our oldest crops so important. Charlotte gets to work
on a farm on Cornwall’s Lizard Peninsula and meets
a wildlife photographer. At a polo match, Adam finds
out how high-end hay is helping horse owners get
ahead. Includes Weather for the Week Ahead.

9

Shown last Thu BBC Scotland Repeated Monday 7.30am (R) (S) (HD)

10.45 Saturday Kitchen Best Bites Highlights
from the series. Repeated Tuesday 6.20am (S) (HD)
12.15pm Pizza Boys 3/5. In Bardi, Italy. (R) (S) (HD)
12.45 A to Z of TV Cooking The letter H. (R) (S) (HD)
1.00 LIVE Triathlon Coverage of the sixth round
of the World Series in Sunderland. (S) (HD)
3.00—5.30 LIVE Gaelic Football Dublin v Kerry
The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final at
Croke Park, Dublin (throw-in 3.30). (S) (HD)
2 BBC RED BUTTON 4.15—6.45 Football The Women’s

Under-19 European Championship final from Belgium (k-o 4.30)

ITV1
6.00am CITV See page 56
8.25 Katie Piper’s Breakfast Show Joe Pasquale
and Anna Williamson join Katie. Signed repeat Fri (S) (HD)
9.25 Love Your Garden 4/12. Alan Titchmarsh and
his team build a sensory garden. Shown last Tue (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 LIVE Women’s World Cup Germany v
Colombia Laura Woods introduces coverage of
the Group H match at Sydney Football Stadium
(kick-off 10.30), with analysis from Emma Hayes and
former Spain international Vicky Losada. (S) (HD)
12.45pm ITV News Weather; Regional Weather (S) (HD)
1.00 Three Men and a Little Lady HH Comedy
with Tom Selleck and Steve Guttenberg. Review
page 57. Director Emile Ardolino (1990, PG) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
2.55—3.55 Moneyball 2/6. Ian Wright presents the
big-money game show. Shown Saturday 8pm (S) (AD) (HD)

9
q

Channel 4
6.15am Cheers Three episodes of the sitcom. (R) (S) (HD)
7.30 Bake Off: the Professionals 4/10 Series 6
Bread and butter pudding. Shown last Tuesday (S) (AD) (HD)
8.30 World Para Athletics Championships Ed
Jackson is joined by Tanni Grey-Thompson to review
the best action from the Paris event. (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)
9.30 Sunday Brunch With Pauline McLynn, Tom Read
Wilson, Darren Harriott, Bimini and Georgia. (S) (HD)
12.30pm The Simpsons Triple bill. (R) (S) (AD)
1.55 The Secret Life of the Zoo Memorable
moments of bad behaviour at Chester Zoo. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
3.00 Kirstie and Phil’s Love It or List It Kirstie
and Phil help a Lothianburn couple. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
4.00—4.30 Channel 4 News Sport; Weather (S) (HD)

2

Brown) is thrown
into the thick of
battle at a field
hospital in Egypt

Producer Lydia Baines; Series producer Simon Blakeney (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

5.20am LIVE Women’s World Cup South Korea v
Morocco Coverage of both teams’ second match
in Group H (kick-off 5.30). Highlights 7pm BBC3.
Full replay on the red button from 8.05pm. (S) (HD)
7.30 Switzerland v New Zealand Coverage of both
teams’ concluding match in Group A (kick-off 8.00).
Full replay on the red button from 11.45pm. Watch live
on iPlayer, which also has highlights of other matches.
Press red from 7.50am for Norway v Philippines. (S) (HD)
10.15 Beechgrove Garden Scott Smith checks
on the roses in the Picket Fence Garden.

BBC2
Memento 11.00pm
Can Leonard (Guy
Pearce) find his
wife’s killer when
his memory has
deserted him?

q

Director Wolfgang Petersen (1984, U) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)

Television SUNDAY

1

BBC1

2.05 Money for Nothing In Surrey. (Revised rpt) (S) (HD)
2.35 Escape to the Country A couple look for
their dream home in Wiltshire. (Revised rpt) (S) (HD)
3.20—4.50 The NeverEnding Story HHHH
Fantasy adventure starring Noah Hathaway.
Available on iPlayer for 30 days. Review page 57.

52

BBC1

6.35 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
7.00 Countryfile

Series producer Gavin Ahern; Series editor Mark Beech (S) (HD)

8.00 Antiques Roadshow
Fiona Bruce and the experts visit Ham House in
Richmond-upon-Thames, where an 18th-century
robe could be an important piece of Chinese history.
Other items brought in include a portrait by artist FN
Souza, a collection of silver from the Gulf state of
Oman, and a book that documents the moment
British atomic bombs were tested in 1956. A box set
of some previous episodes is available on iPlayer.
Executive producer Paolo Proto; Series editor Robert Murphy
Postponed from Sunday 16 July (R) (S) (HD)

9.00 World on Fire

Series 2. As Stan and Rajib make a hasty
43/6
retreat across the desert on foot, Marga

reasserts her commitment to the Führer. Meanwhile,
David leads a dangerous mission in the skies over
France. A box set is available on iPlayer. See p50.
Robina Chase
Lesley Manville
Sir James Danemere
Mark Bonnar
Lois Bennett
Julia Brown
Henriette
Eugénie Derouand
Stan
Blake Harrison
Harry Chase
Jonah Hauer-King
Rajib
Ahad Raza Mir
Albert
Parker Sawyers
David
Gregg Sulkin
Kasia Chase
Zofia Wichlacz
Jan Tomaszeski Eryk Biedunkiewicz
Marga
Miriam Schiweck
Astrid Mutti
Inga Dietrich

Briggs
Jonathan Harden
Joyce
Grace Chilton
Pearl
Lily Sacofsky
Dr Kommandant Andreas Schröeders
Barthez
Jules Dousset
Miles
Eric Kole
Greiser
Thomas Kitsche
Lotte
Meta Volkers
Luc
Arthur Choisnet
Möller
Alexander Koll
Cliff
Samuel Creasey
Bruno
Ciaran Flynn

Writer Matt Jones; Producers Angie Daniell and Amanda Black
Director Meenu Gaur (S) (AD) (HD)

Jane Garvey on the box: page 13

10.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
10.30 Pride HHHH

q

Comedy drama based on a true story. At the
height of the 1984 miners’ strike, a group of gay
and lesbian activists decide to show their solidarity
with the striking colliers by raising money for their
families. Despite little enthusiasm from the National
Union of Mineworkers, the activists decide to deliver
their donation in person and head to a Welsh village.
Available on iPlayer for 30 days. Review page 57.
Cliff
Hefina
Jonathan
Dai
Gethin
Joe

Bill Nighy
Imelda Staunton
Dominic West
Paddy Considine
Andrew Scott
George MacKay

Mike
Mark
Jeff
Sian
Margaret
Marion

Joseph Gilgun
Ben Schnetzer
Freddie Fox
Jessica Gunning
Liz White
Monica Dolan

Director Matthew Warchus (2014, 15) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
Also showing Friday 9.50pm BBC3

12.25am Weather for the Week Ahead (S) (HD)
12.30—6.00am BBC News (S) (HD)

BBC1 Freeview 1/HD 101 Freesat 101 Sky 101 Virgin 101

6.00 Electric Cars: What They Really
Mean for You
With new petrol and diesel cars to be banned from
sale in 2030, Justin Rowlatt, Michelle Ackerley and
environmental scientist Dr Tara Shine explore whether
electric cars are a viable option for the future.
Series producer Tim Usborne
Executive producers Andrew Shaw and Sam Bagnall
Shown last Tuesday BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD)

7.00 Today at the Test
Action from day four of the fifth Test in the Ashes
series between England and Australia, taking place
at the Oval in London. More tomorrow 7pm. (S) (HD)

8.00 Earth’s Tropical Islands

1/3. Madagascar. Exploring the beauty, abundance and
fragility of the world’s oldest island which, famed for
its lemurs, is also home to the largest array of unique
species to be found on any island. Tiny Labord’s
chameleons are unique to Madagascar and have the
shortest lifespan of any land vertebrate — living for
just four months. Meanwhile, ring-tailed lemurs spend
up to eight hours a day foraging in the Spiny Forest.
Producer Sara Douglas; Series producer Kathryn Jeffs (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Louis Theroux’s Forbidden America
Extreme and Online. Louis returns to the USA to
explore the impact of the internet and social media
on some of the most controversial corners of
American society. He begins his journey by meeting
the new influencers of the far right — leaders of
a racist, sexist and homophobic movement that’s
capturing a growing audience online.
Director Dan Dewsbury; Producer Rory Toher
Postponed from Sunday 16 July (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 The Misadventures of Romesh
Ranganathan
Series 2. For Romesh, the name Bosnia-Herzegovina
is inextricably linked with conflict, following the civil
war of the 1990s. Now the sardonic comic is keen to
find out if there is more to the place than bombs and
bullet holes. With the help of his tour guide, museum
curator Skender Hatibovic, he braves Sarajevo’s
abandoned Olympic bobsleigh track, meets the
Bosnian who claims to have discovered the world’s
largest pyramid and spends a night in a “war hostel”.
Director Morgan Roberts
Executive producers Emily Hudd and Morgan Roberts (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

11.00 Memento 5

starring Guy Pearce and Carrie-Anne
qThriller
Moss. Leonard Shelby is determined to avenge

the murder of his wife, but is hampered by shortterm memory loss after a blow to the head. Forced
to record everything with copious notes, Polaroid
photographs and even tattoos, Leonard’s obsession
leads him into a world where no one can be trusted.
Available on iPlayer for 30 days. Review page 57.

Leonard Shelby
Natalie
Teddy
Burt

Guy Pearce
Carrie-Anne Moss
Joe Pantoliano
Mark Boone Junior

Sammy Jankis Stephen Tobolowsky
Mrs Jankis
Harriet Sansom Harris
Dodd
Callum Keith Rennie
Waiter
Russ Fega

Director Christopher Nolan (2000, 15) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)

12.50—3.15am Sign Zone 12.50 The Hidden World of
Hospitality with Tom Kerridge 1/8. Tom Kerridge lifts the
lid on the industry he knows and loves, starting with the
competitive world of fine dining. Shown last Thu (S) (AD) (HD)
1.50 Reframed: Marilyn Monroe 1/4. Documentary
series examining the life and work of the actress. (S) (AD) (HD)
2.30 2/4. Marilyn’s rise to the top is nearly ruined when
news breaks that she posed nude earlier in her career.
Both episodes shown last Friday (S) (AD) (HD)

BBC2 Freeview 2/HD 102 Freesat 102 Sky 102 Virgin 102

SUNDAY 30 JULY
ITV1

3

Channel 4

A Year on Planet
Earth 8.00pm
Bears in Canada
endure freezing
temperatures as
autumn arrives

Our Guy in
Colombia 9.00pm
Downhill fast: Guy
Martin tries out a
hair-raising form
of speed cycling

3.55pm Licence to Kill HHH

4.30pm LIVE Formula E

q

Spy adventure starring Timothy Dalton.
James Bond seeks revenge when his best
friend Felix Leiter is attacked by a drugs baron.
But after ignoring orders to give up the case,
Bond’s licence to kill is revoked. Review p57.
James Bond
Pam Bouvier
Franz Sanchez

Timothy Dalton Lupe Lamora
Carey Lowell Milton Krest
Robert Davi Sharkey

Talisa Soto
Anthony Zerbe
Frank McRae

Director John Glen (1989, 15) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)

6.30 ITV News
Weather; Regional News and Weather

(S) (HD)

7.00 Tipping Point: Lucky Stars
Ben Shephard presents as Katie Piper, Antony
Cotton and Jonathan Ross take turns on the
supersized arcade machine in an attempt to
scoop the jackpot for their chosen charities.

8.00 A Year on Planet Earth

Autumn. For many animals, autumn
44/4.
is a season of change. In northern Canada,

Director/Producer Alex Ranken First shown on ITVX Signed
repeat Tuesday 5.05am Rptd Friday 11.45pm (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 A Spy among Friends

4

4/6. Vodka. Philby appears to either be
working for the CIA or against them, as he
draws in his wary KGB inquisitors. Elliott rattles
Blunt’s cage and follows him to a meeting with
another potential traitor. The whole series is
available as a box set on ITVX. See page 51.

Nicholas Elliott
Damian Lewis
Kim Philby
Guy Pearce
Lily Thomas Anna Maxwell Martin
James Jesus Angleton
Stephen Kunken
Sir Roger Hollis Adrian Edmondson
Sir Anthony Blunt
Nicholas Rowe
Guy Burgess
Thomas Arnold
Donald Maclean
Daniel Lapaine
Galina
Monika Gossmann
Iris
Jennifer Marsala
Orchis
Alexander Terentyev
Elizabeth Elliott
Lucy Akhurst

Dr Robert Thomas
Gershwyn Eustache Jnr
Dora Philby
Kate Fahy
Giovanni
Jacob James Beswick
Mueller
Cristina Catalina
Joe
Mark Flitton
Tim Milne
Steven Elder
Col Sergei Brontov
Karel Roden
MI5 plumber
Gilly Gilchrist
Embassy duty officer David Coomber
American reporter
Jed Aukin
KGB general
Alex Sharbek
KGB suit 1
Aaron Vodovaz

Dramatised by Alexander Cary; Producer Chrissy Skinns
Director Nick Murphy First shown on ITVX (S) (AD) (HD)

10.10 ITV News
Weather; Regional Weather

(S) (HD)

10.25 Ocean’s 8 HHH

caper. On her release from prison,
q Crime
con artist Debbie Ocean reunites with her

old partner-in-crime, Lou Miller. They set about
co-ordinating an audacious new heist: stealing
a $150 million necklace. Film of the Day: p57.

Action from the 13th round of the season, staged
at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. Max Verstappen
of Red Bull won here for the second successive
year in 2022, but he still has some way to go
before he matches Michael Schumacher’s
record six victories in this race. (S) (HD)

9.00 Our Guy in Colombia

4

2/2. Guy Martin continues his tour of the
country’s secret side by trying his hand at a
semi-illegal cycling sport, where the goal is to
drop down the steepest mountain roads as
quickly as possible on modified bikes,using extra
weight to go faster. After climbing onboard a
cartel’s drug smuggling narco-submarine to see
how it could be built in a jungle workshop, Guy
gets face to face with a drug dealer and former
employee of the notorious Pablo Escobar. Both
episodes available to stream. See page 51.
Director James Woodroffe; Producer Amy Roff
Repeated 11.05pm 4seven (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 Gogglebox
The armchair critics share their opinions on
TV shows from September 2022, including
Frozen Planet II, Ninja Warrior UK: Race for
Glory, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Married at
First Sight UK, the BBC news special announcing
the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the King’s
address to the nation, and ITV News reports on
Princes William and Harry on walkabout.
Executive producers Mike Cotton, Leon Campbell and
Victoria Ray (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

10.55 Queer as Folk US

3/8. Welcome to the Hellmouth. Using money
raised by the survivors’ fund, Brodie throws an
unforgettable party to honour his lost friends.
Ruthie lies to Shar once again, while Judy is
finding it difficult to connect with Mingus.
Signed repeat Wednesday 12.55am (S) (AD) (HD)

12 midnight 4/8. #F***DisabledPeople
Marvin and Ali hold a special celebration for
those with disabilities. With Ruthie and Shar
desperate to have a night out, Brodie agrees to
babysit — but things don’t go as planned. Mingus
goes to Bussey’s drag school, while Julian is
hopeful he might have met someone special.
Bussey
Ali
Judy
Brenda Beaumont
Skyler
Bobby
Leo

Armand Fields
Sachin Bhatt
Juliette Lewis
Kim Cattrall
Aiden Torres
Jim Braswell
Nyle DiMarco

Signed repeat Wednesday 1.55am (S) (AD) (HD)

12.35am Long Lost Family 4/7. Davina McCall and
Nicky Campbell present. Shown last Monday (S) (AD) (HD)
1.30 Romeo and Duet Dating show. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
2.20 Paul Sinha’s TV Showdown Quiz. (R) (S) (HD)
3.00 Motorsport UK Richard John Neil introduces
action from Snetterton. Shown last Monday ITV4 (S) (HD)
3.50 Unwind A sequence to calm the mind. (S) (HD)
5.05—6.00am Jason Atherton’s Dubai Dishes 2/10
Breakfast and brunch. Shown Sat 10.35am (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)

1.00am Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA Gordon
visits a French bistro in the town of Cranbury, New
Jersey, and is compelled to shut it down. (R) (S) (SL) (HD)
1.50 Come Dine with Me Dinner parties from in and
around Newcastle feature up-market gastro pub food
and an experimental vegetarian menu. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
4.00 Love It or List It Australia A Californian-style
bungalow in a prestigious Sydney suburb with a leaky
roof and rooms that are full of mould. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
4.55 Grand Designs A couple set out to replace their
old boathouse with a cutting-edge home. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
5.50—6.15am Beat the Chef Keen barbecue fan
Richard tries to give chef Frederick Forster a grilling in
the kitchen with his favourite tomahawk steak. (R) (S) (HD)

ITV1 Freeview 3/HD 103 Freesat 103 Sky 103 Virgin 103
+1 Freeview 35 Freesat 112 Sky 203 Virgin 303

Channel 4 Freeview 4/HD 104 Freesat 104 Sky 104 Virgin 104
+1 Freeview 15 Freesat 121 Sky 204 Virgin 304

Debbie Ocean
Lou
Daphne Kluger

Sandra Bullock Rose Weil
Cate Blanchett Tammy
Anne Hathaway Amita

Helena Bonham Carter
Sarah Paulson
Mindy Kaling

Director Gary Ross (2017, 12) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)

Producer Andrew Wiltshire; Series producer
Simon Goretzki Repeated 2.30am (R) (S) (HD)

8.00 BBC Proms

BBC1 WALES

virtuoso Bomsori
performs Bruch
as she makes
her Proms debut

6.30 Formula One: Belgian Grand
Prix — Highlights

BBC
SCOTLAND
7.00pm The Seven
7.15 Rewind 2000s:
news, music and TV of
2005 7.30 In Tandem:
the Neil Fachie Story:
a profile of Scotland’s
most decorated track
cyclist 8.30 Scotland’s
Greatest Escape: best
friends Suzie and Shirley
try out waterfront
getaways 9.00 Island
Crossings: twenty new
apprentices join the
ranks of Caledonian
MacBrayne 10.00 Still
Game: Jack and Victor
become radio DJs at
the hospital 10.30
Two Doors Down
11.00—12 midnight
Seven Days

BBC Proms
8.00pm Violin

Race two of the final meeting of the season, the
London ePrix, held at ExCeL (start 5.00). Great
Britain’s Jake Dennis and Brazilian Lucas di
Grassi won a race apiece here last year. (S) (HD)

Mingus
Fin Argus
Shar
CG
Ruthie O’Neil Jesse James Keitel
Julian Beaumont
Ryan O’Connell
Noah Hernandez
Johnny Sibilly
Brodie Beaumont
Devin Way
Marvin
Eric Graise

9

24 in Scotland

7.00pm Sir Simon Rattle at
the BBC
A compilation of the conductor’s finest
performances from the BBC archive,
featuring his work at the BBC Proms.

4

South Korean virtuoso Bomsori
makes her Proms debut
performing Bruch’s ever-popular
First Violin Concerto with the BBC
Philharmonic, conducted by Anja
Bihlmaier. In an evening of music
inspired by the folk traditions of
Hungary, host Katya Adler is joined by
composer and cellist Ayanna WitterJohnson to discuss the enduring power
of folk. And after almost a century,
there’s a welcome return to the Proms
of the piece that launched the career
of Croydon-based British composer,
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. See page 50.
Coleridge-Taylor Ballade in A minor
Bruch Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor
Brahms Hungarian Dances: No 1 in G
minor; No 3 in F; No 10 in F
Bartok Concerto for Orchestra.
Director Matthew Woodward
Producer Jyoti Mehta (S) (HD)

9.55 Being Beethoven

3/3. In 1815, the death of Beethoven’s
brother is the catalyst for a protracted
period during which the composer’s
desire for love and family tips over
into obsession. That leads, eventually,
to his extraordinary late music — the
Missa solemnis, the Late Quartets and
the Ninth Symphony. Pianist Paul
Lewis explores the beauty and
brutality of the Diabelli Variations, and
the Takacs Quartet play the sublime
Hymn of Thanksgiving from Op 132.

5.35pm Pizza Boys:
pizza chefs Jez and
Ieuan stop off in Monaco
6.05—6.35 Iolo’s
Anglesey: Iolo Williams
heads out to sea to look
for risso’s dolphins

BBC2 WALES
12.15—12.45pm
Weatherman Walking:
the Black Mountains in
the Brecon Beacons
and the Glyders in
Snowdonia 5.30 Electric
Cars: What They Really
Mean for You
6.30—7.00 Iolo: a Wild
Life: Iolo Williams
recalls one of his first
appearances on TV
back in 1996 9.00 The
Prince and the Bomber:
the period leading up
to King Charles’s
investiture as Prince of
Wales 10.00—11.00
Louis Theroux’s
Forbidden America

STV
3.50—5.05am
Night Vision

Television

as the temperature plummets as low as -20°C,
bears fish for the final salmon of the season.
Meanwhile, in southern Africa, the rains have
been gone for months and the watering holes
have all but dried up, leaving an elephant calf
vulnerable to predators. The whole series is
available as a box set on ITVX. See page 50.

BBC4

SUNDAY

Director Richard van’t Riet; Executive producers Sara Doyle,
Kate Lownds and Hugh Rycroft (S) (HD)

4

7 in Wales

Producer Flora Stewart
Series producer Phil Cairney (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

10.55 The Ascent of Man

3/13. The Grain in the Stone. Jacob
Bronowski considers the new skills
that were required when nomads
began to settle within townships,
which would lead to the development
of science in the form of architecture.
Repeated tomorrow 12.30am (R) (S) (HD)

11.45 4/13. The Hidden Structure
Dr Jacob Bronowski traces the evolution
of chemistry, from the techniques of
ancient metallurgy in China and Japan
to the mystical searchings of the
alchemists and Dalton’s atomic theory.
Both editions first shown in 1973.
Director Mick Jackson; Producer Dick Gilling
Repeated tomorrow 1.20am (R) (S) (HD)

12.35am David Bowie: Cracked Actor
Alan Yentob’s seminal documentary, originally
shown as part of Omnibus in 1975, following
David Bowie across America on his 1974
Diamond Dogs tour. Shown last Wed (S) (AD) (HD)
1.30 How the Wild West Was Won with
Ray Mears 3/3. Deserts. How the hostile
landscapes of America’s five great deserts
challenged the pioneers’ westward push.
Shown yesterday 8pm (S) (AD) (HD)

2.30—3.30am Sir Simon Rattle at
the BBC Shown 7pm (S) (HD)
BBC4 F’view 9/HD 106 F’sat 108 Sky 116 Virgin 108

a RT Choice m Family 2 Red button (R) Repeat (S) Subtitles (SL) Signing (AD) Audio description (HD) High def FILMS i Premiere (W) Widescreen (BW) Black/white

Channel 5
listings are overleaf

Outstanding HHHH Very good HHH Worth watching HH Could be worse H Poor

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Channel 5

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ITV3

10

Drama

20

Coastguard: Search and Rescue SOS
9.00pm Rescue pilot Mark Coupland

Beautiful Boy 9.10pm Nic and David
struggle to overcome their problems

The Larkins 8.05pm Can Ma, Pop and
the family change Mariette’s mind?

Jonathan Creek 7.20pm Jonathan
and Polly meet a retired local psychic

5.35am Milkshake! See page 56
10.00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The team battles a giant cockroach. (S) (HD)
10.25 Entertainment News (S) (HD)
10.35 Friends Series 2. Monica poisons Ross.
11.05 Ross lists Rachel’s good and bad points.
11.35 Phoebe learns the truth. (S) (AD) (HD)
12.05pm Police Interceptors Dog handler
Darren attempts to end a stand-off. (S) (HD)
1.05 A driver causes carnage. (S) (HD)
2.05 Inside the Tower of London The
Tower’s curators turn detective. (S) (HD)
3.00 The Tower plans an ambitious
installation for the Platinum Jubilee. (S) (HD)

7.00pm New. Women’s World Cup
Highlights

6.00am Never the Twain (S) 7.00 A Touch
of Frost: Series 1. Not with Kindness. An
unwelcome house guest infuriates DI Frost;
9.10 Conclusions. The detective investigates
a robbery at a local casino (S) (SL) (AD) 11.15
FILM Carry On Matron HHH Comedy. Petty
criminal Sid Carter masterminds a scheme
to steal contraceptive pills from a hospital
and sell them abroad. (S) (AD) (W)
1.00pm Doc Martin: 8/8 Series 7 The Doctor
Is Out. Louisa fears that Martin may have left
Portwenn (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 A Touch of Frost:
Series 2. Widows and Orphans. Jack investigates
attacks on elderly people (S) (AD) (HD) 4.10
Agatha Christie’s Marple: Greenshaw’s Folly. A
murderer strikes at a country house (S) (AD) (HD)

7.10am The Bill: five episodes. Cathy
Bradford makes a serious error; 8.00 Robbie
Cryer is suspended and ostracised; 9.00
Honey Harman and Gary Best hunt for a
sword-wielding maniac; 10.00 Eva Sharpe
is suspected of police brutality; 11.00 Eva
Sharpe comes under investigation (S)
12 noon Call the Midwife: 7/11 Series 8
Mother Mildred decides it’s time for Sister
Frances to attend a birth on her own; 1.00pm
8/11. Shelagh distracts herself from May’s
impending adoption by organising a
fundraiser (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 Dickensian:
12/20. Compeyson is prevented from
attending an important meeting with Amelia;
3.00 13/20. Arthur and Jaggers warn
Amelia not to rush into things with
Compeyson (S) (AD) (HD) 4.05 Catherine
Cookson’s The Black Candle: period drama
starring Cathy Sandford as a woman who
sets out to prove her husband innocent of
murder. With Samantha Bond (S)

4.00pm Victoria: the Queen Who
Ruled the World
The queen’s diaries, journals and letters.
Series director Stuart Strickson (Revised rpt) (S) (HD)
6.00 5 News (S) (HD)

Television SUNDAY

BBC3

6.05 Dorset: Country and Coast

Ep 1. Exploring the county’s countryside,
charming seaside towns and dramatic
coastlines, starting in Lyme Regis.
First shown last Wednesday (S) (HD)

7.00 Waitrose: Britain’s Poshest
Supermarket
Industry insiders and members of the
public explain the secret of Waitrose’s
success and the customers it attracts.
Director/Producer Elliot Kew (S) (HD)

8.00 New. Million Pound
Motorhomes

3/10 Series 4. Simon and Julie take
their cheerleader daughter to Croatia
in their converted delivery van, while in
the USA, Erick and Krystle proudly
show off their converted bus.
Series producer Kate Drysdale (S) (HD)

9.00 New. Coastguard: Search and
Rescue SOS

4

5/6. The team in Fareham receives
a call from a passer-by who can
hear someone in distress under
Boscombe Pier, Bournemouth. See p51.
Series producer Gursharan Singh Nijjar
Repeated Thursday 12.05am (S) (HD)

10.00 Police: Hour of Duty
Officers rush to a fire at a block of flats.
But when one resident fails to open their
door, they are forced to take drastic action.
Directors Sam Barnes, Leanne Chuter, Ben Cotton,
Benedict Adams and Candace Davies (S) (HD)

10.55 Police Code Zero: Officer
under Attack
In north Wales, PC Emma Birrell
pursues a gang of suspected burglars.
Director/Producer Laura Ellis (S) (HD)

11.55 Surgeons: a Matter of Life
or Death

Ep 2. A man in need of a liver transplant
gives surgeons cause for concern.
First shown last Thursday (S) (HD)

12.55am Entertainment News (S) (HD)
1.00 Home Shopping (S) (HD) 3.00 Rich
Holiday, Poor Holiday (S) (HD) 3.50 Tribal
Teens (S) (SL) (HD) 4.40 Wildlife SOS (S) (SL)
5.05 House Doctor (S) (SL) 5.30—5.35am
Entertainment News (S) (HD)
C5 Freeview 5/HD 105 Freesat 105 Sky 105 Virgin 105
+1 Freeview 38 Freesat 128 Sky 205 Virgin 305

BBC4 listings are overleaf

Action from the latest group fixtures,
featuring South Korea v Morocco, Norway
v Philippines, Switzerland v New Zealand
and Germany v Colombia. (S) (HD)

7.30 EastEnders
Stacey is petrified she has got a stalker.
Alfie gets on the wrong side of his new boss.
Shown last Thu BBC1 Cast Tue/Thu BBC1 (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 New. The Traitors Australia

10/12. A traitor finds themselves in danger
of banishment. More tomorrow 8pm. The
whole series is available on iPlayer. (S) (HD)

6.05pm Rosemary and Thyme

9.10 Beautiful Boy HHH

q

Drama based on a true story starring
Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet.
David Sheff discovers that his son Nic has
been abusing drugs, and checks him into
a rehab clinic. After years of relapses, the
father and son must come to terms with
the pain of addiction. On iPlayer for 26 days.
Director Felix van Groeningen (2018, 15) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)

11.05 Glow Up: Britain’s Next
Make-Up Star

3/8 Series 1. Social-media influencer Nikkie
de Jager challenges the competitors to
produce a make-up challenge video with
the potential to go viral. (S) (HD)
12.05am The seven remaining candidates
are each allocated a celebrity and told
they must get them red-carpet ready in just
45 minutes. A box set is on iPlayer. (S) (HD)
1.05 Made Up in Belfast (S) (AD) (HD)
3.35—4.00am My Mate’s a Bad Date (S) (HD)
BBC3 F’view 23/HD 107 (not Scot/Wales) F’sat 179/HD 107
Sky 115 (117 Wales; 141 Scotland) Virgin 107 (157 Scotland/Wales)

ITV2

6

6.00am World’s Funniest Videos (S) (HD)
6.35 Totally Bonkers Guinness World
Records (S) (HD) 7.00 Secret Crush (S) (SL)
(HD) 10.05 Dress to Impress (S) (HD)
12.10pm Supermarket Sweep (S) (HD) 1.10
Family Fortunes (S) (HD) 2.15 Catchphrase
(S) (HD) 3.05 FILM The Mitchells vs the
Machines HHHH Animated sci-fi comedy
featuring the voices of Abbi Jacobson and
Danny McBride (S) (AD) (W) (HD) 5.15 FILM
Stuart Little HHH Part-animated fantasy
adventure based on EB White’s children’s
story, starring Hugh Laurie (S) (W) (HD)
7.00 FILM Yes Man HHH Comedy starring
Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel. A man with
a previously negative outlook on life agrees to
a year of saying yes to every opportunity after
attending a self-improvement seminar. But
supernatural forces seem to conspire against
him when he breaks his pact. (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
9.00 New. Love Island It’s the eve of the
Love Island live final and the Spanish villa
is full of nerves, with everybody desperate
to claim the first prize of £50,000. (S) (HD)
10.00 New. Love Island: Aftersun Maya
Jama dissects all the latest news and gossip
from the final week in the villa. (S) (HD)
11.05 Family Guy Series 8. Brian and
Stewie are accidentally locked inside a
bank vault for a weekend. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.35 Brian is hired by a magazine and
decides to follow Meg for research. (S) (AD) (HD)
12 midnight American Dad!: double bill of the
animated sitcom (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00am The Stand
Up Sketch Show (S) (HD) 1.30 All American (S)
(HD) 2.20 Totally Bonkers Guinness World
Records (S) (SL) 2.50—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

ITV2 Freeview 6 Freesat 113 Sky 118 Virgin 115
+1 Freeview 29 Freesat 114 Sky 218 Virgin 315

6/8 Series 2. The Italian Rapscallion
A woman is mysteriously killed during a
tour of the Giardini Tremonti in Italy. (S)
7.05 7/8. Swords into Ploughshares.
Archaeologist Gemma Jackson is killed while
posing as a gardener at Engleton Manor. (S)

8.05 The Larkins

6/6 Series 1. In Which the Larkins are
Determined to Convince Mariette to Stay
The family go to extreme lengths to persuade
Mariette not to leave for France. (S) (AD) (HD)

6.20pm Sister Boniface Mysteries

10/10 Series 2. Good Samaritan. A killer
resurfaces in Great Slaughter. (S) (AD) (HD)

7.20 Jonathan Creek

9.00 Joanna Lumley’s Silk Road
Adventure

2/4 Series 1. Georgia and Azerbaijan.
The actress follows the Silk Road from the
Black Sea to the Caspian Sea. (S) (AD) (HD)

2/3 Series 5. The Sinner and the Sandman
Jonathan and Polly find their apparently
serene country village is riddled with all
manner of strange and disturbing
undercurrents. (AD) (HD)
8.40 3/3. The Curse of the Bronze Lamp
An act of teleportation leaves Jonathan
lost for words. (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 Endeavour

10.00 Death in Holy Orders

4/4 Series 3. Coda. DC Morse has trouble in
his personal life when he’s asked to monitor
the movements of the estranged younger
wife of his old college mentor. (S) (AD) (HD)
12 midnight Upstairs, Downstairs: Series 3
A Change of Scene. Hudson is offered a new
position (S) 1.05am The Royal: 9/12 Series 6
An industrial dispute hits the hospital;
2.05 10/12. A train crash leads to tragedy (S)
(AD) 3.10 A Touch of Frost: Series 1. Care
and Protection. Jack searches for a missing
child (S) (AD) 5.05 Never the Twain (S)
5.35—6.00am Unwind (S) (HD)
ITV3 Freeview 10 Freesat 115 Sky 119 Virgin 117
+1 F’view 59 (9pm—4am) F’sat 116 Sky 219 Virgin 317

ITV4

26

6.00am Great Racehorses (S) (HD) 6.25
New. Motorsport Mundial (S) (HD) 6.55 New.
Auto Mundial (S) (HD) 7.20 Motorsport UK (S)
(HD) 8.25 New. Lost Car Rescue (S) (HD) 9.25
World Rally Highlights (S) (HD) 10.25 New.
SailGP Highlights (S) (HD) 11.30 LIVE British
Touring Car Championship: the 16th, 17th and
18th races of the season, from Croft (S) (HD)
6.30pm River Monsters Tracking down a
deadly fish in southern Africa. (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00 FILM Guns of the Magnificent Seven
HH Second sequel to the classic western,
starring George Kennedy as the leader of a
group of seven mercenaries. (S) (W) (HD)
9.10 FILM Pale Rider HHH Western
directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. A
group of miners are intimidated by a ruthless
mine owner, but a mysterious preacher
arrives to offer protection. (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
11.35 FILM Gran Torino HHH Drama
starring Clint Eastwood. A retired veteran is
thrown into conflict with his neighbours after
one of them tries to take his car. (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
1.55am Robson and Jim’s Icelandic Fly-Fishing
Adventure (S) (SL) (HD) 3.00 Unwind (S) (HD)
3.55 Minder: Arthur is conned (S) (SL) (AD)
5.00—6.00am The Sweeney (S) (SL)

ITV4 Freeview 26 Freesat 117 Sky 120 Virgin 118
+1 Freesat 118 Sky 220 Virgin 318

1/2. PD James thriller starring Martin Shaw.
Commander Adam Dalgleish investigates
the case of a suspected serial killer. (S)

11.55 Luther

3/4 Series 5. The detective’s friend is
in danger, while a woman has been
kidnapped by the serial killer. (S) (AD) (HD)
1.10am 4/4. With Luther absent, Halliday
hunts for a killer on the loose. (S) (AD) (HD)
2.20—4.00am Gracie!: Jane Horrocks stars
as the music hall diva Gracie Fields in this
romantic biographical drama (S) (HD)
Drama Freeview 20 Freesat 158 Sky 143 Virgin 116
+1 Freeview 60 Sky 243 Virgin 316

ITVBe

28

7.00am The Real Housewives of Atlanta (S)
(HD) 8.00 Masters of Flip (S) (HD) 9.00
LittleBe: children’s programmes (HD)
12 noon Be Beautiful (S) (AD) (HD) 12.10pm
Unboxed (S) (HD) 12.45 The Real Housewives
of Orange County (S) (HD) 5.30 Gino’s
Italian Express: two editions (S) (AD) (HD)
6.40pm FILM Runaway Bride HHH
Romantic comedy starring Julia Roberts and
Richard Gere. When chauvinistic columnist
Ike Graham delivers a vicious attack on
Maggie Carpenter, who has abandoned three
bridegrooms at the altar, her retaliation gets
him fired. In an effort to clear his name, he
travels to her home town, just in time for her
fourth wedding. Review page 57. (S) (W) (HD)
9.00 Totally Unbelievable: Celebrity
Weddings The most over-the-top A-list
celebrity nuptials of all time. (S) (HD)
10.00 New. The Real Housewives of Miami
The women head to the Hamptons. (S) (HD)
11.00 For Real: the Story of Reality TV
The search for love on TV shows. (S) (HD)
11.55 Bridezillas Veronica plans a
wedding she does not want. (S) (HD)
12.50—1.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

ITVBe Freeview 28 Freesat 119 Sky 131 Virgin 119
+1 Virgin 319

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SUNDAY 30 JULY
More4

18

Sky Arts

11

Yesterday

27

5 USA

21

9.00am Columbo: five episodes
5.00pm Columbo: double bill. Series 4. The
slovenly sleuth sets out on a pleasure cruise
7.00 Series 3. A high-ranking police officer
helps a rich friend to conceal a murder 9.00
NCIS Series 11. Gibbs calls in NSA analyst Ellie
Bishop for help when a listening device is
found in a pen belonging to the Secretary of
the Navy (AD) 10.00 Law & Order: Special
Victims Unit Series 18. Double bill. A woman
makes a false accusation, then the team
investigates a hockey team, where bullying
of new players has taken a dangerous turn

PopMaster TV 8.00pm Ken Bruce

asks the questions in the fourth heat

‘Allo ‘Allo! 8.00pm Edith is shocked
to see a familiar face in London

6.00am Pavarotti: tenth Anniversary Gala
7.15 Queen and Béjart: Ballet for Life
8.30 Tales of the Unexpected (AD) 11.00
Stories from the National Portrait Gallery
12 noon Bill Bailey’s Master Crafters: the Next
Generation (AD) 1.00pm The Joy of Painting
2.00 The Directors 2.55 Tom Petty and the
Heartbreakers: Live from Gatorville
5.20pm I Am Alfred Hitchcock Interviews
and archival footage weave together to tell
the story of the Master of Suspense,
one of the most influential and studied
film-makers in the history of cinema. (AD)
7.00 The Joy of Painting Bob Ross paints
a scene featuring a lakeside path.
7.30 Creating a mountain scene, all inside a
unique oval shape on canvas.
8.00 FILM The Adventures of Sherlock
Holmes HHHH Mystery starring Basil
Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. The sleuth tries
to prevent Professor Moriarty from carrying
out the crime of the century. (BW) (W)
9.40 The Great Songwriters A candid
profile and exclusive performances from
the songwriter Norah Jones.
10.40 Greatest Albums Live Singer/
songwriter Gregory Porter and his band
perform the Grammy-winning Liquid Spirit.

6.10am Nazi Hunters 8.00 The World at War
12 noon Great British Railway Journeys
1.00pm Great British Railway Journeys Goes
to Ireland 3.30 Great British Railway
Journeys 4.00 Bangers and Cash (AD)
6.00pm Bangers and Cash Derek
collects a beautifully restored and carefully
modified 1936 Wolseley 14/56. (AD)
7.00 Paul’s doing the pick-ups in Lancashire,
where a rare 1960 Vauxhall Cresta PA Friary
estate in dusky pink awaits.(AD)
8.00 ’Allo ’Allo! Rene and Edith are
rewarded with medals by Churchill.
8.40 General Von Klinkerhoffen, tiring of
the amount of Resistance propaganda in
town, decides to restart the local newspaper.
9.20 Michelle tries to steal the Fallen
Madonna to boost the Resistance funds.
10.00 Secrets of the London Underground
Tim Dunn and Siddy Holloway head to the
abandoned station of British Museum. (AD)
11.00 Retro Electro Workshop Shamil
is inspired to buy an original 1980s
Sinclair C5 for Rob to repair. (AD)

More4 F’view 18 F’sat 124 Sky 136 Virgin 147
+1 Freesat 125 Sky 236 Virgin 347

Sky Arts Freeview 11 Freesat 147 Sky 130
Virgin 140/HD 123 BT 350/HD 365

E4

13

6.00am Hollyoaks: omnibus (AD) 8.30 Modern
Family 8.55 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA
12.50pm FILM The SpongeBob Movie:
Sponge out of Water HHHH Part-animated
comedy adventure (AD) 2.35 The Big Bang
Theory: seven back-to-back episodes (AD)
6.00pm FILM Galaxy Quest 5 Sci-fi
spoof starring Tim Allen and Alan Rickman.
Almost 20 years after the cancellation of
their TV show, the actors meet a strange
group of fans. They turn out to be aliens who
believe that only the cast of Galaxy Quest
can save them from a warmonger. (AD)
8.00 New. Young Sheldon 5/21 Series 6.
Meemaw and Dale make a business deal,
Mary and George Sr rekindle their romance,
and Sheldon expands his responsibilities. (AD)
8.30 New. 6/21. George Sr is asked to help
out with the local football team. (AD)
9.00 FILM Daddy’s Home Two HHH
Comedy sequel starring Mark Wahlberg and
Will Ferrell. A father and stepfather put their
differences behind them at Christmas, but
their partnership is put to the test when their
own dads arrive. Also showing Friday 9pm (AD)
10.55 Naked Attraction A 28-year-old nature
lover hopes to find his first ever girlfriend (AD)
12 midnight Gogglebox (SL) (AD) 2.00am First
Dates (SL) (AD) 3.00 Gogglebox (SL) (AD)
3.50—6.00am Hollyoaks: omnibus (SL) (AD)

E4 Freeview 13 Freesat 122 Sky 135 Virgin 106
+1 Freeview 30 Freesat 123 Sky 235 Virgin 306
E4 Extra Freeview 31 Freesat 181 Sky 138 Virgin 287

Really

17

6.00am Fantasy Homes by the Sea 7.00
Shopping 8.00 Fantasy Homes by the Sea 10.00
A Place in the Sun 3.00pm The Hotel Inspector
4.00 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 7.00 The
Yorkshire Auction House 8.00 Dr Pimple Popper
9.00 The Bad Skin Clinic: Michelle’s condition has
caused her whole face to become inflamed 10.00
My Baby Has Two Heads: Body Bizarre 11.00 The
Dead Files 12 midnight Death Walker with Nick
Groff 1.00am Ghost Adventures 2.00 Shopping
4.00—6.00am Fantasy Homes by the Sea

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9.00am Four in a Bed 2.00pm A Place in
the Sun 3.00 A Place in the Sun: Home or
Away: double bill 5.00 A Place in the Sun
6.00pm A Place in the Sun: Home or
Away A home in Dorset or Spain.
7.00 A Place in the Sun Searching for a
property in La Mata on Spain’s Costa Blanca.
8.00 The Dog House Zoe the friendly
beagle has been looking for a new home for
a while, so can yoga teacher Venessa and
her son Jacob fall for her charms? (AD)
9.00 Celebrity Gogglebox 2022 The best
moments from 2022’s Celebrity Gogglebox.
The famous faces involved include Gyles
Brandreth, Joanna Lumley, Tom Allen, Rob
Beckett, Zoe Ball and Mo Gilligan. (AD)
10.00 999: on the Front Line Ep 5 Series 8
A patient with diabetes collapses with
dangerously high blood sugar levels.
11.05 RT CHOICE Our Guy in Colombia
2/2 Series 1. Guy Martin tries his hand at a
semi-illegal cycling sport, where the goal
is to drop down the steepest mountain
roads as quickly as possible on modified
bikes. See page 51. Shown 9pm Channel 4 (AD)
12.05am 24 Hours in A&E (AD) 1.05 Sky Coppers
(AD) 2.10 Gogglebox (AD) 3.15 The Secret Life of
the Zoo (AD) 4.10—4.40am Four in a Bed

4seven Freeview 49 Freesat 127 Sky 137 Virgin 143

Quest

12

6.00am Treasures of the Terracotta Army 7.00
Conspiracies Decoded 8.00 The Repair Shop
9.00 Salvage Hunters: the Restorers 10.00 Who
Do You Think You Are? 11.00 The Yorkshire
Auction House 1.00pm Salvage Hunters Celebrity
Special 2.00 Salvage Hunters 3.00 Tom Kerridge
Barbecues 4.00 The Hairy Bikers Go North 5.00
Find It, Fix It, Flog It 7.00 Shed and Buried 8.00
Salvage Hunters 9.00 The Repair Shop 10.00
New. Derelict Rescue: young renovators want to
transform a crumbling Methodist chapel 11.00
FILM Wyatt Earp HHHH Epic western starring
Kevin Costner FILM 3.00—5.00am FILM Due
Date HHH Comedy with Robert Downey Jr (W)

Quest Freeview 12 Freesat 172/HD 167 Sky 144 Virgin 137
Really Freeview 17 Freesat 160 Sky 142 Virgin 128
+1 Freeview 70 Freesat 168 Sky 244 Virgin 337
BBC News Freeview 231 Freesat 212 Sky 503 Virgin 601 Sky News Freeview 233 Freesat 202 Sky 501 Virgin 603 BT 313

RadioTimes 29 July–4 August 2023

Yesterday Freeview 27 Freesat 159 Sky 155 Virgin 129
+1 Sky 255 Virgin 329

Dave

19

5 USA F’view 21 F’sat 129 Sky 141 Virgin 120 (162 Scot)
+1 Freesat 130 Sky 241 Virgin 320

5 Star

32

8.00am Nightmare Tenants, Slum
Landlords 1.00pm Traffic Cops
5.00pm Police Interceptors A man
breaches the terms of his Asbo.
6.00 Biggers and Andy track down thirsty
thieves who have robbed a supermarket.
7.00 The team’s new recruits are put to the
test by a pair of suspected burglars.
8.00 Shaun and Grant pull over the angriest
driver they have ever encountered.
9.00 FILM Wanted HHH Action adventure
starring Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy and
Morgan Freeman. Following the death of his
father, Wesley Gibson discovers that the man
had a secret identity as an assassin and that
he has inherited his father’s skills.
11.10 i FILM Rage H Revenge thriller
starring Nicolas Cage. Ex-gangster Paul is
intent on rebuilding his life. But when his
daughter is kidnapped, he recruits his old
associates to bring the perpetrator to justice.
1.25am A&E after Dark 2.20 Killer at the Crime
Scene 3.10—4.00am GPs: behind Closed Doors

5 Star Freeview 32 Freesat 131 Sky 128 Virgin 126
+1 Freesat 141 Sky 228 Virgin 326

5 Action

33

7.10am Yianni: Supercar Customiser (AD)
8.00 Rick Stein’s Long Weekends (AD)
9.00 Abandoned Engineering (AD) 11.00
Top Gear (AD) 2.00pm Repair Lot (AD)
3.00 Australian Ninja Warrior: double bill
6.00pm RT CHOICE New. Repair Lot The
crew troubleshoots the fuel system of a Dodge
Charger to restore its roar. See page 50. (AD)
7.00 Border Force: America’s Gatekeepers
Officers in Hidalgo take action to close the
bridge when it’s stormed by dozens of
asylum seekers. (AD)
8.00 QI XL Sandi Toksvig hosts the quiz
with a difference as comedians Sara Pascoe,
Stephen K Amos and Jason Manford answer
questions on the theme of plants.
9.00 Have I Got a Bit More News for You
Adil Ray hosts an extended episode of the
satirical quiz, with panellists Jess Phillips MP
and writer and presenter Richard Osman.
10.00 Live at the Apollo Jamali Maddix
comperes the comedy show, introducing
routines by Fern Brady and Sindhu Vee.
11.00 QI XL With guests Cariad Lloyd,
Josh Widdicombe and Noel Fielding.

9.00am Trucking Hell 10.00 New. Wrestling
12 noon Entertainment News 12.05pm
World’s Deadliest Weather: Caught on
Camera 1.05 FILM The Four Horsemen of
the Apocalypse HHH Second World War
drama starring Glenn Ford 4.10 FILM
The Alamo HH Historical war drama
6.50pm FILM U-571 HHH Second World
War action thriller starring Matthew
McConaughey and Bill Paxton. After the US
Navy pick up a U-boat’s distress signal, a team
is assembled to capture the submarine and
its top-secret Enigma code machine. However,
a German rescue sub is also on its way.
9.00 FILM Lethal Weapon 3 HHH Action
comedy thriller starring Mel Gibson, Danny
Glover and Joe Pesci. Maverick detectives
Riggs and Murtaugh go in pursuit of a
former cop now involved in gun running.
11.25 FILM Death Warrant HHH Action
thriller starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as
Canadian Mountie Louis Burke, who is sent
under cover to solve a series of prison murders.

12 midnight Red Dwarf: three episodes (AD)
1.55—4.00am Soapbox Race

5 Action Freeview 33 Freesat 132 Sky 150 Virgin 130

Dave F’view 19 F’sat 157 Sky 111 (Wales 112) Virgin HD 127
Dave Ja Vu Freeview 57 Sky 211 (Wales 212) Virgin 327

London Live

8

6.00am London’s Weekend 7.00 Two Men
in a Boat Chasing Spring 7.30 Black Hairapy
8.00 Aging in the Wild 9.00 The Great Way
10.00 Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands
11.00 FILM A Kiss before Dying HHH
Mystery drama 12.50pm FILM The Captive
Heart HHHH Second World War drama (BW)
2.55 FILM Brighton Rock HHHH (BW)
Crime drama based on Graham Greene’s
novel, starring Richard Attenborough
4.45 FILM The Water Babies H 6.30
Tabernacle Choir: Music and Words 7.00
Space 1999 8.00 The Avengers (BW) 9.15
FILM Jack & Sarah HHH 11.30 FILM
Everything Must Go HHHH Comedy drama
1.30am FILM Dulcima HH Drama 3.30 News

Television

12.05am The Good Doctor (AD) 1.00 The
Emergency Ward (AD) 2.00 24 Hours in A&E (AD)
3.05—3.40am Food Unwrapped (AD)

12.05am John Legend at Riverside Church
1.20 Nat King Cole: Afraid of the Dark 3.20
Louis Armstrong: Good Evening Ev’rybody 4.35
Music Icons: Chicago Blues 5.00 Discovering: New
Order 5.30—6.00am Discovering: REM

12 midnight Bangers and Cash: a WW2-era Willys
Jeep (AD) 1.00am Nazi Hunters 2.00—3.00am
Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways (AD)

12 midnight NCIS (AD) 1.55am Lucifer
3.35—4.00am Criminals: Caught on Camera

SUNDAY

8.55am George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces
(AD) 9.55 Ugly House to Lovely House with
George Clarke (AD) 11.00 George Clarke’s Old
House, New Home (AD) 12 noon Come Dine
with Me (AD) 2.40pm Four in a Bed
5.20pm Come Dine with Me Dinner parties
in County Durham feature a no-nonsense
menu, an evening on a farm and
sophisticated French cuisine. (AD)
8.00 PopMaster TV Ken Bruce presents
the TV version of his long-running radio quiz,
challenging music fans from around the
country to test their knowledge of the charts.
It’s the fourth heat, and more players
compete for a place in the grand final.
9.00 24 Hours in A&E A retired
dockworker is brought in with severe
stomach pain, and the doctors believe he
requires immediate surgery as part of his gut
may have permanently stopped working. (AD)
10.00 The Emergency Ward Dr Mya’s
stabbing victim is hanging onto life as he
bleeds heavily, while Dr David’s patient has
potential spinal injuries after landing on his
head during a mountain bike race crash. (AD)
11.00 Emergency Helicopter Medics
In Cambridgeshire, the heli-medics race to
treat a young cyclist with a time-critical brain
injury. Meanwhile, on the Norfolk Broads, a
holidaymaker breaks his thigh bone. (AD)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
8.00pm Holmes and Watson

1.15am World’s Deadliest Weather: Caught on
Camera 3.20—5.00am Outback Truckers

5 Select

46

9.00am GPs: behind Closed Doors 12 noon
Coastal Britain with Kate Humble 4.00pm
Beyond the Yorkshire Farm: Reuben and Clive
6.00pm Beyond the Yorkshire Farm:
Reuben and Clive The father and son
take on a challenging winter season.
7.00 Sarah and Reuben clear out an old
sheep shed for a neighbour and friend.
8.00 Bradley Walsh’s Greatest Moments
The TV star tells the story of his life and career.
9.30 The conclusion of the celebration of
the much-loved actor and presenter.
10.25 Greatest Ever TV Blunders Double
bill of outtakes from popular TV shows.
12.25am Prince Harry: Secrets of His Hollywood
Life: a look at the Duke of Sussex’s new life in
America 1.30 Edward and Sophie: the Reliable
Royals 3.00 Secrets of the Royal Palaces
3.50—4.00am Entertainment News

5 Select F’view (HD only) 46 F’sat 133 Sky 153 Virgin 138

Rewind 5.00—6.00am Talking Points

London Live Freeview 8 Sky 117 Virgin HD 159
Available in London area only. Other regional stations
available on Freeview 7 or 8 around the country

FREEVIEW TV and film
channels continue overleaf

55

SUNDAY Freeview & films
W

25

Food Network

43

PBS America

84

CHILDREN’S
Milkshake! on C5

Reclaiming Amy 9.00pm

Television SUNDAY

Amy Winehouse’s legacy
6.10am Tipping Point (S) (HD)
12 noon New. Wife Swap USA (HD)
3.00pm My Family (S) (AD) 5.00
Miranda: two episodes (S) (AD) (HD)
6.20pm Miranda The shop
owner’s friends accuse her of
being immature. (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00 Nurses on the Ward
Matron Steph trials a system to
see patients quicker. (S) (AD) (HD)
8.00 Inside the Operating
Theatre A four-year-old girl has
her droopy eyelid lifted. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Reclaiming Amy Family
and friends reveal the truth
about Amy Winehouse. (HD)
10.05 Killer Women with Piers
Morgan The story of Ashley
Humphrey, convicted for shooting
a bartender in 2003. (S) (HD)
11.05 Fashion’s Dirty Secrets:
Stacey Dooley Investigates The
environmental impact of the trade
in cheap clothing. (S) (AD) (HD)
12.25am Life and Birth (S) (HD)
1.35—3.00am Lives on Fire (S) (HD)
W F’view 25 F’sat 156 Sky 132 Virgin HD 125
+1 Sky 232 Virgin 325

Pick

36

6.00am Border Patrol 8.00
Highway Patrol 11.00 Neighbourhood
Blues 12 noon The Chase Celebrity
Special (AD) 2.00pm Border
Security: America’s Front Line (AD)
4.00 Highway Cops 5.00
Motorway Patrol 6.00 Caught Red
Handed: triple bill 8.00 New. 911
Crisis Centre: a traffic stop turns
into a full-blown pursuit 8.30
Kaitlyn takes a call reporting two
children shot in the face 9.00 New.
Mark of a Serial Killer: a murderer
who may have taken the lives of
more than 20 men 10.00 World’s
Most Evil Killers: a killer who chose
his victims from their star signs
11.00 Killing Mum and Dad (AD)
12 midnight Killer in My Village
1.00am Brit Cops: Frontline Crime UK
2.00 Motorway Patrol 4.00—6.00am
Border Patrol: four episodes

Pick F’view 36 F’sat 144 Sky 151 Virgin 135

HGTV

44

7.00am My Lottery Dream Home
10.00 Building the Dream 3.00pm
A Place in the Sun: five editions.
A perfect home in Mar Menor for a
Kent family 4.00 Zane wants to
permanently relocate to Mijas
5.00 A couple look to buy a
holiday retreat on Majorca 6.00
A couple seek a property on the
Costa Almería 7.00 Moving to the
Spanish municipality of Oliva 8.00
Barbie Dreamhouse Challenge:
Jonathan Knight and Kristina
Crestin create Barbie’s bedroom
suite. Meanwhile, Alison Victoria
and Ty Pennington build a den for
Ken 9.00 A Place in the Sun
1.00am First Time Fixer (AD)
2.00—4.00am Building the Dream

HGTV F’view 44 F’sat 166 Sky 158 Virgin 191
+1 Sky 258 Virgin 391

FREEVIEW channels
continued from overleaf

56

The Great British Bake Off
7.00pm Sugar-free cakes

The Bob Hoover Project
8.35pm The story of the aviator

6.00am Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
(S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 New series. Kids
Baking Championship (HD) 12 noon
Zoe Bakes (S) (HD) 1.00pm James
Martin’s Mediterranean (S) (HD)
3.00 The Great British Bake Off (S)
(HD) 8.00 Rachel Allen’s Cake
Diaries: double bill. The chef makes
cakes that are suitable as gifts,
then snacks perfect for keeping
a house full of boys from getting
hungry (S) (HD) 9.00 Jamie’s
Comfort Food: double bill. Jamie
Oliver gives some of the nation’s
favourite dishes a twist, then
Gennaro Contaldo helps Jamie
make bolognese ravioli (HD) 10.00
Mystery Diners: four editions. The
team tackles an obvious lack
of harmony among employees
10.30 Explaining a discrepancy
in revenue and inventory 11.00
Complaints are made against a
new chef 11.30 Rumours that
restaurant employees are
illegally selling alcohol (HD)

8.00am Pan Am: Crossing the
Pacific 11.40 The Bob Hoover
Project: Flying the Feathered Edge
1.00pm Saints and Sinners: a
Millennium of Monasteries (S)
4.55pm Pan Am: Crossing the
Pacific 1/3. The daunting
multitude of technological
challenges that lay behind a key
moment in aviation history.
6.10 2/3. The airline develops
and the government helps them
outwit competitors.
7.20 3/3. Defying the sceptics,
the airline grows and becomes
global, introducing services to
Asia and London.
8.35 The Bob Hoover Project:
Flying the Feathered Edge
The story of Robert Hoover and
his career as an aviator.
9.50 Ron Carter: Finding the
Right Notes An exploration into
the life and career of jazz
luminary Ron Carter. (S)
12 midnight The Bob Hoover
Project: Flying the Feathered Edge
1.15—2.00am Beautiful Serengeti (S)
PBS America F’view 84 (1pm-12 midnight only)
Freesat 155 Sky 174 Virgin 187

12 midnight Mystery Diners (HD)
1.00am Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (S)
(AD) (HD) 2.00—3.00am Donal’s
Meals in Minutes (S) (HD)

Food Network Freeview 43 Freesat 148
Sky 140 Virgin 190

Great TV

50

6.00am Diagnosis Murder 11.00
Murder, She Wrote: seven episodes
6.00pm Murder, She Wrote: three
further episodes. Jessica’s
colleague is charged with murder
7.00 A computer expert dies
suddenly 8.00 Jessica travels to
Mexico City on a research trip 9.00
A Game of Cat and Mouse: an
Aurora Teagarden Mystery:
whodunnit starring Candace
Cameron Bure 10.45 Last Scene
Alive: an Aurora Teagarden Mystery
12.30am Castle 3.00 Return of the
Saint 3.50—4.00am Movie News

Great TV Freeview 50 (limited) Freesat 142
Sky 157 Virgin 170 +1 Freesat 143 Sky 257

RealityXtra

68

9.00am Medical Detectives 12 noon
Forensics 2.00pm Medical
Detectives: a banker’s wife is
kidnapped 2.30 A man stabs and
drowns his wife 3.00 Using science
to solve crimes 3.30 A man who
committed several crimes in 1957
4.00 A hit-and-run accident 4.30
A house fire that killed an elderly
couple 5.00 Judge Judy
12.05am World’s Most Unexplained...
1.00 Psychic Private Eyes 4.00
Forensics 5.35—6.00am Judge Judy

RealityXtra Freeview 68 Freesat 134
Sky 147 Virgin 172

BBC Parliament 232
BBC News simulcast, with news hourly plus:
6.00am Breakfast 10.30 Cultural Life
11.30 Spotlight 12.30pm HARDtalk 1.30
Travel 2.30 Click 3.30 Briefing 4.30 Life
at 50 Degrees 5.30 Business 6.30 Sports
8.30 Take Me to the Opera 9.30 Briefing
10.30 Cultural Life 11.00 Newsday 11.30
HARDtalk 12 midnight Newsday 12.30am
Asia Business 12.45 Sports 1.00 Newsday
1.30 Asia Business 1.45 Sports 2.30 Asia
Business 2.45 Sports 3.30 Spotlight 4.30
HARDtalk 5.30—6.00am World Business

BBC Parliament Freeview 232 Freesat 201
Sky 504 Virgin 605

Blaze

64

6.00am Swamp People 7.00 Book
of Secrets with Lance Reddick
8.00 Lost Relics of the Knights
Templar 9.00 On the Trail of UFOs:
Dark Sky 11.00 Evidence of the
Unexplained 1.00pm The
UnXplained with William Shatner
2.00 Cities of the Underworld: six
back-to-back editions 8.00 Holy
Grail in America: investigating
whether the Knights Templar
discovered America, bringing the
Holy Grail with them 10.00 Weird
or What? with William Shatner:
three stories of creatures that are
seemingly half-man and half-beast
11.00 Paranormal: Caught on
Camera: two friends are unharmed
after a car crashes into a restaurant
12 midnight Swamp People 1.00am
Court Cam 2.00 Hardcore Pawn 3.00
Wicked Tuna 5.00—6.00am Irish Pickers

Blaze F’view 64 F’sat 162 Sky 164 Virgin 174

Challenge

48

7.00am Scrapheap Challenge
8.00 Scrapheap Challenge:
an Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Transatlantic Special 9.00
Scrapheap Challenge Roadshow:
Sofa Speedway 10.00 Bullseye (AD)
12 noon Family Fortunes (AD)
1.00pm Dickinson’s Real Deal
2.00 Play Your Cards Right:
double bill of the game show
hosted by Bruce Forsyth 3.00 Lily
Savage’s Blankety Blank: comedy
quiz show with celebrity guests
5.00 Tenable 7.00 The Chase
9.00 The Celebrity Chase:
comedian, actress and writer
Meera Syal, former England rugby
player and 2007 Dancing on Ice
winner Kyran Bracken, comic
Johnny Vegas and fashion designer
David Emanuel face one of the
Chasers 10.00 The Chase
12 midnight—6.00am The Chase

Challenge Freeview 48 Freesat 146
Sky 145 Virgin 139

5.35am Thomas & Friends 5.45 Paw
Patrol 6.00 Peppa Pig 6.10 Pip and
Posy 6.20 Ben and Holly’s Little
Kingdom 6.30 Shane the Chef 6.40
Noddy: Toyland Detective 6.55
Fireman Sam 7.05 Thomas & Friends
7.15 Paw Patrol 7.25 Pip and Posy
7.35 Peppa Pig 7.45 New. Chip and
Potato 8.00 The Adventures of
Paddington 8.15 New. Santiago of the
Seas 8.30 Pirata & Capitano 8.45
New. Kangaroo Beach 9.00 Meet the
Experts 9.15 Reu & Harper’s Wonder
World 9.25 New. Pop Paper City 9.35
Daisy & Ollie 9.45 Milkshake! Bop Box
Boogie 9.55—10.00am Sunny Bunnies

Full listings for Channel 5 are on p54

CBeebies

202

6.00am Baby Jake 6.10 Twirlywoos
6.20 Bing 6.30 Love Monster 6.40
Chuggington 6.50 Go Jetters 7.00
Postman Pat: SDS 7.15 Bing 7.35 Hey
Duggee 7.50 Go Jetters 8.00 Peter
Rabbit 8.15 Octonauts 8.25
Chuggington 8.35 Bitz & Bob 8.50
The Furchester Hotel 9.00 Something
Special: We’re All Friends 9.20 Bluey
9.35 Hey Duggee 9.55 Supertato
10.00 Spidey and His Amazing Friends
10.25 Pfffirates 10.35 New. Get Set
Galactic 11.00 Pinocchio and Friends
11.10 Love Monster 11.20 Vegesaurs
11.25 Kiri & Lou 11.30 Colourblocks
11.35 Fred & Pete’s Treasure Tales
11.50 JoJo & Gran Gran 12 noon My
World Kitchen 12.15pm Old Jack’s Boat
12.25 Gecko’s Garage 12.30 Hey
Duggee 12.45 Messy Goes to OKIDO
1.00 Bitz & Bob 1.10 Love Monster
1.25 Go Jetters 1.50 Dog Loves Books
1.55 Roots and Fruits 2.00 Something
Special: We’re All Friends 2.20 Ranger
Hamza’s Eco Quest: how caddisflies
play such an important role in the
environment 2.35 Molly and Mack
2.50 Alphablocks 2.55 Pfffirates
3.05 What’s in Your Bag 3.15 Olga Da
Polga 3.25 Gigglebiz 3.40 Andy and
the Band 3.55 Twirlywoos 4.05 Magic
Hands Black History Songs 4.13 My
Petsaurus 4.15 Treasure Champs 4.30
Supertato 4.40 Bluey 4.50 Andy’s
Prehistoric Adventures 5.05 Maddie’s
Do You Know? 5.20 Waffle the Wonder
Dog 5.30 JoJo & Gran Gran 5.45
Sarah & Duck 5.50 Charlie and Lola
6.05 Tee and Mo 6.10 Clangers 6.20
In the Night Garden... 6.50—7.00pm
CBeebies Bedtime Stories

CBeebies F’view 202 F’sat 608 Sky 608 Virgin 702

CBBC

201

7.00am Shaun the Sheep 7.05 Sketchy
Comedy 7.10 Danger Mouse 7.20
Dennis & Gnasher Unleashed! 7.35 Boy
Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese 7.45 New.
Newsround 7.50 Ninja Express 8.05
Odd Squad 8.15 Oswaldo 8.30
OOglies Funsize 8.35 The Deep 9.00
Blue Peter 9.30 Monster Loving
Maniacs 10.15 Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse
Cheese 10.50 Oswaldo 11.25 Grizzy
and the Lemmings 11.40 Gym Stars
12.05pm Meet the McQueens 12.30
Operation Ouch! 1.00 The Football
Academy 1.30 Danger Mouse 2.05
Sketchy Comedy 2.10 Dennis &
Gnasher Unleashed! 2.45 Shaun the
Sheep 3.05 Grizzy and the Lemmings
3.30 Lagging: Sol becomes a big
business guru 3.50 Bro’s in Control
4.20 A Kind of Spark 4.45 Planet
Earth II 5.45 Malory Towers: It is
Alicia’s birthday, and she is determined
to have fun 6.10 The Next Step 6.35—
7.00pm Dragons: the Nine Realms

CBBC F’view 201 F’sat 607 Sky 607 Virgin 701

CITV

203

6.00am Dare Master 6.05 Lloyd of
the Flies 6.35 Looney Tunes Cartoons
7.05 Mystery Lane 7.30 50/50 Heroes
7.55 Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! 8.25 Dorg
Van Dango 8.55 How 9.25 Buck and
Buddy 9.30 Scooby-Doo! Mystery
Incorporated 10.00 Be Cool,
Scooby-Doo! 10.30 Teen Titans Go!
10.45 Looney Tunes Cartoons 11.00
Teen Titans Go! 11.30 50/50 Heroes
12 noon Aloha, Scooby-Doo 1.30pm
What’s New Scooby-Doo? 2.00
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
2.30 Mr Bean: the Animated Series
8.55—9.00pm Dare Master

CITV F’view 203 F’sat 602 Sky 612 Virgin 734

FILMS
Film4

14

11.00am The SpongeBob
SquarePants Movie HHHH The
cult cartoon character makes his
movie debut in this colourful, zany
comedy that will entertain children
and adults alike. Tom Kenny (2004, U) (S) (AD)
12.45pm The Spiderwick
Chronicles HHHH Freddie
Highmore plays twin brothers who
discover a fantasy world in a creepy
mansion in this refreshingly
cute-free adventure. (2008, PG) (S) (AD)
2.35 The Art of Racing in the
Rain HH Saccharine drama about
the canine companion of an aspiring
racing driver. Milo Ventimiglia (2019, PG) (S)
4.45 Deep Impact HHHH
A great cast deals with looming
disaster in this chilling drama that
sees a massive asteroid headed for
Earth. Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni (1998, 12) (S) (AD)

7.05pm Skyscraper HHH
Outlandish action adventure in
which Dwayne Johnson tries to
save his family from an inferno.
Review, right. (2018, 12) (S) (AD)
9.00 The Day after Tomorrow
HHHH The weather effects are
spectacular in this jaw-dropping
disaster movie about a new ice
age. Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal (2004, 12) (S) (AD)
11.25 World War Z HHH Brad
Pitt scours the globe to find the
cure for a zombie plague in this
epic action horror. (2013, 15) (S) (AD)
1.40—3.40am Vivarium HHHH
Unsettling suburban mystery.
Imogen Poots, Jesse Eisenberg (2019, 15) (S)

Film4 Freeview 14 Freesat 300
Sky 313 Virgin 428
+1 F’view 47 F’sat 301 Sky 314 Virgin 430

Talking
Pictures TV

82

6.00am Assignment Redhead H
Dismal thriller. Richard Denning (1956, PG) (S)
7.35 Wherever She Goes HHH
Interesting biopic of pianist Eileen
Joyce. (1951) (S) 9.15 Murder at 3am
HH A police inspector suspects his
sister’s boyfriend of murder. Dennis Price
(1953, U) (S) 10.30 Blue, White and
Perfect HH Low-key B-movie
mystery with Lloyd Nolan after a
Nazi smuggling ring on an ocean liner.
(1942) (S) 12.10pm Two Flags West
HHH Civil War enemies clash while
defending a fort in this thoughtful
western. Joseph Cotten (1950, U) (S) 2.00
The Adventures of Robin Hood
TV adventure. (S) 2.30 The Larkins
TV comedy. (S) 3.00 Lease of Life
HHH Robert Donat gives a dignified
turn as a Yorkshire vicar with only
months to live in this poignant
drama. Review p67. (1954, U) (S)
5.00 The Footage Detectives TV
documentary about caravanning. (S)
6.00pm Tell Me Another
TV documentary series. (S)
6.45 No Time for Tears HH Well
cast weepie starring Anna Neagle
and Sylvia Syms as nurses in a
children’s hospital. (1957, PG) (S)
8.30 The Stranger Left No Card
TV fantasy drama series. (S)
9.00 Van der Valk TV drama. (S)
10.00 Waking the Dead
TV drama starring Trevor Eve. (S)
12.05am Music Box HHHH
Lawyer Jessica Lange defends her
Hungarian father from charges of
Nazi war crimes in this riveting
courtroom drama. (1989, 15) (S) 2.35
Double X: the Name of the Game
H Norman Wisdom tries to keep his
daughter out of the clutches of a
criminal gang. (1991, 15) (S) 4.35 The
Heritage Chart Show with Mike
Read TV music show. 5.40 A Trip
to Denmark in 1950 TV series.
Talking Pictures TV Freeview 82
Freesat 306 Sky 328 Virgin 445

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9.10am Signed, Sealed, Delivered:
Road Less Travelled 10.55 Lost
Letter Mysteries: To the Altar
12.45pm Jack and Jill H Misfiring
comedy. Adam Sandler, Al Pacino (2011, PG)
2.40 Big Daddy HHHH Amiable
comedy. Adam Sandler (1999, 12) 4.35 You
Don’t Mess with the Zohan HH
Heavy-handed comedy. Adam Sandler,
Rob Schneider, John Turturro (2008, 12)

6.50pm Pixels HH Adam Sandler,
Kevin James and Josh Gad raise
the odd laugh and a few groans in
this energetic sci-fi comedy. (2015, 12)
9.00 Anger Management HHH
Uptight Adam Sandler is ordered to
receive therapy from shrink Jack
Nicholson. Review, right. (2003, 15)
11.10 The Escorts HH Formulaic
sex comedy starring Jason Biggs
as a graduate who stumbles into a
job driving around prostitutes. (2016, 15)
1.00am Ex-Wife Killer HH
Convoluted thriller. Marguerite Moreau,
Arianne Zucker (2017) 2.40 An Aurora
Teagarden Mystery: A Bundle of
Trouble 4.20—6.00am Aurora
Teagarden Mystery: Dead over Heels
Great Movies Freeview 34 Freesat 302
Sky 321 Virgin 425
+1 Freeview 61 (limited 10pm-5am) Sky 322
42

Natalie Hall, Darin Brooks, Frances Fisher (2012)

12.05am Love’s Second Chance
HH Glossy romance. (2020) 1.35 Love
& Where to Find It HH Familiar
romcom. Elise Gatien, Clayton James (2021)
3.05—4.00am Highway to Heaven
Great Romance Freeview 52 Freesat 303
Sky 319 Virgin 424
+1 F’view 63 (limited 10pm-5am) F’sat 304 Sky 320

COMEDY Capping off a day
of Adam Sandler movies, here
the star plays a milquetoast
businessman who, after a
misunderstanding over some
headphones during a flight, is
ordered into therapy under
the counsel of shrink Jack
Nicholson. Director Peter
Segal never really mines the
comedy that this pairing and
premise deserve, but the
movie gets by on sheer star
power alone. IAN FREER
(US 2003, violence, swearing)

Pride HHHH

Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt, Diego Calva (2022, 18)

1.35am House Party HH Frantic
comedy remake. Jacob Latimore (2023, 15)
3.25 The Locksmith HH Standard
crime tale. Ryan Phillippe, Kate Bosworth
(2023, 15) 5.05 High Heat As 10am
Sky Premiere Sky 301 Virgin 401
BT 501/HD 515 +1 Sky 312

Legend

41

7.00am World’s Most Unexplained...
8.00 Meteor Moon H Plodding
sci-fi mockbuster. Dominique Swain, Michael
Broderick (2020) 10.00 Star Trek: Deep
Space Nine: five episodes 3.00pm
Atlantic Rim 2 H Cash-in sci-fi
sequel that delivers bigger robots,
bigger monsters and lower effort.
(2017, 15) 4.40 Exterminators HH
Sci-fi hokum. Greg Evigan (2013)
6.15pm Jules Verne’s Rocket to
the Moon HH Sci-fi comedy that
attempts to be zany but fails to get
off the ground. Burl Ives, Troy Donahue (1967, U)
8.30 The Twilight Zone TV sci-fi.
9.00 Revenge of the Creature
HHH Enjoyable horror sequel that
sees the “Gill-Man” recaptured, but
not for long. John Agar, Lori Nelson (1955, PG)
10.35 The Phantom from
10,000 Leagues H Laughable
B-movie sci-fi involving a mutant
sea monster. Kent Taylor, Cathy Downs (1956)
12.20am The Wretched HHHH
Creepy, well-made psychological
chiller. (2019, 15) 2.15—4.10am
Jack’s Back HH Madcap but
watchable suspense film. James
Spader, Cynthia Gibb, Rod Loomis (1988, 18)

Legend F’view 41 F’sat 137 Sky 148 Virgin 149

HorrorXtra

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8.00am Snowmageddon HH
A snow globe may hold the key to
a series of disasters rocking an
Alaskan town. Michael Hogan (2011, 12)
10.00 Crystal Skulls HH Cheap
Indiana Jones-style disaster-movie
hokum in which a team must find an
ancient artefact. Richard Burgi (2014, 12)
12 noon Air Collision HH A fierce
storm puts Air Force One in danger
in this ludicrous but watchable
action thriller. Reginald VelJohnson (2012)
2.00pm Bone Eater H Bruce
Boxleitner and a cast of has-beens
are terrorised by an unconvincing
skeletal demon in this daft horror.
Gil Gerard, Walter Koenig (2007)

4.00pm Battlestar Galactica
Five episodes of the TV sci-fi series.
9.00 A Good Marriage HH
Well-cast but flat thriller about a
woman discovering her husband’s
shady past. Joan Allen, Anthony LaPaglia (2014, 15)
11.00 The Rezort HHH
Entertaining horror in which
tourists pay to run around an island
and shoot zombies. Dougray Scott (2015, 15)
1.00am A Good Marriage As 9pm
HorrorXtra F’view 69 F’sat 138 Sky 317
Virgin 171 +1 F’sat 139 Sky 318 Virgin 371

FILM
OF THE
DAY

Ocean’s 8 HHH 10.25pm-12.35am ITV1 h

CRIME CAPER A gang targets a priceless
diamond necklace at New York’s Met Gala in this
all-female spin-off from the Ocean’s trilogy. Sandra Bullock
plays Debbie Ocean, who reunites with her partner-in-crime
(Cate Blanchett) on release from prison. The heist itself is as
ingenious as it is preposterous, but where the film really shines
is in its powerhouse talent, with Anne Hathaway, Rihanna,
Helena Bonham Carter and Awkwafina all rising to the
occasion. It may not be quite as slick as its predecessors, but
thanks to its divine cast, the overall effect is entertainingly
empowered. EMMA SIMMONDS (US 2017, swearing, drug abuse, HD)

Three Men and a Little
Lady HH
1.00-2.55pm ITV1

g

COMEDY In this lacklustre
sequel to Three Men and a
Baby, Tom Selleck, Ted Danson
and Steve Guttenberg travel
to London to try to prevent
their adopted daughter
from being sent to boarding
school. Various British actors
pop up to debase themselves
playing befuddled eccentrics.
TOM HUTCHINSON

(US 1990, edited for language, HD)

NeverEnding
m The
Story HHHH
y
3.20-4.50pm BBC1

FANTASY This 1980s classic
sees a young boy (played
nicely by Barret Oliver) drawn
by a magical book into a
wondrous alternative world
that is threatened by evil
forces. The story is a touch
simplistic, but children and
adults alike will be dazzled by
the stunning sets and special
effects. The film proved quite
a departure for Das Boot
director Wolfgang Petersen.
JOHN FERGUSON (WGer 1984, HD)

Licence to Kill HHH
3.55-6.30pm ITV1

j

SPY Timothy Dalton followed
his debut as James Bond in
The Living Daylights (see
review p47) with a tougher,
more violent affair. More
Lethal Weapon than 007, it

sees Bond resign the day job
to take revenge on the brutal
drugs lord (Robert Davi)
who has turned his best mate
into shark bait. The film is
boosted by fine action
sequences and a fiery climax.
JEREMY ASPINALL (US 1989, may

be edited for violence, language, HD)

Runaway Bride HHH
6.40-9.00pm ITVBe

g

ROMCOM Julia Roberts,
Richard Gere and their Pretty
Woman director Garry
Marshall reunited for this
well-played romance. Roberts
is the small-town girl who has
left a trio of men at the altar,
while Gere is the columnist
keen to see if she will actually
go through with it on her
fourth attempt. This sweet
film is guaranteed to warm
the cockles. JOANNA BERRY
(US 1999, edited for language, HD)

Skyscraper HHH
7.05-9.00pm Film4

10.30pm-12.25am BBC1 j
DRAMA An unlikely union
between the gay community
of London and a depressed
mining town in Wales is the
subject of this joyous comedy.
It’s 1984, and prime minister
Margaret Thatcher is putting
ever more pressure on the
striking miners, so a gay
activist (Ben Schnetzer)
decides to raise money on
their behalf. This feel-good
romp smuggles in some
serious points in between
the ribald one-liners. DAMON
WISE (UK 2014, swearing, HD)

Memento 5

11.00pm-12.50am BBC2 j
THRILLER This dazzling film
starts with a murder, then
moves backwards through
the events that led up to it.
The protagonist (Guy Pearce)
also suffers from a form of
amnesia, setting the stage
for a satisfying puzzle of a
narrative. This announced a
major talent in writer/director
Christopher Nolan, whose new
film Oppenheimer is now in
cinemas. DAVID MCGILLIVRAY

Television

Great Romance 52
6.00am Love’s Sweet Recipe HH
Cheesy romance. Megan Hutchings, Damon
Runyan (2021) 8.00 Sun, Sand &
Romance HH Sweet, sincere
romance. Tricia Helfer, Paul Campbell (2017)
10.00 Love at Sunset Terrace HH
Amiable romance. Ellen Woglom, Carlo Marks
(2020) 12 noon Love in the Sun HH
Old-fashioned romance. Emeraude Toubia,
Tom Maden (2019) 2.00pm Love Afloat
HH Sweet romantic comedy. Alanna
Smith, Travis Bravo-Thomas (2022) 4.00 The
Wedding Fix HH Nicely shot
romcom. Andrea Brooks, Patch May (2022)
6.00pm A Honeymoon to
Remember HH Uneven romcom
about a jilted bride. Rebecca Dalton (2021)
8.00 Snowkissed HH Cosy
romcom. Jen Lilley, Chris McNally (2021)
10.00 The Seven Year Hitch HH
Nicely played if generic romcom.

Anger Management HHH
9.00-11.10pm Great Movies j

7.20am Sky Cinema Preview 8.20
Seriously Red HHH Delightful
Australian comedy about a woman
who becomes a Dolly Parton
impersonator. Krew Boylan, Rose Byrne (2022, 15)
10.00 High Heat HH Tongue-incheek action comedy. Olga Kurylenko,
Don Johnson, Dallas Page (2022, 15) 11.30
As 5.45pm 1.35pm As 8pm
4.05 i The Best Man HH
Action-packed, low-budget Die Hard
knock-off. Luke Wilson, Dolph Lundgren (2023, 15)
5.45pm Black Adam HHH
Relentlessly punchy DC Comics
adventure with Dwayne Johnson as
the menacing ancient warrior. (2022, 12)
8.00 Whitney Houston: I Wanna
Dance with Somebody HHHH
Enthralling rise-and-fall biopic.
Review p38. Naomi Ackie, Stanley Tucci (2022, 12)
10.25 Babylon HHHH Riotous,
sprawling account of the transition
from silent pictures to talkies.

SUNDAY

U – suitable for all; PG Parental Guidance – for general viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for young or sensitive children; 12, 15,18 –for viewers of these ages and over.

Great Action

6.00am Meteor Moon H Plodding
sci-fi adventure. Dominique Swain (2020) 8.00
Battle of Warsaw 9.00 The Panzer
9.55 Crash Dive HH Derivative
and over-the-top action thriller. Michael
Dudikoff (1996, 15) 11.40 Candlelight in
Algeria HH Wartime romantic spy
thriller. James Mason (1943, U) 1.30pm
Mach 2 HH Misfiring action tale.
Brian Bosworth (2001) 3.20 Hell River
HH Noisy wartime action drama.
Rod Taylor (1974, PG) 5.25 The Last
Blitzkrieg H Wartime drama with
sub-par action scenes. Van Johnson (1958)
7.05pm Saints and Soldiers:
Airborne Creed HH “Behind
enemy lines” war movie. (2012, 12)
9.00 Double Team HH
Jean-Claude Van Damme plays an
anti-terrorist agent on the trail of a
master criminal. Dennis Rodman (1997, 18)
10.55 The Keeper H Lame action
thriller. Steven Seagal, Liezl Carstens (2009, 15)
12.50am The Shanghai Job HH
Predictable action thriller. Orlando Bloom
(2017, 15) 2.45—4.00am Mission to
Death HH Diverting Second World
War adventure. Jim Brewer (1966)
Great Action Freeview 42 (limited)
F’sat 305 Sky 323 Virgin 426 +1 Sky 324

FILM REVIEWS

Sky Premiere

(US 2000, violence, swearing, col/BW, HD)

Sky Cinema picks
Gnomeo & Juliet HHH
2.20-4.00pm Sky Animation
Witty family comedy. (2011, U)
Sky 305; Virgin 412; BT 500/514

h

ACTION Die Hard meets
The Towering Inferno in this
harebrained but exciting
Hong Kong-set disaster
movie. Dwayne Johnson
plays a skyscraper security
assessor who must fight to
clear his name and save his
family after the world’s
tallest building is set ablaze
by terrorists. The stunts are
truly vertigo-inducing. ALAN
JONES (US 2018, violence, swearing, HD)

Spider-Man: No Way
Home HHHH
8.00-10.30pm Sky Action
The multiverse opens. (2021, 12)
Sky 306; Virgin 406; BT 506/520

Step Brothers HHH
9.30-11.20pm
Sky Cinema Comedy
Supreme silliness. (2008, 15)
Sky 308; Virgin 408; BT 508/522

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SUNDAY

Television SUNDAY

Sky Showcase

Sky Max

Gold

Alibi

The Blacklist 10.00pm Dr
Laken Perillos causes chaos

True Detective 9.00pm Hart

Magnum P.I. 9.00pm It’s the day

The Vicar of Dibley 9.20pm

doesn’t like what he sees

of judgement for Katsumoto

Geraldine needs funds

and Charlie take a break

6.00am Abominable and the
Invisible City (S) (AD) 6.50 Lego
DREAMZzz 7.15 Challenge
DanTDM 7.30 Draw with Will:
Video Games 7.40 Monkey Life (S)
(AD) 9.00 Formula One 10.00 The
Simpsons (S) 12 noon NCIS: New
Orleans (S) 2.45pm FILM Eclipse
HHHH Romantic horror fantasy
starring Kristen Stewart (S) (W)
5.00 New. Formula One: highlights
of the Belgian Grand Prix
6.00pm The Simpsons
Moe starts dating Renee. (S)
6.30 Lisa worries that she is
starting to lose her intelligence. (S)
7.00 Islands 2/6. The wildlife of
K’gari in Queensland. (S)
8.00 Ashes Cricket Highlights of
day four of the Fifth Test between
England and Australia, at the Oval.
9.00 Magnum P.I. 6/20 Series 5
The day of Katsumoto’s
hearing arrives. See p51. (S)
10.00 The Blacklist 6/22 Series 10
Dr Laken Perillos resurfaces to join
Wujing’s crusade against Red. (S)
11.00 Then You Run 4/8. Tara and
Stink sell the drugs at a festival. (S)
12 midnight Road Wars (S)
1.00am Caught on Dashcam (S)
3.00 Border Security: Australia’s
Front Line (S) 3.30 Nothing to
Declare (S) 5.00—6.00am The
Early Rundown: double bill
Sky Showcase Sky 106 Virgin 109
BT 340/HD 355 +1 Sky 206

6.00am Fish Town (S) (HD) 10.00
Gomorrah (S) (HD) 1.10pm Britannia
(S) (AD) (HD) 3.30 The Sopranos (S) (HD)
5.40pm The Sopranos 8/13
Series 5. Family and friends
gather to celebrate the birthday
of Carmela’s father.
6.45 9/13. Johnny Sack suspects
that Tony Blundetto was involved
in the Joey Peeps hit.
7.50 10/13. Christopher and
Tony Blundetto dispose of a
corpse. Janice takes anger
management classes. (S) (HD)
9.00 True Detective 3/8 Series 1
A recollection by a church
volunteer gives the detectives
a lead in their hunt for Dora
Lange’s killer. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.10 Tin Star 4/10 Series 1
Jim returns to work determined
to uncover those responsible for
the murder. Anna turns to Whitey
for comfort. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.15 Der Pass 8/8 Series 3
With the connection between the
suspects and murders still unclear,
Ellie and Gedeon must push
themselves to crack the case.
German +subtitles. (S) (HD)
12.20am Little Birds (S) (AD) (HD)
1.25 The Gilded Age (S) (AD) (HD)
2.25 Das Boot (S) (HD) 3.35 In
Treatment (S) (HD) 4.05—6.00am
Fish Town: double bill (S) (HD)
Sky Atlantic Sky 108 (Wales 109)
BT 342/HD 357 +1 Sky 208 (Wales 209)

6.00am Bondi Rescue (S) (HD)
7.00 Supergirl (S) (HD) 12 noon
NCIS: New Orleans (S) (HD)
5.00pm Fringe 20/22 Series 4
Walter believes David Robert Jones
is trying to collapse both universes.
6.00 21/22. Walter is forced to
revisit his past when people start
spontaneously combusting.
7.00 22/22. The team attempts
to stop a catastrophic event that
threatens the lives of everyone.
8.00 1/13 Series 5. Peter sets out
to find the missing Olivia. (S) (HD)
9.00 Magnum P.I. 6/20 Series 5
The day of Katsumoto’s
hearing arrives and he learns
if his career is over, while Thomas
and Higgins are hired to investigate
a man their client believes
committed murder. See p51. (S) (HD)
10.00 The Blacklist 6/22 Series 10
Dr Laken Perillos resurfaces to
join Wujing’s crusade against
Red and a member of the Task
Force is put in danger. (S) (HD)
11.00 Then You Run 4/8. Tara and
Stink sell the drugs at a festival in
Hamburg that Marten is playing at.
Reagan tracks the girls down. (S) (HD)
12 midnight Rob and Romesh vs
K-Pop (S) (HD) 1.00am Caught on
Dashcam: double bill (S) (HD) 3.00
Road Wars (S) (HD) 4.00—6.00am
Sun, Sea and A&E: double bill (S)
Sky Max Sky 113 (Wales 114) Virgin 111
BT 346/HD 361

7.25am Citizen Khan (S) (AD) (HD)
8.30 Only Fools and Horses (S) (AD)
6.00pm Only Fools and Horses
Rodney tires of his role as junior
partner and sets up a rival business.
6.40 Del plans a spot of salmon
poaching, but finds the country air
is not all it is cracked up to be.
7.20 Del falls for a glamorous
antiques dealer who comes to
view an old cabinet. (S) (AD)
8.00 Dad’s Army The platoon
tries morris dancing. (S)
8.40 Walmington-on-Sea leaves
its mark on a French general. (S)
9.20 The Vicar of Dibley A
falling tree destroys St Barnabas’s
stained glass window. (S) (AD)
10.00 Billy Connolly Does...
The comedian ruminates about
dream locations and nightmare
family holidays. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 The Office Brent employs a
new secretary — and picks the
prettiest woman he can find. (S) (AD)
11.40 Upstart Crow Will is
desperate to find a new idea for
his next play. (S) (AD) (HD)
12.20am Will decides to make
theatrical history by inventing the
greatest-hits musical. (S) (AD) (HD)
1.00 Billy Connolly Does... (S) (AD)
(HD) 2.00 The Office (S) (AD) 2.45—
4.00am Upstart Crow (S) (AD) (HD)
Gold Sky 110 (Wales 111) Virgin 124
BT 344/HD 359 +1 Sky 210 (Wales 211) Virgin 324

7.10am Murdoch Mysteries (S) (HD)
10.00 Death in Paradise (S) (AD)
(HD) 2.00pm Inspector George
Gently (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Frankie
Drake Mysteries (S) (AD) (HD)
6.00pm The Coroner 9/10
Series 1. An ice-cream factory
owner is found dead in a freezer,
and Jane finds evidence to suggest
his wife is to blame. (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00 New. Hudson & Rex 11/20
Series 5. When Rex finds a
body during Charlie and
Sarah’s weekend getaway, they
discover the community may be
more hostile than it looks. (AD) (HD)
8.00 New. 12/20. When a
physiotherapist is murdered, the
team investigates victims of his
alleged assaults. See p50. (AD) (HD)
9.00 Death in Paradise 7/8
Series 3. The owner of a private
island is shot dead at a family
gathering, and the cops end up
stranded with suspects. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 Father Brown 2/10
Series 9. Mrs McCarthy is
threatened by a mysterious
avenging angel. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 Evil 1/13 Series 3. Kristen
gets a restraining order to keep
Townsend away from Lexis. (AD) (HD)
12 midnight Death in Paradise (S)
(AD) (HD) 1.00—4.00am Murdoch
Mysteries: three episodes (S) (HD)
Alibi Sky 109 (Wales 110) Virgin HD 114
BT 343/HD 358 +1 Sky 209 (Wales 210) Virgin 314

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Sky Sci-Fi
6.00am Most Haunted 8.00 Home
Shopping 11.00 Quantum Leap
4.00pm Star Trek: Voyager
15/26 Series 5. The dreaded Borg
return and present Seven of Nine
with a chilling ultimatum.
5.00 16/26. Janeway, still baffled
by Seven of Nine’s betrayal,
prepares a daring rescue mission.
6.00 17/26. Ensign Kim breaks
Starfleet protocol by engaging in
a passionate affair with an alien,
putting the crew in danger.
7.00 18/26. Paris and Torres get
married and prepare for a
honeymoon on the holodeck.
8.00 19/26. Chakotay is
contacted by a telepathic species
and becomes convinced he is a
legendary 24th-century boxer.
9.00 Anon HHH
Sci-fi thriller starring Clive
Owen and Amanda Seyfried.
In a world of smart optical
technology, anyone’s personal
data can be viewed at a single
glance, mostly eliminating crime.
When a hacker starts editing
people’s records, detective Sal
faces a reality-bending challenge.
11.00 The Monster Hunters HH
Sci-fi action thriller starring
Tom Sizemore. An alien
prison ship crash-lands in the
California desert, forcing a secret
branch of the US military to step in.
1.00am The Outpost
4.00—6.00am Most Haunted
Sky Sci-Fi Sky 139 Virgin 122
BT 348/HD 363 +1 Virgin 229

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Sky Witness
6.00am Sun, Sea and A&E (S) 7.00
Border Security: America’s Front
Line (S) (HD) 8.00 Border Patrol (S)
(HD) 11.00 Stop, Search, Seize (S)
(AD) (HD) 12 noon Air Ambulance
ER (S) (HD) 1.00pm Sun, Sea and
A&E (S) 2.00 Nothing to Declare (S)
6.00pm Nothing to Declare
Four back-to-back editions
following the work of customs
officers in Australia. (S)
8.00 The Good Doctor 14/22
Series 6. The team immediately
recognise that a young patient is
having a stroke. (S) (HD)
9.00 Blue Bloods 21/21 Series 13
Danny teams up with an old partner
to find a copycat killer. Frank and
Mayor Chase battle over the best
way to handle the city’s rising
homeless population. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 The Rookie 3/20 Series 1.
After Nolan and Talia lose control
of a crime scene they debate
whether people are fundamentally
good or bad. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 Departure 5/6 Series 2
Kendra and Agent Hunter find
evidence of a larger conspiracy at
work, and Kendra is left shaken by
a confrontation. (S) (AD) (HD)
12 midnight Transplant (S) (AD) (HD)
1.00am Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for
the Bone Collector (S) (HD) 2.00
New. Law & Order: Special Victims
Unit (HD) 3.00 Border Security:
Australia’s Front Line (S) (HD) 3.30—
6.00am Nothing to Declare (S) (HD)
Sky Witness Sky 107 Virgin 110
BT 341/HD 356 +1 Sky 207 Virgin 310

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7.00am Four Weddings (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 Warehouse 13: eight episodes (S)
6.00pm Warehouse 13: two episodes.
Residents of Univille experience bizarre
events, then Myka and Pete go under
cover at New York Fashion Week when
several young models age 50 years
overnight (S) 8.00 Send in the Dogs:
double bill. Sniffer dog Bella hunts for a
car thief, then Diesel, a cocker spaniel
that can find drugs, cash or guns, helps
the Territorial Support Group undertake
a drugs raid (S) 10.00 From: double bill.
Donna and Kenny struggle to manage
a busload of newcomers, then it’s a
tense night in the diner as the residents
wait for sunrise (S) (AD) (HD)
12 midnight Paramedics Australia: four
editions (S) (HD) 3.55am Four Weddings:
two grooms compete against a pair of
brides 4.45—6.00am All Hail King
Julien: triple bill (S) (HD)

Sky Replay Sky 152 Virgin 156

Sky Crime
6.00am Motorway Patrol (S) (HD) 7.30
Road Wars (S) (HD) 8.30 Caught Red
Handed (S) (HD) 10.00 Caught on Dashcam
(S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 Most Evil Killers (S)
(HD) 1.00pm What the Killer Did Next
(S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 Most Evil Killers (S)
(HD) 3.00 Killer in My Village (S) (HD)
4.00 Killing Mum and Dad (S) (AD) (HD)
5.00 Most Evil Killers (S) (HD) 7.00
Forensics: Catching the Killer (S) (AD) (HD)
8.00 How I Caught the Killer (S) (AD)
(HD) 9.00 The Torso Killer (S) (HD) 11.00
I Love You, Now Die: the Commonwealth
vs Michelle Carter (S) 12.30am Mark of
a Serial Killer (S) (HD) 1.30 Murdered at
First Sight (HD) 2.30 Low Country: the
Murdaugh Dynasty (S) (AD) (HD) 3.30
Twisted Killers (S) (HD) 4.30 Road Wars
5.00—6.00am Motorway Patrol (S)

Sky Crime Sky 122 Virgin 121 BT 349/HD 364
+1 Sky 222 Virgin 321

Sky Comedy

Hudson & Rex 7.00pm Sarah

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Discovery

8.00am A.P. Bio (S) (HD) 10.30 Silicon
Valley (S) (HD) 1.10pm Entourage (S)
(HD) 1.45 Will & Grace (S) (AD) (HD)
4.10 Girls (S) (AD) (HD) 6.30 The Office
US: five episodes. Dwight embarrasses
Michael 7.00 Michael and Jan try to
woo a potential new client 7.30 Michael
gives the staff a performance evaluation
8.00 Michael starts monitoring e-mails
sent from the office 8.30 Michael
holds a Christmas party at the office (S)
(HD) 9.00 And Just like That... (HD)
10.00 Divorce: double bill. Frances and
Robert each seek legal representation,
then Frances and Robert make their
annual trip to Frances’s parents’ home
(S) (AD) (HD) 11.10 Hung (S) (HD)
12.20am Girls (S) (AD) (HD) 1.30 Bliss
(S) (AD) (HD) 3.00 New. The Righteous
Gemstones: double bill (HD)
4.30—5.00am Breeders (S) (AD) (HD)

6.00am Wheeler Dealers (S) (HD)
12 noon Building off the Grid (S) (HD)
6.00pm Gold Divers (S) (HD) 7.00
New. Moonshiners: Master Distiller:
three underdog contestants take a
fresh shot at redemption (S) (HD)
8.00 New. This Is Mark Rober: Mark
talks through the origin story of the
glitter bomb videos (S) (HD) 9.00
Walking the Himalayas (HD) 10.00
New. Monsters of the Bermuda Triangle:
the truth behind the disappearance of a
shark in the Bermuda Triangle (HD)
11.00 New series. Belly of the Beast:
Feeding Frenzy: researchers search
for the biggest great white sharks in
South African history (HD)
12 midnight Naked and Afraid (S) (HD)
4.00am How Do They Do It? (S) (HD)
4.30—5.00am How Do They Do It:
Olympic Winter Games

Sky Comedy Sky 114 (Wales 115)
Virgin 112 BT 347/HD 362

Discovery Sky 125 Virgin 177 BT 320/HD 325
+1 Sky 225 Virgin 377

Comedy Central
8.00am Most Ridiculous (S) (HD) 8.35
Friends (S) (AD) (HD) 5.15pm FILM
Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami
Beach H Comedy starring Matt McCoy
6.55 FILM Brewster’s Millions HH
Comedy starring Richard Pryor (HD)
9.00 FILM Midnight Run HHHH
Comedy thriller starring Robert De Niro
and Charles Grodin (S) (HD) 11.30
Michael McIntyre: Happy and Glorious:
the comedian takes aim at some of the
absurdities of life, in a performance
recorded as part of his 2015 tour (S)
(HD) 12.30am Al Murray: Giving It Both
Barrels (HD) 2.00 Frank Skinner Live
from the Birmingham NIA (HD) 3.45
South Park (S) (HD) 4.10—5.00am
The Comedy Bus (S) (HD)

Comedy Central Sky 112 (Wales 113)
Virgin 132 BT 345/HD 360
+1 Sky 212 (Wales 213) Virgin 332

Discovery History
6.00am Unsolved History (S) 9.00
Tony Robinson’s Wild West (S) 12 noon
Combat Dealers (S) 3.00pm Greatest
Events of World War II (S) 5.00 Blowing
Up History (S) 8.00 Tony Robinson’s
Victory in Europe: the actor uses
archive material to tell the story of the
last days of the Nazi regime and the
end of the Second World War (S) 9.00
Hitler’s Gold: explorers reveal evidence
of Nazi activities in East Africa during
the Second World War (S) 10.00
Unsolved History: double bill. Examining
the Boston Massacre in 1770, when
British troops opened fire on colonists,
then the mysteries surrounding Area 51
in the US state of Nevada 12 midnight
Combat Dealers (S) 3.00—5.00am
Salvage Hunters: the Restorers (S)

Discovery History Sky 177 Virgin 181
+1 Sky 277 Virgin 381

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Sky Documentaries

I Am Heath Ledger 9.00pm

Sky Nature

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Eden

8.00am Bid and Destroy (HD) 8.30
Made in a Day (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 Car
SOS (HD) 2.00pm Europe from Above
(HD) 3.00 World’s Greatest Train
Journeys from Above (S) (AD) (HD)
8.00 Car SOS: Tim and Fuzz restore
the 1987 MG Metro 6R4 rally car (S)
(AD) (HD) 9.00 Air Crash Investigation:
the deadliest single aircraft accident in
history (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 Hitler: the
Lost Tapes of the Third Reich: Hitler
turns his focus to the extermination of
all European Jews (S) (HD) 11.00
Trafficked with Mariana Van Zeller (S)
(HD) 12 midnight 21st Century Sex
Slaves (HD) 1.00am Banged Up Abroad
(S) (HD) 2.00 Bid and Destroy (HD) 2.30
Money Meltdown (HD) 2.55 Lords of War
(HD) 3.20 Trials of the Wild (HD) 4.10
Secrets of the Zoo: Keeper Tales (HD)
4.35—5.00am Food Factory (S) (HD)

9.00am Secrets of Britain
6.00pm Secrets of Britain: six editions.
Exploring the somewhat macabre
history of Scotland Yard 7.00 The
shadowy world of MI6, asking whether
the real world of espionage and
counter-intelligence operations bears
any resemblance to the James Bond
novels 8.00 The history of the
department store Selfridges 9.00 The
Tower of London, which has served as a
castle, a jail and a place of execution
10.00 The history of subterranean
London, uncovering Roman remains,
plague pits and secret bunkers 11.00
The history of Westminster Abbey,
which dates back to the 11th century
and houses more than 500 corpses
12 midnight Secrets of Britain
5.30—6.00am David Attenborough’s
Natural Curiosities (AD) (HD)

Nat Geographic Sky 129 Virgin 183
+1 Sky 229 Virgin 383

Eden Sky 166 Virgin HD 176
+1 Sky 266 Virgin 376

Sky History

Animal Planet

6.00am Ancient Murders Unearthed
(S) 7.00 Curse of the Lost Amazon
Gold (HD) 10.00 The Proof Is Out There
(S) (HD) 12 noon Rust Valley Restorers
(HD) 6.00pm Viking Dead: the
discovery of a mass grave in Dorset
7.00 Warriors: double bill. The battles
between rival Hawaiian tribes during
the 1790s, then the guerrilla tactics
used by the Alamo Scouts (HD) 9.00
Instruments of Death: weapons used
during the 1916 Battle of the Somme,
including machine guns and poison gas
10.00 Forged in Fire: a bid to re-create
George Washington’s sword (HD) 11.00
The UnXplained with William Shatner
(S) (HD) 12 midnight The Proof Is Out
There (S) (HD) 2.00—6.00am Rust
Valley Restorers: four editions (HD)

8.00am Insane Pools: off the Deep
End (S) (HD) 9.00 How Do Animals Do
That? (S) (HD) 10.00 Dr Jeff: Vet (S)
(HD) 12 noon Insane Pools: off the
Deep End (S) (HD) 1.00pm Crikey! It’s
the Irwins (HD) 2.00 Wild Dubai (S)
(AD) (HD) 3.00 Growing Up: Clouded
Leopard 4.00 America’s Cutest Pets
(S) (HD) 5.00 Dr Jeff: Rocky Mountain
Vet (S) (HD) 6.00pm Insane Pools: off
the Deep End (S) (HD) 7.00 Crikey! It’s
the Irwins (HD) 10.00 The Last Alaskans
(HD) 11.00 Swimming with Monsters (S)
(HD) 12 midnight Rugged Justice (HD)
1.00am Alaskan Bush People (S) (AD)
(HD) 2.00 America’s Cutest Pets (S)
(HD) 3.00 Dr Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet
(S) (HD) 4.00—5.00am Insane Pools:
off the Deep End (S) (HD)

Sky History Sky 123 Virgin 133
BT 353/HD 368 +1 Sky 223 Virgin 333

Animal Planet Sky 162 (NI 178) Virgin 178
+1 Sky 262 (NI 278) Virgin 378

RadioTimes 29 July–4 August 2023

Sky Main Event

TNT Sports 1

Sky 401 Virgin 511/HD 501 BT 420/HD 440

Sky 410 Virgin 527 BT 408/HD 430

7.00am Sky Sports News

7.00am Premiership Rugby Union
9.00 Classic Premier League (AD)
10.00 Major League Cricket
10.30 Premier 15s Rugby Union
12 noon Boxing 2.00pm International
One-Day Cricket 3.00 Triathlon (AD)
3.30 Champions League Magazine
4.30 Wrestling 6.00 MLB (AD)

7.45 LIVE Netball World Cup
Wales v Sri Lanka, a group C game
in Cape Town (centre-pass 8.00).
9.45 My Icon: Leon McKenzie (AD)
10.00 Ashes Bitesize: day three
10.15 LIVE Ashes Cricket
England v Australia, day four of the
fifth and final Test from the Oval.
7.00pm LIVE Summer Series
Football Chelsea v Fulham in
Landover, Maryland (kick-off 7.45).
10.00 LIVE PGA Tour Golf The
final round of the 3M Open from
TPC Twin Cities in Minnesota.
11.00—6.00am Sky Sports News

Sky Football
Sky 403 Virgin 513/HD 503 BT 422/HD 442
6.00am League Cup Retro 8.45 EFL
Greatest Games 10.00 League Cup
Retro (AD) 12 noon Championship
Season Review (AD) 1.00pm League
Cup Retro (AD) 1.30 Best Goals 2.00
Classic Play-Offs 5.00 Best Goals
6.00 Championship Season Review
7.00 League Cup Retro (AD) 8.00
Ashes Highlights 9.00 Classic Play-Off
Finals 11.00 EFL Greatest Games (AD)
12 midnight EFL Rivalries 12.30am
Jimmy Glass (AD) 1.00 Classic Play-Off
Finals 3.30 Jimmy Glass (AD)
4.00—6.00am League Cup Retro (AD)

Sky Golf
Sky 405 Virgin 515/HD 505 BT 424/HD 444
6.00am PGA Tour Golf 9.30
Challenge Tour Golf 10.00 LPGA Tour
Golf 10.15 European Seniors Tour Golf

10.30 LIVE LPGA Tour Golf Day
four of the Evian Championship at
Evian Resort Golf Club in France.
4.00pm LIVE European Senior
Tour Golf The final day of the
Senior Open Championship.
7.00 LIVE PGA Tour Golf Day
four of the 3M Open in Minnesota.
11.00 LPGA Tour Golf 12 midnight
PGA Tour Golf 1.00am LPGA Tour
2.00 Chronicles (AD) 3.00 LPGA Tour
Golf 5.00—6.00am Chronicles (AD)

Sky F1
Sky 406 Virgin 516/HD 506 BT 425/HD 445
12.30—5.30pm LIVE Belgian
Grand Prix From Circuit de
Spa-Francorchamps (start 2.00).

Sky Mix
Sky 416 Virgin 510 BT 429/HD 449
7.05—9.05am LIVE NRL Gold
Coast Titans v North Queensland
Cowboys (kick-off 7.05).
2.45—7.00pm LIVE Netball
World Cup England v Scotland;
5.00 Tonga v Zimbabwe.

Sky Action
Sky 407 Virgin 517/HD 507 BT 426/HD 446

Netball World Cup

2.45pm Sky Arena England
joint captain Natalie Metcalf

Sky Premier League
Sky 402 Virgin 512/HD 502 BT 421/HD 441
6.00am Classic Premier League
10.00 Retro 12 noon Highlights

4.00pm LIVE Summer Series
Football Aston Villa v Brentford in
Landover, Maryland (kick-off 5.00);
7.00 Chelsea v Fulham from
Landover, Maryland (kick-off 7.45).
10.00 Icons (AD) 10.30—6.00am
Classic Premier League

Sky Cricket
Sky 404 Virgin 514/HD 504 BT 423/HD 443
6.00am Ashes Memories (AD) 7.00
Ashes Highlights 8.00 Ashes Bitesize
8.15 Best of T20 Blast (AD) 8.30
Ashes Highlights 9.30 The Fletcher
Years (AD) 10.00 Ashes Bitesize

10.15 LIVE Ashes Cricket
England v Australia, day four of the
fifth and final Test from the Oval.
7.00pm Captain’s Log (AD) 8.00
Ashes Highlights 9.00 Ashes Memories
(AD) 10.00 Ashes Highlights 11.00
Ashes Bitesize 11.15 The Fletcher Years
(AD) 11.45 Ashes Bitesize 12 midnight
Ashes Highlights 1.00am Captain’s Log
(AD) 2.00 Ashes Highlights 3.00
Ashes Bitesize 3.15 The Fletcher Years
(AD) 3.45 Ashes Greats (AD) 4.00
Ashes Highlights 5.00 The Fletcher
Years (AD) 5.30 Ashes Greats (AD)
5.45—6.00am Best of T20 Blast (AD)

Sky Arena
Sky 408 Virgin 518/HD 508 BT 427/HD 447
6.50am Rugby League

7.45 LIVE Netball World Cup
Wales v Sri Lanka, a group C game
in Cape Town (centre-pass 8.00);
10.00 New Zealand v Singapore.
12 noon Rugby League
12.45pm Netball World Cup
2.45 LIVE Netball World Cup
England v Scotland, coverage of a
Group B game (centre-pass 3.00);
5.00 New Zealand v Singapore.
7.00 Rugby Championship 9.10
Super League 9.45 Women’s Super
League 10.00 Netball World Cup
12 midnight Boxing (AD) 1.00am
Rugby League 2.00—6.00am Darts

7.00am Rugby Union 7.30 My Icon

7.45 LIVE Netball World Cup
Australia v Fiji (centre-pass 7.45);
10.00 Malawi v Barbados.
12 noon Boxing: two bouts
2.00pm LIVE Equestrianism The
Longines King George V Gold Cup.
5.30 Rugby Championship
6.00 LIVE WNBA Connecticut
Sun v Minnesota Lynx (tip-off 6.00).
8.00 Rugby Championship 10.10 My
Icon (AD) 10.30 Rugby Championship
12.40am My Icon (AD) 1.00 NFL
Bitesize (AD) 2.00 NFL Highlights
4.00—6.00am Super Bowl LVII (AD)

Amazon Prime
11.30am LIVE Tennis Hamburg
European Open, men’s doubles final;
2.00pm The men’s singles final.

Eurosport 1
Sky 413 Virgin 521 BT HD 412
6.00am Women’s Tour de France

7.30 LIVE World University
Games Archery from Chengdu.
10.00 Discovery Golf
10.30 LIVE Motor Racing
Porsche Supercup from Belgium.
11.30 Cycling: highlights
2.00pm LIVE Women’s Tour de
France The final stage from Pau.
5.00 LIVE Ski Jumping The
Summer Grand Prix in France.
6.30 Cycling 8.00 Women’s Tour de
France 9.30 Sailing 10.00 Superbikes
11.00 Women’s Tour de France
12.30am Olympics 1.00 Superbikes
2.00 Cycling 4.00 Motor Racing
5.00—6.00am World Superbikes

7.00 LIVE Major League
Baseball St Louis Cardinals v
Chicago Cubs (start 7.15).
10.30 Meatball Molly (AD) 11.45
International One-Day Cricket
12.45am Major League Cricket
1.15 LIVE Major League Cricket
The final at Grand Prairie Stadium.
5.15 World Rally: magazine (AD)
5.45—6.00am French Football

TNT Sports 2
Sky 411 Virgin 528 BT 409/HD 431
6.00am TNT Sports Reload

6.15 LIVE Motor Racing V8
Supercars from Australia, race 19.
8.00 International One-Day Cricket
9.00 Wrestling: WWE action (AD)
11.00 Premier League Football: four
matches from the 2022/23 season
5.00pm Fishing: on the Bank (AD)

6.00 LIVE Basketball Week six
of the Big 3 season from Boston.
12 midnight LIVE Major League
Baseball Baltimore Orioles v New
York Yankees (start 12.00).
3.30am MLB Plays of the Week (AD)
4.00—6.00am Major League Baseball

TNT Sports 3
Sky 417 Virgin 529 BT 410/HD 432
6.00am LIVE Badminton The
Japan Open finals continued.
8.30 Badminton (AD) 9.00 Triathlon
(AD) 9.30 Fishing: on the Bank (AD)
10.30 Champions League Football
11.00 Australian Rules Football
9.00pm Wrestling 11.45 Reload
12 midnight—6.00am Champions
League Football: 11 classic matches

TNT Sports 4
Sky 421 Virgin 530 BT 411/HD 434
6.00am LIVE Australian Rules
Football Richmond Tigers v
Melbourne Demons.

Television

on K’gari in Queensland
6.00am Kenya Wildlife Diaries (S)
11.00 Animal Senses (S) 2.00pm
Wild Tales from the Farm: four
back-to-back editions (S) (AD)
6.00pm New series. Wild
Fighters The planet’s fiercest
fighters, revealing the instinctive
motivations that drive them to
compete — and win — at all costs.
7.00 Islands A look at K’gari in
Queensland, also known as Fraser
Island, with footage of stingrays
hunting soldier crabs in the tidal
shallows and acid frogs evading
vicious predators. (S)
8.00 Great Barrier Reef with
David Attenborough Following
his visit to the Great Barrier Reef
in 1957, the broadcaster uses the
latest filming techniques to unlock
the secrets of the natural wonder.
9.00 The naturalist explores the
waters of Osprey Reef, before
tracking dwarf minke whales to
discover their reasons for returning.
10.00 The naturalist examines
what the future holds for the
natural wonder, before embarking
on an attempt to dive further into
the reef than ever before. (S)
11.00 Islands As 7pm.
12 midnight Supersenses (S) (AD)
3.00am Patrick Aryee’s Wild World
(S) 5.00—6.00am Pridelands:
Wilderness Reborn (S)
Sky Nature Sky 124 Virgin 189
BT 354/HD 369

SPORT

SUNDAY

The life of the late actor
6.00am Discovering: Ben Kingsley
(S) 7.00 Discovering: Helen Mirren
(S) 8.00 Inventing Truth: the Relotius
Affair 10.00 Fashion Reimagined
(S) 12 noon Very Ralph (S) 2.00pm
Steve McQueen: the Lost Movie (S)
(AD) 3.50 My Icon: Kadeen Corbin
(S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Superpowered:
the DC Story (S) 5.00 Juan Carlos:
Downfall of the King: the King’s
ex-lover becomes a threat (S)
6.00pm Alexia: Labor Omnia
Vincit The story of Alexia Putellas,
captain of Fútbol Club Barcelona
and icon of women’s soccer.
7.00 Nothing Compares A look
at Sinéad O’Connor’s rise to
worldwide fame. (S) (W)
9.00 I Am Heath Ledger HHHH
A showcase of the life and
work of Heath Ledger. The
film reveals the man behind the
movie roles and offers a
fascinating insight into the life
of a gifted artist. (S) (AD) (W)
10.50 Wishful Drinking Carrie
Fisher performs a one-woman show
based on her autobiography. (S) (AD)
12.20am Music Box (S) (AD) 2.00
New. After the Bite: the surge in
great white sharks patrolling Cape
Cod’s shallow waters 3.50—
6.00am My Name Is Francesco
Totti: the footballer looks back on
his career. Italian +subtitles (S)
Sky Documentaries Sky 121
Virgin 188 BT 352/HD 367

SUNDAY 30 JULY

9.00 Champions Cup Rugby Union
9.30 Major League Baseball (AD)
5.30pm MLB Prime 9: Unique Pitching
6.00 Triathlon (AD) 6.30 World Rally
(AD) 7.00 Boxing 9.00 UFC
12 midnight UFC Reloaded (AD)
4.15am O Arise, All You Sons (AD)
5.15 Italian Football 5.30—6.00am
Peter Crouch Travel Fan (AD)

Viaplay Sports
3.00pm LIVE Scottish League
Cup Football Dundee v Inverness
Caledonian Thistle (kick-off 3.00).

Eurosport 2
Sky 414 Virgin 522 BT HD 413
6.30am Motor Racing 7.30
Motocross 8.30 World Superbikes

9.30 LIVE World Superbikes
From the Czech Republic, starting
with the Superbike Superpole race;
10.45 The first Superbike race;
11.15 The Supersport race two;
12.45pm Superbike race two.
2.00 Supersport 300 race two.
3.15 Motor Racing
4.15 British Superbikes
4.30 LIVE Formula E London
ePrix, race two (start 5.03).
6.35 British Superbikes 7.00 World
Superbikes 8.00 Fencing 11.00 World
Superbikes 12 midnight Discovery Golf
12.30am Women’s Tour de France
2.00 Premiership Speedway 3.00
World Superbikes 4.00 Women’s Tour
de France 5.30—7.00am Climbing

59

HAUNTED

DRAMA

Ukweli Roach
as DI Jack
Caffery

Wolf
9.00pm BBC1 Catch up via iPlayer

Television MONDAY

Fans of traditional, bucolic murder mysteries will run
NEW howling in anguish from Wolf. OK, so it features a grand
SERIES house in the country, but there’ll be no gathering of the
suspects in the drawing room here. For the remit of this
new six-parter (which continues tomorrow), is to blend crime with
horror and make flesh our woozy nightmares.
About to feel the fear are the Anchor-Ferrers family (matriarch:
Juliet Stevenson, patriarch: Owen Teale), posh types at the stately
pile who speak of their “flat in London” like the rest of us might refer
to a hoover in the hall cupboard. They’re in for a torrid time of it.
Seemingly unconnected, at least initially, is DI Jack Caffery
(Ukweli Roach), a textbook TV cop with a troubled past. In his case,
a long-missing brother who he’s convinced was abducted by the
next-door neighbour. You can see why the neighbour is on Caffery’s
radar, as the guy has an awful criminal history and currently looks
as though he’s cosplaying as Killer Bob from Twin Peaks.
DAVID BROWN See feature: page 18

60

QUIZ

ARTS

Only Connect /
University Challenge

Extraordinary Portraits Earth
Long Lost Family
9.00pm
BBC2
Catch
up
via
iPlayer
9.00pm ITV1 Catch up via ITVX
with Bill Bailey

8.00pm/ 8.30pm BBC2
Catch up via iPlayer

8.30pm (Wed 8.30pm N Ireland)
BBC1 Catch up via iPlayer

New inquisitor-in-chief Amol Rajan
met a mixed reception when he
hopped into Jeremy Paxman’s chair.
Friendlier but less authoritative was
the general verdict. RT also received
letters complaining that he fires off
questions too fast. Three weeks into
his stint, Rajan seems to be settling
down. As London’s Birkbeck battle
Oxford Brookes in another tight
contest, the dapper host cracks jokes
about cricket and cocktails.
It’s preceded by the reassuringly
familiar Victoria Coren Mitchell,
presiding wittily as choral music
devotees face red wine connoisseurs.
With her formidable knowledge and
arched eyebrow, nobody doubts her
credentials. MICHAEL HOGAN

The process of creating a portrait is
fascinating and the moment the
sitter first sees it is always moving.
But what’s equally extraordinary
about this series is finding out about
the subject and their life.
As these are all NHS heroes, it’s
another humbling story. Araf Saddiq
was Scotland’s first Asian paramedic
and has suffered racial abuse and
even been assaulted twice. However,
he says now he has a voice that he
likes to use to fight for the underdog
and to spread a positive message. It’s
down to photographer Brock Elbank
to capture what Araf goes through
every day and hopefully reveal his
passion and vulnerable side, too.
JANE RACKHAM

DOCUMENTARY

Awe once again underpins Chris
Packham’s sprawling series on the
tumultuous past of our planet, which
this week goes back four billion years
to focus on plants. Their ingenuity
and versatility have ensured they
have both survived and thrived
against overwhelming odds. Almost
as overwhelming, in fact, as those
facing a programme hoping to cram a
brief history of plate tectonics, soil,
trees, giant fungi and swamp forests
into one hour. Yet the results of both
are jaw-dropping, as Packham joins
the dots between geology and
biology, then and now. Along with CGI
that is impressive without ever being
self-indulgent, he makes sense of
events that in other hands might
seem either too big or too obtuse (or
both) to comprehend. GABRIEL TATE

DOCUMENTARY

This programme often reveals how
a parent kept the secret of giving a
child up for adoption until their
dying day. It was too painful or maybe
too shameful to share. But such
secrecy can have distressing
consequences as we see from both
of tonight’s stories.
Jeanette’s father never denied he
had a son somewhere and stressed
“my door is always open” to him.
However, he’d died by the time his
son, Graham, made contact and
Jeanette’s grandmother totally
rejected any further overtures.
Meanwhile, Karen wasn’t told until
her mother’s funeral that she had
twin siblings who were adopted when
she was a young child. Both reunions
demonstrate how important family
connections are. JANE RACKHAM

RadioTimes 29 July–4 August 2023

MONDAY 31 JULY
LIVE SPORT
Love Island

Naked Video

10.00pm BBC2

Confessions
of a Cam Girl

It’s time for the live final
as host Maya Jama
(right) announces
which of the couples is
the viewers’ favourite
and has won £50,000.

Broad humour from
1989 in the BBC sketch
show starring Gregor
Fisher, Helen Lederer,
Elaine C Smith and
Jonathan Watson.

The first of two
programmes telling the
stories of five women
who sell explicit videos
of themselves online.

10.00pm C4

DRAMA

We Hunt Together

The Unique Boutique

Dr Death

10.40pm (11.10pm Wales, 11.15pm N
Ireland) BBC1 Full series on iPlayer

11.05pm C4
Catch up via C4 streaming

12.05am C4
Catch up via C4 streaming

The longer this series has
SERIES gone on, the clearer it has
FINALE become that Freddy
owes a debt to Killing
Eve’s Villanelle. Both have that icy
glibness, and a hole in their head
where a conscience ought to be. It’s
now the job of police officer Jackson
to help Baba see that Freddy can’t
love him in the way he’d like her to.
The one snag is that Jackson
spends much of this finale staring
down the barrel of a shotgun as he
tries to make his case. Baba is the one
with his finger inching towards the
trigger, yet there is hope as, unlike
Freddy, he’s experiencing something
in the way of guilt. Can Jackson tap
into those feelings of regret? DB

Geraldine’s story will break your
heart. As a child, she wasn’t allowed
to be a bridesmaid because it was felt
that her limp, a result of polio, would
spoil the look of the big day. This,
along with the physical problems
caused by the disease, has
traumatised her entire life.
Now Geraldine is about to get
married and dreams of a beautiful
dress and supportive, pretty shoes
that aren’t lace-ups. The look of joy
on her face when her wish comes
true will stay with you all week.
This is an inclusive, feelgood show
that also gently reminds us of the
problems — physical or psychological
— faced by those who don’t fit
mainstream fashion norms. JR

The non-linear storytelling in Dr
Death can be confusing, so to help us
out, Joshua Jackson has been given
a fat suit for the sequences featuring
Christopher Duntsch in the wake of
his arrest. The trouble is, the latex
additions are far from seamless, and
Jackson looks as though he’s had half
a Spitting Image puppet grafted onto
the lower part of his face. The
make-up department is obviously
hoping to suggest jowls, but there are
moments when the actor’s lips
disappear and he barely seems able
to emote. It’s such a shame, as it’s in
these scenes that we’re supposed to
feel that the rug has finally been
pulled from under Duntsch. Sadly, the
visuals are just too distracting. DB

A MOTHER’S
INSTINCT
Ilana Rada (right)
has never believed
that Roman
Zadorov (below)
killed her daughter

DOCUMENTARY

Shadow of Truth

England v Australia
10.15am Sky Main Event, Sky
Cricket, highlights 7pm BBC2
The fifth and final day of the fifth
and final Test. How will England
captain Ben Stokes (above) look
back on the series?

Football: Women’s World Cup
Japan v Spain (k/o 8am) ITV1;
Costa Rica v Zambia (k/o 8am)
ITV4; Republic of Ireland v
Nigeria (k/o 11am) BBC2;
Canada v Australia
(k/o 11am) iPlayer

Netball: World Cup

7.45am Sky Main Event, 5pm
BBC2 Action from Cape Town.

FILM OF
THE DAY

10pm BBC4 Catch up via iPlayer
In 2006 Tair Rada, 13, was

NEW viciously murdered in her
SERIES Israeli school’s toilets.
Suspicion quickly fell
on a Ukrainian repairman — Roman
Zadorov — who eventually admitted
everything to police. So, a horrific
crime, but seemingly straightforward.
Through extraordinary footage of
(coercive) police interviews and with
(retired) investigating officers as well
as Zadorov’s lawyers, a different
picture starts to emerge in this
compelling, award-winning
docuseries. The police lied about
evidence, placed a paid informant in
Zadorov’s cell to extract a confession
and ignored witness statements that
conflicted with their narrative. Their
conduct was appalling, but it also
seems the judges had decided he was
guilty before he even got to court.
First shown on Netflix, the series
has sparked controversy in Israel. JR
See feature: page 28

RadioTimes 29 July–4 August 2023

Cricket: Men’s Ashes

Television

DOCUMENTARY

MONDAY

DRAMA

Harry Potter and the
Philosopher’s Stone
1111 g
6.05pm ITV2
An orphaned boy (Daniel
Radcliffe) enrols at Hogwarts
School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
in this magical first instalment in
the franchise, which continues
all this week. (2001)

FILM REVIEWS
page 67

GETTY; ALLSTAR

9.00pm ITV2

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MONDAY Main Channels
DAYTIME
BBC1

Television MONDAY

6.00am Breakfast Jon Kay, Sally Nugent. (S) (HD)
9.15 Morning Live Michelle Ackerley, Helen Skelton. (S) (HD)
10.00 Big Little Crimes A domestic burglary leads
to police solving a series of ram-raids. (R) (S) (HD)
10.30 Animal Park Five koalas en route from
Adelaide are poised to make history. (Revised rpt) (S) (HD)
11.15 Homes under the Hammer Properties in
Stoke-on-Trent, Derby and Kent. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
12.15pm Bargain Hunt From Detling. (S) (HD)
1.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
1.45 Rick Stein’s Cornwall Visiting St Ives. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
2.15 Robson Green’s Weekend Escapes The
actor tries out landscape painting. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
2.45 Escape to the Country A couple from
Hertfordshire seek a High Weald home. (R) (S) (HD)
3.45 Make It at Market Cleaner Cath wants to
start a willow-weaving enterprise. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
4.30—5.15 Antiques Road Trip New recruit
Mark Hill joins Roo Irvine in Scotland. (R) (S) (HD)

1

BBC2

2

Wolf 9.00pm
A personal tragedy
from his childhood
returns to haunt
DI Jack Caffery
(Ukweli Roach)

Earth 9.00pm
Flower power: Chris
Packham reveals
how plants turned
the world into a
lush green planet

5.15pm Pointless

5.00pm Netball World Cup

With Alexander Armstrong and Konnie Huq. (R) (S) (HD)

A rash decision leads to Anna being caught out.

Betty Glover presents coverage of a match from the
second preliminary stage in the concluding week of
the World Cup in Cape Town (centre-pass 5.00).
England, Scotland and Wales all qualified for this
tournament, with England expected to reach this
stage after finishing third in 2019. With analysis from
Ama Agbeze. Coverage of other matches available at
bbc.co.uk/sport. More live coverage from the second
stage of group games is tomorrow at 7pm on BBC3.

6.00 BBC News Weather (S) (HD)
6.30 Regional news magazines (S) (HD)
7.00 The One Show
With Jermaine Jenas and Alex Jones. (S) (HD)

7.30 EastEnders
Writer Kevin Rundle Cast Tuesday/Thursday (S) (AD) (HD)

Producer Katherine Hogan (S) (HD)

BBC2

8.00 Panorama

7.00 Today at the Test

6.30am Gardeners’ World Monty Don sows seeds
for autumn vegetables. Shown last Friday (S) (HD)
7.30 Beechgrove Garden Shown yesterday 10.15am (S) (HD)

An investigation into a story making the headlines.

Isa Guha presents action from day five of the fifth
and final Test between England and Australia, as the
Ashes series concluded at the Oval in London. (S) (HD)

2BBC SPORT ONLINE From 7.55am Netball World Cup
Matches are available at bbc.co.uk/sport
8.00—9.00 Sign Zone 8.00 Clive Myrie’s Italian Road
Trip 9/15. The hot springs of Saturnia. (R) (S) (HD) 8.30 Great
British Railway Journeys A visit to Felixstowe. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

8.30 Extraordinary Portraits with Bill
Bailey

9.00 Nicky Campbell Calls on the day’s talking
points. Simulcast with Radio 5 Live. (S) (HD)
10.45 LIVE Women’s World Cup Republic of
Ireland v Nigeria Both sides’ third and final
match in Group B, held at Brisbane Stadium
(kick-off 11.00). Highlights 7.05pm BBC3. Full replay on
the red button at 7.25pm. Watch live on iPlayer, which
also has highlights of other matches. Press red from
10.50am for live coverage of Canada v Australia. (S) (HD)
1.15pm Impossible Quiz with Rick Edwards. (R) (S) (HD)
2.00 Mastermind Hosted by John Humphrys. (R) (S) (HD)
2.30 Great British Menu Three chefs from Scotland
present their starters and fish courses. (R) (S) (HD)
3.30 World’s Sneakiest Animals Devious tactics
and sneaky tricks that animals use to survive. (R) (S) (HD)
4.30—5.00 The Farmers’ Country Showdown Pig
farmers compete at the Royal Welsh Show. (R) (S) (HD)

9

ITV1
6.00am Good Morning Britain (S) (HD)
7.30 LIVE Women’s World Cup Japan v Spain
Michelle Owen presents coverage of the Group C
match at Wellington Regional Stadium (kick-off
8.00), with analysis by Eni Aluko and Vicky Losada.
Costa Rica v Zambia is on ITV4 from 7.30am. (S) (HD)
Your RT Travel: page 134
10.15 This Morning Lifestyle features, cookery and
celebrity interviews. Including Regional Weather (S) (HD)
12.30pm Loose Women The regulars and their
guests put the world to rights. Signed rpt 2.10am (S) (HD)
1.30 ITV Lunchtime News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
2.00 James Martin’s Islands to Highlands The
chef visits Oxford with Monica Galetti. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
3.00—4.00 Lingo Adil Ray presents the fast-paced
battle of words. (R) (S) (HD) Followed by Regional Weather

9

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BBC1

6.15am Countdown Neil Delamere guests. (R) (S) (HD)
6.55 Cheers Two episodes of the comedy. (R) (S) (HD)
7.45 Everybody Loves Raymond (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
8.40 Frasier Double bill of the sitcom. (R) (S) (AD)
9.40 The Big Bang Theory (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
10.35 The Simpsons Homer opens a hair salon.
11.05 A bully torments Lisa. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 11.35 News (S) (HD)
11.40 Four in a Bed B&Bs in Buckinghamshire and
Leicestershire, plus two in East Sussex. (R) (S) (HD)
2.10pm Countdown With John Thomson. (S) (HD)
3.00 A Place in the Sun A home in Barbados. (R) (S) (HD)
4.00—5.00 A New Life in the Sun: Where Are
They Now? A family in Portugal have found new ways
to make the most out of their holiday village. (R) (S) (HD)

Signed repeat Friday 12.50am BBC2 (S) (HD)
NOTE: as Panorama reacts to the news its subject matter may change

4

3/6 Series 3. Scotland’s first Muslim paramedic,
Araf, is paired with acclaimed photographer
Brock Elbank. When he is not saving lives on the
road, Glaswegian Araf works in the local community
to equip mosques and gurdwaras with first-aid skills
and knowledge. Will Brock find a way to tell Araf’s
unique story in a single photograph? See page 60.
Series producer David Skudder (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 Only Connect

devotees of choral music take on a trio
4Three
of red wine connoisseurs in a first-round match.

Hosted by Victoria Coren Mitchell. See page 60.
Director Siân G Lloyd; Producer Nick Martin (S) (HD)

8.30 University Challenge

from Birkbeck, University of London, and
4Teams
Oxford Brookes battle it out for a place in the

second round. Amol Rajan presents. See page 60.
Director Simon Staffurth; Producer Clare Parody (S) (HD)

9.00 Wolf

9.00 Earth

series. 1/6. Watching. Crime thriller based
Green. Chris Packham explores how plant
4New
on Mo Hayder’s novels about DI Jack Caffery.
43/5.
life turned the planet from a barren rock into a
The wealthy Anchor-Ferrers family arrive at their
Monmouthshire home, but are unnerved by gruesome
events. In London, Caffery receives a clue that could
lead him to their rescue. Continues tomorrow 9pm.
The whole series is on iPlayer from today. See p60.
DI Jack Caffery
Honey
Molina
Matilda
Oliver
Lucia
Veronica
Ivan Penderecki
Supt Driscoll
DI Akers
DI Richards
Ella Ward
Clive Ward

Ukweli Roach
Sacha Dhawan
Iwan Rheon
Juliet Stevenson
Owen Teale
Annes Elwy
Kezia Burrows
Anthony Webster
Amanda Drew
Kwame Bentil
George Russo
Sarah Trevelyan
Andy Eadie

Sgt Cox
Finnbar Hayman
Dr Diaz
Caroline Berry
Jennie
Willow Wright
Henry
Jensen Clayden
DI Lincoln
Sian Reese-Williams
Colonel Frink
Karl Johnson
Robbie
Hywel Simons
Sophie
Emily Adara
Hugo
Gwion Morris Jones
Charlotte
Aidie Evans
DI Matthews
Kai Owen
The Walking Man
Tim Treloar

Dramatised by Megan Gallagher; Producer Nikki Wilson
Director Kristoffer Nyholm (S) (AD) (HD)

See feature: page 18

10.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
10.40 We Hunt Together

4

vibrant green world. Four billion years ago, Earth was
predominantly a water world, with plant life’s early
ancestors trapped on the sea bed. However, a giant
asteroid bombardment triggered the emergence of
land and, as dry habitat expanded, plant life struggled
to gain a foothold in an environment dominated by
fungi. Eventually, plants did prevail and giant swamp
forests sprang up, but so much carbon dioxide was
trapped by this greenery that temperatures began
to plummet. The whole series is on iPlayer. See p60.
Director James Tovell; Producers Raewyn Dickson and James Tovell
Repeated Thursday 11.40pm (S) (AD) (HD)

Your RT Books: page 132

10.00 Naked Video
Comedy sketch show featuring characters including
Siadwel, the Bald Man, Woman in the Wine Bar and
Rab C Nesbitt. Starring Gregor Fisher, Elaine C Smith,
Andy Gray, Tony Roper, Helen Lederer, Jonathan
Watson and John Sparkes. First shown in 1989.
Director/Producer Colin Gilbert (R) (S) (HD)

6/6. It looks like the end of the road for Freddy
and Baba, trapped in a remote cottage by Lola,
Jackson and a squad of armed response officers.
The whole series is available on iPlayer. See page 61.

10.30 Newsnight With Kirsty Wark. (S) (HD)

DS Lola Franks
DI Jackson Mendy
Freddy Lane
Baba
DSI Susan Smart
Sgt Grady

based on a true story. In the 1950s,
qDrama
Ruth Bader Ginsburg works day and night to

Eve Myles
Babou Ceesay
Hermione Corfield
Dipo Ola
Vicki Pepperdine
Nick Malinowski

Gill Mendy
Francine Ford
Johnny
DI Sutton
Grant Judd
PC Peterson

Sharlene Whyte
Rebecca Charles
Perry Fitzpatrick
Rebecca Saire
Peter Barrett
Chris Leask

Writer Gaby Hull; Director Jon Jones First shown on Alibi (S) (AD) (HD)

11.25 MIDLANDS/LONDON/SOUTH/SOUTH EAST/
EAST/WEST/SOUTH WEST Have I Got a Bit More
News for You Host Victoria Coren Mitchell is joined by
comedian Ivo Graham and journalist Isabel Hardman.
Director Paul Wheeler; Producer Jack Harris (R) (S) (HD)

11.25 NORTH EAST/CUMBRIA/NORTH WEST/
YORKSHIRE/LINCOLNSHIRE The Super League
Show Including Catalans Dragons v Salford Red Devils.

11.10 Weather (S) (HD)

11.15 On the Basis of Sex HHH

complete a law degree while taking care of her infant
daughter and her husband, who is in recovery from
cancer. In 1970, despite her career being hampered
by sexist discrimination, she is asked to fight a minor
civil rights case that will become a legal landmark.
Available on iPlayer for 30 days. Review page 67.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Martin Ginsburg
Mel Wulf

Felicity Jones Jim Bozarth
Armie Hammer Jane Ginsburg
Justin Theroux Professor Brown

Jack Reynor
Cailee Spaeny
Stephen Root

Director Mimi Leder (2018, 12) (S) (W) (HD)

12.10am Weather for the Week Ahead (S) (HD)
12.15—6.00am BBC News (S) (HD)

1.10—3.20am Sign Zone 1.10 Countryfile Exploring the
impact of increasing wildfires. Shown Saturday 7.15am (S) (HD)
2.05 Money for Nothing Sarah Moore gets crafty with
a collection of knitted blankets and patches. (R) (S) (HD)
2.50 The Girl Who Sails with Her Breath: Our Lives
A woman with cerebral palsy is determined to sail across the
Atlantic using a system devised by her father. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

BBC1 Freeview 1/HD 101 Freesat 101 Sky 101 Virgin 101

BBC2 Freeview 2/HD 102 Freesat 102 Sky 102 Virgin 102

Producer John Harrison; Executive producers Stephanie Marshall
and Craig South Repeated tomorrow 12.15pm BBC2 (S) (HD)

MONDAY 31 JULY
ITV1

3

Channel 4

4

7 in Wales

BBC4

9

24 in Scotland

Long Lost Family
9.00pm Jeanette
Woodyatt would
love to be united
with the brother
she never knew

The Unique
Boutique 11.05pm
Stylist David
(right) helps to
create a special
pair of trousers

Shadow of
Truth 10.00pm
Examining the
2006 murder of
Tair Rada at her
school in Israel

4.00pm Tipping Point

5.00pm Sun, Sea and Selling Houses

Ben Shephard presents as four contestants try
their luck on the big arcade machine. (R) (S) (HD)

Cleaning company owners Kevin and Kate
Waring from Coventry look for a villa in Almería.

7.00pm Great Coastal Railway
Journeys

5.00 The Chase

Series producer Ninushka Oller-Stracey; Executive producer
Sandy Watson Repeated tomorrow 2.30pm 4seven (R) (S) (HD)

Paul, Alex, Catherine and Harriett attempt to
outrun one of the mighty Chasers and scoop
the prize pot. Bradley Walsh hosts. (R) (S) (HD)

6.00 Regional News Weather (S) (HD)
6.30 ITV Evening News Weather (S) (HD)
7.30 Emmerdale
Claudette is worried when Victor collapses.
Dan’s mind races as Wendy informs him that
Lloyd might be brought out of his coma.
Writer Sarah Hooper Cast Tuesday/Thursday (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 Coronation Street

Alison King
Ryan Prescott
Samuel Robertson
Tina O’Brien
Savannah Kunyo
Mollie Gallagher
Ben Price
Jack P Shepherd
Tanisha Gorey
Charlotte Jordan
David Neilson

Paul Foreman
Peter Ash
Tracy McDonald
Kate Ford
Stephen Reid
Todd Boyce
Gail Rodwell
Helen Worth
Sam Blakeman
Jude Riordan
Maria Connor Samia Longchambon
Simon Barlow
Alex Bain
Yasmeen Metcalfe
Shelley King
Audrey Roberts
Sue Nicholls
Sean Tully
Antony Cotton

6.30 Hollyoaks
Leela holds an intervention for Donna-Marie.
Writer Katie Lythgow Cast Tue/Fri Shown last Friday E4
Rptd Tue 6.30am E4 Next episode follows on E4 (S) (AD) (HD)

7.00 Channel 4 News Sport; Weather (S) (HD)
8.00 Secrets of the Supermarket
Own Brands
From Aldi and Lidl to Sainsbury’s and Waitrose,
sales of supermarkets’ own label products are
higher than ever before as people try to save on
their regular shop. Denise Van Outen reveals
the eye-opening reality behind who actually
makes these own brands as she explores if
cheaper alternatives really do offer better value.
Director/Producer Tim Robinson
Repeated Wednesday 7pm 4seven (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 24 Hours in A&E

Writer Debbie Oates More cast Wednesday (S) (AD) (HD)

Ep 4. At Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham,
77-year-old Keith is treated for a cardiac arrest
and Joanna has a spinal fracture. In the Urgent
Treatment Unit, 79-year-old John is patched up
after being run over by a car at his local market.

9.00 Long Lost Family

Director/Producer Chris Kershaw Repeated Thursday 11pm
Channel 4 and Friday 9pm 4seven (S) (AD) (HD)

4

5/7 Series 13. Nicky Campbell and Davina
McCall follow two more people looking for
their birth families. On the day of her mother’s
funeral, Karen Turnbull was shocked to be told
that she had twin half-siblings, who were given
up for adoption when her mother was young.
Now she wants to meet them, but she doesn’t
know that all the while she’s been looking for
the twins, they’ve been searching for her. And
Jeanette Woodyatt wants to find her long-lost
brother, whose own attempt to trace his roots
was greeted with rejection. See page 60.

Series director John Deol
Series producer Nicola Seare (S) (AD) (HD)

Weather; Regional News and Weather (S) (HD)

10.45 Unstoppable HHH

thriller starring Denzel Washington
q Action
and Chris Pine. A runaway train loaded

with toxic chemicals will derail in a populated
area unless two rail company workers can put
their differences aside and to try to prevent
a horrifying catastrophe. Review page 67.
Denzel Washington
Chris Pine
Rosario Dawson
Ethan Suplee
Kevin Dunn

Inspector Werner
Bunny
Ned
Gilleece
Darcy

New series. 1/2. The stories of women selling
explicit videos online. The market has exploded
since lockdown, leaving some struggling to find a
niche. Maya uses her earnings to support her
family, but feels burned out by the pressure to
produce content, while Sarah has been invited to
her first photoshoot in Marbella. Both episodes
will be available to stream after this broadcast.
Director Drew Fergusson; Producers Drew Fergusson and Helen
Andrews Repeated 1.15am, tomorrow 11.05pm, Thursday 11.05pm
4seven Signed repeat Wednesday 12 midnight C4 (S) (AD) (HD)

11.05 The Unique Boutique

10.00 ITV News at Ten

Frank
Will
Connie
Dewey
Galvin

10.00 Confessions of a Cam Girl

Kevin Corrigan
Kevin Chapman
Lew Temple
TJ Miller
Jessy Schram

Director Tony Scott (2010, 12) (S) (W) (HD)

12.25am All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite Hard-hitting
action from the USA. Shown last Friday ITV4 (S) (HD)
2.10 Loose Women The regulars and their guests
put the world to rights. Shown 12.30pm (S) (SL) (HD)
2.55 Romeo and Duet Four singletons take part
in Oti Mabuse’s musical dating game. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
3.50 Unwind A sequence to calm the mind. (S) (HD)
5.05—6.00am Made in Britain A look at how the
Henry vacuum cleaner is made. (R) (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)
5.35 How crystal glasses are hand-blown from
globs of red-hot molten glass. (R) (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)
ITV1 Freeview 3/HD 103 Freesat 103 Sky 103 Virgin 103
+1 Freeview 35 Freesat 112 Sky 203 Virgin 303

Events organiser Moeed would like a
42/4.
fun but formal look for an awards ceremony.

He avoids tailored suits because they restrict his
stoma bag, but stylist David is on hand to fix him
up a pair of trousers. Guest designer Bianca
Raffaella creates a draped gown for singleton
Joy, who’s keen to start dating again. The whole
series is available to stream. See page 61.
Series director Emma Reynolds; Series producer Carrie Smith
Signed repeat Wednesday 2.50am (S) (AD) (HD)

12.05am Dr Death 7/8. Feet of Clay. As Dr Duntsch is
taken into custody, Henderson and Kirby dig
deeper into his past. See page 61. (S) (AD) (HD)
Dr Christopher Duntsch Joshua Jackson Kim Morgan
Grace Gummer
Michelle Shughart AnnaSophia Robb Jerry Summers Dominic Burgess
Dr Robert Henderson Alec Baldwin Wendy Young
Molly Griggs
Dr Randall Kirby
Christian Slater Don Duntsch
Fredric Lehne
1.05 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA The Black
Pearl seafood restaurant in Manhattan. (R) (S) (SL) (HD)
1.55 Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland 3/3. Miriam
and Alan join a walking group. (R) (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)
2.50 Sue Perkins’ Big American Road Trip 2/2
Sue drives through Colorado. (R) (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)
3.40 The Dog House Funeral workers Amy and Alex
want to rescue a dog in need. (R) (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)
4.35 Love It or List It Australia Including a couple’s
massive house in New South Wales. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
5.25—6.15am Couples Come Dine with Me (R) (S) (HD)

4

Channel 4 Freeview 4/HD 104 Freesat 104 Sky 104 Virgin 104
+1 Freeview 15 Freesat 121 Sky 204 Virgin 304

Director Ben Rowland; Executive producer John
Comerford Repeated 2.10am (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
RT TRAVEL Experience the “Little Trains” of the
Austrian Tyrol on an eight-day break, including a
ride on the Ziller Valley railway and an excursion
to Salzburg: see page 141

7.30 Secrets of Skin

3/6. Professor Ben Garrod explores how
animals’ skin acts as a barrier between
them and the outside world, shielding
them from extremes of temperature,
harmful effects of UV and organisms.
Continues tomorrow 7.30pm. (R) (S) (HD)

8.00 Treasures of the Indus

2/3. The Other Side of the Taj Mahal
The Mughals created the greatest
empire in Indian history, but did they
also help to tear the nation apart?
Sona Datta examines the artistic
legacy of the Mughal empire.
Director/Series producer Hugh Thomson
Repeated 2.40am (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
RT TRAVEL Enjoy ten nights in India’s Golden
Triangle, including a traditional rickshaw ride
through Old Delhi and a visit to the Taj Mahal: p135

9.00 Death Camp Treblinka:
Survivor Stories
An insight into how Samuel Willenberg
and Kalman Taigman escaped from the
Nazi concentration camp in occupied
Poland, where more than 800,000 Polish
Jews died during the Nazi Holocaust.
Producer Adam Kemp; Editor Joanna Lincoln
Repeated tomorrow 12 midnight (R) (S) (HD)

10.00 Shadow of Truth

series. 1/5. A Dark Overture
4New
Documentary exploring the murder

of an Israeli schoolgirl and the subsequent
investigation and trial. In 2006, the body
of 13-year-old Tair Rada is found inside a
locked toilet stall at her school. With the
police coming under pressure to find
her killer, a suspect is arrested. (S) (HD)
10.45 2/5. The Scapegoat. Roman
Zadorov — a Ukrainian repairman at the
school — retracts his confession, claiming
that he was coerced into it by detectives.
Hebrew and Russian +subtitles. The
whole series is available on iPlayer
from today. See page 61. (S) (HD)
See feature: page 28

BBC
SCOTLAND
2.00pm Beechgrove
Garden: signed
2.30 Designing the
Hebrides: signed
3.00—4.00 Highland
Cops: signed 7.00
Beechgrove Garden
7.30 Wild Cameramen
at Work: the hardships
and hazards involved
when filming wildlife in
extreme environments
8.00 Scotland from
the Sky: how Scottish
communities dealt
with the challenges of
tough terrain 9.00 The
Nine 10.00 River City:
Eve returns from
South Africa 10.30
Janey and Ashley Get
a Real Job 11.00 Des
Doesn’t Do: Horror
11.30—12 midnight
Burnistoun Tunes In

STV
3.50—5.05am
Night Vision

BBC1 WALES
8.00—8.30pm
I Want to Go Home
10.40 Panorama 11.10
We Hunt Together
11.55 Have I Got a Bit
More News for You
12.40—6.00am
BBC News

BBC1
NORTHERN
IRELAND
8.00 A Stitch through
Time: the four designers
face two cotton-based
fashion challenges
8.30—9.00 Panorama:
current affairs report
10.40 True North: Rat
Woman: a woman
waging war on pests
in Northern Ireland
11.10 Community Life
Appeal 11.15 We Hunt
Together: the end of
the road seems near
for Freddy and Baba.
Last in series
12 midnight Have I
Got a Bit More News
for You: Victoria Coren
Mitchell hosts an
extended episode
12.50—6.00am News

Television

Carla Barlow
Ryan Connor
Adam Barlow
Sarah Barlow
Eliza Woodrow
Nina Lucas
Nick Tilsley
David Platt
Asha Alahan
Daisy Midgeley
Roy Cropper

Flaming Moe’s. Homer shares the secret recipe
for his favourite cocktail with Moe. (R) (S) (AD)

11.25pm—12.10am
Have I Got a Bit More
News for You

MONDAY

Carla provides Ryan with some unwanted
exposure. Adam’s gender reveal party takes
Sarah by surprise. The Alahans prepare for
a memorial dinner. Mum’s the word for Eliza.

6.00 The Simpsons

Series 1. Forvie to Peterhead. From
Aberdeen, Michael Portillo heads north
to the Forvie National Nature Reserve, a
dramatic piece of coastline containing
protected habitat. More tomorrow 7pm.

BBC1
SCOTLAND

BBC2
NORTHERN
IRELAND
10.00—10.30pm
Trad Ar Fad!: music
from the Festival
Interceltique de
Lorient in Brittany

11.30 Catching History’s
Criminals: the Forensics Story
1/3. A Question of Identity. A look at
the development of forensic science
as a way of catching murderers.
Series producer Graeme Thomson
Exec producer Jaqueline Smith (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

12.30am The Ascent of Man 3/13. The
Grain in the Stone. The development of
science. Shown yesterday 10.55pm (S) (HD)
1.20 4/13. The Hidden Structure. The
roots of chemistry. Shown Sun 11.45pm (S) (HD)
2.10 Great Coastal Railway Journeys
Shown 7pm (S) (AD) (HD)

2.40—3.40am Treasures of the Indus
Shown 8pm (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)

BBC4 F’view 9/HD 106 F’sat 108 Sky 116 Virgin 108

a RT Choice m Family 2 Red button (R) Repeat (S) Subtitles (SL) Signing (AD) Audio description (HD) High def FILMS i Premiere (W) Widescreen (BW) Black/white

Channel 5
listings are overleaf

Outstanding HHHH Very good HHH Worth watching HH Could be worse H Poor

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Channel 5

5

ITV3

10

Drama

20

The Traitors Australia 8.00pm Rodger
Corser updates the contestants

Endeavour 8.00pm DC Morse races
against time to locate a serial killer

The Brokenwood Mysteries 8.00pm

5.35am Milkshake! See page 66
9.15 New. Jeremy Vine (S) (HD)
11.15 New. Storm Huntley (S) (HD)
12.40pm New. Alexis Conran (S) (HD)

7.00pm New. The Catch Up (S) (HD)
7.05 New. Women’s World Cup
Highlights

7.10am Pie in the Sky: 1/10 Series 2. Crabbe
tracks down a peeping Tom (S) 8.00 Lovejoy:
3/14 Series 5. Lovejoy looks after Felsham Hall
until it has been sold (S) 9.15 Classic Holby
City: Michael and Alex’s rivalry puts a patient’s
life in danger Repeated 2.50am (S) (HD) 10.35
Casualty: the hospital is placed on red alert (S)
11.40 The Bill: Jim Carver poses as a hitman (S)
12.40pm Classic EastEnders: double bill.
Yolande turns up at the B&B, then Phil has
Dennis beaten up by some thugs 2.00 The
House of Eliott: 4/12 Series 2. A flu epidemic
jeopardises the collection’s completion (S)
3.00 Lovejoy: 1/14 Series 4. The bailiffs call
on the antiques dealer (S) 4.10 Peak Practice:
12/13 Series 10. Will gets emotionally attached
to a patient 5.20 Waiting for God: 1/10
Series 4. Diana’s investments lose value (S)

Drama starring Aimee-Ffion Edwards.
Pregnant Alys falls behind at her job. (S) (HD)

6.00am Classic Emmerdale (S) 7.05 Classic
Coronation Street (S) (AD) 8.05 Never the
Twain: double bill. Simon and Oliver forge
an uneasy pact, the the duo return to their
bachelor existence (S) 9.15 The Royal: 11/12
Series 6. Ormerod’s father-in-law makes
a special bequest to the family Repeated
12.05am; 10.25 12/12. There’s a race against
time to find a baby kidnapped from the
hospital nursery Repeated 1.05am (S) (AD)
11.35 Heartbeat: 19/25. Steve helps an
amnesiac; 12.40pm 20/25. A wool thief
de-fleeces sheep in Aidensfield (S) (HD)
1.45pm Classic Emmerdale: double bill.
Laurel and Ashley are finally reunited, then
Dawn reacts angrily to Terry losing his job (S)
2.45 Classic Coronation Street: double bill.
Steve tries to make life difficult for Karen and
Joe, then Gail is devastated after meeting
her solicitor (S) (AD) 3.50 A Touch of Frost:
Series 2. Nothing to Hide. A drug addict’s
death takes a surprising turn (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 New. Dreaming Whilst Black

6.00pm Heartbeat

1.45 Home and Away Justin is shaken
after receiving Andrew’s note.
Shown last Friday 5 Star (S) (AD) (HD)

2.15 Stolen in Her Sleep HH Thriller with
Morgan Bradley and Alicia Leigh Willis.
Devoted new mother Hallie makes a
new friend, who soon turns out to be trouble.

q

Director John Murlowski (2021) (S) (W) (HD)

4.00 Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun
Caterers Louise and Ed prepare healthy
dishes for a slimming boot camp. (S) (HD)

5.00pm 5 News (S) (HD)
6.00 Eggheads

Television MONDAY

23

Eggheads 6.00pm Jeremy Vine hosts
more creatively-named challengers

1.40 5 News (S) (HD)

A team from Cheshire called Mrs
Clarke’s Boys take on the experts. (S) (HD)
6.30 The Clubturns try their luck
against the experts. Jeremy Vine hosts.
Directors/Producers John L Spencer and
Barbara Wiltshire (S) (HD)
6.55 5 News Update (S) (HD)

7.00 Traffic Cops
While on night patrol, PC Andy Swift is
called to a van break-in, where he
catches a suspect red-handed in a
vehicle parked outside its owner’s house.
Series director/producer Simon Meehan (S) (HD)
7.55 5 News Update (S) (HD)

8.00 New. Police Interceptors
Officers from the firearms squad
respond to reports of a shotgun
changing hands in the suburbs. But
when the team swoops in, both buyer
and seller are taken by surprise.
Director/Producers Mike Parmenter,
Christiaan Bailey and James Warner (S) (HD)
Followed by 5 News Update (S) (HD)

9.00 New. Police: Night Shift 999
8/8 Series 3. Roads Policing Officer
PC Merchant spots a man driving on
the M5 while watching something on
his phone, and pulls the driver over.

Directors Greg Ashcroft and Simon Bowyer and
Mark Stanton Repeated Wednesday 11.05pm (S) (HD)

10.00 999: Emergency Call Out
Paramedic Jordan and special sergeant
Hannah find a known heroin user
unconscious and bleeding, who appears
to have been assaulted by the owner of
a car he was attempting to break into.
Series director/producer Matt Holden (S) (HD)

11.05 999: Critical Condition
After plummeting 15 feet onto concrete
and his skull taking the full impact of the
fall, a man is rushed into resus with a
significant laceration to his head.
Directors Nicholas Blakemore and Nial Barratt
Shown last Wednesday (S) (HD)

12.05am Police Interceptors: a driver tries to
give interceptor Ky Kirk the slip (S) (HD) 1.00
Home Shopping (S) (HD) 3.00 Rich Holiday,
Poor Holiday (S) (HD) 3.50 Never Teach Your
Wife to Drive (S) (SL) (HD) 4.40 Wildlife SOS
(S) (SL) 5.05 House Doctor (S) (SL)
5.30—5.35am Entertainment News (S) (HD)
C5 Freeview 5/HD 105 Freesat 105 Sky 105 Virgin 105
+1 Freeview 38 Freesat 128 Sky 205 Virgin 305

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BBC3

Featuring action from Republic of Ireland
v Nigeria, Canada v Australia, Costa Rica v
Zambia and Japan v Spain. (S) (HD)

7.30 Squad Goals: Dorking ’Til I Die
5/6. A rematch offers the chance to
avenge a crushing loss. (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 New. The Traitors Australia

11/12. The game is down to the ultimate
final five. More Wednesday 8pm. (S) (HD)

8.50 Ryan Tricks on the Streets
6/6. Ryan passes on the gift of magic
to a group of local mothers. (S) (HD)

9.00 Life and Death in the Warehouse

Mike makes another grim discovery

6.00pm Whatever Happened to the
Likely Lads?
1/14 Series 2. Absent Friends. Bob and
Thelma honeymoon in Norway.

6.40 Last of the Summer Wine

Rptd Wed BBC1 For cast see page 82 (S) (AD) (HD)

21/25 Series 13. The police foil an attempt
to steal antiques from Ashfordly Hall. (S) (AD)
7.00 22/25. The Aidensfield police are
puzzled when a face from the past
becomes a victim of vandalism. (S) (AD)

10.55 Starstruck

8.00 Endeavour

8.00 New. The Brokenwood Mysteries

10.00 Law & Order: UK

10.00 New Tricks

11.00 Wycliffe

11.20 Silent Witness

3/6. The Friends. Kwabena persuades a
TV producer to read his script. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.30 New. 4/6. The Birth. Funmi goes
into labour. The whole series is on iPlayer.
1/6 Series 1. Sitcom about a woman who
meets a film star on New Year’s Eve.
11.20 2/6. A chance encounter provides
an opportunity to clear the air.
11.40 3/6. A murder mystery party is
interrupted. A box set is on iPlayer. (S) (AD) (HD)
12.05am as 9pm 1.05 as 10pm/10.30pm
1.55 as 7.30pm 2.25 Ruck Stars
2.55—3.55am as 10pm/10.30pm (SL)
BBC3 F’view 23/HD 107 (not Scot/Wales) F’sat 179/HD 107
Sky 115 (117 Wales; 141 Scotland) Virgin 107 (157 Scotland/Wales)

ITV2

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6.00am World’s Funniest Videos (S) (HD)
6.35 Totally Bonkers Guinness World
Records (S) (HD) 7.00 Dress to Impress (S)
(SL) (HD) 8.00 One Tree Hill (S) (HD) 9.00
Dawson’s Creek (S) (HD) 10.00 Secret Crush
(S) (HD) 11.00 Dress to Impress (S) (HD)
12 noon Celebrity Dinner Date: with Bobby
Norris (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00pm Family Fortunes
(S) (HD) 2.00 Chuck (S) (HD) 3.05 One Tree
Hill (S) (HD) 4.00 Dawson’s Creek (S) (HD)
5.00 Celebrity Dinner Date (S) (AD) (HD)
6.05pm FILM Harry Potter and the
Philosopher’s Stone HHHH Fantasy
adventure starring Daniel Radcliffe. Harry
Potter lives a miserable existence with his
loathsome aunt and uncle. That is until he
learns from a giant named Hagrid that he
is the orphaned son of powerful wizards.
Film of the Day, page 67. (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
9.00 New. Love Island: the Live Final
Maya Jama presents as the reality show
reaches the end and the remaining couples
find out who will be crowned this year’s
winners and bank a £50,000 prize. (S) (HD)
10.35 Family Guy Series 8. Quagmire is
delighted when his father visits. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.05 Peter and Lois visit a psychic after
Stewie and Chris go missing. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.30 American Dad! Series 10. Stan takes
home the CIA’s cloned pet dodo. (S) (AD) (HD)
12 midnight Francine discovers that Steve
has a talent for spelling. (S) (AD) (HD)
12.30am The Stand Up Sketch Show (S) (HD)
1.00 Shopping with Keith Lemon (S) (HD)
1.30 Iain Stirling’s CelebAbility (S) (HD)
2.15 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records
(S) (SL) 2.45—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

ITV2 Freeview 6 Freesat 113 Sky 118 Virgin 115
+1 Freeview 29 Freesat 114 Sky 218 Virgin 315

Ep 2 Series 9. Old Blood Money. Mike and
the team discover more than one dead
body in the manor home of a pair of
ageing siblings. (S) (AD) (HD)

1/4 Series 4. Game. Morse, who is
struggling with his emotions after the
sudden departure of Joan Thursday,
hunts a serial killer. (S) (AD) (HD)
1/7 Series 6. Survivor’s Guilt. A key
witness is thought to have been the target
after a shooting outside the Old Bailey
leaves a police officer dead. (S) (AD) (HD)
Series 1. The Four Jacks. Detective
drama starring Jack Shepherd and Jimmy
Yuill, with a guest appearance by Bill
Nighy. The shooting of an archaeology
student leads Wycliffe on a manhunt across
Cornwall. More Wednesday 11pm. (S) (HD)
12.05am The Royal Shown 9.15am/10.25am (S)
(AD) 2.10—2.30am Unwind (S) (HD)
ITV3 Freeview 10 Freesat 115 Sky 119 Virgin 117
+1 F’view 59 (9pm—4am) F’sat 116 Sky 219 Virgin 317

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6.00am Made in Britain (S) (AD) (HD) 6.30
Minder (S) (SL) (AD) 7.30 LIVE Women’s
World Cup: Costa Rica v Zambia in Group C
(kick-off 8.00), from Hamilton (S) (HD) 10.05
World of Sport (S) (HD) 10.20 Magnum, PI (S)
(HD) 11.20 Made in Britain (S) (AD) (HD)
12.15pm The Champions (S) 1.25 Robin of
Sherwood (S) 2.35 Magnum, PI (S) (HD)
3.40 The Sweeney (S) 4.50 Minder (S) (AD)
5.55 Made in Britain (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00pm New. BattleBots Huge and
Mammoth are taking to the BattleBox in a
truly epic battle of the goliath. (S) (HD)
8.00 The Chase Celebrity Special
Cheryl Baker, Laura Tobin, Jason Bell and
Mark Steel compete for charity. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 FILM First Blood HHHH Action
drama starring Sylvester Stallone as exGreen Beret John Rambo, who falls foul of
the sheriff of Hope, Oregon. (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
11.05 FILM Death Wish 4: the
Crackdown H Crime thriller starring Charles
Bronson and Kay Lenz. (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
1.10am Motorsport UK (S) (HD) 2.10 The Protectors
(S) (SL) 2.45 Unwind (S) (HD) 4.00 The Sweeney
(S) (SL) 5.00—6.00am Robin of Sherwood (S)

ITV4 Freeview 26 Freesat 117 Sky 120 Virgin 118
+1 Freesat 118 Sky 220 Virgin 318

Series 1. Pâté and Chips. The trio go on a
field trip to a historical home. (S)
7.20 Spring Fever. Compo dresses
smartly in an attempt to woo a lady. (S)

8/8 Series 4. Big Topped. Pullman’s trust
in her team is shattered when she finds
out that they have concealed an
important secret about her father. (S) (AD)
6/6 Series 15. And Then I Fell in Love
Nikki sees a girl being knocked over by a
car, leading to a case that takes the team
into the harrowing world of sex grooming
and teenage prostitution. (S) (AD) (HD)
1.40am Bleak House: Ep 8. The notorious
lawsuit finally draws to a close (S) (AD) (HD)
2.50—4.00am Classic Holby City Shown 9.15am
Drama Freeview 20 Freesat 158 Sky 143 Virgin 116
+1 Freeview 60 Sky 243 Virgin 316

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7.00am Sam and Billie: the Mummy Diaries
(S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 Buying and Selling (S) (HD)
9.00 LittleBe: children’s programmes (HD)
12 noon Sugar Showdown (S) (HD) 12.25pm
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (S) (HD)
1.20 Sam and Billie: the Mummy Diaries (S)
(AD) (HD) 2.20 The Only Way Is Essex (S) (HD)
3.05 Dinner Date (S) (HD) 4.05 The Real
Housewives of Atlanta (S) (HD) 5.00 The
Real Housewives of Orange County (S) (HD)
6.00pm Masters of Flip Kortney and
Dave restore an old farmhouse. (S) (HD)
7.00 Buying and Selling Helping a family
who have outgrown their small home. (S) (HD)
8.00 New. Jane the Virgin Jane tries to
rebuild her friendship with Lina. (S) (HD)
9.00 The Real Housewives of Miami
The ladies head to the Hamptons. (S) (HD)
10.00 The Real Housewives Ultimate
Girls’ Trip Ramona confronts the past to
try to make things right with Kenya. (S) (HD)
11.00 New. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend It’s
Valentine’s Day, but Rebecca finds herself no
wiser as to who to settle down with. (S) (HD)
12 midnight The Only Way Is Essex (S) (HD)
12.45—1.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

ITVBe Freeview 28 Freesat 119 Sky 131 Virgin 119
+1 Virgin 319

( The Sixties From the Beatles to the Moon landing to winning the World Cup — RT saw it all

MONDAY 31 JULY
More4

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Sky Arts

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Yesterday

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21

9.00am Murder, She Wrote 10.00 NCIS (AD)
12 noon Law & Order 6.00pm NCIS Series 1
Triple bill. A woman is buried alive, but
manages to escape 7.00 A spy satellite
technician witnesses a murder 8.00
A severed leg is found in a bin (AD) 9.00 New
The Blacklist Series 3. As Liz pleads for her
safety in the Russian Embassy, Red uncovers
a new plot to kill her. First shown on Sky Witness
10.00 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Series 18. Double bill. Fin revisits his military
roots, then a rapist blames his genetics for
his sex crimes 11.55 NCIS Series 14 (AD)

Secrets of the London Underground
9.00pm The British Museum station

Leonardo: the Works 10.15pm

8.55am Kirstie’s House of Craft 9.15
A Place in the Sun 10.05 A New Life in the
Sun: Road Trip 11.05 Find It, Fix It, Flog It (AD)
1.10pm Heir Hunters 3.10 Four in a Bed
5.50 The Secret Life of the Zoo (AD)
6.55pm The Dog House A saluki puppy
called Harry has the cutest kangaroo jumps,
but it remains to be seen whether he will
prove the pooch for Charlie and Ali, while
ex-breeding spaniel Tia seeks a new home. (AD)
7.55 Grand Designs Kevin McCloud visits a
couple building a home that looks like a work
of art overlooking a south Devon valley,
which is 70 metres long and featuring 34
enormous angled zinc shards jutting out. (AD)
9.00 Jamie’s £1 Wonders Jamie cooks a
chicken and vegetable pie making use of the
store cupboard and freezer, topped with
homemade pastry sprinkled with crispy
chicken skin so nothing goes to waste. (AD)
10.00 Holidays from Hell: Caught on
Camera Cameras reveal what can go wrong
when a dream holiday turns into a
nightmare. Footage includes sunbed dashes,
ski crashes and Brits behaving badly. (AD)
11.05 24 Hours in A&E A man is brought
in with stomach pains and a suspected
abdominal aortic aneurysm. His son receives
a blow when he is told his father only has a
50 per cent chance of surviving surgery. (AD)

6.00am Romeo and Juliet 8.05 Watercolour
Challenge 9.05 Tales of the Unexpected (AD)
10.00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents 11.00
Discovering: George C Scott (AD)
12 noon The Joy of Painting 1.00pm Tales
of the Unexpected (AD) 2.00 Watercolour
Challenge 3.00 Classic Literature and
Cinema (AD) 4.00 Discovering: Julie Christie
(AD) 5.00 Tales of the Unexpected (AD)
6.00pm Alfred Hitchcock Presents
A man tries to frame someone for a murder.
6.30 A patient who has escaped from an
asylum breaks into a woman’s house.
7.00 The Joy of Painting Bob Ross paints
a scene of a cabin in a snow-filled meadow.
7.30 Bob creates a seascape featuring
waves with golden, pink and mauve tones.
8.00 André Rieu: Love Songs The Dutch
violinist performs a selection of romantic
melodies, including Greensleeves.
9.15 André Rieu: Romantic Moments
The violinist performs a concert of romantic
melodies in Majorca, including Plaisir d’Amour.
10.15 Leonardo: the Works Leonardo da
Vinci’s vast collection of works, including
The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. (AD)
11.15 The Art of Architecture Kjetil
Thorsen’s Wild Reindeer Pavilion in Hjerkinn,
Norway, which was built from pine beams.

A look at Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa

More4 F’view 18 F’sat 124 Sky 136 Virgin 147
+1 Freesat 125 Sky 236 Virgin 347

Sky Arts Freeview 11 Freesat 147 Sky 130
Virgin 140/HD 123 BT 350/HD 365

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6.00am Hollyoaks Shown last Thursday/Friday
6.30pm Channel 4 (AD) 7.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA (SL) 9.00 Young Sheldon:
double bill (AD) 10.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine
(AD) 11.00 Modern Family: two episodes
12 noon The Big Bang Theory (AD) 2.00pm
The Neighborhood: two episodes 3.00
Modern Family 4.00 Young Sheldon (AD)
5.00 The Big Bang Theory: double bill (AD)
6.00pm The Big Bang Theory 10/24
Series 10. Sheldon, Amy, Leonard and Penny
try to divide up all their possessions. (AD)
6.30 11/24. Bernadette goes into labour. (AD)
7.00 New. Hollyoaks Sharon offers Joel
support. Cast pp73/103 Rptd Tue 6.30pm C4 (AD)
7.30 Impractical Jokers The guys play a
game of attaching ribbons to strangers.
8.00 New. Lego Masters New Zealand
The remaining teams build an emotional
work of art made from one colour. (AD)
9.00 Gogglebox The armchair critics
review Dynasties II and Pieces of Her. (AD)
10.00 Naked Attraction Singletons from
Somerset and Coventry take part. (AD)
11.05 Gogglebox Households’ opinions. (AD)

9.00am Come Dine with Me: five editions
from York 11.30 Château DIY (AD)
12.30pm A Place in the Sun: Home or Away
2.30 Sun, Sea and Selling Houses 3.30
Come Dine with Me: from Newcastle (AD)
6.00pm A Place in the Sun Searching for
a dream holiday home in Mar Menor.
7.00 George Clarke’s Old House, New
Home 3/4 Series 9. George heads to Kent to
help Pete and Amelie make their huge 16
room Victorian house fit for modern life. (AD)
8.00 Location, Location, Location
Phil Spencer and Kirstie Allsopp discover
whether two couples they helped find homes
for in 2003 have remained together.
9.00 Grand Designs Kevin McCloud follows
a couple knocking down a Thames boathouse
and building a cutting-edge home. (AD)
10.00 Gogglebox Shows including Vigil
and Ready to Mingle are appraised. (AD)
11.05 FILM Why Him? HHH Comedy
starring Bryan Cranston and James Franco.
Protective dad Ned Fleming and his family
spend Christmas with his daughter’s
boyfriend, an unorthodox tech billionaire. (AD)

12.10am First Dates (SL) (AD) 1.10 New.
Impractical Jokers First shown on Comedy Central
2.10 Gogglebox (SL) (AD) 3.05 The Big Bang
Theory (AD) 3.55 Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD)
4.45—6.00am The Neighborhood: double bill

1.15am Confessions of a Cam Girl (AD) 2.20 Our
Guy in Colombia (AD) 3.20 The Secret World of
Biscuits (AD) 4.20—4.45am Four in a Bed

E4 Freeview 13 Freesat 122 Sky 135 Virgin 106
+1 Freeview 30 Freesat 123 Sky 235 Virgin 306
E4 Extra Freeview 31 Freesat 181 Sky 138 Virgin 287

Really

17

6.00am Fantasy Homes by the Sea 7.00 Shopping
8.00 Salvage Hunters 10.00 The Bidding Room 11.00
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 12 noon Money for
Nothing 1.00pm A Place in the Sun 2.00 My 600lb
Life (AD) 3.00 Say Yes to the Dress: UK 4.00 Animal
Cops Philadelphia (AD) 5.00 Saving Lives at Sea 6.00
The Yorkshire Auction House 7.00 Antiques Road Trip
9.00 New. The Yorkshire Auction House 10.00 The
Repair Shop 11.00 Ghost Adventures 12 midnight
Kindred Spirits 1.00am Ghost Adventures 2.00
Shopping 4.00 as 4pm 5.00—6.00am Dr Jeff

4seven Freeview 49 Freesat 127 Sky 137 Virgin 143

Quest

12

6.00am How Do They Do It? 6.30 Shed and Buried
7.00 The Repair Shop 8.00 American Pickers (AD)
10.00 Chasing Classic Cars 11.00 Supertruckers
12 noon How It’s Made 1.00pm The Repair Shop
2.00 Money for Nothing 3.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It
4.00 Salvage Hunters 5.00 Salvage Hunters: the
Restorers 6.00 Wheeler Dealers (AD) 7.00 Outback
Opal Hunters 8.00 Salvage Hunters 9.00 Hoffman
Family Gold: Hunter takes on the arctic tundra when
he hears of legendary gold in the distant creeks
10.00 Gold Divers 11.00 How Do They Do It?
12 midnight Wheeler Dealers (AD) 1.00am Massive
Engineering Mistakes 2.00 Supertruckers 3.00
Wheeler Dealers 4.00—5.00am How It’s Made

Quest Freeview 12 Freesat 172/HD 167 Sky 144 Virgin 137
Really Freeview 17 Freesat 160 Sky 142 Virgin 128
+1 Freeview 70 Freesat 168 Sky 244 Virgin 337
BBC News Freeview 231 Freesat 212 Sky 503 Virgin 601 Sky News Freeview 233 Freesat 202 Sky 501 Virgin 603 BT 313

Rare photos, archive gems and interviews with 60s stars

5 USA F’view 21 F’sat 129 Sky 141 Virgin 120 (162 Scot)
+1 Freesat 130 Sky 241 Virgin 320

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8.00am Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun
10.00 Call the Bailiffs: Time to Pay Up 11.00
Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords 12 noon
Traffic Cops 2.00pm Police Interceptors
5.00 Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly
6.00pm Home and Away Justin is shaken
by Andrew’s note. Shown 1.45pm Channel 5 (AD)
6.30 New. Justin scrambles to escape Vita
Nova. Repeated tomorrow 1.45pm Channel 5 (AD)
7.00 GPs: behind Closed Doors Mohammed
visits the surgery with pain in his left leg.
8.00 Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts
A 17-year-old arrives after suffering a fit.
9.00 New. Murdered for Revenge 5/8. The
body of a decapitated woman is found. (AD)
10.00 New. Making a Serial Killer 4/10
The mystery of a woman’s DNA found on
three female rape and murder victims.
11.00 Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords
A landlord has an aggressive pair of tenants.

12 midnight Great British Railway Journeys
1.00—3.00am The Buildings That Fought Hitler (AD)

12 midnight 999: Critical Condition 1.00am
Adults Only: Meet the Sex Slaves 2.00 GPs:
behind Closed Doors 2.50 100% Hotter: Make Me
Over 3.35—4.00am Home and Away (AD)

Yesterday Freeview 27 Freesat 159 Sky 155 Virgin 129
+1 Sky 255 Virgin 329

5 Star Freeview 32 Freesat 131 Sky 128 Virgin 126
+1 Freesat 141 Sky 228 Virgin 326

Dave

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7.10am Yianni: Supercar Customiser (AD) 8.00
Top Gear (AD) 9.00 Border Force: America’s
Gatekeepers (AD) 10.00 Railroad Australia
11.00 Gino’s Italian Escape: Hidden Italy
12 noon Celebrity Storage Hunters 1.00pm
Cop Car Workshop 2.00 Top Gear (AD)
4.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games
4.40 Room 101 5.20 Would I Lie to You?
6.00pm Taskmaster 8/8 Series 4
Noel Fielding finds an unlikely soul mate.
7.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games
Jay Blades, Shaun Keaveny, Rachel Parris
and Jan Ravens play trivia-based games.
7.40 With former winners Hugh Dennis,
Sarah Greene, Nish Kumar and Holly Walsh.
8.20 Would I Lie to You? With Sindhu Vee,
Joel Dommett, Alex Horne and AJ Odudu.
9.00 QI XL With guests Cariad Lloyd,
Josh Widdicombe and Noel Fielding.
10.00 Schitt’s Creek 8/13 Series 2. Alexis
gets Johnny into the raw milk business.
10.30 9/13. Moira worries that salacious photos
from her past will jeopardise the campaign.
11.00 QI XL Two editions.
1.00am Mock the Week 1.40 Would I Lie to You?
2.50 Richard Osman’s House of Games
3.20—4.00am This Country (AD)

Dave F’view 19 F’sat 157 Sky 111 (Wales 112) Virgin HD 127
Dave Ja Vu Freeview 57 Sky 211 (Wales 212) Virgin 327

London Live

8

6.00am Pocket Dragon Adventures
6.30 Dork Hunters from Outer Space 7.00
Skysurfer Strike Force 7.30 Roswell Conspiracies
8.00 The World’s Most Incredible Hotels
9.00 Hitler’s Bodyguard 10.00 Italy Made
With Love 11.00 Goodnight Sweetheart
11.45 Secrets of London with Mark Monroe
12 noon Monkey 1.00pm FILM The Cup
HH 3.05 FILM Tiger in the Smoke HHH
(BW) 5.00 Space 1999 6.00 News 7.00
Aging in the Wild 8.00 The Fall and Rise of
Reginald Perrin 8.45 Big City Life 9.00 The
Alan Clark Diaries 9.45 London Districts
10.00 FILM The Informers HH (BW)
12.10am FILM Jeffrey HHHH 2.10 The Alan
Clark Diaries 2.55 FILM Hound HHH

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9.00am Criminals: Caught on Camera 9.30
Traffic Cops 10.30 Trucking Hell: Tez has a
tricky recovery 11.35 Police Interceptors
12.30pm FILM Seven Men from Now
HHHH Western starring Randolph Scott
2.10 FILM Tall Man Riding HH Western
4.00 Trucking Hell 5.00 Traffic Cops
6.00pm Police Interceptors A team raids
two houses linked to a suspected drug dealer.
7.00 Liam arrests a man who denies
carrying out a shocking attack.
8.00 Trucking Hell A three-tonne
passenger ferry is hauled out of a lake.
9.00 FILM Shooter HHH Action thriller
starring Mark Wahlberg. US Army sniper Bob
Lee Swagger comes out of retirement to help
foil a plot to assassinate the US President,
but discovers that he’s been set up.
11.35 FILM Double Impact HHH Action
thriller starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.
More than two decades after their parents’
murders, twin sons set out for revenge.

Television

12.05am Emergency Helicopter Medics (AD) 1.10
999: on the Front Line 2.15 24 Hours in A&E (AD)
3.20—3.45am Food Unwrapped (AD)

12.15am The Art of Australia 1.30 Neil Patrick
Harris: Off Camera 2.45 The Sky Arts Book Club
Summer Reads Special 3.45 National Trust:
National Treasures (AD) 5.00—6.00am Auction

6.10am The Buildings That Fought Hitler (AD)
8.00 Abandoned Engineering (AD) 10.00
War Factories 11.00 The World at War
12 noon Great American Railroad Journeys
1.00pm Travel Man: 48 Hours in Athens (AD)
1.30 Travel Man: 48 Hours in Porto (AD)
2.00 Bangers and Cash: double bill 4.00
The World at War 5.00 War Factories
6.00pm Great British Railway Journeys
Michael Portillo discovers the importance of
Cardiff’s Victorian coal heritage.
6.30 The connection between the Victorian
railway and Port Talbot’s steelworks.
7.00 Bangers and Cash: Restoring Classics
The team takes on the restoration of a 1992
Vauxhall Nova Merit Plus. (AD)
8.00 Retro Electro Workshop Shamil is
inspired to buy a 1980s Sinclair C5. (AD)
9.00 Secrets of the London Underground
Tim Dunn and Siddy Holloway head to the
abandoned station of the British Museum. (AD)
10.00 Bangers and Cash Derek takes a shine
to a rare 1958 Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire.
11.00 Abandoned Engineering A fuel plant
built to make Nazi Germany self-sufficient. (AD)

1.50am Lucifer: Lucifer has a scheme to assist
Cain 3.35—4.00am Criminals: Caught on Camera

MONDAY

The Dog House 6.55pm Saluki puppy
Harry is looking for new owners

1.45am Criminals: Caught on Camera 2.40
Trucking Hell (AD) 4.25 999: Criminals Caught on
Camera 4.50—5.00am Entertainment News

5 Action Freeview 33 Freesat 132 Sky 150 Virgin 130

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9.00am GPs: behind Closed Doors (AD)
10.00 The Yorkshire Vet: double bill
12 noon Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild
1.00pm Walking Victorian Britain 2.00 The
Yorkshire Vet 4.00 Ben Fogle: New Lives in
the Wild 5.00 Walking Victorian Britain
6.00pm Inside the Tower of London
7.00 Scotland: a Year in the Wild
A look at abundant springtime wildlife.
8.00 Secret Life of the Forest The young
beaver kits bond with the rest of the family.
9.00 Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild
Ben is in Dorset with a former paratrooper.
10.00 The Frontier The history of the
former British Colonies’ move west.
11.00 World’s Deadliest Weather
12 midnight Forged in Fire: two episodes
1.55am Inside the Tower of London: double bill
3.50—4.00am Entertainment News

5 Select F’view (HD only) 46 F’sat 133 Sky 153 Virgin 138

5.00—6.00am Hitler’s Bodyguard

London Live Freeview 8 Sky 117 Virgin HD 159
Available in London area only. Other regional stations
available on Freeview 7 or 8 around the country

FREEVIEW TV and film
channels continue overleaf

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MONDAY Freeview & films
W

25

Food Network

43

PBS America

84

CHILDREN’S

FILMS

Milkshake! on C5

Film4

Television MONDAY

5.35am Thomas & Friends 5.45 Paw
Patrol 6.00 Peppa Pig 6.15 Blue’s
Clues & You 6.40 New. Oggy Oggy
6.45 Odo 6.55 Fireman Sam 7.05
Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go! 7.15
Sesame Street Mecha Builders 7.30
Peppa Pig 7.40 Paw Patrol 8.00 Pip
and Posy 8.10 Paddington 8.30 Paw
Patrol 8.40 Baby Shark’s Big Show!
8.55 Milo 9.05 Milkshake! Monkey
9.10—9.15am Milkshake! Craft Party

Property Brothers at Home
A Los Angeles pad 6.00pm

Zoë Bakes 10.00pm Delicious

Asteroid Rush 7.30pm

chocolate chip cookies

Collision avoidance strategies

6.10am Nigel Slater’s Simple Cooking
(S) (HD) 6.35 Plate of Origin (S) (HD)
8.00 Tipping Point (S) (HD) 10.00
DIY SOS: the Big Build (S) (HD)
12 noon MasterChef USA: Legends
(S) (HD) 1.00pm Tipping Point (S)
(HD) 4.00 My Dream Home (S) (HD)
6.00pm Property Brothers at
Home: Drew’s Honeymoon
House Renovating a Los Angeles
fixer-upper in 12 weeks. (S) (HD)
7.00 New. Ambulance Australia
An explosion at a work site. (HD)
8.00 DIY SOS: the Big Build
A woman’s Dartford home. (S) (HD)
9.00 24 Hours in A&E Three
boys are admitted for very
different reasons. (HD)
10.00 Stacey Dooley Sleeps
Over A family whose teenage son is
an amateur cage fighter. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 Louis Theroux: Life
on the Edge (S) (AD) (HD)
12.10am One Born Every Minute (S)
(HD) 1.10 Inside the Ambulance (S) (HD)
1.35—3.00am Bang on Budget (S) (HD)
W F’view 25 F’sat 156 Sky 132 Virgin HD 125
+1 Sky 232 Virgin 325

6.00am Trisha’s Southern Kitchen
(HD) 7.00 The Pioneer Woman (HD)
8.00 Valerie’s Home Cooking (HD)
9.00 New series. The Kitchen (HD)
10.00 John Torode’s Korean Food
Tour (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 Tom
Kerridge’s Sunday Lunch (HD)
12 noon The Great British Bake Off
(S) (HD) 2.00pm James Martin’s
French Adventure (HD) 3.00 The
Hairy Bikers Go North (S) (HD) 4.00
Valerie’s Home Cooking (HD) 5.00
Barefoot Contessa: back to Basics
(S) (HD) 6.00 James Martin’s French
Adventure (HD) 7.00 The Great
British Bake Off (S) (HD) 8.00 Tom
Kerridge’s Sunday Lunch (HD) 9.00
Mary Berry’s Quick Cooking (HD)
10.00 New. Zoë Bakes: double bill.
Zoë François bakes chocolate chip
cookies and a variety of brownies
for her son, then shares some of
her favourite apple recipes (S) (HD)
11.00 New series. Summer Baking
Championship: baking contest
hosted by Jesse Palmer (S) (HD)

8.00am Britain and the Sea
9.30 Asteroid Rush 10.40 Royal
History’s Biggest Fibs with Lucy
Worsley (S) 11.55 as 9.55pm 1.00pm
Beautiful Serengeti (S) 1.30 Britain
and the Sea 2.50 Asteroid Rush
3.55 Royal History’s Biggest Fibs
with Lucy Worsley (S) 5.10 Europe’s
Forgotten Dictatorships
6.15pm Britain and the Sea 1/4
David Dimbleby explores aspects
of the nation’s maritime history.
7.30 Asteroid Rush 1/2. A look
into the science behind the
film Don’t Look Up.
8.35 Royal History’s Biggest
Fibs with Lucy Worsley 1/3
How key moments in Britain’s
history have been manipulated. (S)
9.55 Europe’s Forgotten
Dictatorships 1/2. Exploring
authoritarian regimes, beginning
with the Greek military junta.
10.55 Asteroid Rush As 7.30pm.
12 midnight Royal History’s
Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley (S)
1.15—2.00am Beautiful Serengeti (S)
PBS America F’view 84 (1pm-12 midnight only)
Freesat 155 Sky 174 Virgin 187

Pick

36

7.00am Border Security:
America’s Front Line 8.00 Nothing
to Declare: double bill (AD) 9.00
Motorway Patrol (AD) 10.00
Highway Cops 11.00 Highway
Patrol 12 noon Motorway Patrol
(AD) 1.00pm Border Patrol 2.00
Border Security: America’s Front
Line 3.00 Nothing to Declare (AD)
4.00 Warehouse 13 5.00 Star
Trek: the Next Generation
6.00pm Merlin (AD) 7.00 Star
Trek: Voyager 8.00 New. NCIS:
New Orleans: Pride undergoes a
specialised treatment 9.00 New.
World’s Most Evil Killers: a murderer
who kept eyes as trophies 10.00
Grimm 11.00 New. Snapped
12 midnight Killer in My Village
1.00am The Force: North East
2.00 UK Border Force 3.00 Highway
Patrol 4.00 Motorway Patrol (AD)
5.00—6.00am Highway Cops

Pick F’view 36 F’sat 144 Sky 151 Virgin 135

HGTV

44

7.00am The Saved and Remade
Workshop 8.00 Building the Dream
9.00 A Place in the Sun 10.00
Escape to the Country 11.00 My
Dream Derelict Home in the Sun
12 noon My Lottery Dream Home
1.00pm Good Bones 2.00 Flip or
Flop 3.00 Building the Dream 4.00
Escape to the Country 5.00 The
Saved and Remade Workshop 6.00
A Place in the Sun 7.00 My Dream
Derelict Home in the Sun 8.00 New
Your Home Made Perfect 9.00 New
First Time Fixer (AD) 10.00 New. The
Nate and Jeremiah Home Project
11.00 Good Bones 12 midnight as
7pm 1.00am The Saved and Remade
Workshop 2.00 New. House Hunters
3.00—4.00am My Lottery Dream Home

HGTV F’view 44 F’sat 166 Sky 158 Virgin 191
+1 Sky 258 Virgin 391

FREEVIEW channels
continued from overleaf

12 midnight New. Guy’s Grocery
Games (HD) 1.00am Restaurant:
Impossible (HD) 2.00—3.00am
Donal’s Meals in Minutes (S) (HD)

Food Network Freeview 43 Freesat 148
Sky 140 Virgin 190

Great TV

50

6.00am Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye:
double bill 8.00 Highway to
Heaven 9.00 FILM Danielle
Steel’s Remembrance HH Romantic
drama 10.50 Movie News 11.00
Castle 1.00pm Sue Thomas:
F.B.Eye 3.00 Diagnosis Murder
5.00 Murder, She Wrote 7.00
M*A*S*H 9.00 Randall and Hopkirk
(Deceased) 10.00 The Persuaders!:
Brett learns that his life may be in
danger 11.00 Return of the Saint
12 midnight M*A*S*H 2.00am Randall
and Hopkirk (Deceased) 3.00 The
Persuaders! 3.50—4.00am Movie News

Great TV Freeview 50 (limited) Freesat 142
Sky 157 Virgin 170 +1 Freesat 143 Sky 257

RealityXtra

68

9.00am Medical Detectives 11.00
Donal MacIntyre: Unsolved 12 noon
The Fugitive 1.00pm Written in
Blood 3.00 Medical Detectives
5.00 The Fugitive: Richard Kimble
is blinded in an explosion 6.00
Donal MacIntyre: Unsolved: the
disappearance in 2009 of Claudia
Lawrence, a chef at the University
of York 7.00 Judge Judy
1.00am Donal MacIntyre: Unsolved
2.00 The Fugitive 3.00 Written in Blood
5.00—6.00am Medical Detectives

RealityXtra Freeview 68 Freesat 134
Sky 147 Virgin 172

BBC Parliament 232
BBC News simulcast, with news hourly plus:
6.00am Breakfast 9.00 Nicky Campbell
11.30 Business 11.45 News 12 noon News
Now 1.30pm Sportsday 1.45 News 2.00
News Now 2.30 Business 2.45 News Now
3.00 Verified 6.30 Sport 7.00 Daily Global
8.00 Context 10.30 Newsnight 11.10 Newsday
11.30 HARDtalk 12 midnight Newsday
12.30am Business 12.45 Sport 1.00
Newsday 1.30 Business 1.45 Sport 2.30
Business 2.45 Sportsday 3.30 This Cultural
Life 4.30 HARDtalk 5.30—6.00am Business

BBC Parliament Freeview 232 Freesat 201
Sky 504 Virgin 605

ALL PROGRAMMES ON THE ABOVE CHANNELS ARE REPEATS UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED

66

Blaze

64

6.00am Hardcore Pawn
6.50 Ancient Aliens 8.40 The
UnXplained with William Shatner
9.40 Strange Evidence 10.40 The
Curse of Oak Island 11.40 Storage
Wars Canada 12.10pm Storage
Wars 1.05 Pawn Stars 2.05
Hardcore Pawn: four editions
4.00 Ancient Aliens 6.00 The
UnXplained with William Shatner
7.00 Storage Wars: double bill
8.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal 9.00
New. Lost Relics of the Knights
Templar: the black obsidian chalice,
a stunning relic in Hamilton and
Carl’s collection 10.00 Alcatraz
Escape: the Lost Evidence
12 midnight The Curse of Oak Island
1.00am The UnXplained with William
Shatner 2.00 Barter Kings 3.00
Dickinson’s Real Deal 3.45 Storage
Wars Canada 4.10 Auction Hunters
5.00—6.00am Pawn Stars

Blaze F’view 64 F’sat 162 Sky 164 Virgin 174

Challenge

48

7.00am The Chase 10.00
Pointless Celebrities 11.00
Supermarket Sweep 12 noon
Wheel of Fortune (AD) 1.00pm
Family Fortunes (AD) 2.00 Who
Wants to Be a Millionaire? 3.00
Strike It Lucky 4.00 Blockbusters
5.00 Bullseye: double bill 6.00
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
7.00 Pointless Celebrities: Eni
Aluko, Guy Mowbray, Kevin Kilbane,
Mark Chapman, Dan Walker, Mark
Lawrenson, Rachel Yankey and
Kelly Smith take part in an FA Cup
edition of the quiz 8.00 The
Chase: double bill of the quiz,
hosted by Bradley Walsh (AD) 10.00
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
11.00 Bullseye: two episodes of
the darts-based quiz show
12 midnight The Chase: four editions
4.00am Who Wants to Be a
Millionaire? 5.00—6.00am Bullseye

Challenge Freeview 48 Freesat 146
Sky 145 Virgin 139

Oz, Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire (1999, U) (S) (AD)

Full listings for Channel 5 are on p64

CBeebies

202

6.00am Love Monster 6.05 Small
Potatoes 6.10 Bing 6.20 Teletubbies
6.35 Tee and Mo 6.40 Chuggington
6.50 Bing 7.00 Colourblocks 7.05
Hey Duggee 7.20 Bluey 7.40 Go
Jetters 7.50 Peter Rabbit 8.05
Octonauts 8.15 Numberblocks 8.20
Alphablocks 8.25 Nick Cope’s Popcast
8.35 Justin’s House 9.00 Bing 9.10
Yakka Dee! 9.15 Messy Goes to OKIDO
9.25 Colourblocks 9.30 Twirlywoos
9.45 Something Special 10.05
Teletubbies 10.20 Baby Club 10.35
What’s in Your Bag? 10.45 Roots and
Fruits 10.50 Vegesaurs 10.55 Bluey
11.00 Supertato 11.10 Let’s Go for a
Walk 11.25 School of Roars 11.30
Teeny Tiny Creatures 11.45 Our Family
12 noon My World Kitchen 12.10pm
Maddie, the Zoo and You 12.30 Waffle
12.40 Andy’s Global Adventures 1.00
Yakka Dee! 1.05 Numberblocks 1.10
Alphablocks 1.15 Dog Loves Books 1.25
Hey Duggee 1.30 Love Monster 1.40
Colourblocks 1.45 Something Special
2.05 Teletubbies 2.20 Roots and
Fruits 2.25 Supertato 2.30 Go Jetters
2.45 Apple Tree House 3.00 Andy’s
Safari Adventures 3.15 Get Set Galactic
3.35 Hey Duggee 3.45 Peter Rabbit
3.55 Fred & Pete’s Treasure Tales 4.10
Octonauts 4.25 Bluey 4.40 Supertato
4.45 Go Jetters 5.00 The Gruffalo’s
Child 5.25 Sarah & Duck 5.35 New
series. JoJo & Gran Gran 5.45 Moon
and Me 6.10 Clangers 6.20 In the
Night Garden... 6.50—7.00pm
CBeebies Bedtime Stories

CBeebies F’view 202 F’sat 608 Sky 608 Virgin 702

CBBC

201

7.00am Shaun the Sheep 7.05
Danger Mouse 7.20 Dennis & Gnasher
7.30 Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese
7.45 New. Newsround 7.55 New.
Grizzy and the Lemmings 8.10 Odd
Squad 8.25 Meet the McQueens 8.40
Monster Loving Maniacs 8.50 New.
Total Drama Island: Reboot 9.15 New.
Home Sweet Rome 9.45 Gym Stars
10.05 Matilda and the Ramsay Bunch
10.20 Danny & Mick 10.35 Operation
Ouch! 11.00 Grizzy and the Lemmings
11.25 Taffy 11.50 Boy Girl Dog Cat
Mouse Cheese 12.25pm Danger Mouse
12.45 Octonauts 1.00 Shaun the Sheep
1.15 Mustangs FC 2.00 So Awkward
2.30 Silverpoint 2.55 Dragons: Riders
of Berk 3.15 Danger Mouse 3.25 Shaun
the Sheep 3.35 Ninja Express 3.45 Taffy
4.00 New. Grizzy and the Lemmings
4.20 Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese
4.30 Monster Loving Maniacs 4.45
Odd Squad 5.10 We Bare Bears 5.20
Summer Camp Island 5.35 New.
Transformers EarthSpark 6.00 Jamie
Johnson 6.25 Grizzy and the Lemmings
6.35—7.00pm The Next Step

CBBC F’view 201 F’sat 607 Sky 607 Virgin 701

CITV

203

6.00am Dare Master 6.05 Hotel
Transylvania 6.30 of Dave Spud 7.00
Lloyd of the Flies 7.30 Mr Bean: the
Animated Series 8.00 50/50 Heroes
8.30 Scooby-Doo 10.00 Teen Titans
Go! 10.15 Looney Tunes 10.30 Smarty
Pants 11.00 Mystery Lane 11.30 Mr
Magoo 12 noon Teen Titans Go!
12.30pm Scooby-Doo! and WWE:
Curse of the Speed Demon 2.00
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous 2.30
Inspector Gadget 3.00 Smarty Pants
3.30 Scooby-Doo 4.30 Looney Tunes
4.45 Dave Spud 5.15 Dodo 5.30
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous 5.55
Tata and Kuma 6.00 Scooby-Doo?
7.00 Captain Underpants 7.25 Lego
Hidden Side 7.30 Lego DREAMZzz
8.00 New. Lego Chima 8.25 NinjaGo:
Hunted 8.55—9.00pm Dare Master

CITV F’view 203 F’sat 602 Sky 612 Virgin 734

14

11.00am Muppets from Space
HHHH Gonzo must decide
whether to travel to the stars in
this colourful puppet comedy. Frank
12.50pm How to Train Your
Dragon HHHH A teenage Viking
befriends a dragon in this constantly
amusing animated adventure with
stunning fantasy visuals. Review,
right. Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler (2010, PG) (S) (AD)
2.45 The Man in the White Suit
5 Razor-sharp Ealing satire
in which a boffin invents an
indestructible cloth. Alec Guinness,
Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker (1951, U) (S) (AD)

4.30 The Golden Voyage of
Sinbad HHH The seafarer goes in
search of treasure in this memorable
fantasy. John Phillip Law (1973, U) (S) (AD)

6.40pm A Good Year HHH This
tale of a city trader who inherits a
vineyard features a good-natured
performance from Russell Crowe.
Review, right. Albert Finney (2006, 12) (S)
9.00 Underwater HH Deep-sea
researchers get picked off one
by one in this murky sci-fi drama.
Kristen Stewart, Vincent Cassel (2020, 15) (S)

10.50 Terminator 3: Rise of
the Machines HHH Big,
booming sci-fi action sequel.
Arnold Schwarzenegger (2003, 12) (S) (AD)

1.00—3.20am American Woman
HHHH Sienna Miller puts in a
career-best performance in this
soul-baring indie drama, playing
a single mum whose daughter
disappears. Christina Hendricks (2018, 15) (S) (AD)
Film4 Freeview 14 Freesat 300
Sky 313 Virgin 428
+1 F’view 47 F’sat 301 Sky 314 Virgin 430

Talking
Pictures TV

82

6.00am Fort Algiers HH A spy
poses as a cabaret singer in this
entertaining adventure. Yvonne De Carlo
(1953, PG) (S) 7.35 Any Man’s Kingdom
1956 TV travelogue. 8.00 The
Breaking Point H Low-budget
crime thriller. Peter Reynolds (1961, U) (S) 9.10
Desert Mice HH Wartime comedy
about an Ensa concert party on its
tour of army camps. Alfred Marks (1959, U) (S)
10.50 Chase a Crooked Shadow
HHH Heiress Anne Baxter fears
for her jewels — and her life — in this
mystery thriller. Review, right. Richard
Todd, Herbert Lom (1957, U) (S) 12.35pm
Summertime HHHH Warm
romantic drama about an American
spinster who finds love in Venice.
Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi (1955, PG) (S)
2.30 Crown Court TV drama. (S)

3.00 The Stranger Left No Card
TV fantasy drama. (S) 3.30 The
Leather Boys HHH Fascinating
1960s drama with Rita Tushingham
as the newlywed wife of a young
biker grappling with his sexuality.
Review, right. (1963, PG) (S) 5.40 Look
at Life TV documentary series.
6.00pm The Footage Detectives
Special guest Jamie Anderson
shares secrets about Fireball XL-5. (S)
7.00 The Champions Fantasy
drama starring William Gaunt. (S)
8.00 The Main Chance TV drama.
9.00 Spanish Fly HH British sex
farce with Leslie Phillips and
Terry-Thomas. Graham Armitage (1975, 15)
10.45 Kessler TV drama series. (S)
11.50 Crown Court Three
episodes of the TV drama. (S)
1.20am During One Night HH
Dated wartime melodrama. (1961, 15) (S)
3.00 Crosstrap HH Violent
B-Movie. Laurence Payne (1961) 4.15—
5.50am The Golden Disc H Soggy
British coffee-shop musical. (1958, U) (S)
Talking Pictures TV Freeview 82
Freesat 306 Sky 328 Virgin 445

Key (S) Subtitles (SL) Signing (AD) Audio description (HD) High definition (W) Widescreen

RadioTimes 29 July–4 August 2023

MONDAY 31 JULY
Great Movies

34

9.00am An Aurora Teagarden
Mystery: How to Con a Con 11.00
Twisted Sisters HH Enjoyably
over-the-top thriller. Sierra McCormick,
Cassidy Gifford (2016) 1.00pm Killer
Contractor HH Do you trust your
builder? Alyshia Ochse, Zac Titus (2019) 3.00
Deadly Paradise HH Predictable
thriller. Boti Bliss, Antonio Sabato Jr (2016)
4.45 Jack and Jill H Misfiring
comedy. Adam Sandler, Al Pacino (2011, PG)
6.45pm You Don’t Mess with
the Zohan HH Heavy-handed
comedy with Adam Sandler
labouring the gross-out gags. (2008, 12)
9.00 As Good as It Gets HHHH
A bigot has to change his ways in
this offbeat romcom drama.
Review, right. Jack Nicholson (1997, 15)
11.50 Sirens HH Tame erotic
comedy about a clergyman whose
wife falls under the spell of a
bohemian artist. Hugh Grant (1994, 15)
2.00am If Looks Could Kill HH
Trashy sociopath thriller. Summer Spiro
(2016) 3.45—5.50am Enigma HH
Well-cast though familiar Cold War
thriller. Martin Sheen, Brigitte Fossey (1982, 15)
Great Movies Freeview 34 Freesat 302
Sky 321 Virgin 425
+1 Freeview 61 (limited 10pm-5am) Sky 322

42

3.20—4.00am Wild West Chronicles
Great Action Freeview 42 (limited)
F’sat 305 Sky 323 Virgin 426 +1 Sky 324

Great Romance 52
6.00am Puppy Love HH Easygoing
romance. Candace Cameron Bure (2012) 8.00
A Feeling of Home HH Stock
romantic drama. Jonna Walsh (2019) 10.00
One of a Kind Love HH Feel-good
romance. Jocelyn Hudon (2021) 12 noon
A Wedding to Remember HH Hohum TV-movie romcom. Cristina Rosato
(2021) 2.00pm Farmer Seeking Love
HH Upbeat romcom. Donna Benedicto
(2022) 4.00 My Birthday Romance
HH Light romantic farce. (2020)
6.00pm 40 Below and Falling at
Christmas HH Enjoyably corny
romantic comedy. Jewel Staite (2015)
8.00 A Picture Perfect Wedding
HH Light romance about a
wedding photographer who falls for
the brides’s brother. Emily Tennant (2021)
10.00 Surprised by Love HH
Bizarre, though pleasant enough,
romantic comedy. (2015)
12.05am A Midnight Kiss HH
Identikit romantic yarn. (2018)
1.35 Blue Moon Ball HH Sweet
romance. Ashley Newbrough, Eric Lutz (2021)
3.05—4.00am Highway to Heaven
Great Romance Freeview 52 Freesat 303
Sky 319 Virgin 424
+1 F’view 63 (limited 10pm-5am) F’sat 304 Sky 320

As Good as It Gets
HHHH 9.00-11.50pm
Great Movies

Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong (2022, 15)

10.20 As 4.40pm 11.55 As 6.30pm
2.20pm Black Adam HHH
Punchy DC Comics adventure, with
Dwayne Johnson as the menacing
ancient warrior. Pierce Brosnan (2022, 12)
4.40pm The Best Man HH
Action-packed, low-budget Die
Hard knock-off. Luke Wilson (2023, 15)
6.30 Whitney Houston: I Wanna
Dance with Somebody HHHH
Enthralling biopic of the pop
princess. Review p38. Naomi Ackie (2022, 12)
9.00 Babylon HHHH Riotous,
sprawling account of the transition
from silent pictures to talkies.
Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt, Diego Calva (2022, 18)

12.15am The Silent Twins HHHH
Intimate, affecting drama. Review
p38. Letitia Wright, Tamara Lawrance (2022, 18)
2.15 Seriously Red HHH Delightful
comedy drama. Krew Boylan (2022, 15)
3.55 As 6.45am 5.30 As 8.20am
Sky Premiere Sky 301 Virgin 401
BT 501/HD 515 +1 Sky 312

Legend

41

8.00am Walker, Texas Ranger 9.00
The Prisoner 10.00 Star Trek: Deep
Space Nine 11.00 The Gambler: the
Adventure Continues 3.00pm
Brothers of the Frontier HH
Clichéd pioneer period adventure
drama. Joey Lawrence, Matthew Lawrence,
Andrew Lawrence (1996) 5.00 Star Trek
6.00pm Star Trek: Deep Space
Nine TV sci-fi adventure.
7.00 The Prisoner TV sci-fi.
8.00 Walker, Texas Ranger
TV action drama with Chuck Norris.
9.00 Executive Command HH
So-so thriller that sees a former
marine battle the goons who’ve
broken into his laboratory. (1997)
10.55 The Wall HHH A US
soldier in Iraq finds himself in a
cat-and-mouse game with an
enemy sniper. Aaron Taylor-Johnson (2017, 15)
12.45am The Man Called Noon
HH Good-looking but slow-paced
spaghetti western. Richard Crenna (1973, 15)
2.40—4.30am Assault on
Precinct 13 5 Lean, violent
and terrifically tense thriller about
a Los Angeles police station under
siege. Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston (1976, 15)
Legend F’view 41 F’sat 137 Sky 148 Virgin 149

HorrorXtra

69

8.00am Stormageddon HH
A super-computer goes rogue in this
low-budget eco-disaster movie. John
Hennigan (2015, 12) 10.00 Farscape 11.00
Battlestar Wars H Zero-budget,
CGI-heavy sci-fi mockbuster. Luke
Fattorusso, Alyson Gorske (2020, 12) 1.00pm
Bermuda Tentacles H Something
lurking in the ocean’s depth
threatens a rescue mission in this
sci-fi horror. Linda Hamilton (2014) 3.00
Farscape 4.00 Battlestar Galactica
5.00 Robot Overlords HH
Old-fashioned sci-fi adventure about
a robot invasion and a teen who
saves the day. Ben Kingsley (2014, 12)
7.00pm Farscape TV sci-fi.
8.00 Battlestar Galactica
TV sci-fi adventure series.
9.00 Jeepers Creepers 3 HH
Horror sequel in which the mother
of one of the Creeper’s victims tries
to stop the monster. Stan Shaw (2017, 15)
11.00 The Final Wish HHH
Well-crafted psychological horror
about a wishing urn that turns
malevolent. Lin Shaye, Michael Welch (2018, 15)
1.00—3.00am As 9pm
HorrorXtra F’view 69 F’sat 138 Sky 317
Virgin 171 +1 F’sat 139 Sky 318 Virgin 371

j

COMEDY Jack Nicholson
stars here as a homophobic
bigot who lives alone, writes
trashy novels for a living and
has obsessive-compulsive
disorder. However, the story
is really about Helen Hunt,
who plays that corniest of
Hollywood characters: the
lonely waitress with a problem
child. It’s lazily directed by
James L Brooks, but Hunt
and Nicholson were rewarded
with Oscars for their fine
work. ADRIAN TURNER

FILM
OF THE
DAY

m

(US 1997, violence, swearing, drug abuse)

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s
Stone HHHH 6.05-9.00pm ITV2 g

FANTASY This adaptation of the first of author
JK Rowling’s bestselling books turned the series into a real
phenomenon. Eleven-year-old Daniel Radcliffe is a likeable
Harry, who’s whisked off to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft
and Wizardry, and a scene-stealing Robbie Coltrane is among
a host of familiar adult faces who breathe life into Rowling’s
charming characters. It’s perhaps overlong, but this faithful
rendition of the book showed that the franchise was in safe,
sensible hands. The series continues all this week on ITV2.
ANDREW COLLINS (US 2001, may be edited for violence, HD)

Chase a Crooked Shadow
HHH 10.50am-12.35pm
Talking Pictures TV
y
MYSTERY This film’s
contrived set-up finds Anne
Baxter playing a recovering
neurotic who is convinced
her long-lost brother (Richard
Todd) is after her diamonds.
It’s a credit to director
Michael Anderson (The Dam
Busters) that he holds our
attention right up to the
unexpected dénoument.
DAVID PARKINSON (UK 1957, BW)

to Train Your
m How
Dragon HHHH
g
12.50-2.45pm Film4

ADVENTURE This fun
animated take on Cressida
Cowell’s children’s book
centres on young Hiccup
(voiced by Jay Baruchel),
whose Viking tribe fears
dragons. But when Hiccup
helps a wounded dragon
named Toothless, he sets a
new course for his village.
There are plenty of strong
characters and the aerial
sequences are spectacular.

3.20pm Great Action

TONY SLOMAN (US 1940, BW)

The Leather Boys
HHH 3.30-5.40pm
Talking Pictures TV

6.40-9.00pm Film4

y

ADVENTURE It’s a rare
showing for this rambling
saga, which finds cavalryman
Jeb Stuart (Errol Flynn)
attempting stop the great
abolitionist John Brown (a

g

DRAMA It’s hard to see why
this film was once regarded as
an unacceptably frank insight
into the gay lifestyle. Colin
Campbell is so out of his
depth as the newlywed
wrestling with his sexuality
that not even Dudley Sutton
and Rita Tushingham can
save what were intended
to be powerful scenes. It’s
fussy and flash, but some
sequences are priceless relics
of 1960s life. DP (UK 1963, BW)

A Good Year HHH

ALAN JONES (US 2010, HD)

Santa Fe Trail HH 1.00-

ranting Raymond Massey).
As history, this is wild fiction,
but the watchable supporting
cast also includes Olivia de
Havilland and Ronald Reagan,
as George Armstrong Custer.

For full SKY CINEMA listings visit radiotimes.com/tv-listings

10.45pm-12.25am ITV1

h

THRILLER This edge-of-theseat yarn finds railwayman
Denzel Washington and
rookie conductor Chris Pine
racing against the clock to
stop a runaway train that’s
loaded with toxic chemicals.
The action scenes are shot
without digital trickery and
staged with nail-biting
tension, but the endless
faux news footage does get
tiresome. TERRY STAUNTON
(US 2010, some violence, swearing, HD)

On the Basis of Sex HHH
11.15pm-1.10am BBC2
h
BIOPIC Felicity Jones shines
as the star of Mimi Leder’s
drama about the early legal
career of US Supreme Court
justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,
from her fiery days at
Harvard and Columbia law
schools to some of her
landmark cases. Although
something of a hagiography,
it’s still a decent and well-told
story, with Jones pliable
enough to play Ginsburg
from the 1950s to the 70s. AC
(US/Chi 2018, swearing, HD)

Sky Cinema picks
Flushed Away HHH
2.30-4.00pm Sky Animation

h

DRAMA This feel-good film
was something of a departure
for Russell Crowe and his
Gladiator director Ridley Scott.
City trader Crowe inherits a
vineyard in Provence and
intends to sell it on, only for
the French countryside to
work its spell on him. This
escapist fantasy is amiably
diverting, with Crowe given
a rare chance to test his
comic mettle. JAMIE RUSSELL
(US 2006, edited for content, HD)

Unstoppable HHH

Television

Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe (1995, 15)

6.40am Sky Cinema Preview 6.45
The Locksmith HH Standard
crime thriller. Ryan Phillippe (2023, 15)
8.20 Armageddon Time 5
Thoughtful and moving coming-ofage drama set in 1980s New York.

MONDAY

U – suitable for all; PG Parental Guidance – for general viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for young or sensitive children; 12, 15,18 –for viewers of these ages and over.

Great Action

6.00am M*A*S*H 7.00 Wild West
Chronicles 7.30 10,000 Days HH
Intriguing sci-fi drama. John Schneider
(2014, 12) 9.20 Fighters of WWII 10.20
War Machines 11.30 M*A*S*H
12.30pm Wild West Chronicles 1.00
Santa Fe Trail HH Weak period
adventure. Review, right. Errol Flynn
(1940, U) 3.20 Gunman’s Walk HHH
Intense western. Van Heflin, Tab Hunter (1958)
5.15 Hell in Normandy HH Second
World War drama. Guy Madison (1968)
7.20pm Earthtastrophe HH
Low-budget disaster movie in
which the world is sucked through
a wormhole. Brian Krause (2016)
9.00 The Recall HH Wesley
Snipes stars as a crazy survivalist in
a low-budget mash-up of horror
and sci-fi clichés. Jedidiah Goodacre (2017, 15)
10.50 The Winter Soldier HH
Ambitious sci-fi thriller that sees a
group of post-apocalypse survivors
face a robot revolution. Paul Sidhu (2016, 15)
12.55am The Quick and the Dead
HHH Sam Raimi’s stylish western.

FILM REVIEWS

Sky Premiere

A mouse with no nous. (2006, U)
Sky 305; Virgin 412; BT 500/514

Control HHHH
5.50-8.00pm Sky Drama
Biopic of tragic Joy Division
singer Ian Curtis. (2007, 15)
Sky 310; Virgin 410; BT 510/524

Bros HHHH 8.05-10.05pm
Sky Cinema Comedy
Breezy gay romcom. (2022, 15)
Sky 308; Virgin 408; BT 508/522

Films to stream from p32
Netflix, Amazon, Disney+ and more

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Satellite, cable

MONDAY
Sky Showcase

Gold

Alibi

Euphoria: Trouble Don’t Last
Always 10.05pm Jules and Rue

Cobra 9.00pm Prime
Minister Robert Sutherland

dinnerladies 8.00pm Work
experience day leads to chaos

Evil 10.00pm David faces an
unenviable mission

6.00am The Early Rundown 7.00
Kay Burley 8.00 Monkey Life (S)
(AD) 9.00 Nothing to Declare (S)
(AD) 10.00 The Flash (S) 11.00
NCIS: New Orleans (S) 1.00pm
Hawaii Five-0 (S) 2.00 MacGyver
(S) 3.00 The Equalizer (S) (AD)
4.00 A League of Their Own (S)
(AD) 5.00 The Simpsons (S) 5.30
Attenborough’s Journey (S) (AD)
6.30pm The Simpsons Bart is
forced to befriend Ralph.
7.00 Homer is fired and finds a
new job as a submarine captain.
7.30 Homer is forced to go under
cover for the government. (S)
8.00 Cricket: the Ashes
Highlights of day five of England v
Australia, the fifth and Final Test
in the series at the Oval, London.
9.00 Redemption HH
Thriller starring Jason
Statham. A troubled former
soldier on the run from a court
martial assumes another man’s
identity and goes into hiding. (S) (W)
11.00 Rob and Romesh vs K-Pop
Ep 2 Series 5. The comedians
enter the world of K-Pop. (S)
12 midnight Superpowered: the
DC Story (S) 1.05am The Force:
North East 2.05 Caught on
Dashcam 3.00 Hawaii Five-0 (S)
4.00 MacGyver (S) 5.00—6.00am
The Early Rundown: double bill
Sky Showcase Sky 106 Virgin 109
BT 340/HD 355 +1 Sky 206

6.00am Fish Town (S) (HD) 7.55
Boardwalk Empire (S) (AD) (HD)
10.05 The Sopranos (S) (HD)
12.15pm Game of Thrones (S) (AD)
(HD) 1.20 Britannia (S) (AD) (HD)
3.30 Boardwalk Empire (S) (AD) (HD)
5.45pm The Sopranos 11/13
Series 5. Tony’s dreams become
haunted by his crimes. (S) (HD)
6.50 12/13. Christopher
discovers Adriana’s secret. (S) (HD)
7.55 Game of Thrones 4/10
Series 1. Ned refuses to trust
Pycelle or Littlefinger. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Winning Time: the Rise
of the Lakers Dynasty 10/10
Down two men and with the 1980
NBA Championship on the line,
the Lakers look to an unlikely
source for inspiration. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.05 Euphoria: Trouble Don’t
Last Always 9/10. The first of
two feature-length specials. Rue
deals with being left by Jules at
the train station. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.10 Billions 2/12 Series 4. Axe
closes ranks and Chuck struggles
to regain power. (S) (AD) (HD)
12.15am 3/12. Chuck faces
a serious threat to his new career
aspirations. (S) (AD) (HD)
1.20 True Detective (S) (AD) (HD)
2.30 Mildred Pierce (S) (AD) (HD)
3.40 In Treatment (S) 4.10—
6.00am Fish Town: double bill (S)
Sky Atlantic Sky 108 (Wales 109)
BT 342/HD 357 +1 Sky 208 (Wales 209)

6.00am Stargate Atlantis: double
bill (S) (HD) 8.00 Supergirl (S) (HD)
9.00 DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
(S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 The Flash (S) (HD)
11.00 NCIS: New Orleans: double
bill (S) (HD) 1.00pm Hawaii Five-0
(S) (HD) 2.00 MacGyver (S) (HD)
3.00 DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
(S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Supergirl (S) (HD)
5.00 The Flash (S) (HD)
6.00pm Stargate Atlantis
11/20 Series 2. The Wraith holds
the team hostage on a ship. (HD)
7.00 12/20. Sheppard gets
trapped in a portal. (S) (HD)
8.00 Rob and Romesh vs K-Pop
Ep 2 Series 5. The comedians
enter the world of the music
phenomenon of K-Pop. (S) (HD)
9.00 Cobra 1/6 Series 1. The prime
minister deals with an unfolding
national emergency after
catastrophic events throw the
nation into darkness. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 The Swarm 5/8. Rahim and
Charlie report a light phenomenon
that Jess has recorded. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 Road Wars Double bill
following police officers as they
combat vehicle crime. (S) (HD)
1.00am The Force: North East (S) (HD)
2.00 Caught on Dashcam (S) (HD)
3.00 Hawaii Five-0 (S) (HD) 4.00
MacGyver (S) (HD) 5.00—6.00am
Bondi Rescue: double bill (S) (HD)
Sky Max Sky 113 (Wales 114) Virgin 111
BT 346/HD 361

7.30am The Good Life (S) (AD) 8.00
as 4.40pm 8.40 as 12.40pm 9.20
as 5.20pm 10.00 Still Open All
Hours (S) (HD) 10.40 Last of the
Summer Wine (S) 12 noon as
4.40pm 12.40pm Ever Decreasing
Circles (S) 1.20 Dad’s Army (S)
2.00 Still Open All Hours (S) (HD)
2.40 Are You Being Served? (S)
3.20 Last of the Summer Wine (S)
4.40 Keeping Up Appearances (S)
5.20 Are You Being Served? (S)
6.00pm The Good Life Tom and
Barbara go to evening classes. (S) (AD)
6.40 Dad’s Army The platoon
prepares for an official visit. (S)
7.20 The platoon is picked to
appear in an army training film. (S)
8.00 dinnerladies Bren can’t show
the new girl a typical day. (S) (AD)
8.40 Gavin & Stacey Nessa has
her first ultrasound scan. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.20 Absolutely Fabulous Emma
Bunton comes to the house. (S) (AD)
10.00 Live at the Apollo Comedy
sets by Jason Manford, Chris
Ramsey and Doc Brown. (S) (HD)
11.00 dinnerladies As 8pm.
11.40 Gavin & Stacey As 8.40pm.
12.20am The Fast Show (S) 1.00
Absolutely Fabulous (S) (AD) 1.40
Live at the Apollo (S) (HD) 2.35
Johnny Vegas: My Favourite Sketch
(S) (HD) 3.30—4.00am Desmond’s (S)
Gold Sky 110 (Wales 111) Virgin 124
BT 344/HD 359 +1 Sky 210 (Wales 211) Virgin 324

7.15am Murdoch Mysteries (S) (HD)
9.00 Unforgettable (S) (HD) 10.00
Hudson & Rex (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00
Without a Trace (S) (HD) 12 noon
The Doctor Blake Mysteries (S) (HD)
1.00pm Father Brown (S) (AD) (HD)
2.00 Murdoch Mysteries (S) (HD)
4.00 Unforgettable (S) (HD)
5.00 Hudson & Rex (S) (AD) (HD)
6.00pm Without a Trace 7/23
Series 1. The team searches
for a missing toddler. (S) (HD)
7.00 Person of Interest 20/22
Series 2. A heart surgeon is
poisoned with polonium. (S) (HD)
8.00 Father Brown 2/10 Series 9
Mrs McCarthy gets an unwelcome
birthday surprise when her life is
threatened by a mysterious
avenging angel. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 3/10. The clerical sleuth
must delve into the past and open
up old wounds when a child killer
is found murdered. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 New. Evil 2/13 Series 3
David is recruited by LeConte, an
agent of the “Entity”, and assigned
to visit a dying Chinese national
and administer his last rites —
while stealing a postcard. (AD) (HD)
11.00 Person of Interest As 7pm.
12 midnight Hudson & Rex (S) (AD)
(HD) 1.00am Unforgettable (S) (HD)
2.00 Murdoch Mysteries (S) (HD)
2.55—4.00am Annika (S) (AD) (HD)
Alibi Sky 109 (Wales 110) Virgin HD 114
BT 343/HD 358 +1 Sky 209 (Wales 210) Virgin 314

q

Sky Sci-Fi
6.00am Merlin 7.00 The Outpost
8.00 Home Shopping 11.00
Pandora 12 noon Star Trek: the
Next Generation 2.00pm Merlin
3.00 Pandora 4.00 Quantum
Leap 5.00 Stargate Atlantis
6.00pm Star Trek: the Next
Generation 20/22 Series 2
A mission becomes personal for
Worf when an old flame arrives.
7.00 21/22. A combat practice
simulation turns deadly when the
Enterprise is ambushed.
8.00 Star Trek: Voyager 20/26
Series 5. Bounty hunters pursue
the ship and aliens offer to help
the crew escape — but they
appear to have a hidden agenda.
9.00 From 1/10 Series 2. In
Sheriff Boyd’s absence, Donna and
Kenny struggle to manage the
chaos as a busload of unwitting
newcomers arrives in town.
10.00 2/10. It’s a tense night in
the diner as the residents wait for
sunrise. Jim and Tom struggle to
keep a bus passenger quiet.
10.55 True Blood 9/12 Series 2
A wounded Eric gets inside
Sookie’s head, while Sam looks
for a way to escape from jail.
11.55 10/12. Bill learns a surprising
fact about Maryann. Sookie tries to
help Tara. Can Jason rescue Sam?
12.50am Monstrous 2.20 Star
Trek: Voyager 3.15 Stargate
Atlantis 4.10—6.00am Star Trek:
the Next Generation: double bill
Sky Sci-Fi Sky 139 Virgin 122
BT 348/HD 363 +1 Virgin 229

Sky Witness
6.00am Air Ambulance ER (S) (HD)
7.00 Border Security: Canada’s
Front Line (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 Border
Patrol (S) 10.00 Stop, Search, Seize
(S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 The Rookie (S)
(AD) (HD) 12 noon FBI: Most Wanted
(S) (AD) (HD) 1.00pm FBI:
International (S) (HD) 2.00 The
Force: Manchester (S) (HD) 3.00
The Equalizer (S) (AD) (HD)
4.00pm Nothing to Declare
Eight editions following customers
officers in Australia. (S) (HD)
8.00 Blue Bloods 1/16 Series 11
Frank faces a battle with the city
government over police brutality
protests. Jamie searches for
Danny and Baez. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Law & Order: Special
Victims Unit 11/22 Series 24
Benson tries to help the gang
member who attacked her, while
Fin is tasked with hiring new
detectives for the Bronx SVU. (HD)
10.00 Bull 5/23 Series 1. The
wealthy parents of a murdered
socialite intend to prosecute their
daughter’s fiancé. (S) (HD)
11.00 New Amsterdam 16/22
Series 4. Iggy helps a mysterious
patient. (S) (AD) (HD)
12 midnight The Equalizer (S) (AD)
(HD) 1.00am The Good Doctor (S)
(HD) 3.00 New. Law & Order:
Organized Crime: Jamie meets the
gang’s boss (HD) 4.00 Stop, Search,
Seize (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00—6.00am
Air Ambulance ER (S) (HD)
Sky Witness Sky 107 Virgin 110
BT 341/HD 356 +1 Sky 207 Virgin 310

ALL PROGRAMMES ON THE ABOVE CHANNELS ARE REPEATS UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED

68

Sky Max

Cristina looks after Joey

Redemption 9.00pm Sister

Television MONDAY

Sky Atlantic

Sky Replay
7.00am 6ixth Sense with Colin Fry (S)
8.00 Four Weddings (S) (AD) 10.00 UK
Border Force (S) (AD) 11.00 Stop, Search,
Seize (S) (AD) 12 noon Highway Cops
(S) 12.30pm Bondi Rescue (S) 1.00
Send in the Dogs (S) 2.00 Warehouse
13 (S) 4.00 Most Haunted (S)
6.00pm Supergirl (S) 8.00 UK Border
Force: searching for illegal immigrants
in Calais (S) (AD) 9.00 Dating No Filter:
double bill. Aaliyas and Brandel go salsa
dancing, then Ellise and Elly have a
gin-making date (S) (AD) 10.00
Magnum P.I.: the day of Katsumoto’s
hearing arrives (S) 11.00 The Blacklist:
a Task Force member is put in danger (S)
12 midnight Brit Cops: Law & Disorder
(S) (AD) 1.00am Stop, Search, Seize (S)
(AD) 2.00 A League of Their Own (S)
(AD) 3.00 Duck Quacks Don’t Echo (S)
(AD) 4.00 Four Weddings 5.00—
6.00am 6ixth Sense with Colin Fry (S)

Sky Replay Sky 152 Virgin 156

Sky Crime
6.00am Highway Patrol (S) (AD) 7.00
Motorway Patrol (S) (AD) 8.00 Highway
Cops (S) (HD) 9.00 Nothing to Declare (S)
(AD) 10.00 Caught Red Handed (S) (HD)
11.30 Border Patrol (S) 12 noon Killer in
My Village (S) (HD) 1.00pm Forensics (S)
(AD) (HD) 2.00 Murders That Shocked
the Nation (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00 Most Evil
Killers (S) (HD) 5.00 What the Killer Did
Next (S) (AD) (HD) 6.00 Forensics (S) (AD)
(HD) 7.00 Most Evil Killers (S) (HD) 9.00
Twisted Killers (S) (HD) 10.00 What the
Killer Did Next (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 Killer
in My Village (S) (HD) 12 midnight Most
Evil Killers (S) (HD) 1.00am Murders
That Shocked the Nation (S) (HD) 2.00
What the Killer Did Next (S) (AD) (HD)
3.00 Brit Cops (S) 4.00 Road Wars (S)
5.00—6.00am Motorway Patrol (S) (AD)

Sky Crime Sky 122 Virgin 121 BT 349/HD 364
+1 Sky 222 Virgin 321

Sky Comedy

Discovery

8.00am Bloods (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00
Silicon Valley (S) (HD) 9.55 Entourage
(S) (HD) 10.30 Girls (S) (AD) (HD) 11.40
Veep (S) (AD) (HD) 12.50pm Entourage
(S) (HD) 2.10 The Fresh Prince of
Bel-Air (S) (HD) 3.10 Girls (S) (AD) (HD)
4.30 A.P. Bio (S) (HD) 5.30 Will &
Grace (S) (AD) (HD) 6.30 The Fresh
Prince of Bel-Air (S) (HD) 7.30 Bloods
(S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 The Office US (S)
(HD) 9.00 Breeders: double bill. Luke is
charged with taking class bear Lenny
on an adventure, then Paul’s attempts
to focus on the wedding are constantly
thwarted by his family (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 The Righteous Gemstones (HD)
11.30 Sex and the City (S) (HD)
12.40am Bloods (S) (AD) (HD) 1.40
Girls (S) (AD) (HD) 2.20 Dice (S) (AD)
(HD) 3.00 Work in Progress (S) (HD)
3.40—5.00am Veep (S) (AD) (HD)

6.00am Wheeler Dealers (S) (HD) 7.00
Deadliest Catch (S) (HD) 9.00 Alaska:
the Last Frontier (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00
How It’s Made (S) (HD) 11.00 Wheeler
Dealers (S) (HD) 12 noon Diesel
Brothers (S) (HD) 1.00pm Gold Rush:
White Water (HD) 3.00 Alaska:
Homestead Rescue (S) (HD) 5.00
Wheeler Dealers (S) (HD) 6.00 Diesel
Brothers (S) (HD) 7.00 Street Outlaws
(S) (HD) 8.00 Alaska: the Last Frontier:
Eivin and Eve traverse perilous mountain
terrain on their first goat hunt (S) (AD)
(HD) 9.00 New. Street Outlaws: the
fastest racers return to take part in a
winner-takes-all challenge (S) (HD)
11.00 Naked and Afraid XL (S) (HD)
12 midnight Expedition Bigfoot (S)
(HD) 1.00am Street Outlaws (S) (HD)
3.00 Moonshiners (HD) 4.00—5.00am
Wheeler Dealers (S) (AD) (HD)

Sky Comedy Sky 114 (Wales 115)
Virgin 112 BT 347/HD 362

Discovery Sky 125 Virgin 177 BT 320/HD 325
+1 Sky 225 Virgin 377

Comedy Central

Discovery History

8.00am Bob’s Burgers (S) (HD) 10.00
Becker (HD) 11.00 The Middle (S) (HD)
12.50pm Friends: back-to-back
episodes of the New York sitcom (S)
(AD) (HD) 9.00 Jason Manford Live :
the comedian performs at the
Manchester Arena in 2011 (S) (HD) 10.00
Frank Skinner Live at Birmingham
Hippodrome: the stand-up comedian’s
homecoming show (HD) 11.15 Kevin
Bridges: the Brand New Tour: a Glasgow
show recorded in 2018 (S) (HD)
12.15am Rhod Gilbert’s Growing Pains
(S) (HD) 1.15 South Park (S) (HD) 2.45
Bob’s Burgers (S) (HD) 3.10 Key and
Peele (S) (HD) 3.50 Amy Schumer:
Comedy Central Live (S) (HD)
4.10—5.00am Friends (S) (AD) (HD)

Comedy Central Sky 112 (Wales 113)
Virgin 132 BT 345/HD 360
+1 Sky 212 (Wales 213) Virgin 332

6.00am Combat Dealers (S) 7.00 Tony
Robinson’s World War One (S) 8.00 HMS
Ark Royal (S) (AD) 9.00 Combat Dealers
(S) (AD) 10.00 Blowing Up History (S)
11.00 How the Universe Works 12 noon
The Strangest UFO Stories of All Time (S)
1.00pm Combat Dealers (S) 2.00 Tony
Robinson’s World War One (S) 3.00
Blowing Up History (S) 4.00 Cooper’s
Treasure (S) (AD) 5.00 HMS Ark Royal
(S) (AD) 6.00 The Strangest UFO Stories
of All Time (S) 7.00 Expedition Unknown
(S) 8.00 Combat Dealers (S) (AD) 9.00
Blowing Up History (S) 10.00 Salvage
Hunters (S) 11.00 Shed and Buried (S) (AD)
12 midnight Combat Dealers (S)
2.00am Salvage Hunters (S)
3.00 Combat Dealers (S) (AD)
4.00—5.00am Blowing Up History (S)

Discovery History Sky 177 Virgin 181
+1 Sky 277 Virgin 381

Key (S) Subtitles (SL) Signing (AD) Audio description (HD) High definition (W) Widescreen

RadioTimes 29 July–4 August 2023

& sport
Sky Documentaries

Sky Nature

Barbary macaque survival

6.00am The Guest Wing (S) (AD)
7.00 Discovering: Vanessa Redgrave
(S) 8.00 The Directors (S) (AD) 9.00
Escobar by Escobar (S) 10.05 The
Last Movie Stars (S) (AD) 11.40 My
Icon: Thierry Henry (S) (AD) 12 noon
A Tree of Life: the Pittsburgh
Synagogue Shooting (S) 1.40pm
My Icon: Denise Lewis (S) (AD) (HD)
2.00 FILM Sergio Leone: the
Italian Who Invented America
HHHH (S) (W) 4.00 The Directors
(S) (AD) 5.00 Discovering: Vanessa
Redgrave: a profile of the actress (S)
6.00pm Escobar by Escobar
The story behind the cursed
Escobar empire. (S)
7.05 The Last Movie Stars The
lives and careers of Paul Newman
and Joanne Woodward. (S) (AD)
8.40 My Icon: Rachel Yankey
The England football star looks at
her inspirational figures. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 After the Bite The surge in
great white sharks in Cape Cod.
10.50 Superpowered: the DC
Story A look at how DC took a
gamble with Superman. (S)
11.50 Dogtown and Z-Boys HHH
A portrait of the surf-crazy
kids from Dogtown, LA. (S) (W)
1.40am The Longest War: America’s
involvement in Afghanistan (S)
3.20 King Otto (S) 5.00—6.00am
Discovering: Vanessa Redgrave (S)
Sky Documentaries Sky 121
Virgin 188 BT 352/HD 367

6.00am Ol Pejeta Diaries (S) 7.00
Monkey Life (S) (AD) 8.00 Kenya
Wildlife Diaries (S) 9.00 Tales from
Zambia (S) 10.00 Great Blue Wild (S)
11.00 Animal Empires (S) 12 noon
Untamed Valley (S) 1.00pm Monkey
Life: double bill (S) (AD) 2.00 Kenya
Wildlife Diaries (S) 3.00 Tales
from Zambia (S) 4.00 Great Blue
Wild (S) 5.00 Animal Empires (S)
6.00pm Untamed Valley Life
along Zambia’s Luangwa River. (S)
7.00 Monkey Life A primate
rescue centre in Dorset. (S) (AD)
7.30 A capuchin monkey makes
a bid for freedom. (S) (AD)
8.00 Wild Rockies A look at the
lakes, rivers and marshes of the
Rockies, which flow through the
landscape and feed the creatures
that call the mountains home. (S)
9.00 Africa’s Wild Horizons
Examining the wildlife living
among the peaks of South Africa’s
Cederberg Mountains. (S)
10.00 Animal Empires A look
at how different creatures raise
the next generation. (S)
11.00 Untamed Valley As 6pm.
12 midnight Africa’s Claws and
Jaws (S) (AD) 1.00am Gangs of
Baboon Falls (S) 2.00 Wild Rockies
(S) 3.00 as 9pm 4.00 as 2pm
5.00—6.00am Tales from Zambia (S)
Sky Nature Sky 124 Virgin 189
BT 354/HD 369

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Nat Geographic

Eden

8.00am Abandoned (HD) 8.30 Made
in a Day (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 Air Crash
Investigation (S) (HD) 10.00 Europe from
Above (HD) 11.00 Ultimate Airport Dubai
(S) (HD) 12 noon Car SOS (S) (AD) (HD)
1.00pm Nazi Megastructures (S) (HD)
2.00 Air Crash Investigation (S) (AD) (HD)
3.00 Megafactories (HD) 4.00 Buried
Gold (HD) 5.00 Car SOS (S) (AD) (HD)
6.00 To Catch a Smuggler (S) (HD) 7.00
Air Crash Investigation (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00
New. To Catch a Smuggler (HD) 9.00 Air
Crash Investigation (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00
Airport Security: Rome (S) (HD) 11.00 Air
Crash Investigation (HD) 12 midnight
Airport Security: Colombia (HD) 1.00am
Banged Up Abroad: Crime & Punishment
(HD) 2.00 Lords of War (HD) 2.55 Made
in a Day (S) (AD) (HD) 3.20 Food Factory
(S) (HD) 4.10 Exotic Animal ER (HD)
4.35—5.00am Secrets of the Zoo (HD)

9.00am Secrets of Britain 12 noon
World’s Greatest Palaces (AD) (HD)
4.00pm Fascinating New Zealand (AD)
(HD) 5.00 Nature’s Nurseries (HD)
6.00 David Attenborough’s Natural
Curiosities: the emperor penguin and
the wood frog (AD) (HD) 7.00 World’s
Greatest Palaces: Neuschwanstein
Castle in the Alps of southern Germany
(AD) (HD) 8.00 Fascinating New Zealand
(AD) (HD) 9.00 Nature’s Nurseries (HD)
10.00 David Attenborough’s Natural
Curiosities (AD) (HD) 11.00 World’s
Greatest Palaces (AD) (HD)
12 midnight Fascinating New Zealand
(AD) (HD) 1.00am Africa from Above
(HD) 2.00 Nature’s Nurseries (HD)
3.00 David Attenborough’s Natural
Curiosities (AD) (HD) 3.50 Africa from
Above (HD) 4.40 Nature’s Nurseries
(HD) 5.30—6.00am The Zoo (HD)

Nat Geographic Sky 129 Virgin 183
+1 Sky 229 Virgin 383

Eden Sky 166 Virgin HD 176
+1 Sky 266 Virgin 376

Sky History

Animal Planet

6.00am Forged in Fire (HD) 7.00
Salvage Kings (HD) 8.00 American
Pickers (HD) 9.00 Pawn Stars (HD) 10.00
Shipwrecks: When History Resurfaces
(HD) 11.00 Secrets of the Viking Stone
(HD) 12 noon River Hunters (HD) 1.00pm
Salvage Kings (HD) 2.00 Cities of the
Underworld (HD) 3.00 Swamp People:
Serpent Invasion (HD) 5.00 Pawn Stars
(HD) 6.00 American Pickers (HD) 7.00
Forged in Fire (HD) 8.00 Storage Wars
Canada (HD) 9.00 New series. Clash of
Ancient Warriors (HD) 10.00 Viking Dead
11.00 Colosseum (S) (HD) 12 midnight
Pawn Stars (HD) 1.00am Storage Wars
Canada (HD) 2.00 History’s Greatest
Mysteries (HD) 3.00 Swamp People:
Serpent Invasion (HD) 5.00—6.00am
Cities of the Underworld (HD)

8.00am Extinct or Alive (S) (HD) 9.00
Amanda to the Rescue (S) (HD) 10.00 Dr
Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet (S) (HD) 12 noon
Extinct or Alive (S) (HD) 1.00pm Amanda
to the Rescue (S) (HD) 2.00 Jungle Shark
(S) (HD) 3.00 Deadliest Sharks (S) (HD)
4.00 America’s Cutest Pets (S) (HD)
5.00 Dr Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet (S)
(HD) 6.00 Extinct or Alive (S) (HD) 7.00
How Do Animals Do That? (S) (HD) 8.00
Swimming with Monsters with Steve
Backshall (S) (HD) 9.00 Rugged Justice
(HD) 10.00 Alaska: the Last Frontier (S)
(HD) 11.00 Intruders (HD) 12 midnight
Monsters inside Me (S) (HD) 1.00am
The Last Alaskans (S) (HD) 2.00
America’s Cutest Pets (S) (HD) 3.00
Dr Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet (S) (HD)
4.00—5.00am Extinct or Alive (S) (HD)

Sky History Sky 123 Virgin 133
BT 353/HD 368 +1 Sky 223 Virgin 333

Animal Planet Sky 162 (NI 178) Virgin 178
+1 Sky 262 (NI 278) Virgin 378

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Sky Main Event

TNT Sports 1

Sky 401 Virgin 511/HD 501 BT 420/HD 440

Sky 410 Virgin 527 BT 408/HD 430

6.00am Sky Sports News
7.00 Good Morning Sports Fans
7.30 World Cup Breakfast

6.00am Classic Premier League (AD)
7.00 Wrestling: WWE action (AD)
8.00 International One-Day Cricket
10.00 Badminton: Japan Open
12 noon Test Cricket Highlights: West
Indies v India, the first Test match
2.00pm Test Cricket Highlights: West
Indies v India, the second Test match
4.00 International One-Day Cricket:
West Indies v India, the first and second
matches in the three-match series
6.00 O Arise, All You Sons: the story
of cricket in Papua New Guinea (AD)
7.00 Brothers in Football (AD) 8.45
French Football 9.00 Fishing (AD)
10.00 Classic Premier League (AD)
11.00 Wrestling: WWE action (AD)

7.45 LIVE Netball World Cup
A match from the second group
stage (centre-pass 8.00).
9.45 My Icon (AD)
10.00 Ashes Bitesize: day four
10.15 LIVE Ashes Cricket
England v Australia, day five of the
fifth and final Test from the Oval.
7.00pm The Transfer Show
8.00 Sky Sports News
10.30 Back Pages Tonight
11.00—6.00am Sky Sports News

Sky Football
Sky 403 Virgin 513/HD 503 BT 422/HD 442
6.00am League Cup Retro 8.45
EFL Greatest Games (AD) 9.00 SPFL
Greatest Games 9.30 EFL Greatest
Games 10.00 League Cup Retro (AD)
12 noon Championship Season Review
1.00pm League Cup Retro (AD)
2.00 Classic Play-Off Finals
5.00 EFL Greatest Games (AD)
5.30 SPFL Greatest Games
6.00 Championship Season Review
(AD) 7.00 League Cup Retro (AD)
8.00 Ashes Highlights 9.00 Classic
Play-Offs 11.00 EFL Greatest Games
1.00am League Cup Retro
2.00—6.00am Classic Play-Offs

Sky Golf
Sky 405 Virgin 515/HD 505 BT 424/HD 444
6.00am LPGA Tour Golf
11.30 European Seniors Golf
2.30pm PGA Tour Golf: 3M Open
6.30 Chronicles (AD) 7.00 PGA Tour
Golf 8.00 LPGA Tour Golf 9.00 Rose
v Fleetwood 10.00 PGA Tour Golf
11.00 Duel: Golf’s Greatest Showdown
12 midnight PGA Tour Golf 1.00am
LPGA Tour Golf 3.00 PGA Tour Golf
5.00—6.00am Chronicles

Sky Arena
Sky 408 Virgin 518/HD 508 BT 427/HD 447
6.00am Super League (AD)
7.30 Women’s Super League

7.45 LIVE Netball World Cup
A second group stage match in
Cape Town (centre-pass 8.00);
10.00 A match from the second
group stage (centre-pass 10.00).
12 noon Super League
12.30pm Women’s Super League
12.45 Netball World Cup
2.45 LIVE Netball World Cup
A second group stage match;
5.00 A match from the second
group stage (centre-pass 5.00).
7.00 WNBA 9.00 Super League
9.30 Daniel Anderson: Face to Face
10.00 Rugby Championship 12.10am
Darts 12.15 Rugby Championship
2.25 Darts 2.30 Netball World Cup
4.30 Women’s Super League
4.45—6.00am Super League (AD)

Eurosport 1
Sky 413 Virgin 521 BT HD 412
6.00am Women’s Tour de France
7.30 Olympic Games: the Olympians

7.45 LIVE World University
Games Men’s diving from China.
8.45 Cycling 9.00 Tour de France
10.00 LIVE World University
Games Women’s diving coverage.
10.45 Olympic Games 11.00
Climbing 12 noon Cycling
1.00pm LIVE Cycling Stage one
of the Tour de l’Ain, a 154km route.
3.00 Women’s Tour de France
4.00 Tour de France 5.00 Climbing
5.30 Olympics: One Year to Dream
6.00 Olympic Games: La Vie Sportive
8.00 Cycling 9.00 Women’s Tour de
France 10.00 Climbing 10.30 Trail
Running 11.00 Cycling: Tour de l’Ain
12 midnight Superbikes 2.00am
Cycling 4.00—6.00am Superbikes

Tennis 5.00pm Amazon

Prime Frances Tiafoe goes
for glory in Washington DC

Sky Premier League
Sky 402 Virgin 512/HD 502 BT 421/HD 441
6.00am Greatest Games (AD) 7.00
Legends 7.30 World Cup Breakfast
8.00 Best Goals 8.30 Breakfast
9.00 Good Morning Transfers
10.00 Summer Series Football
4.00pm Best Goals (AD) 5.00 The
Transfer Show 5.30 100 Club (AD)
6.00 Premier League Legends (AD)
7.00 Summer Series Football
1.00am Premier League Years (AD)
3.00 Greatest Games 4.00 Best
Goals (AD) 5.30—6.00am 100 Club

1.00am LIVE Wrestling WWE
Monday Night Raw, featuring
the likes of Seth Rollins, Randy
Orton, Asuka and Bianca Belair.
4.15 What I Wore: Jens Lehmann
4.30—6.00am Champions League
Football: Stories of the Finals (AD)

TNT Sports 2
Sky 411 Virgin 528 BT 409/HD 431

Sky 404 Virgin 514/HD 504 BT 423/HD 443

6.00am French Football: highlights
7.00 Premier League Football: four
matches from the 2022/23 season
1.00pm Premier League Football:
four games from the 2022/23 season
7.00 Major League Cricket 7.30
Triathlon (AD) 8.00 Boxing: Liam
Davies v Jason Cunningham 10.00
Cornered: a profile of boxer Johnny
Greaves (AD) 11.00 Champions Cup
Rugby Union: review of 2022/23 (AD)
11.30 MLB Plays of the Week (AD)

6.00am Ashes Memories (AD) 7.00
Ashes Highlights 8.00 Ashes Bitesize
8.15 Ashes Greats (AD) 8.30 Ashes
Bitesize 9.30 The Fletcher Years (AD)
10.00 Ashes Bitesize: day four

12 midnight LIVE Major League
Baseball New York Yankees v
Tampa Bay Rays, coverage of
an American League game at
Yankee Stadium (start 12.05).

Sky Cricket

10.15 LIVE Ashes Cricket
England v Australia, day five of the
fifth and final Test from the Oval.
7.00pm Inside Southern Brave 8.00
Ashes Highlights 9.00 Ashes Memories
(AD) 10.00 Ashes 11.00 Ashes Bitesize
11.15 Captain’s Log (AD) 11.45 Ashes
Bitesize 12 midnight Ashes Highlights
1.00am Captain’s Log (AD) 2.00 Ashes
Highlights 3.00 Ashes Bitesize 3.15
Captain’s Log (AD) 3.45 Ashes Greats
4.00 Ashes Highlights 5.00 Captain’s
Log (AD) 5.30—6.00am Ashes Greats

Sky Action
Sky 407 Virgin 517/HD 507 BT 426/HD 446
6.00am Boxing (AD)
7.00 Boxing Archive (AD)

7.45 LIVE Netball World Cup
A second group stage match in
Cape Town (centre-pass 8.00);
10.00 A match from the second
group stage (centre-pass 10.00).
12 noon Good Morning Football
3.00pm Rugby Championship 5.10
Darts 5.15 My Icon (AD) 5.30 NFL
Bitesize (AD) 5.45 NFL Bitesize (AD)
6.00 Pro-Football Talk 8.00 NFL
9.00 Boxing 11.00 NFL: Total Access
1.00—6.00am NFL

Sky Mix
Sky 416 Virgin 510 BT 429/HD 449
2.45—7.00pm LIVE Netball
World Cup Two matches from the
second group stage in Cape Town
(centre-pass 3.00 and 5.00).

Eurosport 2
Sky 414 Virgin 522 BT HD 413
7.00am Motor Racing 8.00 World
Superbikes 9.00 Speedway 10.00
Cycling 11.30 Motocross 2.30pm
Motor Racing 3.00 Superbikes
5.00 Formula E 6.00 Motocross
6.30 Premiership Speedway

7.30 LIVE Premiership
Speedway A round nine fixture.
10.00 World Superbikes: from Most
12 midnight Cycling 2.00am World
Superbikes 4.00—6.00am Cycling

3.30—6.00am Premier League
Legends: five player profiles (AD)

TNT Sports 3
Sky 417 Virgin 529 BT 410/HD 432
6.00am Champions League Football:
highlights from 22 classic matches
5.00pm Italian Football: highlights
of six Serie A matches from 2022/23
11.00 UFC: Poirier v Gaethje
2.00am UFC Fight Flashback (AD)

2.30—6.00am LIVE Major
League Baseball San Francisco
Giants v Arizona Diamondbacks,
the National League game from
Oracle Park (start 2.45).

Television

Animal Empires 10.00pm

Cod’s great white sharks

SPORT

MONDAY

After the Bite 9.00pm Cape

MONDAY 31 JULY

TNT Sports 4
Sky 421 Virgin 530 BT 411/HD 434
6.00am Premiership Rugby Union:
highlights from the 2022/23 season
7.30 Serie A: Full Impact (AD)
8.30 World Rally: magazine (AD)
9.00 MLB: 1999 Home Run Derby
11.00 Major League Baseball
5.00pm MLB Plays of the Week (AD)
5.30 Major League Baseball:
St Louis Cardinals v Chicago Cubs
8.00 Major League Baseball:
Baltimore Orioles v New York Yankees
10.30 Badminton Unlimited (AD)
11.00 World Rally: magazine (AD)
11.30 Champions League Magazine
12.30am Europa League Football
and Conference League Magazine
2.30 UFC Reloaded 5.00—6.00am
International One-Day Cricket

Viaplay Sports
7.15—10.30pm LIVE
Championship Rugby League
Bradford Bulls v Barrow Raiders
at Odsal Stadium (kick-off 7.45).

Amazon Prime
5.00pm LIVE Tennis Day one
of the Washington Open, men’s
and women’s singles at William
HG FitzGerald Tennis Center.

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COMEDY

Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em
from 8pm BBC4 Catch up via iPlayer

Television TUESDAY

Tastes evolve, attitudes alter. And if Some
Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em
would want to know what was wrong with
accident-magnet Frank Spencer. But back

70

DANGER MAN
Michael Crawford as
Frank Spencer —
also below with his
Some Mothers Do
’Ave ’Em co-star
Michele Dotrice

creator Raymond Allen was rewarded with
primetime positions on Christmas Day.
But there is something “of another time”
about the action sequences, too. Whether
hanging off a window cleaner’s cradle 20
storeys up, or trying to exit a moving
Mini that a plane has just flown over,
the stunts were just jaw-dropping.
What people admire in Tom Cruise
today, they almost took for granted
with Michael Crawford in the 70s.
He and co-star Michele Dotrice who
played Frank’s wife Betty — the very
definition of long-suffering — are reunited
in a lovely introduction at 8pm. The
insights are fascinating: Crawford based
Frank’s manchild mannerisms on his
young daughters, and had to get into a
“zone” to play him.
The first episode at 8.30pm is
followed at 9pm by a fantastic 1977 doc
— watch the public turn out to see the
star risk life and limb! It’s extraordinary.
MARK BRAXTON

See feature: page 26

SPORT

DOCUMENTARY

FOOD

Karen Carney’s
Leaders of the Pack

Heat Pumps: What They Bake Off: the
Really Mean for You
Professionals

Secrets of the
London Underground

6.55pm ITV4 Catch up via ITVX

8.00pm BBC1 Catch up via iPlayer

8pm C4 Catch up via C4 streaming

Not just one of the most skilled
footballers to ever pull on a Lioness
shirt, former England midfielder
Karen Carney has also proved herself
an insightful pundit since retiring
from playing. That makes her perfect
to handle interviewing duties on this
globetrotting look at some of the best
in the current crop of footballers
starring in the Women’s World Cup.
After kicking off with England and
Man United’s Katie Zelem last week,
Carney tonight heads to France to
meet Lyon and Haiti midfielder
Melchie Dumornay to discuss Haiti’s
first appearance in the tournament.
Tomorrow’s episode finds her in
Spain meeting the brilliant Asisat
Oshoala, inspirational striker for
Barcelona and Nigeria. CERI THOMAS

This second documentary about the
steps needed to combat global
warming turns its attention to the
way we heat our homes. BBC climate
editor Justin Rowlatt investigates the
green alternatives to coal and gas,
looking into the technology behind
heat pumps and the vastly improved
insulation of modern houses.
He and his team also question
Government policies towards both,
wondering if existing grants are
anywhere near high enough to
persuade sufficient households to
transition to alternate heating
sources if targets are to be met.
It’s another thought-provoking
and hard-working programme that
squeezes in as many different angles
on the problem as possible. CT

Only a few of the patissiers
impressed Benoit Blin and Cherish
Finden last week, so it’s surprising
to see them all back in the kitchen.
Unfortunately, the formidable
Cherish gets to use her I’mdisappointed-almost-disgusted
face again when the pairs tackle
reimagined mille-feuille and pavlova.
Cha-la-la, as she often says.
The musical themed showstoppers
— choux bun versions of Lady Gaga,
Pavarotti, Elton John and Elvis —
hit some bum notes, too. Meanwhile,
Ellie Taylor isn’t giving up trying to
get a reaction from one of the older
contestants with her surreal banter.
This time it’s about fighting
Taekwondo champ Cherish.

8.00pm Yesterday
Catch up via UKTV Play

JANE RACKHAM

DOCUMENTARY

Why would there be an underground
station three storeys above ground in
an innocuous west London office
block? And how come West Ashfield
isn’t on any Tube map?
As a very excited Siddy Holloway
and Tim Dunn discover, West Ashfield
is a mock-up of a Tube station where
new staff are trained. Siddy and
Tim can’t resist having a go at the
driving simulator — it’s harder than
you’d think.
But they also venture under
ground at Oval station to explore
deserted tunnels and marvel at old
tiles and disused air shafts before
resurfacing to learn about the origins
of TFL’s charming “Thought of the
day” notices. JR

RadioTimes 29 July–4 August 2023

TUESDAY 1 AUGUST
LIVE SPORT

ALSO ON TODAY
Live: Lost Dogs
with Clare Balding

Sky Coppers

From

9pm, 10pm Sky Sci-Fi

8.00pm Channel 5

9.00pm C4

Following the work of
the West Midlands
Police Drone Unit,
who tonight hunt a
teenager last seen
climbing scaffolding.

Kenny and Ellis make a
grisly discovery out in
the forest, Boyd’s
condition grows more
alarming and Jim
shares a new theory.

DRAMA

CRAFT

Wolf

Retro Electro Workshop The Trials of
9.00pm Yesterday
Oppenheimer

9.00pm BBC1 Catch up via iPlayer

Dara O Briain
explores aspects
of lunar influence

More unloved tech gets the makeover
treatment. Bargain-hunter Shamil is
excited to unearth a 1973 jukebox but
when he wipes off decades of dust, he
realises it needs a complete overhaul
before it can rock ’n’ roll again.
Gadget-reviver Rob Howard is called
out to Ipswich Transport Museum. Can
he find the precious parts to make a
60s double decker bus roadworthy?
Meanwhile, assistant Matt
Marchant has his work cut out with a
collectable Kit-Cat Klock — just like
the one Back to the Future’s Doc
Brown had in his workshop. The feline
chronograph has a wonky eye, a
missing tail and no longer tells the
time. It’s a delicate operation to make
it purr-fect again. MICHAEL HOGAN

10.30pm BBC4 Catch up via iPlayer
With Christopher Nolan’s acclaimed
biopic rekindling interest in Julius
Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist
who led the Manhattan Project that
developed the nuclear bomb, the
timely resurrection of this 2009
Storyville fills in many biographical
blanks. It paints a picture of a brilliant
but deeply flawed man, so naive he
failed to notice the Great Depression
and — inspired leadership of the
Manhattan Project aside — struggled
with relationships. Briefly a national
hero, Oppenheimer never joined the
Communist Party, but, allied to his
political clumsiness, associations with
ardent communists (including his
mistress Jean Tatlock) would help
sabotage his career. JOHN AIZLEWOOD

SCIENCE

Wonders of the Moon
with Dara O Briain

China v England
11.15am (k/o 12 noon) ITV1
Watch out for England striker
Alessia Russo (above). Also today:
Portugal v USA (k/o 8am ITV1);
Vietnam v Netherlands (k/o 8am
ITV4); Haiti v Denmark
(k/o 12 noon ITV4)

Cricket: the Hundred
Trent Rockets v Southern Brave
2.45pm, 6pm BBC2/2.30pm,
6pm Sky Cricket/ME/Showcase
The women followed by the
men as cricket at its most
razzmatazz returns. Sport: p31

Netball: World Cup

7.45am/10am Sky Main Event
Action from Cape Town.

FILM OF
THE DAY

9.00pm Channel 5 Catch up via My5
It can feel as though interest in the
Moon peaked in 1969 when we gave
a global gasp of astonishment at the
sight of Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong
making his giant leap for mankind.
Since then, technological
advancements have allowed the
majority to forget about the lunar
cycle, with any number of electronic
devices telling us the time of day,
the date or month.
But in this engaging, wide-ranging
two-parter, comedian and amateur
astronomer Dara O Briain is here to
remind us of ways the Moon still
affects life on Earth, from the farmer
who uses its phases to plan his
agricultural calendar to the animals
in coastal areas whose evolution has
been influenced by the pull on the
tides exerted by the planet’s only
natural satellite.
Episode two is tomorrow night
at 9pm on Channel 5. DB

RadioTimes 29 July–4 August 2023

Football: Women’s World Cup

Television

MAN IN
THE MOON

Catch up via UKTV Play

TUESDAY

If you haven’t yet watched episode
one of this not-for-the-squeamish
thriller, why are you reading this? Go
on, off you pop. Those who are up to
speed, though, will be wondering what
the second hour has in store? Answer:
the plot of Funny Games, with the
Anchor-Ferrers clan enduring the same
kind of home-invasion terror as the
family in Michael Haneke’s 1997 film.
Just without the smiles and winks to
camera from the perpetrators.
But where Funny Games was
almost admonishing the viewer for
finding pleasure in the vicarious
thrills of serial-killer flicks, Wolf is
content with scaring us silly. It could
also result in higher electricity bills, as
no one will want to turn the lights off
afterwards. DAVID BROWN See p18

DRAMA DOCUMENTARY

Molly’s Game 5 j
11.15pm BBC2

The West Wing scribe Aaron
Sorkin’s thrilling directorial debut
stars a steely Jessica Chastain as
the waitress and former athlete
who comes up with the ultimate
hustle: running high-stakes
underground poker games.
Idris Elba co-stars. (2017)

FILM REVIEWS
page 77

ALAMY; GETTY; ALLSTAR

A rescue dog from Spain
has disappeared after
chasing squirrels, and a
cockapoo has gone
missing from a park.

71

TUESDAY Main Channels
DAYTIME
BBC1
6.00am Breakfast Jon Kay, Sally Nugent. (S) (HD)
9.15 Morning Live Gethin Jones, Helen Skelton. (S) (HD)
10.00 Big Little Crimes A tip leads police to
crack the UK’s biggest case of food fraud. (R) (S) (HD)
10.30 Animal Park Kate Humble and Ben Fogle
follow a male lion and eight females. (Revised rpt) (S) (HD)
11.15 Homes under the Hammer With properties in
Suffolk, Norfolk and Buckinghamshire. (S) (HD)
12.15pm Bargain Hunt Caroline Hawley and Phillip
Serrell visit Three Counties Showground. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
1.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
1.45 Rick Stein’s Cornwall Rick takes in the
surroundings of the Roseland Peninsula. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
2.15 Robson Green’s Weekend Escapes Robson and
Rosie Ramsey explore Northumberland. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
2.45 Escape to the Country A couple look for
a home in the Norfolk countryside. (R) (S) (HD)
3.45 Make It at Market Glassblower Belinda has the
potential to turn her art into a business. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
4.30—5.15 Antiques Road Trip Roo Irvine and
Mark Hill take a tour of the Highlands. (R) (S) (HD)

BBC2

Television TUESDAY

6.20am Saturday Kitchen Best Bites Matt Tebbutt
presents more highlights. Shown Sunday 10.45am (S) (HD)
7.50—8.50 Sign Zone 7.50 Earth 2/5. Chris Packham
tells of the time when most of the planet froze. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
2BBC SPORT ONLINE From 7.55am Netball World Cup
Matches are available at bbc.co.uk/sport. More live coverage
from the second stage of group games is at 7pm on BBC3

8.50 Lifeline Mark Lane presents an appeal for the
charity Thrive. For donation details see Sunday 1.50pm BBC1 (S) (HD)
9.00 Nicky Campbell Calls on the day’s talking
points. Simulcast with Radio 5 Live. (S) (HD)
11.00 BBC News (S) (HD)
12.15pm The Super League Show Including Wigan
Warriors v Leigh Leopards and Catalans Dragons v
Salford Red Devils. Shown yesterday 11.25pm BBC1 North (S) (HD)
1.00 Impossible Quiz with Rick Edwards. (R) (S) (HD)
1.45 Mastermind Today’s specialist subjects include
Barbara Castle and the Periodic Table. (R) (S) (HD)
2.15 Home Is Where the Art Is Artists are challenged
to create pieces for a London couple. (R) (S) (HD)
2.45—9.30 LIVE Cricket: the Hundred
Trent Rockets v Southern Brave For details see right.

ITV1
6.00am Good Morning Britain (S) (HD)
7.30 Women’s World Cup Portugal v USA
Michelle Owen presents coverage of the Group E
match from Eden Park, Auckland (kick-off 8.00).
Vietnam v Netherlands is on ITV4 from 7.30am. (S) (HD)
10.15 Ainsley’s World Cup Flavours The chef is
joined by Sam Allardyce and Olly Murs. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
11.15 Women’s World Cup China v England Laura
Woods presents coverage of the Group D match
at Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide (kick-off 12.00),
as the Lionesses end the group stage against China.
Haiti v Denmark is live on ITV4 from 11.15am. (S) (HD)
2.30—5.00pm LIVE Racing: Glorious Goodwood
Ed Chamberlin and Francesca Cumani present day
one, featuring the Goodwood Cup at 4.35. (S) (HD)

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9

Channel 4

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6.15am Countdown John Thomson guests. (R) (S) (HD)
6.55 Cheers Double bill of the comedy. (R) (S) (HD)
7.45 Everybody Loves Raymond (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
8.35 Frasier Two episodes of the sitcom. (R) (S) (AD)
9.35 The Big Bang Theory (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
10.35 The Simpsons Moe’s tavern becomes a gay bar.
11.05 Lisa develops a crush on a teacher. Featuring the
voice of Dustin Hoffman. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 11.35 News (S) (HD)
11.40 Four in a Bed Hoteliers from Tynemouth,
Angus and Perth take part. (R) (S) (HD)
2.10pm Countdown With John Thomson. (S) (HD)
3.00 A Place in the Sun Scarlette Douglas helps a
couple fulfil their dream of living in Tuscany. (R) (S) (HD)
4.00—5.00 A New Life in the Sun: Where Are
They Now? A couple from Leicestershire take a
gamble on a new bar and restaurant in Spain. (R) (S) (HD)

BBC1

1

BBC2

2

Molly’s Game

EastEnders
7.30pm High alert:
with the identity
of her stalker still
a mystery, Stacey
remains vigilant

off: Molly (Jessica
Chastain) swaps
the ski slopes for
the poker tables

5.15pm Pointless

2 BBC SPORT ONLINE From 7.55am Netball World Cup

11.15pm All bets are

With Alexander Armstrong and Lucy Porter. (S) (HD)

6.00 BBC News Weather (S) (HD)
6.30 Regional news magazines (S) (HD)
7.00 The One Show
Presented by Jermaine Jenas and Alex Jones.
Editor Joanne Vaughan-Jones (S) (HD)

7.30 EastEnders
Freddie wants to find out the truth, Stacey’s fears
intensify and tensions rise between Anna and Gina.
Freddie Slater
Stacey Slater
Anna Knight
Gina Knight
Chelsea Fox
Howie Danes
Honey Mitchell
Jay Brown
Harvey Monroe
Ben Mitchell
Linda Carter

Bobby Brazier
Lacey Turner
Molly Rainford
Francesca Henry
Zaraah Abrahams
Delroy Atkinson
Emma Barton
Jamie Borthwick
Ross Boatman
Max Bowden
Kellie Bright

Finlay Baker
Martin Fowler
Nish Panesar
Callum Highway
Tom “Rocky” Cotton
Sharon Watts
Theo Hawthorne
Kim Fox
Zack Hudson
Billy Mitchell
Reiss Colwell

Ashley Byam
James Bye
Navin Chowdhry
Tony Clay
Brian Conley
Letitia Dean
William Ellis
Tameka Empson
James Farrar
Perry Fenwick
Jonny Freeman

Writer Kevin Rundle More cast Thursday (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 Heat Pumps: What They Really
Mean for You

4

As the government phases out the use of gas
boilers in our homes, Justin Rowlatt, Michelle
Ackerley and Dr Tara Shine investigate the future of
environmentally-friendly heating. Justin explores a
futuristic house in Greater Manchester and looks at
the benefits of using heat pumps, Michelle examines
the installation costs and meets a community centre
near Bristol who have built the UK’s largest wind
turbine, and Tara visits people in Ellesmere Port who
were going to be part of a hydrogen trial but have
big concerns about costs and safety. See page 70.

Matches are available at bbc.co.uk/sport. More live coverage
from the second stage of group games is at 7pm on BBC3

2.45pm Cricket: the Hundred
Trent Rockets v Southern Brave
Isa Guha presents the opening women’s match of the
contest, at Trent Bridge in Nottingham (start 3.00).
The sides met in the Eliminator last season, with the
Brave winning by two runs to reach the final, where
Oval Invincibles beat them by five wickets. (S) (HD)
6.00 Trent Rockets v Southern Brave
Isa Guha introduces live coverage of the first men’s
match of the campaign at Trent Bridge (start 6.30).
The Rockets are the reigning champions, having
defeated Manchester Originals by two wickets in
last year’s final at Lord’s in London.
Commentary for today’s matches is provided
by Isa Guha, Alison Mitchell, Nick Bright, Phil Tufnell,
Moeen Ali and Alex Hartley. Both matches are also
available to watch live on iPlayer.
Director Kelly Faulkner; Editor Andy Fraser (S) (HD)
The men’s match between London Spirit and Oval Invincibles is
tomorrow at 6.15pm

Sport: page 31
Subsequent programmes may run late or change

9.30 Inside Dubai: Playground of the Rich
3/3. Nightclub entrepreneur Chris Wright has spent
12 years running events in Ibiza but has identified
Dubai as the next party-capital of the world and is
opening a bar in a developing complex of beach clubs.
Meanwhile, staff at a major art exhibition hope to
convince the world that Dubai belongs on the global
stage for art, alongside the likes of London and Paris.

Director Philip McCreery; Producer Victoria Bolstridge (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

Series producer Tim Usborne
Executive producers Andrew Shaw and Sam Bagnall (S) (AD) (HD)

10.30 Newsnight With Kirsty Wark. (S) (HD)

9.00 Wolf

11.10 Weather (S) (HD)

4

2/6. Torture. DI Jack Caffery accepts the
Walking Man’s mission to search for the lost
dog’s owner — but his past soon gets in the way. The
Anchor-Ferrers’ home invasion takes a terrifying twist.
The whole series is available on iPlayer. See page 71.
Cast on Monday (S) (AD) (HD)

See feature: page 18

10.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
10.40 Gaia: a Death on Dancing Ledge

1/3. Zara McDermott investigates a mysterious
death from 2017, in which a 19-year-old from Dorset
ran away from home in a state of distress. Her body
would later be found in undergrowth by a massive
search operation, having died of hypothermia. Zara
examines the early clues that were discovered and
the suspicion that fell on a childhood friend and his
grandmother. The whole series is available on iPlayer.
Directors Jack Rampling and Angela Byrne; Producers Emma Carruth
and Georgia Smith Shown last Tuesday BBC3 (S) (HD)

11.25 Who Do You Think You Are?

9/9 Series 20. Lesley Manville. Having never known
much about her grandparents, Lesley Manville is
keen to explore rumours surrounding her mother’s
side of the family. The actor’s maternal grandparents
James and Harriet never married, and Lesley has
always believed that her grandfather “wasn’t a very
nice man”. Delving into Brighton’s local archives, she
uncovers a story of wartime separation and adultery,
and is prompted to reassess her opinion of her grandad.
Director John Das; Producer Bernadette Ross
Shown last Thursday (S) (AD) (HD)

12.25am Weather for the Week Ahead (S) (HD)
12.30—6.00am BBC News (S) (HD)

BBC1 Freeview 1/HD 101 Freesat 101 Sky 101 Virgin 101

11.15 Molly’s Game 5

based on a true story. Following a
qDrama
career-ending injury, skier Molly Bloom makes

ends meet as a waitress. However, after discovering
the world of high-stakes poker, she builds her own
gambling empire, which makes her rich — and
attracts a major federal investigation. Available on
iPlayer for 30 days. Film of the Day: page 77.

Molly Bloom
Charlie Jaffey
Father
Player X

Jessica Chastain
Idris Elba
Kevin Costner
Michael Cera

Dean Keith
Douglas Downey
Harlan Eustice
Brad

Jeremy Strong
Chris O’Dowd
Bill Camp
Brian d’Arcy James

Director Aaron Sorkin (2017, 15) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)

1.25—2.55am Sign Zone 1.25 Rip-Off Britain The team
investigates a dubious meet-and-greet company. (R) (S) (HD)
2.10 Claimed and Shamed A woman’s bogus injury claim
goes awry when the facts fail to add up. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

Cricket: the Hundred
Last year, the Trent Rockets
captain Natalie Sciver-Brunt
made 228 runs, the third
highest in the competition’s
history. In the second Women’s
Ashes ODI against Australia
last month, she achieved an
unbeaten century, scoring
111 off 99 balls. Can she
continue her rich vein
of form and help her
side, which came third
in 2022, to victory in
Nottingham today?
BBC2 Freeview 2/HD 102 Freesat 102 Sky 102 Virgin 102

TUESDAY 1 AUGUST
ITV1

3

Channel 4

4

7 in Wales

BBC4

9

24 in Scotland

7.00—7.30pm River
City: Eve returns from
South Africa

Emmerdale
7.30pm Amelia is
left rattled after
a furious verbal
attack from an
emotional Julie

Bake Off: the
Professionals
8.00pm Tough
cookie: the teams
aim to impress
judge Benoit Blin

Some Mothers
Do ‘Ave ‘Em
from 8.00pm An
evening devoted
to the hapless
Frank Spencer

5.00pm The Chase

5.00pm Sun, Sea and Selling Houses

Jonathan, Charlotte, Barclay and Gemma try
to outrun one of the mighty Chasers and win
the prize pot. Bradley Walsh hosts. (R) (S) (HD)

Mother-and-son duo Sharon and Shaun Garner
help recently married Martin and Geoff find a
home in Almería, on a budget of €80,000.

7.00pm Great Coastal Railway
Journeys

6.00 Regional News Weather (S) (HD)
6.30 ITV Evening News Weather (S) (HD)
7.30 Emmerdale
Amelia is left in turmoil after a spat with Julie.
Nate feels like a failure. Nicola gets good news.

Chloe Harris
Jessie Elland
Claudette Anderson
Flo Wilson
David Metcalfe Matthew Wolfenden
Dawn Fletcher
Olivia Bromley
Eric Pollard
Christopher Chittell
Ethan Anderson
Emile John
Gail Loman
Rachael Gill-Davies
Jacob Gallagher Joe-Warren Plant
Jai Sharma
Christopher Bisson
Jimmy King
Nick Miles
Kerry Wyatt
Laura Norton
Kim Tate
Claire King
Laurel Thomas Charlotte Bellamy
Leyla Cavanagh
Roxy Shahidi

Writer Bill Taylor More cast Thursday (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 Paul O’Grady’s Little Heroes

Series producer Tim Hancock; Executive producers Clare Barton
and Rory Dalziel (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

8.30 Love Your Garden

5/12 Series 9. Alan Titchmarsh visits Swindon
to build a calming low-maintenance garden for
Lorraine, a retired RAF servicewoman, and her
beloved Leonberger dogs Poppy and Doris.
Director/Producer Christopher Christodoulou
(Revised rpt) (S) (AD) (HD)
RT GARDENING Save money on a cordless shrub and grass
shear, ideal for small trimming and edging tasks: page 143

9.00 Cooking with the Stars

5/6 Series 3. The celebrity cookery competition
continues, as the remaining participants try to
create the perfect French dish and seal a place
in the final. Emma Willis and Tom Allen present.

Series 1. Inverness to the Cairngorms
Michael Portillo boards the Caledonian
Sleeper. More tomorrow 7pm.

6.00 The Simpsons

Repeated 1am (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk. German
businessmen buy the nuclear power plant. (R) (S) (AD)

7.30 Secrets of Skin

6.30 Hollyoaks
Joel is adamant he is not being blackmailed.
Joel Dexter Rory Douglas-Speed
Beau Ramsey
Jon-Paul Bell
Diane Hutchinson
Alex Fletcher
Dillon Ray
Nathaniel Dass
Donna-Marie Quinn Lucy-Jo Hudson
Freya Calder
Ellie Henry
Goldie McQueen
Chelsee Healey
Hunter McQueen
Theo Graham
James Nightingale Gregory Finnegan
John Paul McQueen James Sutton

Leah Barnes
Ela-May Demircan
Leela Lomax Kirsty-Leigh Porter
Lizzie Chen-Williams
Lily Best
Lucas Hay
Oscar Curtis
Mason Chen-Williams Frank Kauer
Maxine Minniver Nikki Sanderson
Mercedes McQueen Jennifer Metcalfe
Nadira Valli
Ashling O’Shea
Norma Crow
Glynis Barber

4/6. Professor Ben Garrod explores how
animals use their skin to communicate.
Continues tomorrow 7.30pm.
Producer Emma Fry; Series producer Reema
Lorford Repeated 1.30am (R) (S) (HD)

8.00 Michael Crawford and
Michele Dotrice Remember...
Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em

4

The actors recall their time
working on the hugely popular
1970s comedy. See page 70.

Writer Alanna Hallum More cast Friday Shown yesterday 7pm E4
Rptd tomorrow 6.30am E4 Next episode follows on E4 (S) (AD) (HD)

Producer Simon Catt
Series producer Simon Goretzki (S) (HD)

7.00 Channel 4 News Sport; Weather (S) (HD)
8.00 Bake Off: the Professionals

8.30 Some Mothers Do ’Ave
’Em

See feature: page 26

Series 6. Ellie Taylor and Liam Charles
1/7 Series 1. The Job Interview.
45/10
welcome back the remaining teams, who
4
In a bid to find work, disasterare once again looking to impress judges Benoit
Blin and Cherish Finden. First, contestants let
their imaginations run riot as they create 24
reimagined mille-feuille and 24 pavlovas served
in unique ways. Then, the teams aim to create a
perfect showpiece display featuring two batches
of 24 modern religieuse designed to look like
their favourite musical icons. See page 70.
Series producer Lucy Terrell-Weindling; Executive producers
Letty Kavanagh, Oliver Manley and Kieran Smith
Repeated tomorrow 8pm 4seven (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Sky Coppers

4/6. The West Midlands Police Drone Unit tracks
a group of kids following reports they were trying
to set an allotment shed on fire, and there’s a
search for a burglar seen breaking into a
building suspected of housing a cannabis crop.
The whole series is available to stream.

prone Frank attends an interview for a
job as a salesman at an ironmonger’s.
First broadcast in 1973. See page 70.
Frank Spencer
Betty
Mrs Fisher
Mr Conway
Mr Lewis
Linda
Rigby
Jackson

Michael Crawford
Michele Dotrice
Jane Hylton
Joe Dunlop
George Baker
Linda Hayden
John Ringham
James Wardroper

9.30 Royal History’s Biggest
Fibs with Lucy Worsley

Series producer Graeme Thomson; Executive producer Claire
Simpson Repeated Thursday 9pm 4seven (R) (S) (HD)

Director/Producer Andrew Thompson
Repeated 3am (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

11.05 First Dates

10.30 The Trials of
Oppenheimer

3/3. The case of Robert Needham, who shot
and killed his wife Kelly and their two children.
The series is available as a box set on ITVX.
Series producer Cathy Durbin Shown last Thu (S) (AD) (HD)

11.45 Joanna Lumley’s Spice Trail
Adventure

4/4. The last leg of Joanna’s journey takes her
to Zanzibar and Jordan, finishing in one of the
wonders of the world, the ancient city of Petra.
Director/Producer Barbie MacLaurin
Shown last Wednesday (S) (AD) (HD)

12.45am Karen Carney’s Leaders of the Pack
Football profiles. See p70. Rptd 3.30am (R) (S) (HD)
1.15 Romeo and Duet Dating show. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
2.05 Winning Combination Quiz show. (R) (S) (HD)
3.00 On Assignment Reports from South Africa,
Slovenia and Spain. Shown last Tuesday (S) (SL) (HD)
3.30 Karen Carney’s Leaders of the Pack A profile
of Melchie Dumornay. Shown 12.45am (S) (SL) (HD)
3.55 Unwind A sequence to calm the mind. (S) (HD)
5.05—6.00am A Year on Planet Earth 4/4. How
the start of autumn affects wildlife across the world.
See choice, p50. Shown Sunday 8pm (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)
ITV1 Freeview 3/HD 103 Freesat 103 Sky 103 Virgin 103
+1 Freeview 35 Freesat 112 Sky 203 Virgin 303

4/5. Alice, a medical student, meets Max, who
works in recruitment, while full-time carer Mark
is matched with Alison, a call centre worker.
Series producer Ian Osprey
Executive producer Jon Crisp (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

12.05am Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA An
upmarket bistro in the Chicago suburbs. (R) (S) (HD)
1.00 The Last Leg Ep 5. Actor Kiell Smith-Bynoe and
Spice Girl Mel B guest. Shown last Friday (S) (SL) (HD)
1.55 The Girl from Plainville 1/8. The death of a
young man exposes painful questions and an unusual
relationship is uncovered. Shown last Wed (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)
2.45 2/8. Conrad and Michelle uncover a connection.
Shown last Thursday Cast on Wednesday (S) (AD) (HD)

3.40 Love It or List It Australia A couple are
concerned their home gym is too small. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
4.35 Couples Come Dine with Me Three couples host
dinner parties in and around Newcastle. (R) (S) (HD)
5.30 Sunday Brunch Best Bits Highlights. (R) (S) (HD)
5.45—6.15am Beat the Chef An amateur cook hopes
her prawn curry can see off a seafood surprise. (R) (S) (HD)
Channel 4 Freeview 4/HD 104 Freesat 104 Sky 104 Virgin 104
+1 Freeview 15 Freesat 121 Sky 204 Virgin 304

3.55—5.05am
Night Vision

UTV
8.00—8.30pm Hidden
Northern Ireland: Sara
O’Kane gets the party
started behind the
scenes at a brewery

documentary going behind the scenes
of Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em, which
also features some stunts from the
series. First shown in 1977. See p70.

10.00 999: on the Front Line

10.45 Murder in the Family

STV

Crawford reveals how
4Michael
he created Frank Spencer in this

10.00 ITV News at Ten

2/10 Series 9. Paramedics treat a man who has
been stabbed in the head, only to discover he had
already overdosed on heroin prior to his injuries.

10.40pm Ruck Stars:
Isaac seizes his chance
to prove what he can
do on the pitch
11.10 Would I Lie to
You?: with Tom Allen,
Sarah Greene, Ugo
Monye and Morgana
Robinson 11.40 Who
Do You Think You Are?
12.40—6.00am News

9.00 To Be Perfectly Frank

Series producer Christopher Hardy; Executive producers James
Woodroffe and Steve Gowans Repeated tomorrow 9pm 4seven
and Thursday 12 midnight Channel 4 (S) (AD) (HD)

(S) (HD)

BBC1 WALES

Writer Raymond Allen; Producer Michael Mills (R)

Executive producers Rosie Franks, Caroline Davies and Melanie
Leach; Series editors Ben Peart, Jimmy Skelton (S) (AD) (HD)

Weather; Regional News and Weather

7.00pm The Secret
Life of Midges:
entomologist James
Logan investigates the
bloodsucking flies
8.00 Island Crossings:
twenty new apprentices
join the ranks of
Caledonian MacBrayne
9.00 The Nine
10.00 The Women
Who Changed Modern
Scotland: Kirsty Wark
explores life in the
devolution era
11.00 David Wilson’s
Crime Files: ethical
quandaries that
affect the criminal
justice system
11.30—12 midnight
Growing Up Scottish:
comedians look
back at friendship
and homes

Television

5/6 Series 2. Paul meets seven-year-old Oliver,
a long-term inpatient at Great Ormond Street
who has problems walking due to his arthritis,
and comes up with the perfect solution.

BBC
SCOTLAND

TUESDAY

Amelia Spencer
Daisy Campbell
Nate Robinson
Jurell Carter
Nicola King
Nicola Wheeler
Amy Wyatt Natalie Ann Jamieson
Bear Wolf
Joshua Richards
Belle Dingle
Eden Taylor-Draper
Bernice Blackstock Samantha Giles
Billy Fletcher
Jay Kontzle
Bob Hope
Tony Audenshaw
Brenda Walker
Lesley Dunlop
Cain Dingle
Jeff Hordley
Charity Dingle
Emma Atkins
Charles Anderson Kevin Mathurin
Chas Dingle
Lucy Pargeter

Repeated tomorrow 2.30pm 4seven (R) (S) (HD)

BBC1
SCOTLAND

Director James Fortune First shown on BBC1 (S)

1/3. The French Revolution. The
historian explores some of the myths
around the French Revolution of 1789.

2009 Storyville film explores
4This
the rise and fall of J Robert

Oppenheimer, director of the project
that developed the first atomic bomb
but who was later put on trial for
supposed communist sympathies.
Narrated by Zoë Wanamaker. See p71.
Director David Grubin
Series editor Nick Fraser (R) (S) (HD)

12 midnight Death Camp Treblinka:
Survivor Stories How two men escaped a
concentration camp. Shown Mon 9pm (S) (HD)
1.00am Great Coastal Railway Journeys
Shown 7pm (S) (AD) (HD)

1.30 Secrets of Skin Shown 7.30pm (S) (HD)
2.00 Patagonia: Earth’s Secret Paradise
1/3. Fire and Ice. A glimpse at the South
American wilderness. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
3.00—4.00am Royal History’s Biggest Fibs
with Lucy Worsley Shown 9.30pm (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)
BBC4 F’view 9/HD 106 F’sat 108 Sky 116 Virgin 108

a RT Choice m Family 2 Red button (R) Repeat (S) Subtitles (SL) Signing (AD) Audio description (HD) High def FILMS i Premiere (W) Widescreen (BW) Black/white

Channel 5
listings are overleaf

Outstanding HHHH Very good HHH Worth watching HH Could be worse H Poor

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TUESDAY Freeview
Channel 5

5

The Lost Boys 9.30pm Have Sam and

5.35am Milkshake! See page 76
9.15 New. Jeremy Vine (S) (HD)
11.15 New. Storm Huntley (S) (HD)
12.40pm New. Alexis Conran (S) (HD)

7.00pm LIVE Netball World Cup

1.45 Home and Away Justin scrambles to
escape Vita Nova, even with an arrow in his
thigh. Shown yesterday 6.30pm 5 Star (S) (AD) (HD)
2.15 A View to Kill For HH Thriller
with Tiffany Montgomery and Brittany
Goodwin. A family inherit a mansion,
but shortly after moving in they discover
disturbing messages are being left for them.

q

Director Brittany Underwood (2023) (S) (W) (HD)

4.00 Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun
Featuring a duo who run a fish and chip
shop on the Costa del Sol. (S) (HD)

Television TUESDAY

23

Wonders of the Moon with Dara Ó
Briain 9.00pm Dara goes lunar

1.40 5 News (S) (HD)

5.00pm 5 News (S) (HD)
6.00 Eggheads
The Grand Order of Lady Ratlings
take on the quiz experts. (S) (HD)
6.30 Hoping they have all the answers are
the Tim Gyda I. Jeremy Vine hosts. (S) (HD)
6.55 5 News Update (S) (HD)

7.00 Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly

7/15 Series 5. Featuring a sprocker who
barks every time its owners’ baby cries.

Michael got in with the wrong crowd?
Betty Glover introduces coverage of a
match from the second group stage
(centre-pass 7.00), held at Cape Town
International Convention Centre. (S) (HD)
Followed by New. The Catch Up (S) (HD)

9.05 New. Women’s World Cup
Highlights
The latest group action, featuring China v
England, Haiti v Denmark, Portugal v USA
and Vietnam v Netherlands. (S) (HD)

9.30 The Lost Boys HHH

comedy starring Jason Patric
q Horror
and Kiefer Sutherland. A small town

in northern California hides the darkest of
secrets. It’s a place where a Vampires
Everywhere comic could save your life and
where, if you are very unlucky, you’ll never
grow old and you’ll never die. Available on
iPlayer for 30 days. Review page 77.
Director Joel Schumacher (1987, 15) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)

11.00 Champion

5/8. I Love Her, Man. In the emotional
tug of war between her career and her
family, Vita finds herself dragged back
towards personal loyalties as Bosco’s wild
behaviour can no longer be ignored. The
whole series is on iPlayer. See choice, p40.

Directors Michael Nuvoletta and Selina Chan (S) (HD)
7.55 5 News Update (S) (HD)

Shown Sat 9.15pm BBC1 For cast see p42 (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 New. Live: Lost Dogs with
Clare Balding

6/6 Series 4. The three remaining artists
perform for the last time. (S) (HD)

3/3. Cases include Pip, a rescue dog
from Spain, who disappeared after
chasing squirrels and was spotted on
CCTV travelling miles across Bristol.
Plus the story of a cockapoo who took
a 100-mile trip in a taxi while his owner
searched for him in the park.
Directors James Morgan and Graham Dixon (S) (HD)
Followed by 5 News Update (S) (HD)

9.00 New. Wonders of the Moon
with Dara Ó Briain

1/2. The comedian explores the
ways in which the Moon shapes
4
just about everything around us,

and why there is now a race to get
humans back to its surface. Continues
tomorrow at 9pm. See page 71.
Directors Dina Mufty and Fran Jarvis (S) (HD)

10.00 Ben Fogle’s Lost Worlds

Ep 2. Ben heads to Cyprus to spend a
week with the UN’s Peacekeeping Force,
who patrol the enormous buffer zone on
the island, keeping the Turkish and
Greek Cypriot communities separated.
Director Helen Simpson (S) (HD)

11.30 Motorway Cops: Catching
Britain’s Speeders
PC Andy Doran attends a collision on the
A6, where a young driver has fallen asleep
at the wheel and crashed into a lamppost.
Director/Producer Jo Conchie (S) (HD)

12.25am Traffic Cops (S) (HD) 1.20 Home
Shopping (S) (HD) 3.20 Rich Holiday, Poor
Holiday (S) (HD) 4.05 Alex Polizzi’s Italian
Islands (S) (HD) 4.55 Wildlife SOS (S) (SL) (HD)
5.15 House Doctor (S) (SL) 5.40—5.45am
Entertainment News (S) (HD)
C5 Freeview 5/HD 105 Freesat 105 Sky 105 Virgin 105
+1 Freeview 38 Freesat 128 Sky 205 Virgin 305

BBC4 listings are overleaf

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BBC3

11.45 The Rap Game UK

12.50am Dreaming Whilst Black: double bill
(S) (AD) (HD) 1.45 Gassed Up (S) (HD) 2.30
The Rap Game UK (S) (HD) 3.35—3.50am
Funboys: short comedy film (S) (HD)
BBC3 F’view 23/HD 107 (not Scot/Wales) F’sat 179/HD 107
Sky 115 (117 Wales; 141 Scotland) Virgin 107 (157 Scotland/Wales)

ITV2

6

6.00am World’s Funniest Videos (S) (HD)
6.35 Totally Bonkers Guinness World
Records (S) (SL) 7.00 Dress to Impress (S)
(SL) (HD) 8.00 One Tree Hill (S) (HD) 9.00
Dawson’s Creek (S) (HD) 10.00 Secret Crush
(S) (HD) 11.00 Dress to Impress (S) (HD)
12 noon Celebrity Dinner Date (S) (AD) (HD)
1.00pm Family Fortunes (S) (HD) 2.00 Chuck (S)
(HD) 3.05 One Tree Hill (S) (HD) 4.00 Dawson’s
Creek (S) (HD) 5.00 Catchphrase (S) (HD)
5.45pm FILM Harry Potter and the
Chamber of Secrets HHHH Fantasy
adventure sequel to The Philosopher’s Stone,
starring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and
Emma Watson. When Harry, Hermione and
Ron return to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft
and Wizardry for a new term, they discover
a sinister message written in blood on a wall.
Review page 77. (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
9.00 Family Guy Series 8. Peter, Quagmire
and Joe are reunited with Cleveland. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.30 Series 9. Brian hopes to confront Rush
Limbaugh at a book signing. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 Plebs 1/6 Series 1. Marcus meets some
attractive Britons in the courtyard. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.30 2/6. Cynthia’s new boyfriend impresses
everyone except Marcus. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 Family Guy Series 8. Stewie auditions
for a TV show in drag. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.30 American Dad! Series 10. Hayley
introduces her new boyfriend. (S) (AD) (HD)
12 midnight Series 9. Francine becomes
bored with her love life. (S) (AD) (HD)

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Last of the Summer Wine 6.40pm The

6.00am Classic Emmerdale (S) 7.05 Classic
Coronation Street (S) (AD) 8.05 Where the
Heart Is: 1/6 Series 1. Skelthwaite. Peggy Snow
attempts to do a good deed (S) (AD) 9.15 The
Royal: 1/12 Series 7. A honeymooning couple
have their dreams derailed Repeated 12.25am;
10.25 2/12. Dr Burnett uses Carnegie’s private
suite to treat the homeless Repeated 1.25am (S)
(AD) 11.35 Heartbeat: 21/25. The police foil
a robbery attempt; 12.40pm 22/25. A face
from the past falls victim to vandals (S) (AD)
1.45pm Classic Emmerdale: four episodes.
Laurel and Ashley continue to enjoy the
novelty of being a couple; 2.15 Simon rejects
Nicola’s attempts to change him; 2.45
Charity collapses and is rushed to hospital;
3.20 Laurel goes into hiding (S) 3.50 A
Touch of Frost: Series 3. Appropriate Adults.
Jack tackles a sensitive investigation (S) (AD)

7.10am Pie in the Sky: 2/10 Series 2. Crabbe
discovers a customer’s body in the men’s
toilet (S) 8.00 Lovejoy: 4/14 Series 5. The
antiques dealer is threatened by a debt
collector (S) 9.15 Classic Holby City: matters
come to a head for Sahira Repeated 2.50am (S)
(HD) 10.35 Casualty: a new registrar causes
problems 11.40 The Bill: Mickey Webb
confesses the truth about his attack
12.40pm Classic EastEnders: double bill. Lisa
takes delivery of a gun, then Sharon doesn’t
want to hear Dennis’s crazy theories 2.00
The House of Eliott: 8/12 Series 2. The sisters
win a big contract (S) 3.00 Lovejoy: 2/14
Series 4. Lady Jane is hoodwinked (S) 4.10
Peak Practice: 13/13 Series 10. Sam and Kerri
have an accident 5.20 Waiting for God: 2/10
Series 4. Tom and Diana argue about furniture (S)

6.00pm Heartbeat

23/25 Series 13. Merton faces a race
against time to stop a saboteur. (S) (AD)
7.00 24/25. A burglary investigation
takes an unexpected turn when the victim
is found to be leading a double life. (S) (AD)

8.00 Downton Abbey HHH

drama starring Hugh Bonneville,
q Period
Elizabeth McGovern and Maggie Smith.

When the Crawley family receive word that
the King and Queen are to visit, the estate
is thrown into a frenzy of preparation.
As Lady Mary brings butler Carson out
of retirement for the occasion, the house
staff clash with the royal company, and
various smaller personal dramas play out
both upstairs and downstairs. Review p77.
Director Michael Engler (2019, PG) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)

10.20 DCI Banks

1/8 Series 1. Aftermath 1/2. A routine
house call leads to a policeman’s murder
and a shocking discovery. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.25 2/8. Aftermath 2/2. The death
of serial killer Marcus Payne leaves more
questions than answers. Starring Stephen
Tompkinson and Andrea Lowe. (S) (AD) (HD)
12.25—2.30am The Royal
Shown 9.15am/10.25am (S) (AD)

ITV3 Freeview 10 Freesat 115 Sky 119 Virgin 117
+1 F’view 59 (9pm—4am) F’sat 116 Sky 219 Virgin 317

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6.00am Great Racehorses (S) (HD) 6.25
Minder (S) (SL) (AD) 7.30 LIVE Women’s World
Cup: Vietnam v Netherlands, the Group E match
in Dunedin (kick-off 8.00) (S) (HD) 10.05 Nine
Dart Finishes (S) (HD) 10.15 Magnum, PI (S) (HD)
11.15 LIVE Women’s World Cup: Haiti v Denmark
in Group D from Perth (kick-off 12.00) (S) (HD)
2.05pm The Protectors (S) 2.40 Magnum, PI
(S) (HD) 3.40 The Sweeney (S) 4.50 Minder
(S) (AD) 5.55 Made in Britain (S) (AD) (HD)
6.55pm RT CHOICE New. Karen Carney’s
Leaders of the Pack Karen catches up with
Melchie Dumornay. See page 70. (S) (HD)
7.30 River Monsters Jeremy Wade hears
of fatal attacks in Florida’s waterways. (S) (HD)
8.00 New. World Superbike Highlights
Action from the Czech Republic. (S) (HD)
9.00 FILM Creed II HHH Boxing drama with
Michael B Jordan. Adonis “Donnie” Creed faces
Russian fighter Viktor Drago. (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
11.40 New. All Elite Wrestling: Rampage
Hard-hitting action from the USA. (S) (HD)
12.50am Auto Mundial: the new Range Rover
Evoque and a supercar from Ferrari (S) (HD) 1.20
Motorsport Mundial (S) (HD) 1.50 Lost Car Rescue
(S) (HD) 2.50 Unwind (S) (HD) 4.00 Robin of
Sherwood (S) 5.05—6.00am Magnum, PI (S) (HD)

ITV2 Freeview 6 Freesat 113 Sky 118 Virgin 115
+1 Freeview 29 Freesat 114 Sky 218 Virgin 315

ITV4 Freeview 26 Freesat 117 Sky 120 Virgin 118
+1 Freesat 118 Sky 220 Virgin 318

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Downton Abbey 8.00pm Cora and
Robert Crawley receive a royal visit

12.30am The Stand Up Sketch Show (S) (HD)
1.30 Iain Stirling’s CelebAbility (S) (HD)
2.20 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records
(S) (HD) 2.50—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

DON’T MISS AN ISSUE! Get

Drama

trio have their eyes on an old banger

6.00pm Whatever Happened to the
Likely Lads?

2/14 Series 2. Heart to Heart. Bob
becomes increasingly worried about Terry.

6.40 Last of the Summer Wine
Series 1. The New Mobile Trio. Blamire,
Compo and Clegg buy a car. (S)
7.20 Hail Smiling Morn, or Thereabouts
The trio take up photography. (S)

8.00 Dalziel & Pascoe

1/5 Series 10. Houdini’s Ghost. The death
of a rich entrepreneur brings Dalziel into
contact with an old flame. (S) (AD)

10.00 New Tricks

1/8 Series 5. Spare Parts. Jack confronts
his nemesis in court when Ricky Hanson
stands trial for his attempted murder. (S) (AD)

11.20 Silent Witness

3/6 Series 15. Paradise Lost. Nikki is
approached by a workman who reveals
how his mother is being manipulated
by a serial killer into searching for his
hidden teenage victims. (S) (AD) (HD)
1.40am Bleak House: Ep 1. Adaptation of
the Charles Dickens classic, starring Anna
Maxwell Martin, depicting crime, corruption
and courtship in Victorian London (S) (AD) (HD)
2.50—4.00am Classic Holby City Shown 9.15am
Drama Freeview 20 Freesat 158 Sky 143 Virgin 116
+1 Freeview 60 Sky 243 Virgin 316

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7.00am Sam and Billie: the Mummy Diaries
(S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 Buying and Selling (S) (HD)
9.00 LittleBe: children’s programmes (HD)
12 noon The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
(S) (HD) 1.00pm Sam and Billie: the Mummy
Diaries (S) (AD) (HD) 2.25 The Only Way Is
Essex (S) (HD) 3.05 Dinner Date (S) (HD) 4.05
The Real Housewives of Atlanta (S) (HD) 5.00
The Real Housewives of Orange County (S) (HD)
6.00pm Masters of Flip Kortney and Dave
work on a classic craftsman house. (S) (HD)
7.00 Buying and Selling A couple spruce
up their home before they relocate. (S) (HD)
8.00 New. Jane the Virgin Jane has to
learn how to handle her new love life. (S) (HD)
9.00 New series. Olivia Marries Her Match
The return of the reality series following
Olivia Attwood and Bradley Dack. Tensions
begin to rise in the household. (S) (HD)
10.00 Totally Unbelievable: Celebrity
Weddings A look at the most over-the-top
celebrity nuptials of all time. (S) (HD)
11.00 New. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend The cast
perform some of the show’s greatest hits. (S) (HD)
12 midnight The Only Way Is Essex (S) (HD)
12.45—1.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

ITVBe Freeview 28 Freesat 119 Sky 131 Virgin 119
+1 Virgin 319

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9.00am NCIS (AD) 9.55 Entertainment
News 10.00 NCIS 11.55 Entertainment
News 12 noon Law & Order 6.00pm NCIS
Series 1. Triple bill. The team hunts down a
sniper 7.00 Three similar execution-style
killings take place 8.00 Gibbs’s former
commanding officer is accused of murder
(AD) 9.00 Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Series 9. The owner of a popular food van
is murdered 10.00 Law & Order: Special
Victims Unit Series 18. Double bill. A banker
accuses her client of rape, then a murder
suspect threatens to expose the team’s secrets

Rescue: Extreme Medics 10.00pm

The team treat Sally after a bad fall

Retro Electro Workshop 9.00pm

6.00am Beethoven: the Complete
Symphonies 6.45 André Rieu: Love Songs
8.00 Watercolour Challenge 9.00 Tales of
the Unexpected (AD) 10.00 Alfred Hitchcock
Presents 11.00 Discovering: Julie Christie (AD)
12 noon The Joy of Painting 1.00pm Tales
of the Unexpected (AD) 2.00 Watercolour
Challenge 3.00 The Art of Architecture
4.00 Discovering: Carole Lombard (AD)
5.00 Tales of the Unexpected (AD)
6.00pm Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Professor Rankin’s friends Wally and Bud
think he might have killed his wife.
6.30 A woman struggles to keep the mind
of her brother on the task of murder.
7.00 Bill Bailey’s Master Crafters: the
Next Generation With the help of experts
Ndidi Ekubia and Thomas Lyte, the junior
crafters are guided through a variety of
silversmithing techniques. (AD)
8.00 Discovering: Nicole Kidman A profile
of the Australian actress, who starred in Dead
Calm, Moulin Rouge! and Eyes Wide Shut.
9.00 The Art of Australia Edmund Capon
reveals how Australia’s indigenous art went
global from the 1960s onwards, instantly
becoming recognisable across the world.
10.15 Katharine Hepburn: Call Me Kate
A profile of the actress. (AD)

6.10am Underground Worlds (AD) 8.00
Abandoned Engineering (AD) 10.00 War
Factories 11.00 The World at War
12 noon Great American Railroad Journeys
1.00pm Travel Man: 48 Hours in Dubrovnik
(AD) 1.30 Travel Man: 48 Hours in Krakow
(AD) 2.00 Bangers and Cash 4.00 The
World at War 5.00 War Factories
6.00pm Great British Railway Journeys
The cross-border history of Berwick-upon-Tweed.
6.30 Michael Portillo visits Hadrian’s Wall.
7.00 Bangers and Cash: Restoring Classics
Restoring a 1988 Golf GTI Convertible. (AD)
8.00 RT CHOICE New. Secrets of the
London Underground Ep 5 Series 3. Siddy
Holloway takes Tim Dunn to experience
Transport for London’s state-of-the-art
training facility. See page 70. (AD)
9.00 RT CHOICE New. Retro Electro
Workshop 3/6. Shamil buys a 1970s
jukebox in need of repair. See page 71. (AD)
10.00 Bangers and Cash An Aston Martin
DB6 is set to break the auction record.
11.00 Abandoned Engineering The
construction of the Vajont Dam. (AD)

More4 F’view 18 F’sat 124 Sky 136 Virgin 147
+1 Freesat 125 Sky 236 Virgin 347

Sky Arts Freeview 11 Freesat 147 Sky 130
Virgin 140/HD 123 BT 350/HD 365

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6.00am Hollyoaks Shown last Fri/Mon 6.30pm C4
(AD) 7.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA
9.00 Young Sheldon (AD) 10.00 Brooklyn
Nine-Nine (AD) 11.00 Modern Family
12 noon The Big Bang Theory: four episodes
(AD) 2.00pm The Neighborhood 3.00
Modern Family: double bill 4.00 Young
Sheldon (AD) 5.00 The Big Bang Theory (AD)
6.00pm The Big Bang Theory 12/24
Series 10. The gang share Christmas stories. (AD)
6.30 13/24. Howard and Raj go to extreme
lengths to deal with a squeaky floorboard. (AD)
7.00 New. Hollyoaks Joel gives Leela an
ultimatum. Cast pp73/103 Rptd Wed 6.30pm C4 (AD)
7.30 Impractical Jokers The guys survey
employees about customer satisfaction.
8.00 New. Lego Masters New Zealand
The teams are challenged to build an
original tabletop board game. (AD)
9.00 Gogglebox The householders
appraise Bridgerton and Dynasties II. (AD)
10.00 Naked Attraction Singletons from
Glasgow and Edinburgh take part. (AD)
11.05 Gogglebox World on Fire and Britain’s
Got Talent: the Champions are reviewed. (AD)

9.00am Come Dine with Me 11.30 A New
Life in the Sun: Where Are They Now?
12.30pm A Place in the Sun: Home or Away
2.30 Sun, Sea and Selling Houses 3.30
Come Dine with Me: from east London
6.00pm A Place in the Sun A holiday
home in Barbados on a budget of £160,000.
7.00 Grand Designs Kevin McCloud follows
Lysette and Nigel Offley as they set out to
replace their old boathouse by the Thames
with a dramatic new cutting-edge home. (AD)
8.00 George Clarke’s Old House, New
Home 3/4 Series 9. George Clarke heads to
Kent to help Pete and Amelie tackle a Victorian
house with 16 rooms, two of which they would
like to turn into a playroom and a library. (AD)
9.00 The Supervet: Noel Fitzpatrick Ep 2
Beloved five-year-old labrador Jethro has
arthritic elbows which have left him unable
to walk properly. Shown last Thursday C4 (AD)
10.00 Celebrity Gogglebox 2022
Series highlights from last year. (AD)
11.05 Confessions of a Cam Girl 1/2.
The stories of five women selling explicit
videos online. Shown yesterday 10pm C4 (AD)

12.10am First Dates (SL) (AD) 1.15 New.
Impractical Jokers First shown on Comedy Central
2.20 Gogglebox (SL) (AD) 3.15 The Big Bang
Theory (AD) 4.05 Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD)
4.55—6.00am The Neighborhood: double bill

12.05am Sky Coppers (AD) 1.10 Bake Off: the
Professionals (AD) 2.15 The Dog Academy (AD) 3.20
The Dog House (AD) 4.15—4.45am Four in a Bed

E4 Freeview 13 Freesat 122 Sky 135 Virgin 106
+1 Freeview 30 Freesat 123 Sky 235 Virgin 306
E4 Extra Freeview 31 Freesat 181 Sky 138 Virgin 287

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6.00am Fantasy Homes by the Sea 7.00 Shopping
8.00 Salvage Hunters 9.00 The Repair Shop 10.00
The Bidding Room 11.00 Antiques Road Trip 12 noon
Money for Nothing 1.00pm A Place in the Sun 2.00
My 600lb Life (AD) 3.00 Say Yes to the Dress: UK
4.00 Animal Cops Philadelphia (AD) 5.00 Saving
Lives at Sea 6.00 The Yorkshire Auction House 7.00
Antiques Road Trip 9.00 New. 90 Day Fiancé 11.00
Ghost Adventures (AD) 12 midnight Kindred Spirits
1.00am Ghost Adventures (AD) 2.00 Shopping 4.00
as 4pm 5.00—6.00am Dr Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet

4seven Freeview 49 Freesat 127 Sky 137 Virgin 143

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12

6.00am How Do They Do It? 6.30 Shed and
Buried 7.00 The Repair Shop 8.00 American
Pickers (AD) 10.00 Chasing Classic Cars 11.00
Supertruckers 12 noon How It’s Made 1.00pm
The Repair Shop 2.00 Money for Nothing 3.00
Find It, Fix It, Flog It 4.00 Salvage Hunters 5.00
Salvage Hunters: the Restorers 6.00 Wheeler
Dealers (AD) 7.00 Outback Opal Hunters 8.00
Salvage Hunters 9.00 New. Inside the Heist: the
biggest cash robbery in US history 10.00 Find It, Fix
It, Flog It 11.00 How Do They Do It? 12 midnight
New. Premiership Speedway 1.00am Massive
Engineering Mistakes 2.00 Supertruckers 3.00
Wheeler Dealers 4.00—5.00am How It’s Made

Quest Freeview 12 Freesat 172/HD 167 Sky 144 Virgin 137
Really Freeview 17 Freesat 160 Sky 142 Virgin 128
+1 Freeview 70 Freesat 168 Sky 244 Virgin 337
BBC News Freeview 231 Freesat 212 Sky 503 Virgin 601 Sky News Freeview 233 Freesat 202 Sky 501 Virgin 603 BT 313

RadioTimes 29 July–4 August 2023

5 USA F’view 21 F’sat 129 Sky 141 Virgin 120 (162 Scot)
+1 Freesat 130 Sky 241 Virgin 320

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8.00am Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun
10.00 Call the Bailiffs: Time to Pay Up 11.00
Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords 12 noon
Traffic Cops 2.00pm Police Interceptors
5.00 Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly
6.00pm Home and Away Justin scrambles to
escape Vita Nova. Shown 1.45pm C5 (AD)
6.30 New. Bree battles with Mercedes for
Remi’s attention. Rptd tomorrow 1.45pm C5 (AD)
7.00 GPs: behind Closed Doors
Mohammed returns to surgery for the
results of a blood test about his swollen leg.
8.00 Ambulance: Code Red A group of
women are attacked with machetes. (AD)
9.00 New. Skin A&E The specialist clinic
opens its doors to patients with acne. (AD)
10.00 Adults Only: Kinky for Cash Porn star
couple Mike and Jess shoot a daring video.
11.00 Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts
Doctors treat a man who has fallen from a
ladder and has been knocked unconscious.

12 midnight as 6/6.30pm 1.00am Underground
Worlds (AD) 2.00—3.00am Forbidden History (AD)

12 midnight Evil Up Close 1.00am Countryside
Crime: Caught on Camera 2.00 GPs: behind
Closed Doors 2.50—3.00am Entertainment News

Yesterday Freeview 27 Freesat 159 Sky 155 Virgin 129
+1 Sky 255 Virgin 329

5 Star Freeview 32 Freesat 131 Sky 128 Virgin 126
+1 Freesat 141 Sky 228 Virgin 326

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19

7.10am Yianni: Supercar Customiser (AD)
8.00 Top Gear (AD) 9.00 Border Force:
America’s Gatekeepers (AD) 10.00 Outback
Pilots 11.00 Gino’s Italian Escape: Hidden Italy
12 noon Celebrity Storage Hunters 1.00pm
Cop Car Workshop 2.00 Top Gear (AD) 4.00
Richard Osman’s House of Games 4.40
Room 101 5.20 Would I Lie to You?
6.00pm Taskmaster 1/8 Series 5. With
Aisling Bea, Bob Mortimer, Mark Watson,
Nish Kumar and Sally Phillips.
7.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games
Jay Blades, Shaun Keaveny, Rachel Parris
and Jan Ravens take part.
7.40 With former winners Hugh Dennis,
Sarah Greene, Nish Kumar and Holly Walsh.
8.20 Would I Lie to You? Guests include
Maya Jama, Roisin Conaty and Roman Kemp.
9.00 QI XL Sandi Toksvig hosts.
10.00 Schitt’s Creek 10/13 Series 2. Johnny
and Moira meet with a key demographic.
10.30 10/13. Alexis and David look for a home.
11.00 Have I Got a Bit More News for You
Double bill of the comedy panel show.
1.00am Mock the Week 1.40 Would I Lie to You?
2.45 Richard Osman’s House of Games
3.30—4.00am The Indestructibles

Dave F’view 19 F’sat 157 Sky 111 (Wales 112) Virgin HD 127
Dave Ja Vu Freeview 57 Sky 211 (Wales 212) Virgin 327

London Live

8

6.00am Pocket Dragon Adventures 6.30 Dork
Hunters from Outer Space 7.00 Skysurfer
Strike Force 7.30 Roswell Conspiracies 8.00
The World’s Most Incredible Hotels 9.00
Hitler’s Bodyguard 10.00 The Avengers (BW)
11.15 Goodnight Sweetheart 12 noon The
Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin 12.45pm Big
City Life 1.00 FILM Frieda HHH (BW) 3.05
FILM The Passing of the Third Floor Back
HHH (BW) 5.00 The Lion Queen 6.00
News 7.00 David Attenborough’s Light on
Earth 8.00 Emmeline Pankhurst: the Making
of a Militant 9.00 When Missing Turns to
Murder 10.00 FILM Dracula HHH
12 midnight FILM Jack & Sarah HHH 2.15am
FILM Her Private Hell HH 3.50 Realm of the

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9.00am Criminals: Caught on Camera 9.25
Traffic Cops 10.25 Police Interceptors 11.30
FILM Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger HHH
Fantasy adventure starring Patrick Wayne
1.50pm FILM Sitting Bull H Western
4.00 Trucking Hell 5.00 Traffic Cops
6.00pm Police Interceptors A seemingly
straighforward stop turns into a showdown
with an aggressive youngster.
7.00 Paul “Jacko” Jackson is forced to draw
his Taser, leading to a shocking result.
8.00 Damo is involved in a high-speed
pursuit, but the driver gives him the slip.
9.00 Motorway Cops: Catching Britain’s
Speeders PCs Niaz Waddington and Andy
Doran hunt for a wanted Range Rover.
10.00 Motorway: Hell on the Highway
The dangers of driving in severe snowfalls,
including a pile-up involving 50 vehicles
during blizzard conditions in Ontario.
11.00 Warship: Life at Sea HMS Duncan
is ordered to the Persian Gulf.

Television

12.05am Emergency Helicopter Medics (AD)
1.10 999: on the Front Line 2.15 24 Hours in A&E
(AD) 3.20—3.50am Food Unwrapped (AD)

12.15am Discovering Dance on Film 1.45 Classic
Literature and Cinema (AD) 2.45 Jack B Yeats:
the Man Who Painted Ireland 4.00 How It Feels to
Be Free 5.00—6.00am Auction: double bill

Matt works on a Kit Cat clock

TUESDAY

8.55am Kirstie’s House of Craft 9.15
A Place in the Sun 10.05 A New Life in the
Sun: Road Trip 11.05 Find It, Fix It, Flog It (AD)
1.10pm Heir Hunters 3.10 Four in a Bed
5.50 The Secret Life of the Zoo (AD)
6.55pm The Dog House It’s double trouble
as Poppy and Bron try to find a home that will
accept two dogs. Will fine artist Ron agree that
looks aren’t everything as he meets Chip the
terrier cross and Margaux the mongrel? (AD)
7.55 Grand Designs Andy Stakes and
Jeanette Hardy are planning to build a
glass-fronted house on top of a sheer cliff,
100 feet above crashing seas and jagged
rocks on the west coast of Scotland. (AD)
9.00 24 Hours in A&E Twenty year-old
Peta is rushed in after coming off her
motorbike, 21 year-old Callum comes in with
a prolapsed stoma, and Libby has been hit in
the face with a stick while playing hockey. (AD)
10.00 Rescue: Extreme Medics An air
ambulance is dispatched to the island of Mull,
where 23-year-old rally driver Scott has
rolled his car down a 20-foot embankment.
The coastguard helicopter flies to a remote
sea loch to attempt to rescue 45-year-old
Sally, who has fallen down a waterfall. (AD)
11.05 24 Hours in A&E A regular patient
who suffers from schizophrenia is admitted
after failing to take his diabetes medicine. (AD)

12 midnight NCIS (AD) 1.55am Lucifer
3.35—4.00am Criminals: Caught on Camera

The Art of Australia 9.00pm Bride
Running Away by Arthur Boyd

12 midnight Police Interceptors 1.00am Riots
and Robbers: Caught on Camera: the use of CCTV
to fight crime 2.00—3.00am Trucking Hell

5 Action Freeview 33 Freesat 132 Sky 150 Virgin 130

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9.00am GPs: behind Closed Doors 10.00 The
Yorkshire Vet 12 noon Ben Fogle: New Lives
in the Wild 1.00pm Walking Victorian Britain
2.00 The Yorkshire Vet 4.00 Ben Fogle: New
Lives in the Wild 5.00 Walking Victorian Britain
6.00pm Inside the Tower of London Rubbish
discarded from the Tower in years gone by.
7.00 Drain the Oceans San Francisco Bay.
8.00 The Frontier As the United States
advanced west, what appeared to be empty
terrain was inhabited by indigenous peoples.
9.00 FILM Hang ’Em High HHH Western
starring Clint Eastwood. Review page 55.
11.25 World’s Deadliest Weather:
Caught on Camera Hurricane Florence
brings flooding to North Carolina.
12.25am Forged in Fire: double bill
2.05—3.00am Inside the Tower of London

5 Select F’view (HD only) 46 F’sat 133 Sky 153 Virgin 138

Damned 5.00—6.00am Hitler’s Bodyguard

London Live Freeview 8 Sky 117 Virgin HD 159
Available in London area only. Other regional stations
available on Freeview 7 or 8 around the country

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CHILDREN’S
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Television TUESDAY

5.35am Thomas & Friends 6.00 Peppa
Pig 6.15 Blue’s Clues & You 6.40 New.
Oggy Oggy 6.45 Odo 6.55 Fireman
Sam 7.05 Thomas & Friends: All
Engines Go! 7.15 Sesame Street Mecha
Builders 7.30 Peppa Pig 7.40 Paw
Patrol 8.00 Pip and Posy 8.10 The
Adventures of Paddington 8.30 Paw
Patrol 8.40 Baby Shark’s Big Show!
8.55 Milo 9.05 Milkshake! Monkey
9.10—9.15am Milkshake! Craft Party

DIY SOS: the Big Build
9.00pm A trip to Cornwall

Jamie Cooks Italy 9.00pm

Britain and the Sea 6.10pm

Cuisine on the Aeolian Islands

On the south-east coast

6.10am Nigel Slater’s Simple
Cooking (S) (HD) 6.35 Plate of Origin
(S) (HD) 8.00 Tipping Point (S) (HD)
10.00 DIY SOS: the Big Build (S) (HD)
12 noon MasterChef USA: Legends
(S) (HD) 1.00pm Tipping Point (S)
(HD) 4.00 My Dream Home (S) (HD)
6.00pm New. Property Brothers
at Home: Drew’s Honeymoon
House Tackling the kitchen, dining
room and basement. (S) (HD)
7.00 Ambulance Australia (S) (HD)
8.00 New. Property Brothers:
Forever Homes Alex wants to
revamp his grandparents’ house. (HD)
9.00 DIY SOS: the Big Build
Enlarging the home of three
orphaned boys in Cornwall. (S) (HD)
10.00 Stacey Dooley Sleeps Over
A group of eco-warriors. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 Louis Theroux: Gambling
in Las Vegas (S) (AD)
12.20am One Born Every Minute
(S) (HD) 1.30 Bang on Budget (S)
(HD) 2.20—3.00am Rachel
Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook:
Cosmopolitan Cook (S) (HD)
W F’view 25 F’sat 156 Sky 132 Virgin HD 125
+1 Sky 232 Virgin 325

6.00am Trisha’s Southern Kitchen
(HD) 7.00 The Pioneer Woman (HD)
8.00 Valerie’s Home Cooking (HD)
9.00 New. The Kitchen (HD) 10.00
Mary Berry’s Quick Cooking (HD)
11.00 Tom Kerridge Barbecues (S)
(HD) 12 noon The Great British
Bake Off (S) (HD) 2.00pm James
Martin’s French Adventure (HD)
3.00 The Hairy Bikers Go North (S)
(HD) 4.00 Valerie’s Home Cooking
(HD) 5.00 The Pioneer Woman (HD)
6.00pm James Martin’s French
Adventure (HD) 7.00 The Great
British Bake Off (S) (HD) 8.00 Tom
Kerridge Barbecues: double bill (S)
(HD) 9.00 Jamie Cooks Italy:
double bill. Jamie Oliver and
Gennaro Contaldo explore Italian
home cooking, then Jamie heads to
Puglia (HD) 10.00 The Hairy Bikers
Go North: Simon King and Dave
Myers visit the Peak District (S) (HD)
11.00 New. Summer Baking
Championship: the contestants
make ice-cream sandwiches (HD)

8.15am Britain and the Sea 9.35
Asteroid Rush 10.40 Royal History’s
Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley (S)
12 noon Europe’s Forgotten
Dictatorships 1.00pm Beautiful
Serengeti (S) 1.30 Britain and the
Sea 2.45 Asteroid Rush 3.55
Royal History’s Biggest Fibs with
Lucy Worsley (S) 5.10 Europe’s
Forgotten Dictatorships
6.10pm Britain and the Sea 2/4
David Dimbleby learns about invasion
and defence in the South East.
7.30 Asteroid Rush 2/2. An
examination of the science behind
the 2021 film Don’t Look Up.
8.35 Royal History’s Biggest
Fibs with Lucy Worsley 2/3
How writers, politicians and artists
have manipulated the history of
the Spanish Armada (S)
9.55 Europe’s Forgotten
Dictatorships 2/2. Portugal’s
António Salazar dictatorship.
10.55 Asteroid Rush As 7.30pm.
12 midnight as 8.35pm 1.15—
2.00am Beautiful Serengeti (S)
PBS America F’view 84 (1pm-12 midnight only)
Freesat 155 Sky 174 Virgin 187

Pick

36

7.00am Border Security: America’s
Front Line 8.00 Nothing to Declare
(AD) 9.00 Motorway Patrol (AD)

10.00 Highway Cops 11.00
Highway Patrol 12 noon Motorway
Patrol 1.00pm Border Patrol
2.00 Border Security: America’s
Front Line 3.00 Nothing to Declare
4.00 Warehouse 13 5.00 Star
Trek: the Next Generation 6.00
Merlin (AD) 7.00 Star Trek: Voyager
8.00 New. NCIS: New Orleans:
Tammy must protect a teenage girl,
whose father was shot in their
home 9.00 Caught on Dashcam
10.00 Grimm: Nick remains on the
run 11.00 New. Snapped: a woman’s
body is found on a rural road
12 midnight Killer in My Village
1.00am The Force: North East
2.00 UK Border Force 3.00 Highway
Patrol 4.00 Motorway Patrol (AD)
5.00—6.00am Highway Cops (AD)

Pick F’view 36 F’sat 144 Sky 151 Virgin 135

HGTV

44

7.00am The Saved and Remade
Workshop 8.00 Building the Dream
9.00 A Place in the Sun 10.00
Escape to the Country 11.00 My
Dream Derelict Home in the Sun
12 noon My Lottery Dream Home
1.00pm Good Bones 2.00 Flip or
Flop 3.00 Building the Dream 4.00
Escape to the Country 5.00 The
Saved and Remade Workshop 6.00
A Place in the Sun 7.00 My Dream
Derelict Home in the Sun 8.00 Escape
to the Country 9.00 New. Married
to Real Estate (AD) 10.00 New
Rock the Block 11.00 Good Bones
12 midnight My Dream Derelict Home in
the Sun 1.00am The Saved and Remade
Workshop 2.00 New. House Hunters
3.00—4.00am My Lottery Dream Home

HGTV F’view 44 F’sat 166 Sky 158 Virgin 191
+1 Sky 258 Virgin 391

FREEVIEW channels
continued from overleaf

76

12 midnight New. Guy’s Grocery
Games (HD) 1.00am Restaurant:
Impossible (HD) 2.00—3.00am Donal’s
Meals in Minutes (S) (HD)

Food Network Freeview 43 Freesat 148
Sky 140 Virgin 190

Great TV

50

6.00am Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye
8.00 Highway to Heaven 9.00
FILM Danielle Steel’s Changes HH
Romantic drama 10.50 Movie News
11.00 Castle 1.00pm Sue Thomas:
F.B.Eye 3.00 Diagnosis Murder
5.00 Murder, She Wrote 7.00
M*A*S*H 9.00 Randall and Hopkirk
(Deceased): Jeannie enlists the help
of spiritualists 10.00 The Persuaders!:
Danny and Brett help out a grand
duchess 11.00 Return of the Saint
12 midnight M*A*S*H 2.00am Randall
and Hopkirk (Deceased) 3.00 The
Persuaders! 3.50—4.00am Movie News

Great TV Freeview 50 (limited) Freesat 142
Sky 157 Virgin 170 +1 Freesat 143 Sky 257

RealityXtra

68

9.00am Medical Detectives 11.00
Donal MacIntyre: Unsolved 12 noon
The Fugitive 1.00pm Written in
Blood 3.00 Medical Detectives
5.00 The Fugitive 6.00 Donal
MacIntyre: Unsolved: the case of
Valerie Graves, who was murdered
while house-sitting in Bosham, West
Sussex, in December 2013 7.00
Judge Judy: small-claims cases
1.00am Donal MacIntyre: Unsolved
2.00 The Fugitive 3.00 Written in Blood
5.00—6.00am Medical Detectives

RealityXtra Freeview 68 Freesat 134
Sky 147 Virgin 172

BBC Parliament 232
BBC News simulcast, with news hourly plus:
6.00am Breakfast 9.00 Nicky Campbell
11.30 Business 11.45 News 12 noon News
Now 1.30pm Sport 1.45 News 2.00 News
Now 2.30 Business 2.45 News Now 3.00
Verified Live 6.30 Sportsday 7.00 Daily
Global 8.00 Context 10.30 Newsnight 11.10
Newsday 11.30 HARDtalk 12 midnight
Newsday 12.30am Business 12.45 Sport
1.00 Newsday 1.30 Business 1.45 Sport
2.30 Business 2.45 Sport 3.30 50 Degrees
4.30 HARDtalk 5.30—6.00am Business

BBC Parliament Freeview 232 Freesat 201
Sky 504 Virgin 605

Blaze

64

6.00am Hardcore Pawn 6.50 The
UnXplained with William Shatner
7.45 Ancient Aliens 9.40 Strange
Evidence 10.40 The Curse of Oak
Island 11.40 Storage Wars Canada
12.10pm Storage Wars 1.05 Pawn
Stars 2.05 Hardcore Pawn 4.00
Ancient Aliens 6.00 The UnXplained
with William Shatner 7.00 Storage
Wars: double bill 8.00 Dickinson’s
Real Deal 9.00 Top Secret UFO
Projects Declassified 10.00
Unidentified: inside America’s UFO
Investigation 11.00 New. Swamp
People: Brock and Aaron have to fill
their tags, while King of the Swamp
Troy Landry hunts with his father
and Willie gives his son a final exam
12 midnight The Curse of Oak Island
1.00am as 6.50am 2.00 Barter Kings
3.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal 3.45
Storage Wars Canada 4.10 American
Restoration 5.00—6.00am Pawn Stars

Blaze F’view 64 F’sat 162 Sky 164 Virgin 174

Challenge

48

7.00am The Chase 10.00 Pointless
Celebrities: an FA Cup edition of the
quiz with Eni Aluko, Guy Mowbray,
Kevin Kilbane, Mark Chapman, Dan
Walker, Mark Lawrenson, Rachel
Yankey and Kelly Smith 11.00
Supermarket Sweep 12 noon Wheel
of Fortune (AD) 1.00pm Family
Fortunes (AD) 2.00 Who Wants to
Be a Millionaire? (AD) 3.00 Strike It
Lucky 4.00 Blockbusters: Simon
Mayo hosts 5.00 Bullseye 6.00
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (AD)
7.00 Pointless Celebrities: Simon
Day, Paul Chowdhry, Emily Atack,
Ian Lavender, Kerry Godliman,
Graeme Garden, Steve Pemberton
and Bob Mortimer take part 8.00
The Chase (AD) 10.00 Who Wants
to Be a Millionaire? 11.00 Bullseye
12 midnight The Chase 4.00am Who
Wants to Be a Millionaire? 5.00—
6.00am Bullseye: darts-based quiz

Challenge Freeview 48 Freesat 146
Sky 145 Virgin 139

Full listings for Channel 5 are on p74

CBeebies

202

6.00am Love Monster 6.05 Small
Potatoes 6.10 Bing 6.20 Teletubbies
6.35 Tee and Mo 6.40 Chuggington
6.50 Bing 7.00 Colourblocks 7.05
Hey Duggee 7.20 Bluey 7.40 Go
Jetters 7.50 Peter Rabbit 8.05
Octonauts 8.15 Numberblocks 8.20
Alphablocks 8.25 Nick Cope’s Popcast
8.35 Justin’s House 9.00 Bing 9.10
Yakka Dee! 9.15 Messy Goes to OKIDO
9.25 Colourblocks 9.30 Twirlywoos
9.45 Something Special 10.05
Teletubbies 10.20 Baby Club 10.35
What’s in Your Bag? 10.40 Roots and
Fruits 10.50 Vegesaurs 10.55 Bluey
11.00 Supertato 11.10 Let’s Go for a
Walk 11.25 School of Roars 11.30
Teeny Tiny Creatures 11.45 Our Family
12 noon My World Kitchen 12.10pm
Maddie, the Zoo and You 12.30 Waffle
12.40 Andy’s Global Adventures 1.00
Yakka Dee! 1.05 Numberblocks 1.10
Alphablocks 1.15 Dog Loves Books 1.25
Hey Duggee 1.30 Love Monster 1.40
Colourblocks 1.45 Something Special
2.05 Teletubbies 2.20 Roots and
Fruits 2.25 Supertato 2.30 Go Jetters
2.45 Apple Tree House 3.00 Andy’s
Safari Adventures 3.15 Get Set Galactic
3.35 Hey Duggee 3.45 Peter Rabbit
3.55 Fred & Pete’s Treasure Tales 4.10
Octonauts 4.25 Bluey 4.40 Supertato
4.45 Go Jetters 5.00 Dodge’s First
Festival 5.15 Numberblocks 5.25
Sarah & Duck 5.35 New. JoJo & Gran
Gran 5.45 Moon and Me 6.10 Clangers
6.20 In the Night Garden... 6.50—
7.00pm CBeebies Bedtime Stories

CBeebies F’view 202 F’sat 608 Sky 608 Virgin 702

CBBC

201

7.00am Shaun the Sheep 7.05
Danger Mouse 7.20 Dennis & Gnasher
7.30 Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese
7.45 New. Newsround 7.55 New.
Grizzy and the Lemmings 8.10 Odd
Squad 8.20 Meet the McQueens 8.35
Monster Loving Maniacs 8.50 New.
Total Drama Island: Reboot 9.15 New.
Home Sweet Rome 9.40 Gym Stars
10.05 Matilda and the Ramsay Bunch
10.20 Danny & Mick 10.30 Operation
Ouch! 11.00 Grizzy and the Lemmings
11.25 Taffy 11.45 Boy Girl Dog Cat
Mouse Cheese 12.20pm Danger Mouse
12.45 Octonauts 12.55 Shaun the
Sheep 1.10 Mustangs FC 2.00 Blue
Peter 2.30 Silverpoint 2.50 Dragons:
Riders of Berk 3.15 Danger Mouse
3.25 Shaun the Sheep 3.35 Ninja
Express 3.45 Taffy 4.00 New. Grizzy
and the Lemmings 4.15 Boy Girl Dog
Cat Mouse Cheese 4.30 Monster
Loving Maniacs 4.45 Odd Squad 5.10
We Bare Bears 5.20 Summer Camp
Island 5.35 New. Transformers
EarthSpark 6.00 Jamie Johnson
6.25 Grizzy and the Lemmings
6.35—7.00pm The Next Step

CBBC F’view 201 F’sat 607 Sky 607 Virgin 701

CITV

203

6.00am Dare Master 6.05 Hotel
Transylvania 6.30 Dave Spud 7.00
Lloyd of the Flies 7.30 Mr Bean: the
Animated Series 8.00 50/50 Heroes
8.30 Scooby-Doo 10.00 Teen Titans
Go! 10.15 Looney Tunes 10.30 Smarty
Pants 11.00 Mystery Lane 11.30 Mr
Magoo 12 noon Teen Titans Go!
12.30pm Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo
2.00 Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous
2.30 Inspector Gadget 3.00 Smarty
Pants 3.30 Scooby-Doo 4.30 Looney
Tunes 4.45 Dave Spud 5.15 Dodo
5.30 Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous
5.55 Tata and Kuma 6.00 Scooby-Doo
7.00 Captain Underpants 7.25 Lego
Hidden Side 7.30 Lego DREAMZzz
8.00 New. Lego Chima 8.25 NinjaGo:
Hunted 8.55—9.00pm Dare Master

CITV F’view 203 F’sat 602 Sky 612 Virgin 734

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FILMS
Film4

14

11.00am Leap Year HHH Light
romantic comedy with just enough
blarney to charm the susceptible.
Review, right. Amy Adams (2010, PG) (S) (AD)
1.05pm Rat Race HHH Silly but
fun road-race movie packed with
gags and celebrities. Whoopi Goldberg,
John Cleese, Cuba Gooding Jr (2001, 12) (S) (AD)

3.15 Earth vs the Flying Saucers
HH Plodding sci-fi adventure
commendable only for specialeffects genius Ray Harryhausen’s
flying saucers. Hugh Marlowe (1956, U) (S)
4.55 The Black Shield of
Falworth HH Tony Curtis aims to
win the fair hand of then-wife Janet
Leigh in this fun but unconvincing
swashbuckling adventure. (1954, U) (S)

6.55pm The Italian Job HHH
Michael Caine organises a goldbullion robbery in this muchloved Swinging Sixties comedy
caper. Review, right. (1969, PG) (S) (AD)
9.00 Kingsman: the Secret
Service HHHH Vibrant spy
caper with Colin Firth recruiting
teenager Taron Egerton into a
secret organisation. (2015, 15) (S) (AD)
11.40 Four Weddings and a
Funeral 5 Witty comedy
about a group of 30-somethings
agonising over getting married.
Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell (1994, 15) (S) (AD)

2.00—3.55am Rita, Sue and
Bob Too HHHH Controversial
comedy in which two working-class
teenage girls sleep with a much
older man. Siobhan Finneran (1986, 18) (S)
Film4 Freeview 14 Freesat 300
Sky 313 Virgin 428
+1 F’view 47 F’sat 301 Sky 314 Virgin 430

Talking
Pictures TV

82

6.00am When You Come Home H
Comedy. Frank Randle (1947, U) (S) 7.50
Sherlock Holmes TV mystery. (S)
8.25 This Week of Grace HHH
Gracie Fields is at her perky best in this
musically enhanced comedy. (1933, U) (S)
10.15 The Spaniard’s Curse HH
An innocent man is sentenced to be
hanged. Tony Wright, Lee Patterson (1958, U) (S)
11.45 The Other Love HH Even
Barbara Stanwyck as a dying concert
pianist cannot save this tear-jerker
from its ludicrous storyline. (1947, PG) (S)
1.35pm Only Two Can Play HHHH
Peter Sellers is a would-be adulterous
librarian in this small-town satirical
comedy that makes its points with
deftness. Mai Zetterling (1961, PG) (S)
3.45 Derby Day HHH Engaging
ensemble drama that centres on
assorted characters drawn to
Epsom Downs on Derby Day.
Review, right. Anna Neagle (1952, U) (S)
5.25 Fireball XL-5 TV sci-fi series.
6.00pm Colonel March of
Scotland Yard TV drama. (S)
6.30 Scotland Yard Docudrama.
7.05 The Four Just Men
British TV crime drama. (S)
7.45 Look at Life TV documentary.
8.05 The Human Jungle
TV drama starring Herbert Lom. (S)
9.05 Maigret TV detective series.
11.05 Five HHH Involving sci-fi
drama following the five human
survivors after an A-bomb blast.
Review, right. William Phipps (1951) (S)
1.00am The Devil Commands
HHH Wonderfully weird Boris
Karloff horror. (1941) (S) 2.25am
Jacktown HH Awkward drama
about a prisoner who falls for the
warden’s daughter. Patty McCormack (1962) (S)
3.45 Scarlet Web HH Low-budget
British thriller. Griffith Jones (1954, PG) (S)
5.00—6.00am Stagecoach West (S)
Talking Pictures TV Freeview 82
Freesat 306 Sky 328 Virgin 445

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Great Movies

34

9.00am Lethal Admirer HH
Thriller. Karissa Lee Staples (2018) 11.00
Conspiracy to Kill HH Routine
thriller. Ireland Baldwin (2016) 1.00pm
Black Widow HH By-the-numbers
mystery thriller. Elizabeth Berkley (2007)
3.00 Miami Magma HH Hokey
disaster movie. Rachel Hunter (2011) 4.45
Pixels HH Energetic sci-fi action
comedy. Adam Sandler, Kevin James (2015, 12)
6.55pm The Rundown HHH
Lively action comedy adventure
about a Mob “retrievals expert” and
his target. The Rock, Seann William Scott (2003, 15)
9.00 Momentum HHHH A sadistic
CIA assassin relentlessly tracks a
glamorous bank robber in this slick
action thriller. Olga Kurylenko (2015, 15)
10.55 The Double HH A retired
CIA agent and a young FBI rookie
try to track down a suspected
Soviet assassin. Richard Gere (2011, 12)
12.45am Dance Night Obsession
H Limp thriller. Sabrina Bryan Jr (2016) 2.35
Deviant Love HH Slow-burning
thriller. Emma Bell (2019) 4.20—6.00am
Mega Shark vs Mecha Shark H Cutprice sci-fi horror. Christopher Judge (2014)
Great Movies Freeview 34 Freesat 302
Sky 321 Virgin 425
+1 Freeview 61 (limited 10pm-5am) Sky 322

Grunberg, Neil Grayston, Amitai Marmorstein (2013)

12.45am 6 Below HH Plodding
adventure thriller based on a true
story. Josh Hartnett, Mira Sorvino (2017, 12)
2.50—4.00am The Traitors HH
Efficient spy thriller. Patrick Allen (1962, U)
Great Action Freeview 42 (limited)
F’sat 305 Sky 323 Virgin 426 +1 Sky 324

Great Romance 52
6.00am The Dating List HHH
Well-plotted TV-movie romcom.
Natalie Dreyfuss (2019) 8.00 Autumn in
the Vineyard HH Picturesque
romantic comedy. (2016) 10.00
Winter’s Dream HH Pleasant alpine
romance. Dean Cain (2018) 12 noon Frozen
in Love HH Nicely acted romance.
(2018) 2.00pm Love on Ice HH
Standard-issue TV romance. (2017)
4.00 Love on the Sidelines HH
Likeable romcom. Emily Kinney (2016)
6.00pm The Perfect Catch HH
Sweet small-town romance.
Nikki Deloach, Andrew W Walker (2017)

8.00 The Last Bridesmaid HH
A perennial wedding attendant is
drawn to a handsome videographer
in this familiar romance. (2019)
10.00 Recipe for Love HH
Pleasant culinary romcom.
Danielle Panabaker, Shawn Roberts (2014)

12.05am Love’s Second Chance
HH Formulaic romance. (2020)
1.35 Just the Way You Are HH
Sweet and involving romcom. (2015)
3.05—4.00am Highway to Heaven
Great Romance Freeview 52 Freesat 303
Sky 319 Virgin 424
+1 F’view 63 (limited 10pm-5am) F’sat 304 Sky 320

9.00-11.25pm 5 Select

WESTERN Clint Eastwood is
once again a man of few
words but many bullets in the
first western he made back
in America following Sergio
Leone’s “Dollars” trilogy.
Eastwood does the strong,
silent stuff with characteristic
efficiency, playing a rancher
who’s mistakenly hanged by
a lynch mob but survives to
become a deputy sheriff and
wreak terrible vengeance.
PETER FREEDMAN

(US 1968, swearing, violence)

Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt, Diego Calva (2022, 18)

1.40am The Silent Twins HHHH
Intimate, affecting drama about the
strange but true story of the Gibbons
twins. Review p38. Letitia Wright (2022, 18)
3.35 High Heat As 7.25am
5.05 The Locksmith As 8.55am
Sky Premiere Sky 301 Virgin 401
BT 501/HD 515 +1 Sky 312

Legend

41

8.00am Walker, Texas Ranger 9.00
The Prisoner 10.00 Star Trek: Deep
Space Nine 11.00 Brothers of the
Frontier HH Clichéd pioneer
adventure. Joey Lawrence, Matthew Lawrence
(1996) 1.00pm Troy: the Odyssey H
Clunky fantasy action adventure.
Dylan Vox (2017, 15) 3.00 Terror Peak HH
Cheesy disaster adventure. Lynda Carter,
Parker Stevenson (2003) 5.00 Star Trek
6.00pm Star Trek: Deep Space
Nine TV sci-fi series.
7.00 The Prisoner TV sci-fi.
8.00 Walker, Texas Ranger
TV action drama with Chuck Norris.
9.00 Convoy HHH Comedy
adventure in which a group of
truckers embark on an epic journey
across the US. Kris Kristofferson (1978, 12)
11.10 Western World H Dismal
low-budget western in which a US
Marshal discovers violent corruption
in a small town. Greg Steele (2017, 12)
12.45am The Witches HHH
Hammer horror that runs out of
steam. Joan Fontaine (1966, 12) 2.35—
4.20am The Asphyx HHHH
Thoughtful supernatural horror.

Legend F’view 41 F’sat 137 Sky 148 Virgin 149

HorrorXtra

The Lost Boys HHH
FILM Molly’s Game 5
OF THE 11.15pm-1.25am BBC2
DAY

69

8.00am Bermuda Tentacles H
Something in the ocean’s depths
threatens a rescue mission in this sci-fi
horror starring Linda Hamilton. (2014)
10.00 Farscape 11.00 Robot
Overlords HH Old-fashioned sci-fi
adventure about a robot invasion.
Ben Kingsley, Gillian Anderson (2014, 12)

1.00pm Wyvern HH Watchable
TV-movie monster mayhem about a
small Alaskan town that’s terrorised
by a winged beast. Nick Chinlund (2009, 15)
3.00 Farscape 4.00 Battlestar
Galactica 5.00 King Arthur’s
Sword H Bonkers mockbuster
update on the fantasy legend.
Sara Malakul Lane, Russell Geoffrey Banks (2017, 15)

7.00pm Farscape TV sci-fi series.
8.00 Battlestar Galactica TV sci-fi.
9.00 Shut In HH Contrived
psychodrama about a widow living
in self-imposed isolation with her
teenage stepson. Naomi Watts (2016, 15)
10.50 The Row H A hard-partying
sorority house hides sinister
secrets in this tired slasher movie.
Lala Kent, Randy Couture (2018, 18)

12.55am Shut In As 9pm
HorrorXtra F’view 69 F’sat 138 Sky 317
Virgin 171 +1 F’sat 139 Sky 318 Virgin 371

9.30-11.00pm BBC3

j

DRAMA Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (The West
Wing) made his directorial debut with this adaptation of the
memoir by Olympic skiing hopeful-turned-casino queen Molly
Bloom. Jessica Chastain plays Molly, whose business head
makes her a star in the gambling community, but leads to
trouble when the Mob and the FBI take an interest in her.
Sorkin’s fast-paced and enthralling script breathes exciting life
into what, on paper, may seem like a dry subject matter, while
Idris Elba, Kevin Costner and Chris O’Dowd provide stellar
support. TERRY STAUNTON (US 2017, violence, swearing, drug abuse, HD)

Leap Year HHH
11.00am-1.05pm Film4

g

ROMCOM Ultra-organised
Amy Adams rushes from
Boston to Ireland to propose
to her beau (Adam Scott) on
29 February, only to become
stranded in Dingle. She enlists
the help of minicab driver
Matthew Goode, and sparks
fly. This frothy romance has
enough blarney to charm the
susceptible, while Adams is
enchanting in her role.
KAREN KRIZANOVICH

(US/Jpn 2010, edited for content, HD)

Robert Stephens, Robert Powell (1972, 15)

z

Derby Day HHH
3.45-5.25pm
Talking Pictures TV

y

DRAMA Anna Neagle,
Michael Wilding and Googie
Withers are among the
Epsom Downs racegoers in
this absorbing portmanteau
film. The British class system
was firmly rooted and
unassailable in the early
1950s, and director Herbert
Wilcox milks its rituals and
nuances to winning effect.
SUE HEAL (UK 1952, BW)

Harry Potter and the
m
Chamber of Secrets
HHHH
5.45-9.00pm ITV2

g

FANTASY In this darker
first sequel, Harry (Daniel
Radcliffe) discovers he can
speak to snakes — an ability

that earns the mistrust of his
fellow students and faculty
alike. Among the adult cast,
Kenneth Branagh stands
out as the egotistical new
teacher Gilderoy Lockhart.
TOM HUTCHINSON (US/UK/Ger

2002, may be edited for content, HD)

The Italian Job HHH
6.55-9.00pm Film4

g

CAPER Michael Caine takes
the lead in this energetic
romp, playing a charismatic
criminal who plans a goldbullion robbery in Turin. The
script doesn’t quite come
off, and the characters are
underdeveloped, but it’s
given a lift by Quincy Jones’s
soundtrack and a marvellous
turn from Noël Coward, who
masterminds the heist from
his prison cell. TONY SLOMAN
(UK/US 1969, some violence, swearing, HD)

Downton Abbey HHH
8.00-10.20pm ITV3

g

DRAMA King George V and
Queen Mary visit Downton
in this first feature spin-off
from the TV series. Joining
regulars such as Hugh
Bonneville and Elizabeth
McGovern are new additions
Imelda Staunton, Tuppence
Middleton and David Haig.
But stealing all her scenes
is Maggie Smith’s dowager
countess and her signature
disdainful put-downs.
ALAN JONES (UK/US/Chi 2019, HD)

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j

HORROR This glossy take
on vampire mythology has a
clever script that’s packed
with twists. Dianne Wiest is
the divorcee who moves with
her two sons (Jason Patric
and Corey Haim) to a small
Californian town, where
the local gang is a pack of
motorbike-riding bloodsuckers.
Kiefer Sutherland’s magnetic
performance as their leader
is an early career highlight. AJ
(US 1987, violence, swearing, nudity, HD)

Five HHH 11.05pm12.55am Talking Pictures TV
SCI-FI Director Arch Oboler
has some interesting films
to his credit, most notably
the first movie in 3D, the
notorious Bwana Devil. The
gimmicky plot of this feature
concerns the last five
survivors after the Earth
has been devastated by an
atomic bomb. It’s rather
cheap-looking and lacks star
power, but the situations —
though contrived — are
intriguing. TOS (US 1951, BW)

Television

U – suitable for all; PG Parental Guidance – for general viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for young or sensitive children; 12, 15,18 –for viewers of these ages and over.

42

Hang ‘Em High HHH

7.25am High Heat HH Tongue-incheek action crime comedy. Olga
Kurylenko (2022, 15) 8.55 The Locksmith
HH Standard crime thriller. Ryan
Phillippe, Kate Bosworth (2023, 15) 10.30
As 4.20pm 12.05pm As 8pm 2.30
House Party HH Frantic comedy
remake. Jacob Latimore, Tosin Cole (2023, 15)
4.20 The Best Man HH
Action-packed, low-budget Die Hard
knock-off. Luke Wilson, Dolph Lundgren (2023, 15)
5.55pm Black Adam HHH
Punchy DC Comics adventure about
a menacing ancient warrior in the
present day. Dwayne Johnson (2022, 12)
8.00 Whitney Houston: I Wanna
Dance with Somebody HHHH
Enthralling biopic of the pop singer.
Review p38. Naomi Ackie (2022, 12)
10.25 Babylon HHHH Riotous,
sprawling account of the transition
from silent pictures to talkies.

TUESDAY

Great Action

6.00am M*A*S*H 7.00 Wild West
Chronicles 7.30 Super Eruption
HH Clichéd sci-fi thriller. Richard Burgi
(2011, 12) 9.20 The Heroes of WW2
10.35 Battle of Crete 11.30 M*A*S*H
12.30pm Wild West Chronicles 1.00
The Last Frontier HHH Majestic
western. Victor Mature, Guy Madison (1955, PG)
3.05 The Last Days of Frank and
Jesse James HHH Compulsively
watchable western. Johnny Cash (1986, 15)
5.20 Field Punishment No 1 HH
Shocking war drama. Fraser Brown (2014)
7.05pm Collision Earth H
Generally charmless race-againsttime disaster flick. Eric Roberts (2020, 12)
9.00 Babylon AD HH Dystopian
sci-fi thriller starring Vin Diesel as
a bounty hunter with a conscience
who accepts one last job. (2008, 12)
10.50 End of the World HH
Jokey spoof sci-fi adventure. Greg

FILM REVIEWS

Sky Premiere

Sky Cinema picks
Zathura: a Space
Adventure HHHH
5.45-7.35pm Sky Family
Retro-styled intergalactic
spin on Jumanji. (2005, PG)
Sky 306; Virgin 406; BT 506/520

Heaven Can Wait HHHH
8.00-9.45pm Sky Greats
Warren Beatty bargains with
an angel to live again. (1978, PG)
Sky 304; Virgin 404; BT 504/518

Last Night in Soho HHHH
10.00pm-12 midnight Sky Hits
Time-slipping horror from
director Edgar Wright. (2020, 18)
Sky 303, Virgin 403, BT 503/517

Films to stream from p32
Netflix, Amazon, Disney+ and more

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Satellite, cable

TUESDAY
Sky Showcase

Gold

Alibi

The Gilded Age 9.00pm Mr
Raikes and Marian meet up

Never Mind the Buzzcocks
9.00pm Richard Ayoade

The Good Life 6.00pm

Margo and Jerry are awoken

Shakespeare and Hathaway:
Private Investigators 10.00pm

6.00am The Early Rundown 7.00
Kay Burley 8.00 Monkey Life (S)
(AD) 9.00 Nothing to Declare (S)
9.30 The Flash (S) 10.30 NCIS:
New Orleans (S) 12.30pm Hawaii
Five-0 (S) 1.30 MacGyver (S) 2.30
LIVE Cricket: the Hundred: Trent
Rockets v Southern Brave, coverage
of the women’s match at Trent Bridge.
6.00pm LIVE Cricket: the
Hundred Trent Rockets v Southern
Brave, coverage of the opening
match of the men’s competition,
held at Trent Bridge. The Rockets
are reigning champions, having
defeated Manchester Originals
in last year’s final, while Brave
are looking to improve this time
around after finishing seventh of
eight teams in 2022. Sport: p31
9.30 From 3/10 Series 2. Kenny
and Ellis make a grisly discovery.
Boyd struggles with the reality of
what is happening to him. (S)
10.30 4/10. As Boyd’s condition
grows more alarming, Sara’s return
puts him in a difficult position. (S)
11.30 The Blacklist 6/22
Series 10. Dr Laken Perillos
resurfaces to join Wujing’s crusade
against Red. A member of the
Task Force is put in danger. (S)
12.30am Road Wars 2.00 The
Equalizer (S) (AD) 3.00 Hawaii
Five-0 (S) 4.00 MacGyver (S) 5.00—
6.00am The Early Rundown
Sky Showcase Sky 106 Virgin 109
BT 340/HD 355 +1 Sky 206

6.00am The Guest Wing (S) (AD)
7.55 Boardwalk Empire (S) (AD)
10.05 The Sopranos (S) 12.15pm
Game of Thrones (S) (AD) 1.20
Britannia: two episodes (S) (AD)
3.30 Boardwalk Empire (S) (AD)
5.45pm The Sopranos 13/13
Series 5. Tony adopts desperate
measures to keep the peace.
A visit from the FBI throws the
organisation into upheaval. (S)
6.50 The Sopranos 1/21 Series 6
Tony ponders an associate’s
retirement request and shares a
recent windfall with Carmela. (S) (AD)
7.55 Game of Thrones 5/10
Series 1. A suspicious death
threatens to overshadow the
tournament. (S) (AD)
9.00 The Gilded Age 3/9 Series 1
An unfortunate development
leaves George’s new rail station
under threat. (S) (AD)
10.05 Mildred Pierce 2/5
Series 1. Veda belittles Mildred’s
lowly job, so she makes plans to
open her own restaurant. (S) (AD)
11.20 Little Birds 5/6 Series 1
Lucy meets Bill, an undercover
agent for the CIA. (S) (AD)
12.20am The Time Traveler’s Wife
(S) (AD) 1.20 Tin Star (S) (AD)
2.25 Game of Thrones (S) (AD)
3.30 In Treatment (S) 4.00—
6.00am The Guest Wing (S) (AD)
Sky Atlantic Sky 108 (Wales 109)
BT 342/HD 357 +1 Sky 208 (Wales 209)

6.00am Stargate Atlantis (HD)
8.00 Supergirl (S) (HD) 9.00 DC’s
Legends of Tomorrow (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 The Flash (S) (HD) 11.00 NCIS:
New Orleans (S) (HD) 1.00pm Hawaii
Five-0 (S) (HD) 2.00 MacGyver (S) (HD)
3.00 DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
(S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Supergirl (S) (HD)
5.00 The Flash (S) (HD)
6.00pm Stargate Atlantis
13/20 Series 2. The Goa’uld try
to destroy Atlantis. (S) (HD)
7.00 14/20. McKay gets trapped
in a sinking Puddle Jumper. (S) (HD)
8.00 Magnum P.I. 6/20 Series 5
Katsumoto learns if his career in
law enforcement is over. (HD)
9.00 Never Mind the
Buzzcocks 3/7 Series 1. With
guests Richard Ayoade, DJ
Majestic and Mollie King. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.45 4/7. With Mike Wozniak, Jax
Jones and Ella Henderson. (HD)
10.30 Then You Run 4/8
Tara and Stink sell the drugs at a
music festival in Hamburg. (S) (HD)
11.30 The Blacklist 6/22
Series 10. Dr Laken Perillos
resurfaces to join Wujing’s
crusade against Red. (S) (HD)
12.30am Road Wars (HD) 2.00
New. Rob and Romesh vs Crufts
(AD) (HD) 3.00 Hawaii Five-0 (S) (HD)
4.00 MacGyver (S) (HD) 5.00—
6.00am Bondi Rescue (S) (HD)
Sky Max Sky 113 (Wales 114) Virgin 111
BT 346/HD 361

7.30am The Good Life (S) (AD)
8.00 Keeping Up Appearances (S)
8.40 Ever Decreasing Circles (S)
9.20 Are You Being Served? (S)
10.00 Still Open All Hours (S) (HD)
10.40 Last of the Summer Wine (S)
12 noon Keeping Up Appearances
(S) 12.40pm Ever Decreasing
Circles (S) 1.20 Dad’s Army (S)
2.00 Still Open All Hours (S) (HD)
2.40 Are You Being Served? (S)
3.20 Last of the Summer Wine (S)
4.40 Keeping Up Appearances (S)
5.20 Are You Being Served? (S)
6.00pm The Good Life (S) (AD)
6.40 Dad’s Army The platoon is
picked to appear in an army film. (S)
7.20 Pike gets his call-up papers. (S)
8.00 dinnerladies Jean gets
angry with the customers. (S) (AD)
8.40 Gavin & Stacey The
newlyweds argue during a night
out at the bowling alley. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.20 Absolutely Fabulous
Minnie Driver guest-stars. (S) (AD)
10.00 Live at the Apollo
Comedy sets by Frankie Boyle,
Simon Evans and Aisling Bea. (S) (HD)
11.00 dinnerladies As 8pm.
11.40 Gavin & Stacey As 8.40pm.
12.20am The Fast Show (S) 1.00
as 9.20pm 1.40 Live at the Apollo
(S) (HD) 2.45 My Favourite Sketch (S)
(HD) 3.30—4.00am Desmond’s (S)
Gold Sky 110 (Wales 111) Virgin 124
BT 344/HD 359 +1 Sky 210 (Wales 211) Virgin 324

7.15am Murdoch Mysteries (S) (HD)
9.00 Unforgettable (S) (HD) 10.00
Hudson & Rex (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00
Without a Trace (S) (HD) 12 noon
The Doctor Blake Mysteries (S) (HD)
1.00pm Father Brown (S) (AD) (HD)
2.00 Murdoch Mysteries (S) (HD)
4.00 Unforgettable (S) (HD)
5.00 Hudson & Rex (S) (AD) (HD)
6.00pm Without a Trace 8/23
Series 1. The team searches for a
teenager who went missing after
a confrontation with a bully. (S) (HD)
7.00 Person of Interest 21/22
Series 2. Finch and Reese discover
that the Machine is in danger
from the Stanton virus. (S) (HD)
8.00 Father Brown 3/10 Series 9
The clerical sleuth must delve into
the past when a child killer is
found murdered. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 4/10. When a troubled soul
from the past returns, the priest
must investigate the new chapter
of the Church of Apollo. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 Shakespeare and
Hathaway: Private Investigators
7/10 Series 3. An energy tycoon
hires Frank and Lu to keep an eye
on his daughters. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 Person of Interest As 7pm.
12 midnight Hudson & Rex (S) (AD)
(HD) 1.00am Unforgettable (S) (HD)
2.00 Murdoch Mysteries (S) (HD)
2.55—4.00am Annika (S) (AD) (HD)
Alibi Sky 109 (Wales 110) Virgin HD 114
BT 343/HD 358 +1 Sky 209 (Wales 210) Virgin 314

Sky Sci-Fi
6.00am Merlin 7.00 The Outpost
8.00 Shopping 11.00 Pandora
12 noon Star Trek: the Next
Generation 2.00pm Merlin 3.00
Pandora 4.00 Quantum Leap
5.00 Stargate Atlantis: the team
searches for a Zero Point Module
6.00pm Star Trek: the Next
Generation 22/22 Series 2
Commander Riker succumbs to an
alien poison and falls into a coma.
7.00 1/26 Series 3. A computer
breakdown threatens the crew.
8.00 Star Trek: Voyager 21/26
Series 5. A runaway toxic-waste
freighter threatens to pollute the
quadrant, forcing Janeway to risk
crew members’ lives in a dangerous
damage-limitation operation.
9.00 New. From 3/10 Series 2
Kenny and Ellis make a grisly
discovery out in the forest, while
Boyd struggles with the reality of
what is happening to him.
10.00 New. 4/10. As Boyd’s
condition grows more alarming,
Sara puts him in a difficult position.
11.00 Westworld 1/10 Series 1
Sci-fi drama inspired by Michael
Crichton’s 1973 film set in a
futuristic theme park.
12.30am 2/10. Two new guests
take a trip to Westworld and explore
the possibilities offered to them.
1.30 Wynonna Earp: double bill
3.10 Star Trek: Voyager
4.05—6.00am Star Trek: the Next
Generation: two episodes
Sky Sci-Fi Sky 139 Virgin 122
BT 348/HD 363 +1 Virgin 229

Sky Witness
6.00am Air Ambulance ER (S) (HD)
7.00 Border Security: Canada’s
Front Line (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 Border
Patrol (S) 10.00 Stop, Search, Seize
(S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 The Rookie (S) (AD)
(HD) 12 noon FBI: Most Wanted (S)
(AD) (HD) 1.00pm FBI: International
(S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 Blue Bloods (S) (AD)
(HD) 3.00 The Equalizer (S) (AD) (HD)
4.00 Nothing to Declare (S) (HD)
5.00pm Border Security:
Australia’s Front Line
A passenger becomes hysterical.
5.30 A foetus is found in the mail.
6.00 Officers make a disturbing
discovery in a student’s bag.
6.30 A man’s past is revealed.
7.00 Staff suspect the importation
of narcotics is occurring.
7.30 A delivery is intercepted. (S) (HD)
8.00 Blue Bloods 2/16 Series 11
Danny and Jamie team up to take
down a drug lord. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 The Good Doctor 15/22
Series 6. Dr Jared Kalu makes a
surprise return. (S) (HD)
10.00 Law & Order: Organized
Crime 11/22 Series 3. Jamie
meets the gang’s boss. (HD)
11.00 New Amsterdam 17/22
Series 4. Max and Helen discuss
options for their future. (S) (AD) (HD)
12 midnight The Equalizer (S) (AD)
(HD) 1.00am Private Eyes (S) (HD)
2.00 New series. Departure (S) (HD)
3.00 Chicago Fire (S) (HD) 4.00 Stop,
Search, Seize (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00—
6.00am Air Ambulance ER (S) (HD)
Sky Witness Sky 107 Virgin 110
BT 341/HD 356 +1 Sky 207 Virgin 310

ALL PROGRAMMES ON THE ABOVE CHANNELS ARE REPEATS UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED

78

Sky Max

Southern Brave’s Shrubsole

Cricket: the Hundred 2.30pm

Television TUESDAY

Sky Atlantic

Sky Replay
7.00am 6ixth Sense with Colin Fry (S)
8.00 Four Weddings (S) (AD) 10.00
UK Border Force (S) (AD) 11.00 Stop,
Search, Seize (S) (AD) 12 noon Bondi
Rescue (S) 1.00pm Send in the Dogs (S)
2.00 Warehouse 13 (S) 4.00 Most
Haunted (S) 6.00 Supergirl: double bill.
The superheroes engage in the battle
of their lives, then Colonel Haley makes
it her mission to find out Supergirl’s
identity (S) 8.00 UK Border Force (S)
(AD) 9.00 Dating No Filter (S) (AD)
10.00 Stop, Search, Seize (S) (AD)
11.00 From: double bill. Kenny and Ellis
make a grisly discovery, then Boyd’s
condition grows more alarming (S)
1.00am The Good Doctor: Dr Jared
Kalu makes a surprise return (S)
2.00 A League of Their Own (S) (AD)
3.00 Duck Quacks Don’t Echo (S) (AD)
4.00 Four Weddings 5.00—6.00am
6ixth Sense with Colin Fry (S)

Sky Replay Sky 152 Virgin 156

Sky Crime
6.00am Highway Patrol (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00
Motorway Patrol (S) (AD) 8.00 Highway
Cops (S) (HD) 9.00 Nothing to Declare (S)
10.00 Caught Red Handed (S) (HD) 11.30
Border Patrol (S) 12 noon Killer in My Village
(S) (HD) 1.00pm Forensics: Catching the
Killer (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 Murders That
Shocked the Nation (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00 Most
Evil Killers (S) (HD) 5.00 What the Killer Did
Next (S) (AD) (HD) 6.00 Forensics: Catching
the Killer (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 Most Evil Killers
(S) (HD) 9.00 Killing Mum and Dad (S)
(AD) (HD) 10.00 How I Caught the Killer
(S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 as 12 noon 12 midnight
Most Evil Killers (S) (HD) 1.00am Murdered
at First Sight (HD) 2.00 What the Killer
Did Next (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00 Brit Cops:
Frontline Crime UK (S) 4.00 Road Wars (S)
5.00—6.00am Motorway Patrol (S) (AD)

Sky Crime Sky 122 Virgin 121 BT 349/HD 364
+1 Sky 222 Virgin 321

Sky Comedy

Discovery

8.00am A.P. Bio (S) (HD) 9.00
Entourage (S) (HD) 10.10 Girls (S) (AD)
(HD) 11.30 Veep (S) (AD) (HD) 12.50pm
How to Make It in America (S) (AD) (HD)
1.30 Entourage (S) (HD) 2.30 The
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (S) (HD) 3.30
The Conners (S) (HD) 4.30 A.P. Bio (S)
(HD) 5.30 Will & Grace (S) (AD) (HD)
6.30 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (S)
(HD) 7.30 Bloods: Wendy addresses
Spencer’s poor behaviour (S) (AD) (HD)
8.00 The Office US (S) (HD) 9.00 The
Trip to Greece: double bill. Rob and
Steve reflect on being middle-aged,
then Steve receives a call bearing bad
news (S) (AD) (HD) 10.15 The Righteous
Gemstones (HD) 11.35 Curb Your
Enthusiasm: three episodes (S) (HD)
1.25am Work in Progress (S) (HD)
2.35 2 Dope Queens (S) (AD) (HD)
3.40—5.00am Veep (S) (AD) (HD)

6.00am Wheeler Dealers (S) (HD) 7.00
Deadliest Catch (S) (HD) 9.00 Alaska:
the Last Frontier (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00
How It’s Made (S) (HD) 11.00 Wheeler
Dealers (S) (HD) 12 noon Diesel
Brothers (S) (HD) 1.00pm Gold Rush:
Mine Rescue with Freddy and Juan (S)
(HD) 3.00 Alaska: Homestead Rescue
(S) (HD) 5.00 Wheeler Dealers (S) (HD)
6.00pm Street Outlaws (HD)
8.00 Alaska: the Last Frontier (S) (AD)
(HD) 9.00 New. Gold Rush: Mine
Rescue with Freddy and Juan (HD)
10.00 New. Hoffman Family Gold (S)
(HD) 11.00 Naked and Afraid XL (HD)
12 midnight Expedition Bigfoot (S)
(HD) 1.00am Gold Rush: Mine Rescue
with Freddy and Juan (HD)
2.00 Hoffman Family Gold (S) (HD)
3.00 New. Deadliest Catch (HD)
4.00—5.00am Wheeler Dealers (S) (HD)

Sky Comedy Sky 114 (Wales 115)
Virgin 112 BT 347/HD 362

Discovery Sky 125 Virgin 177 BT 320/HD 325
+1 Sky 225 Virgin 377

Comedy Central
8.00am Bob’s Burgers (S) (HD)
10.00 Becker (HD) 11.00 The Middle
(S) (HD) 1.00pm Friends (S) (AD) (HD)
6.25pm Friends: five episodes (S) (AD)
(HD) 9.00 Chris Ramsey: Approval
Needed: a stand-up performance in
which the comedian gives his take on
issues big and small (S) (HD) 10.00
Jimmy Carr: Laughing and Joking:
stand-up comedy from London’s
Hammersmith Apollo (S) (HD) 12 midnight
Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Comedy Central
Live (S) (HD) 12.30am Darren Harriott:
Comedy Central Live (S) (HD) 1.00
South Park (S) (HD) 2.30 Bob’s Burgers
(S) (HD) 3.00 Key and Peele (S) (HD)
3.20 Chris Ramsey Live (S) (HD)
4.05—5.00am Friends (S) (AD) (HD)

Comedy Central Sky 112 (Wales 113)
Virgin 132 BT 345/HD 360
+1 Sky 212 (Wales 213) Virgin 332

Discovery History
6.00am Combat Dealers (S) 7.00 Tony
Robinson’s World War One (S) 8.00 HMS
Ark Royal (S) (AD) 9.00 Combat Dealers
(S) (AD) 10.00 Blowing Up History (S)
11.00 How the Universe Works 12 noon
The Strangest UFO Stories of All Time
(S) 1.00pm Combat Dealers (S) 2.00
Tony Robinson’s World War One (S) 3.00
Blowing Up History (S) 4.00 Cooper’s
Treasure (S) (AD) 5.00 HMS Ark Royal (S)
(AD) 6.00 The Strangest UFO Stories of
All Time (S) 7.00 Expedition Unknown
(S) 8.00 Combat Dealers (S) (AD) 9.00
Blowing Up History (S) 10.00 Salvage
Hunters (S) 11.00 Shed and Buried (S) (AD)
11.30 Shed and Buried 12 midnight How
It’s Made (S) 1.00am Combat Dealers (S)
2.00 Salvage Hunters (S) 3.00 Combat
Dealers (S) (AD) 4.00—5.00am as 3pm

Discovery History Sky 177 Virgin 181
+1 Sky 277 Virgin 381

Key (S) Subtitles (SL) Signing (AD) Audio description (HD) High definition (W) Widescreen

RadioTimes 29 July–4 August 2023

& sport
Sky Documentaries

Sky Nature

6.00am Dark Horses: Italy’s World
Cup Triumph (S) 7.00 Discovering:
Jason Robards (S) 8.00 The
Directors (S) (AD) 9.00 Escobar by
Escobar (S) 10.00 The Invisible
Pilot (S) (AD) 11.05 Positive (S) (AD)
12 noon Fashion Reimagined (S)
2.00pm Spitfire (S) 4.00
The Directors (S) (AD) 5.00
Discovering: Jason Robards (S)
6.00pm Escobar by Escobar
The story behind the cursed
Escobar empire. (S)
7.00 The Invisible Pilot The story
of crop-duster pilot Gary Betzner,
who jumped off a bridge in 1977,
leaving a trail of money, drugs,
and secrets in his wake. (S) (AD)
8.05 Positive The history of HIV
in Britain, beginning with a look
at how the first recorded UK case
in 1981 provoked panic. (S) (AD)
9.00 New. Juan Carlos:
Downfall of the King The whole
world learns about Juan Carlos’s
dubious financial dealings after
Corinna’s revelations are secretly
recorded and leaked in 2018. (S)
10.00 Nothing Compares The
story of Sinéad O’Connor’s rise
to worldwide fame. (S)
12 midnight Music Box 1.40 SIC:
Prince of MotoGP 3.25 Wishful
Drinking 5.00—6.00am
Discovering: Jason Robards (S)
Sky Documentaries Sky 121
Virgin 188 BT 352/HD 367

6.00am Ol Pejeta Diaries (S) 7.00
Monkey Life (S) (AD) 8.00 Kenya
Wildlife Diaries (S) 9.00 Tales from
Zambia (S) 10.00 Great Blue Wild
(S) 11.00 Animal Empires (S)
12 noon Untamed Valley (S) 1.00pm
Monkey Life (S) (AD) 2.00 Kenya
Wildlife Diaries (S) 3.00 Tales from
Zambia (S) 4.00 Great Blue Wild (S)
5.00 Animal Empires (S)
6.00pm Untamed Valley The
Luangwa River’s two-mile meander,
a crucial crossing spot. (S)
7.00 Monkey Life Alison and
Jeremy rescue a squirrel monkey
from a derelict farm. (S) (AD)
7.30 Samantha the squirrel
monkey gets the all-clear. (S) (AD)
8.00 Islands A look at K’gari
in Queensland, also known as
Fraser Island. (S)
9.00 Gangs of Baboon Falls
The Victoria gang struggles with
lots of new mouths to feed. (S)
10.00 Animal Empires How
animals fight back from the brink
to continue their dynasties. (S)
11.00 Untamed Valley As 6pm.
12 midnight Brazil Untamed (S)
1.00am Africa’s Hidden Kingdoms
(S) (AD) 2.00 Islands (S) 3.00 Gangs
of Baboon Falls (S) 4.00 Kenya
Wildlife Diaries (S) 5.00—6.00am
Tales from Zambia (S)
Sky Nature Sky 124 Virgin 189
BT 354/HD 369

Untamed Valley 6.00pm

Nat Geographic

Eden

8.00am Abandoned (HD) 8.30 Made
in a Day (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 Air Crash
Investigation (S) (HD) 10.00 Europe from
Above (S) (HD) 11.00 Ultimate Airport Dubai
(S) (HD) 12 noon Car SOS (S) (AD) (HD)
1.00pm Nazi Megastructures (S) (HD) 2.00
Air Crash Investigation (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00
Hitler’s Last Stand (HD) 4.00 Cosmos:
Possible Worlds (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00 Car SOS
(S) (AD) (HD) 6.00 Lost Treasures of Egypt
(S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 Air Crash Investigation
(S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 World War II: Secrets
from Above (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 World
War II: Apocalypse (HD) 11.00 Air Crash
Investigation (S) (HD) 12 midnight Airport
Security: Colombia (HD) 1.00am To Catch a
Smuggler (S) (HD) 2.00 Made in a Day (S)
(AD) (HD) 2.30 Bid and Destroy (HD) 2.55
Lords of War (HD) 3.20 Food Factory (S) (HD)
4.10 Exotic Animal ER (HD) 4.35—5.00am
Secrets of the Zoo: Keeper Tales (HD)

9.00am The Blue Planet (AD)
6.00pm The Blue Planet: six episodes.
David Attenborough describes marine
life at the poles 7.00 Earth’s most
densely inhabited waters, where the
annual cycle of the sun prompts an
explosion of marine life 8.00 The
fragile marine ecosystem of the coral
reef, where all creatures — including the
corals themselves — have to fight for
survival 9.00 Thousands of turtles
make the annual pilgrimage to lay their
eggs in Costa Rica 10.00 Camera crews
journey to the deepest parts of the world’s
oceans to explore the lives of their
inhabitants, many of which are relatively
new to science 11.00 Predators and prey
in the open oceans come under the
scrutiny of David Attenborough (AD)
12 midnight The Blue Planet (AD)
5.30—6.00am The Zoo (HD)

Nat Geographic Sky 129 Virgin 183
+1 Sky 229 Virgin 383

Eden Sky 166 Virgin HD 176
+1 Sky 266 Virgin 376

Sky History

Animal Planet

6.00am Forged in Fire (HD) 7.00 Salvage
Kings (HD) 8.00 American Pickers (HD)
9.00 Pawn Stars (HD) 10.00 Storage Wars
Canada (HD) 11.00 Secrets of the Viking
Stone (HD) 12 noon River Hunters (HD)
1.00pm Salvage Kings (HD) 2.00 Cities of
the Underworld (HD) 3.00 Swamp People:
Serpent Invasion (HD) 5.00 Pawn Stars
(HD) 6.00 American Pickers (HD) 7.00
Forged in Fire Armed Forces Tournament
(HD) 8.00 Ancient Aliens (S) (HD) 9.00
New. History’s Greatest Mysteries (S) (HD)
10.00 New. The UnXplained with William
Shatner (HD) 11.00 New. The Proof Is
Out There (HD) 12 midnight Pawn Stars
(HD) 1.00am Ancient Aliens (S) (HD)
2.00 Cursed Treasures (S) (HD) 3.00
Swamp People: Serpent Invasion (HD)
5.00—6.00am American Pickers (HD)

8.00am Animal Cribs (S) (HD) 9.00
Dodo Heroes (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 Bad
Dog! (S) (HD) 11.00 Alaska: Homestead
Rescue (S) (HD) 12 noon Animal Cribs
(S) (HD) 1.00pm Dodo Heroes (S) (HD)
2.00 Wildest Islands of Indonesia (S)
(HD) 3.00 Wildest Europe (S) (HD)
4.00 Dogs 101 (S) (HD) 5.00 Alaska:
Homestead Rescue (S) (HD) 6.00
Animal Cribs (S) (HD) 7.00 Dodo Heroes
(S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 From Wags to Riches
(S) (HD) 9.00 Pit Bulls and Parolees:
Tia’s Tales (S) (HD) 10.00 Alaskan Bush
People (S) (HD) 11.00 Killer Whales
12 midnight Monsters inside Me (S)
(HD) 1.00am Alaskan Bush People (S)
(HD) 2.00 Dogs 101 (S) (HD) 3.00
Alaska: Homestead Rescue (S) (HD)
4.00—5.00am Animal Cribs (S) (HD)

Sky History Sky 123 Virgin 133
BT 353/HD 368 +1 Sky 223 Virgin 333

Animal Planet Sky 162 (NI 178) Virgin 178
+1 Sky 262 (NI 278) Virgin 378

RadioTimes 29 July–4 August 2023

Sky Main Event

TNT Sports 1

Sky 401 Virgin 511/HD 501 BT 420/HD 440

Sky 410 Virgin 527 BT 408/HD 430

6.00am Sky Sports News
7.00 Good Morning Sports Fans

6.00am What Went Down (AD)
7.00 International One-Day Cricket:
West Indies v India in the second ODI
8.00 World Rally: magazine (AD)
8.30 Triathlon: previews (AD)
9.00 Fishing: on the Bank (AD)
10.00 Badminton Unlimited (AD)
10.30 Badminton: Japan Open
12.30pm Boxing: Davis v Cunningham
2.30 World Rally: magazine (AD)
3.00 Behind the Game (AD)
4.00 Rugby Stories (AD)
4.30 Badminton: Japan Open
6.30 Badminton Weekly (AD)
6.45 Triathlon: previews (AD)
7.15 World Rally: magazine (AD)
7.45 Around the Block (AD)

7.45 LIVE World Cup Netball
Two second group stage matches
(centre-pass 8.00 and 10.00).
12 noon Transfer Talk
1.00pm Sky Sports News
2.30 LIVE Cricket: the Hundred
Trent Rockets v Southern Brave,
a women’s match at Trent Bridge;
6.00 Trent Rockets v Southern
Brave, a men’s match. Sport: p31
9.30 Sky Sports News
10.30 Back Pages Tonight
11.00—6.00am Sky Sports News

Sky Football
Sky 403 Virgin 513/HD 503 BT 422/HD 442
6.00am League Cup Retro 8.45
Greatest Games 10.00 League Cup
Retro 12 noon Championship Review
1.00pm League Cup Retro (AD) 2.00
Classic Play-Offs 5.00 Greatest Games
(AD) 6.00 Championship Review (AD)
7.00 League Cup Retro (AD) 8.00
Classic Play-Off Finals 11.00 Greatest
Games (AD) 1.00am League Cup Retro
2.00 Classic Play-Offs 5.30—6.00am
Jimmy Glass: the Great Escape (AD)

Sky Golf
Sky 405 Virgin 515/HD 505 BT 424/HD 444
6.00am School of Golf 7.00 Playing
Lessons 8.00 Open Zone (AD) 9.00
Tee Time Tips 10.00 PGA Tour 11.00
LPGA Tour 12 noon School of Golf
1.00pm Playing Lessons 2.00 Open
Zone (AD) 3.00 Tee Time Tips 4.00
School of Golf 5.00 Playing Lessons
6.00 PGA Tour 7.00 LPGA Tour 8.00
How the 2014 Ryder Cup Was Won (AD)
10.00 PGA Tour 11.00 LPGA Tour
12 midnight School of Golf 1.00am
Playing Lessons 2.00 Open Zone (AD)
3.00 Tee Time Tips 4.00 School of
Golf 5.00—6.00am Playing Lessons

Sky Mix
Sky 416 Virgin 510 BT 429/HD 449
7.45am—12 noon LIVE World
Cup Netball Two matches from
the second group stage.
2.30—9.30pm LIVE Cricket:
the Hundred Trent Rockets v
Southern Brave, women’s match;
6.00 Trent Rockets v Southern
Brave, men’s match. Sport: p31

Eurosport 1
Sky 413 Virgin 521 BT HD 412
6.00am Cycling 7.00 Olympic Games
9.00 Cycling 10.00 Women’s Tour de
France 11.00 Climbing 12 noon Cycling

1.00pm LIVE Cycling Stage two
of the Tour de l’Ain, a 124km route
from Saint-Vulbas to Lagnieu.
3.00 Tour de France 4.00 Olympics
6.00 Triathlon 6.30 Climbing 7.00
World University Games 8.00 Cycling
9.00 Triathlon 9.30 World University
Games 10.30 Climbing 11.00 Cycling
12 midnight World University Games
1.00am Speedway 2.00 Cycling
3.00 Climbing 4.00 Speedway
5.00—6.00am University Games

Eurosport 2
Sky 414 Virgin 522 BT HD 413
6.00am Climbing 7.00 Surfing
8.00 Olympic Games: the Olympians

8.15 LIVE World University
Games Coverage of diving, judo
and athletics from Chengdu.
2.45pm Olympic Games 3.00 British
Superbikes 5.00 World University
Games 6.00 Premiership Speedway
7.00 Surfing: WSL 8.00 Formula E
9.00 Speedway 10.00 Premiership
Speedway 11.00 Formula E
12 midnight Cycling 1.00am World
University Games 2.00 Motor Racing
3.00 Premiership Speedway 4.00
Cycling 5.00—6.00am Tour de France

Cricket: the Hundred

2.30pm Sky Cricket Rockets
bowler Katherine Sciver-Brunt

Sky Premier League
Sky 402 Virgin 512/HD 502 BT 421/HD 441
6.00am Greatest Games: four editions
7.00 Legends (AD) 7.30 World Cup
Breakfast 8.00 Best Goals 8.30 World
Cup Breakfast 9.00 Good Morning
Transfers 10.00 Retro: from 2011/12
12 noon Transfer Talk 1.00pm Premier
League Years (AD) 3.00 Greatest
Games 4.00 Best Goals (AD) 5.00
Transfer Show 5.30 100 Club (AD)
6.00 Legends (AD) 7.00 Transfer
Show 8.00 Soccerbox 10.00 Icons
(AD) 10.30 Premier League Retro
12.30am Icons 1.00 Premier League
Years: a review of the 1995/96 season
3.00 Greatest Games 4.00 Best Goals
(AD) 5.30—6.00am 100 Club (AD)

Sky Cricket
Sky 404 Virgin 514/HD 504 BT 423/HD 443
6.00am Cricket: the Hundred: the
women’s and men’s finals from 2022
1.45pm The Hundred Bitesize (AD)

2.30 LIVE Cricket: the Hundred
Trent Rockets v Southern Brave,
a women’s match at Trent Bridge;
6.00 Trent Rockets v Southern
Brave, the opening match of the
men’s competition. Sport: p31
9.30 The Hundred Bitesize
10.00 Cricket: the Hundred
5.00—6.00am Hundred Bitesize (AD)

Sky Action
Sky 407 Virgin 517/HD 507 BT 426/HD 446
6.00am Rugby Championship 8.10
Darts 8.15 My Icon (AD) 8.30 Boxing
Archive 10.00 WNBA 12 noon Good
Morning Football 3.00pm Rugby
Championship 5.10 Darts 5.15 My
Icon (AD) 5.30 Boxing Archive (AD)
6.00 Pro-Football Talk 8.00 NY Jets
Flight: Ascension 9.00 WNBA 11.00
NFL: Total Access 1.00am NY Jets
Flight: Ascension 2.00 Pro-Football
Talk 4.00 Rugby Championship
5.30—6.00am Boxing Archive (AD)

Sky Arena

8.00 LIVE Champions League
Football Second qualifying round,
second leg (kick-off 8.00).
10.00 Premier League Preview (AD)
11.00 National League Football
12 midnight Wrestling (AD)
1.00am LIVE Wrestling The
latest action from WWE NXT.
3.15 What Went Down (AD)
3.45 UFC: the Ultimate Fighter (AD)
4.45—6.00am What Went Down (AD)

TNT Sports 2
Sky 411 Virgin 528 BT 409/HD 431
6.00am Premier League Football:
four games from the 2022/23 season
12 noon Premier League Football:
five games from the 2022/23 season
7.30pm Premier League Stories

8.00 LIVE Champions League
Football Second qualifying round,
second leg (kick-off 8.00).
10.00 UFC: Ultimate Fighter (AD)
11.00 Down the Clubhouse (AD)
12 midnight LIVE Major League
Baseball Coverage of a crucial
Major League Baseball game.
3.30am Champions League Football
(AD) 3.45 Badminton 5.45—6.00am
Badminton Weekly (AD)

TNT Sports 3
Sky 417 Virgin 529 BT 410/HD 432
6.00am MotoGP Classics (AD)
8.00 Australian Rules Football
12 noon International One-Day Cricket

2.00pm LIVE International
One-Day Cricket West Indies
v India, coverage of the third and
final ODI in the series from Brian
Lara Cricket Academy, Tarouba.
11.00 Fishing: on the Bank (AD)
12 midnight Premier League
Legends: two editions (AD)
1.00am LIVE Major League
Baseball Coverage of a crucial
Major League Baseball game.
4.30 MLB Plays of the Week (AD)
5.00 Ariel Helwani Meets (AD)
5.30—6.00am Champions League
Football: Stories of the Finals (AD)

TNT Sports 4

Sky 408 Virgin 518/HD 508 BT 427/HD 447

Sky 421 Virgin 530 BT 411/HD 434

6.00am Boxing Archive (AD)
6.45 Boxing: Estrada v Paola

6.00am Premiership Rugby Union
7.30 Rugby Stories (AD) 8.00
Major League Baseball: New York
Yankees v Tampa Bay Rays 10.30
Major League Baseball: San Francisco
Giants v Arizona Diamondbacks
1.00pm MotoGP Classics (AD)
4.00 Major League Baseball: New
York Yankees v Tampa Bay Rays
6.30 Major League Baseball:
San Francisco Giants v Arizona
Diamondbacks 9.00 Wrestling
11.30 Poker: World Tour Series (AD)
1.30am Australian Rules Football
5.30—6.00am Premier League
Legends: Michael Owen (AD)

7.45 LIVE World Cup Netball
A match from the second group
stage (centre-pass 8.00);
10.00 The day’s second match in
Cape Town (centre-pass 10.00).
12 noon WNBA: Sun v Lynx
2.00pm Super League
2.30 Women’s Super League
2.45 LIVE World Cup Netball
A match from the second group
stage (centre-pass 3.00);
5.00 More action from Cape Town
in South Africa (centre-pass 5.00);
7.00 A match from the second
group stage (centre-pass 7.00).
9.00 Super League 9.15 Kobe Bryant:
the Interview 10.15 World Cup Netball
12.15am Women’s Super League
12.30 Super League 1.45 Women’s
Super League 2.00 WNBA
4.00—6.00am World Cup Netball

Television

Elephants cross the Luangwa

SPORT

TUESDAY

Juan Carlos: Downfall of the
King 9.00pm Revelations

TUESDAY 1 AUGUST

Amazon Prime
5.00pm LIVE Tennis Day two
of the Washington Open, men’s
and women’s singles at William
HG FitzGerald Tennis Center.

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Television WEDNESDAY

KNIVES OUT!
James Buckley, Mica Ven,
Marcus Brigstocke,
Richie Anderson and Dani
Dyer are in the kitchen

FOOD

Celebrity MasterChef
9.00pm BBC1 Catch up via iPlayer
two of the celebrities who are obviously alarmed when their surprise
ingredient is revealed in the first round of the new series. As the answer
is no, it doesn’t bode well.
Things don’t improve when others admit they’ve never cooked rice
before or don’t bake. However, although somebody makes the mistake of
giving the judges pink chicken, there are no other real disasters. Curries
are perfectly spiced, salmon skin is nicely crisped, and puddings are

SCIENCE

PROPERTY

CHAT SHOW

SCIENCE

Your Brain

George Clarke’s Old
House, New Home

Kate Garraway’s
Life Stories

Wonders of the Moon
with Dara O Briain

8.00pm C4 Catch up: C4 streaming

9.00pm ITV1 Catch up via ITVX

9.00pm Channel 5 Catch up via My5

George Clarke is in
Weston-super-Mare,
LAST
EPISODE where parents-of-two
Simon and Holly are
hoping to restore the grandeur of
their six-bedroom Georgian terraced
house. It used to be beautiful, but it
has since been repurposed into four
flats, and the layout’s a mess. What
was once the grand reception room,
for instance, has been shoddily
subdivided between a squeezed
bedroom, kitchen and bathroom.
Yet it is not only the size of the job
that stuns Clarke, but also the
couple’s budget: £40,000 to gut and
refurbish four floors, accomplished
entirely through DIY. A bold plan,
considering Simon has never sawn
a piece of wood. STEPHEN KELLY

There’s a lot of laughter — and a few
tears — when Kate Garraway chats to
Strictly Come Dancing’s dancer
turned judge Anton Du Beke for the
first episode in this latest run of her
chat-show series. Asked what he
would like as his epitaph, he quickly
jokes, “God, I’m knackered!”
Whether that’s a reference to being
a dad to twins or his relentless work
ethic isn’t clear.
Although there was no sign of this
in our ten-minute taster of his
interview, he also opens up about the
challenges he’s faced in his personal
life. “Many of the things we talked
about, he hadn’t really talked about
even with his close family,” Garraway
reveals. Her future guests include
Ruby Wax and Omid Djalili. JR

If you grew up in the era of Gerry
Anderson, the word “moonbase” will
no doubt conjure images of Martin
Landau, Barbara Bain and co in
Space: 1999. But fantasy sci-fi
scenarios in which we establish a
permanent presence on the Moon
may soon become reality, as Dara
O Briain explains in the concluding
hour of his lunar odyssey. Though,
thankfully, there don’t appear to be
any fears of the Moon being sent
hurtling uncontrollably through the
stars after getting knocked out of its
orbit. Big relief.
We are just in the planning stages,
but Dara gets a feel for the terrain
thanks to some amazing VR that
leaves him with a crater-sized open
mouth of surprise. DAVID BROWN

7.10pm PBS America
Catch up via Freeview Play
It’s a tricky customer, the brain. Each
carries an estimated 10,000 galaxies’
worth of connections and there’s a
certain irony regarding humanity’s
finest brains grappling with
something they barely understand.
As a little girl, Heather Berlin asked
her father, “Where do my thoughts
come from?” He replied, “Your
brain.” Today, she’s a neurologist and
psychologist, who’s still asking much
the same question. In the first of a
two-part documentary, she takes a
whistle-stop tour of the brain’s crafty
side and, with the assistance of fellow
academics, guides us through tests
that viewers can surprise themselves
with. Are we really “making it up as
we go along”? Concludes tomorrow.
JOHN AIZLEWOOD

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sweetly moreish. One person is especially impressive. “Bingo!” says
John enthusiastically. Gregg’s too busy eating to say much.
You’ll recognise all the contestants if you like comedy and reality shows,
but even if you don’t, does it matter? Within ten minutes you’ll have
decided who’s annoying, who’s charming and who could be a good cook.
You can also expect some humour served up with the food. The
competition continues tomorrow and there’ll be a new batch of celebrity
cooks next week. JANE RACKHAM

RadioTimes 29 July–4 August 2023

WEDNESDAY 2 AUGUST
LIVE SPORT

ALSO ON TODAY
Britain’s Most
Expensive Houses

Dorset: Country
and Coast

The Girl from
Plainville

8.00pm Channel 5

10.00pm C4

Broker Amy (right) is
looking for a footballmad buyer for a dream
house near Chelsea’s
training ground.

Tasty treats explored
in this episode include
apple cake in
Sherborne and oysters
in Fleet Lagoon.

Did Michelle Carter
encourage her
boyfriend to kill
himself? The true-life
drama continues.

9.00pm C4

ARTS

Departure

A Bit of Fry and Laurie

9.00pm Sky Witness
Catch up via Now

10.00pm (not N Ireland) BBC2
Catch up via iPlayer

The previous two series of the
Canadian procedural thriller
portrayed tragedies on planes and
trains. Naturally, then, it’s… boats for
this third run. As we catch up with
Kendra Malley (Archie Panjabi) at the
Transport Safety and Investigations
Bureau, her team tackles the case of
a stricken ferry en route from Boston
to Newfoundland.
Hundreds of passengers were
thrown into panic by an “explosion”
aboard the Queen of the Narrows,
stampeding for lifeboats as the ferry
rapidly took on water. But what
caused the doomed vessel to sink so
quickly? Do we detect a conspiracy?
Trust nobody and expect plentiful
twists. MICHAEL HOGAN

Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie might
now be elder statesmen of
entertainment — long of tooth, grey
of temple, illustrious of CV — but once
upon a time, they were fresh-faced
Cambridge Footlights alumni. Here’s
another chance to savour their
intelligent and irreverent sketch
show, which originally ran from
1989 to 1995.
This 1990 episode sees the duo
demonstrate how to handle trick or
treaters, a Nazi officer interrogates a
British soldier with surprising results,
nice-but-dim secret agent Tony
Murchison worries about Control’s
whereabouts and the hard-drinking

Martin Amis, Money
and Memories with
William Boyd
10.00pm BBC4 Catch up via iPlayer
Martin Amis’s death in May at the age
of 73 gives us the chance to re-assess
a literary giant. In what is almost
“Amis Night”, his friend and fellow
author William Boyd briefly shares
reminiscences and celebrates
Money, Amis’s 1984 novel. It’s
followed at 10.15pm by the 2010
two-part adaptation of Money, which
saw Nick Frost granting narrator
John Self rather more humanity
than Amis had allowed.
Finally, at 12.15am, in an absorbing,
freewheeling discussion first shown
before Money’s initial broadcast,
JA

Cricket: the Hundred
London Spirit v
Oval Invincibles
2.30pm, 6pm Sky Sports
Cricket/Showcase (2.30pm
only), 6.15pm BBC2
England captain Heather Knight
(above) is one of London Spirit’s
star players from 2.30pm. Also
today: Welsh Fire v Manchester
Originals 11.30am, 2.30pm Sky
Sports Main Event Sport: p31

Football: Women’s World Cup
Argentina v Sweden
7.45am (k/o 8am) BBC2
Also today: South Africa v Italy
k/o 8am iPlayer, Jamaica v
Brazil k/o 11am ITV1; Panama v
France k/o 11am ITV4

FILM OF
THE DAY

Television

COMEDY

WEDNESDAY

DRAMA

BARKING
Romesh Ranganathan,
Rob Beckett and a
happy pack of
retrievers

Once upon a Time… in
Hollywood 5 z

COMEDY

Rob and Romesh vs Crufts
tried their (sleight of) hand at magic in Las Vegas
and K-popping. Now Rob Beckett and Romesh
Ranganathan, along with their own dogs Fred
and Reggie, are let loose on an agility course
at Crufts.
Whippet Fred has a natural aptitude for
agility racing, but Reggie is a law unto himself.

He completely ignores Romesh, runs away if he’s let
off the lead and in the middle of flyball training,
suddenly squats down and, er, lightens his load.
The frequent references to Reggie’s male
attributes mean this isn’t a show for younger viewers
or overly sensitive ones, but if there’s anything
funnier on TV this week, you can pat me on the
head and call me Fido. JR

With Margot Robbie’s Barbie now
in cinemas, here’s a chance to
revisit her other great superstar
performance: as bright-eyed
actor Sharon Tate in Quentin
Tarantino’s playful masterpiece
set in late-1960s LA. (2019)

FILM REVIEWS
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GEETTY; ALLSTAR

9.00pm Film4

9.00pm Sky Max Catch up via Now

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WEDNESDAY Main Channels
DAYTIME
BBC1
6.00am Breakfast Jon Kay, Sally Nugent. (S) (HD)
9.15 Morning Live Gethin Jones, Helen Skelton. (S) (HD)
10.00 Big Little Crimes An unusual licence plate helps
police crack an international smuggling ring. (R) (S) (HD)
10.30 Animal Park Tragedy hits the koalas as kidney
disease claims the life of Wilpena. (Revised rpt) (S) (HD)
11.15 Homes under the Hammer Properties in
Sussex, Nottinghamshire and Hertfordshire. (R) (S) (HD)
12.15pm Bargain Hunt David Harper and Raj Bisram
guide teams around Ardingly Antiques Fair. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
1.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
1.45 Rick Stein’s Cornwall Rick learns the legend of
King Arthur in the village of Tintagel. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
2.15 Robson Green’s Weekend Escapes Former
Emmerdale actress Charlie Hardwick and Robson try
beach art and singing in County Durham. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
2.45 Escape to the Country A property in the
Welsh Borders with holiday let potential. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
3.45 Make It at Market Dom Chinea helps
wood-worker Mike and potter Sarah. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
4.30—5.15 Antiques Road Trip Mark Hill hopes that
a sculpture of a naked torso will excite bidders. (R) (S) (HD)

Television WEDNESDAY

BBC2
6.45—7.45am Sign Zone 6.45 See Hear Following

1

5.15pm Pointless

2 BBC SPORT ONLINE From 7.55am

Lucy Porter joins Alexander Armstrong for the quiz.

Netball World Cup Matches are available at bbc.co.uk/sport

Director Abigail Dankwa; Series producer Laura Turner (S) (HD)

5.00pm The Farmers’ Country Showdown

6.00 BBC News Weather (S) (HD)
6.30 Regional news magazines (S) (HD)
7.00 The One Show

Series 7. Farmers Denis, Eric, Joanne and Nigel
hope for a successful day selling roast meat and
cider at the Ludlow Food Festival. (Revised rpt) (S) (HD)

Alex Jones and Ronan Keating present. (S) (HD)

At Sandon Hall in Staffordshire, items include a
French jardinière and a silver tea service inscribed
to footballing great Stanley Matthews. (R) (S) (HD)

7.30 EastEnders
Bobby helps Freddie put a secret plan into action.
Writer Carey Andrews Cast Tuesday/Thursday (S) (AD) (HD)

ALL EXCEPT NORTH EAST/CUMBRIA/
YORKSHIRE/LINCOLNSHIRE/
EAST MIDLANDS
8.00 The Repair Shop

7.45 LIVE Women’s World Cup Argentina v Sweden
Group G action from Waikato Stadium in Hamilton
(kick-off 8.00). Argentina have never previously
progressed beyond this stage of the tournament.
Highlights 7pm BBC3. Full replay on the red button at
7.25pm. Watch live on iPlayer, which also has highlights of
other matches. Press red from 7.55am for live coverage
of South Africa v Italy. (S) (HD) Your RT Travel: p134

Producer Tanveer Bari; Series producer Ian Sizeland (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

2 BBC SPORT ONLINE From 7.55am Netball World Cup
Matches are available at bbc.co.uk/sport

10.15 Nicky Campbell Calls on the day’s talking
points. Simulcast with Radio 5 Live. (S) (HD)
11.00 BBC News (S) (HD)
1.00pm Impossible Quiz with Rick Edwards. (R) (S) (HD)
1.45 Mastermind Subjects include Marlene Dumas
and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. (R) (S) (HD)
2.15 Home Is Where the Art Is A stone carver,
a wire sculptor and a painter compete. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
3.00—5.00 LIVE Netball World Cup Betty Glover
introduces a match from day three of the second
preliminary stage in Cape Town (centre-pass 3.00).
Coverage of other matches available at bbc.co.uk/sport.
More coverage tomorrow from 8am. (S) (HD)
6.00am Good Morning Britain (S) (HD)
9.00 Lorraine Fashion and showbiz news. (S) (HD)
10.30 LIVE Women’s World Cup Jamaica v Brazil
or Panama v France Coverage of one of the
concluding games in Group F (kick-off 11.00),
with South American champions Brazil in action.
The other match is on ITV4 from 10.30am. (S) (HD)
1.15pm ITV News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
1.30—4.00 LIVE Racing: Glorious Goodwood
Day two of the festival, featuring the Sussex Stakes
at 3.35, plus races at 1.50, 2.25 and 3.00. (S) (HD)

9

Channel 4
6.15am Countdown John Thomson guests. (R) (S) (HD)
6.55 Cheers Two episodes of the comedy. (R) (S) (HD)
7.45 Everybody Loves Raymond (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
8.35 Frasier Double bill of the sitcom. (R) (S) (AD)
9.35 The Big Bang Theory Double bill. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
10.35 The Simpsons Marge’s hair starts turning grey.
11.05 Aerosmith guest. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 11.35 News (S) (HD)
11.40 Four in a Bed Establishments in North
Yorkshire, Leicestershire and Lancashire. (R) (S) (HD)
2.10pm Countdown John Thomson guests. (S) (HD)
3.00 A Place in the Sun In Benalmádena. (R) (S) (HD)
4.00—5.00 A New Life in the Sun: Where Are
They Now? The owners of a glampsite in France are
ready to take on their next adventure. (R) (S) (HD)

2

Flog It! 5.30pm
At Shugborough,
Paul Martin learns
about the work
of photographer
Lord Lichfield

The team of experts revive a theatre chair from the
auditorium of Derby Hippodrome, a unique and
whimsical timepiece and a cherished bronze locket.

9

BBC2

Dreaming Whilst
Black 10.40pm
Kwabena (Adjani
Salmon) is offered
a break with a bigtime TV producer

deaf mountaineer Morag Skelton. Repeated 12.45am (S) (HD)
7.15 Great Coastal Railway Journeys Michael Portillo
travels from Hornsea to Spurn Point. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

ITV1

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BBC1

8.30—9.00 The Travelling Auctioneers
Christina Trevanion and Will Kirk visit the home of a
retired couple who are looking to downsize and sell
heirlooms to fund a trip to see their grandchild.
Series producer Neil Dimmock; Exec producer John Redshaw (R) (S) (HD)

NORTH EAST/CUMBRIA
8.00—9.00 24/7 Pet Hospital
Director Blake McGrow; Producer Nicola Barnes (R) (S) (HD)

London Spirit v Oval Invincibles
Isa Guha presents coverage of the men’s match at
Lord’s, as both teams play their opening match of
the competition, now in its third year (start 6.30).
The Spirit beat the Invincibles by three runs at the
Oval last year and went on to reach the Eliminator,
where they were defeated by Manchester Originals.
Commentary for today’s match is provided by
Isa Guha, Nick Bright, Phil Tufnell and Tymal Mills.
Also available to watch live on iPlayer.
Director Simon Wheeler; Editor Tim Peach (S) (HD)

Sport: page 31
Subsequent programmes may run late or change

Sandi Toksvig asks panellists Alan Davies, Gyles
Brandreth, Rosie Jones and Nish Kumar questions
about sideshows, stunts and scavenger hunts.
Director Diccon Ramsay; Series producer Piers Fletcher (R) (S) (HD)

YORKSHIRE/LINCOLNSHIRE/
EAST MIDLANDS
8.00—9.00 Canal Boat Diaries

10.00 A Bit of Fry and Laurie

Robbie Cumming makes a repair to his narrowboat
on the Tinsley lock flight in South Yorkshire. (S) (HD)
8.30 Robbie tackles the fast-flowing River Trent.
Exec producer Tony Parker Both episodes first shown on BBC4 (S) (HD)

comedy with Stephen Fry and Hugh
4Sketch
Laurie. A German officer interrogates a British

soldier, the over-dramatic businessmen catch up, and
the duo demonstrate how to deal with trick-ortreaters. Originally broadcast in 1990. See page 81.
Director Roger Ordish (R) (S) (HD)

9.00 Celebrity MasterChef

4

New series. Another batch of famous faces hope
to impress John Torode and Gregg Wallace.
This week, reality star Dani Dyer, comedian Marcus
Brigstocke, Gogglebox’s Mica Ven, actor James Buckley
and broadcaster Richie Anderson take on the culinary
challenge. They must think on their feet in the Under
the Cloche task, then prepare their dinner party dishes
in just 75 minutes. More tomorrow 8pm. See p80.
Series producer Simon Arnold; Series director David Crerar (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
10.40 Dreaming Whilst Black
3/6. The Friends. Kwabena struggles to impress his
high-flying love interest. Shown Mon 10pm BBC3 (S) (AD) (HD)
11.05 4/6. The Birth. Funmi’s life is in danger as she
goes into labour. All episodes available on iPlayer.
Adam
Howard
Suzy
William
Drew
Helen
Timothy
Dani
Lauren
Justin
Koby

6.15 Cricket: the Hundred

9.30 QI

A labrador has an extreme allergic reaction. (R) (S) (HD)
8.30 A greyhound is brought in to give blood.

Kwabena
Adjani Salmon
Amy
Dani Moseley
Maurice
Demmy Ladipo
Funmi
Rachel Adedeji
Vanessa
Babirye Bukilwa
Uncle Claude
Roger Griffiths
Grace
Jo Martin
Aunty Polly
Martina Laird
Aunty Lola Kemi Adekoya Lofinmakin
Stephanie
Muna Otaru
Dorvin
Daniel Ogbeide-John

5.30 Flog It!

Alexander Owen
Peter Serafinowicz
Lydia Rose Bewley
Akemnji Ndifornyen
Jessica Hynes
Isy Suttie
Angus Wright
Eshe Asante
Juliet Agnes
Nathaniel Oguns
Jason York

Writers Ali Hughes, Yemi Oyefuwa and Adjani Salmon; Directors Koby
Adom and Joelle Mae David; Series producer Nicola Gregory
Shown Monday 10.30pm BBC3 (S) (AD) (HD)

11.30 Question of Sport
With guests Kevin Campbell, Adam Gemili, Ashley
Giles and Jenny Meadows. Shown last Friday (S) (HD)
12 midnight Weather for the Week Ahead (S) (HD)
12.05—6.00am BBC News (S) (HD)

BBC1 Freeview 1/HD 101 Freesat 101 Sky 101 Virgin 101

10.30 Newsnight With Kirsty Wark. (S) (HD)
11.10 Weather (S) (HD)

11.15 Reframed: Marilyn Monroe

1/4. Documentary series about the movie star’s life.
Budding actress Norma Jeane changes her name
and lands her first starring role. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
12 midnight 2/4. Marilyn’s rise is nearly ruined when
news breaks that she posed nude for a calendar
earlier in her career. Continues Friday 9pm.
Both episodes shown last Friday (S) (AD) (HD)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes tomorrow 9pm BBC4

12.45—3.00am Sign Zone 12.45 See Hear Following
deaf mountaineer Morag Skelton. Shown 6.45am (S) (HD)
1.15 Your Home Made Perfect 6/8 Series 4. Architects
vie to improve a couple’s cramped kitchen. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
2.15 Garden Rescue From Leicestershire. (R) (S) (HD)

Cricket: the Hundred
Dan Lawrence has big shoes
to fill for London Spirit this
season, as he pulls on the
skipper’s armband for the
Lord’s side in place of the
retired Eoin Morgan,
England’s most successful
white-ball captain.
Lawrence and co will be
hoping for an improved
showing from last
season, when they
lost in the Eliminator
to Manchester Originals.
BBC2 Freeview 2/HD 102 Freesat 102 Sky 102 Virgin 102

WEDNESDAY 2 AUGUST
ITV1

3

Kate Garraway’s
Life Stories
9.00pm Strictly
speaking: Anton
Du Beke reflects
on a long career

Channel 4

4

7 in Wales

George Clarke’s
Old House, New
Home 8.00pm
George visits a
family’s project in
Weston-super-Mare

4.00pm Tipping Point

5.00pm Sun, Sea and Selling Houses

Ben Shephard presents as four contestants try
their luck on the big arcade machine. (R) (S) (HD)

Sisters Sophie and Charlotte Rodriguez help
international basketball player Therese Traynor
find a holiday home in the province of Alicante.

5.00 The Chase
Charlotte, Ben, Keith and Melanie take on one
of the Chasers. Bradley Walsh hosts. (R) (S) (HD)

6.00 Regional News Weather (S) (HD)
6.30 ITV Evening News Weather (S) (HD)
7.30 Emmerdale
Amelia braces herself to make a statement to
the police. Nicky and Suni are caught in a kiss.
Cain is irritated when Nate refuses extra work.
Writer Joanna Ebuwa Cast Tuesday/Thursday (S) (AD) (HD)

Sarah faces another trip to the hospital. Ryan
unveils his new online profile. Dev wants some
answers from Bernie. Jenny makes changes
to ease the Rovers’ ailing financial situation.
Dee-Dee Bailey
Channique Sterling-Brown
Gemma Winter-Brown
Dolly-Rose Campbell
Chesney Winter-Brown Sam Aston
Alya Nazir
Sair Khan
Kirk Sutherland Andrew Whyment
George Shuttleworth Tony Maudsley
Dom Everett
Darren Morfitt
Henry Newton
George Banks
Doctor
Jowanna Rose
Midwife
Nicola Sanderson

Writers Jan McVerry and Jonathan Harvey This week’s episodes
produced by Iain MacLeod and directed by Clive Arnold, Duncan
Foster and Joshua Reeves More cast Monday (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Kate Garraway’s Life Stories

4

New series. Ep 1. Kate Garraway is joined
by Strictly Come Dancing star Anton Du
Beke, who reflects on his remarkable journey
from a council estate in Kent and a provincial
dance school to starring on the most popular
entertainment show on television. Kate delves
behind the showbiz sparkle to learn how the
dancer turned judge endured many years of
adversity, as he opens up publicly about his
struggles for the first time. See page 80.

Producer/Director Lisa Robson
Executive producer Ceri Aston (S) (HD)

10.00 ITV News at Ten
Weather; Regional News and Weather

(S) (HD)

10.45 The Silence of the Lambs 5

q

Oscar-winning psychological thriller.
Promising FBI student Clarice Starling is
assigned to the search for a serial killer known
as “Buffalo Bill”, a brutal murderer who skins
the bodies of his female victims. Starling seeks
the assistance of Dr Hannibal “the Cannibal”
Lecter, a sociopathic former psychiatrist held
in a maximum security hospital. Review p87.

Series 1. Cullen to Cawdor. Michael
Portillo admires the Cullen Viaduct on
the Moray Firth. More tomorrow 7pm.

7.30 Secrets of Skin

Warren worries that Felix is hiding things.
Writer Colin O’Donnell Cast Tue/Fri Shown yesterday 7pm E4
Rptd Thu 6.30am E4 Next episode follows on E4 (S) (AD) (HD)

7.00 Channel 4 News Sport; Weather (S) (HD)
8.00 George Clarke’s Old House, New
Home

4

4/4 Series 9. Travelling to Weston-superMare, the architect meets novice DIY
renovators who are aiming to transform a
dilapidated Georgian-style crescent house that
was sub-divided into four flats during the 1980s.
But, as George soon discovers, with a budget of
£40,000, no prior building experience, and a
plan to live onsite with two young children, the
family’s stakes could not be higher. The whole
series is available to stream See page 80.
Series producer Joe Scannell; Executive producers Rebecca
Mulraine and Tania Fallon Rptd Thu 8pm 4seven (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Britain’s Most Expensive Houses
Ep 7 Series 2. Director of the country office Amy
has a £7.25 million house to sell in Oxshott,
Surrey. Close to Chelsea’s training ground, the
home is designed to attract the wealthy football
set. Managing director Guy visits an 18th century
château in the Loire Valley with its own private
golf course, while Diana meets a millionaire
businessman with expensive tastes who wants
to rent a London pad. The next episode will be
available to stream after this broadcast.

Series producer Sally Wingate; Exec producers Jannine Waddell
and Sophie Wurzer-Williams Repeated 2.15am 4seven (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 The Girl from Plainville

3/8. Never Have I Ever. Michelle finds herself
torn between Conrad and a new friend. Assistant
District Attorney Katie Rayburn reluctantly
agrees to pursue possible charges against
Michelle. The whole series is available to stream.
Continues tomorrow 10pm. (S) (AD) (HD)
Michelle Carter
Lynn Roy
Gail Carter

Elle Fanning Conrad “Coco” Roy III Colton Ryan
Chloë Sevigny Conrad “Co” Roy II Norbert Leo Butz
Cara Buono Katie Rayburn
Aya Cash

10.55 Gogglebox
Opinions on shows from September 2021, including
This Morning, Vigil and Changing Rooms.
Executive producers Leon Campbell, Mike Cotton and Victoria
Ray (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

ITV1 Freeview 3/HD 103 Freesat 103 Sky 103 Virgin 103
+1 Freeview 35 Freesat 112 Sky 203 Virgin 303

Channel 4 Freeview 4/HD 104 Freesat 104 Sky 104 Virgin 104
+1 Freeview 15 Freesat 121 Sky 204 Virgin 304

Director Jonathan Demme (1991, 15) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)

7.00pm Great Coastal Railway
Journeys

Repeated 1.15am (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

1.00am Romeo and Duet Dating show. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
1.55 Winning Combination Quiz show. (R) (S) (HD)
2.45 Direct Action: Should it be Stopped? Tonight
Anushka Asthana reports. Shown last Thu (S) (SL) (HD)
3.10 Next Level Chef 3/8. Gordon Ramsay presents
the multi-storey cookery contest. (R) (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)
4.05 Unwind A sequence to calm the mind. (S) (HD)
5.35—6.00am Ainsley’s Mediterranean Cookbook
Ainsley Harriott explores Sardinia. (R) (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)

Senator Ruth Martin
Diane Baker
Lieutenant Boyle
Charles Napier
Catherine Martin
Brooke Smith
Ardelia Mapp
Kasi Lemmons
Agent Burroughs Lawrence T Wrentz

BBC
SCOTLAND

I Married Marge. Homer reminisces about the
ups and downs of his life with Marge. (R) (S) (AD)

12 midnight Confessions of a Cam Girl 1/2. The
stories of five women selling explicit video content
online. Shown Monday 10pm (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)
12.55am Queer as Folk US 3/8. Judy struggles to
connect with Mingus. Shown Sun 10.55pm (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)
1.55 4/8. Marvin and Ali throw a party for people with
disabilities. Shown Sunday 12 midnight (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)
2.50 The Unique Boutique 2/4. David creates a suit
designed to comfortably accommodate a stoma bag.
See choice, page 61. Shown Mon 11.05pm (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)
3.45 Couples Come Dine with Me Three couples in
and around Newcastle-upon-Tyne compete. (R) (S) (HD)
4.40 Love It or List It Australia A couple find their
home a squeeze after having children. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
5.35 Sunday Brunch Best Bits Guests play King of
the Tin and choose their favourite biscuits. (R) (S) (HD)
5.45—6.15am Beat the Chef Home cook Darcie
serves her cod loin with salsa verde. (R) (S) (HD)

Clarice Starling
Jodie Foster
Dr Hannibal Lecter Anthony Hopkins
Jack Crawford
Scott Glenn
Jame Gumb
Ted Levine
Dr Frederick Chilton Anthony Heald
Barney
Frankie Faison

8.00pm The Repair
Shop 8.30 The
Travelling Auctioneers
12 midnight The Edit
12.15am Weather for
the Week Ahead
12.20—6.00 BBC News

Martin Amis,
Money and
Memories
10.00pm A look
at Amis’s 1984
novel Money

6.00 The Simpsons
6.30 Hollyoaks

BBC1
SCOTLAND

5/6. Ben Garrod explores the armour
and weaponry of vertebrate skin.
Continues tomorrow 7.30pm.

7.00pm Scotland’s
Sacred Islands with
Ben Fogle 8.00 Life on
the Bay: a new caravan
is installed on the site
8.30 Scotland’s Home
of the Year 9.00 The
Nine 10.00 River City:
a suspicious Tyler
demands the truth
from Nicole 10.30
Accidental Renovators
11.00 Return to Uist
11.30—12 midnight
Anton Danyluk on
Body Shame

Repeated 1.45am (R) (S) (HD)

STV

8.00 Patagonia: Earth’s
Secret Paradise

4.05—5.35am
Night Vision

2/3. Heat and Dust. A glimpse of the
South American wilderness and its
inhabitants. From the Andean peaks,
cameras follow the path of the wind,
sweeping east through the desert.
Producer Nick Smith-Baker
Series producer Tuppence Stone (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Immortal Egypt with
Joann Fletcher

4/4. Invasion. Travelling south to
Sudan, the historian examines the
history of the Nubian kings who ruled
Egypt from their southern homeland.
Directors/Producers Ian A Hunt and Sophie Elwin
Harris Repeated 2.15am (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 Martin Amis, Money and
Memories with William Boyd

4

Novelist William Boyd looks back
on his long friendship with fellow
writer Martin Amis, who died in May
at the age of 73. See page 81.
Series producer Simon Goretzki (S) (HD)

10.15 Money

A 2010 dramatisation of
41/2.
Martin Amis’s novel. John Self, a

dysfunctional director of commercials,
travels to America to make a feature
film and ends up speeding towards
self-destruction. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
11.15 2/2. Struggling to assume
control of his ailing feature film, John
Self weighs up the rival claims on his
affections of the seductive Selina and
mild-mannered Martina. See page 81.
John Self
Fielding Goodney
Felix
Barry Self
Selina Street
Vince
Doris Arthur
Ossie Twain
Martina Twain
Butch Beausoleil
Spunk Davis
Fat Paul
Caduta Massi
Omar
Terry Linex
Cherry
Lorne Guyland
Tony Victor

Nick Frost
Vincent Kartheiser
Nathan Stewart-Jarrett
Tim Pigott-Smith
Emma Pierson
Peter Wight
Amanda Abbington
Adrian Lukis
Hattie Morahan
Tamsin Egerton
Joshua Dallas
Tony Way
Jerry Hall
Phillip Browne
Paul Ritter
Eleanor Matsuura
Oliver Cotton
Mark Plonsky

Dramatised by Chris Hurford and Tom Butterworth
Producer Ben Evans
Director Jeremy Lovering (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

BBC1 WALES
8.00pm The Repair
Shop 8.30—9.00 Full
House: Tina, Debbie
and the team of
cleaners are back in
force 10.40 Walescast:
Felicity Evans and James
Williams discuss the
world of Welsh politics
11.10—12 midnight
Dreaming Whilst Black

BBC2 WALES
9.30—10.30pm
Firebombers: how the
1980s arson attacks
extended into England

BBC1
NORTHERN
IRELAND
8.00pm Barra’s
Return of the Wild:
Barra Best meets the
volunteers taking care
of the Northern Bald
Ibis 8.30—9.00
Extraordinary Portraits
with Bill Bailey:
photographer Brock
Elbank takes images
of Araf, Scotland’s
first Asian paramedic
10.40 Ulster by the
Sea: Catherine and
Rick award the
best-kept caravan
prizes at Cranfield 11.10
Dreaming Whilst Black:
double bill. Kwabena
persuades a white
industry executive to
read his script, then
Funmi goes into labour
12 midnight Question
of Sport: with Kevin
Campbell, Adam
Gemili, Ashley Giles
and Jenny Meadows
12.30—6.00am News

Television

Dev Alahan
Jimmi Harkishin
Bernie Winter
Jane Hazlegrove
Jenny Connor Sally Ann Matthews
Aadi Alahan
Adam Hussain
Ken Barlow
William Roache
Stu Carpenter
Bill Fellows
Daniel Osbourne
Rob Mallard
Peter Barlow
Chris Gascoyne
Owen Longford
Ben Hull
Gary Windass
Mikey North
Glenda Shuttleworth Jodie Prenger
Ed Bailey Trevor Michael Georges

9

24 in Scotland

WEDNESDAY

8.00 Coronation Street

Repeated tomorrow 2.30pm 4seven (R) (S) (HD)

BBC4

BBC2
NORTHERN
IRELAND
10.00—10.30pm
Naked Video: comedy
sketch show starring
Gregor Fisher

12.15am Mark Lawson Talks to Martin Amis
A 2010 interview with the author about
his life and work. See p81. (R) (S) (HD)
1.15 Great Coastal Railway Journeys

4

Shown 7pm (S) (AD) (HD)

1.45 Secrets of Skin Shown 7.30pm (S) (HD)
2.15—3.15am Immortal Egypt with Joann
Fletcher Shown 9pm (S) (AD) (HD)
BBC4 F’view 9/HD 106 F’sat 108 Sky 116 Virgin 108

a RT Choice m Family 2 Red button (R) Repeat (S) Subtitles (SL) Signing (AD) Audio description (HD) High def FILMS i Premiere (W) Widescreen (BW) Black/white

Channel 5
listings are overleaf

Outstanding HHHH Very good HHH Worth watching HH Could be worse H Poor

83

WEDNESDAY Freeview
Channel 5

5

23

ITV3

10

Dorset: Country and Coast 8.00pm

Spider-Man: Far from Home 9.00pm

Vera 8.00pm DCI Stanhope looks for

Sand sculptor Mark gets busy

Peter Parker encounters a monster

clues on the Northumberland moors

5.45am Milkshake! See page 86
9.15 New. Jeremy Vine (S) (HD)
11.15 New. Storm Huntley (S) (HD)
12.40pm New. Alexis Conran (S) (HD)

7.00pm New. Women’s World Cup
Highlights

6.00am Classic Emmerdale (S) 8.05 Never
the Twain: double bill. Simon delves into
genealogy, then Caroline asks the feuding
pair for help (S) 9.15 The Royal: 3/12 Series 7
Ken’s party goes with a bang Repeated 12.05am;
10.25 4/12. Lizzie’s house-warming party
brings some of the staff closer together
Repeated 1.05am (S) (AD) 11.35 Heartbeat:
23/25 Merton faces a race against time
to stop a saboteur when Aidensfield hosts a
car hill-climb; 12.40pm 24/25. A burglary
has unexpected repercussions (S) (AD)
1.45pm Classic Emmerdale: double bill. The
village is rife with gossip as news of the tiny
arrival spreads, then Steph brings the factory
to a halt (S) 2.45 Classic Coronation Street:
double bill. Rosie goes missing after being
grounded, then David takes revenge on Vera (S)
(AD) 3.50 A Touch of Frost: Series 3. Quarry.
A hunt saboteur is murdered (S) (AD) (HD)

1.40 5 News (S) (HD)

1.45 Home and Away Bree finds herself
battling with Mercedes for Remi’s attention.
Shown yesterday 6.30pm 5 Star (S) (AD) (HD)

2.15 Killing My Mistress HH
Thriller starring Alicia Leigh Willis.
Ambitious Catherine begins to fall in
love with her new boss, but then the corpse
of his ex-wife pops up in his mansion.

o

Director Jeff Hare (S) (W) (HD)

Television WEDNESDAY

BBC3

4.00 Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun
A focus on east London baker Lee, who
transferred his skills to Benidorm. (S) (HD)

5.00pm 5 News (S) (HD)
6.00 Eggheads
The No Hopers take on the titans of
quizzing. Jeremy Vine hosts. (S) (HD)
6.30 The experts are challenged by
university friends Steggle’s Stans. (S) (HD)
6.55 5 News Update (S) (HD)

7.00 Kew Gardens: a Year in Bloom

2/7 Series 2. Spring is in full flow at
Kew, and a stunning carpet of bluebells
brings visitors to the woodland area.
Elsewhere in the gardens, Kevin has to
find replacements for two damaged trees.
Directors Robin Leach and Luke Rowbotham (S) (HD)
7.55 5 News Update (S) (HD)

8.00 New. Dorset: Country and
Coast

Ep 2. At Weymouth beach, Mark
Anderson puts the finishing touches
to his latest sculpture made entirely of
sand, a coronation scene featuring
King Charles complete with crown.
Directors Hollie Osborn and John Shackleton (S) (HD)
Followed by 5 News Update (S) (HD)

9.00 New. Wonders of the Moon
with Dara O Briain

4

2/2. The comedian visits Jodrell
Bank, home of the UK’s largest
radio telescope, to recall how the first
photograph of the far side of the Moon
was taken in the 1950s. He then travels
to Cologne in Germany to meet
Samantha Cristoforetti, a European
astronaut who hopes to one day walk
on the Moon. See page 80. (S) (HD)

10.00 Inside the Force: 24/7
Response officers in Lincolnshire are
called to a flat which is covered in blood
and resembles a murder scene.
Series producer Claire McFall (S) (HD)

11.05 Police: Night Shift 999

8/8 Series 3. Roads Policing Officer PC
Merchant spots a man driving while
watching something on his phone.
Shown Monday 9pm (S) (HD)

12.05am Shoplifters: Caught on Camera (S)
(HD) 1.00 Home Shopping (S) (HD) 3.00 Great
British Ships (S) (HD) 3.50 Alex Polizzi’s
Italian Islands (S) (HD) 4.40 Wildlife SOS (S)
(SL) (HD) 5.05 House Doctor (S) (SL) (HD)
5.30—5.35am Entertainment News (S) (HD)
C5 Freeview 5/HD 105 Freesat 105 Sky 105 Virgin 105
+1 Freeview 38 Freesat 128 Sky 205 Virgin 305

BBC4 listings are overleaf

The latest action, featuring South Africa v
Italy, Argentina v Sweden, Jamaica v
Brazil and Panama v France. (S) (HD)

7.30 Squad Goals: Dorking ’Til I Die
6/6. Bianca deals with an unsettling
change, Charlie makes a big decision,
and HT confides in Calum. (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 New. The Traitors Australia

12/12. With the finish line in sight, do the
faithful have what it takes to win? (S) (HD)

9.00 Spider-Man: Far from Home
HHH Superhero action adventure

q

with Tom Holland, Samuel L Jackson,
Jake Gyllenhaal and Zendaya. When Peter
Parker, aka Spider-Man, and his pals fly to
Europe for the summer, they encounter a
savage monster and are saved by scientist
Quentin Beck, aka Mysterio. But can they
trust him? Available on iPlayer for 25 days.
Director Jon Watts (2019, 12) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)

11.00 Squad Goals: Dorking ’Til I
Die As 7.30pm. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.30 Him and Her

5/7 Series 2. Becky and Steve invite their
friends round to watch a lottery draw.
12 midnight 6/7. Becky and Steve face
delays while rushing to get to the cinema.
12.30am 7/7. Steve’s ex-girlfriend Julie
enlists his help to search for her missing
brother. A box set is on iPlayer. (S) (AD) (HD)
1.00 Dreaming Whilst Black (S) (AD) (HD) 1.50
Ruck Stars (S) (HD) 2.20—3.45am Him and
Her: three episodes (S) (AD) (SL) (HD)
BBC3 F’view 23/HD 107 (not Scot/Wales) F’sat 179/HD 107
Sky 115 (117 Wales; 141 Scotland) Virgin 107 (157 Scotland/Wales)

ITV2

6

6.00am World’s Funniest Videos (S) (HD)
6.35 Totally Bonkers Guinness World
Records (S) (SL) 7.00 Dress to Impress (S)
(SL) (HD) 8.00 One Tree Hill (S) (HD) 9.00
Dawson’s Creek (S) (HD) 10.00 Secret Crush
(S) (HD) 11.00 Dress to Impress (S) (HD)
12 noon Celebrity Dinner Date (S) (AD) (HD)
1.00pm Family Fortunes (S) (HD) 2.00 Chuck
(S) (HD) 3.05 One Tree Hill (S) (HD) 4.00
Dawson’s Creek (S) (HD) 5.00 Catchphrase
(S) (HD) 5.45 In for a Penny (S) (AD) (HD)
6.15pm FILM Harry Potter and the
Prisoner of Azkaban HHHH Fantasy
adventure starring Daniel Radcliffe. With
Sirius Black on the run, Harry Potter starts
his third year at Hogwarts surrounded by
heightened security. But is Black the real
threat, or is someone else trying to get to
Harry? Review page 87. (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
9.00 Family Guy Series 8. Peter’s version
of The Empire Strikes Back. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.30 Peter concludes his retelling of
The Empire Strikes Back. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 New. Shopping with Keith Lemon
With Olly Murs and Motsi Mabuse. (S) (HD)
10.30 Family Guy Series 8. Peter becomes
a member of the paparazzi. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 Lois encourages Brian to submit
a script for a TV pilot. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.30 American Dad! Series 10. Steve
tries to prove himself as a man. (S) (AD) (HD)
12 midnight Series 9. Bullock begins
showing early signs of dementia. (S) (AD) (HD)
12.30am The Stand Up Sketch Show (S) (HD)
1.00 Iain Stirling’s CelebAbility (S) (HD)
1.45 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records
(S) (HD) 2.50—3.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

ITV2 Freeview 6 Freesat 113 Sky 118 Virgin 115
+1 Freeview 29 Freesat 114 Sky 218 Virgin 315

6.00pm Heartbeat

25/25 Series 13. A frantic search ensues
after a child goes missing, leading to
tragedy in Aidensfield.(S) (AD)
7.05 1/26 Series 14. A new bobby is
making waves, but some of the locals are
unwilling to forget his background. (S) (AD)

8.00 Vera

1/4 Series 6. Dark Road. DCI Stanhope
investigates when a woman’s body is
found on the Northumberland moors. She
learns that the victim was a controversial
figure in her home town. (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 Law & Order: UK

2/7 Series 6. Immune. Ronnie and Sam
are given ten hours to find a hostage
following a bungled robbery in which a
“have-a-go-hero” was shot dead. Gueststarring Tamzin Outhwaite. (S) (AD) (HD)

11.00 Wycliffe
Series 2. Charades. The detective applies
his intuition to a fatal shooting, and soon
suspects the dead man’s brother-in-law
may know more than he is letting on.
Next episode tomorrow 11pm. (S) (HD)
12.05am The Royal Shown 9.15/10.25am (S) (AD)
2.10—2.30am Unwind (S) (HD)
ITV3 Freeview 10 Freesat 115 Sky 119 Virgin 117
+1 F’view 59 (9pm—4am) F’sat 116 Sky 219 Virgin 317

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6.00am The Best of the 70s (S) (HD) 6.20
Minder (S) (SL) (AD) 7.20 The Sweeney (S) (SL)
8.20 Giant Lobster Hunters (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)
9.20 Robin of Sherwood (S) 10.30 LIVE
Women’s World Cup: Panama v France, both
teams’ final match in Group F, held at Sydney
Football Stadium (kick-off 11.00) (HD)
1.05pm Made in Britain (S) (AD) (HD) 2.40
Magnum, PI (S) (HD) 3.45 The Sweeney (S)
4.50 Minder: gambling fever strikes Arthur
(S) (AD) 5.55 Made in Britain (S) (AD) (HD)
6.55pm New. Karen Carney’s Leaders of
the Pack Karen meets Asisat Oshoala. (S) (HD)
7.30 River Monsters Jeremy Wade heads
to the shores of the Mekong. (S) (HD)
8.00 Monster Carp Neil and Tom head to
the Lac du Der Chantecoq in France. (S) (HD)
9.00 FILM Rocky V HH Boxing drama
written by and starring Sylvester Stallone.
Bankrupt Rocky is persuaded to train young
fighter Tommy Gunn. (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
11.10 All Elite Wrestling: Collision Hardhitting action from AEW’s newest show. (S) (HD)
1.15am The Sweeney (S) (SL) 2.20 The Protectors
(S) (SL) 2.50 Unwind (S) (HD) 4.05 Robin of
Sherwood (S) 5.05—6.00am The Champions (S)

ITV4 Freeview 26 Freesat 117 Sky 120 Virgin 118
+1 Freesat 118 Sky 220 Virgin 318

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Kingdom 8.00pm Beatrice returns to
Market Shipborough with her baby
7.10am Pie in the Sky: 3/10 Series 2. Fisher
gives Henry an awkward assignment (S)
8.00 Lovejoy: 5/14 Series 5. The roguish
dealer tracks down a conman (S) 9.15 Classic
Holby City: Sahira must choose between her
career and her marriage Repeated 2.50am (S)
(HD) 10.35 Casualty: Megan is attacked by
the wife of a road-accident victim (S) 11.40
The Bill: Mickey Webb faces his demons
12.40pm Classic EastEnders: double bill.
Vicki investigates her dad’s whereabouts,
then Alfie’s upset that Kat is going on holiday
with Andy 2.00 The House of Eliott: 6/12
Series 2. The Montfords host Jack’s premiere
(S) 3.00 Lovejoy: 3/14 Series 4. A virtuoso
violinist plans a con (S) 4.10 Peak Practice:
1/13 Series 11. Will’s friends ignore his advice
5.20 Waiting for God: 3/10 Series 4. Diana
uses a slingshot to feed squirrels (S)

6.00pm Whatever Happened to the
Likely Lads?
3/14 Series 2. The Ant and the
Grasshopper. Bob has a trying time.

6.40 Last of the Summer Wine
Series 2. Forked Lightning. Compo’s
lucky rabbit’s foot causes problems. (S)
7.20 Who’s That Dancing with Nora
Batty, Then? The trio look for a piano. (S)

8.00 Kingdom

6/6 Series 2. A massive storm causes
danger and panic in the town.

9.00 Maisie Raine

6/6 Series 1. A Blast from the Past
A suicide attempt has repercussions. (S) (AD)

10.00 New Tricks

2/8 Series 5. Final Curtain. The team
re-investigates the case of an actor who
was apparently accidentally shot by his
wife on an opening night in 1992. (S) (AD)

11.20 Silent Witness

2/6 Series 15. Domestic. Harry finds the
bodies of a mother and daughter. (S) (AD) (HD)
1.35am Bleak House: Ep 2. Tulkinghorn begins
investigating Nemo’s death, but is warned off
by Lady Dedlock (S) (AD) (HD) 2.50—4.00am
Classic Holby City Shown 9.15am
Drama Freeview 20 Freesat 158 Sky 143 Virgin 116
+1 Freeview 60 Sky 243 Virgin 316

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7.00am Sam and Billie: the Mummy Diaries
(S) (AD) (HD) 8.30 Unboxed (S) (HD) 9.00
LittleBe: children’s programmes (HD)
12 noon Sugar Showdown (S) (HD) 12.25pm
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (S) (HD)
1.20 Sam and Billie: the Mummy Diaries (S)
(AD) (HD) 2.20 The Only Way Is Essex (S) (HD)
3.05 Dinner Date (S) (HD) 4.05 The Real
Housewives of Atlanta (S) (HD) 5.00 The
Real Housewives of Orange County (S) (HD)
6.00pm Masters of Flip Kortney and Dave
Wilson take on a historic overhaul. (S) (HD)
7.00 Buying and Selling A stay-at-home
father and working mother need some help
renovating their dated home. (S) (HD)
8.00 New. Jane the Virgin Petra and
Rafael both turn to Jane for advice. (S) (HD)
9.00 New. Olivia Marries Her Match Olivia
deals with the never-ending list of things
they need to do ahead of the wedding. (S) (HD)
10.00 Botched A woman’s previous surgery
is giving her cause for concern. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 Totally Unbelievable A selection of
bust-ups between famous people. (S) (HD)
12 midnight The Only Way Is Essex (S) (HD)
12.45—1.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

ITVBe Freeview 28 Freesat 119 Sky 131 Virgin 119
+1 Virgin 319

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More4

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Sky Arts

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Yesterday

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Cornwall with Simon Reeve 9.00pm

8.55am Kirstie’s Handmade Treasures 9.15
A Place in the Sun 10.05 A New Life in the
Sun: Road Trip 11.05 Find It, Fix It, Flog It (AD)
1.10pm Heir Hunters 3.10 Four in a Bed
5.50 The Secret Life of the Zoo: vets treat
an elephant calf for the herpes virus (AD)
6.55pm The Dog House Margot the collie
needs an owner who will ensure that her
active mind stays busy, while hiker Katherine
wants a dog that can keep up with her. The
pair unite to see how they get on. (AD)
7.55 Grand Designs Kevin McCloud meets
a couple planning to create a hybrid
structure by slotting in an entirely new
home within the walls of a 200-year-old
former blacking mill in Cumbria. (AD)
9.00 Hunt for the Arctic Ghost Ship
Cameras follow the multimillion-dollar
expedition that discovered the Victorian
ship HMS Erebus intact and upright on the
Arctic sea floor in September 2014. (AD)
10.00 24 Hours in A&E The latest batch of
patients to be treated in the A&E department
of London’s King’s College Hospital includes two
with serious head injuries, including a cyclist
who has been airlifted to the building. (AD)
11.05 The stories of children and teenagers
brought into A&E, including a 16-year-old
with suspected spinal injuries and a child
with a fish bone stuck in his tonsils. (AD)

6.00am Cirque du Soleil: Kurios — Cabinet
of Curiosities 8.00 Watercolour Challenge
9.00 Tales of the Unexpected (AD) 10.00
Alfred Hitchcock Presents 11.00 Discovering:
Carole Lombard (AD) 12 noon The Joy of
Painting 1.00pm Tales of the Unexpected
(AD) 2.00 Watercolour Challenge 3.00 Bill
Bailey’s Master Crafters: the Next Generation
(AD) 4.00 Discovering: Robert Duvall (AD)
5.00 Tales of the Unexpected (AD)
6.00pm Alfred Hitchcock Presents
An antiques dealer feels he should be
enjoying the finer things in life.
6.30 A man awaits the arrival of his
sweetheart from 20 years previously.
7.00 The Joy of Painting A scene of fluffy
trees surrounding the banks of a river.
7.30 Bob Ross conjures up a beautiful
scene featuring delicate, leafless trees.
8.00 Landscape Artist of the Year:
Celebrity Special With Jim Moir, Jessie
Cave, Jordan Stephens, Rose Matafeo,
Caryn Franklin and Tomasz Shafernacker.
9.00 Discovering: Joan Fontaine
A profile of the Hollywood star, who won an
Oscar for her role in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1941
psychological thriller Suspicion. (AD)
10.00 David Byrne’s American Utopia Spike
Lee’s film of a Broadway performance featuring
tracks from the album of the same name.

6.10am Underground Worlds (AD) 8.00
Abandoned Engineering (AD) 10.00 War
Factories 11.00 The World at War
12 noon Great American Railroad Journeys
1.00pm Travel Man: 48 Hours in Bergen (AD)
1.30 Travel Man: 48 Hours in Madrid: with
Ellie Taylor (AD) 2.00 Bangers and Cash
4.00 The World at War 5.00 War Factories
6.00pm Great British Railway Journeys
Michael Portillo visits Sellafield.
6.30 From Kirkby-in-Furness to Lancaster.
7.00 Bangers and Cash: Restoring Classics
A super-rare Renault Clio Williams 2. (AD)
8.00 Canal Boat Diaries Robbie Cumming
concludes his journey by travelling from
Barton Swing Aqueduct to Liverpool Docks.
8.30 Villages by the Sea Ben Robinson
examines the history of Clovelly in Devon.
9.00 Cornwall with Simon Reeve The
explorer travels through the county.
10.00 Bangers and Cash Derek auctions
off vehicles that were used in Heartbeat.
11.00 Abandoned Engineering An
abandoned railway station in Spain. (AD)

12.10am Emergency Helicopter Medics (AD) 1.15
999: on the Front Line (AD) 2.20 24 Hours in A&E
(AD) 3.25—3.50am Food Unwrapped (AD)

12.05am Why Do We Dance? 1.20 Tchaikovsky,
Swan Lake 3.45 Arts Uncovered 4.00 I Hate Jane
Austen by Giles Coren (AD) 5.00—6.00am Auction

More4 F’view 18 F’sat 124 Sky 136 Virgin 147
+1 Freesat 125 Sky 236 Virgin 347

Sky Arts Freeview 11 Freesat 147 Sky 130
Virgin 140/HD 123 BT 350/HD 365

E4

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6.00am Hollyoaks Shown Mon/Tue 6.30pm C4
(AD) 7.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA
(SL) 9.00 Young Sheldon (AD) 10.00 Brooklyn
Nine-Nine (AD) 11.00 Modern Family
12 noon The Big Bang Theory (AD) 2.00pm
The Neighborhood 3.00 Modern Family
4.00 Young Sheldon: two episodes (AD)
5.00 The Big Bang Theory: double bill (AD)
6.00pm The Big Bang Theory 14/24
Series 10. Sheldon learns of a machine that will
help him understand human emotions. (AD)
6.30 15/24. Sheldon goes on a train trip. (AD)
7.00 New. Hollyoaks Pearl gives her
daughter some sage advice on Warren.
Cast pp73/103 Repeated tomorrow 6.30pm C4 (AD)

7.30 Impractical Jokers Joe, Sal, Murr, and
Q head to Miami to play pranks on the beach.
8.00 New. Lego Masters New Zealand
The teams compete in the semi-final. (AD)
9.00 Gogglebox Viewers’ opinions on
Peaky Blinders and Made in Chelsea. (AD)
10.00 Naked Attraction Skyla and Zeus
are looking for their perfect partners. (AD)
11.05 First Dates Actor TJ meets support
worker and fellow Bristolian Chanelle. (AD)
12.05am Gogglebox (SL) (AD) 1.10 New.
Impractical Jokers First shown on Comedy Central
2.05 Gogglebox (SL) (AD) 3.00 The Big Bang
Theory (AD) 3.50 Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD)
4.40—6.00am The Neighborhood

E4 Freeview 13 Freesat 122 Sky 135 Virgin 106
+1 Freeview 30 Freesat 123 Sky 235 Virgin 306
E4 Extra Freeview 31 Freesat 181 Sky 138 Virgin 287

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6.00am Fantasy Homes by the Sea 7.00 Shopping
8.00 Salvage Hunters 10.00 The Bidding Room
11.00 Antiques Road Trip 12 noon Money for Nothing
1.00pm A Place in the Sun 2.00 My 600lb Life (AD)
3.00 Say Yes to the Dress: 4.00 Animal Cops
Philadelphia (AD) 5.00 Helicopter ER 6.00 The
Yorkshire Auction House 7.00 Antiques Road Trip
9.00 The Bad Skin Clinic 10.00 New. Dr Pimple
Popper 11.00 Ghost Adventures (AD) 12 midnight
Kindred Spirits 1.00am Ghost Adventures 2.00
Shopping 4.00 as 4pm 5.00—6.00am Dr Jeff

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9.00am Come Dine with Me (AD) 11.30
A New Life in the Sun: Where Are They Now?
12.30pm A Place in the Sun: Home or Away
2.30 Sun, Sea and Selling Houses 3.30
Come Dine with Me: dinner parties in Bath
6.00pm A Place in the Sun A couple
hoping to buy a property in Tuscany.
7.00 Secrets of the Supermarket Own
Brands Denise Van Outen reveals the truth
behind who really makes supermarket own
brand products. Shown Mon 8pm Channel 4 (AD)
8.00 Bake Off: the Professionals 5/10
Series 6. Contestants let their imaginations
run riot as they create 24 mille-feuille. See
choice, p70. Shown yesterday 8pm C4 (AD)
9.00 24 Hours in A&E Joanna has a spinal
fracture after falling from her horse. (AD)
10.00 Sky Coppers 4/6. The unit hunts for
a group of kids trying to set fire to a shed. An
infrared drone looks for a missing teen. (AD)
11.05 FILM Greed HHH Satirical comedy
starring Steve Coogan. Unpopular fashion
mogul Sir Richard “Greedy” McCreadie hires
a ghostwriter to produce his autobiography.
Review p47. Shown Saturday 10.30pm C4 (AD)
1.10am Gogglebox (AD) 2.15 Britain’s Most
Expensive Houses (AD) 3.20 Becoming Elizabeth
(AD) 4.30—5.00am Four in a Bed

4seven Freeview 49 Freesat 127 Sky 137 Virgin 143

Quest

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6.00am How Do They Do It? 6.30 Shed and Buried
7.00 The Repair Shop at Christmas 8.00
American Pickers (AD) 10.00 Chasing Classic Cars
11.00 Supertruckers 12 noon How It’s Made
1.00pm The Repair Shop at Christmas 2.00
Money for Nothing 3.00 Find It, Fix It, Flog It
4.00 Salvage Hunters 5.00 Salvage Hunters: the
Restorers 6.00 Wheeler Dealers (AD) 7.00
Outback Opal Hunters 8.00 Salvage Hunters
9.00 The Repair Shop 10.00 World’s Greatest
Motorcycle Rides 11.00 How Do They Do It?
12 midnight Wheeler Dealers (AD) 1.00am Massive
Engineering Mistakes 2.00 Supertruckers 3.00
Wheeler Dealers 4.00—5.00am How It’s Made

Quest Freeview 12 Freesat 172/HD 167 Sky 144 Virgin 137
Really Freeview 17 Freesat 160 Sky 142 Virgin 128
+1 Freeview 70 Freesat 168 Sky 244 Virgin 337
BBC News Freeview 231 Freesat 212 Sky 503 Virgin 601 Sky News Freeview 233 Freesat 202 Sky 501 Virgin 603 BT 313

RadioTimes 29 July–4 August 2023

The adventurer meets local characters

9.00am NCIS (AD) 11.55 Entertainment
News 12 noon Law & Order 6.00pm NCIS
Series 1. Triple bill. A gunman takes Ducky
and Kate hostage 7.00 A US Marine is found
dead at a nightclub 8.00 A former US Navy
Seal escapes from prison (AD) 9.00 New.
Criminal Minds Series 7. Several bodies are
discovered in lifeguard towers First shown on
Sky Witness 10.00 Law & Order: Special
Victims Unit Series 18. Double bill. A news
anchor makes a rape accusation against
her boss on air, then the team is asked to
disprove accusations against a congressman
11.55 NCIS Series 14. (AD) 1.50am Lucifer
3.35—4.00am Criminals: Caught on Camera

5 USA F’view 21 F’sat 129 Sky 141 Virgin 120 (162 Scot)
+1 Freesat 130 Sky 241 Virgin 320

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8.00am Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun
10.00 Car Pound Cops: Give Me My Car Back!
11.00 Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords
12 noon Traffic Cops 2.00pm Police
Interceptors 5.00 Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly
6.00pm Home and Away Bree finds herself
battling with Mercedes. Shown 1.45pm C5 (AD)
6.30 New. Lyrik pulls out of Battle of the
Bands. Repeated tomorrow 1.45pm C5 (AD)
7.00 GPs: behind Closed Doors Richard
has painful ribs after injuring himself at work.
8.00 Call the Bailiffs: Time to Pay Up
The work of High Court enforcement agents.
9.00 New. My Lover, My Killer 2/10
Series 2. Real life cases of people who
were murdered by their own partners. (AD)
10.00 FILM Unknown HHH Thriller
starring Liam Neeson and Diane Kruger.
While in Berlin, scientist Dr Martin Harris is
involved in a car accident that leaves him in
a coma. He wakes up four days later with
gaps in his memory and no identification.

12 midnight Great British Railway Journeys
1.00am Underground Worlds (AD) 2.00—3.00am
Forbidden History: the Church of Satan (AD)

12.20am FILM Rage H 2.25 Home and Away
(AD) 2.50—3.00am Entertainment News

Yesterday Freeview 27 Freesat 159 Sky 155 Virgin 129
+1 Sky 255 Virgin 329

5 Star Freeview 32 Freesat 131 Sky 128 Virgin 126
+1 Freesat 141 Sky 228 Virgin 326

Dave

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7.10am Yianni: Supercar Customiser (AD)
8.00 Top Gear (AD) 9.00 Border Force:
America’s Gatekeepers (AD) 10.00 Outback
Pilots 11.00 Gino’s Italian Escape: Hidden
Italy 11.30 Gino’s Italian Coastal Escape
12 noon Celebrity Storage Hunters 1.00pm
Cop Car Workshop 2.00 Top Gear (AD)
4.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games
4.40 Room 101 5.20 Would I Lie to You?
6.00pm Taskmaster 2/8 Series 5.
7.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games
With panellists Jay Blades, Shaun Keaveny,
Rachel Parris and Jan Ravens.
7.40 With former winners Hugh Dennis,
Sarah Greene, Nish Kumar and Holly Walsh.
8.20 QI XL With Janet Street-Porter,
Sandi Toksvig and Johnny Vegas.
9.20 Would I Lie to You? Guests include
Johnny Vegas, Alex Jones and Martin Lewis.
10.00 Schitt’s Creek 12/13 Series 2. Some
of Moira’s lawn signs begin to disappear.
10.30 13/13. Johnny and Moira see a
couple they knew in a past life.
11.00 Live at the Apollo Double bill.
1.00am Mock the Week 1.40 Would I Lie to You?
3.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games
3.35—4.00am The Indestructibles

Dave F’view 19 F’sat 157 Sky 111 (Wales 112) Virgin HD 127
Dave Ja Vu Freeview 57 Sky 211 (Wales 212) Virgin 327

London Live

8

6.00am UBOS 6.30 Dork Hunters from
Outer Space 7.00 Skysurfer Strike Force 7.30
Roswell Conspiracies 8.00 The World’s Most
Incredible Hotels 9.00 Hitler’s Bodyguard
10.00 Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands
11.00 Monkey 12 noon Space 1999 1.00pm
FILM Sabotage HHHH Mystery starring
Sylvia Sidney (BW) 2.35 FILM The Trap
HHHH Romantic adventure starring Rita
Tushingham 4.45 The Avengers (BW) 6.00
London Live News 7.00 Ainsley’s Gourmet
Express 7.45 London Districts 8.00 Italy
Made With Love 9.00 An Englishman in New
York 10.35 FILM The Informers HH (BW)
12.45am FILM Everything Must Go HHHH
2.45 Blackonomics 3.15 London Districts 3.30
News Rewind 5.00—6.00am Talking Points

London Live Freeview 8 Sky 117 Virgin HD 159
Available in London area only. Other regional stations
available on Freeview 7 or 8 around the country

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9.05am Criminals: Caught on Camera 9.25
Traffic Cops 10.25 Trucking Hell 11.25 Police
Interceptors 12.25pm FILM Man without a
Star HHHH Western. Review page 87
2.15 FILM Showdown HHH Western (BW)
4.00 Trucking Hell 5.00 Traffic Cops
6.00pm Police Interceptors A motorist
calls to report one of the police officers.
7.00 A failure to stop turns into a kidnapping.
8.00 The Operation Reacher team raids a
suspected drug dealer’s house.
9.00 FILM The Hunt for Red October
HHHH Cold War action thriller starring Sean
Connery, Alec Baldwin and Scott Glenn. The
trial voyage of new Soviet submarine Red
October does not go as expected. The
heavily armed vessel heads for America. Is it
about to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike?
11.45 FILM A Certain Justice HH Action
drama starring Cung Le and Dolph Lundgren.
A traumatised soldier who fought in Iraq
becomes involved in a conflict closer to home
when he crosses an Aryan Nation gang.

Television

Landscape Artist of the Year:
Celebrity Special 8.00pm In Whitstable

21

WEDNESDAY

Hunt for the Arctic Ghost Ship
9.00pm Looking for HMS Erebus

5 USA

1.45am Street Crime UK: Caught on Camera
2.50—3.00am Entertainment News

5 Action Freeview 33 Freesat 132 Sky 150 Virgin 130

5 Select

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9.00am GPs: behind Closed Doors 10.00 The
Yorkshire Vet 12 noon Ben Fogle: New Lives
in the Wild 1.00pm Walking Victorian Britain
2.00 The Yorkshire Vet 4.00 Ben Fogle: New
Lives in the Wild 5.00 Walking Wartime Britain
6.00pm Inside the Tower of London
7.00 Walking Wartime Britain Wartime
visitors that wound up in south Devon.
8.00 The Chernobyl Disaster: Meltdown
The events that led up to the 1986 disaster.
9.00 The Chernobyl Disaster: Firestorm
Firefighters battle to control the blaze.
10.00 The Chernobyl Disaster: Fallout
How a nuclear disaster was contained.
11.00 World’s Deadliest Weather: Caught
on Camera Wildfires devastate Greece.
12.05am Forged in Fire 1.55 Inside the Tower of
London 2.55—3.00am Entertainment News

5 Select F’view (HD only) 46 F’sat 133 Sky 153 Virgin 138

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PBS America

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CHILDREN’S
Milkshake! on C5

Television WEDNESDAY

5.45am Thomas & Friends 6.00
Peppa Pig 6.15 Blue’s Clues & You
6.40 New. Oggy Oggy 6.45 Odo
6.55 Fireman Sam 7.05 Thomas &
Friends: All Engines Go! 7.15 Sesame
Street Mecha Builders 7.30 Peppa Pig
7.40 Paw Patrol 8.00 Pip and Posy
8.10 Paddington 8.30 Paw Patrol
8.40 Baby Shark’s Big Show!
8.55 Milo 9.05 Milkshake! Monkey
9.10—9.15am Milkshake! Craft Party

The Secret Life of Four, Five,
Six Year Olds Australia 8.00pm

Tom Kerridge Barbecues
8.00pm Experimental dishes

Your Brain 7.10pm Heather

6.10am Nigel Slater’s Simple Cooking
(S) (HD) 6.35 Plate of Origin (S) (HD)
8.00 Tipping Point (S) (HD) 10.00
DIY SOS: the Big Build (S) (HD)
12 noon MasterChef USA: Legends
(S) (HD) 1.00pm Tipping Point (S)
(HD) 4.00 My Dream Home (S) (HD)
6.00pm New. Property Brothers
at Home: Drew’s Honeymoon
House The Scott brothers
transform a master suite. (S) (HD)
7.00 Ambulance Australia (S) (HD)
8.00 The Secret Life of Four,
Five, Six Year Olds Australia
Children learn to navigate the
world around them. (S) (HD)
9.00 24 Hours in A&E A woman
has a severe epileptic fit. (HD)
10.00 Stacey Dooley Sleeps
Over A Mormon family. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 Louis Theroux: the Most
Hated Family in America (S) (AD)
12.20am One Born Every Minute
(S) (HD) 1.30 Bang on Budget (S)
(HD) 2.20—3.00am Rachel Khoo’s
Kitchen Notebook: Cosmopolitan
Cook: the Amalfi coastline (S) (HD)
W F’view 25 F’sat 156 Sky 132 Virgin HD 125
+1 Sky 232 Virgin 325

6.00am Trisha’s Southern Kitchen
(HD) 7.00 The Pioneer Woman (HD)
8.00 Magnolia Table with Joanna
Gaines (S) (HD) 9.00 New. The Kitchen
(HD) 10.00 Jamie Cooks Italy (HD)
11.00 Tom Kerridge Barbecues (S)
(HD) 12 noon The Great British
Bake Off (S) (HD) 2.00pm James
Martin’s French Adventure (HD)
3.00 The Hairy Bikers Go North (S)
(HD) 4.00 Magnolia Table with
Joanna Gaines (S) (HD) 5.00
Delicious Miss Brown (HD) 6.00pm
James Martin’s French Adventure
(HD) 7.00 The Great British Bake
Off (S) (HD) 8.00 Tom Kerridge
Barbecues: double bill. The chef
gets experimental, then fires up his
barbecue for a Middle Eastern feast
(S) (HD) 9.00 James Martin’s French
Adventure (HD) 10.00 The Hairy
Bikers Go North: the duo explore
Tyne and Wear (S) (HD) 11.00 New
Summer Baking Championship:
Jesse Palmer challenges the bakers
to make radical s’more desserts (HD)

8.00am Britain and the Sea
9.20 New. Your Brain (S) 10.30
Royal History’s Biggest Fibs with
Lucy Worsley (S) 11.50 Israel: a
Twice Promised Land 1.00pm
Britain and the Sea 2.15 Your Brain
(S) 3.30 Royal History’s Biggest
Fibs with Lucy Worsley (S) 4.40
Israel: a Twice Promised Land
5.55 Britain and the Sea
7.10pm Your Brain 1/2
Neuroscientist Heather Berlin
embarks on a quest to
understand how the brain shapes
reality. See page 80. (S)
8.25 Royal History’s Biggest
Fibs with Lucy Worsley 3/3
The historian examines the
reign of Queen Anne. (S)
9.35 Israel: a Twice Promised
Land 1/2. Focusing on the period
between the war’s end and the UN
vote on the Partition Plan.
10.50 Your Brain As 7.10pm
12 midnight Royal History’s
Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley (S)
1.15—2.00am Beautiful Serengeti (S)
PBS America F’view 84 (1pm-12 midnight only)
Freesat 155 Sky 174 Virgin 187

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7.00am Border Security:
America’s Front Line 8.00 Nothing
to Declare 9.00 Motorway Patrol
(AD) 10.00 Highway Cops 11.00
Highway Patrol 12 noon Motorway
Patrol (AD) 1.00pm Border Patrol
2.00 Border Security: America’s
Front Line 3.00 Nothing to Declare
4.00 Warehouse 13 5.00 Star
Trek: the Next Generation 6.00
Merlin (AD) 7.00 Star Trek: Voyager
8.00 New. NCIS: New Orleans:
a man impersonating Lasalle tries
to free a young woman from jail
9.00 New. SEAL Team: Bravo
Team is sent in to rescue a group
of American students (AD) 10.00
Grimm 11.00 New. Snapped
12 midnight Killer in My Village
1.00am The Force: North East 2.00
UK Border Force 3.00 Highway Patrol
4.00 Motorway Patrol: double bill
5.00—6.00am Highway Cops

Pick F’view 36 F’sat 144 Sky 151 Virgin 135

HGTV

44

7.00am The Saved and Remade
Workshop 8.00 Building the Dream
9.00 A Place in the Sun 10.00
Escape to the Country 11.00 My
Dream Derelict Home in the Sun
12 noon My Lottery Dream Home
1.00pm Good Bones 2.00 Flip or
Flop 3.00 Building the Dream
4.00 Escape to the Country 5.00
The Saved and Remade Workshop
6.00 A Place in the Sun 7.00 My
Dream Derelict Home in the Sun
8.00 Escape to the Country 9.00
Brother v Brother (AD) 10.00 New
Home Town (AD) 11.00 Good Bones
12 midnight My Dream Derelict Home in
the Sun 1.00am The Saved and Remade
Workshop 2.00 New. House Hunters
3.00—4.00am My Lottery Dream Home

HGTV F’view 44 F’sat 166 Sky 158 Virgin 191
+1 Sky 258 Virgin 391

FREEVIEW channels
continued from overleaf

86

12 midnight Guy’s Grocery Games (HD)
1.00am Restaurant: Impossible (HD)
2.00—3.00am Donal’s Meals in
Minutes: quick and easy meals (HD)

Food Network Freeview 43 Freesat 148
Sky 140 Virgin 190

Great TV

50

6.00am Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye
8.00 Highway to Heaven 9.00
FILM Danielle Steel’s No Greater
Love HH Period romantic drama
10.50 Movie News 11.00 Castle
1.00pm Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye 3.00
Diagnosis Murder 5.00 Murder,
She Wrote 7.00 M*A*S*H 9.00
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased):
Marty witnesses a murder 10.00
The Persuaders!: an heiress is
exploited 11.00 Return of the Saint
12 midnight M*A*S*H 2.00am Randall
and Hopkirk (Deceased) 3.00 The
Persuaders! 3.50—4.00am Movie News

Great TV Freeview 50 (limited) Freesat 142
Sky 157 Virgin 170 +1 Freesat 143 Sky 257

RealityXtra

68

9.00am Medical Detectives 11.00
Donal MacIntyre: Unsolved 12 noon
The Fugitive 1.00pm The Jury
Room 3.00 Medical Detectives
5.00 The Fugitive 6.00 Donal
MacIntyre: Unsolved: the journalist
revisits the case of a man who
vanished, having been last seen on
the streets of Dublin in 2000 7.00
Judge Judy: real-life court cases
1.00am Donal MacIntyre: Unsolved
2.00 The Fugitive 3.00 The Jury Room
5.00—6.00am Medical Detectives

RealityXtra Freeview 68 Freesat 134
Sky 147 Virgin 172

BBC Parliament 232

Berlin explains new research

4

Blaze

64

6.00am Hardcore Pawn 6.50 The
UnXplained with William Shatner
7.45 Ancient Aliens 9.40 Strange
Evidence 10.40 The Curse of Oak
Island 11.40 Storage Wars Canada
12.10pm Storage Wars 1.05 Pawn
Stars 2.05 Hardcore Pawn
4.00 Ancient Aliens 6.00 The
UnXplained with William Shatner
7.00 Storage Wars 8.00
Dickinson’s Real Deal: from
Windsor, Berkshire 9.00 Weird or
What? with William Shatner 10.00
Paranormal: Caught on Camera: a
father and son who claimed to have
encountered Bigfoot in Washington
11.00 Stalked by a Ghost
12 midnight The Curse of Oak Island
1.00am The UnXplained with William
Shatner 2.00 Barter Kings 3.00
Dickinson’s Real Deal 3.45 Storage
Wars Canada 4.10 American
Restoration 5.00—6.00am Pawn Stars

Blaze F’view 64 F’sat 162 Sky 164 Virgin 174

Challenge

48

7.00am The Chase 10.00
Pointless Celebrities: Simon Day,
Paul Chowdhry, Emily Atack, Ian
Lavender, Kerry Godliman, Graeme
Garden, Steve Pemberton and
Bob Mortimer take part 11.00
Supermarket Sweep 12 noon Wheel
of Fortune (AD) 1.00pm Family
Fortunes (AD) 2.00 Who Wants to Be
a Millionaire? 3.00 Strike It Lucky
4.00 Blockbusters 5.00 Bullseye
6.00 Who Wants to Be a
Millionaire? 7.00 Pointless
Celebrities: Rich Hall and Shappi
Khorsandi, Siân Lloyd and Fred
MacAulay, Mark King and Stuart
Maconie, and Chemmy Alcott and
Amy Williams try to get close to zero
8.00 The Chase 10.00 Who Wants to
Be a Millionaire? 11.00 Bullseye (AD)

BBC News simulcast, with news hourly plus:
6.00am Breakfast 9.00 Nicky Campbell 11.00
News 11.30 Business 11.45 News 12 noon News
Now 1.30 Sport 1.45 News 2.00 News Now
2.30 Business 2.45 News Now 3.00
Verified 6.30 Sport 7.00 Daily Global 8.00
Context 10.00 News 10.30 Newsnight 11.10
Newsday 11.30 HARDtalk 12 midnight
Newsday 12.30am Business 12.45 Sport
1.00 Newsday 1.30 Business 1.45 Sport 2.30
Business 2.45 Sport 3.30 Scandalous
4.30 HARDtalk 5.30—6.00am Business

12 midnight The Chase 4.00am
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
5.00—6.00am Bullseye: double bill

BBC Parliament Freeview 232 Freesat 201
Sky 504 Virgin 605

Challenge Freeview 48 Freesat 146
Sky 145 Virgin 139

Full listings for Channel 5 are on p84

CBeebies

202

6.00am Love Monster 6.08 Small
Potatoes 6.10 Bing 6.20 Teletubbies
6.35 Tee and Mo 6.40 Chuggington
6.50 Bing 7.00 Colourblocks 7.05 Hey
Duggee 7.20 Bluey 7.40 Go Jetters
7.50 Peter Rabbit 8.05 Octonauts
8.15 Numberblocks 8.20 Alphablocks
8.25 Nick Cope’s Popcast 8.35 Justin’s
House 9.00 Bing 9.10 Yakka Dee! 9.15
Messy Goes to OKIDO 9.25 Colourblocks
9.30 Twirlywoos 9.45 Something Special:
We’re All Friends 10.05 Teletubbies
10.20 The Baby Club 10.35 What’s in
Your Bag? 10.40 Roots and Fruits
10.50 Vegesaurs 10.55 Bluey 11.00
Supertato 11.10 Let’s Go for a Walk
11.25 School of Roars 11.30 Teeny Tiny
Creatures 11.45 Our Family 12 noon
My World Kitchen 12.10pm Maddie, the
Zoo and You 12.30 Waffle the Wonder
Dog 12.40 Andy’s Global Adventures
1.00 Yakka Dee! 1.05 Numberblocks
1.10 Alphablocks 1.15 Dog Loves Books
1.25 Hey Duggee 1.30 Love Monster
1.40 Colourblocks 1.45 Something
Special: We’re All Friends 2.05 Teletubbies
2.20 Roots and Fruits 2.25 Supertato
2.30 Go Jetters 2.45 Apple Tree House
3.00 Andy’s Safari Adventures 3.15
Get Set Galactic 3.35 Hey Duggee
3.45 Peter Rabbit 3.55 Fred & Pete’s
Treasure Tales 4.10 Octonauts 4.25
Bluey 4.40 Supertato 4.45 Go Jetters
5.00 Mr Tumble’s Busy Bus Day; My
Petsaurus 5.25 Sarah & Duck 5.35
New. JoJo & Gran Gran 5.45 Moon
and Me 6.10 Clangers 6.20 In the
Night Garden... 6.50—7.00pm
CBeebies Bedtime Stories

CBeebies F’view 202 F’sat 608 Sky 608 Virgin 702

CBBC

201

7.00am Shaun the Sheep 7.05
Danger Mouse 7.20 Dennis & Gnasher
7.30 Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese
7.45 New. Newsround 7.55 New.
Grizzy and the Lemmings 8.10 Odd
Squad 8.25 Meet the McQueens 8.40
Monster Loving Maniacs 8.50 New.
Total Drama Island: Reboot 9.15 New.
Home Sweet Rome 9.40 Gym Stars
10.05 Matilda and the Ramsay Bunch
10.20 Danny & Mick 10.35 Operation
Ouch! 11.00 Grizzy and the Lemmings
11.25 Taffy 11.45 Boy Girl Dog Cat
Mouse Cheese 12.20pm Danger Mouse
12.45 Octonauts 12.55 Shaun the
Sheep 1.10 Mustangs FC 2.00 So
Awkward 2.30 Silverpoint 2.50 Dragons:
Riders of Berk 3.15 Danger Mouse 3.25
Shaun the Sheep 3.35 Ninja Express
3.45 Taffy 4.00 New. Grizzy and the
Lemmings 4.15 Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse
Cheese 4.30 Monster Loving Maniacs
4.45 Odd Squad 5.10 We Bare Bears
5.20 Summer Camp Island 5.35 New.
Transformers EarthSpark 6.00 Jamie
Johnson 6.25 Grizzy and the Lemmings
6.35—7.00pm The Next Step

CBBC F’view 201 F’sat 607 Sky 607 Virgin 701

CITV

203

6.00am Dare Master 6.05 Hotel
Transylvania 6.30 Dave Spud 7.00
Lloyd of the Flies 7.30 Mr Bean 8.00
50/50 Heroes 8.30 Scooby-Doo 10.00
Teen Titans Go! 10.15 Looney Tunes
Cartoons 10.30 Smarty Pants 11.00
Mystery Lane 11.30 Mr Magoo 12 noon
Teen Titans Go! 12.30pm Scooby-Doo
2.00 Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous
2.30 Inspector Gadget 3.00 Smarty
Pants 3.30 Scooby-Doo 4.30 Looney
Tunes Cartoons 4.45 Dave Spud 5.15
Dodo 5.30 Jurassic World Camp
Cretaceous 5.55 Tata and Kuma 6.00
Scooby-Doo 7.00 Captain Underpants
7.25 Lego Hidden Side 7.30 Lego
DREAMZzz 8.00 New. Lego Chima:
the Power of Chi 8.25 NinjaGo: Hunted
8.55—9.00pm Dare Master

CITV F’view 203 F’sat 602 Sky 612 Virgin 734

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FILMS
Film4

14

11.00am Tooth Fairy HHH
Energetic and fun fantasy comedy
in which an ice hockey star spends
a week as a tooth fairy. Review,
right. Dwayne Johnson (2009, PG) (S) (AD)
1.05pm Rango HHH Surreal
animated western that’s energised
by the voice of Johnny Depp as the
cowboy chameleon hero. (2011, PG) (S)
3.15 Carry On Constable HHH
Sergeant Sid James oversees a
bunch of bungling bobbies in this
fourth outing for the comedy team.
Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques (1960, U) (S)

5.00 The Desert Rats HHH
Richard Burton’s ragtag brigade
takes on James Mason’s enemy
forces in this rousing drama set in
Tobruk in 1941. Robert Newton (1953, U) (S)

6.45pm The Mountain
between Us HHH Kate Winslet
and Idris Elba bring gravitas to
an otherwise generic tale of
plane-crash survivors trekking
towards safety. (2017, 12) (S) (AD)
9.00 Once upon a Time... in
Hollywood 5 Thrill-packed
drama about a fading TV star
and his gofer buddy in the dying
days of the 1960s. Film of the
Day, right. Leonardo DiCaprio (2019, 18) (S) (AD)
12.15am The Death of Dick Long
HHH Enjoyable small-town black
comedy that sees two friends trying
to cover up the events surrounding
the death of their bandmate. (2019) (S)
2.20—4.00am Like a Boss HH
Well-cast but predictable comedy.
Rose Byrne, Tiffany Haddish, Salma Hayek (2020, 15) (S)

Film4 Freeview 14 Freesat 300
Sky 313 Virgin 428
+1 F’view 47 F’sat 301 Sky 314 Virgin 430

Talking
Pictures TV

82

6.00am The Detectives TV drama.
7.00 The Man in the Mirror HH
Fun but forgettable fantasy. Edward
Everett Horton (1936, U) (S) 8.35 House of
Blackmail HH A hitch-hiker gets
into trouble when he takes a lift from
a woman. William Sylvester (1953, 12) (S) 10.00
Together TV drama. 10.35 Kathy
Kirby: My Story TV documentary
about the singer. (S) 12.15pm Serves
You Right! Short film about a
garage. (S) 12.45 Delayed Flight
HH Routine British thriller in which
two air passengers take on the
mission of a murdered secret agent.
(1964, U) (S) 2.00 Upstairs, Downstairs
TV period drama. 3.00 Lease of
Life HHH Poignant drama buoyed
by Robert Donat’s dignified turn.
Review, right. Kay Walsh (1954, U) (S)
4.45 The Avenging Hand H
Gangster Noah Beery jets across
the Atlantic and back in this rather
feeble pre-noir thriller. (1936) (S)
6.00pm For the Love of Ada
Vintage TV sitcom. (S)
6.35 The Sicilians HH Brisk
crime thriller in which a dancer and
a diplomat search for a mafioso’s
kidnapped son. Robert Hutton (1964, PG) (S)
8.00 Public Eye TV drama series.
9.05 Genghis Khan HH Omar
Sharif glowers manfully as the
Mongol invader in this passable
historical adventure. (1964, 12) (S)
11.35 The Mummy HHH Hammer
scare-fest with archaeologist Peter
Cushing fending off Christopher
Lee’s shambling monster. (1959, PG) (S)
1.20am The Capone Inve$tment
TV crime thriller. 3.20 The Perfect
Woman HH Meandering comedy
about a couple of dumb aliens sent
to Earth to find their king a consort.
Fred Willard (1981) (S) 5.00—6.00am
A Night of Magic H Awkward
fantasy musical. Robert Griffith (1944) (S)
Talking Pictures TV Freeview 82
Freesat 306 Sky 328 Virgin 445

See p138 for details

WEDNESDAY 2 AUGUST
Great Movies

34

42

Ice-T, Michael Dudikoff, Hannes Jaenicke (2001)

9.00 The Shanghai Job HH
Orlando Bloom makes his bid for
action-man status with this
predictable thriller. Leo Wu (2017, 15)
10.55 Escape Plan 3 HH Sly
Stallone leads a rescue mission in
this tired action thriller. (2019, 15)
12.50am Redline HH Fast and the
Furious-style action thriller. (2007, 12)
2.50—4.00am The Traitors HH
Efficient spy thriller. Patrick Allen (1962, U)
Great Action Freeview 42 (limited)
F’sat 305 Sky 323 Virgin 426 +1 Sky 324

Great Romance 52
6.00am Meet Me in New York
HH Breezy romantic comedy. Brooke
Nevin, Corey Sevier (2022) 8.00 Anything
for Love HH Sudsy romance. Erika
Christensen, Paul Greene (2016) 10.00 Love
in Full Swing HH Perfectly sweet
romance. Sarah Smyth, Andrew Dunbar (2020)
12 noon Love’s Complicated HH
Watchable romcom. (2016) 2.00pm
A Dash of Love HH Inviting
romance. Jen Lilley (2017) 4.00 Cooking
with Love HH Lightweight,
good-natured romcom. Ali Liebert (2018)
6.00pm Eat, Drink and Be
Married HH A wedding planner
finds love for herself. Jocelyn Hudon (2019)
8.00 The Irresistible Blueberry
Farm HH A grandmother’s dying
request opens the door to new love
in this gentle drama. Alison Sweeney (2016)
10.00 Appetite for Love HH
Corny TV romcom. (2016)
12.05am Harvest Love HH
Romcom about a surgeon. (2017)
1.35 Harvest Moon HH Amiable
romantic yarn. Jesse Hutch (2015, U)
3.05—4.00am Highway to Heaven
Great Romance Freeview 52 Freesat 303
Sky 319 Virgin 424
+1 F’view 63 (limited 10pm-5am) F’sat 304 Sky 320

9.00-10.55pm
Great Movies

Dwayne Johnson, Pierce Brosnan (2022, 12)

4.45pm The Locksmith HH
Standard crime tale. Ryan Phillippe (2023, 15)
6.35 Whitney Houston: I Wanna
Dance with Somebody HHHH
Enthralling rise-and-fall biopic
starring Naomi Ackie as the pop
princess. Review p38. (2022, 12)
9.00 Babylon HHHH Riotous,
sprawling account of the transition
from silent pictures to talkies.
Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt, Diego Calva (2022, 18)

12.15am As 2.35pm 2.20 The
Silent Twins HHHH Intimate,
affecting drama about the Gibbons
twins. Review p38. Letitia Wright, Tamara
Lawrance (2022, 18) 4.15 Paradise Highway
HH Uneven thriller. Juliette Binoche (2022)
Sky Premiere Sky 301 Virgin 401
BT 501/HD 515 +1 Sky 312

Legend

41

8.00am Walker, Texas Ranger 9.00
The Prisoner 10.00 Star Trek: Deep
Space Nine 11.00 Buffalo Bill and
the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s
History Lesson HH Sprawling
western. Paul Newman (1976, PG) 1.25pm
Five Guns West HH Unlikely Civil
War western. John Lund (1955, PG) 3.00
The Lone Ranger HH Nostalgiafest for lovers of clean-cut westerns.
Clayton Moore (1956, U) 5.00 Star Trek
6.00pm Star Trek: Deep Space
Nine TV sci-fi series.
7.00 The Prisoner TV adventure.
8.00 Walker, Texas Ranger
TV action drama with Chuck Norris.
9.00 Year of the Gun HHH
Intriguing political thriller about a
writer whose fiction gets too close
to reality. Review, right. (1991, 15)
11.15 Black Rock HH Horror
thriller in which a camping trip goes
horribly wrong for three female
friends. Katie Aselton, Kate Bosworth (2012, 15)
12.50am The Shrine HH Lean
horror thriller. Aaron Ashmore, Cindy Sampson
(2010, 18) 2.35—4.20am Instrument
of War HHH Stirring true-story
wartime drama. Jack Ashton (2017, 12)
Legend F’view 41 F’sat 137 Sky 148 Virgin 149

HorrorXtra

69

8.00am Wyvern HH Watchable
TV-movie monster mayhem. Nick
Chinlund (2009, 15) 10.00 Farscape 11.00
King Arthur’s Sword H Bonkers
mockbuster update on the fantasy
legend. Sara Malakul Lane, Russell Geoffrey Banks
(2017, 15) 1.00pm Megaconda HH
By-the-numbers creature feature
that sees a gigantic computergenerated snake take on a faceless
cast of humans. Michelle Bauer (2010) 3.00
Farscape 4.00 Battlestar Galactica
5.00 Premonition HH Derivative
plot and bad performances scupper
this uneven blend of sci-fi and
supernatural thrills. Casper Van Dien (2004)
7.00pm Farscape TV sci-fi.
8.00 Battlestar Galactica
TV sci-fi adventure series.
9.00 Honeymoon HHH
A honeymoon escalates into alieninduced chaos in this tense and
intimate sci-fi chiller. Rose Leslie (2014, 15)
10.50 Hellraiser HHH Absorbing
sadomasochistic chiller about the
consequences of opening a Chinese
puzzle box. Andrew Robinson (1987, 18)
12.55—2.45am As 9pm
HorrorXtra F’view 69 F’sat 138 Sky 317
Virgin 171 +1 F’sat 139 Sky 318 Virgin 371

j

THRILLER Dev Patel, genial
star of Slumdog Millionaire,
cuts a very different figure
here as a man heading to
Pakistan to kidnap a bride
at her wedding. Michael
Winterbottom’s film starts
promisingly as a barebones
action thriller, but once the
abduction happens, the pace
slows to a crawl. Still, with
its great performances and
air of mystery, this at least
holds the attention. VICTORIA
LUXFORD (UK 2018, violence, swearing)

FILM Once upon a Time… in Hollywood
OF THE 5 9.00pm-12.15am Film4
DAY

Year of the Gun HHH
z

COMEDY DRAMA Quentin Tarantino’s thrill-packed
and witty film is set in LA in 1969, where the showbiz world is
undergoing seismic change. Leonardo DiCaprio plays a fading
TV western star, struggling with reduced circumstances along
with his stunt double (Brad Pitt), while Margot Robbie portrays
Sharon Tate, on the verge of the A-list and looking forward
to brighter times. Charles Manson and his “family” also
feature in the story, but they’re only one component of an
audacious narrative that sees Tarantino firing on all cylinders.
TERRY STAUNTON (US/UK 2019, violence, swearing, drug abuse, col/BW, HD)

m Tooth Fairy HHH g
11.00am-1.05pm

Film4

COMEDY This lively vehicle
for Dwayne Johnson has the
former wrestler playing a
washed-up sports star who
is sentenced to a week as a
real-life tooth fairy to teach
him a lesson or two about
family. Johnson is a likeable
lead and, although this hardly
stretches him, the supporting
cast makes up for his lack of
acting finesse. LUCY BARRICK
(US/Can 2009, HD)

Man without a Star
HHHH
12.25-2.15pm 5 Action

g

WESTERN Kirk Douglas gives
an all-grinning, all-snarling
portrayal in this fine
Technicolor western. Director
King Vidor generates a
tremendous sexual tension
between Douglas and Jeanne
Crain’s manipulative ranch
owner. The psychological
angle is also cleverly worked,
as William Campbell idolises
the no-good Douglas. TONY
SLOMAN (US 1955, some violence)

Lease of Life HHH
3.00-4.45pm
Talking Pictures TV

y

DRAMA Robert Donat is
always unfairly overlooked in
discussions of great British
screen actors, and this tale of

a Yorkshire vicar with only a
year to live is a case in point.
Writer Eric Ambler makes a
mess of what is essentially a
domestic drama, but Donat
creates a dignified character.
DAVID PARKINSON (UK 1954)

The First of the Few HHH
4.40-7.10pm Great Action y
WAR After Gone with the
Wind, Leslie Howard chose to
leave Hollywood and return
to England to make films
designed to boost wartime
morale. He directs and stars
here as aircraft designer
RJ Mitchell, the father of
the Spitfire. The fine cast
also includes Rosamund
John as his wife and David
Niven as the test pilot.
ADRIAN TURNER (UK 1942, BW)

6.15-9.00pm ITV2

(US 1991, violence, swearing, nudity)

The Silence of the Lambs
5
10.45pm-1.00am ITV1
j
THRILLER Anthony Hopkins
received his first Oscar for his
portrayal here as Hannibal
“the cannibal” Lecter. Jodie
Foster also bagged herself a
statuette as FBI agent Clarice
Starling, who is drawn into an
uncomfortable relationship
with Lecter as she hunts for a
serial killer. Director Jonathan
Demme imbues the material
with a chilling air of gothic
gloom. JOHN FERGUSON
(US 1991, violence, swearing, nudity, HD)

Paper Moon HHHH
g

FANTASY Mexican director
Alfonso Cuarón brings an
edgier feel to this instalment,
which finds Harry (Daniel
Radcliffe) targeted by escaped
convict Sirius Black (Gary
Oldman). With ghosts, ghouls
and gizmos galore, there’s
still plenty of fun to be had,
while David Thewlis, Timothy
Spall and Emma Thompson
join the list of British acting
stalwarts. DAVE ALDRIDGE (US/
UK 2004, may be edited for content HD)

For full SKY CINEMA listings visit radiotimes.com/tv-listings

j

THRILLER This intriguing
film is set in Rome in 1978,
when the Red Brigades
terrorist group was active.
Andrew McCarthy plays the
journalist writing a novel
about a fictitious terrorist
mission, while Sharon Stone
is the photographer who
attempts to gatecrash his
project and his love life.
While Stone is well-suited to
the material, it’s let down
by the bland McCarthy. AT

Sky Cinema picks

m

Harry Potter and
the Prisoner of
Azkaban HHHH

9.00-11.15pm Legend

Television

U – suitable for all; PG Parental Guidance – for general viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for young or sensitive children; 12, 15,18 –for viewers of these ages and over.

Great Action

6.00am M*A*S*H 7.00 Wild West
Chronicles 7.30 Stormageddon
HH Low-budget eco-disaster movie.
John Hennigan (2015, 12) 9.20 Fighter Aces
10.35 Battle of Kursk 12 noon
M*A*S*H 12.30pm Wild West
Chronicles 1.00 The Nevadan HH
Entertaining but cheaply made
western. Randolph Scott (1950, U) 2.45
Hellgate HH Grim western. Sterling
Hayden (1952, PG) 4.40 The First of the
Few HHH Leslie Howard stars as
Spitfire designer RJ Mitchell in this
fine biopic. Review, right. (1942, U)
7.10pm Stranded HH Distinctly
average sci-fi action adventure.

The Wedding Guest HHH

6.40am Seriously Red HHH
Delightful Australian comedy. Krew
Boylan, Rose Byrne (2022, 15) 8.20 Broker
HHHH Charming road movie
in which two men try to sell an
abandoned baby. Song Kang-ho (2022, 12)
10.30 The Best Man HH Actionpacked Die Hard knock-off. Luke Wilson
(2023, 15) 12.10pm As 6.35pm 2.35
Black Adam HHH Relentlessly
punchy DC Comics adventure.

WEDNESDAY

9.00am Escaping Dad HH
Sub-par thriller. Sunny Mabrey (2017) 11.00
The Perfect Stalker HH Enjoyably
tense thriller. Danielle Savre (2016) 1.00pm
A Deadly Obsession HH Uneven
crime thriller. Katee Sackhoff, Grant Harvey
(2011) 3.00 Fire Twister HH
Low-budget disaster movie. Casper Van
Dien (2015, 15) 4.45 Big Daddy HHHH
Amiable comedy about a man who
adopts a child to prove his maturity
to his girlfriend. Adam Sandler (1999, 12)
6.40pm What’s Eating Gilbert
Grape HHH Sweet, low-key drama
about a teenager coping with his
family’s difficulties. Johnny Depp (1993, 12)
9.00 The Wedding Guest HHH
Dev Patel stars in a teasing thriller
about a man on a kidnap mission
in Pakistan. Review, right. (2018, 15)
10.55 Into the Ashes HH Bloody
revenge drama. Luke Grimes (2019, 15)
12.50am Hunt for Truth HH
Average thriller. Willa Ford (2016) 2.40
Ape vs Monster H Low-budget
mockbuster. (2021, 12) 4.20—6.00am
Global Meltdown HH Overblown
sci-fi action thriller. Michael Paré (2017)
Great Movies Freeview 34 Freesat 302
Sky 321 Virgin 425
+1 Freeview 61 (limited 10pm-5am) Sky 322

FILM REVIEWS

Sky Premiere

4.15-6.05pm Sky Greats
Wonderful comedy. (1973, PG)
Sky 304; Virgin 404; BT 504/518

Clerks HHHH 8.009.40pm Sky Cinema Comedy
Kevin Smith romp. (1994, 18)
Sky 308; Virgin 408; BT 508/522

The Dry HHH 10.00pm12 midnight Sky Thriller
Outback crime drama. (2020)
Sky 309; Virgin 409; BT 509/523

Films to stream from p32
Netflix, Amazon, Disney+ and more

87

WEDNESDAY
Sky Showcase

Cricket: the Hundred 2.30pm

Television WEDNESDAY

London Spirit’s Charlie Dean
6.00am The Early Rundown (HD)
7.00 Kay Burley (HD) 8.00 Monkey
Life (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 Nothing to
Declare (S) 9.30 The Flash (S) (HD)
10.30 NCIS: New Orleans (S) (HD)
12.30pm Hawaii Five-0 (S) (HD)
1.30 MacGyver (S) (HD) 2.30
LIVE Cricket: the Hundred:
London Spirit v Oval Invincibles,
the women’s match at Lord’s
6.00pm The Simpsons Lisa
fears she is destined to be stupid.
6.30 Homer adopts a monkey.
7.00 Homer becomes Springfield’s
sanitation commissioner.
7.30 Homer agrees to climb
Springfield’s tallest mountain. (S)
8.00 An Idiot Abroad 2/8 Series 1
Karl Pilkington visits India. (S) (HD)
9.00 Rob and Romesh vs Crufts
Ep 3 Series 5. Dog owners
Rob Beckett and Romesh
Ranganathan enter their pets in
Crufts. See page 81. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 Ricky Gervais Live:
Animals Stand-up comedy at the
Bloomsbury Theatre, London. (S)
11.30 The Force: North East The
dog unit deals with a man who has
barricaded himself in his house. (S)
12.30am Road Wars: double bill (S)
2.00 The Equalizer (S) (AD) (HD)
3.00 Hawaii Five-0 (S) (HD) 4.00
MacGyver (S) (HD) 5.00—6.00am
The Early Rundown (HD)
Sky Showcase Sky 106 Virgin 109
BT 340/HD 355 +1 Sky 206

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Sky Sci-Fi
6.00am Merlin 7.00 The Outpost
8.00 Home shopping 11.00
Pandora 12 noon Star Trek: the
Next Generation 2.00pm Merlin
3.00 Pandora 4.00 Quantum Leap
5.00 Stargate Atlantis: the crew
are given an opportunity to send
messages to their loved ones
6.00pm Star Trek: the Next
Generation 2/26 Series 3. Data
faces a race against time to
persuade a human colony to flee.
7.00 3/26. A Federation planet
requests help from the Enterprise,
but the crew members are
shocked to find the inhabitants
have already been exterminated.
8.00 Star Trek: Voyager 22/26
Series 5. The Doctor helps Seven
develop her dating skills, but when
she almost breaks her partner’s
arm on the dance floor, the dapper
hologram is prompted to step in.
9.00 Megalodon Rising H
Action movie starring Wynter
Eddins and Tom Sizemore.
The US Navy faces off against a
gigantic prehistoric predator,
which has suddenly resurfaced.
11.00 The Monster Hunters HH
Sci-fi action thriller starring
Tom Sizemore. An alien
prison ship crash-lands in the
California desert, forcing a secret
branch of the military to step in.
1.00am Star Trek: Voyager 2.00
Stargate Atlantis 4.00—6.00am
Star Trek: the Next Generation
Sky Sci-Fi Sky 139 Virgin 122
BT 348/HD 363 +1 Virgin 229

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Sky Atlantic

The Time Traveler’s Wife
11.15pm Clare and Henry
6.00am The Guest Wing (S) (AD)
(HD) 7.55 Boardwalk Empire (S) (AD)
(HD) 10.05 The Sopranos (S) (HD)
12.15pm Game of Thrones (S) (AD)
(HD) 1.20 Britannia (S) (AD) (HD)
3.30 Boardwalk Empire (S) (AD) (HD)

5.45pm The Sopranos 2/21
Series 6. A confused Tony finds
himself trapped in a surreal
twilight world. (S) (AD) (HD)
6.50 3/21. Tony’s bizarre dream
continues. Sil is not comfortable in
his new role as boss. (S) (AD) (HD)
7.55 Game of Thrones 6/10
Series 1. Tyrion tries to escape the
Eyrie and Bran’s first trip outside
the castle since his accident
nearly ends in tragedy. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 The Staircase 6/8. In
2001, an ill-fated Thanksgiving
leaves Kathleen stressed. Five
years later, Sophie launches her
own investigation. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.10 Der Pass 8/8 Series 3
Ellie and Gedeon must push
themselves to crack the case.
German +subtitles. (HD)
11.15 The Time Traveler’s Wife
5/6. Henry finally has a chance
to step inside Clare’s home and
meet her family. (S) (AD) (HD)
12.15am Banshee (S) (AD) (HD) 2.25
Game of Thrones (S) (AD) (HD) 3.30
In Treatment (S) (HD) 4.00—6.00am
The Guest Wing (S) (AD) (HD)
Sky Atlantic Sky 108 (Wales 109)
BT 342/HD 357 +1 Sky 208 (Wales 209)

Sky Witness
6.00am Air Ambulance ER (S) (HD)
7.00 Border Security: Canada’s
Front Line (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 Border
Patrol (S) 10.00 Stop, Search, Seize
(S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 The Rookie (S)
(AD) (HD) 12 noon FBI: Most Wanted
(S) (AD) (HD) 1.00pm FBI: International
(S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 Blue Bloods (S) (AD)
(HD) 3.00 The Equalizer (S) (AD) (HD)
4.00pm Border Security:
Australia’s Front Line Eight
editions following the work of
customs officers in Australia. (S) (HD)
8.00 Blue Bloods 3/16 Series 11
Frank struggles following a
revelation about Joe Hill. Danny
and Jamie clash as their opposing
natures conflict while working to
solve a murder. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Departure 1/6 Series 3
The return of the drama.
Kendra Malley and her team
investigate when an explosion on
a ferry results in serious loss of
life. See page 81. (S) (HD)
10.00 9-1-1 14/14 Series 4
A sniper targets members of the
LAFD, leaving Athena and the
118 on high alert. (S) (HD)
11.00 New Amsterdam 18/22
Series 4. Max tries to get Dr
Fuentes fired. (S) (AD) (HD)
12 midnight The Equalizer (S) (AD)
(HD) 1.00am Private Eyes (S) (HD)
2.00 Bull (S) (HD) 3.00 Chicago
Fire (S) (HD) 4.00 Stop, Search,
Seize (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00—6.00am
Air Ambulance ER (S) (HD)
Sky Witness Sky 107 Virgin 110
BT 341/HD 356 +1 Sky 207 Virgin 310

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88

Satellite, cable

Sky Max

Gold

Alibi

An Idiot Abroad 8.00pm

Gavin & Stacey 8.40pm

Death in Paradise 9.00pm

Karl Pilkington explores India

Bryn is in the mood to party

Jack looks for a motive

6.00am Stargate Atlantis (S) (HD)
8.00 Supergirl (S) (HD) 9.00 DC’s
Legends of Tomorrow (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 The Flash (S) (HD) 11.00 NCIS:
New Orleans (S) (HD) 1.00pm Hawaii
Five-0 (S) (HD) 2.00 MacGyver (S) (HD)
3.00 DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
(S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Supergirl (S) (HD)
5.00 The Flash (S) (HD)
6.00pm Stargate Atlantis
15/20 Series 2. Sheppard is
caught up in a bitter feud. (S) (HD)
7.00 16/20. The team discovers
two life-support pods containing
the minds of alien entities. (S) (HD)
8.00 An Idiot Abroad 2/8
Series 1. Karl Pilkington explores
India, where he pays a visit to
the Taj Mahal. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Rob and Romesh vs Crufts
Ep 3 Series 5. Dog owners
Rob Beckett and Romesh
Ranganathan enter their pets in
Crufts. See page 81. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 Cobra 2/6 Series 1. Anna
reconnects with Edin. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 Strike Back: Legacy
10/10 Series 5. Mercenaries led by
Faber and Mason pursue Scott
and Stonebridge. (S) (AD) (HD)
12 midnight The Force: North East
(S) (HD) 1.00am Road Wars (S) (AD)
(HD) 3.00 Hawaii Five-0 (S) (HD)
4.00 MacGyver (S) (HD)
5.00—6.00am Bondi Rescue (S) (HD)
Sky Max Sky 113 (Wales 114) Virgin 111
BT 346/HD 361

7.30am The Good Life (S) (AD)
8.00 Keeping Up Appearances (S)
8.40 2 Point 4 Children (S) (AD)
9.20 Are You Being Served? (S)
10.00 Still Open All Hours (S) (HD)
10.40 Last of the Summer Wine (S)
12 noon Keeping Up Appearances
(S) 12.40pm 2 Point 4 Children (S)
(AD) 1.20 Dad’s Army (S) 2.00 Still
Open All Hours (S) (HD) 2.40 Are
You Being Served? (S) 3.20 Last of
the Summer Wine (S) 4.40
Keeping Up Appearances (S)
5.20 Are You Being Served? (S)
6.00pm The Good Life Perky the
pig gives birth to her litter. (S) (AD)
6.40 Dad’s Army Private Pike
receives his call-up papers. (S)
7.20 Godfrey is under attack. (S)
8.00 dinnerladies Bren gets
excited about her holiday. (S) (AD)
8.40 Gavin & Stacey Bryn tries
to organise a surprise. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.20 Absolutely Fabulous Eddie
and Patsy go hunting. (S) (AD)
10.00 Inside No 9 It’s crunch
time for United and Rovers. (S) (HD)
10.40 The Fast Show (S) (AD)
11.20 Live at the Apollo (S) (HD)
12.20am dinnerladies (S) (AD) 1.00
Gavin & Stacey (S) (AD) (HD) 1.35
Absolutely Fabulous (S) (AD) 2.15
Live at the Apollo (S) (HD) 3.15—
4.00am The Fast Show (S) (AD)
Gold Sky 110 (Wales 111) Virgin 124
BT 344/HD 359 +1 Sky 210 (Wales 211) Virgin 324

7.15am Murdoch Mysteries (S) (HD)
9.00 Unforgettable (S) (HD) 10.00
Hudson & Rex (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00
Without a Trace (S) (HD) 12 noon
The Doctor Blake Mysteries (S) (HD)
1.00pm Father Brown (S) (AD) (HD)
2.00 Murdoch Mysteries (S) (HD)
4.00 Unforgettable (S) (HD)
5.00 Hudson & Rex (S) (AD) (HD)
6.00pm Without a Trace 9/23
Series 1. The team investigates the
disappearance of a medical intern
spurned by his girlfriend. (S) (HD)
7.00 Person of Interest 22/22
Series 2. Root now has unfettered
access to the Machine, but it
refuses to divulge its location. (S) (HD)
8.00 Father Brown 4/10 Series 9
When a troubled soul from the
past returns, the priest must
investigate the new chapter of
the Church of Apollo. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Death in Paradise 1/8
Series 8. A bus passenger is
stabbed but no one seems to have
seen it happen. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 2/8. Jack has a fresh
mystery to solve when a zoo
owner is killed by a tranquilliser
dart in an empty park. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 Person of Interest As 7pm.
12 midnight Hudson & Rex (S) (AD)
(HD) 1.00am Unforgettable (S) (HD)
2.00 Murdoch Mysteries (S) (HD)
2.55—4.00am Annika (S) (AD) (HD)
Alibi Sky 109 (Wales 110) Virgin HD 114
BT 343/HD 358 +1 Sky 209 (Wales 210) Virgin 191

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Sky Replay
7.00am 6ixth Sense with Colin Fry (S)
8.00 Four Weddings (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 UK Border Force (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 Stop, Search, Seize (S) (AD) (HD)
12 noon Bondi Rescue (S) (HD) 1.00pm
Send in the Dogs (S) 2.00 Warehouse
13 (S) 4.00 Most Haunted (S) 6.00
Supergirl: double bill (HD) 8.00 UK
Border Force: police investigate the
workforce of a chicken factory (S) (AD)
(HD) 9.00 Alphas: sci-fi drama about a
team of superhumans (HD) 10.00 Road
Wars: the Road Crime Unit tracks a car
loaded with drugs (S) (HD) 11.00 Rob
and Romesh vs Crufts: the duo enter
their dogs in the contest (S) (AD) (HD)
12 midnight Departure (S) 1.00am
Stop, Search, Seize (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00
A League of Their Own (S) (AD) (HD)
3.00 Duck Quacks Don’t Echo (S) (AD)
(HD) 4.00 Four Weddings 5.00—6.00am
6ixth Sense with Colin Fry (S)

Sky Replay Sky 152 Virgin 156

Sky Crime
6.00am Highway Patrol (S) (AD) 7.00
Motorway Patrol (S) 8.00 Highway Cops
(S) (HD) 9.00 Nothing to Declare (S)
10.00 Caught Red Handed (S) (HD) 11.30
Border Patrol (S) (HD) 12 noon Killer in
My Village (S) (HD) 1.00pm Forensics (S)
(AD) (HD) 2.00 Murders That Shocked
The Nation (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00 Most Evil
Killers (S) (HD) 5.00 What the Killer Did
Next (S) (AD) (HD) 6.00 Forensics (S)
(AD) (HD) 7.00 Most Evil Killers (S) (HD)
9.00 New. Murdered at First Sight (HD)
10.00 Killer in My Village (S) (HD)
12 midnight Most Evil Killers (S) (HD)
1.00am The Killer Within (S) (HD) 2.00
What the Killer Did Next (S) (AD) (HD)
3.00 Brit Cops: Frontline Crime UK (S)
(AD) 4.00 Road Wars (S) 5.00—
6.00am Motorway Patrol (S) (AD)

Sky Crime Sky 122 Virgin 121 BT 349/HD 364
+1 Sky 222 Virgin 321

Sky Comedy

Discovery

8.00am A.P. Bio (S) (HD) 9.00
Entourage (S) (HD) 10.00 The Conners
(S) (HD) 11.00 Bloods (S) (AD) (HD)
11.30 Veep (S) (AD) (HD) 12.50pm How
to Make It in America (S) (AD) (HD) 1.30
Entourage (S) (HD) 2.30 The Fresh
Prince of Bel-Air (S) (HD) 3.30 The
Conners (S) (HD) 4.30 A.P. Bio (S) (HD)
5.00 Sort Of (S) (AD) (HD) 5.30 Will &
Grace (S) (AD) (HD) 6.30 The Fresh
Prince of Bel-Air (S) (HD) 7.30 Bloods:
Jo hopes for a New Year’s Eve kiss from
Lawrence (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 The Office
US (S) (HD) 9.00 Divorce (S) (AD) (HD)
10.15 Ricky Gervais Live: Animals (S)
(HD) 11.45 Breeders: Luke is charged
with taking class bear Lenny on an
adventure (S) (AD) (HD) 12.15am Vice
Principals (S) (AD) (HD) 1.35 Bloods (S)
(AD) (HD) 2.35 Curb Your Enthusiasm (S)
(HD) 3.45—5.00am Veep (S) (AD) (HD)

6.00am Wheeler Dealers (S) (HD) 7.00
Deadliest Catch (S) (HD) 8.00 Building
off the Grid (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 Alaska:
the Last Frontier (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00
How It’s Made (S) (HD) 11.00 Wheeler
Dealers (S) (HD) 12 noon Diesel
Brothers (HD) 1.00pm Gold Rush: Mine
Rescue with Freddy & Juan (S) (HD)
3.00 Alaska: Homestead Rescue (S)
(HD) 5.00 Wheeler Dealers (S) (HD)
6.00pm Street Outlaws (HD) 8.00
Alaska: the Last Frontier (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 New. Deadliest Catch (HD) 10.00
New. Tracked: the pressure to escape
from the relentless trackers is higher
than ever (S) (HD) 11.00 Naked and
Afraid XL (HD) 12 midnight Expedition
Bigfoot (S) (HD) 1.00am Deadliest
Catch (HD) 2.00 Tracked (S) (HD) 3.00
Moonshiners (HD) 4.00—5.00am
Wheeler Dealers (S) (HD)

Sky Comedy Sky 114 (Wales 115)
Virgin 112 BT 347/HD 362

Discovery Sky 125 Virgin 177 BT 320/HD 325
+1 Sky 225 Virgin 377

Comedy Central

Discovery History

8.00am Bob’s Burgers (S) (HD) 10.00
Becker (HD) 11.00 The Middle (S) (HD)
1.00pm Friends (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00
Michael McIntyre: Live and Laughing:
stand-up comedy at London’s
Hammersmith Apollo, featuring
observations on fatherhood, life on the
road and the “man drawer” (S) (HD)
10.00 Al Murray: the Pub Landlord —
Live at the Palladium: the awardwinning comedian performs at the
majestic London Palladium as part of
his tour show And Another Thing (HD)
11.50 Rob Delaney Live: Jackie (S) (HD)
1.10am South Park (S) (HD) 2.40 Bob’s
Burgers (S) (HD) 3.05 Key and Peele (S)
(HD) 3.25 Criminally Funny (S) (HD)
4.10—5.00am Friends (S) (AD) (HD)

Comedy Central Sky 112 (Wales 113)
Virgin 132 BT 345/HD 360
+1 Sky 212 (Wales 213) Virgin 332

6.00am Combat Dealers (S) 7.00 Tony
Robinson’s World War One (S) 8.00 HMS
Ark Royal (S) (AD) 9.00 Combat Dealers
(S) (AD) 10.00 Salvage Hunters (S)
11.00 Shed and Buried (S) (AD) 12 noon
How It’s Made (S) 1.00pm Combat
Dealers (S) 2.00 HMS Ark Royal (S)
(AD) 3.00 Blowing Up History (S) 4.00
Mysteries at the Castle 5.00 Greatest
Events of World War II (S) 6.00 The
Strangest UFO Stories of All Time (S) 7.00
Expedition Unknown (S) 8.00 Combat
Dealers (S) (AD) 9.00 Blowing Up History
(S) 10.00 Salvage Hunters (S) (AD)
11.00 Shed and Buried 12 midnight
How It’s Made (S) 1.00am Combat
Dealers (S) 2.00 Salvage Hunters (S)
(AD) 3.00 Combat Dealers (S) (AD)
4.00—5.00am Blowing Up History (S)

Discovery History Sky 177 Virgin 181
+1 Sky 277 Virgin 381

Key (S) Subtitles (SL) Signing (AD) Audio description (HD) High definition (W) Widescreen

RadioTimes 29 July–4 August 2023

& sport
Sky Documentaries

Sky Nature

6.00am Dark Horses: Italy’s World
Cup Triumph (S) 7.00 Discovering:
Richard Dreyfuss (S) 8.00 The
Directors (S) (AD) 9.00 Escobar by
Escobar (S) 9.55 The Invisible Pilot
(S) (AD) 11.00 Positive (S) (AD) 12 noon
Well Groomed (S) (AD) 1.45pm My
Icon (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 Very Ralph (S)
4.00 The Directors (S) (AD) 5.00
Discovering: Richard Dreyfuss (S)
6.00pm Escobar by Escobar The
story behind the Escobar empire. (S)
6.55 The Invisible Pilot The
mysterious death of crop-duster
pilot Gary Betzner. (S) (AD)
8.00 Positive The first
government-sponsored national
Aids awareness campaign. (S) (AD)
9.00 Superpowered: the DC
Story A look at how DC took a
gamble with Superman. (S)
10.00 Alexia: Labor Omnia Vincit
Profile of Alexia Putellas, captain
of Fútbol Club Barcelona.
11.00 I Am Heath Ledger HHHH
Showcasing the life and work
of the late actor, through
archive footage, home videos and
original interviews. (S) (AD) (W)
12.50am Dave Not Coming Back
(S) 2.40 The Fight (S) 4.40 My
Icon: Denise Lewis (S) (AD) (HD)
5.00—6.00am Discovering:
Richard Dreyfuss (S)
Sky Documentaries Sky 121
Virgin 188 BT 352/HD 367

6.00am Ol Pejeta Diaries (S) 7.00
Monkey Life (S) (AD) 8.00 Kenya
Wildlife Diaries (S) 9.00 Tales from
Zambia (S) 10.00 Great Blue Wild
(S) 11.00 Animal Empires (S)
12 noon Untamed Valley (S)
1.00pm Monkey Life (S) (AD) 2.00
Kenya Wildlife Diaries (S) 3.00
Tales from Zambia: Life on the
Liuwa Plains (S) 4.00 Great Blue
Wild (S) 5.00 Animal Empires (S)
6.00pm Untamed Valley
The creatures of the Luangwa
Valley’s busy grasslands. (S)
7.00 Monkey Life The chimps
make snowballs. (S) (AD)
7.30 A sanctuary in Vietnam
dedicated to rehabilitating
golden-cheeked gibbons. (S) (AD)
8.00 Brazil Untamed Carolina
Ribas sails through the Pantanal
in search of the giant otter. (S)
9.00 Wild Fighters The planet’s
fiercest fighters, revealing their
deeply instinctive motivations.
10.00 Animal Empires What
happens when domestic and farm
animals escape to the wild. (S)
11.00 Untamed Valley As 6pm.
12 midnight Living Beach (S) 1.00am
Into the Wild: India (S) 2.00 Brazil
Untamed (S) 3.00 Wild Fighters
4.00 Kenya Wildlife Diaries (S)
5.00—6.00am Tales from Zambia (S)
Sky Nature Sky 124 Virgin 189
BT 354/HD 369

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Magellanic penguins

Nat Geographic

Eden

8.00am Abandoned (HD) 8.30 Made
in a Day (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 Air Crash
Investigation (S) (HD) 10.00 Europe from
Above (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 Ultimate
Airport Dubai (S) (HD) 12 noon Car SOS
(S) (AD) (HD) 1.00pm Nazi Megastructures
(S) (HD) 2.00 Air Crash Investigation
(S) (AD) (HD) 3.00 Hitler’s Last Stand
(HD) 4.00 Cosmos: Possible Worlds (S)
(AD) (HD) 5.00 Car SOS (S) (AD) (HD)
6.00 Lost Treasures of Egypt (S) (AD)
(HD) 7.00 Air Crash Investigation (S) (AD)
(HD) 8.00 Bloody Tales of the Tower (S)
(AD) (HD) 11.00 Air Crash Investigation
(S) (HD) 12 midnight Airport Security
(HD) 1.00am To Catch a Smuggler (HD)
2.00 Made in a Day (S) (AD) (HD) 2.30
Bid & Destroy (HD) 2.55 Lords of War
(HD) 3.20 Food Factory (S) (HD) 4.10
Exotic Animal ER (HD) 4.35—5.00am
Secrets of the Zoo: Keeper Tales (HD)

9.00am The Blue Planet (AD) 11.00
Blue Planet II: four editions (HD)
3.00pm The Blue Planet: double bill
(AD) 5.00 Blue Planet II: four editions.
Marine life around the world, from
dolphins and tusk fish in a tropical coral
reef to walruses struggling to cope with
the impact of climate change 6.00
Creatures that live in volcanic hot spots
on the ocean bed 7.00 Examining
creatures that live on coral reefs,
including groupers 8.00 Wildlife that
lives thousands of kilometres from land
9.00 The Blue Planet: double bill. The
ways in which marine creatures exploit
tides, then how species inhabiting the
ocean’s edge deal with the dangers of
an ever-shifting environment (AD)
11.00 Blue Planet II (HD) 3.00am The
Blue Planet (AD) 4.40 Blue Planet II
(HD) 5.30—6.00am The Zoo (HD)

Nat Geographic Sky 129 Virgin 183
+1 Sky 229 Virgin 383

Eden Sky 166 Virgin HD 176
+1 Sky 266 Virgin 376

Sky History

Animal Planet

6.00am Forged in Fire Armed Forces
Tournament (HD) 7.00 Salvage Kings
(HD) 8.00 American Pickers (HD) 9.00
Pawn Stars (HD) 10.00 Ancient Aliens
(S) (HD) 11.00 Secrets of the Viking
Stone (HD) 12 noon River Hunters (HD)
1.00pm Salvage Kings (HD) 2.00 Cities
of the Underworld (HD) 3.00 Swamp
People (HD) 5.00 Pawn Stars (HD) 6.00
American Pickers (HD) 7.00 Forged in
Fire Armed Forces Tournament (HD)
8.00 New series. Swamp People (S)
(HD) 9.00 New. Cursed Treasures (HD)
10.00 New. Empire Builders (HD) 11.00
Strange Evidence (HD) 12 midnight
Pawn Stars (HD) 1.00am Swamp
People (S) (HD) 2.00 Secret Restoration
(S) (HD) 3.00 Swamp People (HD)
5.00—6.00am American Pickers (HD)

8.00am Animal Cribs (S) (HD) 9.00
Dodo Heroes (S) (HD) 10.00 Dogs 101 (S)
(HD) 11.00 Alaska: Homestead Rescue
(S) (HD) 12 noon Animal Cribs (S) (AD)
(HD) 1.00pm Dodo Heroes (S) (HD)
2.00 Coyote Peterson: Brave the Wild
(S) (HD) 3.00 Tanked (S) (HD) 4.00 Bad
Dog! (S) (HD) 5.00 Alaska: Homestead
Rescue (S) (HD) 6.00 Animal Cribs (S)
(HD) 7.00 Dodo Heroes (S) (AD) (HD)
8.00 Isle of Jaws: Blood Brothers (S)
(AD) (HD) 9.00 Deadliest Sharks (S) (HD)
10.00 Alaskan Bush People (S) (HD)
11.00 From Wags to Riches (S) (HD)
12 midnight Pit Bulls and Parolees: Tia’s
Tales (S) (HD) 1.00am Alaskan Bush
People (S) (HD) 2.00 Bad Dog! (S) (HD)
3.00 Alaska: Homestead Rescue (S) (HD)
4.00—5.00am Animal Cribs (S) (HD)

Sky History Sky 123 Virgin 133
BT 353/HD 368 +1 Sky 223 Virgin 333

Animal Planet Sky 162 (NI 178) Virgin 178
+1 Sky 262 (NI 278) Virgin 378

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Sky Main Event

TNT Sports 1

Sky 401 Virgin 511/HD 501 BT 420/HD 440

Sky 410 Virgin 527 BT 408/HD 430

6.00am Sky Sports News
7.00 Good Morning Sports Fans
7.30 World Cup Breakfast

6.00am International One-Day Cricket
7.00 Wrestling: Monday Night Raw
9.30 Triathlon: previews (AD)
10.00 World Rally: magazine (AD)
10.30 Behind the Game (AD)
11.30 International One-Day Cricket:
West Indies v India from Tarouba
12.30pm Badminton Weekly (AD)
12.45 Badminton: Japan Open
2.45 Badminton Unlimited (AD)
3.15 Around the Block (AD)
3.30 What Went Down (AD)
4.30 MotoGP Classics (AD)
5.30 MotoGP Films (AD)
6.30 International One-Day Cricket:
West Indies v India from Tarouba
7.30 Champions League Football (AD)

7.45 LIVE Netball World Cup
Two second group stage matches
(centre-pass 8.00 and 10.00).
11.30 LIVE Cricket: the Hundred
Welsh Fire v Manchester Originals,
a women’s match from Cardiff;
2.30pm Welsh Fire v Manchester
Originals, a men’s match in Cardiff;
6.00 London Spirit v Oval
Invincibles, a men’s match at Lord’s.
9.30 Sky Sports News
10.30 Back Pages Tonight
11.00—6.00am Sky Sports News

Sky Football
Sky 403 Virgin 513/HD 503 BT 422/HD 442
6.00am Championship Retro 8.45
Greatest Games 10.00 Championship
Retro 12 noon Championship Season
Review (AD) 1.00pm League Cup Retro
(AD) 2.00 Classic Play-Offs (AD) 5.00
Greatest Games 6.00 Championship
Season Review 7.00 League Cup
Football (AD) 8.00 Classic Play-Off
Finals 11.00 EFL Greatest Games (AD)
1.00am League Cup Retro 2.00
Classic Play-Offs 4.00 EFL Rivalries
(AD) 5.30—6.00am Best Goals (AD)

Sky Golf
Sky 405 Virgin 515/HD 505 BT 424/HD 444
6.00am Ladies European Tour 7.00
PGA Tour 9.00 How the 2014 Ryder
Cup Was Won (AD) 11.00 PGA Tour
12 noon LPGA Tour 1.00pm The
Players Championship Official Film (AD)
2.00 PGA Championship 1999 Official
Film 3.00 US Open Official Films 4.00
The Open Films (AD) 5.00 Ryder Cup
Memories (AD) 6.00 LPGA Tour 7.00
PGA Tour: the Cut 7.30 Challenge Tour
8.00 Countdown to the Ryder Cup
8.30 One Shot Away 9.00 PGA Tour:
the Cut 9.30 Challenge Tour 10.00
Countdown to the Ryder Cup 10.30
One Shot Away 11.00 PGA Tour
12 midnight LPGA Tour 1.00am PGA
Tour 1.30 Challenge Tour Golf 2.00
LPGA Tour 3.00 Ladies European
Tour 4.00—6.00am PGA Tour Golf

Sky Arena
Sky 408 Virgin 518/HD 508 BT 427/HD 447
6.00am Super League
7.15 Women’s Super League

7.45 LIVE Netball World Cup
Two second group stage matches
(centre-pass 8.00 and 10.00).
12 noon Boxing: two bouts
2.00pm Super League
2.30 Women’s Super League
2.45 LIVE World Cup Netball
Two second group stage matches
(centre-pass 3.00 and 5.00);
7.00 More action from Cape Town
in South Africa (centre-pass 7.00).
9.00 Super League 9.15 NBA 10.15
Netball World Cup 12.15am WNBA
2.15 Darts 4.15 Super League 4.30
Women’s Super League 4.45 Super
League 5.00—6.00am Rugby League

Eurosport 1
Sky 413 Virgin 521 BT HD 412
6.00am Cycling 7.00 Hall of Fame
8.00 Olympic Games: the Olympians

8.15 LIVE World University
Games Men’s diving from China.
9.00 Cycling 10.00 Tour de France
11.00 Climbing 12 noon Cycling
1.00pm LIVE Cycling Stage three
of the Tour de l’Ain from France.
3.00 Women’s Tour de France 4.00
Surfing 5.00 Climbing 6.00 Cycling
7.00 World University Games 8.00
Cycling 9.00 Discovery Golf 9.30
Karate 10.30 Triathlon 11.00 Cycling
12 midnight World University Games
1.00am Speedway 2.00 Cycling 3.00
Climbing 4.00 Premiership Speedway
5.00—6.00am University Games

Cricket: the Hundred

6.00pm Sky Cricket London
Spirit superstar Zak Crawley

Sky Premier League
Sky 402 Virgin 512/HD 502 BT 421/HD 441
6.00am Greatest Games: four editions
7.00 Legends (AD) 7.30 World Cup
Breakfast 8.00 Best Goals 8.30 World
Cup Breakfast 9.00 Good Morning
Transfers 10.00 Retro: from 2006/07
12 noon Transfer Talk 1.00pm Premier
League Years (AD) 3.00 Greatest
Games 4.00 Best Goals (AD) 5.00
Transfer Show 5.30 100 Club (AD)
6.00 Legends (AD) 7.00 Transfer
Show 8.00 Stories 8.30 Soccerbox
(AD) 9.00 100 Club 9.30 Stories
10.00 Icons (AD) 10.30 Retro
12.30am Icons (AD) 1.00 Premier
League Years: the 1997/98 season
3.00 Greatest Games (AD) 4.00 Best
Goals 5.30—6.00am 100 Club (AD)

Sky Cricket
Sky 404 Virgin 514/HD 504 BT 423/HD 443
6.00am The Hundred Bitesize (AD)
9.30 Inside Southern Brave
10.30 The Hundred Bitesize

11.00 LIVE Cricket: the Hundred
Welsh Fire v Manchester Originals,
a women’s match from Cardiff;
2.30pm London Spirit v Oval
Invincibles, a women’s match;
6.00 London Spirit v Oval
Invincibles, men’s match at Lord’s.
9.30 The Hundred Bitesize
10.30—6.00am Cricket: the Hundred

Sky Action
Sky 407 Virgin 517/HD 507 BT 426/HD 446
6.00am WNBA 8.00 Boxing
12 noon Good Morning Football
3.00pm WNBA 5.00 NY Jets Flight
6.00 Pro-Football Talk 8.00 NFL
9.00 Boxing 11.00 NFL: Total Access
1.00am NFL 2.00 Pro-Football Talk
4.00—6.00am Boxing: two bouts

Sky Mix
Sky 416 Virgin 510 BT 429/HD 449
7.45—9.45am LIVE Netball
World Cup Second group stage.
11.00—9.30pm LIVE Cricket: the
Hundred Welsh Fire v Manchester
Originals, a women’s match;
2.30 Welsh Fire v Manchester
Originals, men’s match in Cardiff;
6.00 London Spirit v Oval
Invincibles, men’s match at Lord’s.

Eurosport 2
Sky 414 Virgin 522 BT HD 413
6.00am Climbing 7.00 University
Games 8.00 Cycling 9.00 World
Superbikes 10.00 University Games

11.00 LIVE World University
Games Day two of athletics.
3.00pm Speedway 5.00 World
University Games 6.00 Superbikes
7.00 Discovery Golf 7.30 Triathlon
8.00 Motor Racing 10.00 Superbikes
12 midnight Cycling 1.00am World
University Games 2.00 Motor Racing
3.00 Formula E 4.00 Cycling
5.00 Golf 5.30—6.00am Triathlon

8.00 LIVE Champions League
Football Second qualifying round,
second leg (kick-off 8.00).
10.00 Premier League Stories
10.30 World Rally (AD)
11.00 Triathlon (AD)
11.30 Fishing: on the Bank (AD)
12.30am Badminton Unlimited
1.00 Badminton: Japan Open
3.00—6.00am LIVE Badminton
Australia Open, round of 16 from
the State Sports Centre, Sydney.
Coverage continues until 1.30pm.

TNT Sports 2
Sky 411 Virgin 528 BT 409/HD 431
6.00am Premier League Football:
four games from the 2022/23 season
12 noon Premier League Football:
three games from the 2022/23 season
4.30pm Champions League Football:
two second round qualifying matches
7.30 Rallying: from Rome

8.00 LIVE Champions League
Football Second qualifying round,
second leg (kick-off 8.00).
10.00 UFC: the Ultimate Fighter (AD)
11.00 Down the Clubhouse (AD)
12 midnight Champions League
Football 3.00am UFC: the Ultimate
Fighter (AD) 4.00 World Rally (AD)
4.30 Rallying 5.00—6.00am
Champions League Football (AD)

TNT Sports 3
Sky 417 Virgin 529 BT 410/HD 432
6.00am Champions League Football
9.00 MotoGP Classics (AD)
12 noon Champions League Football:
two second round qualifying matches
3.00pm Fishing: on the Bank (AD)
4.00 Triathlon: previews (AD)
4.30 MLB Plays of the Week (AD)

Television

Wild Fighters 9.00pm

SPORT

WEDNESDAY

Superpowered: the DC Story
9.00pm The rise of Superman

WEDNESDAY 2 AUGUST

5.00 LIVE Major League
Baseball Atlanta Braves v Los
Angeles Angels, the inter-league
game at Truist Park (start 5.20).
8.30 MLB Plays of the Week (AD)
9.00 LIVE Major League
Baseball Seattle Mariners v Boston
Red Sox, an American League
game at T-Mobile Park (start 9.10).
12.30am International One-Day
Cricket 3.30 MotoGP Films: Unlimited
(AD) 5.00—6.00am Premier League
Legends: two editions (AD)

TNT Sports 4
Sky 421 Virgin 530 BT 411/HD 434
6.00am Premiership Rugby Union
7.30 Rugby Stories: classic tales
8.00 Major League Baseball
1.00pm Australian Rules Football
5.00 Wrestling: WWE action (AD)
7.00 Boxing: Liam Davies v Jason
Cunningham 9.00 Wrestling: WWE
action 11.45 Champions League:
Stories of the Finals: from 2012
12 midnight Poker (AD)
2.00—6.00am Australian Rules
Football: double bill of AFL games

Amazon Prime
5.00pm LIVE Tennis Day three
of the Washington Open, men’s
and women’s singles at William
HG FitzGerald Tennis Center.

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SHOCKING CASE

Television THURSDAY

South Wales Police
detectives hunt for
the killer of June
Fox-Roberts (below)

Code Blue: the Killing of June Fox-Roberts
9.00pm ITV1 Catch up via ITVX
ITV1’s run of superior true-crime documentaries continues with the return
of 2019 series Code Blue. This two-parter (concluding next week) begins
with a truly horrific discovery, related over a 999 call in November 2021:
the dismembered corpse of 65-year-old June Fox-Roberts, her remains
wrapped in plastic and left on the floor of her dining room in a quiet village
near Pontypridd.
Such a gruesome crime leaves even the experienced detectives of South
Wales Police’s Major Crimes Unit reeling, to say nothing of June’s children,

FOOD

CRAFT

CURRENT AFFAIRS

DOCUMENTARY

Celebrity MasterChef

Bill Bailey’s Master
Crafters: the Next
Generation

Britain’s Dirty Water:
What Went Wrong?

The Supervet:
Noel Fitzpatrick

8.00pm BBC1 Catch up via iPlayer
A communication challenge for the
paired remaining celebrities means
one person must convey a vague
recipe to the other so both serve
identical-looking and tasting dishes.
It has, shall we say, mixed results,
including Godzilla-sized portions and
pancakes as thick as doorstops.
Then the four are dispatched to
work in the kitchens of two upmarket
London eateries. They don’t inspire
confidence — and indeed burn
chicken and ruin halibut — so why do
these restaurants even consider
letting amateurs near their food?
The celebs fare better when
cooking their own dishes for John
Torode and Gregg Wallace, although
one person looks as though they’re
waiting for a death sentence, not
a food critique. JANE RACKHAM

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two of whom talk at length on camera about both their beloved mother and
the grim impact of the rumour mill as it grinds into life on social media.
The police, meanwhile, roll out CCTV experts, forensics teams and
“cadaver dogs”, keenly aware that, with the killer at large, public safety is
an acute issue. A breakthrough comes courtesy of a local tyre yard and the
hunt for “Container Man” begins; the story is told with care for the victim
and the bereaved, neither downplaying the truly grim nature of the crime
nor fetishising it. GABRIEL TATE

8.00pm Sky Arts Catch up via Now
Bill Bailey’s been a delight

SERIES at the helm of this
FINALE inspiring heritage skills
series. For the finale, he
dons his Panama hat and gathers all
nine junior crafters at Wiltshire’s
Messums tithe barn to outline their
challenge: a bespoke bench for the
arbour of Highgrove, King Charles’s
favourite residence. After looking to
the countryside for inspiration, the
wood carvers, silversmiths and
stained glass glaziers get to work,
before delivering their “by royal
appointment” piece. It makes for
a fitting tribute to endangered
traditional crafts — and to “making
stuff” in general. MICHAEL HOGAN

8.30pm (10.45pm STV, Wales) ITV1
Catch up via ITVX
Each year, hundreds of thousands of
sewage spillages take place in waters
all around Britain. Some beaches are
so polluted, members of the public
are being officially advised to stay
away completely because it’s just
not safe to swim.
Journalist Joe Crowley, whom
you may know from Countryfile and
The One Show, presents this deeply
worrying Tonight report. He speaks
with experts who agree that the
infrastructure surrounding Britain’s
waterways needs to be upgraded.
The situation is urgent — but, asks
Crowley, will our water bills have to
become even more expensive in
order to subsidise such a major
project? JOHN AIZLEWOOD

9.00pm C4 Catch up: C4 streaming
It’s hard not to feel sympathy for
Duncan and Lucinda, who have
brought their Maine coon cat Lexie
into the practice with a fractured hip
joint. Noel Fitzpatrick, who owns two
Maine coon cats himself, gives them
a choice: one procedure that will
partly restore Lexie’s mobility, or an
expensive option that will give her full
mobility. It is a tough decision — and
one that could cost the couple their
next few holidays.
It’s also a big week for 3D-printed
bone plates. Border terrier Charlie,
who has broken a plate in the top of
his tibia bone, requires one. As does
dwarf rabbit Locky, whose glass-like
bones are so fragile that surgery is
an immensely intricate task.
STEPHEN KELLY

RadioTimes 29 July–4 August 2023

THURSDAY 3 AUGUST
LIVE SPORT
Surgeons:
a Matter of Life
or Death

The Dog Academy
8.00pm C4

Butter wouldn’t melt…
but can aggressive
zuchon Archie (right)
be trained out of his bad
habits to become the
perfect pet?

9.00pm Channel 5
More interventions, to
help a man with a huge
tumour and a woman
with bowel cancer.

Puzzling

8.00pm Channel 5
Contestants from
Birmingham,
Blackburn, London,
Manchester and
Croydon pit their wits in
the cerebral quiz show.

PROPERTY

DOCUMENTARY

DOCUMENTARY

My Floating Home

Stacey Dooley Sleeps
Over: Family and Me

Couples Therapy

9.00pm More4
Catch up via C4 streaming

10.00pm W Catch up via UKTV Play

FRANCES TAYLOR

Self-reflection is at the heart of what
Dr Orna Guralnik encourages in
therapy. While digging deeper into
Natasha’s fear of being left, Erica
feeling dismissed, and Mormonism
teaching Kristi that sexual activity
is sinful, Sean remains defiantly
non-introspective, which leaves this
episode on quite the cliffhanger.
Yet it’s Dr Guralnik’s commentary
about the fear of separation being
one of the forces that keeps people
together that really hits home — not
wanting to be alone is something we
can all relate to. The beauty of this
programme is that even when we’re
presented with the problems, it still
makes you look for the love — and
root for it. LAURA RUTKOWSKI

Cricket: the Hundred
Northern Superchargers v
Birmingham Phoenix
2.30pm, 6pm Sky Sports
Cricket/Main Event
Top batter Harry Brook (above)
goes from England to Northern
Superchargers at 6pm. Sport: p31

Football: Women’s World Cup
South Korea v Germany
10.45am (k/o 11am) BBC2
Morocco v Colombia
k/o 11am iPlayer
Concluding group matches.

Racing:
Glorious Goodwood
1.30pm ITV1

Day three of the festival.

FILM OF
THE DAY

Television

This is ostensibly a highlights show
featuring some of Dooley’s most
memorable encounters in her Sleeps
Over series — but with a twist. Having
recently become a mum herself,
she’s rewatching and reflecting on
episodes that featured some highly
emotive households, from families
broadcasting their lives on YouTube
to “child-led” parenting.
It’s primarily a gateway for Dooley
and her partner Kevin Clifton to
ruminate on the parents they’re
going to be to daughter Minnie.
Dooley also ponders how much
becoming a mother has
fundamentally changed her — and
sheds some tears along the way.

THURSDAY

If last week’s episode of the Grand
Designs-afloat show felt like a cheat
(what with the couple involved
actually being professional boat
builders), then this second instalment
will restore your faith in the format.
Not only are retirees Alan and Val
without shipbuilding experience,
they’ve actually never lived on the
water before.
So what’s prompting them to
downsize their home and hire
someone to make them the perfect
purple (yes, purple) canal boat of
their dreams? Simple: they think it’ll
be a great way to visit family and
friends along the canal network. And
maybe it will, as long as they can pass
the boating exam. CERI THOMAS

11.15pm (11.45pm Wales) BBC2
Catch up via iPlayer

BURGER
KINGS
Tom Kerridge
(above) meets
West Country
restaurateurs the
Beefy Boys

Schindler’s List 5 j

The Hidden World of Hospitality with Tom Kerridge
8.00pm BBC2 Catch up via iPlayer
pandemic but the Beefy Boys — an enthusiastic group
of guys with no previous experience of hospitality
who opened a high-end burger joint in Hereford —
bucked the trend, expanding from 80 covers a day
to more than 200 (even more on a Saturday).
They’re endearingly gung-ho about launching
a third venture in Cheltenham, having already
expanded to Shrewsbury, but, as the ever-jolly

successfully opening a restaurant can be a challenge.
One of the things that comes across is that there’s
a lot more to the hospitality business than simply
serving good food, as we see when Tom is faced with
pulling out of his own restaurant in Manchester’s
Stock Exchange Hotel.
There’s also a report on a Northern Ireland luxury
hideaway retreat. JR

10.40pm (11.10pm Northern
Ireland, not Wales) BBC1
Turning 30 this year, Steven
Spielberg’s shattering biopic of
Oskar Schindler has lost none of
its power. Liam Neeson plays the
factory owner who saved more
than 1,000 Jewish workers from
the Nazi death camps. (1993)

FILM REVIEWS
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GETTY; ALLSTAR

DOCUMENTARY

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THURSDAY Main Channels
DAYTIME
BBC1

Television THURSDAY

6.00am Breakfast Naga Munchetty, Charlie Stayt. (S) (HD)
9.15 Morning Live Gethin Jones, Kimberley Walsh. (S) (HD)
10.00 Big Little Crimes A tip-off leads to police
cracking a £2 million insurance scam. (R) (S) (HD)
10.30 Animal Park Iggy Pop the iguana has a
mystery tail injury requiring surgery. (Revised rpt) (S) (HD)
11.15 Homes under the Hammer Properties in
Rugby, Doncaster and the Rhondda Valley. (S) (HD)
12.15pm Bargain Hunt From Brighton. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
1.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
1.45 Rick Stein’s Cornwall Rick explores the rich
and diverse history of West Penwith. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
2.15 Robson Green’s Weekend Escapes Robson is
joined by crime fiction author LJ Ross. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
2.45 Escape to the Country In Shropshire. (R) (S) (HD)
3.45 Make It at Market Izzy has given up a career in
advertising to become a full-time potter. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
4.30—5.15 Antiques Road Trip Roo Irvine and Mark
Hill scour the Highlands and Islands for items. (R) (S) (HD)

1

5.15pm Pointless

2 BBC SPORT ONLINE From 7.55am Netball World Cup

Guest co-host Lucy Porter joins Alexander Armstrong
for the quiz in which pairs of contestants attempt to
win a large cash prize by scoring the fewest points
possible with the least obvious correct answers. (S) (HD)

5.00pm The Farmers’ Country Showdown

6.00 BBC News Weather (S) (HD)
6.30 Regional news magazines (S) (HD)
7.00 The One Show
Presented by Alex Jones and Roman Kemp. (S) (HD)

BBC2

Bobby Beale
Clay Milner Russell George Knight
Sonia Fowler
Natalie Cassidy Suki Kaur Panesar
Mitch Baker
Roger Griffiths Karen Taylor
Vinny Panesar
Shiv Jalota Kathy Beale
Jack Branning
Scott Maslen Ravi Gulati
Sam Mitchell
Kim Medcalf Elaine Peacock
Phil Mitchell
Steve McFadden Patrick Trueman
Whitney Dean
Shona McGarty Keanu Taylor
Felix Baker
Matthew Morrison Kat Slater
Bernadette Taylor
Clair Norris Jean Slater
Denise Fox
Diane Parish Debbie
Eve Unwin
Heather Peace Graham
Alfie Moon
Shane Richie

8.00 LIVE Netball World Cup A match from the
final day of the second group stage in Cape Town
(centre-pass 8.00). England and Australia were expected
to win their respective pools in the first stage, putting
them on a collision course for this fixture. Coverage
of other matches available at bbc.co.uk/sport. (S) (HD)
10.00 A to Z of TV Gardening The letter A. (R) (S) (HD)
10.45 LIVE Women’s World Cup South Korea v
Germany Both teams’ final match in Group H at
Brisbane Stadium (kick-off 11.00). Germany were
champions in 2003 and 2007. Gabby Logan presents.
Highlights 9.05pm BBC3. Full replay on the red button
at 9.25pm. Watch live on iPlayer, which also has
highlights of other matches. Press red from 10.50am
for live coverage of Morocco v Colombia. (S) (HD)
1.15pm Impossible Quiz with Rick Edwards. (R) (S) (HD)
2.00 Mastermind John Humphrys hosts. (R) (S) (HD)
2.30 Great British Menu The Scottish chefs serve
up their music-themed main courses and desserts.
3.30 The remaining chefs reprise their menus. (R) (S) (HD)
4.00—5.00 World’s Sneakiest Animals Creatures
that use deceptive tactics to find food. (R) (S) (HD)

9

ITV1

Channel 4
6.15am Countdown John Thomson guests. (R) (S) (HD)
6.55 Cheers Two episodes of the comedy. (R) (S) (HD)
7.45 Everybody Loves Raymond (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
8.35 Frasier Two editions of the sitcom. (R) (S) (AD)
9.35 The Big Bang Theory Double bill. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
10.35 The Simpsons Bart creates a hit cartoon.
11.05 German businessmen buy the nuclear power
plant and sack Homer. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 11.35 News (S) (HD)
11.40 Four in a Bed Visits to establishments in
Portsmouth, Dorset and Cornwall. (R) (S) (HD)
2.10pm Countdown John Thomson guests. (S) (HD)
3.00 A Place in the Sun A hunt for a holiday home in
the coastal town of Nerja in southern Spain. (R) (S) (HD)
4.00—5.00 A New Life in the Sun: Where Are
They Now? A couple from London who sunk their
savings into expanding their gîte business. (R) (S) (HD)

2

The Hidden World
of Hospitality
with Tom
Kerridge 8.00pm
Tom chews the fat
with Gary Neville

6.15am Bargain Hunt From Hele in Devon. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00—8.00 Sign Zone 7.00 Clive Myrie’s Italian Road
Trip 10/15. Clive makes gelato. (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 7.30 Great
British Railway Journeys At RAF Lakenheath. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
2 BBC SPORT ONLINE From 7.55am Netball World Cup
Matches are available at bbc.co.uk/sport

BBC2

Celebrity
MasterChef
8.00pm Will John
and Gregg’s quips
be taken with a
pinch of salt?

7.30 EastEnders

6.00am Good Morning Britain (S) (HD)
9.00 Lorraine Guests, gossip and more. (S) (HD)
10.00 This Morning Celebrity interviews, fashion
and lifestyle advice. Including Regional Weather (S) (HD)
12.30pm Loose Women The regulars and their
guests put the world to rights. Repeated 12.40am (S) (HD)
1.00 ITV Lunchtime News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
1.30—4.00 LIVE Racing: Glorious Goodwood
Ed Chamberlin and Francesca Cumani present day
three of the festival, featuring the Nassau Stakes
at 3.35, plus races at 1.50, 2.25 and 3.00. (S) (HD)

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BBC1

Bobby opens up about his past to Anna.

Colin Salmon
Balvinder Sopal
Lorraine Stanley
Gillian Taylforth
Aaron Thiara
Harriet Thorpe
Rudolph Walker
Danny Walters
Jessie Wallace
Gillian Wright
Jenny Meier
Alex McSweeney

Writer Carey Andrews This week’s episodes directed by Conor Morrissey
More cast Tuesday (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 Celebrity MasterChef

culinary battle continues as the remaining
4The
celebrities face three more challenges to secure

their spot in the quarter-final. Tonight’s first task
sees the contestants working as a team to create an
identical crowd-pleasing meal. With only one team
member having the basic instructions of how to make
the dish, communication is key to success. Next, they
must cook in a professional kitchen for paying
customers during a busy lunchtime service, before
showcasing their style by creating a dish that they
would serve from their own dream food truck. Will
John Torode and Gregg Wallace be impressed?
Continues tomorrow 8.30pm. See p90. (S) (AD) (HD)

Matches are available at bbc.co.uk/sport

Series 7. Farmers Tracey, Graham and Ellie pull out
all the stops to sell as much of their cheese and
meat as they can at Ripley Farmers’ Market in Surrey.
Directors Ray Easmon and Andy Phillips
Producer Donna Harry (Revised rpt) (S) (HD)

5.30 Cycling
Coverage of day one of the World Championships
from Scotland, starting with the track cycling at the
Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow. As well as the
first round of the women’s team sprint, featuring last
year’s bronze medallists Great Britain, there are finals
in various para events, including British reigning
world champion Daphne Schrager in the C3 individual
pursuit. Clare Balding presents, with analysis from
Chris Hoy. Coverage continues on BBC3. (S) (HD)

7.00 Saving Lives at Sea
There are anxious times at Scotland’s only inland
lifeboat station at Loch Ness when a yacht becomes
lodged on a weir that drains into the River Ness; one
false move could topple the vessel over the weir.
Directors Phil Broadhurst and Luke Proctor
Series producer Alex Raw (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 The Hidden World of Hospitality
with Tom Kerridge

Rolling the Dice. Tom Kerridge continues to
42/8.
delve into the industry he knows and loves. This

week, he speaks to entrepreneurs keen to expand
their businesses despite difficult economic times. In
Hereford, he meets four friends who run two thriving
burger joints, with a plan to open a third in Cheltenham.
In Fermanagh, on the shores of Lough Erne, Gillian
runs a wellness retreat and is about to embark on her
biggest investment to date — an £800,000 tropical
spa, housed in a vast glass geometric dome. Meanwhile,
in Manchester, a very different story is unfolding at
an establishment owned by Gary Neville. See p91.

9.00 Who Do You Think You Are?

Exec producer Richard Bowron Rptd tomorrow 11.05pm (S) (AD) (HD)

Series 19. Richard Osman. Broadcaster, TV producer
and bestselling crime author Richard Osman delves
into his family tree and discovers how his four-times
great-grandfather was an amateur sleuth and ended
up entangled in one of Brighton’s most notorious
murder trials. Richard also looks at his grandfather’s
army career and learns why it gave him a profound
belief in the power of education, which he passed on
to his grandson. Narrated by Phil Davis.

9.00 Inside the Factory

Director Mary Cranitch; Exec producer Colette Flight (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

The first episode starring Sanjeev Bhaskar, Kulvinder
Ghir, Meera Syal and Nina Wadia. From January 1998.

10.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
10.40 Schindler’s List 5
Spielberg’s multi-Oscar-winning drama
qSteven
starring Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley and Ralph

Fiennes. In 1939, businessman Oskar Schindler, a
Gentile, comes to Krakow with the idea of getting
rich quickly by using cheap Jewish labour in his
factory supplying the German war effort. As Jewish
persecution spreads throughout Europe, Schindler,
although a close associate of SS officers, finds it
worth his while to protect his workers from the
escalating evil around him. Available on iPlayer for
30 days. Film of the Day: page 97.
Oskar Schindler
Itzhak Stern
Amon Goeth
Emilie Schindler
Poldek Pfefferberg

Liam Neeson
Ben Kingsley
Ralph Fiennes
Caroline Goodall
Jonathan Sagalle

Helen Hirsch
Julian Scherner
Albert Hujar
Diana Reiter
Victoria Klonowska

Embeth Davidtz
Andrzej Seweryn
Norbert Weisser
Elina Lowensohn
Malgoscha Gebel

Gregg Wallace heads for Stoke-on-Trent to inspect
the factory that produces 250,000 cherry bakewells
each day. He discovers exactly what makes
shortcrust pastry short and meets the people who
place each cherry precisely in the centre by hand.
Series producer Michael Rees
Executive producers Amanda Lyon, Sanjay Singhal (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 Goodness Gracious Me
Directors Nick Wood, Gareth Carrivick; Producer Anil Gupta (R) (S) (HD)

10.30 Newsnight With Kirsty Wark. (S) (HD)
11.10 Weather (S) (HD)

11.15 Couples Therapy

Series 3. Natasha reveals her deepest
413/18
fears. Kristi sheds light on Brock’s betrayal.

A box set is available on iPlayer. See page 91.
Repeated tomorrow 2.50am (S) (HD)

11.40 Earth

3/5. Green. How plant life transformed the planet.
See choice, page 60. Shown Monday 9pm (S) (AD) (HD)

1.45am Weather for the Week Ahead (S) (HD)
1.50—6.00am BBC News (S) (HD)

12.40—2.55am Sign Zone 12.40 Extraordinary Portraits
with Bill Bailey 2/6. Painter Jemisha Maadhavji creates
a piece of art depicting junior doctor Grace. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
1.10 Clean It, Fix It The team helps an avid recycler whose
small flat is bursting at the seams. (R) (S) (HD)
1.55 The Great British Sewing Bee 10/10 Series 9. The
finalists make Victoriana-style evening dresses and men’s
red-carpet outfits. Shown Saturday 3.55pm (S) (AD) (HD)

BBC1 Freeview 1/HD 101 Freesat 101 Sky 101 Virgin 101

BBC2 Freeview 2/HD 102 Freesat 102 Sky 102 Virgin 102

Director Steven Spielberg (1993, 15) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)

THURSDAY 3 AUGUST
ITV1

3

Channel 4

4

7 in Wales

BBC4

9

24 in Scotland

7.00—7.30pm River
City: a suspicious Tyler
catches Nicole in a lie

Code Blue: the
Killing of June
Fox-Roberts
9.00pm Grieving
daughter Trish
relives the case

The Supervet:
Noel Fitzpatrick
9.00pm Lexie’s
owners are hoping
that Noel can
work his magic

Gentlemen
Prefer Blondes
9.00pm Marilyn
Monroe and Jane
Russell star in the
glitzy musical

4.00pm Tipping Point

5.00pm Sun, Sea and Selling Houses

Four contestants take turns on the supersized
arcade machine. Ben Shephard hosts. (R) (S) (HD)

A 58-year-old woman searches for a property in
Almería where she can keep rescued horses.

7.00pm Great Coastal Railway
Journeys

Repeated tomorrow 2.30pm 4seven (R) (S) (HD)

5.00 The Chase
Bradley Walsh hosts as Rory, Anne, Richie and
Keziah challenge one of the Chasers. (R) (S) (HD)

6.00 Regional News Weather (S) (HD)
6.30 ITV Evening News Weather (S) (HD)
7.30 Emmerdale
Dan anxiously waits for his hearing to begin.
Nate is thwarted as Caleb buys his silence.

8.30 Britain’s Dirty Water: What
Went Wrong? Tonight

year, thousands of sewage spills
4Every
blight waters around the country, with

some beaches now in such a bad state that
visitors are being officially told to stay away.
Joe Crowley investigates. See page 90.

Producer Matt Quinton (S) (HD)
NOTE: as Tonight reacts to the news its subject matter may change

9.00 Code Blue: the Killing of June
Fox-Roberts

Following the work of South Wales
41/2.
Police’s Major Crimes Unit as they try to

solve the brutal murder of grandmother June
Fox-Roberts, from the initial 999 call through
to the final court hearing. In this programme,
officers try to identify the killer through CCTV
footage in the hours before and after June’s
death, featuring first-hand accounts from her
relatives and police detectives. See page 90.

Series producer Iwan Roberts (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 ITV News at Ten
Weather; Regional News and Weather

(S) (HD)

10.45 Heathrow: Britain’s Busiest
Airport
The superjumbo A380 touches down on the
runway, but there’s a technical problem.
Series producer Emma Griffiths
Executive producer Juliette Murray-Topham (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

11.40 All Elite Wrestling: Rampage
The latest hard-hitting action from the USA.
Shown Tuesday 11.40pm ITV4 (S) (HD)

12.40am Loose Women Shown 12.30pm (S) (HD)
1.00 Romeo and Duet Dating show. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
1.50 Winning Combination Quiz show. (R) (S) (HD)
2.40 Paul Sinha’s TV Showdown Rob Beckett and
Fay Ripley lead two teams of celebrities. (R) (S) (HD)
3.15 ITV Football Classics England v Germany in
the Euro 96 semi-final at Wembley. (R) (S) (SL) (HD)
4.05 Unwind A sequence to calm the mind. (S) (HD)
5.05—6.00am Oti Mabuse’s Breakfast Show With
guest Andi Osho. Shown Saturday 8.25am (S) (SL) (HD)
ITV1 Freeview 3/HD 103 Freesat 103 Sky 103 Virgin 103
+1 Freeview 35 Freesat 112 Sky 203 Virgin 303

6.30 Hollyoaks
Pearl gives her daughter advice about Warren.
Writer James Coleman This week’s episodes directed by Clare
Anyiam-Osigwe Cast Tue/Fri Shown yesterday 7pm E4 Rptd
tomorrow 6.30am E4 The next episode follows on E4 (S) (AD) (HD)

7.00 Channel 4 News Sport; Weather (S) (HD)
8.00 The Dog Academy

7/8. The trainers give advice to Melissa, whose
labrador-cross Milo is running rings around her
and makes a dash for it every time she calls his
name. Two-year old zuchon Archie is aggressive to
strangers and has begun to bite, and mother and
daughter owners Kirsty and Katie are desperate
to end his reign of terror before it gets any worse.
Series producer Kay Green; Executive producers Adam Chapman
and Jackie Waldock Rptd tomorrow 8pm 4seven (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 The Supervet: Noel Fitzpatrick

4

Ep 3. Maine coon cat Lexie is brought in
with a fractured hip, which Noel determines
is caused by a genetic disease, leaving her family
weighing up surgery. Bouncy one-year-old border
terrier Charlie is struggling to put weight on his
hind leg after rupturing his cruciate ligament, and
huge two-year-old dwarf rabbit Locky has broken
his leg. Noel hopes to fix Locky’s fragile bones with
a small custom plate, but the longer he’s away
from his rabbit family, the greater the risk they
could reject him. The next episode will be available
to stream after this broadcast. See page 90.
Series producer/Director David Harris
Repeated tomorrow 7pm 4seven (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 The Girl from Plainville

4/8. Can’t Fight This Feeling. With the threat
of legal action mounting, Gail and David decide
the time has come to hire a lawyer to represent
their daughter. Co and Lynn are struggling with
their pasts, while Michelle tries to help Coco
settle into a new life. The whole series is
available to stream. (S) (AD) (HD)

11.00 24 Hours in A&E

Ep 4. At Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham,
77-year-old Keith is treated for a cardiac arrest
and Joanna has a spinal fracture after a fall.
Shown Monday 9pm (S) (AD) (HD)

12 midnight Sky Coppers 4/6. An infrared drone kit is
used to search for a teenager who disappeared after
climbing scaffolding. Shown Tuesday 9pm (S) (AD) (HD)
12.55am Becoming Elizabeth 3/8. Elizabeth’s
decision to side with one sibling has devastating
consequences. Shown Saturday 9.15pm (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)
2.05 Breaking In HHH Thriller. Shaun Russell travels
with her two children to prepare her late father’s
remote, fortress-like house for sale. When thieves
break in, Shaun fights back and becomes locked outdoors
— while the crooks are inside with the kids.
Shaun Russell
Gabrielle Union Glover Russell
Seth Carr
Eddie
Billy Burke Maggie Harris
Christa Miller
Duncan
Richard Cabral Isaac
Damien Leake

q

Director James McTeigue (2018, 15) (S) (SL) (W) (HD)

3.30 Couples Come Dine with Me Three pairs from
Hull compete for the £1,000 prize. (R) (S) (HD)
4.25 Love It or List It Australia A couple decide
whether to leave or stay in their cottage. (R) (S) (HD)
5.15—6.15am The Great Big Tiny Design Challenge
with Sandi Toksvig 1/8. Miniature-making contest,
starting with tiny busts. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
Channel 4 Freeview 4/HD 104 Freesat 104 Sky 104 Virgin 104
+1 Freeview 15 Freesat 121 Sky 204 Virgin 304

Series 1. Invergordon to Tain. Michael
Portillo takes the Far North Line to
Invergordon on the Cromarty Firth
and explores a former oil drilling rig.

7.00pm Anton Danyluk
on Body Shame 7.30
The Great Food Guys
8.00 Beechgrove
Garden 8.30 Designing
the Hebrides 9.00 The
Nine 10.00 Scot Squad
10.30 Facelift
11.30—12 midnight The
Comedy Underground

STV

7.30 Secrets of Skin

8.30—9.00pm Paul
O’Grady: for the Love
of Dogs 10.45 Britain’s
Dirty Water: What
Went Wrong? Tonight
11.10 The Motorbike
Show 12.10—12.40am
The People’s History
Show 4.05—5.05
Night Vision

Repeated 2.30am (R) (S) (HD)

BBC1 WALES

8.00 Screen Goddesses: Arena

9.00—10.00pm
Slammed: the Seventies:
a focus on the Wales
rugby union team in
the 1970s 10.45 Dark
Land: Hunting the Killers:
the team tries to solve
the murder of Joyce
Cox, who disappeared
in 1939 11.25 Who Do
You Think You Are?
12.25am Gaia: a
Death on Dancing
Ledge: a mysterious
death from 2017
1.15 Question of Sport
1.45—6.00 BBC News

Repeated 2am (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

6/6. Ben Garrod tests a pit viper’s heat
sensors, seeing if it will strike at a warm
ping-pong ball. Plus, how the leaf-nosed
bat uses its skin to traverse a forest.

Documentary focusing on the impact
of the female stars of the Hollywood
studio era, from 1910 through to the
early 1960s. Icons of the silver screen
chronologically recalled include Theda
Bara, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Bette
Davis, Rita Hayworth, Ava Gardner,
Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe.
Narrated by Elizabeth McGovern.
Director/Producer David Thompson (R) (S) (HD)

9.00 Gentlemen Prefer
Blondes HHHH

comedy. Despite already
qMusical
being engaged to a millionaire,

showgirl Lorelei Lee continues to flirt
with wealthy men when she sails to Paris
with her best friend Dorothy. Available
on iPlayer for 25 days. Review p47.

Dorothy Shaw
Lorelei Lee
Sir Francis Beekman
Ernie Malone
Gus Esmond
Henry Spofford III
Magistrate

Jane Russell
Marilyn Monroe
Charles Coburn
Elliott Reid
Tommy Noonan
George Winslow
Marcel Dalio

Director Howard Hawks (1953, U) (S) (W)
Shown Saturday 1.25pm BBC2
Reframed: Marilyn Monroe tomorrow 9pm BBC2

10.30 Brief Encounter 5

q

Classic romantic drama. A chance
meeting in a suburban railway
station brings together Laura Jesson,
a happily married woman, and Dr Alec
Harvey who is also married. They fall
in love, but their secret happiness is
marred by the furtive way they must
carry on the affair. Available on iPlayer
for 25 days. Review page 47.

Laura Jesson
Dr Alec Harvey
Fred Jesson
Albert Godby
Myrtle Bagot
Dolly Messiter

Celia Johnson
Trevor Howard
Cyril Raymond
Stanley Holloway
Joyce Carey
Everley Gregg

BBC2 WALES
10.00—10.30pm
Rewind: 60 Years of
Welsh Pop 11.15 I Want
to Go Home 11.45
Couples Therapy
12.10—12.40am QI

ITV1 WALES
8.30—9.00pm Wales
at the World Cup: a
Mountain to Climb 10.45
Britain’s Dirty Water:
What Went Wrong?
Tonight 11.10—11.40
Wales on TV

Television

Writer Andrew Kirk This week’s episodes produced by Hannah
Cheers, Kate Brooks and Laura Shaw, and directed by Ian Bevitt,
Jeff Naylor and Matt Hilton More cast Tuesday (S) (AD) (HD)

Radio Bart. Bart uses the microphone Homer
bought him to trick the town. (R) (S) (AD)

BBC
SCOTLAND

THURSDAY

Dan Spencer
Liam Fox Rhona Goskirk
Zoe Henry
Caleb Miligan
William Ash Rishi Sharma
Bhasker Patel
Gabby Thomas
Rosie Bentham Rodney Blackstock Patrick Mower
Nicky Milligan
Lewis Cope Ryan Stocks
James Moore
Liam Cavanagh Jonny McPherson Sam Dingle
James Hooton
Lydia Dingle
Karen Blick Sarah Sugden
Katie Hill
Mackenzie Boyd
Lawrence Robb Suzy Merton Martelle Edinborough
Mandy Dingle
Lisa Riley Tom King
James Chase
Manpreet Sharma Rebecca Sarker Tracy Metcalfe
Amy Walsh
Marlon Dingle
Mark Charnock Vanessa Woodfield Michelle Hardwick
Marshall Hamston
Max Fletcher Victoria Sugden
Isabel Hodgins
Mary Goskirk
Louise Jameson Vinny Dingle
Bradley Johnson
Matty Barton
Ash Palmisciano Wendy Posner
Susan Cookson
Moira Dingle
Natalie J Robb Will Taylor
Dean Andrews
Naomi Walters
Karene Peter Zak Dingle
Steve Halliwell
Noah Dingle
Jack Downham Suni
Brahmdeo Shannon
Paddy Dingle
Dominic Brunt

6.00 The Simpsons

BBC1
SCOTLAND

BBC1
NORTHERN
IRELAND
10.40pm The Paddy
Raff Show: sketches
with the Belfast
stand-up 11.10 FILM:
Schindler’s List
2.15—6.00am News

UTV
10.45—11.40pm Up
Close: current affairs
show looking at issues
affecting the people
of Northern Ireland

Director David Lean (1945, PG) (BW) (S)
Shown Saturday 5.25pm BBC2

11.55 The RKO Story: Tales
from Hollywood

1/6. Birth of a Titan. Ed Asner tells the
story of RKO Pictures film production
and distribution company. (R) (S) (HD)
1.00am 2/6. Let’s Face the Music
and Dance. Exploring the film studio’s
musicals made in the 1930s.
Producers Charles Chabot, Rosemary Wilton; Exec
producers Leslie Megahey and Alan Yentob (R) (S) (HD)

2.00 Great Coastal Railway Journeys
Shown 7pm (S) (AD) (HD)

2.30—3.00am Secrets of Skin
Shown 7.30pm (S) (HD)

BBC4 F’view 9/HD 106 F’sat 108 Sky 116 Virgin 108

a RT Choice m Family 2 Red button (R) Repeat (S) Subtitles (SL) Signing (AD) Audio description (HD) High def FILMS i Premiere (W) Widescreen (BW) Black/white

Channel 5
listings are overleaf

Outstanding HHHH Very good HHH Worth watching HH Could be worse H Poor

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THURSDAY Freeview
Channel 5

5

ITV3

10

Snowfall 10.50pm Franklin is crumbling
under the weight of his guilt

Law & Order: UK 10.00pm Brooks

5.35am Milkshake! See page 96
9.15 New. Jeremy Vine (S) (HD)
11.15 New. Storm Huntley (S) (HD)
12.40pm New. Alexis Conran (S) (HD)

7.00pm LIVE Cycling

6.00am Classic Emmerdale (S) 7.05 Classic
Coronation Street (S) (AD) 8.05 Never the
Twain: Simon’s love life hots up; 8.35 Simon
and Oliver learn they have another love rival
(S) 9.15 The Royal: 5/12 Series 7. Ormerod and
Rose are caught in the crossfire when a family
feud erupts Repeated 12.05am; 10.25 6/12
Stella and Frankie’s dreams are threatened
when they’re involved in a major incident
Repeated 1.05am (S) (AD) 11.35 Heartbeat:
25/25. A frantic search ensues after a child
goes missing; 12.40pm 1/26. Liz and Ben
raise funds for a dialysis machine (S) (AD)
1.45pm Classic Emmerdale: double bill.
Marlon seems to have lost his touch in the
kitchen, then Scott offers Dawn a job (S)
2.45 Classic Coronation Street: double bill.
Jason’s exciting news goes down like a lead
balloon, then Jack and Vera win a dream
house (S) (AD) 3.50 A Touch of Frost: Series 3
Dead Male One. Jack’s plans for a quiet
weekend are disrupted when an unidentified
body is pulled out of the river (S) (AD) (HD)

1.45 Home and Away Lyrik pulls out of
Battle of the Bands under tragic circumstances.
Shown yesterday 6.30pm 5 Star (S) (AD) (HD)

2.15 An Aurora Teagarden Mystery:
Til Death Do Us Part Just days before
Aurora’s wedding, a body is discovered,
and her father may be a suspect. (S) (HD)
4.00 Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun
Children’s party entertainer Natalie hosts a
tenth birthday celebration. (S) (HD)

Television THURSDAY

23

Puzzling 8.00pm The presenter
presides over more devious tasks

1.40 5 News (S) (HD)

5.00pm 5 News (S) (HD)
6.00 Eggheads
Off the Piste, a team who share a passion
for skiing, take on the experts. (S) (HD)
6.30 Quality of Mercians take on the
team of quiz experts. (S) (HD)
6.55 5 News Update (S) (HD)

7.00 Kew Gardens: a New Year in
Bloom
5/7 Series 2. Summertime visitors
flock to the historic rose garden at
Kew, where it’s Dave’s job to tackle
the frequent dead-heading. (S) (HD)

RT GARDENING Save money on a cordless shrub
and grass shear: page 143
7.55 5 News Update (S) (HD)

8.00 New. Puzzling

7/13. Contestants from Birmingham,
Blackburn, London, Manchester and
Croydon face five rounds of puzzles.
Director Geraldine Dowd (S) (HD)
RT PUZZLES Join the RT Puzzles website:
radiotimespuzzles.com
Followed by 5 News Update (S) (HD)

9.00 New. Surgeons: a Matter of
Life or Death
3/6. Pratyush prepares to have a
fast-growing tumour removed, an
operation that could save his life.
Cameras also focus on Mariella, who
needs a ground-breaking procedure
for recurring bowel cancer.
Directors Simon Bowyer, Edmund Davis,
Louise Pirie and John Bonny (S) (HD)

10.00 Casualty 24/7: Every
Second Counts
Junior doctor John Shepherd treats a
24-year-old man who fell from a six-foot
fence onto concrete, while nurse Millie
Schumacher assesses 81-year-old Clifford.
Directors Mike Fox and Philip Shotton (S) (HD)

11.05 Skin A&E
Melasma sufferer, 43-year-old Tamzin,
visits Dr Natalia Spierings, who is a
specialist in her skin condition.
Directors/ Producers James Boakes and
Jamie Welham First shown on 5 Star (S) (HD)

12.05am Coastguard: Search and Rescue SOS
5/6. See choice, page 50. Shown Sunday 9pm
(S) (HD) 1.00 Home Shopping (S) (HD)
3.00 Great British Ships (S) (HD) 3.50 Alex
Polizzi’s Italian Islands (S) (AD) (HD) 4.40
Wildlife SOS (S) (SL) 5.05 House Doctor (S) (SL)
5.30—5.35am Entertainment News (S) (HD)
C5 Freeview 5/HD 105 Freesat 105 Sky 105 Virgin 105
+1 Freeview 38 Freesat 128 Sky 205 Virgin 305

BBC4 listings are overleaf

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BBC3

Clare Balding presents further coverage of
day one of the World Track Championships,
staged at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in
Glasgow, featuring the women’s individual
pursuit and team sprint finals. Great Britain
won three golds, two silvers and five bronzes
at last year’s event in France. (S) (HD)
Followed by The Catch Up (S) (HD)

9.05 New. Women’s World Cup
Highlights
Action from the concluding Group H games,
featuring South Korea v Germany at
Brisbane Stadium and Morocco v Colombia
at Perth Rectangular Stadium. (S) (HD)

9.30 Life and Death Row
Documentary following the trial of Guy
Heinze Jr, accused of murdering his father
and seven other members of his family in
2009. The film focuses on how the jury
reaches its verdict and captures the legal
manoeuvring that results in a last-minute
deal to avoid a hung jury. (S) (AD) (HD)

10.50 New. Snowfall

7/10 Series 6. Charnel House. Gustavo
learns he can’t play everyone against each
other and may be out of options, while Louie
holds a mirror up to Franklin. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.35 New. 8/10. Ballad of the Bear
Gustavo holds his nerve while Franklin puts
himself out in the open to lure Teddy in. The
whole series is available on iPlayer. (S) (AD) (HD)
12.20am Dreaming Whilst Black (S) (AD) (HD)
1.10 Jobless (S) (HD) 1.20 Ruck Stars (S) (HD)
2.50—3.50am Made Up in Belfast (S) (HD)
BBC3 F’view 23/HD 107 (not Scot/Wales) F’sat 179/HD 107
Sky 115 (117 Wales; 141 Scotland) Virgin 107 (157 Scotland/Wales)

ITV2

6

(Bradley Walsh) re-opens a cold case

6.00pm Heartbeat

2/26 Series 14. Aidensfield is terrorised
by a mysterious blackmailer. (S) (AD)
7.05 3/26. A thief steals the force’s panda
car and carries out a series of robberies
disguised as a police officer. (S) (AD)

8.00 Vera

2/4 Series 6. Tuesday’s Child. The body
of a young man who was killed by a blow
to the head is found wrapped in plastic
sheeting in an area notorious for illicit
teenage gatherings. (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 Law & Order: UK

3/7 Series 6. Haunted. Brooks re-opens
a case after a criminal confesses to the
murder of a teenage girl. (S) (AD) (HD)

11.00 Wycliffe
Series 2. Lost Contact. Two grieving
widows lay rival claims to a corpse found
washed up on the beach, each insisting
that it is the body of her missing husband.
Eleanor Bron guest-stars. (S) (HD)

6.00am World’s Funniest Videos (S) (HD)
6.35 Totally Bonkers Guinness World
Records (S) (HD) 7.00 Dress to Impress (S)
(SL) (HD) 8.00 One Tree Hill (S) (HD) 9.00
Dawson’s Creek (S) (HD) 10.00 Secret Crush
(S) (HD) 11.00 Dress to Impress (S) (HD)
12 noon Celebrity Dinner Date (S) (AD) (HD)
1.00pm Family Fortunes (S) (HD) 2.00 Chuck
(S) (HD) 3.05 One Tree Hill (S) (HD) 4.00
Dawson’s Creek (S) (HD) 5.00 Dinner Date:
singleton Jamie seeks romance (S) (AD) (HD)
5.55pm FILM Harry Potter and the
Goblet of Fire HHHH Fantasy adventure
with Daniel Radcliffe. Harry is entered into
the Triwizard Tournament but when tragedy
strikes, Harry fears the worst. Has Voldemort
returned? Review page 97. (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
9.00 Family Guy Series 9. The residents
of Quahog try to solve a murder mystery.
9.30 Quahog’s residents are invited to
spend an evening at James Woods’s house.
10.00 Lois agrees to be a surrogate mother
for a friend — who promptly dies
unexpectedly, leaving her facing a dilemma.
10.30 Series 8. Quahog’s local news station
announces the end of the world.
11.00 Brian and Stewie are locked inside
a bank vault for a weekend. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.30 American Dad! Series 10. Steve gets
caught shoplifting and is sent to a sweatshop
in Venezuela as punishment. (S) (AD) (HD)
12 midnight Series 9. Stan is shocked when
he learns that Deputy Director Bullock is
showing early signs of dementia. (S) (AD) (HD)

6.00am World of Sport (S) (HD) 6.10 Minder
(S) (SL) (AD) 7.15 The Sweeney (S) (SL) 8.10
Giant Lobster Hunters (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 9.15
Robin of Sherwood (S) 10.25 Magnum, PI (S)
(HD) 11.25 Made in Britain (S) (AD) (HD)
12.30pm The Champions (S) 1.35 Robin of
Sherwood (S) 2.40 Magnum, PI (S) (HD)
3.40 The Sweeney (S) 4.50 Minder (S) (AD)
6.00pm Made in Britain A couple that
have made a booming business out of their
hand-made scotch eggs. (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00 New. BattleBots Two robots face off
in a tumultuous battle for supremacy. (S) (HD)
8.00 FILM Casino Royale HHHH Spy
adventure starring Daniel Craig in his first
appearance as 007. James Bond is awarded
his licence to kill and sets off in pursuit of a
banker who finances terrorism. (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
10.50 FILM Gran Torino HHH Drama with
Clint Eastwood. Curmudgeon Walt Kowalski
is thrown into conflict with his neighbours
after one of the teenage sons tries to steal
his prize 1972 Ford Gran Torino. (S) (AD) (W) (HD)

12.30am CelebAbility (S) (HD) 1.15 Don’t Hate the
Playaz (S) (HD) 2.00—3.00am Totally Bonkers
Guinness World Records (S) (HD)

1.25am The Sweeney (S) (SL) 2.20 The Protectors
(S) (SL) 2.50 Unwind (S) (HD) 4.05 Robin of
Sherwood (S) 5.05—6.00am The Champions (S)

ITV2 Freeview 6 Freesat 113 Sky 118 Virgin 115
+1 Freeview 29 Freesat 114 Sky 218 Virgin 315

ITV4 Freeview 26 Freesat 117 Sky 120 Virgin 118
+1 Freesat 118 Sky 220 Virgin 318

12.05am The Royal Shown 9.15/10.25am (S) (AD)
2.10—2.30am Unwind (S) (HD)
ITV3 Freeview 10 Freesat 115 Sky 119 Virgin 117
+1 F’view 59 (9pm—4am) F’sat 116 Sky 219 Virgin 317

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20

Shakespeare and Hathaway: Private
Investigators 8.00pm Peter Quintus
7.10am Pie in the Sky: 4/10 Series 2. A trout
farmer is accused of murder (S) 8.00 Lovejoy:
6/14 Series 5. Eric becomes involved in a
smuggling racket (S) 9.15 Classic Holby City:
the tensions between Hanssen and Sahira
are exposed on her last day at Holby Repeated
2.45am (S) (HD) 10.35 Casualty: Romance
could be in the air for Megan 11.40 The Bill:
Cathy receives a marriage proposal
12.40pm Classic EastEnders: double bill.
Dennis assures Sharon that Den is still alive,
then it’s a big night in the Square as Billy
pleads for one last chance 2.00 The House
of Eliott: Evie is given a guided tour of
Westminster (S) 3.00 Lovejoy: 4/14 Series 4
A disgraced snooker player asks Lovejoy for
help (S) 4.10 Peak Practice: 2/13 Series 11
Bridgit has an affair with a patient 5.20
Waiting for God: 4/10 Series 4. Diana feels
restricted and decides to return to Bayview (S)

6.00pm Whatever Happened to the
Likely Lads?

4/14 Series 2. One for the Road. Bob is
arrested for drink-driving after going out.

6.40 Last of the Summer Wine
Series 2. The Changing Face of Rural
Blamire. The trio get caught up in a
disastrous business venture. (S)
7.20 Some Enchanted Evening. Compo
gets a chance to impress Nora Batty. (S)

8.00 Shakespeare and Hathaway:
Private Investigators

3/10 Series 1. This Promised End. Frank and
Luella race the clock when an undertaker
is given 24 hours to live. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 4/10. This Rough Magic. A woman
dies during a magic trick. (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 New Tricks

3/8 Series 5. A Face for Radio. The team
reopens the case of a DJ’s death. (S) (AD)

11.20 Silent Witness

4/6 Series 15. Redhill. Leo takes on the
authorities at a notorious prison. (S) (AD) (HD)
1.35am Bleak House: Series 1. Richard
practices law Shown 24 July (S) (AD) (HD)
2.45—4.00am Classic Holby City. Shown 9.15am
Drama Freeview 20 Freesat 158 Sky 143 Virgin 116
+1 Freeview 60 Sky 243 Virgin 316

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7.00am Sam and Billie: the Mummy Diaries:
Christmas has arrived (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00
Buying and Selling (S) (HD) 9.00 LittleBe (HD)
12 noon Sugar Showdown (S) (HD) 12.25pm
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (S) (HD)
1.20 Sam and Billie: the Mummy Diaries (S)
(AD) (HD) 2.20 The Only Way Is Essex (S) (HD)
3.05 Dinner Date (S) (HD) 4.05 The Real
Housewives of Atlanta (S) (HD) 5.00 The
Real Housewives of Orange County (S) (HD)
6.00pm Masters of Flip Kortney and
Dave restore an old farmhouse. (S) (HD)
7.00 Buying and Selling A couple have
difficulty finding the perfect home. (S) (HD)
8.00 New. Jane the Virgin Jane struggles
to find the right words for the ceremony when
she learns about a mysterious letter. (S) (HD)
9.00 New. Olivia Marries Her Match Olivia’s
hen do in Ibiza hits choppy waters and she
receives some disheartening news. (S) (HD)
10.00 Botched Terry tries to help a rapper
in need of a breast reduction. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 Totally Unbelievable Counting down
eye-popping celebrity fashion fails. (S) (HD)
12 midnight The Only Way Is Essex (S) (HD)
12.45—1.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

ITVBe Freeview 28 Freesat 119 Sky 131 Virgin 119
+1 Virgin 319

See p138 for details

THURSDAY 3 AUGUST
More4

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Sky Arts

11

Yesterday

27

5 USA

21

9.00am NCIS (AD) 11.55 Entertainment
News 12 noon Law & Order 6.00pm NCIS
Series 1. Triple bill. An agent is found murdered
7.00 A US Marine is kidnapped 8.00 The
remains of a US Marine are discovered (AD)
9.00 New. Blue Bloods Series 3. Frank
enlists the assistance of a notorious mob
lawyer to prevent a hit, Linda helps out on
Danny’s case, and Henry is mugged 10.00
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Series 18
Double bill. A spiritual healer is accused of
sexual assault, then a man is accused of
raping a woman in his church group

Bill Bailey’s Master Crafters: the
Next Generation 8.00pm The finale

Bangers and Cash: Restoring Classics
7.00pm Working on a vintage Saab

8.55am Kirstie’s Vintage Gems 9.15
A Place in the Sun 10.05 A New Life in the
Sun: Road Trip 11.05 Find It, Fix It, Flog It (AD)
1.10pm Heir Hunters 3.10 Four in a Bed
5.50 The Secret Life of the Zoo (AD)
6.55pm New. The Dog House Australia
Lily and her family meet a pug at Animal
Welfare League NSW dog sanctuary, while Paul
and Diana strike gold with a mini-Aussie shepherd.
7.55 Grand Designs Kevin McCloud returns
to Strathaven in Scotland to meet a couple
with a plan to build a metal sculptural home
inspired by aircraft hangars. (AD)
9.00 RT CHOICE New. My Floating Home
Ep 2 Series 4. A couple put their life savings
on the line to make their dream of living on
water come true, entrusting a boat builder to
make them their dream narrow boat floating
home. See page 91. (AD)
10.00 New. Grand Designs Australia Ep 10
Series 10. Couple Fiona and Sal, who want very
different things, try to reach a compromise,
so Sal picks the location — in Torquay, Victoria
— and Fiona decides on the design. (AD)
11.05 Sex Actually with Alice Levine
The presenter returns to meet people who
are pushing the boundaries of intimacy.
This week, Alice looks at new technologies
that could represent what sex and
relationships will look like in the future. (AD)

6.00am André Rieu: How It All Began
7.00 Reinventing the Orchestra with Charles
Hazlewood 8.00 Watercolour Challenge
9.00 Tales of the Unexpected (AD) 10.00
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: double bill
11.00 Discovering: Robert Duvall (AD)
12 noon The Joy of Painting 1.00pm Tales
of the Unexpected (AD) 2.00 Watercolour
Challenge 3.00 The Art of the Garden
4.00 Discovering: Jack Nicholson 5.00
Tales of the Unexpected: double bill (AD)
6.00pm Alfred Hitchcock Presents A man
desperately needs an alibi for murder.
6.30 Two sisters plot to poison an estate agent.
7.00 The Joy of Painting A scene
featuring a beautiful lake hideaway.
7.30 An atmospheric mountain scene.
8.00 RT CHOICE New. Bill Bailey’s
Master Crafters: the Next Generation
The junior crafters look to the countryside
for inspiration before joining at King
Charles’s Highgrove House to unveil their
final pieces. Last in series. See page 90. (AD)
9.00 The Directors A look into the life and
career of director Stephen Frears. (AD)
10.00 The life and work of American
film-maker Richard Linklater.
11.00 The Sixties A look at America’s
changing morality during the decade. (AD)

6.10am Underground Worlds (AD)
8.00 Abandoned Engineering (AD) 10.00
War Factories 11.00 The World at War
12 noon Great American Railroad Journeys
1.00pm Antiques Roadshow 2.00 Bangers
and Cash 4.00 The World at War 5.00 War
Factories: Skoda’s Czech arms factory
6.00pm Great British Railway Journeys
Michael Portillo visits the Isle of Man.
6.30 Great British Railway Journeys
Goes to Ireland Michael Portillo explores
the history of Ireland’s railways.
7.00 Bangers and Cash: Restoring Classics
A 1970s Saab 96 is taken for restoration. (AD)
8.00 Bangers and Cash Mathewsons sell a
threshing machine and a collection of tractors.
9.00 Bangers and Cash: Restoring Classics
Dave alerts the team to a 1979 Lotus Esprit
S3, which is an expensive risk. (AD)
10.00 Bangers and Cash The team sells
vehicles including a 1958 Bedford D122.
11.00 Abandoned Engineering A German
battleship that sank in a Norwegian fjord. (AD)

More4 F’view 18 F’sat 124 Sky 136 Virgin 147
+1 Freesat 125 Sky 236 Virgin 347

Sky Arts Freeview 11 Freesat 147 Sky 130
Virgin 140/HD 123 BT 350/HD 365

E4

13

4seven

49

6.00am Hollyoaks Shown Tue/Wed 6.30pm C4
(AD) 7.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA
9.00 Young Sheldon (AD) 10.00 Brooklyn
Nine-Nine (AD) 11.00 Modern Family
12 noon The Big Bang Theory (AD) 2.00pm
The Neighborhood 3.00 Modern Family
4.00 Young Sheldon: double bill (AD)
5.00 The Big Bang Theory (AD)
6.00pm The Big Bang Theory 16/24
Series 10. Amy is furious with Sheldon for
sharing details of their relationship. (AD)
6.30 17/24. Raj cannot afford to join the
gang on their annual trip to Comic-Con. (AD)
7.00 Hollyoaks Sharon tries to reason with
Felix. Cast pp73/103 Rptd tomorrow 6.30pm C4 (AD)
7.30 Impractical Jokers Joe, Sal, Murr and
Q teach fencing and pose as hairstylists.
8.00 New. Lego Masters New Zealand
The teams create a final masterpiece. (AD)
9.00 Gogglebox Freeze the Fear with Wim
Hof and Bridgerton are appraised. (AD)
10.00 Naked Attraction Dog groomer Nico
and “bad girl” Patrice seek a partner. (AD)
11.05 Gogglebox Opinions on shows
including The X Factor: Celebrity. (AD)

9.00am Come Dine with Me 11.30 A New
Life in the Sun: Where Are They Now?
12.30pm A Place in the Sun: Home or Away
2.30 Sun, Sea and Selling Houses
3.30 Come Dine with Me: parties in York
6.00pm A Place in the Sun Searching for
a dream holiday home in Benalmádena.
7.00 Bake Off: the Professionals 5/10
Series 6. The teams reinvent the pavlova.
See choice, p70. Shown Tuesday 8pm C4 (AD)
8.00 George Clarke’s Old House, New
Home 4/4 Series 9. Novices renovate a
Georgian-style house in Weston-super-Mare.
See choice, p80. Shown yesterday 8pm C4 (AD)
9.00 999: on the Front Line Paramedics
treat a man who has been stabbed in the leg
and the head, only to find he had already
overdosed on heroin prior to his injuries.
10.00 Gogglebox Shows including The
Great British Bake Off, This Morning, Vigil
and Changing Rooms are appraised. (AD)
11.05 Confessions of a Cam Girl 1/2. The
stories of five women selling explicit videos
online as they struggle to find a niche among
their competitors. Shown Monday 10pm C4 (AD)

12.05am First Dates (SL) (AD) 1.10 Rick and
Morty (AD) 1.45 New. Teenage Euthanasia
2.15 Gogglebox (SL) (AD) 3.10 The Big Bang
Theory (AD) 3.55 Brooklyn Nine-Nine (AD)
4.50—6.00am The Neighborhood

12.05am Our Guy in Colombia (AD) 1.10
Gogglebox (AD) 2.15 Sky Coppers (AD) 3.20 24
Hours in A&E (AD) 4.15—4.45am Four in a Bed

4seven Freeview 49 Freesat 127 Sky 137 Virgin 143

E4 Freeview 13 Freesat 122 Sky 135 Virgin 106
+1 Freeview 30 Freesat 123 Sky 235 Virgin 306
E4 Extra Freeview 31 Freesat 181 Sky 138 Virgin 287

Really

17

6.00am Fantasy Homes 7.00 Shopping 8.00
Salvage Hunters 10.00 The Bidding Room 11.00
Antiques Road Trip 12 noon Money for Nothing
1.00pm A Place in the Sun 2.00 My 600lb Life (AD)
3.00 Say Yes to the Dress: UK 4.00 Animal Cops
Philadelphia (AD) 5.00 Helicopter ER 6.00 The
Yorkshire Auction House 7.00 Antiques Road Trip
9.00 New. 1000lb Sisters 10.00 24 Hour Baby
Hospital 11.00 Ghost Adventures 12 midnight
Kindred Spirits 1.00am Ghost Adventures 2.00
Shopping 4.00 as 4pm 5.00—6.00am Dr Jeff

Quest

12

6.00am How Do They Do It? 6.30 Shed and Buried
7.00 The Repair Shop 8.00 American Pickers
(AD) 10.00 Chasing Classic Cars 11.00
Supertruckers 12 noon How It’s Made 1.00pm
The Repair Shop 2.00 Money for Nothing 3.00
Find It, Fix It, Flog It 4.00 Salvage Hunters 5.00
Salvage Hunters: the Restorers 6.00 Wheeler
Dealers (AD) 7.00 Outback Opal Hunters 8.00
Salvage Hunters 9.00 New. Supercar Showroom
10.00 FILM Unforgiven 5 Oscar-winning
western directed by and starring Clint Eastwood
(W) 1.00am Massive Engineering Mistakes
2.00 Supertruckers 3.00 Wheeler Dealers
4.00—5.00am How It’s Made: double bill

Quest Freeview 12 Freesat 172/HD 167 Sky 144 Virgin 137
Really Freeview 17 Freesat 160 Sky 142 Virgin 128
+1 Freeview 70 Freesat 168 Sky 244 Virgin 337
BBC News Freeview 231 Freesat 212 Sky 503 Virgin 601 Sky News Freeview 233 Freesat 202 Sky 501 Virgin 603 BT 313

RadioTimes 29 July–4 August 2023

5 USA F’view 21 F’sat 129 Sky 141 Virgin 120 (162 Scot)
+1 Freesat 130 Sky 241 Virgin 320

5 Star

32

8.00am Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun
10.00 Car Pound Cops: Give Me My Car Back!
11.00 Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords
12 noon Traffic Cops 2.00pm Police
Interceptors 5.00 Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly
6.00pm Home and Away Lyrik pulls out of
Battle of the Bands. Shown 1.45pm C5 (AD)
6.30 New. Marilyn continues to receive
threats over the Stunning Organics saga.
Repeated tomorrow 1.45pm C5 (AD)

7.00 GPs: behind Closed Doors A patient
struggling to breathe is sent to hospital. (AD)
8.00 Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts
Barnsley Hospital faces a record-breaking
number of patients.
9.00 A&E after Dark A woman who
impaled her eye on a tent peg.
10.00 999: Critical Condition A man is
admitted after falling down a flight of stairs.
11.00 Ambulance: Code Red An HGV crashes
into a railway bridge on the M6 motorway. (AD)

12 midnight Great British Railway Journeys
12.30am Great British Railway Journeys Goes
to Ireland 1.00 Underground Worlds (AD)
2.00—3.00am Forbidden History (AD)

12 midnight Murdered for Revenge (AD) 1.00am
Making a Serial Killer 2.00 GPs: behind Closed
Doors 2.50—3.00am Entertainment News

Yesterday Freeview 27 Freesat 159 Sky 155 Virgin 129
+1 Sky 255 Virgin 329

5 Star Freeview 32 Freesat 131 Sky 128 Virgin 126
+1 Freesat 141 Sky 228 Virgin 326

Dave

19

7.10am Yianni: Supercar Customiser (AD)
8.00 Top Gear (AD) 9.00 The Force: Behind
the Line 10.00 Outback Pilots 11.00 Gino’s
Italian Coastal Escape: the island of Capri
12 noon Celebrity Storage Hunters 1.00pm
Cop Car Workshop 2.00 Top Gear (AD)
4.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games
4.40 Room 101 5.20 Would I Lie to You?
6.00pm Taskmaster 3/8 Series 5. Mark
Watson tries to open an unlocked briefcase.
7.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games
Jay Blades, Shaun Keaveny, Rachel Parris
and Jan Ravens test their knowledge.
7.40 With former winners Hugh Dennis,
Sarah Greene, Nish Kumar and Holly Walsh.
8.20 Would I Lie to You? Material not
originally shown in the series 14 episodes.
9.00 QI XL With guests Janet Street-Porter,
Sandi Toksvig and Johnny Vegas.
10.00 Schitt’s Creek 1/13 Series 3. Moira
must confront the realities of local politics.
10.30 2/13. Alexis and Moira go for lunch.
11.00 Taskmaster 3/6 Series 1. The
comedians try to build a tower for an egg.
12 midnight Taskmaster 1.00am Mock the Week
1.40 Would I Lie to You? 2.45 Richard Osman’s
House of Games 3.30—4.00am The Indestructibles

Dave F’view 19 F’sat 157 Sky 111 (Wales 112) Virgin HD 127
Dave Ja Vu Freeview 57 Sky 211 (Wales 212) Virgin 327

London Live

8

6.00am UBOS 6.30 Dork Hunters from
Outer Space 7.00 Skysurfer Strike Force
7.30 Roswell Conspiracies 8.00 The World’s
Most Incredible Hotels 9.00 Shine On
Harvey Moon 10.00 The Lion Queen 11.00
Italy Made With Love 12 noon Clive James
1.00pm FILM The Cup HH Horse-racing
drama starring Brendan Gleeson 3.05 FILM
The Water Babies H 5.00 Ainsley’s Gourmet
Express 5.45 London Districts 6.00 London
Live News 7.00 Grand Tours of the Scottish
Islands 8.00 Griff’s Great Australian Adventure
9.00 FILM Car Trouble H 11.00 FILM
Jack & Sarah HHH Romantic comedy drama
starring Richard E Grant and Samantha Mathis
1.15am Realm of the Damned 2.30 Clive James
3.30 News Rewind 5.00—6.00am Talking Points

London Live Freeview 8 Sky 117 Virgin HD 159
Available in London area only. Other regional stations
available on Freeview 7 or 8 around the country

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33

9.00am Criminals: Caught on Camera
9.30 Traffic Cops 10.30 Police Interceptors
11.30 FILM Pork Chop Hill HHHH
War drama starring Gregory Peck (BW)
1.35pm FILM The Vikings 5 Epic
adventure with Tony Curtis and Kirk Douglas
4.00 Trucking Hell (AD) 5.00 Traffic Cops
6.00pm Police Interceptors The team box
in a van carrying large quantities of cannabis.
7.00 Faulko is rammed off the road at
80mph and has to be rushed to hospital.
8.00 Darren calls on all his powers of
persuasion to try to end a roof-top stand-off,
and Steve is forced to use his pepper spray.
9.00 New. Trucking Hell A 26-ton tanker
gets stuck in a waterlogged verge on the
A5, fully loaded and leaning to one side.
10.00 New. Outback Truckers Steve
Grahame hits the mud, Cameron’s journey
gets hotter and harder, and Sludge’s
mountain mission takes a downhill slide.
11.00 Wrestling WWE wrestling action.

Television

12.10am 24 Hours in A&E (AD) 1.15 999: on the
Front Line (AD) 2.20 Sex Actually with Alice
Levine (AD) 3.25—3.50am Food Unwrapped (AD)

12 midnight Greatest Albums Live 1.30am
Long Hot Summers: the Story of the Style Council
3.00 A Play in a Day 4.00 Landmark: the south
of England heat (AD) 5.00—6.00am Auction

12 midnight NCIS (AD) 1.55am Lucifer
3.35—4.00am Criminals: Caught on Camera

THURSDAY

My Floating Home 9.00pm Val and
Alan show us around their property

12 midnight Police Interceptors: a man is suspected
of assault 1.00am 999: Criminals Caught on
Camera (AD) 2.00—3.00am Trucking Hell (AD)

5 Action Freeview 33 Freesat 132 Sky 150 Virgin 130

5 Select

46

9.00am GPs: behind Closed Doors (AD) 10.00
The Yorkshire Vet 12 noon Ben Fogle: New Lives
in the Wild 1.00pm Walking Wartime Britain
2.00 The Yorkshire Vet 4.00 Ben Fogle: New
Lives in the Wild 5.00 Walking Wartime Britain
6.00pm Inside the Tower of London
Preparations for the festive season.
7.00 Secrets of the Royal Palaces
The history of Hampton Court’s Great Hall.
8.00 Harry and Meghan: What Next?
A look at what the future holds for the Duke.
9.30 Charles and Camilla: Against All Odds
Charting the King’s relationship.
10.40 World’s Deadliest Weather: Caught
on Camera Hurricane Michael hits Florida.
11.40 Forged in Fire Double bill.
1.35am Inside the Tower of London
2.30—3.00am Walking Tudor Britain

5 Select F’view (HD only) 46 F’sat 133 Sky 153 Virgin 138

FREEVIEW TV and film
channels continue overleaf

95

THURSDAY Freeview & films
W

25

Food Network

43

PBS America

84

CHILDREN’S
Milkshake! on C5

Nurses on the Ward 8.00pm

Television THURSDAY

Midwives Amy and Katie
6.10am Nigel Slater’s Simple Cooking
(S) (HD) 6.35 Plate of Origin (S) (HD)
8.00 Tipping Point (S) (HD) 10.00
DIY SOS: the Big Build (S) (HD)
12 noon Nigellissima: an Italian
Inspired Christmas (S) (AD) (HD)
1.00pm Tipping Point (S) (HD)
4.00 My Dream Home (S) (HD)
6.00pm New. Property Brothers
at Home: Drew’s Honeymoon
House Creating a guest suite. (S) (HD)
7.00 Ambulance Australia
Dispatch is in overload. (S) (HD)
8.00 New. Nurses on the Ward
4/10. A stroke patient. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Emma Willis: Delivering
Babies How families who have
lost a baby are cared for. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 New. Stacey Dooley Sleeps
Over: Family and Me
Reflections on parenthood.
See page 91. (AD) (HD)
11.00 Nurses on the Ward As 8pm
12 midnight One Born Every Minute
(S) (HD) 1.00am Bang on Budget (S)
(HD) 2.00—3.00am Rachel Khoo’s
Kitchen Notebook (S) (HD)
W F’view 25 F’sat 156 Sky 132 Virgin HD 125
+1 Sky 232 Virgin 325

4

Pick

36

7.00am Border Security:
America’s Front Line 8.00 Nothing
to Declare 9.00 Motorway Patrol
10.00 Highway Cops 11.00
Highway Patrol 12 noon Motorway
Patrol 1.00pm Border Patrol (AD)
2.00 Border Security: America’s
Front Line 3.00 Nothing to Declare
4.00 Warehouse 13 5.00
Quantum Leap 6.00 Merlin (AD)
7.00 Star Trek: Voyager 8.00
New. NCIS: New Orleans: a white
NOPD officer shoots a black navy
officer 9.00 New. Prodigal Son:
Jessica is confronted by the
Carousel Killer (AD) 10.00 Grimm:
a terrifying new Wesen targets a
young family 11.00 New. Snapped
12 midnight Killer in My Village
1.00am The Force: North East
2.00 UK Border Force 3.00 Highway
Patrol 4.00 Motorway Patrol (AD)
5.00—6.00am Highway Cops (AD)

Pick F’view 36 F’sat 144 Sky 151 Virgin 135

HGTV

44

7.00am The Saved and Remade
Workshop 8.00 Building the Dream
9.00 A Place in the Sun 10.00
Escape to the Country 11.00 My
Dream Derelict Home in the Sun
12 noon My Lottery Dream Home:
double bill 1.00pm Good Bones
2.00 Flip or Flop 3.00 Building the
Dream 4.00 Escape to the Country
5.00 The Saved and Remade
Workshop 6.00 A Place in the Sun
7.00 My Dream Derelict Home in
the Sun 8.00 Escape to the
Country 9.00 Fixer to Fabulous (AD)
10.00 New. Barbie Dreamhouse
Challenge 11.00 Good Bones
12 midnight My Dream Derelict Home
in the Sun 1.00am as 5pm 2.00 House
Hunters 3.00—4.00am As noon

HGTV F’view 44 F’sat 166 Sky 158 Virgin 191
+1 Sky 258 Virgin 391

FREEVIEW channels
continued from overleaf

96

Forever Summer with
Nigella 9.00pm Roast lamb

Royal History’s Biggest Fibs
with Lucy Worsley 8.25pm

6.00am Trisha’s Southern Kitchen
(HD) 7.00 The Pioneer Woman (HD)
8.00 Magnolia Table with Joanna
Gaines (S) (HD) 9.00 New. The
Kitchen (HD) 10.00 James Martin’s
French Adventure (HD) 11.00 Tom
Kerridge Barbecues (S) (HD) 12 noon
The Great British Bake Off (S) (HD)
2.00pm James Martin’s French
Adventure (HD) 3.00 The Hairy
Bikers’ Chicken and Egg (S) (AD) (HD)
4.00 Magnolia Table with Joanna
Gaines: double bill (S) (HD) 5.00
Farmhouse Rules (S) (AD) (HD) 6.00
James Martin’s French Adventure
(HD) 7.00 The Great British Bake
Off (S) (HD) 8.00 Tom Kerridge
Barbecues (S) (HD) 9.00 Forever
Summer with Nigella: recipes with
a Mediterranean twist (S) 9.30
Nigella Bites (S) (AD) 10.00 The
Hairy Bikers’ Chicken and Egg (S)
(AD) (HD) 11.00 New. Summer
Baking Championship: Jesse Palmer
challenges the bakers to make a
cobbler, crumble or clafoutis (HD)

8.00am Britain and the Sea 9.20
New. Your Brain (S) 10.30 Royal
History’s Biggest Fibs with Lucy
Worsley (S) 11.50 Israel: a Twice
Promised Land 1.00pm Britain and
the Sea 2.20 Your Brain (S) 3.30
Royal History’s Biggest Fibs with
Lucy Worsley (S) 4.45 Israel: a
Twice Promised Land 5.55 Britain
and the Sea: exploring East Anglia
7.10pm Your Brain 2/2
Neuroscientist Heather Berlin
examines decision-making. (S)
8.25 Royal History’s Biggest
Fibs with Lucy Worsley 1/3
Series 2. The myths swirling
around the French Revolution. (S)
9.35 Israel: a Twice Promised
Land 2/2. The post-war era, whch
was punctuated by conflicts
between Israel and its neighbours.
10.50 Your Brain 2/2
Neuroscientist Heather Berlin
examines decision-making. (S)
12 midnight Royal History’s
Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley (S)
1.15—2.00am Beautiful Serengeti (S)
PBS America F’view 84 (1pm-12 midnight only)
Freesat 155 Sky 174 Virgin 187

12 midnight Guy’s Grocery Games (HD)
1.00am Restaurant: Impossible (HD)
2.00—3.00am Donal’s Meals in
Minutes: double bill (HD)

Food Network Freeview 43 Freesat 148
Sky 140 Virgin 190

Great TV

50

6.00am Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye
8.00 Highway to Heaven 9.00
Danielle Steel’s Message from Nam
10.50 Movie News 11.00 Castle
1.00pm Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye 3.00
Diagnosis Murder 5.00 Murder,
She Wrote 7.00 M*A*S*H: four
episodes 9.00 Randall and Hopkirk
(Deceased): Jeff and Marty
investigate a murderous stage act
10.00 The Persuaders!: Brett is
threatened 11.00 Return of the Saint
12 midnight M*A*S*H 2.00am Randall
and Hopkirk (Deceased) 3.00 The
Persuaders! 3.50—4.00am Movie News

Great TV Freeview 50 (limited) Freesat 142
Sky 157 Virgin 170 +1 Freesat 143 Sky 257

RealityXtra

68

9.00am Medical Detectives 11.00
Donal MacIntyre: Unsolved 12 noon
The Fugitive 1.00pm The Jury
Room 3.00 Medical Detectives
5.00 The Fugitive 6.00 Donal
MacIntyre: Unsolved: Donal revisits
so-called “cold cases” that have
never been closed and have never
led to successful convictions 7.00
Judge Judy: fourteen editions
1.00am Donal MacIntyre: Unsolved
2.00 The Fugitive 3.00 The Jury Room
5.00—6.00am Medical Detectives

RealityXtra Freeview 68 Freesat 134
Sky 147 Virgin 172

BBC Parliament 232
BBC News simulcast, with news hourly plus:
6.00am Breakfast 9.00 Nicky Campbell 11.30
as 2.30pm 11.45 News 1.30pm as 6.30pm
1.45 News 2.30 Business Report 2.45 News
Now 3.00 Verified Live 6.30 Sportsday 7.00
Daily Global 8.00 Context 10.00 News 10.30
Newsnight 11.10 Newsday 11.30 HARDtalk
12 midnight Newsday 12.30am Asia
Business 12.45 Sportsday 1.00 Newsday 1.30
as 12.30am 1.45 Sportsday 2.00 News 2.30
as 12.30am 2.45 Sportsday 3.30 Our World
4.30 as 11.30pm 5.30—6.00am as 2.30pm

BBC Parliament Freeview 232 Freesat 201
Sky 504 Virgin 605

Blaze

64

6.00am Hardcore Pawn 6.50
The UnXplained with William
Shatner 7.45 Ancient Aliens 9.40
Strange Evidence 10.40 The Curse
of Oak Island 11.40 Storage Wars
Canada 12.10pm Storage Wars
1.05 Pawn Stars 2.05 Hardcore
Pawn 4.00 Ancient Aliens 6.00
The UnXplained with William
Shatner 7.00 Storage Wars: two
editions 8.00 Dickinson’s Real
Deal: David Dickinson and the team
of experts visit Alton Towers 9.00
The Phenomenon: an examination
of possible cover-ups involving
UFOs 11.10 Encounter: UFO:
witnesses who claim to have been
touched by the unknown
12.10am The Curse of Oak Island 2.00
The UnXplained with William Shatner
3.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal 3.45
Storage Wars Canada 4.10 American
Restoration 5.00—6.00am Pawn Stars

Blaze F’view 64 F’sat 162 Sky 164 Virgin 174

Challenge

48

7.00am The Chase 10.00 Pointless
Celebrities 11.00 Supermarket
Sweep 12 noon Wheel of Fortune
(AD) 1.00pm Family Fortunes (AD)
2.00 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
3.00 Strike It Lucky 4.00
Blockbusters 5.00 Bullseye 6.00
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
7.00 Pointless Celebrities: duos
from the world of fashion and
beauty — Brix Smith Start and
Jonathan Phang, Amy Childs and
Sam Faiers, Grace Woodward and
Brendan Courtney, and Lee
Stafford and Nicky Clarke — aim to
get close to zero. With Alexander
Armstrong and Richard Osman
8.00 The Chase: double bill 10.00
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
11.00 Bullseye: double bill (AD)
12 midnight The Chase 4.00am
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
5.00—6.00am Bullseye: double bill

Challenge Freeview 48 Freesat 146
Sky 145 Virgin 139

5.35am Thomas & Friends: Big World!
Big Adventures! 5.45 Paw Patrol 6.00
Peppa Pig 6.15 Blue’s Clues & You 6.40
New. Oggy Oggy 6.45 Odo 6.55
Fireman Sam 7.05 Thomas & Friends: All
Engines Go! 7.15 Sesame Street Mecha
Builders 7.30 Peppa Pig 7.40 Paw
Patrol 8.00 Pip and Posy 8.10 The
Adventures of Paddington 8.30 Paw
Patrol 8.40 Baby Shark’s Big Show!
8.55 Milo 9.05 Milkshake! Monkey
9.10—9.15am Milkshake! Craft Party

Full listings for Channel 5 are on p94

CBeebies

202

6.00am Love Monster; Small Potatoes
6.10 Bing 6.20 Teletubbies 6.35 Tee
and Mo 6.40 Chuggington 6.50 Bing
7.00 Colourblocks 7.05 Hey Duggee
7.20 Bluey 7.40 Go Jetters 7.50
Peter Rabbit 8.05 Octonauts 8.15
Numberblocks 8.20 Alphablocks 8.25
Nick Cope’s Popcast 8.35 Justin’s
House 9.00 Bing 9.10 Yakka Dee! 9.15
Messy Goes to OKIDO 9.25 Colourblocks
9.30 Twirlywoos 9.45 Something Special
10.05 Teletubbies 10.20 The Baby Club
10.35 What’s in Your Bag? 10.45 Roots
and Fruits 10.50 Vegesaurs 10.55 Bluey
11.00 Supertato 11.10 Let’s Go for a Walk
11.25 School of Roars 11.30 Teeny Tiny
Creatures 11.45 Our Family 12 noon
My World Kitchen 12.10pm Maddie, the
Zoo and You 12.30 Waffle the Wonder
Dog 12.40 Andy’s Global Adventures
1.00 Yakka Dee! 1.05 Numberblocks 1.10
Alphablocks 1.15 Dog Loves Books 1.25
Hey Duggee 1.30 Love Monster 1.40
Colourblocks 1.45 Something Special
2.05 Teletubbies 2.20 Roots and Fruits
2.25 Supertato 2.30 Go Jetters 2.45
Apple Tree House 3.00 Andy’s Safari
Adventures 3.15 Get Set Galactic
3.35 Hey Duggee 3.45 Peter Rabbit
3.55 Fred & Pete’s Treasure Tales 4.10
Octonauts 4.25 Bluey 4.40 Supertato
4.45 Go Jetters 5.00 Octonauts: Great
Arctic Adventure 5.25 Sarah & Duck
5.35 New. JoJo & Gran Gran 5.45
Moon and Me 6.10 Clangers 6.20
In the Night Garden... 6.50—7.00pm
CBeebies Bedtime Stories

CBeebies F’view 202 F’sat 608 Sky 608 Virgin 702

CBBC

201

7.00am Shaun the Sheep 7.05 as
3.10pm 7.20 Dennis & Gnasher 7.30 as
4.15pm 7.45 New. Newsround 7.55
New. Grizzy and the Lemmings 8.10 Odd
Squad 8.25 Meet the McQueens 8.40
Monster Loving Maniacs 8.50 New.
Total Drama Island: Reboot 9.15 New.
Home Sweet Rome 9.45 Gym Stars
10.05 Matilda and the Ramsay Bunch
10.20 Danny & Mick 10.35 Operation
Ouch! 11.00 as 7.55am 11.25 Taffy 11.45
as 4.15pm 12.20pm Danger Mouse
12.45 Octonauts 12.55 Shaun the Sheep
1.10 Mustangs FC 2.00 So Awkward
2.30 Gym Stars 2.50 Dragons: Riders
of Berk 3.10 Danger Mouse 3.25 Shaun
the Sheep 3.35 Ninja Express 3.45
Taffy 4.00 New. Grizzy and the Lemmings
4.15 Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese
4.30 Monster Loving Maniacs 4.45 Odd
Squad 5.10 We Bare Bears 5.20 Summer
Camp Island 5.35 New. Transformers
EarthSpark 6.00 Jamie Johnson 6.25
as 4pm 6.35—7.00pm The Next Step

CBBC F’view 201 F’sat 607 Sky 607 Virgin 701

CITV

203

6.00am Dare Master @Home 6.05
Hotel Transylvania 6.30 Dave Spud
7.00 Lloyd of the Flies 7.30 Mr Bean
8.00 50/50 Heroes 8.30 as 3.30pm
9.00 as 4pm 9.30 as 6.30pm 10.00
Teen Titans Go! 10.15 Looney Tunes
Cartoons 10.30 Smarty Pants 11.00
Mystery Lane 11.30 Mr Magoo 12 noon
Teen Titans Go! 12.30pm Scooby-Doo
and the Monster of Mexico 2.00 Jurassic
World Camp Cretaceous 2.30 Inspector
Gadget 3.00 Smarty Pants 3.30
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated 4.00
Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! 4.30 Looney Tunes
Cartoons 4.45 Dave Spud 5.15 Dodo
5.30 Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous
5.55 Tata and Kuma 6.00 What’s New
Scooby-Doo? 6.30 Scooby-Doo and
Guess Who? 7.00 Captain Underpants
7.25 Lego Hidden Side 7.30 Lego
DREAMZzz 8.00 New. Lego Chima:
the Power of Chi 8.25 NinjaGo: Hunted
8.55—9.00pm Dare Master @Home

CITV F’view 203 F’sat 602 Sky 612 Virgin 734

FILMS
Film4

14

11.00am Rugrats in Paris: the
Movie HHH Appealing animated
spin-off in which the babies invade
an amusement park. Review, right.
EG Daily, Tara Charendoff (2000, U) (S) (AD)

12.35pm CutThroat Island HH
Geena Davis and Matthew Modine
swagger with bravado in this
predictable adventure. (1995, PG) (S) (AD)
2.55 Gunfight at the OK Corral
HHHH This western, starring Burt
Lancaster and Kirk Douglas as Wyatt
Earp and Doc Holliday, features a
mesmerising finale. (1957, PG) (S)
5.20 The Admirable Crichton
HHH Adaptation of JM Barrie’s
play in which the butler to a noble
family finds his position elevated by
a shipwreck. Kenneth More (1957, U) (S) (AD)

7.10pm Skyscraper HHH
Dwayne Johnson tries to save
his family from an inferno in this
adventure. Review, p57. (2018, 12) (S) (AD)
9.00 Good Boys HHH Raucous
comedy about three 12-year-old
friends who get into scrapes after
being invited to a kissing party.
Review, right. Jacob Tremblay (2019, 15) (S) (AD)
10.45 Mean Girls HHHH
Smart comedy in which Lindsay
Lohan struggles to find her way
among the vicious hierarchies of
high school. Rachel McAdams (2004, 12) (S) (AD)
12.40—3.35am The Handmaiden
HHHH A con artist plans to steal
an heiress’s wealth in a crime caper
from Korean master of mischief
Park Chan-wook. Kim Min-hee (2016, 18)
Film4 Freeview 14 Freesat 300
Sky 313 Virgin 428
+1 F’view 47 F’sat 301 Sky 314 Virgin 430

Talking
Pictures TV

82

6.00am The LarkinsTV comedy. (S)
6.30 Look at LifeTV documentary.
6.45 My Favorite Brunette
HHH Bob Hope gets mistaken for
a private detective. (1947, PG) (S) 8.30
Mods and Rockers Documentary.
9.00 Black Saddle TV western
9.30 Devil’s Bait HH
Unremarkable drama about a
deadly mix-up at a bakery. Geoffrey
Keen, Gordon Jackson (1959, U) (S) 10.40 The
Steel Key HH Brisk but improbable
spy drama. Terence Morgan (1953, U) (S)
12.10pm Oliver Twist 5
David Lean’s masterly adaptation
of the Dickens novel brims with
unforgettable scenes. Alec Guinness
(1948, U) (S) 2.30 Crown Court TV
drama. (S) 3.00 An Inspector Calls
HHHH Highly polished production
of JB Priestley’s celebrated play.
Review, right. (1954, PG) (S) 4.35
Escape Route HH Lightweight
thriller. George Raft, Sally Gray (1952, U)
6.10pm Sapphire HHH A young
black woman is murdered in this
thought-provoking drama. Review,
right. Nigel Patrick, Michael Craig (1959, PG) (S)
8.00 The Saint TV thriller. (S)
9.00 Rumpole of the Bailey
British TV courtroom drama.
10.05 Carry On Spying HHH
A ribbing of the spy genre from the
Carry On team featuring a quartet
of agents. Review, right. (1964, U) (S)
11.50 Confessions from a Holiday
Camp H Cheap and smutty
comedy. Robin Askwith, Anthony Booth (1977, 18)
1.40am Ravenous HHHH Hilarious
and disturbing period chiller about
cannibalism at an isolated US Army
outpost. Robert Carlyle, Guy Pearce (1999, 18) (S)
3.40 Captain Apache HHH
Low-budget western, a mix of action
and dry humour, with Lee Van Cleef
on good form. (1971, 12) 5.30—6.00am
June Allyson TV drama.
Talking Pictures TV Freeview 82
Freesat 306 Sky 328 Virgin 445

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THURSDAY 3 AUGUST
Great Movies

34

42

Great Romance 52
6.00am A Love Yarn HH Sweet
New Zealand-set romance. Anna
Hutchison (2021) 8.00 Autumn Dreams
HH Romantic comedy. Jill Wagner,
Colin Egglesfield (2015, U) 10.00 Together
Forever Tea HH Warm-hearted
romcom. Jay Ryan (2021) 12 noon The
Beauty of Love HH Romantic fluff.
Katerina Eichenberger (2021) 2.00pm Puppy
Love HH Easygoing romance. Candace
Cameron Bure, Victor Webster (2012) 4.00
Starting Up Love HH Romantic
sparks fly. Anna Hutchison, Rocky Myers (2019)
6.00pm Love Locks HH Rebecca
Romijn’s art lover encounters old
flame Jerry O’Connell in Paris. (2017)
8.00 Paris, Wine & Romance
HH Corks pop for rivals at a Paris
wine competition. Jen Lilley (2019)
10.00 Like Cats & Dogs HH
Lightly comic romance yarn about
two mismatched pet-owners. (2017)
12.05am A Wish Come True HH
Formulaic romcom. Megan Park (2015)
1.35 Sweet as Maple Syrup HH
Verdant romcom. Brooke Nevin (2021)
3.05—4.00am Highway to Heaven
Great Romance Freeview 52 Freesat 303
Sky 319 Virgin 424
+1 F’view 63 (limited 10pm-5am) F’sat 304 Sky 320

challenging material at the
time and it won the Bafta
for best British film. JEREMY

Boylan, Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale (2022, 15)

8.05 High Heat HH Tongue-incheek action comedy. Olga Kurylenko, Don
Johnson (2022, 15) 9.40 The Locksmith
HH Standard crime tale. Ryan Phillippe,
Kate Bosworth (2023, 15) 11.20 As 8pm
1.45pm As 10.25pm 3.40 Broker
HHHH Charming Korean road
movie. Song Kang-ho, Gang Dong-won (2022, 12)
5.55pm Black Adam HHH
Relentlessly punchy DC Comics
adventure with Dwayne Johnson as
the menacing ancient warrior. (2022, 12)
8.00 Whitney Houston: I Wanna
Dance with Somebody HHHH
Enthralling rise-and-fall biopic.
Review p38. Naomi Ackie, Stanley Tucci (2022, 12)
10.25 House Party HH A pair
of cleaners throw a wild party in a
sports star’s mansion in this frantic
comedy remake. Jacob Latimore (2023, 15)
12.15am The Silent Twins HHHH
Intimate, affecting drama. Review
p38. Letitia Wright, Tamara Lawrance (2022, 18)
2.10 As 8.05am 3.40 As 9.40am
5.15 Paradise Highway HH
Uneven thriller. Juliette Binoche (2022)
Sky Premiere Sky 301 Virgin 401
BT 501/HD 515 +1 Sky 312

Legend

41

8.00am Walker, Texas Ranger 9.00
The Prisoner 10.00 Star Trek: Deep
Space Nine 11.00 Stonehenge
Apocalypse H Trashy sci-fi. (2010, 12)
1.00pm Arctic Apocalypse HH
Confusing, low-budget disaster
movie. Lauren Esposito (2019) 3.00
Earthfall H Earth breaks free
from its orbit. Pressly Coker(2014) 4.50
Legend Lowdown 5.00 Star Trek
6.00pm Star Trek: Deep Space
Nine TV sci-fi adventure.
7.00 The Prisoner TV drama.
8.00 Walker, Texas Ranger
TV action drama with Chuck Norris.
9.00 The Rezort HHH
Entertaining horror in which
tourists pay to shoot real zombies
on an island. Dougray Scott (2015, 15)
10.50 The Outsider HH
Taken-style action movie about a
British mercenary out to rescue his
daughter. Craig Fairbrass, James Caan (2014, 15)
12.45am Bloodline HHH Gripping
if generic revenge thriller about a
counsellor who turns vigilante. Seann
William Scott (2018, 18) 2.40—4.30am
Circus of Horrors HHH Nifty
British horror. Anton Diffring (1960, 15)
Legend F’view 41 F’sat 137 Sky 148 Virgin 149

HorrorXtra

69

8.00am Megaconda HH
By-the-numbers creature feature
with a computer-generated snake.
Michelle Bauer (2010) 10.00 Farscape
11.00 Premonition HH Uneven
blend of sci-fi and supernatural
thrills about a cop who can forsee
disasters. Casper Van Dien (2004) 1.00pm
Apocalypse of Ice H There’s the
threat of a global ice storm in this
low-budget sci-fi hokum. Tom Sizemore,
Emily Killian (2020) 3.00 Farscape
4.00 Battlestar Galactica 5.00
Independence Day-saster HH
Cut-price pick-and-mix sci-fi action
flick starring Ryan Merriman. (2013)
7.00pm Farscape TV sci-fi.
8.00 Battlestar Galactica
TV sci-fi adventure series.
9.00 The Taking of Deborah
Logan HHH Refreshingly creepy
found-footage horror. Jill Larson, Anne
Ramsay, Michelle Ang (2014, 15)

10.50 Await Further Instructions
HHH Smartly satirical horror
about a bickering family locked into
their house. Sam Gittins, Neerja Naik (2018, 15)
12.50—3.00am As 9pm
HorrorXtra F’view 69 F’sat 138 Sky 317
Virgin 171 +1 F’sat 139 Sky 318 Virgin 371

ASPINALL (UK 1959, racist language)

Good Boys HHH

j

9.00-10.45pm Film4

COMEDY This raucous caper
follows three 12-year-old
friends (Jacob Tremblay,
Keith L Williams and Brady
Noon) on a perilous mission
after they break a family
member’s drone. While the
film’s potty-mouthed humour
can be shocking, Good Boys
nevertheless has a sweet
message about friendship.
VICTORIA LUXFORD (US 2019,

FILM
OF THE
DAY

Schindler’s List 5 10.40pm-1.45am
BBC1 (starts 11.10pm in N Ireland; not in Wales)

j

BIOPIC Steven Spielberg’s outstanding Holocaust
drama uses stark, brutal realism and a potent documentary
style to tell the story of Second World War entrepreneur
Oskar Schindler, whose operation to supply the German war
effort led him to be the unexpected saviour of more than
1,000 Jewish factory workers in Poland. Liam Neeson gives a
heartfelt performance in the lead, Ben Kingsley is superb as
Schindler’s Jewish accountant, while Ralph Fiennes invokes
revulsion and sympathy as a Nazi commandant. ALAN JONES
(US 1993, violence, swearing, sex scenes, nudity, BW/col, HD)

in Paris:
m Rugrats
the Movie HHH
y
11.00am-12.35pm Film4

ADVENTURE This crowdpleasing animated sequel
sees TV’s adventurous babies
uprooted to Paris, where
they invade a Japaneseowned amusement park.
Susan Sarandon joins the
voice cast as park manager
Coco La Bouche, whose
promotion prospects depend
on her ability to acquire a
ready-made family. DAVID
MCGILLIVRAY (US/Ger 2000, HD)

Battle of Rogue River
HHH 1.00-2.30pm
Great Action

y

WESTERN George
Montgomery stars as the
martinet officer of a cavalry
outpost who brokers a truce
with the chief of the Rogue
River tribes, only for it to
be sabotaged by corrupt
businessmen. An early film
by “gimmick king” William
Castle, this B-western makes
for fascinating viewing, as it
exposes traits in post-Civil War
America that still persist today.
DAVID PARKINSON (US 1954)

An Inspector Calls
HHHH 3.00-4.35pm
Talking Pictures TV

g

MYSTERY Under Guy
Hamilton’s direction, this is a
highly polished production of

JB Priestley’s play. A superb
Alastair Sim is the police
officer whose accusations
send an upper-class dinner
party into disarray. The
revelations that follow work
better on stage than they do
here on screen, but there’s
much to enjoy. DP (UK 1954, BW)

m

Harry Potter and
the Goblet of Fire
HHHH
5.55-9.00pm ITV2

h

ADVENTURE As young
wizard Harry Potter continues
to mature, so too does this
fantasy franchise. Daniel
Radcliffe’s hero faces his
most daunting challenge
after being mysteriously
entered into the Triwizard
Tournament. The set pieces
are imaginatively staged,
featuring a brilliantly rendered
dragon and some creepy
mermaids. SLOAN FREER

swearing, sexual references, HD)

Anon HHH 9.00-11.00pm
Sky Sci-Fi
j
SCI-FI This hi-tech tale from
writer/director Andrew Niccol
(Gattaca) stars Clive Owen
as a detective who tracks
murderers by accessing the
memories of killers and their
victims. Hunting suspected
assassin Anon (Amanda
Seyfried), he instigates a
risky sting. Owen’s nuanced
performance adds some
warmth to the otherwise
clinical storytelling. TERRY
STAUNTON (Ger 2018, violence,
swearing, sex scenes, nudity, drug abuse)

Carry On Spying HHH
10.05-11.50pm
Talking Pictures TV

y

COMEDY New to Talking
Pictures TV this week, this
ninth Carry On is a merciless
send-up of the Bond movies
and Graham Greene’s spy
entertainments. Barbara
Windsor makes her series
debut as the most resourceful
of four agents sent to Vienna
to recover a secret formula,
with Kenneth Williams, Charles
Hawtrey and Bernard Cribbins
joining in the fun. DP (UK 1964, BW)

Sky Cinema picks
Hardball HHH
3.50-5.40pm Sky Drama

(US 2005, may be edited for violence, HD)

Keanu Reeves stars. (2001, 12)

Sapphire HHH

Sky 310; Virgin 410; BT 510/524

6.10-8.00pm
Talking Pictures TV

g

MYSTERY A young woman’s
murder leaves many questions
unanswered in this intriguing
1950s work. The relatively
innovative racial element — the
victim is a black woman who
was passing as white — adds
to the historical interest, and
gives the search for the killer
a wider resonance. This was

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Great Action

6.00am M*A*S*H 7.00 Wild West
Chronicles 7.30 100 Degrees
below Zero H Ice-encrusted sci-fi
hokum. (2013, 12) 9.15 Battle Honours
10.25 Wings at War 11.30 M*A*S*H
12.30pm Wild West Chronicles
1.00 Battle of Rogue River HHH
Entertaining B-western starring
George Montgomery. Review, right.
(1954, U) 2.30 Once upon a Texas
Train HHH A feuding lawman and
an outlaw set aside their differences.
(1988, U) 4.25 The Panzer 5.20 Hell
River HH Partisans battle the
Germans in this noisy wartime
drama. Rod Taylor (1974, PG)
7.20pm Meteor Storm HH
Limp disaster movie in which San
Francisco is hit by meteors. (2010, 12)
9.00 Storm HH Far-fetched
action thriller about a weather
controlling device. Luke Perry (1999, 12)
10.50 Dark Skies H Toxic rain
causes havoc in this thriller. (2009)
12.45am The Winter Soldier HH
Sci-fi action thriller. Paul Sidhu (2016, 15)
2.50—4.00am The Traitors HH
Spy thriller. Patrick Allen (1962, U)
Great Action Freeview 42 (limited)
F’sat 305 Sky 323 Virgin 426 +1 Sky 324

6.15am Seriously Red HHH
Delightful Australian comedy. Krew

THURSDAY

9.00am A Woman’s Nightmare
HH A mother’s perfect life is
threatened. (2018) 11.00 Deadly B&B
HH Solid TV-movie psycho-guest
thriller. Angie Patterson (2018) 1.00pm The
Landlord HHH Queasily effective
psycho-thriller. Neville Archambault (2016, 15)
3.00 Earthtastrophe HH
Low-budget disaster movie. Brian Krause
(2016) 4.45 Paul Blart: Mall Cop HH
Fitfully funny comedy. (2009, PG)
6.40pm A Call to Spy HHH
Fascinating tale of wartime
derring-do about the women behind
Churchill’s spy network. (2019, 12)
9.00 Life HHH Sci-fi horror set
aboard a space station with an
alien invader. Jake Gyllenhaal (2017, 15)
11.05 Killerman HHH Gritty,
good-looking thrill-ride starring
Liam Hemsworth as an amnesiac
criminal. Emory Cohen (2019, 15)
1.30am Personal Shopper HHHH
Fashion assistant Kristen Stewart
tries contact her dead brother’s
spirit in this haunting thriller. (2016, 15)
3.50—5.50am Bullet to Beijing
HH Spy thriller. Michael Caine (1995, 15)
Great Movies Freeview 34 Freesat 302
Sky 321 Virgin 425
+1 Freeview 61 (limited 10pm-5am) Sky 322

FILM REVIEWS

Sky Premiere

Champion HHHH
6.10-8.00pm Sky Greats
Tough boxing drama. (1949, PG)
Sky 304; Virgin 404; BT 504/518

Nope HHHH 8.00-10.15pm
Sky Summer Scares
UFOs in the skies. (2022, 15)
Sky 311; Virgin 411; BT 511/525

Films to stream from p32
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Satellite, cable

THURSDAY
Sky Showcase

Television THURSDAY

Sky Max

Gold

Alibi

The Fear Index 9.00pm Dr
Hoffman tries to stop VIXAL-4

A League of Their Own:
US Road Trip 2.0 8.00pm

Mrs Brown’s Boys 10.00pm

Person of Interest 7.00pm

Miranda makes a decision

Agnes comes up with a plan

Reese has a new partner

6.00am The Early Rundown (HD)
7.00 Kay Burley (HD) 8.00 Monkey
Life (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 Nothing to
Declare (S) 10.00 The Flash (S) (HD)
11.00 NCIS: New Orleans (S) (HD)
1.00pm Hawaii Five-0 (S) (HD) 2.00
MacGyver (S) (HD) 3.00 The Equalizer
(S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 A League of Their
Own (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00 The Simpsons
(S) 5.30 American Auto (S)
6.30pm The Simpsons Lisa gets
lost en route to the museum.
7.00 Homer and Marge try to
spice up their love life.
7.30 A judge rules that Homer
is a negligent father. (S)
8.00 New. Bill Bailey’s Master
Crafters: the Next Generation
4/4 Series 2. The junior
crafters unveil their final
pieces. See page 90. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 And Just like That... 8/11
Series 2. Sex and the City revival,
starring Sarah Jessica Parker. (HD)
10.00 Then You Run 4/8. Tara
and Stink sell the drugs at a music
festival in Hamburg. (S) (HD)
11.00 Magnum P.I. 6/20 Series 5
The day of Katsumoto’s hearing
arrives and he learns his fate. (S) (HD)
12 midnight Road Wars (S) 1.00am
The Force: North East (S) 2.00 Caught
on Dashcam (S) 3.00 Hawaii Five-0
(S) (HD) 4.00 MacGyver (S) (HD) 5.00—
6.00am The Early Rundown (HD)
Sky Showcase Sky 106 Virgin 109
BT 340/HD 355 +1 Sky 206

6.00am The Guest Wing (S) (AD)
(HD) 7.55 Boardwalk Empire (S) (AD)
(HD) 10.05 The Sopranos (S) (AD)
(HD) 12.15pm Game of Thrones (S)
(AD) (HD) 1.20 Britannia (S) (AD) (HD)
3.30 Boardwalk Empire (S) (AD) (HD)
5.45pm The Sopranos 4/21
Series 6. Jason Barone’s father dies,
leaving him to make a mammoth
decision about the future of the
family business. (S) (AD) (HD)
6.50 5/21. Johnny Sack is granted
temporary leave from prison so he
can attend his daughter’s wedding,
where he puts pressure on Tony
to kill Rusty Millio. (S) (AD) (HD)
7.55 Game of Thrones 7/10
Series 1. House Lannister prepares
for conflict. Ned confronts Cersei
about Jon Arryn’s death. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 The Fear Index 4/4. As
VIXAL-4 exceeds its programming
limits, Dr Hoffman races against the
clock to stop what he might have
inadvertently started. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.05 Billions 4/12 Series 4. Taylor
considers going into business with
an unexpected partner. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.10 5/12. Axe is surprised by a
visitor from his past. (S) (AD) (HD)
12.15am Winning Time: the Rise of
the Lakers Dynasty (S) (AD) (HD)
1.20 Domina (S) (AD) (HD) 3.30 In
Treatment (S) (HD) 4.00—6.00am
The Guest Wing (S) (AD) (HD)
Sky Atlantic Sky 108 (Wales 109)
BT 342/HD 357 +1 Sky 208 (Wales 209)

6.00am Stargate Atlantis (S) (HD)
8.00 Supergirl (S) (HD) 9.00 DC’s
Legends of Tomorrow (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 The Flash (S) (HD) 11.00 NCIS:
New Orleans (S) (HD) 1.00pm Hawaii
Five-0 (S) (HD) 2.00 MacGyver (S) (HD)
3.00 DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
(S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Supergirl (S) (HD)
5.00 The Flash (S) (HD)
6.00pm Stargate Atlantis
17/20 Series 2. Sheppard and the
team investigate the disappearance
of an expedition from Atlantis. (S)
7.00 18/20. A lieutenant awakes
in Atlantis with no memory of
his past or identity. (S) (HD)
8.00 A League of Their Own:
US Road Trip 2.0 1/7 Series 2
The gang goes on another
American adventure. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 The Blacklist 6/22 Series 10
Dr Laken Perillos resurfaces to join
Wujing’s crusade against Red. (S) (HD)
10.00 Then You Run 4/8. Tara
and Stink sell the drugs at a music
festival in Hamburg. (S) (HD)
11.00 Magnum P.I. 6/20
Series 5. The day of Katsumoto’s
hearing arrives and he learns
if his career is over. (S) (HD)
12 midnight Warrior (S) (AD) (HD)
2.00am Caught on Dashcam (HD)
3.00 Hawaii Five-0 (S) (HD) 4.00
MacGyver (S) (HD) 5.00—6.00am
Bondi Rescue: double bill (S) (HD)
Sky Max Sky 113 (Wales 114) Virgin 111
BT 346/HD 361

7.30am The Good Life (S) (AD) 8.00
Keeping Up Appearances (S) 8.40
2 Point 4 Children (S) (AD) 9.20 Are
You Being Served? (S) 10.00 Still
Open All Hours (S) (HD) 10.40 Last
of the Summer Wine (S) (AD) 12 noon
Keeping Up Appearances (S) 12.40pm
2 Point 4 Children (S) (AD) 1.20 Dad’s
Army (S) 2.00 Still Open All Hours
(S) (HD) 2.40 Are You Being Served?
(S) 3.20 Last of the Summer Wine (S)
(AD) 4.40 Keeping Up Appearances
(S) 5.20 Are You Being Served? (S)
6.00pm The Good Life Tom
invents a means of transport. (S) (AD)
6.40 Dad’s Army Double bill. (S)
8.00 dinnerladies A convict
escapes near the factory. (S) (AD)
8.40 Gavin & Stacey
The newlyweds begin leading
separate lives. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.20 Absolutely Fabulous Edina
is torn between love and duty. (S) (AD)
10.00 Mrs Brown’s Boys
Dermot announces his choice of
best man for the wedding. (S) (HD)
10.40 Not Going Out (S) (HD)
11.20 dinnerladies As 8pm.
12 midnight Gavin & Stacey (S) (AD)
(HD) 12.35am Absolutely Fabulous
(S) (AD) 1.15 Mrs Brown’s Boys (S)
(HD) 1.55 Not Going Out (S) (HD)
2.35 My Favourite Sketch (S) (HD)
3.25—4.00am Desmond’s (S)
Gold Sky 110 (Wales 111) Virgin 124
BT 344/HD 359 +1 Sky 210 (Wales 211) Virgin 324

7.15am Murdoch Mysteries (S) (HD)
9.00 Deception (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00
Hudson & Rex (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00
Without a Trace (S) (HD) 12 noon
The Doctor Blake Mysteries (S) (HD)
1.00pm Father Brown (S) (AD) (HD)
2.00 Murdoch Mysteries (S) (HD)
4.00 Deception (S) (AD) (HD)
5.00 Hudson & Rex (S) (AD) (HD)
6.00pm Without a Trace 10/23
Series 1. The team investigates the
disappearance of a man with a
murky past and his daughter. (S) (HD)
7.00 Person of Interest 1/23
Series 3. A sailor on shore leave is
the target of diamond smugglers,
providing the first case for John
Reese and Sameen Shaw. (S) (HD)
8.00 Father Brown 6/10 Series 9
The padre finds his position under
threat when he clashes with a
new parishioner. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Death in Paradise 3/8
Series 8. A TV presenter’s body is
washed up on the shore. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 Father Brown 9/10 Series 9
The sleuth investigates staff at a
health spa when an ex-employee
is found murdered. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 Person of Interest As 7pm.
12 midnight Hudson & Rex (S) (AD)
(HD) 1.00am Deception (S) (AD) (HD)
2.00 Murdoch Mysteries (S) (HD)
2.55—4.00am Annika (S) (AD) (HD)
Alibi Sky 109 (Wales 110) Virgin HD 114
BT 343/HD 358 +1 Sky 209 (Wales 210) Virgin 314

And Just like That… 9.00pm

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Sky Sci-Fi
6.00am Merlin 7.00 The Outpost
8.00 Home Shopping 11.00
Pandora 12 noon Star Trek: the
Next Generation 2.00pm Merlin
3.00 Pandora 4.00 Quantum
Leap 5.00 Stargate Atlantis: Teyla’s
nightmares reveal an alarming truth
6.00pm Star Trek: the Next
Generation 4/26 Series 3. Picard
is mistaken for a god by a primitive
culture and Troi’s life is put in danger.
7.00 5/26. Worf feels responsible
when a member of his team is killed.
8.00 Star Trek: Voyager 23/26
Series 5. Janeway relates the tale
of her pioneering ancestor.
9.00 Anon HHH
Sci-fi thriller starring Clive
Owen and Amanda Seyfried.
In a world of smart optical
technology, anyone’s personal
data can be viewed at a single
glance, mostly eliminating crime.
When a hacker, “Anon”, starts
editing people’s records, detective
Sal faces a reality-bending
challenge. Review page 97.
11.00 From 3/10 Series 2. Kenny
and Ellis make a grisly discovery,
while Boyd struggles with the
reality of what is happening to him.
12 midnight 4/10. As Boyd’s
condition grows alarming, Sara’s
return puts him in a difficult position.
1.00am Star Trek: Voyager
2.00 Stargate Atlantis 3.00 Star
Trek: the Next Generation
5.00—6.00am Most Haunted
Sky Sci-Fi Sky 139 Virgin 122
BT 348/HD 363 +1 Virgin 229

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Sky Atlantic

Sky Witness
6.00am Air Ambulance ER (S) (HD)
7.00 Border Security: Canada’s
Front Line (S) (HD) 8.00 Border
Patrol (S) 10.00 Stop, Search, Seize
(S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 The Rookie (S)
(AD) (HD) 12 noon FBI: Most Wanted
(S) (AD) (HD) 1.00pm FBI: International
(S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 Blue Bloods (S)
(AD) (HD) 3.00 The Equalizer (S) (AD)
(HD) 4.00 Border Security:
Australia’s Front Line (S) (HD)
6.00pm Border Security:
Australia’s Front Line An odd
smelling package arrives. (S) (HD)
6.30 A group of foreigners
make a daring escape. (S) (HD)
7.00 Nothing to Declare Double
bill following the work of customs
officers in Australia. (S) (HD)
8.00 Caught on Dashcam
Dramatic road disasters captured
via dashboard cameras. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Blue Bloods 4/16 Series 11
Erin struggles with the weight
of her authority. (S) (HD)
10.00 The Rookie 4/20 Series 1
Nolan and Lopez track down an
escaped criminal. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 Departure 1/6 Series 3
Kendra Malley and her team
investigate when an explosion on
a ferry results in death. (S) (HD)
12 midnight The Equalizer (S) (AD)
(HD) 1.00am 9-1-1 (S) (HD) 2.00
Bull (S) (HD) 3.00 Chicago Fire (S)
(HD) 4.00 Stop, Search, Seize (S)
(AD) (HD) 5.00—6.00am Air
Ambulance ER (S) (HD)
Sky Witness Sky 107 Virgin 110
BT 341/HD 356 +1 Sky 207 Virgin 310

Sky Replay
7.00am 6ixth Sense with Colin Fry (S)
8.00 Four Weddings (S) (AD) 10.00 UK
Border Force (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 Stop,
Search, Seize (S) (AD) (HD) 12 noon
Bondi Rescue (S) (HD) 1.00pm Send in
the Dogs (S) 2.00 Warehouse 13 (S)
4.00 Most Haunted (S) 6.00 Supergirl:
double bill. Manchester Black breaks
out of prison, then Ben Lockwood and
the Elite stir up trouble during a rally (S)
(HD) 8.00 UK Border Force: a man
from Pakistan is refused entry into
Britain (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 Alphas:
people with enhanced human abilities
try to solve crimes (HD) 10.00 Road
Wars (S) (HD) 11.00 Brit Cops: Law &
Disorder (S) (AD) 1.00am Stop, Search,
Seize (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 A League of
Their Own (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00 Duck
Quacks Don’t Echo (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00
Four Weddings 5.00—6.00am 6ixth
Sense with Colin Fry (S)

Sky Replay Sky 152 Virgin 156

Sky Crime
6.00am Highway Patrol (S) 7.00
Motorway Patrol (S) (AD) 8.00 Highway
Cops (S) (HD) 9.00 Nothing to Declare
(S) 10.00 Caught Red Handed (S) (HD)
11.30 Border Patrol (S) (HD) 12 noon
Killer in My Village (S) (HD) 1.00pm
Forensics (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 Murders
That Shocked the Nation (S) (AD) (HD)
3.00 Most Evil Killers (S) (HD) 5.00
What the Killer Did Next (S) (AD) (HD)
6.00 Forensics (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 Most
Evil Killers (S) (HD) 9.00 Forensics (S)
(AD) (HD) 10.00 How I Caught the Killer
11.00 Killer in My Village (S) (HD)
12 midnight Most Evil Killers (S) (AD)
(HD) 1.00am The Killer Within (S) (HD)
2.00 as 5pm 3.00 Brit Cops: Frontline
Crime UK (S) 4.00 Road Wars (S)
5.00—6.00am Motorway Patrol (S) (AD)

Sky Crime Sky 122 Virgin 121 BT 349/HD 364
+1 Sky 222 Virgin 321

Sky Comedy

Discovery

8.00am New. And Just like That...
(HD) 9.00 A.P. Bio (S) (HD) 9.30 Sort
Of (S) (AD) (HD) 10.05 The Conners (S)
(HD) 11.00 Bloods (S) (AD) (HD) 11.30
Veep (S) (AD) (HD) 12.50pm How to
Make It in America (S) (AD) (HD) 1.30
Entourage (S) (HD) 2.30 The Fresh Prince
of Bel-Air (S) (HD) 3.30 The Conners (S)
(HD) 4.30 Sort Of (S) (AD) (HD) 5.30
Will & Grace (S) (AD) (HD) 6.30 The
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (S) (HD) 7.30
Bloods: Wendy and Maleek are facing a
Serious Incident Investigation following
their potential misdiagnosis of Jack (S)
(AD) (HD) 8.00 The Office US (S) (HD)
9.00 And Just like That... (HD) 10.00
Sex and the City (S) (HD) 11.10 Hung (S)
(HD) 12.30am Bloods (S) (AD) (HD)
1.30 Vice Principals (S) (AD) (HD)
2.40 2 Dope Queens (S) (AD) (HD)
3.45—5.00am Veep (S) (AD) (HD)

6.00am Wheeler Dealers (S) (HD) 7.00
Deadliest Catch (S) (HD) 8.00 Building
off the Grid (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 Alaska:
the Last Frontier (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00
How It’s Made (S) (HD) 11.00 Wheeler
Dealers (S) (HD) 12 noon Diesel
Brothers (HD) 1.00pm Gold Rush: Mine
Rescue with Freddy and Juan (S) (HD)
3.00 Alaska: Homestead Rescue (S)
(HD) 5.00 Wheeler Dealers (S) (HD)
6.00pm Street Outlaws (HD) 8.00
Alaska: the Last Frontier (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 New series. Naked and Afraid:
Last One Standing: the most skilled
survivalists compete for $100,000 (S)
(HD) 11.00 Naked and Afraid XL (HD)
12 midnight Expedition Bigfoot (S)
(HD) 1.00am Naked and Afraid: Last
One Standing (S) (HD) 3.00
Moonshiners (HD) 4.00—5.00am
Wheeler Dealers (S) (HD)

Sky Comedy Sky 114 (Wales 115)
Virgin 112 BT 347/HD 362

Discovery Sky 125 Virgin 177 BT 320/HD 325
+1 Sky 225 Virgin 377

Comedy Central
8.00am Bob’s Burgers (S) (HD) 10.00
Becker (HD) 11.00 The Middle (S) (HD)
1.00pm Friends (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00
Kevin Bridges: a Whole Different Story:
the comedian mixes economic theory,
art history and diet tips with the rigours
of growing up and adapting to his
newfound place in the world (S) (HD)
10.00 Dylan Moran: Off the Hook: in a
stand-up show recorded in 2015, the star
and creator of Black Books playfully
scrambles through the everyday
struggles of life 11.50 Demetri Martin:
Person (HD) 12.50am South Park (S)
(HD) 2.20 Bob’s Burgers (S) (HD) 2.45
Key and Peele (S) (HD) 3.25 Michael
McIntyre: Live and Laughing (S) (HD)
4.10—5.00am Friends (S) (AD) (HD)

Comedy Central Sky 112 (Wales 113)
Virgin 132 BT 345/HD 360
+1 Sky 212 (Wales 213) Virgin 332

Discovery History
6.00am Combat Dealers (S) 7.00
HMS Ark Royal (S) (AD) 8.00 Greatest
Events of World War II (S) 9.00 Combat
Dealers (S) (AD) 10.00 Salvage Hunters
(S) (AD) 11.00 Shed and Buried 12 noon
How It’s Made (S) 1.00pm Combat
Dealers (S) 2.00 HMS Ark Royal (S)
(AD) 3.00 Blowing Up History (S) 4.00
Mysteries at the Castle 5.00 Greatest
Events of World War II (S) 6.00 Secrets
Underground (S) 7.00 Expedition
Unknown (S) 8.00 Combat Dealers (S)
9.00 Blowing Up History (S) 10.00
Salvage Hunters (S) (AD) 11.00 Shed
and Buried: double bill
12 midnight How It’s Made (S) 1.00am
Combat Dealers (S) 2.00 Salvage Hunters
(S) (AD) 3.00 Combat Dealers (S)
4.00—5.00am Blowing Up History (S)

Discovery History Sky 177 Virgin 181
+1 Sky 277 Virgin 381

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Sky 401 Virgin 511/HD 501 BT 420/HD 440

Sky 410 Virgin 527 BT 408/HD 430
6.00am LIVE Badminton The
Australia Open, further coverage
of the round of 16 from Sydney.

6.00am Sky Sports News
7.00 Good Morning Sports Fans
7.30 World Cup Breakfast

6.00am Dark Horses: Italy’s World
Cup Triumph (S) (HD) 7.00 Discovering:
Basil Rathbone (S) (HD) 8.00 The
Directors (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 Escobar
by Escobar (S) (HD) 9.55 The Invisible
Pilot (S) (AD) (HD) 11.05 Positive (S)
(AD) (HD) 12 noon Reopening Night
(S) (HD) 1.45pm My Icon: Duke
McKenzie (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 SIC:
Prince of MotoGP (S) 3.45 My Icon:
John Amaechi (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00
The Directors (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00
Discovering: Basil Rathbone: a
profile of the English actor (S) (HD)
6.00pm Escobar by Escobar
The story behind the cursed
Escobar empire. (S) (HD)
6.55 The Invisible Pilot Facing
decades in prison, Gary testifies in
the investigation into the
Iran-Contra affair (S) (AD) (HD)
8.05 Positive Britain’s 40-year
battle with HIV. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Love to Love You, Donna
Summer A profile of the artist,
following her career from the
music scene in Germany to the
discotheques of New York. (S) (HD)
11.10 After the Bite The surge in
great white sharks patrolling Cape
Cod’s shallow waters. (HD)
1.00am Fashion Reimagined (S)
3.00 Our Towns (S) (AD)
5.00—6.00am Discovering:
Basil Rathbone (S) (HD)
Sky Documentaries Sky 121
Virgin 188 BT 352/HD 367

6.00am Ol Pejeta Diaries (S) (HD)
7.00 Monkey Life (S) (AD) 8.00
Kenya Wildlife Diaries (S) (HD) 9.00
Tales from Zambia (S) (HD) 10.00
Great Blue Wild (S) (HD) 11.00
Animal Empires (S) (HD) 12 noon
World’s Most Toxic Animals (S) (AD)
(HD) 1.00pm Monkey Life (S) (AD)
2.00 Kenya Wildlife Diaries (S) (HD)
3.00 Tales from Zambia: the
hippos of the Luangwa Valley (S)
(HD) 4.00 Great Blue Wild (S) (HD)
5.00 Animal Empires (S) (HD)
6.00pm World’s Most Toxic
Animals Including the world’s
most venomous snake. (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00 Monkey Life A baby
monkey is put in danger. (S) (AD)
7.30 Trudy falls victim to a
mysterious condition. (S) (AD)
8.00 Living Beach The
ecosystems supported by Nova
Scotia’s Bay of Fundy. (S) (HD)
9.00 Into the Wild: India The
life of a sloth bear mother. (S) (HD)
10.00 Animal Empires Finding a
home in new territory. (S) (HD)
11.00 World’s Most Toxic
Animals As 6pm.
12 midnight City Wildlife Rescue (S)
(HD) 1.00am Patagonia (S) (AD) (HD)
2.00 Living Beach (S) (HD) 3.00 Into
the Wild: India (S) (HD) 4.00 Kenya
Wildlife Diaries (S) (HD) 5.00—
6.00am Tales from Zambia (S) (HD)
Sky Nature Sky 124 Virgin 189
BT 354/HD 369

Nat Geographic

The busy life of a sloth bear

Eden

8.00am Abandoned (HD) 8.30 Made in a
Day (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 Air Crash (S)
(HD) 10.00 Europe from Above (S) (AD)
(HD) 11.00 Ultimate Airport Dubai (S)
(HD) 12 noon Car SOS (S) (AD) (HD)
1.00pm Nazi Megastructures (HD)
2.00 Air Crash (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00
Hitler’s Last Stand (HD) 4.00 Cosmos:
Possible Worlds (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00 Car
SOS (S) (AD) (HD) 6.00 Lost Treasures
of Egypt (S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 Air Crash (S)
(AD) (HD) 8.00 New. Last of the Giants:
Wild Fish (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 New. Wicked
Tuna (HD) 10.00 New. First Alaskans (S)
(HD) 11.00 Air Crash (S) (HD) 12 midnight
Airport Security (HD) 1.00am To Catch a
Smuggler (S) (HD) 2.00 Made in a Day (S)
(AD) (HD) 2.30 Bid & Destroy (HD) 2.55
Lords of War (HD) 3.20 Food Factory
(S) (HD) 4.10 Exotic Animal ER (HD)
4.35—5.00am Secrets of the Zoo (HD)

9.00am Blue Planet II: three editions
(HD) 12 noon Planet Earth II: triple bill
(AD) (HD) 3.00pm Blue Planet II (HD)
6.00pm Planet Earth II: triple bill.
Wildlife that inhabits remote islands,
including three-toed sloths 7.00
Animals that live in mountain ranges,
including rival snow leopards and grizzly
bears using trees to shed their winter
fur 8.00 Animals that live in jungles,
including creatures that glow in the
dark, which have never been captured
on film before (AD) (HD) 9.00 Blue
Planet II: wildlife inhabiting underwater
kelp forests, including thousands of
giant cuttlefish 10.00 Footage of
animals that live on the coast 11.00 The
impact of humans on aquatic wildlife
(HD) 12 midnight Planet Earth II (AD)
(HD) 3.00am Blue Planet II (HD)
5.30—6.00am The Zoo (HD)

Nat Geographic Sky 129 Virgin 183
+1 Sky 229 Virgin 383

Eden Sky 166 Virgin HD 176
+1 Sky 266 Virgin 376

Sky History

Animal Planet

6.00am Forged in Fire Armed Forces
Tournament (HD) 7.00 Salvage Kings
(HD) 8.00 American Pickers (HD) 9.00
Pawn Stars (HD) 10.00 Swamp People
(S) (HD) 11.00 Secrets of the Viking Stone
(HD) 12 noon River Hunters (HD) 1.00pm
Salvage Kings (HD) 2.00 Cities of the
Underworld (HD) 3.00 Swamp People:
Serpent Invasion (HD) 5.00 Pawn Stars
(HD) 6.00 American Pickers (HD) 7.00
Forged in Fire Armed Forces Tournament
(HD) 8.00 Auction Hunters (HD) 9.00
New. Secret Restoration (S) (HD) 10.00
Forged in Fire (HD) 11.00 Roswell 75: the
Final Evidence (HD) 12 midnight Pawn
Stars (HD) 1.00am Auction Hunters
(HD) 2.00 Bloody Boston (S) (HD) 3.00
Swamp People: Serpent Invasion (HD)
5.00—6.00am American Pickers (HD)

8.00am Animal Cribs (S) (HD) 9.00
Dodo Heroes (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 Dogs
101 (S) (HD) 11.00 Alaska: Homestead
Rescue (S) (HD) 12 noon Animal Cribs
(S) (AD) (HD) 1.00pm Dodo Heroes (S)
(HD) 2.00 Great White Invasion (S) (AD)
(HD) 3.00 Man-Eating Super Snake (S)
(HD) 4.00 Bad Dog! (S) (HD) 5.00
Alaska: Homestead Rescue (S) (HD)
6.00 Animal Cribs (S) (HD) 7.00 Dodo
Heroes (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 Project
Grizzly: double bill (S) (HD) 10.00
Alaskan Bush People (S) (HD) 11.00
From Wags to Riches (S) (HD)
12 midnight Pit Bulls and Parolees:
Tia’s Tales (S) (HD) 1.00am Alaskan Bush
People (S) (HD) 2.00 Bad Dog! (S) (HD)
3.00 Alaska: Homestead Rescue (S)
(HD) 4.00—5.00am Animal Cribs (S) (HD)

Sky History Sky 123 Virgin 133
BT 353/HD 368 +1 Sky 223 Virgin 333

Animal Planet Sky 162 (NI 178) Virgin 178
+1 Sky 262 (NI 278) Virgin 378

5.00—6.00am Sky Sports News

Sky Football
Sky 403 Virgin 513/HD 503 BT 422/HD 442
6.00am Retro League One 8.45
Greatest Games (AD) 10.00 Classic
Play-Offs 12 noon Championship
Season Review (AD) 1.00pm League
Cup Retro (AD) 2.00 Classic Play-Off
Finals 5.00 Greatest Games
6.00 SPFL Special: Celtic’s Invincibles
7.00 Best Goals 7.30 Championship
Season Review 8.30 League Cup
Football (AD) 9.30 Best Goals 10.00
SPFL Special: Celtic’s Invincibles 11.00
Best Goals 11.30 EFL Greatest Games
12 midnight—6.00am SPFL Greatest
Games: 13 classic Old Firm derbies

Sky Golf
Sky 405 Virgin 515/HD 505 BT 424/HD 444
6.00am PGA Tour Golf 7.00 One
Shot Away 7.30 Challenge Tour Golf
8.00 Countdown to the Ryder Cup
8.30 PGA Tour Golf 9.30 LPGA Tour
Golf 10.30 PGA Tour: the Cut 11.00
Challenge Tour Golf 11.30 Countdown
to the Ryder Cup 12 noon PGA Tour
Golf 1.00pm LPGA Tour Golf

2.00 LIVE Ladies European Tour
Golf Round one of the Women’s
Scottish Open from Ayrshire.
6.00 LIVE PGA Tour Golf The
opening round of the Wyndham
Championship from Greensboro.
11.00 Legends Tour Golf 11.30 Ladies
European Tour Golf 12.30am PGA
Tour Golf 1.30 Legends Tour 2.00
Ladies European Tour Golf 3.00 The
Players Championship Official Film
(AD) 4.00 Ladies European Tour Golf
5.00—6.00am Tee Time Tips (AD)

Sky Action
Sky 407 Virgin 517/HD 507 BT 426/HD 446
6.00am NFL Bitesize 6.45 NFL

7.45 LIVE Netball World Cup
Two second group stage matches
(centre-pass 8.00 and 10.00).
12 noon Good Morning Football
3.00pm Boxing: three bouts
6.00 Pro-Football Talk 8.00 NFL
Bitesize 8.15 NY Jets Flight 2023:
Ascension 11.00 NFL: Total Access

1.00am LIVE NFL New York
Jets v Cleveland Browns, the Hall
of Fame game (kick-off 1.00).
5.00—6.00am NFL Bitesize

Sky Mix
Sky 416 Virgin 510 BT 429/HD 449
8.45—10.45am LIVE NRLW
Sydney Roosters v St George
Illawarra Dragons (kick-off 8.40).
2.30—9.30pm LIVE Cricket: the
Hundred Northern Superchargers
v Birmingham Phoenix, a women’s
match from Headingley;
6.00 Northern Superchargers
v Birmingham Phoenix, a men’s
match from Headingley.

Cycling 5.40pm Eurosport 1
Katie Archibald leads Britain’s
challenge for gold in Glasgow

Sky Premier League
Sky 402 Virgin 512/HD 502 BT 421/HD 441
6.00am Greatest Games (AD) 7.00
Legends 7.30 World Cup Breakfast
8.00 Best Goals 8.30 World Cup
Breakfast 9.00 Good Morning Transfers
10.00 Retro 12 noon Transfer Talk
1.00pm Premier League Years 3.00
Greatest Games (AD) 4.00 Best Goals
(AD) 5.00 The Transfer Show 5.30
100 Club (AD) 6.00 Legends (AD) 7.00
The Transfer Show 8.00 Stories 8.30
Soccerbox 10.00 Icons 10.30 Retro
12.30am Icons 1.00 Premier League
Years: review of 1999/2000 (AD) 3.00
Greatest Games (AD) 4.00 Best Goals
(AD) 5.30—6.00am 100 Club (AD)

Sky Cricket
Sky 404 Virgin 514/HD 504 BT 423/HD 443
6.00am Cricket: the Hundred
1.00pm The Hundred Bitesize

2.30 LIVE Cricket: the Hundred
Northern Superchargers v
Birmingham Phoenix, a women’s
match from Headingley;
6.00 Northern Superchargers v
Birmingham Phoenix, men’s match.
9.30 The Hundred Bitesize
10.00 Cricket: the Hundred
5.00—6.00am The Hundred Bitesize

Sky Arena
Sky 408 Virgin 518/HD 508 BT 427/HD 447
6.00am Rugby League Retro

7.45 LIVE Netball World Cup
Two second group stage matches
(centre-pass 8.00 and 10.00).
12 noon WNBA: Sun v Lynx
2.00pm Super League
2.45 LIVE Netball World Cup
A second group stage match;
5.00 A match from the second
group stage (centre-pass 5.00).
7.00 The Darts Show 7.30 Rugby
League Retro 9.15 Super League
9.30 The Darts Show 10.00 Netball
World Cup 12 midnight Super League
(AD) 12.45am Women’s Super League
1.00 Netball World Cup: highlights
3.00 WNBA 5.00—6.00am Boxing

Amazon Prime
5.00pm LIVE Tennis Day four
of the Washington Open, men’s
and women’s singles matches.

Eurosport 1
Sky 413 Virgin 521 BT HD 412
6.00am Cycling 7.00 Hall of Fame
8.00 Climbing 9.00 Cycling 10.00
Giro d’Italia 11.00 Climbing 12 noon
Cycling 1.00pm Olympic Games: La
Vie Sportive 3.00 Triathlon 3.30
Women’s Tour de France 4.40 Cycling

5.40 LIVE Cycling The Track
World Championships at the Sir
Chris Hoy Velodrome, Glasgow.
9.30 World University Games
11.30 Cycling 12.30am Triathlon
1.00 Formula E 2.00 Cycling 3.00
Climbing 4.00 British Superbikes
5.00—6.00am Karate: Full Contact

6.00 LIVE World Rally Rally
Finland, special stage one.
7.00 Rallying: from Rome
7.30 MLB: off the Bat (AD)
8.00 LIVE Major League
Baseball Toronto Blue Jays v
Baltimore Orioles, coverage of
an American League game at
Rogers Centre (start 8.07).
11.30 MLB Plays of the Week (AD)
12 midnight LIVE Major League
Baseball New York Yankees v
Houston Astros, the American
League game from Yankee
Stadium (start 12.15).
3.30am MLB: off the Bat (AD)
4.00 MLB Plays of the Week (AD)
4.30 Rallying 5.00—6.00am
Down the Clubhouse (AD)

TNT Sports 2
Sky 411 Virgin 528 BT 409/HD 431
6.00am Badminton (AD)
6.30 Rallying: action from Rome

7.00 LIVE World Rally Rally
Finland, the shakedown.
7.30 Wrestling: WWE action (AD)
10.15 Ariel Helwani Meets
11.15 Badminton Weekly (AD)
11.30 Premier League Football: seven
matches from the 2022/23 season
10.00pm Premier League Stories
10.30 National League Football
11.30 Rallying: action from Rome
12 midnight Champions League
Football: second qualifying round
3.00am Premier League Legends (AD)
4.30—6.00am Rugby Stories (AD)

TNT Sports 3
Sky 417 Virgin 529 BT 410/HD 432
6.00am Joe Cole Cast
6.30 Champions League Football
9.45 MotoGP Films: The Age of 27 (AD)
11.00 MotoGP Highlights (AD)
3.00pm Triathlon (AD) 3.30 Fishing
(AD) 4.30 Ariel Helwani Meets
5.00 Wrestling 10.00 UFC: the
Ultimate Fighter (AD) 11.00 UFC
2.00am UFC Fight Flashback (AD)
3.00 Champions League Football (AD)
4.00—6.00am What Went Down (AD)

Television

Into the Wild: India 9.00pm

1.30pm Badminton Weekly (AD)
1.45 Champions League Football:
Stories of the Finals 2.00 Down the
Clubhouse (AD) 3.00 Wrestling (AD)
4.45 Badminton Weekly (AD)
5.00 Premier League Stories
5.30 World Rally: magazine (AD)

THURSDAY

Love to Love You, Donna
Summer 9.00pm Profile

7.45 LIVE Netball World Cup
Two second group stage matches
(centre-pass 8.00 and 10.00).
12 noon Transfer Talk
1.00pm Sky Sports News
2.30 LIVE Cricket: the Hundred
Northern Superchargers v
Birmingham Phoenix, a women’s
match from Headingley;
6.00 Northern Superchargers
v Birmingham Phoenix, a men’s
match from Headingley.
9.30 LIVE PGA Tour Golf The
opening round of the Wyndham
Championship from Greensboro.
11.00 Sky Sports News
1.00am LIVE NFL New York
Jets v Cleveland Browns, the Hall
of Game game (kick-off 1.00).

TNT Sports 4
Sky 421 Virgin 530 BT 411/HD 434
6.00am Premiership Rugby Union
7.30 Major League Baseball
12.30pm Champions League Football
3.30 Australian Rules Football
5.30 Boxing: Davies v Cunningham
7.30 ChatterBox 8.00 Round 12:
Tyson Fury Resurrection (AD) 8.30
Triathlon (AD) 9.00 Poker (AD)
1.00am Australian Rules Football

3.00—6.00am LIVE Badminton
The Australia Open quarter-finals
from State Sports Centre, Sydney.
Coverage continues until 1.30pm.

Eurosport 2
Sky 414 Virgin 522 BT HD 413
6.00am Climbing: World Cup 7.00
World University Games 8.00 Cycling
9.00 World Superbikes 10.00 World
University Games 11.00 Cycling
12 noon Speedway 2.00pm Surfing
3.00 Motocross 4.15 Superbikes
4.30 Triathlon 5.00 World University
Games 7.00 Karate: Full Contact
8.00 Motor Racing 10.00 Speedway
12 midnight World University Games
2.00am Motor Racing 3.00 World
Superbikes: from Most 4.00 Cycling
5.00—5.30am Olympic Games

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THE FINAL
WHISTLE

Television FRIDAY

Will Toby (Hugh
Dennis, left)
give Lee (Lee
Mack) a red
card at the end
of the season?

SITCOM

Not Going Out
9.00pm BBC1 Catch up via iPlayer
only play football for the fun of it.” It sums up our anti-hero’s
LAST
EPISODE overly competitive approach to children’s sport in the last
episode of the long-running sitcom’s latest series. While
watching his son Benji play for the local Under-13s, Lee disgraces himself
by becoming the kind of shouty touchline dad that everyone avoids. He
calls the referee “a blind cretin” and less printable epithets. Lee’s best
mate Toby (Hugh Dennis), who coaches the team, tells him to zip it.

MICHAEL HOGAN

MUSIC

DOCUMENTARY

DOCUMENTARY

FOOD

BBC Proms

Britain’s Busiest
Mountain: Our Lives

Millionaire Hoarders

Celebrity MasterChef

8.00pm Channel 4
Catch up via C4 streaming

8.30pm BBC1
Catch up via iPlayer

7.00pm BBC4 Catch up via iPlayer
Not all jazz legends are dead. Dee
Dee Bridgewater, a highly energised,
living example (and a triple Grammywinning singer/songwriter steeped in
the tradition of Billie Holiday and Ella
Fitzgerald), is the main attraction in a
Jazz Greats Prom given at the Royal
Albert Hall on Tuesday night.
She’s joined by fellow Americans,
trumpeter Sean Jones and, fresh
from Carnegie Hall, the National
Youth Jazz Orchestra, comprised of
outstanding teen talent from across
the States. They’ll explore big-band
classics and contemporary works,
edging towards R&B and hip hop —
“musical dynamite to raise the roof”,
as Radio 3’s Jess Gillam predicted in
RT’s Proms Guide a few weeks back.
Clive Myrie is back to host and get
into the groove. PATRICK MULKERN

100

Undeterred, Lee sets about rigging the Player of the Year vote so Benji
takes home the trophy.
The end-of-season prize-giving duly descends into bribery, political
manoeuvring and one almighty row. The usual wordplay-stuffed script is
further enlivened by football gags (“Neymar — it’s what you call a Geordie
orphan”). Look out for a cameo from comedy veteran Melvyn Hayes, best
known as Gunner “Gloria” Beaumont from It Ain’t Half Hot Mum.

7.30pm BBC1
Catch up via iPlayer
It’s estimated that Yr Wyddfa or
Snowdon is worth £20m annually to
the local economy, but this popularity
comes at a price. Water must be
transported up to supply the toilets
(and the waste brought back down),
the railway track must be maintained,
wardens employed to ensure
walkers’ safety and litter disposed of
while the visitors (750,000 last year
resulting in 45-minute queues to
climb to the summit!) inevitably
damage the terrain.
There was no preview of this
documentary, but it explores what it’s
like to keep the mountain running
smoothly as Snowdon fully re-opens
for business following lockdown.
JANE RACKHAM

Take a bit of Cash in the

NEW Attic, add a dash of Fake
SERIES or Fortune? and the
result is this enjoyable
new series, where experts snoop
around castles and collections to
unearth treasure for auction. Pat is
hoping to raise £10,000 by selling
some of his vintage clothes, while
Adity and Simon want a gem or three
to be found in their Scottish home.
They are in possession of some
historically significant items, but one
painting grabs the attention of
antique dealer Clive and collectibles
specialist Ronnie. It’s potentially a
Constable. If genuine it’d be
financially life-changing, but
extensive tests are required to prove
its provenance. FRANCES TAYLOR

Hopefully Celebrity MasterChef
superstars Lisa Snowdon, Danny
Jones and Angellica Bell had on their
elasticated waistbands when they
judged this quarter-final because
they were presented with some
seriously carb-tastic comfort food.
The four celebrity cooks served
them creamy mash potato, rice, mac
’n’ cheese, tagliatelle and pancakes
(admittedly not all on one plate), as
well as slightly fancier things such as
Thai fishcakes, Korean chicken,
chocolate truffles and duck breast
(always a risky one on MasterChef).
What a blow-out! But for, I think,
the first time the trio of guest judges
take a taste of one dish and all give an
appreciative “Mmmmmm” before
devouring the lot. JR

RadioTimes 29 July–4 August 2023

FRIDAY 4 AUGUST
LIVE SPORT

ALSO ON TODAY
Yellowstone

This week at
Longmeadow Monty
celebrates growing
your own and shows
how to get the most out
of bargain plants.

The Duttons realise the
repercussions of their
dispute, while John
collects an old debt.
Kevin Costner stars.
First shown in 2020.

8.00pm BBC2

Chris McCausland
Live: Squeaky
Blinder

9.00pm Channel 5

11.05pm Channel 4

Chris McCausland (left)
ends his stand-up tour
at the O2 Shepherd’s
Bush Empire in London.

DRAMA

Reframed:
Marilyn Monroe

Riches

Then You Run

9.00pm ITV1 Catch up via ITVX

9.00pm BBC2 Catch up via iPlayer

Finally, this restrained
SERIES corporate saga finds
FINALE some dramatic impetus.
Nina (Deborah Ayorinde),
who has inherited a cosmetics
company from her estranged father,
who ran the firm with his — now
rather disgruntled — family, reveals
that last week’s arrest of a possible
fraudster was a dummy. Nina knows
who’s really been siphoning off Flair
and Glory’s profits, and their identity
changes the game.
As the clan at last comes together
for a satisfying if muted denouement,
further secrets are spilled to make
room for a second season. Will there
be one? If not, the writers and cast
might wish they’d given this one
more oomph. JACK SEALE

9.00pm Sky Max
Catch up via Now

The final two episodes of this
four-part documentary about Marilyn
Monroe continue to defy the lazy
myth that paints her as a tragic
butterfly broken on the Hollywood
wheel. This series sees Monroe
emerge as rebellious and fearless,
abandoning Los Angeles to head to
New York not only to challenge
herself by studying method acting,
but to throw down a gauntlet to
Hollywood itself, defying 20th
Century Fox’s chief Darryl Zanuck as
she tried to found her own production
company. It’s eye-opening stuff that
at the end genuinely leaves you
wondering what more she could
have achieved if she hadn’t died
aged just 36. CERI THOMAS

SMOOTH
OPERATOR
Martin Parker
(Conleth Hill)

Up until now, it’s felt as though
there’s been an invisible barrier
separating the Traveller’s killing
spree from the story involving the
teenagers. But that forcefield has just
been breached in the most surprising
way. And suddenly, we’re nervously
anticipating when this merciless
murderer will catch up with those he
blames for a family tragedy.
Mind you, he perhaps oughtn’t to
underestimate his opposition. We’re
already aware that gangster Reagan
is a few Scorsese movies short of a
boxed set. And Dagmar, too, lacks
moral scruples. But all eyes should
be on young Tara, whose sense
of empathy has also got lost along
the way. DAVID BROWN

SITCOM

The Power of Parker

Warrington Wolves v
Catalans Dragons
7.30pm (k/o 8pm)
Sky Sports Arena
The Dragons are having a great
season, with winger
Tom Johnstone (above)
playing on top form.

FILM OF
THE DAY
Ready Player One 111h
10.40pm (11.10pm Wales) BBC1

Steven Spielberg directs this
action-packed homage to 1980s
pop culture, in which teen gamer
Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) faces
a virtual-reality riddle. (2018)

FILM REVIEWS
page 107

9.30pm BBC1 Catch up via iPlayer
It’s Tuesday morning and Martin
Parker (Conleth Hill) only has until
Friday to pay the circling loan sharks.
They’re upping the ante by coming to
his house and, in true Alan Partridge
style, daubing his car in expletives.
“Do you think they mean me?!”
exclaims Diane (Rosie Cavaliero).
Her husband might only reply with a
suggestive “Well…”, but just a word
and a look encapsulate Hill’s comedic
brilliance in this fun sitcom. His
performance is a joy.
The pleasingly retro music
and 1980s and 90s references
keep coming — a game of bingo
features calls, including “Maggie’s
Den, number 10” and “52, Danny
La Rue” — while one scene also
prominently shows a room with the
number 9. As this episode guest-stars
Steve Pemberton, it’s either a neat
comedy easter egg or a very happy
accident. FT

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FRIDAY Main Channels
DAYTIME
BBC1
6.00am Breakfast Naga Munchetty, Charlie Stayt. (S) (HD)
9.15 Morning Live Sara Cox, Gethin Jones. (S) (HD)
10.00 Big Little Crimes A series of burglaries allows
police to crack a drug-dealing conspiracy. (S) (HD)
10.30 Animal Park Ben Fogle and Kate Humble
meet Inny the giant otter at the park. (Revised rpt) (S) (HD)
11.15 Homes under the Hammer Visits to properties
in Aberdare, Glasgow and Kent. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
12.15pm Bargain Hunt Eric Knowles and the team
visit Kingston Antiques Centre in Surrey. (S) (HD)
1.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
1.45 Rick Stein’s Cornwall The chef visits Truro and
tours the city’s magnificent cathedral. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
2.15 Robson Green’s Weekend Escapes Si King of
the Hairy Bikers joins Robson to take a scenic route to
Chillingham and visit the estate’s cattle. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
2.45 Escape to the Country Jules Hudson helps a
family who want to find a home in Devon. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
3.45 Make It at Market Dea hopes willow weaving
can help her build a home business. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
4.30—5.15 Antiques Road Trip Roo Irvine and Mark
Hill look for vintage items on the Isle of Skye. (R) (S) (HD)

Television FRIDAY

BBC2

1

5.15pm Pointless

2 BBC SPORT ONLINE From 8am Netball World Cup

With Alexander Armstrong and Lucy Porter. (S) (HD)

Matches are available at bbc.co.uk/sport.

6.00 BBC News Weather (S) (HD)
6.30 Regional news magazines (S) (HD)
7.00 The One Show

5.15pm Flog It!

Presented by Alex Jones and Roman Kemp. (S) (HD)

Clare Balding presents live coverage of the World
Championships from Scotland, as the track cycling
continues at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in
Glasgow. The finals early in this session are expected
to feature numerous defending British world
champions in para events, including time triallists
Neil Fachie, Jody Cundy, Jaco van Gass and
Katie Toft. Coverage continues on BBC3.

7.30 Britain’s Busiest Mountain: Our Lives
Wyddfa, formerly known as Snowdon, has
4Yr750,000
visitors a year. Maintaining the five-mile

railway track and visitor centre is a major challenge.
Moreover, the tramping of so many feet damages paths.
Is the mountain a victim of its own success? See p100.
Producer Emyr Gruffudd (S) (AD) (HD)

reports from the RHS Flower Show Tatton Park. (R) (S) (HD)
2BBC SPORT ONLINE From 8am Netball World Cup
Matches are available at bbc.co.uk/sport.

9.00 Nicky Campbell Calls on the day’s talking
points. Simulcast with Radio 5 Live. (S) (HD)
11.00 BBC News (S) (HD)
1.00pm Impossible Quiz with Rick Edwards. (R) (S) (HD)
1.45 Mastermind Specialist subjects are Pyotr Ilyich
Tchaikovsky, the Evil Dead franchise, tennis star Rafael
Nadal and comedy series This Country. (R) (S) (HD)
2.15 Home Is Where the Art Is Three artists pitch
ideas for a Scottish castle’s anniversary. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
3.00 LIVE Netball World Cup Coverage of a match
on the first day of the play-offs at Cape Town
International Convention Centre, as the team that
finished third in Group F faces the fourth-placed side
in Group G (centre-pass 3.00). Coverage of other
matches available at bbc.co.uk/sport. (S) (HD)
5.00—5.15 Beechgrove Repotted Visits to Scone
Palace’s hedge maze and Branklyn Garden. (R) (S) (HD)

first quarter-final sees this week’s top four
4The
cooks preparing two courses to be judged by

6.15am Countdown John Thomson guests. (R) (S) (HD)
6.55 Cheers Double bill of the comedy. (R) (S) (HD)
7.45 Everybody Loves Raymond (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
8.35 Frasier Double bill of the sitcom. (R) (S) (HD)
9.35 The Big Bang Theory (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
10.35 The Simpsons (R) (S) (AD) (HD) 11.35 News (S) (HD)
11.40 Four in a Bed Hoteliers from Gwynedd, Cornwall,
Somerset and Pembrokeshire take part. (R) (S) (HD)
2.10pm Countdown Edith Bowman guests. (S) (HD)
3.00 A Place in the Sun Ben Hillman helps Lian and
Dave, a couple with a 13-year-old son, search for a
holiday home in Spain’s Almería province. (R) (S) (HD)
4.00—5.00 A New Life in the Sun: Where Are They
Now? Revisiting two brewers from Kent who sold British
beer in France successfully and two soap makers in
Spain as their business recovered after Covid. (R) (S) (HD)

With former European champion athlete Roger Black,
ex-Reading and Fulham FC midfielder Steve Sidwell,
Paralympian and broadcaster Ade Adepitan and
Olympic hockey gold medallist Alex Danson-Bennett.

8.30 Celebrity MasterChef

former contestants Angellica Bell, Lisa Snowdon and
Danny Jones. John and Gregg can send only two of
them into the next round. See page 100. (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Not Going Out

/7 Series 13. Football. Lee becomes an ultra47competitive
dad when he watches Benji play

football. A box set is available on iPlayer. See p100.
Lee
Lucy
Toby
Benji
Charlie
Mollie
Ernest Walker
Harvey Walker

Lee Mack
Sally Bretton
Hugh Dennis
Max Pattison
Finley Southby
Francesca Newman
Melvyn Hayes
George Clarke

Nathan
Joshua
Olly
Goalkeeper
Nathan’s mum
Olly’s mum
Joshua’s dad

Eddison Burch
David Kapfunde
Chris Dunckley
Kieron Bell
Alexandra Afryea
Davina Dewrance
Edwin Nwachukwu Jr

Writers Lee Mack and Daniel Peak; Director Nick Wood
Producer Jamie Rix (S) (AD) (HD)

9.30 The Power of Parker

Miss Stockport. Diane worries that she
42/6.
failed to impress the school governors. The

whole series is available on iPlayer. See page 101.
Martin
Kath
Diane
Liam
Neil
Tom
Julie
Zara
Saleem

Conleth Hill
Sian Gibson
Rosie Cavaliero
Ryan Nolan
Theo Spofforth
Dominic Holmes
Abby Vicky-Russell
Tara Ahmed
Moey Hassan

Gladys
Betty
Alison
Mr Scott
Bev
Dougie
Sandy
Gary

From Rodmarton Manor in the Cotswolds.
Director Vicki Lines; Series producer Louise Hibbins (R) (S) (HD)

6.00 Cycling

Producer Helen Dapre (S) (HD)

Series producer Dave Gymer
Executive producer Gareth JM Edwards (S) (HD)

Channel 4

2

Reframed:
Marilyn Monroe
9.00pm The star’s
role in Bus Stop in
1956 proved her
acting credentials

8.00 Question of Sport

ITV1

BBC2

Not Going Out
9.00pm Has Lee
scored an own
goal with his
actions at Benji’s
football matches?

6.15am Homes under the Hammer Properties in
Suffolk, Norfolk and Buckinghamshire. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
7.15 Bargain Hunt Roo Irvine is at the Antiques,
Vintage and Collectors Fair in Detling. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
8.00—9.00 Sign Zone Gardeners’ World The team

6.00am Good Morning Britain (S) (HD)
9.00 Lorraine Fashion, food and chat. (S) (HD)
10.00 This Morning Lifestyle advice, competitions
and star interviews. Including Regional Weather (S) (HD)
12.30pm Loose Women The regulars and their
guests put the world to rights. Signed rpt 2.40am (S) (HD)
1.00 ITV Lunchtime News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
1.30—4.00 LIVE Racing: Glorious Goodwood
Ed Chamberlin and Francesca Cumani introduce day
four of the festival, featuring the King George Stakes
at 3.35, plus races at 1.50, 2.25 and 3.00. (S) (HD)

102

BBC1

Sheila Reid
Judith Barker
Lani Heywood
David Mumeni
Rhiannon Clements
George Costigan
Steve Pemberton
Jonathon Carley

Writers Sian Gibson and Paul Coleman; Director Joe Roberts
Producer Gill Isles (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 BBC News Regional News; Weather (S) (HD)
10.40 Ready Player One HHH

q

Sci-fi action thriller. In 2045, an ultra-immersive
virtual reality simulation is society’s main source
of entertainment. Its creator has hidden an Easter egg
within the game that, if unlocked, will grant ownership
to the finder. Teenager Wade Watts is determined to
win the prize, but he has lethal competition. Available
on iPlayer for 30 days. Film of the Day: page 107.

7.00 Villages by the Sea
Orford. Ben Robinson unearths the Suffolk village
of Orford’s history of defending the British Isles.
Executive producers Pam Cavannagh and Dympna Jackson (R) (S) (HD)

7.30 Beechgrove Garden
George Anderson and Carole Baxter harvest the
first of this year’s potatoes. Plus a visit to a garden in
Glasgow designed to assist people with spinal injuries.
Director Clare Booth; Series producer Graham Mitchell
Shown yesterday BBC Scotland (S) (HD)

8.00 Gardeners’ World
This episode celebrates people across the UK who
grow their own, from flowers to vegetables. Monty
Don offers advice on how to get the most out of the
bargain plants available at this time of year, Joe Swift
visits a community food-growing project in Bristol
and Rachel de Thame meets a cut-flower grower who
started her own flower farm with no prior expertise.
Series producer Sharon Fisher; Exec producer Gary Broadhurst (S) (HD)
RT GARDENING Save money on a cordless shrub and grass shear,
ideal for small trimming and edging tasks: page 143

9.00 Reframed: Marilyn Monroe

The documentary series examining the
43/4.
movie star’s career continues. Determined to

become a serious actress, Marilyn is forging a new
identity for herself in New York. Her performance in
1956’s Bus Stop is considered Oscar-worthy by many,
and she goes on to star alongside the acclaimed
British actor Laurence Olivier in the 1957 romantic
comedy The Prince and the Showgirl. (S) (HD)
9.45 4/4. In 1959, Marilyn triumphs in her most
celebrated comedy yet, Some Like It Hot. An exciting
future beckons as she makes a splash with her “skinny
dip” portraits in June 1962, before securing a new
deal with Twentieth Century Fox. However, tragedy
takes centre stage when, in August of that year, her
untimely death makes front-page news around the
world. The series is on iPlayer. See page 101. (S) (HD)

10.30 Newsnight With Victoria Derbyshire. (S) (HD)
11.00 Weather (S) (HD)

11.05 The Hidden World of Hospitality
with Tom Kerridge

2/8. Rolling the Dice. The chef meets ambitious
entrepreneurs looking to expand their businesses.
See choice, page 91. Shown yesterday 8pm (S) (AD) (HD)

WOMEN’S WORLD CUP If BBC1 shows a last-16
match at 5.45am, the schedule will change accordingly

12.05—3.15am Sign Zone 12.05 Garden Rescue Designing
a relaxing zen garden in Greater Manchester. (R) (S) (HD)
12.50 Panorama Current affairs. Shown Mon 8pm BBC1 (S) (HD)
1.20 A Wright Family Holiday 5/6. The Wrights go
kayaking and hang gliding in the Peak District. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
1.50 Great Coastal Railway Journeys Michael Portillo
travels from Scarborough to Bridlington. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
2.20 Couples Therapy 12/18 Series 3. A misunderstanding
sends Nadine into an emotional state. Shown Sat 12.55am (S) (HD)
2.50 13/18. Natasha reveals her deepest fears.
See choice, page 91. Shown yesterday 11.15pm (S) (HD)

BBC1 Freeview 1/HD 101 Freesat 101 Sky 101 Virgin 101

BBC2 Freeview 2/HD 102 Freesat 102 Sky 102 Virgin 102

Wade Watts/Parzival
Samantha/Art3mis
James Halliday/Anorak

Tye Sheridan Nolan Sorrento
Ben Mendelsohn
Olivia Cooke Ogden Morrow/Curator
Simon Pegg
Mark Rylance i-R0k
TJ Miller (voice only)

Director Steven Spielberg (2018, 12) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)

12.45am Weather for the Week Ahead (S) (HD)
12.50—6.00am BBC News (S) (HD)

FRIDAY 4 AUGUST
ITV1

3

Channel 4

4

7 in Wales

BBC4

Riches 9.00pm
Alesha, Gus and
Wanda prepare
to open the safe,
but its contents
cause confusion

Chris McCausland
Live: Speaky
Blinder 11.05pm
The climax of the
comedian’s
biggest tour yet

jazz: Dee Dee
Bridgewater is
tonight’s special
guest singer

4.00pm Tipping Point

5.00pm Sun, Sea and Selling Houses

7.00pm BBC Proms

Ben Shephard hosts as four contestants test
their luck on the supersized arcade machine.

A couple search for a home that could also
serve as a bed-and-breakfast. (R) (S) (HD)

Director Richard van’t Riet
Series producer Chris Hale (R) (S) (HD)

6.00 The Simpsons

5.00 The Chase

Lisa the Greek. Lisa feels neglected by Homer and
tries to worm her way into his affections. (R) (S) (AD)

Ric, Gemma, Cameron and Michele face one of
the fearsome Chasers. Bradley Walsh presents.

Sharon tries to reason with Felix.

Executive producers Martin Scott, Michael Kelpie and
Helen Tumbridge (R) (S) (HD)

6.00 Regional News Weather (S) (HD)
6.30 ITV Evening News Weather (S) (HD)
7.30 Emmerdale
Nate threatens to tell Cain everything about
Caleb’s business. Amelia is unable to face her
father following his guilty plea.
Writer Andrew Kirk Cast Tuesday/Thursday (S) (AD) (HD)

8.00 Coronation Street

Writers Chris Fewtrell and Julie Jones
Cast Monday and Wednesday (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Riches

Gideon Havelock
Brendan Coyle
Maureen Day
Hermione Norris
Stephen Richards Hugh Quarshie
Oyin Richards
Jumoke Fashola
Dave Balfour
Jonny Lavelle
Finn Day
Miles Barrow
Lighthouse neighbour Paula Sutton
Porter
Jack Bass
Butler
Peter Ormond

Writer Abby Ajayi; Producer Yvonne Francas
Director Darcia Martin First shown on ITVX (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 ITV News at Ten
Weather; Regional News and Weather

(S) (HD)

10.45 The 1% Club

8/8 Series 1. Lee Mack gives 100 contestants
the chance to win big-money prizes by solving
a succession of mind-bending logic problems.
Exec producers Dean Nabarro, Andy Auerbach (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

11.45 A Year on Planet Earth

4/4. Autumn. Stephen Fry learns how animals
survive a season of change. See choice, p50.
Shown Sunday 8pm (S) (AD) (HD)

12.35am Karen Carney’s Leaders of the Pack A
profile of Nigeria striker Asisat Oshoala. (R) (S) (HD)
1.00 All Elite Wrestling: Collision Explosive action
from AEW’s new show. Shown Wed 11.10pm ITV4 (S) (HD)
2.40 Loose Women Shown 12.30pm (S) (HD)
3.05 Cooking with the Stars 2/6 Series 3. The
celebrities serve up Indian dishes. (R) (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)
3.55 Unwind A sequence to calm the mind. (S) (HD)
5.05—6.00am Katie Piper’s Breakfast Show Katie
talks to Joe Pasquale. Shown Sunday 8.25am (S) (SL) (HD)

Writer Thabo Mhlatshwa More cast Tue Shown yesterday 7pm E4
Rptd next Monday E4 Next episode follows on E4 (S) (AD) (HD)

7.00 Channel 4 News Sport; Weather (S) (HD)
8.00 Millionaire Hoarders
series. 1/3. Experts sift through
4New
homes crammed with potential treasures

to unearth prized items that could raise
life-changing sums of cash. The first episode
features Simon and Adity, who quit their city
jobs to take on Simon’s family home — a
700-year-old castle in Scotland. They’ve called
in the experts to raise cash from the property’s
vast collection of antiques, manuscripts and
paintings. The whole series will be available to
stream after this broadcast. See page 100.
Series producer Michelle Aherne; Executive producers Arabella
Newnham and Hannah Brownhill Rptd 2.15am 4seven (S) (AD) (HD)

9.00 Celebrity Gogglebox
Highlights from 2021, including appraisals of The
Masked Dancer, First Dates, The Handmaid’s
Tale, Secret Crush and Celebrity Karaoke Club.
Executive producers Mike Cotton, Victoria Ray and
Leon Campbell Repeated 11.05pm 4seven (R) (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 The Last Leg

Ep 6. Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex
Brooker are joined by model Munroe Bergdorf and
comedians Seann Walsh and Chris McCausland.
Series producer Tom Messer
Executive producers Andrew Beint and Danny Carr (S) (HD)

11.05 Chris McCausland Live: Speaky
Blinder
The stand-up comedian ended his biggest headline
tour so far with a show at London’s Shepherd’s
Bush Empire in May 2023. In front of a packed
house, Chris covers topics as diverse as race,
wearable tech, his blindness and the temperature
to which his wife sets the thermostat. (S) (HD)
12.10am Action Point HH Comedy. DC, an amusement
park owner, is alarmed when plans for a new megapark threaten the future of his establishment.
Together with his daughter and various sidekicks, he
comes up with a risky plan to save the day.
DC
Johnny Knoxville Boogie Eleanor Worthington-Cox
Benny
Chris Pontius Ziffel
Johnny Pemberton
Knoblach
Dan Bakkedahl Four Finger Annie Brigette Lundy-Paine

q

Director Tim Kirkby (2018, 15) (S) (HD) (W)

4.55am Katie Piper’s Breakfast Show
As above, 5.05am.
5.50—8.00am Women’s World Cup Live coverage
of the opening last-16 tie, between the winners
of Group A and the runners-up in Group C, from
Eden Park, Auckland (kick-off 6.00). (S) (HD)

9

1.35 Come Dine with Me Malaysian flavours and posh
plonk feature in Gloucestershire. (R) (S) (HD)
3.45 Love It or List It Australia A couple disagree
over their home in suburban Melbourne. (R) (S) (AD) (HD)
4.40 The Great Big Tiny Design Challenge with
Sandi Toksvig 2/8. Art deco design. (R) (S) (SL) (AD) (HD)
5.35 Kirstie’s House of Craft Tony Singh and Sophie
Morgan make holiday snow globes. (R) (S) (HD)
5.45—6.10am Beat the Chef French amateur cook
Aude Dupont-Dudley serves up squid stew. (R) (S) (HD)

ITV1 Freeview 3/HD 103 Freesat 103 Sky 103 Virgin 103
+1 Freeview 35 Freesat 112 Sky 203 Virgin 303

Channel 4 Freeview 4/HD 104 Freesat 104 Sky 104 Virgin 104
+1 Freeview 15 Freesat 121 Sky 204 Virgin 304

WOMEN’S WORLD CUP If ITV1 shows a match
at 5.50am, programmes will be as follows:

their BBC Proms debut, Carnegie
4InHall’s
National Youth Jazz

Orchestra and their director, trumpeter
Sean Jones, perform alongside the
Grammy award-winning jazz singer/
songwriter Dee Dee Bridgewater. Clive
Myrie presents a concert of big-band
classics, standards and contemporary
works exploring jazz’s influence on
hip-hop, R&B and pop. See page 100.
Director Alison Bartrop
Producer Rhonagh O’Donnell (S) (HD)

8.15 Top of the Pops 1984
Simon Bates and Gary Davies host the
2 August edition of the music show,
featuring hits by Black Lace, Prince,
Kane Gang, Tina Turner, A Flock of
Seagulls, Trevor Walters, George
Michael and Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
Producer Michael Hurll Repeated 1.50am (R) (S)

8.45 Top of the Pops 1980
Peter Powell is joined by guest
presenter Elton John for the 7 August
edition, featuring the Piranhas, Diana
Ross, Hot Chocolate, Kelly Marie, the
Gap Band, the Gibson Brothers, Bad
Manners, Abba, Odyssey, Olivia
Newton-John and Don McLean.
Producer Phil Bishop Repeated 2.20am (R) (S)

9.15 Neil Diamond: Radio 2
in Concert
The singer/songwriter performs songs
from his album Home before Dark —
his 29th studio release — produced in
collaboration with Rick Rubin, in an
intimate concert recorded at the
BBC Radio Theatre in May 2008.
Introduced by Johnnie Walker.

7.00pm The Seven
7.30 Sportscene:
Championship Live:
Arbroath v Dundee
United (kick-off 7.45)
10.00 Still Game:
Jack and Victor board
a Dial-a-Bus tour
10.30 Burnistoun
11.00—12 midnight
TRNSMT: with George
Ezra, Becky Hill, Niall
Horan, Cat Burns
and the 1975

STV
6.30pm ITV Evening
News 7.00—7.30 What’s
On Scotland 3.55—
5.05am Night Vision

ITV1 BORDER
SCOTLAND
6.30pm ITV Evening
News; Weather
7.00—7.30 Border Life:
stories about life in
southern Scotland
10.45 Border Sport in
Focus 11.15—11.45
Border Life

BBC1 WALES
8.00—8.30pm
Wrexham: Hollywood
or Bust!: a journey
through the history of
Wrexham AFC 10.40
Rewind: 60 Years of
Welsh Pop: archive
footage of Welsh pop
legends 11.10 FILM:
Ready Player One 1.15—
6.00am BBC News

ITV1 WALES
6.30pm ITV Evening
News; Weather
7.00—7.30 Coast and
Country: Sean Fletcher
and Ruth Dodsworth
take to the waves
with Tata Sailing Club

UTV
6.30pm ITV Evening
News; Weather
7.00—7.30 UTV Life:
an eclectic mix of stories
and studio guests

Television

4

6/6. Forgive, Maybe. Forget, Never. Gus,
Alesha and Wanda finally manage to open
Stephen’s safe, but Alesha is confused by what
she finds inside. Nina confronts Oyin about her
revelation in Switzerland. The whole series is
available as a box set on ITVX. See page 101.

Sharon Bailey
Jamelia Scott Drinkwell
Ross Adams
Felix Westwood Richard Blackwood Ste Hay
Kieron Richardson
Pearl Anderson
Dawn Hope Steph Cunningham Lomax
Peri Lomax
Ruby O’Donnell
Isabella Hibbert
Prince McQueen
Tom Cunningham
Ellis Hollins
Malique Thompson-Dwyer Tony Hutchinson
Nick Pickard
Rayne Royce
Jemma Donovan Vicky Grant
Anya Lawrence
Romeo Nightingale Owen Warner Warren Fox
Jamie Lomas
Sally St Claire
Annie Wallace Zoe Anderson
Garcia Brown
Sam Chen-WilliamsMatthew McGivern Terry Smart
Ryan Pope

BBC Proms
7.00pm All that

BBC
SCOTLAND

FRIDAY

Jenny fears that dwindling trade could lead
to the pub’s closure. Gemma lies to Chesney
about her new job. Paul humours Bernie’s
rituals. Stu gets some relationship advice.

Gus Richards
Ola Orebiyi
Alesha Richards Adeyinka Akinrinade
Wanda Richards
Nneka Okoye
Andre Scott-Clarke
CJ Beckford
Davina Chase
Jourdan Dunn
Nina Richards
Deborah Ayorinde
Simon Richards Emmanuel Imani
Claudia Richards
Sarah Niles
Performer
Candice Brathwaite
Sasha Banley
Saffron Hocking

6.30 Hollyoaks

9

24 in Scotland

Repeated 2.50am (R) (S) (HD)

9.45 Elkie Brooks: Sight and
Sound in Concert
The former Vinegar Joe singer
performs at the Hippodrome, Golders
Green, London, in 1977. Featuring solo
hits including Pearl’s a Singer, Lilac
Wine and Sunshine after the Rain.
Introduced by Annie Nightingale.
Director Tom Corcoran
Producer Michael Appleton (R) (S)

10.45 Robert Plant: 6 Music
Live
Highlights of Robert Plant’s 2017
session at Maida Vale Studios for BBC
6 Music. He is joined by his band the
Sensational Space Shifters to perform
songs from his album Carry Fire, as
well as a few old favourites. (R) (S) (HD)

11.35 Eric Clapton: Old Grey
Whistle Test
The singer/songwriter in concert at the
BBC Television Theatre in Shepherd’s
Bush, west London, from 1977. (R) (S) (HD)
12.35am Van Morrison: Radio 2 in Concert
Jo Whiley introduces a 2016 performance
by Van Morrison at the BBC Radio Theatre,
featuring some of his classic hits. (R) (S) (HD)
1.50 Top of the Pops 1984 Shown 8.15pm (S)
2.20 Top of the Pops 1980 Shown 8.45pm (S)
2.50—3.15am Neil Diamond: Radio 2 in
Concert Shown 9.15pm (S) (HD)
BBC4 F’view 9/HD 106 F’sat 108 Sky 116 Virgin 108

a RT Choice m Family 2 Red button (R) Repeat (S) Subtitles (SL) Signing (AD) Audio description (HD) High def FILMS i Premiere (W) Widescreen (BW) Black/white

Channel 5
listings are overleaf

Outstanding HHHH Very good HHH Worth watching HH Could be worse H Poor

103

FRIDAY Freeview
Channel 5

5

23

Yellowstone 9.00pm Kevin Costner
(right) stars in the western drama

Pride 9.50pm Cliff, Gethin and Jonathan

5.35am Milkshake! See page 106
9.15 New. Jeremy Vine (S) (HD)
11.15 New. Storm Huntley (S) (HD)
12.40pm New. Alexis Conran (S) (HD)

7.00pm LIVE Cycling

1.40 5 News (S) (HD)

9.00 New. RuPaul’s Drag Race
Down Under

1.45 Home and Away Lives are on the
line for some of the Bay’s residents.
Shown yesterday 6.30pm 5 Star (S) (AD) (HD)

2.15 A Criminal Affair HH
Thriller starring Savvy Shay. When
interviewing a convicted killer, student
Julia becomes convinced of his innocence.

q

Director Daniel West (2021) (S) (W) (HD)

4.00 Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun
Scott and Karen prepare for the grand
reopening of their Benidorm bar. (S) (HD)

5.00pm 5 News (S) (HD)
6.00 Eggheads

Television FRIDAY

BBC3

The Fine Young Bramptonians challenge
the might of the quiz goliaths. (S) (HD)
6.30 The Winstonians from Essex take
on the experts. Jeremy Vine hosts. (S) (HD)
6.55 5 News Update (S) (HD)

7.00 Kew Gardens: a Year in Bloom
6/6 Series 2. Winter brings a carpet of
snowdrops to Kew Gardens. Out in the
arboretum, the tree gang face a huge
tidy-up after the worst storm in years. In
Kew’s glasshouses, Alberto prepares for
his first orchid festival in charge. (S) (HD)
7.55 5 News Update (S) (HD)

8.00 New. Susan Calman’s
Summer by the Sea
2/5 Series 3. In Bournemouth, Susan
joins in a game of handball before meeting
TV choirmaster Gareth Malone. In Poole,
she goes on a fish and chip cruise, taking
in the glamorous vistas of Sandbanks.
Director/Series producer Jenny MacLeod (S) (HD)

9.00 Yellowstone
2/9 Series 1. Kill the Messenger
John collects an old debt and calls in
a favour, while Kayce considers his
options for the future. (S) (HD)
John Dutton
Beth Dutton
Kayce Dutton
Jamie Dutton
Rip Wheeler
Monica Dutton
Tate Dutton
Jimmy Hurdstrom

Kevin Costner
Kelly Reilly
Luke Grimes
Wes Bentley
Cole Hauser
Kelsey Asbille
Brecken Merrill
Jefferson White

10.00 Britain’s Favourite 80s Songs
Jackie Brambles narrates this look back
at 1989, the era of Madonna, Milli Vanilli
and Jason Donovan, and the year when
the Bangles’ Eternal Flame was a huge hit.
Directors/Producers Vanessa Williams, Yvette Lyons
and Sian Brooks (S) (HD)

11.30 Bee Gees: One for All Tour
— Live In Australia
Recorded live in Melbourne in 1989, Barry,
Maurice and Robin Gibb perform some
of their most memorable songs.
Director Adrian Woods (S) (HD)

1.40am Home Shopping (S) (HD) 3.40 Great
British Ships (S) (HD) 4.30 Michael Palin in
North Korea (S) (HD) 5.20 Wildlife SOS (S) (SL)
5.45—5.50am Entertainment News (S) (HD)
C5 Freeview 5/HD 105 Freesat 105 Sky 105 Virgin 105
+1 Freeview 38 Freesat 128 Sky 205 Virgin 305

BBC4 listings are overleaf

realise that they have much in common
Further coverage of day two of the World
Track Championships in Glasgow. (S) (HD)
Followed by New. The Catch Up (S) (HD)

Ep 2 Series 3. The queens are invited to
Muriel’s Wedding — but without a thing to
wear, they must design their wedding
couture from leftover bedding materials.
Series 1 and 2 are available on iPlayer. (S) (HD)

9.50 Pride HHHH

q

Comedy drama based on a true story,
starring Bill Nighy, Dominic West,
Imelda Staunton and Paddy Considine.
At the height of the 1984 miners’ strike, a
group of gay and lesbian activists decide
to show their solidarity with the striking
colliers by raising money for their families.
The activists decide to deliver their donation
in person and head off in a mini-bus for
the Welsh village of Onllwyn. Available on
iPlayer for 30 days. Review page 57.
Director Matthew Warchus (2014, 15) (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
Shown Sunday 10.30pm BBC1

11.45 Some Girls
1/6 Series 2. Comedy starring Adelayo
Adedayo. Viva realises Rocky is taking
their relationship too seriously. (S) (AD) (HD)
12.15am 2/6. Holli searches for new
friends after falling out with the group at
a party. A box set is on iPlayer. (S) (AD) (HD)
12.45 Charlotte in Sunderland: double bill (S)
(HD) 1.45 Life and Death in the Warehouse
(S) (HD) 2.45 Where It Ends (S) (HD)
3.00—4.00am Some Girls (S) (AD) (SL) (HD)
BBC3 F’view 23/HD 107 (not Scot/Wales) F’sat 179/HD 107
Sky 115 (117 Wales; 141 Scotland) Virgin 107 (157 Scotland/Wales)

ITV2

6

6.00am World’s Funniest Videos (S) (HD)
6.35 Totally Bonkers Guinness World
Records (S) (SL) (HD) 7.00 Dress to Impress
(S) (SL) (HD) 8.00 One Tree Hill (S) (HD) 9.00
Dawson’s Creek (S) (HD) 10.00 Secret Crush
(S) (HD) 11.00 Dress to Impress (S) (HD)
12 noon Dinner Date (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00pm
Family Fortunes (S) (HD) 2.00 Chuck (S) (HD)
3.05 One Tree Hill (S) (HD) 4.00 Dawson’s
Creek (S) (HD) 5.00 Catchphrase (S) (HD)
5.45 In for a Penny: in Lincoln (S) (AD) (HD)
6.20pm FILM Harry Potter and the
Order of the Phoenix HHHH Fantasy
adventure starring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert
Grint and Emma Watson. Despite having
battled Voldemort in person, Harry Potter
cannot convince the wizarding world of the
evil lord’s return. Inspired by his friends
in the secret Order of the Phoenix, Harry
forms an underground army at Hogwarts
in preparation for a battle with the forces
of evil. Review page 107. (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
9.00 FILM The Mummy HH Action horror
fantasy starring Tom Cruise, Sofia Boutella
and Russell Crowe. When two soldiers of
fortune unearth the tomb of an ancient
Egyptian princess in the Iraqi desert, an evil
supernatural power is unleashed that could
cause the end of the world. (S) (AD) (W) (HD)
11.15 Family Guy Series 9. Peter discovers
Lois’s father is having an affair. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.45 Series 8. Quagmire is delighted by
the return of his father. (S) (AD) (HD)
12.15am American Dad! (S) (AD) (HD) 1.10
Shopping with Keith Lemon (S) (HD) 1.40 Iain
Stirling’s CelebAbility (S) (HD) 2.30—3.00am
Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records (S) (SL)

ITV2 Freeview 6 Freesat 113 Sky 118 Virgin 115
+1 Freeview 29 Freesat 114 Sky 218 Virgin 315

ITV3

10

Drama

20

Agatha Christie’s Marple 11.00pm The
sleuth finds trouble in the Caribbean

Father Brown 8.00pm The priest
looks into the Pryde family’s past

6.00am Classic Emmerdale (S) 7.05 Classic
Coronation Street (S) (AD) 8.05 Never the
Twain: Simon and Oliver decide to visit their
children in Canada; 8.35 The duo notice an
attractive shop assistant (S) 9.15 The Royal:
7/12 Series 7. Alun’s new band plays its first
gig; 10.25 8/12. A teenager is admitted with a
mystery illness (S) (AD) 11.35 Heartbeat: 2/26
A blackmailer strikes; 12.40pm 3/26. A thief
disguises himself as a police officer (S) (AD)
1.45pm Classic Emmerdale: double bill.
Scott sweet-talks Dawn during her first day
at work, then Terry tries to look after TJ (S)
2.45 Classic Coronation Street: double bill.
Audrey goes into debt in order to pay off
Gail’s mortgage, then Jason reacts angrily
to Eileen’s double standards (S) (AD) 3.50
A Touch of Frost: Series 3. No Refuge. Armed
robbers lead Frost a merry dance (S) (AD) (HD)

7.10am Pie in the Sky: 5/10 Series 2. Crabbe
helps a beleaguered medium (S) 8.00
Lovejoy: 7/14 Series 5. Lovejoy hunts down
a murderer (S) 9.15 Classic Holby City:
Annalese turns up at Holby with unexpected
news for Michael Repeated 2.45am (S) (HD)
10.35 Casualty: two teenage runaways
attempt suicide 11.40 The Bill: pregnant
Sheelagh investigates a poignant case
12.40pm Classic EastEnders: double bill.
Sharon can’t believe her dad’s still alive,
then Dennis shocks his dad by admitting he
killed Dalton 2.00 The House of Eliott: 8/12
Series 2. Evie’s affair threatens the future of
the company (S) 3.00 Lovejoy: 5/14 Series 4
An American flag sparks a dispute (S)
4.10 Peak Practice: 3/13 Series 11. A cyclist
collapses 5.20 Waiting for God: 5/10 Series 4
Tom and Diana expose a fake spiritualist (S)

6.00pm Heartbeat

6.00pm Whatever Happened to
the Likely Lads?

4/26 Series 14. Oscar finds himself in
an awkward position when the police
investigate a robbery. (S) (AD)
7.00 5/26. Vernon employs a new female
mechanic — without asking Bernie. (S) (AD)

8.00 Doc Martin
2/8 Series 8. Sons and Lovers. Louisa
helps with the diagnosis of a pupil, leading
her to consider a career change. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 3/8. Farewell, My Lovely. Martin
listens to a voicemail intended for Louisa,
and disaster strikes when Clive takes up
race-walking in a bid to get fitter. (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 Law & Order: UK
4/7 Series 6. Trial. The murder of a
janitor has been so carefully planned and
executed that the police are left without
a single piece of evidence. (S) (AD) (HD)

11.00 Agatha Christie’s Marple
A Caribbean Mystery. Miss Marple’s stay
at a hotel on the idyllic island of St Honoré
is disrupted by the death of another
guest. Starring Julia McKenzie, Antony
Sher and Kingsley Ben-Adir. (S) (AD) (HD)
1.05am Never the Twain (S)
2.10—2.30am Unwind (S) (HD)
ITV3 Freeview 10 Freesat 115 Sky 119 Virgin 117
+1 F’view 59 (9pm—4am) F’sat 116 Sky 219 Virgin 317

ITV4

26

6.00am World of Sport (S) (HD) 6.20 Minder
(S) (SL) (AD) 7.20 The Sweeney (S) (SL) 8.20
Giant Lobster Hunters (S) (SL) (AD) (HD) 9.20
Robin of Sherwood (S) 10.25 Magnum, PI (S)
(HD) 11.25 Made in Britain (S) (AD) (HD)
12.30pm The Champions (S) 1.35 Robin of
Sherwood (S) 2.40 Magnum, PI (S) (HD)
3.45 The Sweeney (S) 4.50 Minder (S) (AD)
5.55 Made in Britain (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00pm New. Darts Day one of the New
Zealand Masters, a World Series event from
Globox Arena in Hamilton. The first round
matches saw the eight seeded players take
on eight of the best players from Australia
and New Zealand to claim a place in the
quarter-finals. Gerwyn Price was defending
champion, but faced stiff competition from
in-form Dutchman Michael Van Gerwen.
Commentary comes from Stuart Pyke, Mark
Webster and Dan Dawson. (S) (HD)
11.00 New. All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite
Hard-hitting fight action featuring the likes of
Jon Moxley and Bryan Danielson. (S) (HD)
1.05am Minder (S) (SL) (AD) 2.05 The Sweeney
(S) (SL) 3.00 Unwind (S) (HD) 4.10 Robin of
Sherwood (S) 5.05—6.00am The Champions (S)

ITV4 Freeview 26 Freesat 117 Sky 120 Virgin 118
+1 Freesat 118 Sky 220 Virgin 318

5/14 Series 2. The Great Race. Bob and
Terry show their competitive spirit.

6.40 Last of the Summer Wine
Series 2. A Quiet Drink. The trio
target a tight-fisted pub goer. (S)
7.20 Ballad for Wind Instruments
and Canoe. The lads find a canoe. (S)

8.00 Father Brown
3/10 Series 2. The Pride of the Prydes
A guide is struck by an arrow at the grand
opening of Pryde Castle. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 4/10. The Shadow of the Scaffold
A convicted killer begs Father Brown to
help prove her innocence. (S) (AD) (HD)

10.00 New Tricks
4/8 Series 5. Loyalties and Royalties
Gerry gets to meet his idols when the
investigation into the death of a 1970s rock
band’s lead guitarist is reopened. (S) (AD)

11.20 Silent Witness
5/6 Series 15. Fear. Leo agrees to
investigate a mysterious death. (S) (AD) (HD)
1.35am Bleak House: Ep 4. Esther falls ill
with smallpox (S) (AD) (HD) 2.45—4.00am
Classic Holby City Shown 9.15am
Drama Freeview 20 Freesat 158 Sky 143 Virgin 116
+1 Freeview 60 Sky 243 Virgin 316

ITVBe

28

7.00am Sam and Billie: the Mummy Diaries
(S) (AD) (HD) 8.00 Buying and Selling (S) (HD)
9.00 LittleBe (HD) 12 noon Sugar Showdown
(S) (HD) 12.25pm The Real Housewives of
Beverly Hills (S) (HD) 1.20 Sam and Billie: the
Mummy Diaries (S) (AD) (HD) 2.20 The Only
Way Is Essex (S) (HD) 3.05 Dinner Date (S)
(HD) 4.05 The Real Housewives of Atlanta
10th Anniversary Special (S) (HD) 5.00 The
Real Housewives of Orange County (S) (HD)
6.00pm Masters of Flip Kortney and Dave
are charmed by the potential of a house. (S) (HD)
7.00 Buying and Selling Drew and Jonathan
Scott spruce up a worn-out home. (S) (HD)
8.00 New series. Jane the Virgin Jane
reunites with her first love Adam, much to
the dismay of Xiomara and Alba. (S) (HD)
9.00 New. Olivia Marries Her Match The
day of Olivia and Brad’s wedding has finally
arrived — and with it some drama. (S) (HD)
10.00 Botched Paul Nassif deals with a
facial skin graft that has gone awry. (S) (HD)
11.00 Dr Dubrow helps a single mother
whose breast implant has fallen out. (S) (HD)
12 midnight The Only Way Is Essex (S) (HD)
12.45—1.00am Unwind (S) (HD)

ITVBe Freeview 28 Freesat 119 Sky 131 Virgin 119
+1 Virgin 319

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9.00am NCIS (AD) 12 noon Law & Order
6.00pm NCIS: four editions. Series 1. A navy
SEAL plunges to his death while training for
a top-secret mission 7.00 Gibbs becomes
obsessed with an old adversary 8.00
Series 2. A captain’s wife and blind daughter
are kidnapped 9.00 The badly decomposed
body of a woman wearing a wedding dress is
unearthed (AD) 10.00 Law & Order: Special
Victims Unit Series 18. Double bill. A Muslim
family is targeted in a hate crime, then the
team is caught in a contentious political
battle 11.55 NCIS: double bill (AD)

Channel Tunnel: Life on the Inside
8.00pm Team boss Mark Cornwall

8.55am Kirstie’s Handmade Treasures 9.15
A Place in the Sun 10.05 A New Life in the
Sun: Road Trip 11.05 Find It, Fix It, Flog It (AD)
1.10pm Heir Hunters 3.10 Four in a Bed
5.50 The Secret Life of the Zoo (AD)
6.55pm New. The Dog House Australia
Lucy had a stroke four years ago at the age
of 31 and she and her sisters think a dog will
help her recovery, so they meet Fox the
chihuahua cross at Animal Welfare League NSW.
7.55 Grand Designs Kevin McCloud meets
architectural designer Dan and interior
designer Nina, who aspire to build a unique
family home in West Sussex. (AD)
9.00 New. Disturbing Disappearances
Ep 4. Lisa Ferrer, an ambitious young
executive at a pharmaceutical company,
goes missing after experiencing complicated
workplace conflict and mental health
problems. Newly appointed judge Léo
Etchegarray joins the police team for the
search. French +subtitles.
11.00 24 Hours in A&E Consultant Firas
and his team work on a 19-year-old who was
crushed between a barge and a bridge, and
faces a potentially life-changing injury. (AD)
12.05am Registrar Swetha is concerned
that a 21-year-old woman’s kidneys may be
failing while on a weekend trip from
Northern Ireland with her friend. (AD)

6.00am Glyndebourne: No Ordinary Summer
7.00 André Rieu: Romantic Moments 8.00
Watercolour Challenge 9.00 Tales of the
Unexpected (AD) 10.00 Alfred Hitchcock
Presents 11.00 Discovering: Jack Nicholson
12 noon The Joy of Painting 1.00pm Tales
of the Unexpected (AD) 2.00 Watercolour
Challenge 3.00 The Timeless Louvre
4.00 Discovering: Jane Fonda 5.00 Tales
of the Unexpected: double bill (AD)
6.00pm Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Poker brings a man to the brink of ruin.
6.30 A student with a close relationship with
his father suspects his stepmother of foul play.
7.00 The Joy of Painting A lesson in how
to capture the unique colours of autumn.
7.30 Bob Ross creates crashing waves in a
moonlit setting, painted on black canvas.
8.00 Johnny Cash: the Man in Black in
Britain The connections the star shared
with Britain and what it was that made the
country such a sanctuary for him in life. (AD)
9.00 New series. The Great Songwriters
Artists talk about their work and life in music,
beginning with Tom Odell and including a
performance of Grow Old with Me.
10.00 Greatest Albums Live Peter Frampton
plays his album Frampton Comes Alive!
11.40 Eric Clapton: Planes, Trains and Eric
The guitarist on his 2014 world tour.

6.10am Underground Worlds (AD) 8.00
Abandoned Engineering (AD) 10.00 War
Factories 11.00 The World at War
12 noon Great American Railroad Journeys
1.00pm Antiques Roadshow: at Audley End
in Essex 2.00 Bangers and Cash 4.00
The World at War 5.00 War Factories
6.00pm Great British Railway Journeys
Goes to Ireland A visit to the Boyne Viaduct.
6.30 Michael Portillo travels on the steam
railway in Downpatrick, Down.
7.00 Bangers and Cash: Restoring Classics
A 1950s Austin Westminster rally car. (AD)
8.00 Channel Tunnel: Life on the Inside
With the 25th anniversary under way, a mural
is being painted at each end of the tunnel.
8.30 The next batch of wannabe shuttle
drivers arrives for the first round of testing.
9.00 Great American Railroad Journeys
Michael Portillo reaches Colorado.
10.00 Bangers and Cash Jack collects two
cars with a 35-year age difference.
11.00 Abandoned Engineering A group of
rusting ships stranded in a desert. (AD)

1.10 Eight out of Ten Cats Does Countdown: with
Isy Suttie in Dictionary Corner 2.15 24 Hours in
A&E (AD) 3.20—3.45am Food Unwrapped (AD)

1.25am Jeff Beck: Live at the Hollywood Bowl
3.30 Discovering: Jimi Hendrix 4.00 United
Kingdom of Pop (AD) 5.10—6.00am Auction

More4 F’view 18 F’sat 124 Sky 136 Virgin 147
+1 Freesat 125 Sky 236 Virgin 347

Sky Arts Freeview 11 Freesat 147 Sky 130
Virgin 140/HD 123 BT 350/HD 365

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13

6.00am Hollyoaks Shown Wed/Thu 6.30pm C4
(AD) 7.00 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA
9.00 Young Sheldon (AD) 10.00 Brooklyn
Nine-Nine (AD) 11.00 Modern Family
12 noon The Big Bang Theory (AD) 2.00pm
The Neighborhood 3.00 Modern Family
4.00 Young Sheldon: double bill (AD)
5.00 The Big Bang Theory (AD)
6.00pm The Big Bang Theory 18/24
Series 10. The gang offers Raj a place to live. (AD)
6.30 19/24. Leonard, Penny and Raj adjust
to their new living arrangements. (AD)
7.00 New. Hollyoaks Warren gives
Mercedes some advice regarding her
boyfriend. Cast pages 73/103 (AD)
7.30 Impractical Jokers Joe, Sal, Murr and
Q hit the supermarket to confuse shoppers.
8.00 The Great Celebrity Bake Off for
Stand Up to Cancer With Louis Theroux,
Jenny Eclair, Russell Howard and Ovie Soko. (AD)
9.00 FILM Daddy’s Home Two HHH
Comedy sequel starring Mark Wahlberg, Will
Ferrell, Mel Gibson and John Lithgow. (AD)
11.00 Naked Attraction A 24-year-old
student seeks his perfect partner. (AD)
12.05am Pansexual Fi hopes she can find
someone and step out of the virtual world. (AD)
1.15 Impractical Jokers 2.10 Gogglebox (SL) (AD)
3.05 The Big Bang Theory (AD) 3.55 Brooklyn
Nine-Nine (AD) 4.45—6.00am The Neighborhood

E4 Freeview 13 Freesat 122 Sky 135 Virgin 106
+1 Freeview 30 Freesat 123 Sky 235 Virgin 306
E4 Extra Freeview 31 Freesat 181 Sky 138 Virgin 287

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6.00am Fantasy Homes by the Sea 7.00 Shopping
8.00 Salvage Hunters 10.00 The Bidding Room
11.00 Antiques Road Trip 12 noon Money for Nothing
1.00pm A Place in the Sun 2.00 My 600lb Life (AD)
3.00 Say Yes to the Dress: UK 4.00 Animal Cops
Philadelphia (AD) 5.00 Helicopter ER 6.00 Yorkshire
Auction House 7.00 Antiques Road Trip 9.00 New.
Ghost Adventures 10.00 New series. The Haunted
Museum 11.00 Ghost Adventures 12 midnight
Kindred Spirits 1.00am Ghost Adventures 2.00
Shopping 4.00 as 4pm 5.00—6.00am Dr Jeff

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9.00am Come Dine with Me (AD) 11.30
A New Life in the Sun: Where Are They Now?
12.30pm A Place in the Sun 1.30 A Place in
the Sun: Home or Away 2.30 Sun, Sea and
Selling Houses 3.30 Come Dine with Me
6.00pm A Place in the Sun A hunt for a
holiday home in Nerja, southern Spain.
7.00 The Secret Life of the Zoo Black
rhino Kitani is due to give birth to a precious
addition to this endangered species. (AD)
8.00 The Dog Academy 7/8. A labradorcross is running rings around its owner.
Shown yesterday 8pm Channel 4 (AD)

9.00 24 Hours in A&E Ep 4. Joanna has a
spinal fracture after falling from her horse
and 77-year-old Keith is treated for a cardiac
arrest. Shown Monday 9pm C4 (AD)
10.00 Sky Coppers 4/6. The West Midlands
Police Drone Unit tracks a group of kids
following reports they were trying to set an
allotment shed on fire. Shown Tue 9pm C4 (AD)
11.05 Celebrity Gogglebox 2021 Including
appraisals of The Masked Dancer, Tom Allen’s
Quizness and The Handmaid’s Tale. (AD)
12.05am Celebrity Gogglebox (AD) 1.10
Gogglebox (AD) 2.15 Millionaire Hoarders (AD)
3.20 Britain’s Most Expensive Houses (AD)
4.15—4.45am Château DIY

4seven Freeview 49 Freesat 127 Sky 137 Virgin 143

Quest

12

6.00am How Do They Do It? 6.30 Shed and Buried
7.00 The Repair Shop 8.00 American Pickers
(AD) 10.00 Chasing Classic Cars 11.00
Supertruckers 12 noon How It’s Made 1.00pm The
Repair Shop 2.00 Money for Nothing 3.00 Find It,
Fix It, Flog It 4.00 Salvage Hunters 5.00 Salvage
Hunters: the Restorers 6.00 Wheeler Dealers (AD)
7.00 Outback Opal Hunters 8.00 Salvage Hunters
9.00 Saving Lives at Sea 10.00 New. Street Cops
UK: a drunk young woman is suspected of
shoplifting 11.00 How Do They Do It? 12 midnight
Wheeler Dealers (AD) 1.00am Massive Engineering
Mistakes 2.00 Supertruckers 3.00 Wheeler
Dealers 4.00—5.00am How It’s Made

Quest Freeview 12 Freesat 172/HD 167 Sky 144 Virgin 137
Really Freeview 17 Freesat 160 Sky 142 Virgin 128
+1 Freeview 70 Freesat 168 Sky 244 Virgin 337
BBC News Freeview 231 Freesat 212 Sky 503 Virgin 601 Sky News Freeview 233 Freesat 202 Sky 501 Virgin 603 BT 313

12 midnight Great British Railway Journeys Goes
to Ireland 1.00am Underground Worlds (AD)
2.00—3.00am Forbidden History (AD)

Yesterday Freeview 27 Freesat 159 Sky 155 Virgin 129
+1 Sky 255 Virgin 329

Dave

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7.10am Yianni: Supercar Customiser (AD) 8.00
Top Gear (AD) 9.00 The Force: behind the
Line 10.00 Outback Pilots 11.00 Gino’s Italian
Coastal Escape 11.30 Gino’s Coastal Odyssey
12 noon Celebrity Storage Hunters 1.00pm
Cop Car Workshop 2.00 Top Gear (AD)
4.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games
4.40 Room 101 5.20 Would I Lie to You?
6.00pm Taskmaster 4/8 Series 5. Mark
Watson and Nish Kumar make toast together.
7.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games
Jay Blades, Shaun Keaveny, Rachel Parris
and Jan Ravens play trivia-based games.
7.40 With former winners Hugh Dennis,
Sarah Greene, Nish Kumar and Holly Walsh.
8.20 Would I Lie to You? Previously unseen
material from series 14 of the panel show.
9.00 QI XL Extended edition with Victoria
Wood, Richard Osman and Jason Manford.
10.00 Schitt’s Creek 3/13 Series 3. Johnny
and Moira try to get a deal on a used car.
10.30 4/13. Johnny and Moira become
concerned about the future of the motel.
11.00 QI Double bill.
12.20am Mock the Week 1.40 Would I Lie to You?
3.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games
3.30—4.00am This Country (AD)

Dave F’view 19 F’sat 157 Sky 111 (Wales 112) Virgin HD 127
Dave Ja Vu Freeview 57 Sky 211 (Wales 212) Virgin 327

London Live

8

6.00am UBOS 6.30 Dork Hunters from
Outer Space 7.00 Skysurfer Strike Force
7.30 Roswell Conspiracies 8.00 The World’s
Most Incredible Hotels 9.00 Shine on Harvey
Moon 10.00 Clive James 11.00 Griff’s Great
Australian Adventure 12 noon Emmeline
Pankhurst: the Making of a Militant 1.00pm
FILM Tiger in the Smoke HHH (BW) 2.50
FILM The Trap HHHH Romantic adventure
5.00 Griff’s Great Australian Adventure
6.00 London Live News 7.00 Monkey
8.00 Auschwitz in 33 Objects 8.30 Wild
Britain with Ray Mears 9.00 FILM Triple
Cross HH Biographical Second World War
drama 11.35 FILM Hound HHH Drama
1.45am Hitler’s Bodyguard 2.45 London Districts
3.30 News Rewind 5.00—6.00am Talking Points

London Live Freeview 8 Sky 117 Virgin HD 159
Available in London area only. Other regional stations
available on Freeview 7 or 8 around the country

1.55am Lucifer: double bill
3.35—4.00am Criminals: Caught on Camera

5 USA F’view 21 F’sat 129 Sky 141 Virgin 120 (162 Scot)
+1 Freesat 130 Sky 241 Virgin 320

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8.00am Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun
10.00 Car Pound Cops: Give Me My Car
Back! 11.00 Nightmare Tenants, Slum
Landlords 12 noon Traffic Cops
2.00pm Police Interceptors: three episodes
5.00 Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly (AD)
6.00pm Home and Away Marilyn continues
to receive threats over the Stunning
Organics saga. Shown yesterday 6.30pm (AD)
6.30 New. Summer Bay is rocked by
disaster, and Bree springs into action. (AD)
7.00 GPs: behind Closed Doors Dr Jackie
Bulger wonders why a diabetic patient’s
insulin levels are sky high. (AD)
8.00 Coastal Crime: Caught on Camera
The use of CCTV to fight crime.
9.00 FILM Robin Hood HH Period
action adventure starring Taron Egerton,
Jamie Foxx and Ben Mendelsohn.
11.20 FILM Wanted HHH Action
adventure starring Angelina Jolie,
James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman.
1.30am Skin A&E (AD) 2.25 Home and Away (AD)
2.50—3.00am Entertainment News

5 Star Freeview 32 Freesat 131 Sky 128 Virgin 126
+1 Freesat 141 Sky 228 Virgin 326

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9.00am Traffic Cops 10.00 Trucking Hell
(AD) 11.00 Police Interceptors
12 noon FILM The Man from Laramie HHHH
Western starring James Stewart. Review
p107 2.10pm FILM Support Your Local
Gunfighter HHHH Satirical comedy western
4.00 Trucking Hell (AD) 5.00 Traffic Cops
6.00pm Police Interceptors A tracker
dog tries to track down a car thief.
7.00 A banned driver causes carnage at a
red light, and tracker dog Ronny goes in
pursuit of a stolen Mazda M3.
8.00 Jacko and Simon pursue a speeding
driver who abandons the car and runs off.
9.00 Police: Suspect No 1 The team respond
to reports of a shotgun changing hands.
10.00 Motorway: Hell on the Highway
The dangers of driving in severe snowfalls.
11.00 FILM Delta Force 2: the Colombian
Connection H Action adventure starring
Chuck Norris as Colonel Scott McCoy, who
travels to South America in pursuit of
notorious drug baron Ramon Cota.

Television

Johnny Cash: the Man in Black in
Britain 8.00pm The star’s UK visits

Disturbing Disappearances 9.00pm

FRIDAY

Léo Etchegarray (Julie Depardieu)

1.15am Trucking Hell (AD) 2.15 Criminals: Caught
on Camera 2.50—3.00am Entertainment News

5 Action Freeview 33 Freesat 132 Sky 150 Virgin 130

5 Select

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9.00am GPs: behind Closed Doors (AD)
10.00 The Yorkshire Vet 12 noon Ben Fogle:
New Lives in the Wild 1.00pm Walking
Wartime Britain 2.00 The Yorkshire Vet
4.00 Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild
5.00 Walking Wartime Britain
6.00pm Inside the Tower of London
The Tower plans an ambitious installation.
7.00 The Tower staff continue work on
the transformation of the moat.
8.00 Bradley Walsh’s Greatest Moments
The TV star discuses his life and career.
9.00 The celebration concludes.
10.35 World’s Deadliest Weather: Caught
on Camera A wildfire tears across California.
11.35 Forged in Fire Double bill.
1.20am Inside the Tower of London: preparations
for the festive season 2.25 Walking Tudor Britain
2.55—3.00am Entertainment News

5 Select F’view (HD only) 46 F’sat 133 Sky 153 Virgin 138

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PBS America

84

CHILDREN’S
Milkshake! on C5

Television FRIDAY

5.35am Thomas & Friends 5.45 Paw
Patrol 6.00 Peppa Pig 6.15 Blue’s
Clues & You 6.40 New. Oggy Oggy
6.45 Odo 6.55 Fireman Sam 7.05
Thomas & Friends 7.15 Sesame Street
Mecha Builders 7.30 Peppa Pig 7.40
Paw Patrol 8.00 Pip and Posy 8.10
The Adventures of Paddington 8.25
Paw Patrol 8.40 Baby Shark’s Big
Show! 8.55 Milo 9.05 Milkshake!
Monkey 9.10—9.15am Craft Party

The Catherine Tate Show
10.00pm Bovvered? Lauren

Summer Baking Championship
11.00pm Seasonal trifles

Redeeming Uncle Tom: the
Josiah Henson Story 5.55pm

6.10am Nigel Slater’s Simple Cooking
(HD) 6.35 Plate of Origin (S) (HD)
8.00 Tipping Point (S) (HD) 10.00 DIY
SOS: the Big Build (S) (HD) 12 noon
Simply Nigella: Christmas Special (S)
(AD) (HD) 1.00pm Tipping Point (S)
(HD) 4.00 My Dream Home (S) (HD)
6.00pm New. Property Brothers
at Home: Drew’s Honeymoon
House Jonathan and Drew
tackle the outdoor spaces. (S) (HD)
7.00 Ambulance Australia A look
at how paramedics cope. (S) (HD)
8.00 999 Rescue Squad
Featuring a stand-off with a man
with a samurai sword. (S) (HD)
9.00 24 Hours in A&E Dennis,
78, is having trouble breathing. (HD)
10.00 The Catherine Tate Show
With Siobhan Redmond.
10.40 Jill Halfpenny guest-stars.
11.20 Lauren visits the gym. (S) (AD)
12 midnight One Born Every
Minute (S) (HD) 1.00am Bang on
Budget (S) (HD) 2.00—3.00am
Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook:
Cosmopolitan Cook (S) (HD)
W F’view 25 F’sat 156 Sky 132 Virgin HD 125
+1 Sky 232 Virgin 325

6.00am Trisha’s Southern Kitchen
(HD) 7.00 The Pioneer Woman (HD)
8.00 Magnolia Table with Joanna
Gaines (S) (HD) 9.00 New. The
Kitchen (HD) 10.00 Forever Summer
with Nigella (S) 10.30 Nigella Bites
(S) (AD) 11.00 Tom Kerridge
Barbecues (S) (HD) 12 noon The
Great British Bake Off (S) (HD)
2.00pm James Martin’s French
Adventure (HD) 3.00 The Hairy
Bikers’ Chicken and Egg (S) (AD) (HD)
4.00 Magnolia Table with Joanna
Gaines (S) (HD) 5.00 Girl Meets
Farm (S) (HD) 6.00 James Martin’s
French Adventure (HD) 7.00 The
Great British Bake Off (S) (AD) (HD)
8.00 Tom Kerridge Barbecues:
double bill (S) (HD) 9.00 Best Baker
in America (AD) (HD) 10.00 The Hairy
Bikers’ Chicken and Egg: Si King
and Dave Myers sample chicken the
French way (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 New
Summer Baking Championship: the
bakers make trifles inspired by drinks
you might have at the beach (HD)

8.00am Redeeming Uncle Tom: the
Josiah Henson Story 9.15 Flood in
the Desert (S) 10.25 Royal History’s
Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley (S)
11.45 as 9.35pm 1.00pm Redeeming
Uncle Tom: the Josiah Henson
Story 2.15 Flood in the Desert (S)
3.25 Royal History’s Biggest Fibs
with Lucy Worsley (S) 4.45 Hunting
for Klaus Barbie 5.55 Redeeming
Uncle Tom: the Josiah Henson Story
7.10pm Flood in the Desert
Exploring the 1928 St Francis Dam
collapse, the second deadliest
disaster in California’s history. (S)
8.20 Royal History’s Biggest
Fibs with Lucy Worsley 2/3
Series 2. The myths swirling
around the Georgian Regency. (S)
9.35 Hunting for Klaus Barbie
The story of Klaus Barbie, head of
the Gestapo in Lyon in 1943—44.
10.50 Flood in the Desert
As 7.10pm.
12 midnight Royal History’s
Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley (S)
1.15—2.00am Beautiful Serengeti (S)
PBS America F’view 84 (1pm-12 midnight only)
Freesat 155 Sky 174 Virgin 187

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7.00am Border Security:
America’s Front Line 8.00 Nothing
to Declare 9.00 Motorway Patrol
(AD) 10.00 Highway Cops 11.00
Highway Patrol 12 noon Motorway
Patrol 1.00pm Border Patrol (AD)
2.00 Border Security: America’s
Front Line 3.00 Nothing to Declare
4.00 Warehouse 13 5.00
Quantum Leap 6.00 Merlin (AD)
7.00 Star Trek: Voyager 8.00
New. NCIS: New Orleans: a US
Navy sailor is found dead 9.00
New series. Forensics: Catching
the Killer: evidence that helped
pieced together what happened to
a 15-year-old murder victim (AD)
10.00 Grimm 11.00 New. Snapped
12 midnight Killer in My Village
1.00am The Force: North East 2.00
UK Border Force 3.00 Highway Patrol:
double bill 4.00 Motorway Patrol
5.00—6.00am Highway Cops (AD)

Pick F’view 36 F’sat 144 Sky 151 Virgin 135

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44

7.00am The Saved and Remade
Workshop 8.00 Building the Dream
9.00 A Place in the Sun 10.00
Escape to the Country 11.00 My
Dream Derelict Home in the Sun
12 noon My Lottery Dream Home
1.00pm Good Bones 2.00 Flip or
Flop 3.00 Building the Dream
4.00 Escape to the Country 5.00
The Saved and Remade Workshop
6.00 A Place in the Sun 7.00 My
Dream Derelict Home in the Sun
8.00 Escape to the Country 9.00
Love Your Garden (AD) 10.00 First
Time Fixer (AD) 11.00 Good Bones
12 midnight My Dream Derelict Home in
the Sun 1.00am The Saved and Remade
Workshop 2.00 House Hunters
3.00—4.00am My Lottery Dream Home

HGTV F’view 44 F’sat 166 Sky 158 Virgin 191
+1 Sky 258 Virgin 391

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12 midnight Guy’s Grocery Games (HD)
1.00am Restaurant: Impossible (HD)
2.00—3.00am Donal’s Meals in
Minutes: including harissa lamb stew (HD)

Food Network Freeview 43 Freesat 148
Sky 140 Virgin 190

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50

6.00am Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye 8.00
Highway to Heaven 9.00 Danielle
Steel’s Message from Nam 10.50
Movie News 11.00 Castle 1.00pm
Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye 3.00 Diagnosis
Murder 5.00 Murder, She Wrote
7.00 M*A*S*H 9.00 Randall and
Hopkirk (Deceased): Jeff and Jeannie
escort two beauty queens 10.00
The Persuaders! 11.00 Return of
the Saint: Simon clashes with an
East Asian country’s secret police
12 midnight M*A*S*H 2.00am Randall
and Hopkirk (Deceased) 3.00 The
Persuaders! 3.50—4.00am Movie News

Great TV Freeview 50 (limited) Freesat 142
Sky 157 Virgin 170 +1 Freesat 143 Sky 257

RealityXtra

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9.00am Medical Detectives 11.00
Donal MacIntyre: Unsolved 12 noon
The Fugitive 1.00pm The Jury
Room 3.00 Medical Detectives
5.00 The Fugitive 6.00 Donal
MacIntyre: Unsolved: Donal revisits
cases which have never led to
successful convictions, this time
exploring the case of Caroline
Glachan 7.00 Judge Judy
1.00am Donal MacIntyre: Unsolved
2.00 The Fugitive 3.00 The Jury Room
4.55—6.00am Medical Detectives

RealityXtra Freeview 68 Freesat 134
Sky 147 Virgin 172

BBC Parliament 232
BBC News simulcast, with news hourly plus:
6.00am Breakfast 9.00 Nicky Campbell
11.00 News 11.30 Business 11.45 News
12 noon News Now 1.00pm News 1.30
Sportsday 1.45 News 2.00 News Now 2.30
Business 2.45 News Now 3.00 Verified Live
6.00 News 6.30 Sports 7.00 Daily Global
8.00 Context 10.00 News 10.30 Newsnight
11.00 News 11.30 Business 12 midnight News
12.30am Travel 1.00 News 1.30 Click
2.00 News 3.00 News 3.30 This Cultural
Life 4.00 News 5.30—6.00am Travel

BBC Parliament Freeview 232 Freesat 201
Sky 504 Virgin 605

Blaze

64

6.00am Hardcore Pawn 6.50 The
UnXplained with William Shatner
7.45 Ancient Aliens 9.40 The
Curse of Oak Island 11.40 Storage
Wars Canada 12.10pm Storage
Wars 1.05 Pawn Stars 2.05
Hardcore Pawn 4.00 Ancient Aliens
6.00pm The UnXplained with
William Shatner 7.00 Storage Wars
8.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal 9.00
New. Legends of the Pharaohs: the
discovery of Tutankhamun’s largely
intact tomb in 1922. Last in series
10.00 New. Lost Secrets of the
Pyramid: new details of Egypt’s
Great Pyramid of Giza 11.00 Lost
Relics of the Knights Templar
12 midnight The Curse of Oak Island
1.00am The UnXplained with William
Shatner 2.00 Barter Kings 3.00
Dickinson’s Real Deal 3.45 Storage
Wars Canada 4.10 American
Restoration 5.00—6.00am Pawn Stars

Blaze F’view 64 F’sat 162 Sky 164 Virgin 174

Challenge

48

7.00am The Chase 10.00 Pointless
Celebrities: a fashion-themed
edition with Brix Smith-Start,
Jonathan Phang, Amy Childs, Sam
Faiers, Grace Woodward, Brendan
Courtney, Lee Stafford and Nicky
Clarke 11.00 Supermarket Sweep
12 noon Wheel of Fortune (AD)
1.00pm Family Fortunes (AD) 2.00
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
3.00 Strike It Lucky 4.00
Blockbusters 5.00 Bullseye 6.00
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
7.00 Pointless Celebrities: Keith
Chegwin, Iain Lee, Lisa Maxwell,
Rav Wilding, Anthony Costa,
Michelle Heaton, Helen Lederer and
Nicholas Parsons compete 8.00
The Chase 10.00 Who Wants to Be
a Millionaire? 11.00 Bullseye (AD)
12 midnight The Chase 4.00am Who
Wants to Be a Millionaire? 5.00—
6.00am Bullseye: darts-based quiz.

Challenge Freeview 48 Freesat 146
Sky 145 Virgin 139

Full listings for Channel 5 are on p104

CBeebies

202

6.00am Love Monster 6.05 Small
Potatoes 6.10 Bing 6.20 Teletubbies
6.35 Tee and Mo 6.40 Chuggington
6.50 Bing 7.00 Colourblocks 7.05 Hey
Duggee 7.20 Bluey 7.40 Go Jetters
7.50 Peter Rabbit 8.05 Octonauts
8.15 Numberblocks 8.20 Alphablocks
8.25 Nick Cope’s Popcast 8.35 Justin’s
House 9.00 Bing 9.10 Yakka Dee! 9.15
Messy Goes to OKIDO 9.25 Colourblocks
9.30 Twirlywoos 9.45 Something
Special 10.05 Teletubbies 10.20 The
Baby Club 10.35 What’s in Your Bag?
10.40 Roots and Fruits 10.50 Vegesaurs
10.55 Bluey 11.00 Supertato 11.10 Let’s
Go for a Walk 11.25 School of Roars 11.30
Teeny Tiny Creatures 11.45 Our Family
12 noon My World Kitchen 12.10pm
Maddie, the Zoo and You 12.30 Waffle
the Wonder Dog 12.40 Andy’s Global
Adventures 1.00 Yakka Dee! 1.05
Numberblocks 1.10 Alphablocks 1.15
Dog Loves Books 1.25 Hey Duggee
1.30 Love Monster 1.40 Colourblocks
1.45 Something Special: We’re All
Friends 2.05 Teletubbies 2.20 Roots
and Fruits 2.25 Supertato 2.30 Go
Jetters 2.45 Apple Tree House 3.00
Andy’s Safari Adventures 3.15 Get Set
Galactic 3.35 Hey Duggee 3.45 Peter
Rabbit 3.55 Fred & Pete’s Treasure
Tales 4.10 Octonauts 4.25 Bluey
4.40 Supertato 4.45 Go Jetters
5.00 Chuggington 5.20 My Petsaurus
5.25 Sarah & Duck 5.35 New. JoJo &
Gran Gran 5.45 Moon and Me 6.10
Clangers 6.20 In the Night Garden...
6.50—7.00pm Bedtime Stories

CBeebies F’view 202 F’sat 608 Sky 608 Virgin 702

CBBC

201

7.00am Shaun the Sheep 7.05 Danger
Mouse 7.20 Dennis & Gnasher 7.30
Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese 7.45
New. Newsround 7.55 New. Grizzy and
the Lemmings 8.10 Odd Squad 8.25
Meet the McQueens 8.35 Monster Loving
Maniacs 8.50 New. Total Drama Island:
Reboot 9.15 New. Home Sweet Rome
9.40 Gym Stars 10.05 Matilda and the
Ramsay Bunch 10.20 Danny & Mick
10.35 Operation Ouch! 11.00 Grizzy and
the Lemmings 11.25 Taffy 11.45 Boy
Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese 12.20pm
Danger Mouse 12.45 Octonauts 12.55
Shaun the Sheep 1.10 Mustangs FC 2.00
So Awkward 2.30 Gym Stars 2.50
Dragons 3.15 Danger Mouse 3.25 Shaun
the Sheep 3.35 Ninja Express 3.45 Taffy
4.00 New. Grizzy and the Lemmings
4.15 Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese
4.30 Monster Loving Maniacs 4.45
Odd Squad 5.00 New. Blue Peter
5.30—7.00pm FILM Horrible Histories:
the Movie — Rotten Romans HHH (W)

CBBC F’view 201 F’sat 607 Sky 607 Virgin 701

CITV

203

6.00am Dare Master @Home 6.05
Hotel Transylvania 6.30 The Rubbish
World of Dave Spud 7.00 Lloyd of the
Flies 7.30 Mr Bean 8.00 50/50
Heroes 8.30 Scooby-Doo! Mystery
Incorporated 9.00 Be Cool,
Scooby-Doo! 9.30 Scooby-Doo and
Guess Who? 10.00 Teen Titans Go!
10.15 Looney Tunes Cartoons 10.30
Smarty Pants 11.00 Lego Ninjago 11.30
Mr Magoo 12 noon Teen Titans Go!
12.30pm Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy
2.00 Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous
2.30 Inspector Gadget 3.00 Smarty
Pants 3.30 Scooby-Doo 4.30 Looney
Tunes Cartoons 4.45 The Rubbish
World of Dave Spud 5.15 Dodo 5.30
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous 5.55
Tata and Kuma 6.00 Scooby-Doo
7.00 Captain Underpants 7.25 Lego
Hidden Side 7.30 Lego DREAMZzz
8.00 New. Lego Chima 8.25 NinjaGo
8.55—9.00pm Dare Master @Home

CITV F’view 203 F’sat 602 Sky 612 Virgin 734

FILMS
Film4

14

11.00am Monsters vs Aliens
HHHH Charming and funny
cartoon caper. Review, right.
Reese Witherspoon, Seth Rogen (2009, PG) (S) (AD)

12.50pm The Spiderwick
Chronicles HHHH Freddie
Highmore plays twin brothers
who discover a fantasy world in a
creepy mansion in this refreshingly
cute-free adventure. (2008, PG) (S) (AD)
2.40 The Ghost and Mrs Muir
HHHH Gene Tierney is beguiled
by the ghost of Rex Harrison when
she moves into his former home in
this wonderful fantasy. (1947, U) (S) (AD)
4.50 Mysterious Island HHH
Enjoyable British fantasy adventure
based on novelist Jules Verne’s
sequel to 20,000 Leagues under the
Sea. Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood (1961, U) (S) (AD)

6.55pm Congo H Misfiring
jungle adventure. Dylan Walsh,
Laura Linney, Ernie Hudson (1995, 12) (S) (AD)

9.00 Predator HHHH Tense
sci-fi action thriller in which an
elite military force is hunted by
a lethal alien. Review, right.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers (1987, 15) (S)

11.10 Crawl HHHH Director
Alexandre Aja ups the scare
factor and dials down the gore in
this horror that sees alligators
invade the crawl space of a
Florida home. Kaya Scodelario (2019, 15) (S)
12.55—3.15am Animal Kingdom
5 Tremendously exciting,
challenging and powerful thriller.
Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton (2009, 18) (S) (AD)

Film4 Freeview 14 Freesat 300
Sky 313 Virgin 428
+1 F’view 47 F’sat 301 Sky 314 Virgin 430

Talking
Pictures TV

82

6.00am Ensign O’Toole TV
comedy. (S) 6.30 Impact HHH Clever
crime melodrama. Brian Donlevy (1949) (S)
8.45 The David Niven Show
TV series. 9.15 Emergency Call
HH Mildly diverting medical drama.
(1952, PG) (S) 11.00 The Bigamist HHH
Intriguing drama about a travelling
salesman who ends up with two
wives. Edmond O’Brien (1953, PG) (S) 12.35pm
The Second Time Around HH
Hotch-potch of a comedy western.
(1961, U) (S) 2.30 Crown Court TV
drama. (S) 3.00 Waterfront HHH
Robert Newton drinks himself and
his family into trouble in this raw,
sobering drama. (1950, PG) 4.55
The Ghost of Rashmon Hall HH
Low-budget, tricksy chiller. (1948) (S)
6.00pm Time to Remember
Clips of vehicles in the 1920s. (S)
6.30 Passport to Pimlico
HHHH Ingenious Ealing comedy in
which the residents of a small area
of London discover that it is part of
Burgundy. Stanley Holloway (1949, U) (S)
8.10 Look at Life TV documentary.
8.30 Dial 999 TV drama. (S)
9.05 Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
HH Oddball update of Hansel
and Gretel. Shelley Winters (1971, 15) (S)
10.55 The Raven HHHH Highly
entertaining B-movie comic horror
in which sorcerers clash. Review,
right. Vincent Price, Peter Lorre (1963, PG) (S)
12.40am The Four Skulls of
Jonathan Drake HH Creepy, rickety
horror. Eduard Franz (1959) (S) 2.10 The
Most Dangerous Game HHHH
A shipwrecked big game hunter is
targeted by a mad count in this
horror. Joel McCrea (1932, 12) (S) 3.25
The Great Flamarion HHH Lean,
low-budget noir with Erich von
Stroheim. (1945) (S) 5.00—6.00am
Target: The Corruptors TV drama.
Talking Pictures TV Freeview 82
Freesat 306 Sky 328 Virgin 445

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FRIDAY 4 AUGUST
Great Movies

34

9.00am Bad Stepmother HH
Low-budget thriller. (2018) 11.00 Fatal
Performance HH Routine thriller.
Nicholle Tom (2013) 1.00pm Aurora
Teagarden Mystery: Dead over Heels
3.00 End of the World HH Jokey
spoof sci-fi adventure. Greg Grunberg,
Neil Grayston, Amitai Marmorstein (2013) 4.45
Come Away HH Well-acted but
lacklustre fable. Review, right. (2020, PG)
6.50pm Diamond Hunters HH
Soapy drama about a gem expert
who returns to a diamond company
that abandoned him. Alyssa Milano (2001, 12)
9.00 Chappie HHH Director Neill
Blomkamp does for robots what
his District 9 did for aliens in this
fresh sci-fi. Review, right. (2015, 15)
11.25 The Wedding Guest HHH
Dev Patel stars in this teasing
thriller about a man on a kidnap
mission. Review p87. (2018, 15)
1.20am The Devil’s Double HH
Flashy true-story drama. Dominic Cooper,
Ludivine Sagnier (2011, 18) 3.40—5.50am
Kramer vs Kramer HHHH Moving
study of the suffering divorce can
bring to a family. Dustin Hoffman (1979, PG)
Great Movies Freeview 34 Freesat 302
Sky 321 Virgin 425
+1 Freeview 61 (limited 10pm-5am) Sky 322

42

6.00am Flip That Romance HH
Amusing glossy romance. Julie Gonzalo
(2019) 8.00 A Love to Remember
HH Lightly farcical romance. Rhiannon
Fish (2021) 10.00 When Love Blooms
HH Colourful romcom. Sarah Power (2021)
12 noon Valentine Ever After HH
So-so romcom. (2016) 2.00pm
Strawberry Summer HH Fun,
hokey musical romance. Julie Mond (2012)
4.00 Lucky in Love HH Romantic
comedy drama. Jessica Szohr (2014)
6.00pm Love on the Menu HH
Palatable romantic tale. (2019)
8.00 Love, Take Two HH Fun
romance about a TV producer
whose ex is to appear on her
wedding show. Heather Hemmens (2019)
10.00 Love at First Dance HH
Soppy Hallmark romance. (2018)
12.05am Home by Spring HH
Watchable romance. Poppy Drayton (2018)
1.35 Dater’s Handbook HHH
Cute romantic comedy drama
notable for starring Prince Harry’s
future bride. Meghan Markle (2016)
3.05—4.00am Highway to Heaven
Great Romance Freeview 52 Freesat 303
Sky 319 Virgin 424
+1 F’view 63 (limited 10pm-5am) F’sat 304 Sky 320

steals the show as prim but
poisonous tutor Dolores
Umbridge. JAMIE HEALY (US/UK
2007, may be edited for content, HD)

Predator HHHH
9.00-11.10pm Film4

Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt, Diego Calva (2022, 18)

1.05am The Silent Twins HHHH
Intimate, affecting drama about the
strange but true story of the Gibbons
twins. Review p38. Letitia Wright (2022, 18)
3.15 Breaking Point HH Crowdpleasing sports drama. (2023, 12) 5.00
High Heat HH Action comedy. (2022, 15)
Sky Premiere Sky 301 Virgin 401
BT 501/HD 515 +1 Sky 312

Legend

41

8.00am Walker, Texas Ranger 9.00
The Prisoner 10.00 Star Trek: Deep
Space Nine 11.00 Earthfall H
Humdrum sci-fi disaster movie.
Pressly Coker (2014) 1.00pm Ape vs
Monster H Low-budget Godzilla
vs Kong mockbuster. (2021, 12) 2.55
13 Ghosts HHH Campy, fun and
endearing fright romp. Review,
right. Charles Herbert (1959, PG) 4.30
The Twilight Zone 5.00 Star Trek
6.00pm Star Trek: Deep Space
Nine TV sci-fi series.
7.00 The Prisoner TV series.
8.00 Walker, Texas Ranger
TV action drama with Chuck Norris.
9.00 The Most Dangerous Game
HH Shipwrecked survivors become
sport for a hunter in this thriller
remake. Chris “CT” Tamburello (2022, 15)
10.55 Freight HH Violent
Leeds-set crime saga with Billy
Murray and Craig Fairbrass. (2010, 18)
12.45am Habit HH Slow-burning,
sexually explicit horror. Elliot James Langridge
(2017, 18) 2.40—4.30am Lawnmower
Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace H
Thin sci-fi sequel to the surprise 1992
hit. Patrick Bergin, Matt Frewer (1995, 12)
Legend F’view 41 F’sat 137 Sky 148 Virgin 149

HorrorXtra

69

8.00am Apocalypse of Ice H
Low-budget, cobbled-together
sci-fi hokum. Tom Sizemore (2020) 10.00
Farscape 11.00 Independence
Day-saster HH Cut-price sci-fi
action. Ryan Merriman (2013) 1.00pm Heat
Wave HH Engaging disaster film in
which a scientist fights her superiors
and the Earth’s climate to stop LA
from burning up. Jamie Luner (2009) 3.00
Farscape 4.00 Battlestar Galactica
5.00 Triassic Hunt H Low-budget
Jurassic World-style sci-fi horror in
which a team is sent to capture a
couple of super-smart dinosaurs.
Michael Paré, Linnea Quigley (2021)

7.00pm Farscape TV sci-fi series.
8.00 Battlestar Galactica
TV sci-fi adventure series.
9.00 Cell HHH A mysterious
cellphone signal triggers global
mayhem in this stylish if overly
enigmatic sci-fi horror. John Cusack (2014, 15)
11.00 FirstBorn HH Flawed but
unsettling horror in which a sinister
presence has designs on a woman’s
six-year-old daughter. Antonia Thomas (2016)
1.00—3.00am Cell As 9pm
HorrorXtra F’view 69 F’sat 138 Sky 317
Virgin 171 +1 F’sat 139 Sky 318 Virgin 371

FILM
OF THE
DAY

Ready Player One HHH 10.40pm-12.45am
BBC1 (starts 11.10pm in Wales)

h

SCI-FI Steven Spielberg brings Ernest Cline’s hit
sci-fi novel to vibrant life, telling the tale of a teenager (Tye
Sheridan) who enters a virtual-reality game in order to solve
a puzzle left by its deceased creator (Mark Rylance). With
its clever nods to Back to the Future and Stanley Kubrick’s
The Shining, it certainly makes for a wild ride, but the story
struggles to give depth to the characters. Thankfully, Sheridan
has great chemistry with Olivia Cooke’s fellow adventurer
and Ben Mendelsohn enjoys himself as the corporate baddie.
VICTORIA LUXFORD (US 2018, swearing, some violence, HD)

vs Aliens
m Monsters
HHHH
g
11.00am-12.50pm Film4

COMEDY Five freaks of
nature are released from US
government security to stave
off an alien invasion in this
animated love letter to
creature features. The focus
is mainly on Susan (voiced by
Reese Witherspoon), who is
hit by a meteor and grows
into the huge Ginormica. For
sci-fi buffs, the references
will prove delicious.
ALAN JONES (US 2009, HD)

The Man from Laramie
HHHH 12 noon-2.10pm
5 Action

y

WESTERN Anthony Mann’s
tough psychological western
sees James Stewart seek
vengeance on the man who
supplied the Apaches with
the guns that killed his
brother. The infighting
between rancher Donald
Crisp and sons Alex Nicol and
Arthur Kennedy dominates
the film, but the climactic
showdown is worth the wait.
DAVID PARKINSON (US 1955, HD)

13 Ghosts HHH
2.55-4.30pm Legend

g

HORROR In this entertaining
spook-fest, Donald Woods
inherits a haunted mansion
from an eccentric uncle on
condition that he moves
his family in. Little do they

know that a vast fortune
lies hidden inside — and
somebody is prepared to kill
for it. Originally filmed in 3D
variant Illusion-0, this is one
of showman director William
Castle’s most enjoyable
romps. AJ (US 1959, col/BW)

m

Come Away HH
4.45-6.40pm

Great Movies

ADVENTURE A reimagining
of children’s classics, this
fantasy depicts Peter Pan
and Lewis Carroll’s Alice as
siblings navigating loss by
escaping to Neverland and
Wonderland. The film is a
little lacklustre, but it makes
good strides in terms of
representation with its
mutiracial cast, and Angelina
Jolie and David Oyelowo
shine as grieving parents.
BETH WEBB (UK/US 2020)

Harry Potter and the
m
Order of the Phoenix
HHHH
6.20-9.00pm ITV2

(US 1987, violence, swearing, HD)

Chappie HHH 9.0011.25pm Great Movies

h

FANTASY The magic is still
there but the mood stays
resolutely dark in this fifth
episode, with Harry (Daniel
Radcliffe) trying to convince
the wizarding world of the
return of Lord Voldemort
(Ralph Fiennes). David Yates
instils his film with the
requisite sense of wonder,
while Imelda Staunton

j

SCI-FI A law-enforcement
droid ready for the scrapheap
is gifted with artificial
intelligence in this pacey
thriller. However, when the
sentient robot is kidnapped by
criminals, he is torn between
good and evil. Hugh Jackman
fails to make much of an
impression as a villain, but
“Chappie” (voiced by Sharlto
Copley) is an endearing
creation. KAREN KRIZANOVICH
(Mex/US 2015, violence, swearing)

The Raven HHHH
10.55pm-12.35am
Talking Pictures TV

g

j

SCI-FI This stripped-down
thriller cheerfully sacrifices
characterisation on the altar
of exhilarating action and
special effects, as Arnold
Schwarzenegger and his elite
team are tracked by a lethal
alien game-hunter. Director
John McTiernan keeps the
tension at snapping point,
aided by the gimmick of a
cloaking device that hides
the alien. JOHN FERGUSON

g

HORROR Roger Corman’s
spin on the Edgar Allan Poe
classic is a must-see, thanks
to a cast featuring Vincent
Price, Boris Karloff, Peter
Lorre and a young Jack
Nicholson. A script full of
throwaway one-liners and
some unashamedly homemade special effects add
considerably to the charm of
this beautifully pitched gothic
romp. DP (US 1963, some violence)

Television

Great Romance 52

7.15am Seriously Red HHH
Delightful comedy drama. Krew Boylan
(2022, 15) 9.10 Broker HHHH
Charming Korean road movie. Song
Kang-ho, Gang Dong-won (2022, 12) 11.30 As
5.35pm 1.55pm The Locksmith
HH Standard crime thriller. (2023, 15)
3.35 Armageddon Time 5
Thoughtful and moving coming-ofage drama. Anne Hathaway (2022, 15)
5.35pm Whitney Houston:
I Wanna Dance with Somebody
HHHH Enthralling biopic of the pop
princess. Review p38. Naomi Ackie (2022, 12)
8.00 i Maggie Moore(s) HHH
A sheriff and a nosy neighbour try to
solve the murder of two women in
this wry comedy thriller. Jon Hamm (2023)
9.50 Babylon HHHH Riotous,
sprawling account of the transition
from silent pictures to talkies.

FRIDAY

U – suitable for all; PG Parental Guidance – for general viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for young or sensitive children; 12, 15,18 –for viewers of these ages and over.

Great Action

6.00am M*A*S*H 7.00 Wild West
Chronicles 7.30 Earthstorm H
Daft sci-fi thriller. (2006) 9.15 The War
in the Air 10.25 Wings at War 3:
Liberation of Europe 11.30 M*A*S*H
12 noon M*A*S*H 12.30pm Wild
West Chronicles 1.00 Brave Warrior
HH Slight western. Jon Hall (1952, U) 2.30
Rio Diablo HHH Kenny Rogers has
a lot of fun in this rollicking if uneven
western. (1993) 4.25 Battle of Warsaw
5.25 The Last Blitzkrieg H War
drama. Van Johnson, Kerwin Mathews (1958)
7.05pm Polar Storm H Magnetic
storms threatens global catastrophe
in this sci-fi thriller. Jack Coleman (2009)
9.00 Men of War HHH This
unusually intellectual war flick is
probably the best film of Dolph
Lundgren’s career. Charlotte Lewis (1994, 18)
11.10 Double Team HH Agent
Jean-Claude Van Damme is on the
trail of a master criminal. (1997, 18)
1.00am How I Spent My Summer
Vacation HHH Bloody action thriller
in which a criminal forms an alliance
with a young boy. Mel Gibson (2012, 15)
3.00—4.00am War in the Pacific
Great Action Freeview 42 (limited)
F’sat 305 Sky 323 Virgin 426 +1 Sky 324

FILM REVIEWS

Sky Premiere

Sky Cinema picks
Funny Face HHHH
4.20-6.05pm Sky Greats
Audrey Hepburn stars. (1957, U)
Sky 304; Virgin 404; BT 504/518

Jurassic Park 5
7.00-9.15pm Sky Hits
Dinosaurs rule! (1993, PG)
Sky 303, Virgin 403, BT 503/517

Panic Room HHH
10.00-11.55pm Sky Thriller
Housebound thriller. (2002, 15)
Sky 309; Virgin 409; BT 509/523

Films to stream from p32
Netflix, Amazon, Disney+ and more

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Satellite, cable

FRIDAY
Sky Showcase

Gold

Alibi

Domina 9.00pm Gaius and
Agrippa rule Rome together

Then You Run 9.00pm Nessi

Absolutely Fabulous 9.20pm

Father Brown 8.00pm

and Ruth want to confess

Patsy, Elton and Edina

A murder at a health spa

6.00am The Early Rundown (HD)
7.00 Breakfast with Anna Jones
8.00 Monkey Life (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00
Nothing to Declare (S) 10.00 The
Flash (S) (HD) 11.00 NCIS: New Orleans
(S) (HD) 1.00pm Hawaii Five-0 (S) (HD)
2.00 MacGyver (S) (HD) 3.00 The
Equalizer (S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 A League
of Their Own (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00 The
Simpsons (S) 5.30 American Auto (S)
6.30pm The Simpsons Moe turns
the bar into a swanky establishment.
7.00 Homer gets a job writing
fortune cookie messages.
7.30 Homer is hypnotised. (S)
8.00 Rob and Romesh vs
Crufts Ep 3 Series 5. The duo
enter their dogs in Crufts. (HD)
9.00 New. Then You Run 5/8
Ruth and Nessi seek out a
police station where they can
confess all. See page 101. (S) (HD)
10.00 The Simpsons Bart and
Lisa are stranded on an island. (S)
10.30 Bart heads to the orphanage
to acquire a baby brother. (S)
11.00 The Blacklist 6/22 Series 10
Dr Laken Perillos resurfaces to
join Wujing’s crusade. (S) (HD)
12 midnight The Force: North East
(S) 1.00am Road Wars (S) 2.00
Caught on Dashcam (S) 3.00
Hawaii Five-0 (S) (HD) 4.00
MacGyver (S) (HD) 5.00—6.00am
Motorway Patrol (S) (AD)
Sky Showcase Sky 106 Virgin 109
BT 340/HD 355 +1 Sky 206

6.00am Richard E Grant’s Hotel
Secrets (S) (AD) (HD) 7.55
Boardwalk Empire (S) (AD) (HD)
10.05 The Sopranos (S) (AD) (HD)
12.15pm Game of Thrones (S) (AD)
(HD) 1.20 Britannia (S) (AD) (HD)
3.30 Boardwalk Empire (S) (AD) (HD)
5.45pm The Sopranos 6/21
Series 6. Gossip is rife about
Vito’s secret life. (S) (AD) (HD)
6.50 7/21. Christopher and
Little Carmine pursue their new
idea for a film. (S) (AD) (HD)
7.55 Game of Thrones 8/10
Series 1. The Lannisters launch
their bid to seize power, Tyrion
forms an unlikely alliance and a
sinister new enemy emerges at
Castle Black. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Domina 3/8 Series 1. Now in
her 30s, Livia finds herself married
to Gaius and pregnant again, and
Gaius and Agrippa are alone at
the top of the world. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.05 Das Boot 5/8 Series 1
The crew continues to disagree
over their loyalties. (HD)
11.15 6/8. Simone adapts
herself to her new position.
German +subtitles. (HD)
12.30am Banshee (S) (AD) (HD)
1.35 The Staircase (S) (AD) (HD)
2.50 Game of Thrones (S) (AD) (HD)
4.00—6.00am Richard E Grant’s
Hotel Secrets (S) (AD) (HD)
Sky Atlantic Sky 108 (Wales 109)
BT 342/HD 357 +1 Sky 208 (Wales 209)

6.00am Stargate Atlantis (S) 8.00
Supergirl (S) (HD) 9.00 DC’s Legends
of Tomorrow (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00
The Flash (S) (HD) 11.00 NCIS: New
Orleans (S) (HD) 1.00pm Hawaii
Five-0 (S) (HD) 2.00 MacGyver (S) (HD)
3.00 DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
(S) (AD) (HD) 4.00 Supergirl (S) (HD)
5.00 The Flash (S) (HD)
6.00pm Stargate Atlantis 19/20
Series 2. The team is threatened
by a super-volcano. (S) (HD)
7.00 20/20. Michael, the Wraith
that the team tried to turn into a
human, makes contact. (S)
8.00 Rob and Romesh vs
Crufts Ep 3 Series 5. The duo enter
their pets in Crufts. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 New. Then You Run 5/8
Ruth and Nessi seek out a
police station where they can
confess all, but find themselves in
a trap. See page 101. (S) (HD)
10.00 Strike Back: Retribution
1/10 Series 6. The disbanded Section
20 unit is reinstated. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 The Blacklist 6/22 Series 10
Dr Laken Perillos resurfaces to
join Wujing’s crusade. (S) (HD)
12 midnight The Force: North East
(S) (HD) 1.00am Road Wars (S) (HD)
2.00 Caught on Dashcam (HD)
3.00 Hawaii Five-0 (S) (HD)
4.00 MacGyver (S) (HD)
5.00—6.00am Bondi Rescue (S) (HD)
Sky Max Sky 113 (Wales 114) Virgin 111
BT 346/HD 361

7.30am The Good Life (S) (AD) 8.00
Keeping Up Appearances (S) (AD)
8.35 2 Point 4 Children (S) 9.20
Are You Being Served? (S) 10.00
Still Open All Hours (S) (HD) 10.40
Last of the Summer Wine (S) (AD)
12 noon Keeping Up Appearances
(S) (AD) 12.35pm 2 Point 4 Children
(S) 1.20 Dad’s Army (S) 2.00 Still
Open All Hours (S) (HD) 2.35 Are
You Being Served? (S) 3.20 Last of
the Summer Wine (S) (AD) 4.40
Keeping Up Appearances (S) (AD)
5.20 Are You Being Served? (S)
6.00pm The Good Life Tom and
Barbara talk to their plants. (S) (AD)
6.40 Dad’s Army Double bill. (S)
8.00 dinnerladies Bren’s past
catches up with her. (S) (AD)
8.40 Gavin & Stacey Nessa goes
into labour a month early. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.20 Absolutely Fabulous
Elton John guest-stars. (S) (AD)
10.00 Mrs Brown’s Boys Agnes
gatecrashes Maria’s hen party. (S) (HD)
10.35 Not Going Out Lee and
Tim babysit Guy’s grandson. (S)
11.15 dinnerladies As 8pm.
12 midnight Gavin & Stacey (S) (AD)
(HD) 12.40am Absolutely Fabulous
(S) (AD) 1.20 Mrs Brown’s Boys (S) (HD)
2.00 Not Going Out (S) 2.30 Lenny
Henry’s Race through Comedy (S) (AD)
(HD) 3.30—4.00am Desmond’s (S)
Gold Sky 110 (Wales 111) Virgin 124
BT 344/HD 359 +1 Sky 210 (Wales 211) Virgin 324

7.15am Murdoch Mysteries (S) (HD)
9.00 Deception (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00
Hudson & Rex (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00
Without a Trace (S) (HD) 12 noon
The Doctor Blake Mysteries (S) (HD)
1.00pm Father Brown (S) (AD) (HD)
2.00 Murdoch Mysteries (S) (HD)
4.00 Deception (S) (AD) (HD)
5.00 Hudson & Rex (S) (AD) (HD)
6.00pm Without a Trace
11/23 Series 1. A girl disappears on
her way to school. (S) (HD)
7.00 Person of Interest 2/23
Series 3. Finch, Reese and Shaw
are on the hunt for an internet
entrepreneur. (S) (HD)
8.00 Father Brown 9/10 Series 9
The sleuth investigates staff at a
health spa when an ex-employee
is found murdered. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Death in Paradise 4/8
Series 8. DI Mooney and the team
investigate the fatal shooting of a
coffee plantation owner. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 Father Brown 3/15 Series 5
The priest struggles to promote
understanding when a group of
pagans are suspected of killing
one of their own. (S) (AD) (HD)
11.00 Person of Interest As 7pm.
12 midnight Hudson & Rex (S) (AD)
(HD) 1.00am Deception (S) (AD) (HD)
2.00 Murdoch Mysteries (S) (HD)
2.55—4.00am Annika (S) (AD) (HD)
Alibi Sky 109 (Wales 110) Virgin HD 114
BT 343/HD 358 +1 Sky 209 (Wales 210) Virgin 314

Sky Sci-Fi
6.00am Merlin 7.00 The Outpost
8.00 Home Shopping 11.00
Pandora 12 noon Star Trek: the
Next Generation 2.00pm Merlin
3.00 Pandora 4.00 Quantum
Leap 5.00 Stargate Atlantis
6.00pm Star Trek: the Next
Generation 6/26 Series 3
The Enterprise is caught in an
intergalactic booby trap.
7.00 7/26. The crew’s attempts
to rescue Geordi from a stormravaged planet are hindered by an
aggressive Romulan warship.
8.00 Star Trek: Voyager 24/26
Series 5. The crew of a time ship
from the future recruits Seven of
Nine in an effort to prevent the
destruction of Voyager.
9.00 Westworld 3/10 Series 1. Ford
throws the park into disarray when
he takes over its storylines himself,
while those behind the scenes are
preoccupied by finding the source
of the hosts’ abnormal behaviour.
10.10 4/10. Dolores finds help in
the form of reluctant Westworld
visitor William, and the Man in
Black forms an alliance with a
bandit in his search for the Maze.
11.20 Monstrous 3/6. Yong-joo
suggests the people were infected
by the virus in the black rain.
12.10am 4/6. Ki-hoon learns
more about the haunted statue.
1.00 Wynonna Earp 3.00 Star Trek:
Voyager 4.00—6.00am Star Trek:
the Next Generation
Sky Sci-Fi Sky 139 Virgin 122
BT 348/HD 363 +1 Virgin 229

Sky Witness
6.00am Air Ambulance ER (S) (HD)
7.00 Border Security: Canada’s
Front Line (S) (HD) 8.00 Border
Patrol (S) 10.00 Stop, Search, Seize
(S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 The Rookie (S) (AD)
(HD) 12 noon FBI: Most Wanted (S)
(AD) (HD) 1.00pm FBI: International
(S) (HD) 2.00 Blue Bloods (S) (HD)
3.00 The Equalizer (S) (AD) (HD)
4.00pm Nothing to Declare
Eight editions of the series
following the work of customs
officers in Australia. (S) (HD)
8.00 Caught on Dashcam
Dramatic events on the road
captured on video via in-vehicle
dashboard cameras. (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Blue Bloods 5/16 Series 11
Eddie and Rachel Witten are
heralded for bravery after stopping
a shooter — only to be accused of
faking the incident. (S) (AD) (HD)
10.00 The Good Doctor 15/22
Series 6. Dr Jared Kalu makes a
surprise return with a billionaire
patient, while Park must treat the
man his wife had an affair with
and try to forgive him. (S) (HD)
11.00 Law & Order: Special
Victims Unit 11/22 Series 24
Benson tries to help the gang
member who attacked her. (HD)
12 midnight Law & Order: Organized
Crime (HD) 1.00am The Equalizer
(S) (AD) (HD) 2.00 Bull (S) (HD) 3.00
Chicago Fire (S) (HD) 4.00 Stop,
Search, Seize (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00—
6.00am Air Ambulance ER (S) (HD)
Sky Witness Sky 107 Virgin 110
BT 341/HD 356 +1 Sky 207 Virgin 310

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Sky Replay
7.00am 6ixth Sense with Colin Fry (S)
8.00 Four Weddings (S) (AD) 10.00 UK
Border Force (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 Stop,
Search, Seize (S) (AD) (HD) 12 noon
Bondi Rescue (S) (HD) 1.00pm Inside
RAF Brize Norton (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00
Warehouse 13 (S) 4.00 Most Haunted (S)
6.00 Supergirl: double bill (S) (HD)
8.00 UK Border Force: officers refuse
entry to a woman from South Africa (S)
(AD) (HD) 9.00 Alphas: a prisoner
escapes from a police van after causing
a road accident (HD) 10.00 Brit Cops:
Law & Disorder (S) (AD) 11.00
Departure: an explosion on a ferry results
in serious loss of life (S) 12 midnight
The Good Doctor (S) (HD) 1.00am Stop,
Search, Seize (S) (AD) (HD) 2.00
A League of Their Own (S) (AD) (HD)
3.00 Duck Quacks Don’t Echo (S) (AD)
(HD) 4.00 Four Weddings 5.00—
6.00am 6ixth Sense with Colin Fry (S)

Sky Replay Sky 152 Virgin 156

Sky Crime
6.00am Highway Patrol (S) (AD) 7.00
Motorway Patrol (S) 8.00 Highway Cops
(S) (HD) 9.00 Nothing to Declare (S)
10.00 Caught Red Handed (S) (HD) 11.30
Border Patrol (S) (HD) 12 noon Killer in My
Village (S) (HD) 1.00pm Forensics (S) (AD)
(HD) 2.00 Murders That Shocked the
Nation (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00 Most Evil Killers
(S) (HD) 5.00 What the Killer Did Next (S)
(AD) (HD) 6.00 Forensics (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00 Most Evil Killers (S) (HD) 9.00 Low
Country: the Murdaugh Dynasty (S) (AD)
(HD) 10.00 Killing Mum and Dad (S) (AD)
(HD) 11.00 Murdered at First Sight (HD)
12 midnight Killer in My Village (S) (HD)
1.00am The Killer Within (S) (HD) 2.00
What the Killer Did Next (S) (AD) (HD)
3.00 Brit Cops (S) 4.00 Road Wars (S)
5.00—6.00am Motorway Patrol (S) (AD)

Sky Crime Sky 122 Virgin 121 BT 349/HD 364
+1 Sky 222 Virgin 321

Sky Comedy

Discovery

8.00am Sort Of (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00
Entourage (S) (HD) 10.00 The Conners
(S) (HD) 11.00 Bloods (S) (AD) (HD)
11.30 Veep (S) (AD) (HD) 12.50pm How
to Make It in America (S) (AD) (HD) 1.30
Entourage (S) (HD) 2.30 The Fresh
Prince of Bel-Air (S) (HD) 3.30 The
Conners (S) (HD) 4.30 Sort Of (S) (AD)
(HD) 5.30 Will & Grace (S) (AD) (HD)
6.30 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (S)
(HD) 7.30 Bloods (S) (AD) (HD) 8.00
The Office US (S) (HD) 9.00 Sex and
the City: double bill. Charlotte’s married
brother sleeps with Samantha, then
Carrie dates a recovering alcoholic (S)
(HD) 10.15 And Just like That... (HD)
11.15 Girls: double bill (S) (AD) (HD)
12.30am The Trip to Greece (S) (AD)
(HD) 1.50 Work in Progress: double bill
(S) (HD) 3.05 Dice (S) (AD) (HD)
3.40—5.00am Veep (S) (AD) (HD)

6.00am Wheeler Dealers (S) (HD) 7.00
Deadliest Catch (S) (HD) 8.00 Building off
the Grid (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 Alaska: the
Last Frontier (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 How It’s
Made (S) (HD) 11.00 Wheeler Dealers
(S) (HD) 12 noon Diesel Brothers (HD)
1.00pm Hoffman Family Gold (S) (HD)
3.00 Alaska: Homestead Rescue (S) (HD)
5.00 Wheeler Dealers (S) (HD) 6.00
Street Outlaws (HD) 8.00 Gold Rush:
Mine Rescue with Freddy and Juan (HD)
9.00 New. Expedition Unknown: Josh
Gates finds the riches of feared pirate
Henry Avery (S) (HD) 10.00 The Men
Who Sold the World Cup (S) (HD) 11.00
Naked and Afraid: Alone (S) (HD)
12 midnight Expedition Bigfoot (S)
(HD) 1.00am Expedition Unknown (S)
(HD) 2.00 The Men Who Sold the World
Cup (S) (HD) 3.00 Moonshiners (HD)
4.00—5.00am Wheeler Dealers (S) (HD)

Sky Comedy Sky 114 (Wales 115)
Virgin 112 BT 347/HD 362

Discovery Sky 125 Virgin 177 BT 320/HD 325
+1 Sky 225 Virgin 377

Comedy Central

Discovery History

8.00am Bob’s Burgers (S) (HD) 11.00
The Middle (S) (HD) 1.00pm Friends:
14 back-to-back episodes (S) (AD) (HD)
9.00 Al Murray: the Pub Landlord —
Live at the Palladium: the awardwinning comedian performs at the
majestic London Palladium as part of
his tour show And Another Thing (HD)
10.00 Jimmy Carr: Being Funny: a
stand-up gig at Birmingham’s
Symphony Hall. The show includes
plenty of near-the-knuckle jokes,
heckling from the audience and even
better put-downs from the comedian (S)
12.10am Dylan Moran: off the Hook
2.00 South Park (S) (HD) 3.20 Kevin
Bridges: a Whole Different Story (HD)
4.05—5.00am Friends (S) (AD) (HD)

Comedy Central Sky 112 (Wales 113)
Virgin 132 BT 345/HD 360
+1 Sky 212 (Wales 213) Virgin 332

6.00am Combat Dealers (S) 7.00
HMS Ark Royal (S) (AD) 8.00 Greatest
Events of World War II (S) 9.00 Combat
Dealers (S) 10.00 Salvage Hunters (S)
(AD) 11.00 Shed and Buried 12 noon
How It’s Made (S) 1.00pm Combat
Dealers (S) 2.00 HMS Ark Royal (S)
(AD) 3.00 Blowing Up History (S) (AD)
4.00 Mysteries at the Castle 5.00
Greatest Events of World War II (S)
6.00 Secrets Underground (S) 7.00
Expedition Unknown (S) 8.00 Combat
Dealers (S) 9.00 Blowing Up History (S)
10.00 Salvage Hunters (S) (AD) 11.00
Shed and Buried 12 midnight How It’s
Made (S) 1.00am Combat Dealers (S)
2.00 Salvage Hunters (S) (AD) 3.00
Combat Dealers (S) 4.00—5.00am
Blowing Up History (S) (AD)

Discovery History Sky 177 Virgin 181
+1 Sky 277 Virgin 381

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& sport
Sky Documentaries

Sky Nature

6.00am Dark Horses: Italy’s World
Cup Triumph (S) (HD) 7.00
Discovering: Jon Voight (S) (HD) 8.00
The Directors (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 Fake
Famous (S) (HD) 10.45 My Icon:
Keegan Hirst (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 Juan
Carlos: Downfall of the King (S) (HD)
12 noon FILM Dogtown and
Z-Boys HHH (S) (W) (HD) 1.50pm My
Icon: Michael Campbell (S) (AD) (HD)
2.00 Dave Not Coming Back (S)
4.00 The Directors (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00
Discovering: Jon Voight (S) (HD)
6.00pm First Ladies A profile
of Nancy Reagan. (S) (AD)
7.00 Alexia: Labor Omnia
Vincit The story of Alexia Putellas,
captain of Fútbol Club Barcelona.
8.00 Juan Carlos: Downfall of
the King The whole world learns
about Juan Carlos’s dubious
financial dealings after Corinna’s
revelations are leaked. (S) (HD)
9.00 Nothing Compares Telling
the story of Sinéad O’Connor’s
rise to worldwide fame. (S) (HD)
11.00 Superpowered: the DC
Story A look at how DC took a
gamble with Superman. (S) (HD)
12 midnight Music Box (S) (AD)
2.10am FILM Sergio Leone: the
Italian Who Invented America HHHH
A profile of the director (S) (W) 4.20
Traffic Stop (S) (AD) 5.00—6.00am
Discovering: Jon Voight (S) (HD)
Sky Documentaries Sky 121
Virgin 188 BT 352/HD 367

6.00am Ol Pejeta Diaries (S) (HD)
7.00 Monkey Life (S) (AD) 8.00
Kenya Wildlife Diaries (S) (HD) 9.00
Tales from Zambia (S) (HD) 10.00
Wild Crusades: the Monkey Diaries (S)
(HD) 11.00 Animal Empires (S) (HD)
12 noon World’s Most Toxic
Animals (S) (AD) (HD) 1.00pm Monkey
Life (S) (AD) 2.00 Kenya Wildlife
Diaries (S) (HD) 3.00 Tales from
Zambia (S) (HD) 4.00 Wild
Crusades: the Monkey Diaries (S)
(HD) 5.00 Animal Empires (S) (HD)
6.00pm World’s Most Toxic
Animals Lethal killers. (S) (AD) (HD)
7.00 Monkey Life Two capuchin
monkeys try to make friends. (S) (AD)
7.30 Golden-cheeked gibbon
Peanut presents her newborn. (S) (AD)
8.00 City Wildlife Rescue
A flock of cedar waxwings takes
over the centre’s aviary. (S) (HD)
8.30 The rescue team chase
after a red-tailed hawk. (S) (HD)
9.00 Islands A look at K’gari in
Queensland. (S) (HD)
10.00 Animal Empires How groups
of animals work together. (S) (HD)
11.00 World’s Most Toxic
Animals As 6pm.
12 midnight Deadly Australians (S)
(HD) 1.00am Planet Shark (S) (AD)
(HD) 2.00 City Wildlife Rescue (S)
(HD) 3.00 Islands (S) (HD) 4.00 as
2pm 5.00—6.00am as 3pm
Sky Nature Sky 124 Virgin 189
BT 354/HD 369

Demanding cedar waxwings

Nat Geographic

Eden

8.00am Abandoned (HD) 8.30 Made
in a Day (S) (AD) (HD) 9.00 Air Crash
Investigation (S) (HD) 10.00 Europe from
Above (S) (AD) (HD) 11.00 Ultimate Airport
Dubai (S) (HD) 12 noon Car SOS (S) (AD)
(HD) 1.00pm Wicked Tuna (S) (HD) 2.00
Air Crash Investigation (S) (AD) (HD) 3.00
Hitler’s Last Stand (HD) 4.00 Cosmos:
Possible Worlds (S) (AD) (HD) 5.00 Car SOS
(S) (AD) (HD) 6.00 Lost Treasures of Egypt
(S) (AD) (HD) 7.00 Air Crash Investigation (S)
(AD) (HD) 8.00 Airport Security: Peru (HD)
9.00 Air Crash Investigation (S) (HD) 10.00
America’s Hardest Prisons (S) (HD) 11.00 Air
Crash Investigation (S) (HD) 12 midnight
Airport Security: First Class Rome (HD)
1.00am To Catch a Smuggler (S) (HD) 2.00
Made in a Day (S) (AD) (HD) 2.30 Bid and
Destroy (HD) 2.55 Lords of War (HD) 3.20
Food Factory (S) (HD) 4.10 Exotic Animal ER
(HD) 4.35—5.00am Secrets of the Zoo (HD)

9.00am Planet Earth II (AD) (HD)
12 noon Planet Earth (AD) (HD)
3.00pm Planet Earth II (AD) (HD)
6.00 Planet Earth: three episodes. The
influence of the sun and how its
seasonal journey affects all creatures
7.00 From seals and crocodiles to
piranhas and water-loving monkeys, a
focus on the wildlife found in the
world’s rivers 8.00 David
Attenborough looks at life in the world’s
darkest caves (AD) (HD) 9.00 Planet
Earth II: three episodes. Footage of
animals that live in the desert 10.00
David Attenborough looks at wildlife
that inhabits the world’s grasslands
11.00 Footage of wild animals that have
made their homes in cities (AD) (HD)
12 midnight Planet Earth (AD) (HD)
3.00am Planet Earth II (AD) (HD)
5.30—6.00am The Zoo (HD)

Nat Geographic Sky 129 Virgin 183
+1 Sky 229 Virgin 383

Eden Sky 166 Virgin HD 176
+1 Sky 266 Virgin 376

Sky History

Animal Planet

6.00am Forged in Fire Armed Forces
Tournament (HD) 7.00 Salvage Kings
(HD) 8.00 American Pickers (HD) 9.00
Pawn Stars (HD) 10.00 Auction Hunters
(HD) 11.00 Secrets of the Viking Stone
(HD) 12 noon River Hunters Special
(HD) 1.00pm Salvage Kings (HD) 2.00
Cities of the Underworld (HD) 3.00
Swamp People: Serpent Invasion 5.00
Pawn Stars (HD) 6.00 American Pickers
(HD) 7.00 Forged in Fire Armed Forces
Tournament (HD) 8.00 Shipwrecks:
When History Resurfaces (HD) 9.00
Bloody Boston (S) (HD) 10.00 First
Blood (S) (HD) 11.00 History’s Greatest
Myths (S) (HD) 12 midnight Pawn Stars
(HD) 1.00am as 8pm 2.00 Clash of
Ancient Warriors (HD) 3.00 as 3pm
5.00—6.00am American Pickers (HD)

8.00am Animal Cribs (S) (HD) 9.00
Dodo Heroes (S) (AD) (HD) 10.00 Dogs
101 (S) (HD) 11.00 Alaska: Homestead
Rescue (S) (HD) 12 noon Animal Cribs
(S) (HD) 1.00pm Dodo Heroes (S) (HD)
2.00 From Wags to Riches (S) (HD)
3.00 Pit Bulls and Parolees: Tia’s Tales
(S) (HD) 4.00 Bad Dog! (S) (HD) 5.00
Alaska: Homestead Rescue (S) (HD)
6.00 Animal Cribs (S) (HD) 7.00 Dodo
Heroes (S) (HD) 8.00 I’m Alive (S) (AD)
9.00 I Was Prey: a man who found a
grizzly bear outside his cabin (S) (AD)
(HD) 10.00 Alaskan Bush People (S)
(HD) 11.00 Project Grizzly (S) (HD)
1.00am Alaskan Bush People (S) (HD)
2.00 Bad Dog! (S) (HD) 3.00 Alaska:
Homestead Rescue (S) (HD)
4.00—5.00am Animal Cribs (S) (HD)

Sky History Sky 123 Virgin 133
BT 353/HD 368 +1 Sky 223 Virgin 333

Animal Planet Sky 162 (NI 178) Virgin 178
+1 Sky 262 (NI 278) Virgin 378

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Sky Main Event

TNT Sports 1

Sky 401 Virgin 511/HD 501 BT 420/HD 440

Sky 410 Virgin 527 BT 408/HD 430

6.00am Sky Sports News

6.00am Down the Clubhouse (AD)
7.00 Wrestling (AD) 9.00 Rallying
Highlights 9.30 Fishing (AD)

7.45 LIVE Netball World Cup
Double bill of placement games.
12 noon Sky Sports News
2.30pm LIVE Cricket: the
Hundred Southern Brave v
Welsh Fire, the women’s match.
6.00 Sky Sports News
7.00 LIVE Championship
Football Sheffield Wednesday
v Southampton (kick-off 8.00).
10.30 LIVE PGA Tour Golf The
Wyndham Championship, day two.
11.00 Sky Sports News
3.25am LIVE International
Rugby Union New Zealand v
Australia (kick-off 3.35).
5.35—6.00am Sky Sports News

Sky Football
Sky 403 Virgin 513/HD 503 BT 422/HD 442
6.00am Classic Play-Off Finals 8.30
Greatest Games 10.00 Championship
Retro 12 noon Championship Season
Review 1.00pm League Cup Football
2.00 EFL Play-Offs 5.00 Best Goals
5.30 Championship Season Review
6.30 The Rise of Jude Bellingham

7.00 LIVE Championship
Football Sheffield Wednesday
v Southampton (kick-off 8.00).
10.30 The Rise of Jude Bellingham
11.00 Celtic’s Invincibles 12 midnight
Best Goals 12.30am The Rise of Jude
Bellingham 1.00 League Cup Football
2.00 EFL Play-Off Finals (AD)
5.00—6.00am Greatest Games (AD)

Sky Golf
Sky 405 Virgin 515/HD 505 BT 424/HD 444
6.00am PGA Tour 10.00 Legends
Tour 10.30 Challenge Tour Golf 11.00
Countdown to the Ryder Cup 11.30
Legends Tour 12 noon Challenge Tour
12.30pm Countdown to the Ryder
Cup 1.00 Ladies European Tour Golf

2.00 LIVE Ladies European Tour
Golf Day two of the Scottish Open.
6.00 LIVE PGA Tour Golf The
Wyndham Championship, day two.
11.00 Legends Tour Golf 11.30 Ladies
European Tour Golf 1.30am Legends
Tour Golf 2.00 Ladies European Tour
Golf 3.00 PGA Championship Official
Film 4.00 Ladies European Tour Golf
5.00—6.00am School of Golf (AD)

Sky Arena
Sky 408 Virgin 518/HD 508 BT 427/HD 447
6.00am Boxing 7.00 Super League

7.45 LIVE Netball World Cup
Placement games. More 2.45pm.
12 noon Super League
12.45pm WNBA: Sun v Lynx
2.45 LIVE Netball World Cup
7.00 Super League: highlights
7.30 LIVE Super League
Warrington Wolves v Catalans
Dragons (kick-off 8.00).
10.15 Rugby League 1.00am
Netball 3.00 Super League
3.50 LIVE NRLW North
Queensland Cowboys v Brisbane
Broncos (kick-off 3.50).
5.50—6.00am Super League (AD)

Eurosport 1

10.30 LIVE Australian Rules
Football Western Bulldogs v
Richmond Tigers (bounce-up 10.50).
1.30pm MLB Plays of the Week (AD)
2.00 Champions League Football (AD)
2.30 Premier League Stories

3.00 LIVE International T20
Cricket West Indies v India from
Brian Lara Cricket Academy.

Championship Football
7.00pm Sky Football Sheffield
Wednesday hero Michael Smith

Sky Premier League
Sky 402 Virgin 512/HD 502 BT 421/HD 441
6.00am Classic Premier League 7.30
World Cup Breakfast 8.00 Best Goals
8.30 World Cup Breakfast 9.00 Good
Morning Transfers 10.00 Premier
League Football 5.00pm The Transfer
Show 5.30 100 Club 6.00 Legends
7.00 The Transfer Show 8.00 Preview
8.30 Stories 9.00 Soccerbox 10.00
Icons 10.30 Retro 12.30—6.00am
Classic Premier League

Sky Cricket
Sky 404 Virgin 514/HD 504 BT 423/HD 443
6.00am Cricket: the Hundred
1.00pm The Hundred Bitesize

2.30 LIVE Cricket: the Hundred
Southern Brave v Welsh Fire, the
women’s match at the Rose Bowl;
6.00 Southern Brave v Welsh Fire,
the men’s match at the Rose Bowl.
9.30 The Hundred Bitesize
10.00 Cricket: the Hundred
5.00—6.00am The Hundred Bitesize

Sky Action
Sky 407 Virgin 517/HD 507 BT 426/HD 446
6.00am Legends of Darts (AD)
6.30 The Darts Show
7.00 International Rugby Union

8.30 LIVE Rugby Union Taranaki
v Counties Manukau (kick-off 8.35).
10.30 The Darts Show 11.00 Boxing
12 noon Good Morning Football
3.00pm Darts 6.00 Pro-Football Talk
8.00 Boxing 11.00 NFL: Total Access
1.00am Pro-Football Talk
3.00 Rugby Championship

3.25am LIVE International
Rugby Union New Zealand v
Australia (kick-off 3.35).
5.35—6.00am My Icon (AD)

Sky Mix
Sky 416 Virgin 510 BT 429/HD 449
7.45—9.45am LIVE Netball
World Cup A placement match.
11.00—1.00pm LIVE NRL Penrith
Panthers v Melbourne Storm.
2.30—9.30 LIVE Cricket: the
Hundred Southern Brave v
Welsh Fire, women’s and men’s
matches from the Rose Bowl.

Eurosport 2
Sky 414 Virgin 522 BT HD 413

Sky 413 Virgin 521 BT HD 412

5.30am World University Games

6.00am Cycling 7.00 Hall of Fame
8.00 Triathlon 8.30 Cycling

7.30 LIVE World University
Games Men’s artistic gymnastics.

9.25 LIVE Cycling The Track
World Championships in Glasgow.
3.30pm World University Games
4.25 Cycling: Les Reines du Tour
5.10 LIVE Cycling The Track
World Championships in Glasgow.
9.30 Triathlon: preview
10.00 LIVE Triathlon US Open.

11.00 Surfing 12 noon Formula E
1.00pm Motor Racing 2.00 World
University Games 3.00 Motocross
4.15 Superbikes 4.30 Climbing

2.00am Cycling 3.00 Climbing
4.00 Superbikes 5.00—6.00am
World University Games: from China

5.30 LIVE Climbing World
Championships in Switzerland.
7.30 Motor Racing 8.00 Superbikes
10.00 Climbing 11.00 Playing Fields
11.30 Cycling 12.30am Olympics
1.00 Climbing 2.00 Motor Racing
3.00 World Superbikes 4.00 Cycling
5.00—6.00am Olympic Games

7.15 Premier League Football
10.15 Around the Block (AD) 10.30
World Rally 11.00 Wrestling (AD)

1.00am LIVE Wrestling WWE
Friday Night SmackDown action.
3.00 What Went Down (AD)
5.00—6.00am Premier League
Legends: two editions (AD)

TNT Sports 2
Sky 411 Virgin 528 BT 409/HD 431
6.00am Champions League Football

9.00 LIVE MotoGP The British
Grand Prix first practice session.
11.45 MotoGP Rewind
1.15pm LIVE MotoGP The British
Grand Prix second practice session.
4.15 MotoGP Rewind
5.00 LIVE MotoE The British
Grand Prix qualifying session.
5.45 Badminton Weekly (AD)
6.00 National League Football
7.00 LIVE Major League
Baseball Chicago Cubs v Atlanta
Braves at Wrigley Field (start 7.20).
10.30 MLB: off the Bat (AD)
11.00 Major League Baseball (AD)
12 midnight LIVE Major League
Baseball The night’s top game.
3.30am MLB: off the Bat (AD)
4.00—5.00am Down the Clubhouse

TNT Sports 3
Sky 417 Virgin 529 BT 410/HD 432
6.00am LIVE World Rally
Rally Finland, two special stages.
7.45 MLB: off the Bat (AD)
8.15 LIVE World Rally SS4.
9.15 Badminton Weekly (AD)
9.30 LIVE World Rally SS5.
10.15 What I Wore (AD) 10.30 Currie
Club 11.00 Champions League Football

Television

City Wildlife Rescue 8.00pm

SPORT

FRIDAY

Alexia: Labor Omnia Vincit
7.00pm Alexia Putellas

FRIDAY 4 AUGUST

12.30pm LIVE World Rally
Rally Finland, two special stages.
2.15 Joe Cole Cast
2.45 LIVE World Rally SS8.
3.30 What I Wore
4.00 LIVE World Rally SS9.
5.00 Down the Clubhouse (AD)
6.00 What Went Down (AD)
6.15 LIVE World Rally SS10.
7.30 Ariel Helwani Meets
8.00 Australian Rules Football
10.00 UFC (AD) 1.30am Champions
League Football (AD) 1.45 Premier
League Legends (AD) 2.15 World Rally
2.45 Badminton (AD) 3.00 UFC (AD)
5.00 World Rally 5.30—6.00am
Champions League Football (AD)

TNT Sports 4
Sky 421 Virgin 530 BT 411/HD 434
6.00am LIVE Badminton The
Australia Open, further coverage
of the quarter-finals from Sydney.
1.30pm Major League Baseball
7.30 Triathlon (AD) 8.00 Fishing:
on the Bank (AD) 9.00 Poker (AD)
1.00am Australian Rules Football
3.00—6.00am LIVE Badminton
The Australia Open semi-finals.
Coverage continues until 1.30pm.

Amazon Prime
5.00pm, 12 midnight LIVE
Tennis Washington Open, the
men’s and women’s quarter-finals
from HG FitzGerald Tennis Center.

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Listen
Composer of the Week Anniversary Special
Monday—Friday 12 noon Radio 3
EETHOVEN IS AT number one with
119 series, Mozart (106) and Bach
(99) at numbers two and three.
John Coltrane has never got on to
the list, nor his wife Alice – but they
will do soon. In between come
every composer you have ever heard of, and
quite a few you probably haven’t.
We’re talking one of BBC radio’s greatest institutions – second only to Desert Island Discs in its
longevity, a programme that remains a true
repository of the Reithian aspiration to inform,
educate and entertain.
So, as Composer of the Week turns 80, what’s
the secret of its success? Well placed to answer
that is the programme’s longtime presenter,
Donald Macleod. “I think it’s the placing of the
music in context, so that you understand the
circumstances around the period, and around
the composer,” he says. “And the little anecdotes
about, say, the composer’s favourite dish. Listeners love the biographical details – the gruesome
death, of course! I think I’ve become a bit of a
specialist in that.” Composers like poor old
Modest Mussorgsky of Pictures at an Exhibition
fame – destitute, alcoholic and dead at 42.
Macleod has been the voice of CotW since
1999, a stint he describes as “the greatest privilege. I’ve learnt so much.” But having just turned
70, he’s easing off, and from time to time in
recent months, listeners have instead heard Kate
Molleson at the helm.

GETTY; ALAMY; RADIO TIMES ARCHIVE; VICTORIA BELIM; SHUTTERSTOCK

A

S ONE OF the presenters of The New
Music Show and Music Matters who
occasionally also sits in for Petroc
Trelawny in the breakfast slot, Molleson
knows her way round Radio 3. But such is the
stature of CotW that when she was asked to
present it, she admits to being daunted. “How do
you come into a programme that has the iconic
sound of one voice so completely associated with
it?” she says.
What swung it for her was the knowledge that
while she and everyone else involved would
always want the programme to retain its core
identity, “I’d also be able to do things my own
way”. She cites her first CotW back in May as a
good example. The subject was 20th-century
iconoclast Gyorgy Ligeti. “We decided we
weren’t just going to tell the story straight. I had
the pianist Danny Driver with me, sitting at the
piano, opening the music up in a really unintimidating way. I loved doing that week.”
The programme has never stayed still in its
choice of subjects, with plenty of less wellknown names – and numerous jazz figures –
being honoured. But with the arrival of
Molleson, who last year published a book about
radical 20th-century composers, there is a sense
that CotW will branch out further still, hence

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THE PICK OF THE BEST

TOP FIVE
Clockwise
from top left,
Beethoven,
Mozart, Handel,
Bach and Haydn
have featured
the most often
over the past
80 years

WIG OUT!

After 80 years, Radio 3’s Composer of the Week
is ready to shake up the classical repertoire
the John/Alice Coltrane week
coming up later in the year. No
African composers have yet
featured – partly because of a lack
of recorded material – but that,
too, is likely to change.
There is still plenty of continuity
in Molleson’s arrival, not least in
the programme’s Scottish accent.
Macleod was born and brought up
in Glasgow, while Molleson, 38, was
born and still lives in Edinburgh.
Macleod is looking forward to
spending more time at the family
home in the Scottish Highlands, but
is keen to stress that he’s not retiring
just yet. I asked him if he remembers
his first ever CotW. “Oh yes. The
composer was Grieg. I told a story

COMPOSER OF THE
WEEK LANDMARKS

HOW IT BEGAN
First appearance in
RT, in 1943. Below:
Donald Macleod

that he kept in his pocket, and before he went
on stage to perform he would give it a little rub
– a good-luck charm.”
And good luck, Composer of the Week. Next
stop, 100! SIMON O’HAGAN

COMPOSERS FEATURED
TO DATE Around 1,400
FIRST FEMALE
COMPOSERS FEATURED
Fanny Mendelssohn and
Clara Schumann Aug 1988
FIRST BLACK
COMPOSER
Duke Ellington May 1985
FIRST NON-EUROPEAN
Four Americans: John
Alden Carpenter, Samuel
Barber, Roy Harris,
Edward MacDowell May 1945
FIRST SOUTH AMERICAN
Heitor Villa-Lobos April 1977
FIRST AUSTRALIAN
Percy Grainger November 1996
FIRST ASIAN
Toru Takemitsu February 2018
On this week’s Composer of
the Week Donald Macleod
recalls his favourite
composer conversations

RadioTimes 29 July–4 August 2023

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LITERATURE

Book of the Week:
The Rooster House
Mon—Fri 9.45am (FM), 12.30am R4

FIONA HUGHES

ARTS DOCUMENTARY

In the Studio
Tuesday 11.30am BBC World Service
If coming up with new stories for
any fictional hero created by a
previous author is a challenge,
writing the further adventures of
Agatha Christie’s Belgian grandee
Hercule Poirot is potentially a
poisoned chalice. But English crime
author Sophie Hannah has been
doing just that, at the request of
the Christie estate, since 2014. With
five Poirot novels now under her
belt — her latest, Hercule Poirot’s
Silent Night, is published this
autumn — she discusses the fine art
of keeping old fans happy in new
times. CAROLINE FROST

DOCUMENTARY

Archive on 4: Shticks
and Stones — Jewish
Comedy and
Antisemitism
Saturday 8.00pm Radio 4
Comedian David Schneider’s
fascination with Jewish humour
and how it has formed Jewish
identity is given full rein here. Using
clips from the likes of Lenny Bruce
and Mel Brooks, Schneider (above)
explores early Yiddish theatre and
how Jewish wit has had to adapt in
times of rising antisemitism and
a world where social media has
influence. JEREMY ASPINALL

DRAMA

AMBRIDGE DIARY

The Venice Conundrum

The Archers

Sunday 3.00pm Radio 4

Sunday—Friday 7.00pm Radio 4

The late Jan Morris (left) is best known for two
things: her superlative travel writing and her
gender reassignment. In this drama by
Robin Brooks the two are intertwined,
with extracts from Morris’s acclaimed
book on Venice — first written as a
married family man — and her memoir
of transitioning, Conundrum, playing
off each other to striking effect.
Morris’s multifaceted descriptions
of La Serenissima reflect the
complex issues she
confronts in her memoir.
DAVID CRAWFORD

Yevgeny Prigozhin has nothing on
Eddie Grundy — but is the “coup de
fête” destined to go the same way
as the Wagner group’s putsch?
Lynda (Carole Boyd, above) and
Joy think they have found the
Grundys’ weak link and vow to
uncover the truth. The Bridge Farm
Archers are plotting to bag the deal
to supply the new Grey Gables, but
Helen is torn between the business
and everything else. Meanwhile,
Brad finds himself on the spot and
there’s an opportunity for Stella
— until disaster strikes. DC

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Victoria Belim (left) was born in
Kyiv and emigrated to Chicago at
the age of 15. The memoir of her
Ukrainian family begins with a 2014
trip to her grandmother’s house in
the centre of the country. In
nearby Poltava, the sinister
Rooster House, so named
for the decorations either
side of the doors of this
former KGB building, casts
a deep shadow. Through her
family stories, Victoria begins
to uncover the history of
Ukraine’s resistance.

Listen
QUEEN OF
TRUE CRIME
COMEDY

Cat/Person

Agatha Christie’s obsession
with a real unsolved murder
PICK
OF THE
WEEK

ALAMY; GETTY

Anyone who had given up hope
of finding an audio sitcom that
actually makes them laugh will
be delighted to learn that this
two-hander (or, more strictly, one
hand, one paw) about a depressed
middle-aged man talking to his
sarcastic, egotistical cat is really,
really good. Written by Chris Heath
(who plays down-in-the-dumps
Matthew) and co-starring Sue
Vincent (of Shameless and Alma’s
Not Normal) as Hobson the cat,
the short episodes don’t waste
a second. Purr-fect comedy —
with heart. ANNA JONES

TRUE CRIME

Agatha Christie and
the Dandelion Poisoner

In this Audible production, American Joe
Nocera, the host of The Shrink Next Door,
comes to the UK to exhume a real-life
murder case that had fascinated the queen
of cosy crime back in the days when the Golden Age of Crime
Fiction was being born amid the Golden Age of the English Murder.
It was a time when disposing of somebody was only slightly less
shameful than divorce. Most episodes begin with a very
contemporary “if you’ve been affected by…” health warning. That
done, it will gleefully explore the gory mechanics of hanging, reach
for the sawing sound effect to announce an autopsy is taking place
and again recount Agatha’s legendary lost weekend in Harrogate,
because this is, after all, entertainment. DAVID HEPWORTH

DOCUMENTARY

TRUE CRIME

DOCUMENTARY

DISCUSSION

The Town That
Knew Too Much

The Crossbow Killer

LA Made:
The Barbie Tapes

Conflict of Interest

Tucked away on the edge of the
Cotswolds, Cheltenham is an
unassuming place, famous for its
horse racing and mineral springs.
This image may be intentional; the
town is also home to GCHQ and
has been at the centre of global
espionage for over a century.
In this eight-part series, Nick Hilton
meanders through Cheltenham’s
evolution from Regency spa town
to the focus of the explosive
Snowden files in a verbose but
absorbing narrative. TOM GOULDING

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In 2019, a pensioner was fixing
the satellite dish on his cottage
in Anglesey when he collapsed
with what he thought was a heart
attack. The gruesome truth was
that he’d been shot by a crossbow,
causing injuries from which he
never recovered. A huge police
investigation ensued, but with
no witnesses, forensic evidence
(except for the arrow) or clues to
motive, could this “medieval-style
execution” be solved? Six
fascinating episodes unravel this
bizarre mystery. JEREMY ASPINALL

The second series of LA Made,
a podcast devoted to the stories
of Californian innovators, homes
in on Barbie and her creator Ruth
Handler, who was the founder
of Mattel. A main contributor is
MG Lord, the fabulously droll
author of Forever Barbie, the
Unauthorised Biography of a Real
Doll. To her mind, the goddess
archetype with no nipples, this
“hussey hunk of plastic”, was made
by women to teach women what’s
expected of them. FIONA HUGHES

Imperial War Museums got into the
podcast market in 2021 by inviting
celebrities to ask basic questions
about modern conflict that the rest
of us are too embarrassed to ask.
Curators and eyewitnesses provide
the answers. A successful debut
series was followed by a second.
Many listeners may swoop first on
Eddie Izzard and Russell Tovey
learning about Korea and Berlin
respectively. But also try playwright
James Graham finding out exactly
what provoked Northern Ireland’s
Troubles. DAVID McGILLIVRAY
RadioTimes 29 July–4 August 2023

Streams of
Conscıousness
THE PICK OF THE BEST AUDIO ON DEMAND

D AV I D H E P W O R T H

The podcast is a sympathetic
medium — as Dele Alli discovered
CURRENT AFFAIRS

SCI-FI DRAMA

Page 94

Boom

Private Eye has always been an
outlier in the press landscape, not
least in having no web version of
its print product. But it does have
a podcast — now more than 80
editions into its life. Page 94 is not
so much a repository of jokes as a
platform for some incisive chat
about the kind of issues —
essentially, power, politics and the
media — that the magazine most
cares about. Eye insiders including
Ian Hislop, Adam Macqueen and
Helen Lewis pop up regularly,
and it’s a good, snappy listen.

What caused US energy giant Enron
to collapse in 2001? Fraudulent
accountancy or, as this sci-fi drama
suggests, a shadowy organisation
from the future? As a second season
begins, fans will know the answer —
if you’re new, catch up quickly. The
intrigue doesn’t lessen as the fall
guy, Enron accountant Jim, finds
his life further constricted by his
supposed destiny. Enron’s gung-ho
atmosphere is neatly skewered, and
if you get a Proustian rush from
Nokia ringtones, the turn-of-themillennium cultural references are
a nostalgic delight. DAVID CRAWFORD

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GENUINE EXCLUSIVES ARE very rare in
the world of football. But there’s no
disputing the fact that Gary Neville’s recent
chat with fallen prodigy Dele Alli (in which
the former England star spoke of his traumatic upbringing and a recent addiction to
sleeping pills) was a copper-bottomed example. The fact that the biggest story of the
close-season was taken not to the sports
broadcasters or the tabloids but instead to
The Overlap, which is either a podcast or a
YouTube channel depending how you feel,
seemed like a changing of the guard.
In the past, the danger of entrusting such a
confession to traditional outlets was that they
would eliminate the important details or
saddle the story with a misleading headline.
Now it’s different. If you’ve got a long story to
tell, and people in a crisis usually do, it makes
sense to take it to a medium that has all the
time in the world and won’t interrupt you in
its haste to get the top of the hour.

“If you believe something without
evidence, then that justifies
anything,” says evolutionary
biologist Richard Dawkins. His new
podcast, unsurprisingly, contains
plenty of critical thinking and
strong, rational arguments for the
value of science. What is surprising,
however, is that his first guest is
Ricky Gervais. This was recorded at
an awards event in 2019, but it still
contains plenty of robust debate,
despite a shimmering of showbiz
glamour. AJ

NE OF THE first things Alli said
was that he was doing this
interview to forestall an
imminent story in the press,
which would probably be less
sympathetic. It also probably helped that he was
conf iding in a former
footballer, somebody who
knows what it’s like to go
out and try to do their job
STORY
in front of a hostile crowd.
TO TELL
Everton’s
Big footballers used to rely
Dele Alli
on media contacts to get their
stories out, either as a result of
cash payments or personal relationships
cultivated over a long period. Thanks to digital media, football stars don’t have to entrust
their stories to people who buy ink by the
barrel. A superstar like Cristiano Ronaldo
now has 600 million followers on Instagram.
It’s no longer the case that they want publicity. What they want is a little understanding.
As services like The Overlap prove, when it
comes to media power in sport these days,
the boot is on the other foot.
See David’s pick of the week, Agatha Christie and
the Dandelion Poisoner, top left opposite page

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SATURDAY Radio
TODAY’S CHOICES

BBC Radio 1

SATURDAY

97.6—99.8 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio1
F’view* 700 F’sat 700 Sky 0101 Virgin 901
6.00am Happy 7.00 Dance Weekend
10.00 Anthems 10.30 Katie Thistleton
1.00pm Dance Weekend: Live in Ibiza
4.00 Dance Anthems in Ibiza 12.00
Drum ’n’ Bass Show 1.00am Drum ’n’
Bass Mix-DNB60 2.00 Classic Essential
Mix 4.00 Dance Anthems 5.00 Relax

8.00 Dermot O’Leary

11.45 New Generation Artists

Music, chat and guests, today with Paul
Merton ahead of his residency at this
year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

3/8. Hannah French continues a summer series
showcasing the talents of the scheme.
Brahms String Quartet No 1 in C minor, Op 51 No 1
Leonkoro Quartet.
Piazzolla Le Grand Tango Santiago CañónValencia (cello), Ryan Corbett (accordion).

6.00am Sounds of the 60s

Radio

10.00 Claudia Winkleman
1.00pm Pick of the Pops

The Kitchen Cabinet

Paul Gambaccini with the Top 20s
from this week in 1980 and 1990.

10.30am Radio 4 FM

Rptd Mon 3am (1980) and Tue 3am (1990)

4.00pm Radio 3
This year’s Womad festival is in
full cry, and today Lopa Kothari
introduces the first of two
selections of live sets and
recorded highlights (more
tomorrow 10pm). The star turn
is world music royalty Femi Kuti
and his funky Afrobeat, who is live
tomorrow, but today’s taster
includes Zimbabwe’s Mokoomba
and flameco singer Israel
Fernandez. Tomorrow also
features the latest chapter in
the long-running collaboration
between Welsh harpist Catrin
Finch and Colombia’s Cimarrón.
FIONA HUGHES

ADAM HOWLING

THIS WEEK’S
HIGHLIGHTS See p111

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Shticks and Stones:
Jewish Comedy and
Antisemitism
8.00pm Radio 4
Exploration by David Schneider.

7.00am Breakfast With Elizabeth Alker.
9.00 Summer Record Review

Tony Blackburn spins US and UK hits.

BBC Radio 2

Music Planet: Womad
2023

News and weather 7.00am, 8.00 and 1.00pm

Andrew McGregor with a detailed look at classic
recordings and new releases, plus regular features.
9.30 Proms Composer Composer William Mival
discusses five indispensable recordings of
pieces by Felix Mendelssohn.
11.05 Proms Recording A Building a Library
recommendation of a work featured in this year’s
BBC Proms, today with Andrew discussing a recording
of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring by the Philharmonia
Orchestra conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.

88—90.2 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio2
F’view* 702 F’sat 702 Sky 0102 Virgin 902

Returning for its 41st series, it’s
likely to be the all-round
bonhomie and good humour
that keeps The Kitchen Cabinet
as a favourite Saturdaymorning snack for Radio 4
listeners — although there’s no
point denying that for some it
comes across as a smug foodie
love-in that has little time for
veganism. Today’s edition
comes from Henley-on-Thames
in Oxfordshire and among the
panellists is Tom Kerridge, who
has three gastropubs plus a
butcher’s shop in nearby
Marlow. Adding Kerridge to the
mix promises a veritable
smorgasbord of banter as
neither he nor host Jay Rayner
are ever lost for words. The
other panellists are Dr Zoe
Laughlin, Lerato Umah-Shaylor
and Ixta Belfridge. Tuck in and
enjoy. ANNA JONES

BBC Radio 3
90.2—92.4 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio3
Freeview* 703 Freesat 703 Sky 0103 Virgin 903

3.00 Rylan on Saturday
6.00 Liza Tarbuck
8.00 Sounds of the 80s
10.00 Sounds of the 90s
Hour 2 repeatedThursday 3am

12.00 Clive Myrie’s Amazing
Women of Jazz
3/3. Clive Myrie celebrates singer/
songwriter Amy Winehouse (1983—
2011). With input by songwriting
collaborators Luke Smith (Take the
Box) and Jimmy Hogarth (Help
Yourself), vocal coach Annabel
Williams, musical director Dale Davis,
singer Jamie Cullum and more.
1.00am Dance Sounds of the 90s
with Vernon Kay A themed playlist.
2.00 Radio 2 All Stars
Dermot O’Leary invites Radio 2
specialist presenters Mark Radcliffe
(folk), Cerys Matthews (blues) and Jamie
Cullum (jazz) to discuss their careers
behind the mic, including anecdotes.
3.00 Sounds of the 80s Mega
Mastermix Mixes from Gary Davies’s
show, from ABC to the Pet Shop Boys.
4.00 Radio 2 in Concert
Tina Turner in June 1987 in London. (R)
5.00 Tracks of My Years
Omnibus edition with Johnnie Walker.

BBC 6 Music
DAB bbc.co.uk/6music
Freeview 707 Freesat 707 Sky 0120 Virgin 909
6.00am Amy Lamé
8.00 Radcliffe and Maconie
10.00 The Huey Show In this third
instalment marking 50 years of hip-hop,
by decade, Huey Morgan presents a
1990s-themed hip-hop Block Party mix.
1.00pm Jamz Supernova
3.00 Gilles Peterson
6.00 The Craig Charles Funk
and Soul Show
9.00 Sherelle The second of three
shows in which she sits in for the
Blessed Madonna (Marea Stamper).
12.00 Lose Yourself with...
2.00am Late in the Day
4.00 The Morning After Mix

Greatest Hits
DAB greatesthitsradio.co.uk
F’view 716 Sky 0151 Regional variations on FM/MW
6.00am Jenny Powell 10.00 Mark
Goodier 1.00pm Richard Allinson 4.00
Anthems 5.00 Paul Gambaccini
7.00 Kate Thornton 10.00 Rhythm
of the Night 1.00am Music Marathon

Boom Radio
DAB boomradiouk.com
6.00am Dave Jamieson 8.00 Roger
Day 10.00 Rob Jones 12.00 David
Hamilton 2.00pm Jenny Hanley 4.00
John’s Jukebox 7.00 Saturday Soul
9.00 Graham Torrington 12.00 Night
Ride 2.00am Through the Night

12.30pm This Classical Life
Jess Gillam is joined by baritone James Newby to
share musical discoveries, including Mozart,
Howells, John Adams and Elwyn-Edwards.

1.00 Inside Music
Violinist Cathy Thompson discusses a piece by
Debussy, music by Michael Nyman and a 2000
re-recording by Joni Mitchell of one of her signature
1960s songs. She also discusses the use of jazz
techniques in performing a Debussy sonata. (R)

3.00 Sound of Cinema
Following the release of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie — with
music by rock and pop composers Mark Ronson and
Andrew Wyatt — Matthew Sweet considers cinema’s
fascination with the colour pink. He goes in search
of the perfect “pink score”. Featuring highlights of
scores by Rolfe Kent (Legally Blonde, Mean Girls),
Theodore Shapiro (The Devil Wears Prada) and more.

4.00 Music Planet: Womad 2023

Lopa Kothari presents the first of two
programmes of highlights from the four-day
4
Womad festival which kicked off on Thursday in
Wiltshire. Including yesterday’s sets from Zimbabwean
group Mokoomba and Spanish flamenco singer
Israel Fernández. Continues tomorrow 10pm.

5.30 J to Z
Another chance to hear a special edition first
broadcast last October for Black History Month,
with presenter Kevin Le Gendre joined by flautist
and composer Nicole Mitchell to explore jazz,
Aftrofuturism and beyond. Featuring recordings
by Sun Ra, Alice Coltrane and others. Mitchell also
shares some of her favourite Afrofuturist tracks,
including recordings by Nala Sinephro, Moor
Mother and the Jimi Hendrix Experience. (R)

6.30 BBC Proms

From the Royal Albert Hall in London, Petroc
Trelawny introduces the Scottish Chamber
n
Orchestra and top soloists in a performance of
Mendelssohn’s oratorio Elijah, one of the most

Scala Radio
DAB scalaradio.co.uk
7.00am Danielle Perry Sitting in for Hannah Cox.
Including at 8.00 the Piano Playlist.
10.00 Angellica Bell Including after 11.00 a guest
from the arts and entertainment world.
1.00pm Mark Kermode With film music.
3.00 Jack Pepper’s Culture Bunker Classical music,
including stories behind individual works.
5.00 The Console with Luci Holland New, popular
and emerging scores from video games.
6.00 Ayanna Witter-Johnson Personal picks and
anecdotes from the cellist, singer and composer.
8.00 Saturday Night Scala With Darren Redick.
10.00 The Space Soothing and calming music.
1.00am Night Music 5.00 In the Park

Asian Network
DAB bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork
F’view 709 F’sat 709 Sky 0119 Virgin 912
6.00am The Everyday Hustle 7.00 Motivation 8.00
Smash Bengali 10.00 Certified 11.00 Beyond Bollywood
1.00pm Mehreen Baig and Kan D Man 3.00 Certified
Throwbacks 4.00 Amber Sandu 6.00 Panjabi Hit
Squad 9.00 Pure Spice 12.00 SOS Bhangra Mix 1.00am
Asian Network Takeover 3.00 Panjabi Hit Squad

popular works in the British choral repertoire.
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Rowan Pierce
(soprano), Helen Charlston (mezzo), Andrew
Staples (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone),
Scottish Chamber Orchestra Chorus and
Orchestra, conductor Maxim Emelyanychev
Mendelssohn Elijah, Part 1
7.30 Interval Deborah Rooke, lecturer in Old
Testament hermeneutics at Oxford, joins Petroc in
the Radio 3 box to discuss the theological
significance of the story of Elijah.
7.50 Elijah, Part 2

10.00 New Music Show
Innovative new music in live performance, tonight
featuring Nakul Krishnamurthy’s One Million Dancing
Shivas in the world premiere of a version written
for London chamber group Explore Ensemble. Also, in
a UK premiere performance recorded in early July
at the Spitalfields Festival in east London, soprano
Mimi Doulton sings Michael Finnissy’s Edda. And in a
festival concert from last October at Donaueschingen
Musiktage in Germany, the premiere performance
of Lula Romero’s Parallax for orchestra. Plus the
Inspirations feature, today with London composer
and improviser Lawrence Dunn sharing some music
that inspires him. Presented by Kate Molleson.

12.00 Freeness
For nearly six decades, composer, saxophonist and
flautist Henry Threadgill (now 79) has been an
illustrious figure in “post jazz”. He is a core
member of Chicago’s Association for the
Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), a
pioneering body both for forward-thinking music
and a radical approach to education. Threadgill’s
new book, Easily Slip into Another World, is a vivid
memoir from a true polymath. To mark its recent
release he joins Corey Mwamba for reflections on
improvising, composing, and nurturing creativity.

1.00am Through the Night With Jonathan Swain.
Bach Gavotte en rondeau (Partita No 3 in E, BWV1006)
Villa-Lobos Prelude No 1 in E minor (Five Preludes)
Oscar Ghiglia (guitar) Debussy Petite suite Anne-Marie
McDermott and Andre-Michel Schub (piano) Barber
Souvenirs, Op 28 (excerpts) Anne-Marie McDermott and
Wu Han (piano) Bizet Jeux d’enfants Jean-Efflam
Bavouzet and Wu Han (piano) Beethoven Trio in E flat,
Op 38 (excerpts) Hindemith Clarinet Quartet, Op 30 (2nd
mvt) Schumann Six Studies in Canonical Form, Op 56
(selection) Matthias Glander (clarinet), Michael Barenboim
(violin), Kerio Slotnikoff (cello), Elena Bashkirova (piano)
2.23 Gilson The Sea 3.01 Zelenka Requiem Mass in D
3.45 Fanny Mendelssohn Piano Trio in D minor, Op 11
4.10 Willaert A la fontaine du prez 4.16 Noskowski
The Highlander’s Fantasy 4.25 Piccinini Toccata;
Chiaccona (Mariona alla vera spagnola) 4.34 Trad, arr
Grainger Irish Tune from County Derry (Danny Boy)
4.38 Prokofiev Piano Sonata No 3 4.46 Tournier Vers
la source dans le bois 4.51 Auber Overture: Le cheval
de bronze 5.01 JC Bach Quintet in F for flute, oboe,
violin, viola and continuo 5.10 Chopin Rondo in C for
two pianos 5.21 Monteverdi Prologue: Il ritorno d’Ulisse
in patria 5.30 Dubois Flute Quartet 5.38 Felix
Mendelssohn Overture: Ruy Blas 5.46 Kogoj Piano
(selection) 5.54 Brahms, arr Rubbra Variations and
Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op 24 6.22 Handel
Laudate pueri Dominum, HWV237 6.42 Tchaikovsky
Fantasy Overture: Romeo and Juliet (R)

Classic FM
99.9—101.9 FM DAB classicfm.com
Freeview 731 Freesat 721 Sky 0106 Virgin 922
7.00am Alan Titchmarsh 10.00 Aled Jones
1.00pm Alexander Armstrong
4.00 Moira Stuart’s Classic FM Hall of Fame
Concert Classic FM Hall of Fame works played in
full, today featuring Handel, Beethoven, Satie,
Vaughan Williams, Rimsky-Korsakov, Horner,
J Strauss (son), Chopin and Tchaikovsky, with
recordings by the Vienna Philharmonic, pianist
Martha Argerich, the Sixteen and many more.
7.00 Saturday Night at the Movies Jonathan Ross
celebrates animal-related movies with highlights of
scores by Nigel Westlake (Babe), John Powell (Chicken
Run), John Williams (Jurassic Park) and others.
9.00 David Mellor’s Melodies
A classical playlist for a summer’s evening.
10.00 Calm Classics With Karthi Gnanasegaram.
1.00am Katie Breathwick 4.00 Sam Pittis

Absolute Radio
DAB absoluteradio.co.uk
Freeview 727 Freesat 724 Sky 0107 Virgin 915
8.00am Frank Skinner 11.00 Sarah Champion
2.00pm Emil Franchi 5.00 Ben Burrell 7.00 Classic
Rock Party 10.00 Ben Coley 4.00am Jennie Longdon

RadioTimes 29 July–4 August 2023

29 JULY SATURDAY
BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 5 Live
11.00 FM The Briefing Room

7.15 The Infinite Monkey Cage

6/18. David Aaronovitch and guests drill
down into an issue in the news. Rptd from Thu

News 5.30am, 6.00 and hourly to 10.00 (FM/LW);
11.00 and hourly to 6.00pm (FM); then 7.00 and
hourly to 12 midnight (FM/LW)
Weather 6.04am, 6.57, 7.57, 12.57pm (FM),
5.57 (FM), 12.15am
Shipping Forecasts 5.20am, 12.01pm (LW),
5.54pm, 12.48am

11.30 FM From Our Own Correspondent

6/7. Ancient DNA Secrets. Brian Cox
and Robin Ince look at the discovery of
Richard III’s remains. They are joined by
Horrible Histories’ Ben Willbond, ancient
DNA experts Professor Turi King and Dr Tom
Booth, and Nobel prize winner Paul Nurse.

5.30am News Briefing
5.43 Prayer for the Day
With Methodist preacher George Craig.
5.45 Living on the Edge
8/10. Portrush. The series focusing on life in
coastal locations travels to Northern Ireland and
hears from RNLI lifeboat volunteer Lisa
Abernethy. Lisa, originally from Warrington,
moved to Portrush several years ago. The RNLI
are a deeply embedded part of the community
in this small bustling harbour/seaside town, and
Lisa says volunteering gave her a sense of
belonging. Repeated from Wednesday

12.30 FM The Newsmakers

12.04pm FM Money Box
The latest from the world of personal finance.
Producer Amber Mehmood Repeated tomorrow 9pm

Your RT Money: page 136
Topical comedy as Rachel Parris delivers her
views on the week’s news. With contributions
from Rosie Holt, Michael Spicer, Bilal Zafar,
Emily Lloyd-Saini and Sam Pamphilon.
Repeated from yesterday (FM only)
Repeated Monday 11pm Radio 4 Extra

1.00 FM News
1.10 FM Any Questions?
Alex Forsyth chairs from Charfield Village
Hall in Gloucestershire. Panellists include the
shadow international trade secretary Nick
Thomas-Symonds. Repeated from yesterday

2.00 FM Any Answers?

4/11. Rose Ferraby explores the fossils on the
coast of Whitby in North Yorkshire, finding
out about research that sheds light on
changes to the marine environment
thousands of years ago. Repeated from Thursday

Listeners have their say on the week’s issues.

6.30 Farming Today This Week
7.00 Today

Dennis Potter’s unproduced screenplay of DM
Thomas’s novel. An analyst in 1930s Berlin
tries to uncover the source of his patient’s
trauma and receives a glimpse of the future.
Starring Anne-Marie Duff and Bill Paterson.

With Martha Kearney and Justin Webb.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day
With Hannah Malcolm.

9.00 Saturday Live
Nikki Bedi and Jason Mohammad present
the weekend entertainment show, on which
they are joined by US folk music great Peggy
Seeger, now 88, and the artist Alison Lapper.
Producer Ben Mitchell

10.00 You’re Dead to Me
4/13. Ancient Greek Democracy. Greg
Jenner is joined by Professor Michael Scott
and comedian Alice Fraser to explore
democracy in Ancient Greece.

PHONE: 0370 010 0444 Lines open from 12.30pm
EMAIL: any.answers@bbc.co.uk

2.30 FM Drama: Unmade Movies:
Dennis Potter’s The White Hotel

Narrator
Simon McBurney Kolya
Felix Jamieson
Lisa
Anne-Marie Duff Vera/Old woman/Wife
Probst
Bill Paterson
Jasmine Jones
The Lover
David Gyasi Maître d/Old man
Victor
Nigel Lindsay
Nick Underwood
Aunt Magda Morwenna Banks Various characters
Little Lisa
Tillie Murray
Wayne Forester
Producers Laurence Bowen and Peter Ettedgui
Director Jon Amiel (R)

4.15 FM Weekend Woman’s Hour
Highlights from the weekday programmes.

5.00 FM Saturday PM
News and sport with Caroline Wyatt.

Producers Greg Jenner and Emma Nagouse

5.30 FM All Consuming

10.30am—12.01pm; 12.04—5.54;
5.57—7.00 LW Test Match Special

2/10. Charlotte Stavrou and Amit Katwala
explore our culture of consumption through
products that have changed the world,
Today’s topic: glasses (as in eyewear).

England v Australia
Day three of the Fifth Test in the Ashes series
at the Oval. Jonathan Agnew, Isa Guha, Daniel
Norcross and Jim Maxwell commentate, with
analysis by Phil Tufnell, Michael Vaughan,
Glenn McGrath and Alastair Cook.
Producer Adam Mountford
*approximate times
Commentary also on Radio 5 Sports Extra at 10am

10.30 FM The Kitchen Cabinet

New series. 1/7. Jay Rayner is joined
by Dr Zoe Laughlin, Ixta Belfridge, Tom
4
Kerridge and Lerato Umah Shaylor in Henleyon-Thames.

Producer Dan Cocker Rptd Tue 3pm

Repeated from Thursday (FM only)

6.00 FM Six o’Clock News
6.15 FM Loose Ends
Clive Anderson and Sara Cox are joined by
Grayson Perry, Freema Agyeman, Dr Xand
van Tulleken and Ravinder Bhogal for an
eclectic mix of conversation, music and
comedy. With music from Suriname.

David Schneider weaves together clips
from film, TV and other media to
4
understand how Jewish humour adapted

during rising antisemitism, and how it
continues to change in the face of a new tide
both on and offline. See choice: page 111.

9.00 GF Newman’s The Corrupted
5/10. GF Newman’s family saga, bringing the
story into the 1990s. Sir Joseph Olinska is
charged with handling stolen gold bullion.
All series are available on BBC Sounds.
Sir Joseph Olinska Toby Jones
Brian Oldman Joe Armstrong
George Carmen/Tony Blair
Nigel Cooke
Brian Perry/DAC Henderson
Nicholas Murchie
Warder Peters/John Major/Judge
Kelman
Paul Kemp
Leah Cohen
Jasmine Hyde
Margaret Courtney
Flora Montgomery

Alex Murray/Inspector Vallins
John Hastings
Nurse Moriarty/Reggie Kray
Lucas Hare
Eddie Richardson Charles Davies
Pongo
Damian Lynch
Sonia Hope/Rita Sarah Lambie
Julian Tyrwhitt Jonathan Tafler
Lord Carson
Jamie Newall
Jack Braden John Hollingworth

Producer/Director Clive Brill (R)

9.45 The Skewer
6/8. Jon Holmes twists current affairs clips
into a surreal soundscape. Rptd from Wednesday

10.00 News
10.15 Add to Playlist
8/9. Fiddler Sam Sweeney and composer
Debbie Wiseman join Cerys Matthews and
Jeffrey Boakye to add five more tracks to the
playlist. They head musically from the ski
slopes to the ice rink, rounding off with a 1967
Etta James classic. Repeated from yesterday

11.00 The Third Degree
4/6. Three students from Keele University
take on their dons in the quiz show, hosted by
Steve Punt. The specialist subjects are film
studies, medicine and law. Repeated from Monday

11.30 Yeti
5/10. The Yeti Jewellers. Andrew Benfield
discovers that yetis are often seen by nomads
who make necklaces from yeti hair, and goes
in search of these travellers in the remote
district of Lo Mantang. Producer Joanna Jolly

12.00 News and Weather
12.15—12.45am Playing at Power

An insight into a topical figure.
Repeated tomorrow 5.45am and 5.40pm (FM only)

1.00 as BBC World Service

5.00 Good Omens Dramatisation by Dirk Maggs
of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s comic 1990
novel offering a different take on Armageddon.
With Peter Serafinowicz, Mark Heap, Phil Davis,
Neil Maskell and Josie Lawrence. From 2014 (6/6)
6.00 Neil Gaiman and Dirk Maggs in
Conversation A 2014 discussion between fantasy
writer Neil Gaiman and radio playwright and director
Dirk Maggs, who adapted Gaiman’s TV miniseries
Neverwhere and novel Good Omens for radio
6.15 Short Works Tony Flynn reads Paul McVeigh’s
Cuckoo, in which a sudden injury causes Ben to
look at himself in a brand new way. From 2019
6.30 Erebus as 12.30pm
7.45 The Fosdyke Saga 1983 comedy (12/13)
8.00 Not in Front of the Children 1969 comedy
8.30 Something to Shout About 1961 comedy
9.00 Charles Parker Prize as 3pm
10.00—12.00 Comedy Club: The Mitch Benn
Music Show (4/6), 10.30 Cowards (1/6), 11.00
Believe It! (1/4), 11.30 Old Harry’s Game (6/6)
12.00 Cold Storage Philip Levene’s comedy
drama in which a frozen-food manufacturer finds
his imagination running wild after he is locked in
a refrigerator. With Nigel Graham. From 1973
12.30am I Am Legend Richard Matheson’s
cult 1954 sci-fi (9/9) 1.00 as 5pm 2.00 as 6pm
2.15 as 6.15pm 2.30 as 6.30pm 3.45 as 1.45pm
4.00 as 2pm 4.30 as 2.30pm 5.00 as 3pm

DAB bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio
Freeview* 710 Freesat 711 Sky 0115 Virgin 906

Repeated tomorrow 9.30pm

7.00 Profile

BBC World Service

*Not available on Freeview in Scotland 4pm—1am. Key (R) Repeat

RadioTimes 29 July–4 August 2023

8.00 Archive on 4: Shticks and Stones:
Jewish Comedy and Antisemitism

Matthew Sweet tells the story of actor
Richard Burton and President Tito of
Yugoslavia — an episode in which celebrity
and politics, art and power collided on a film
set. Repeated from Sunday (FM only)

BBC Radio 4 Extra
DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4extra
Freeview 708 Freesat 708 Sky 0126 Virgin 910
6.00am Good Omens as 5pm
7.00 Neil Gaiman and Dirk Maggs in
Conversation as 6pm
7.15 Short Works as 6.15pm
7.30 Erebus as 12.30pm
8.45 The Fosdyke Saga 1983 comedy (12/13)
9.00 Not in Front of the Children 1969 comedy
9.30 Something to Shout About 1961 comedy
10.00 Charles Parker Prize as 3pm
11.00 Good Omens as 5pm
12.00 Neil Gaiman and Dirk Maggs in
Conversation as 6pm
12.15pm Short Works as 6.15pm
12.30 Erebus Michael Palin reads from his 2018
book about the mysterious and tragic voyage of HMS
Erebus in 1845. Abridged by Penny Leicester (1—5/5)
1.45 The Fosdyke Saga 1983 comedy (12/13)
2.00 Not in Front of the Children 1969 comedy
2.30 Something to Shout About 1961 comedy
3.00 Charles Parker Prize Sara Parker
introduces a new generation of students in radio
and audio production and storytelling, all winners
and finalists of the 2023 Charles Parker Prize
4.00 The Shadow of Mir Tale by Nick Fisher. How
will the crew of the Mir space station react when a
Russian bureaucrat arrives with a secret agenda?

Exec producer Alexandra Feachem Rptd Mon 4pm (FM only)

Programmes may differ online, and on Freesat, Sky, and Virgin

5.00am The Newsroom 5.30 The Lazarus
Heist 5.50 More or Less 6.00 Weekend 9.00
News 9.05 BBC OS Conversations 9.30 Pick of
the World 9.50 Over to You 10.00 News 10.05
Sports Hour 11.00 The Newsroom 11.30 Health
Check: the latest health issues 12.00 News
12.05pm The Documentary: Women Writing
Zimbabwe: why Zimbabwe has produced so
many talented women writers 1.00 Newshour
2.00 Sportsworld 6.00 The Newsroom 6.30
The Lazarus Heist: the North Korean hackers turn
to the dark web 6.50 Sporting Witness 7.00
News 7.05 The Inquiry 7.30 Outlook 8.00 News
8.05 The Arts Hour 9.00 Newshour 10.05
Music Life: Sampa the Great hosts a discussion
on African music 11.00 The Newsroom 11.20
Sports News 11.30 Tech Life 12.00 News
12.05am BBC OS Conversations 12.30 The
Lazarus Heist 12.50 Sporting Witness 1.00 News
1.05 Unexpected Elements 2.00 The Newsroom
2.30 Health Check 3.00 News 3.05 The
Documentary: Women Writing Zimbabwe 4.00
News 4.05 From Our Own Correspondent
4.30 The Explanation: Claire Graham unpacks
stories in the news 4.50 Sporting Witness

News and sport bulletin every half-hour
Times vary during live sports coverage

5.00am 5 Live Boxing
6.00 Saturday Breakfast With
Chris Warburton and Eleanor Oldroyd.
9.00 Patrick Kielty
11.00 5 Live Sport
Steve Crossman and Eleanor Oldroyd
present Ashes cricket commentary
on England v Australia on day three
of the Fifth Test, followed at 12.00
by Steve with coverage of the day’s
sport, including updates from the
Ashes. At 3.30 5 Live Formula One,
with commentary on the sprint of
the Belgian Grand Prix at the Circuit
de Spa-Francorchamps. From 4.30
there’s further sports coverage,
including updates from the Ashes,
followed at 5.00 by the Netball
World Cup, featuring commentary
on England v Malawi in Cape Town.
7.00 Jill Scott’s Coffee Club
The former footballer is joined by
Kieran Trippier and Callum Wilson.
7.30 Match of the Day: Top 10
Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer and
Micah Richards debate a Top Ten
of Premier League penalty-takers.
8.00 Jermain Defoe: Outside
the Box 11&12/12. Jermain visits
the bereaved parents of a young
mascot he befriended.

Radio

6.00 News and Papers
6.07 Open Country

With Kate Adie.

693, 909 MW DAB bbc.co.uk/fivelive
F’view 705 F’sat 705 Sky 0105 Virgin 905
Sports Extra F’view 706 F’sat 706
Sky 0131 Virgin 908

SATURDAY

92.4—94.6 FM 198 LW DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4
Freeview 704 Freesat 704 (FM) 710 (LW)
Sky 0104 (FM) 0130 (LW) Virgin 904 (FM) 911 (LW)

Available on BBC Sounds since April

9.00pm Stephen Nolan
12.00 Sport’s Strangest Crimes:
Marco Pantani: Death of a Pirate
3&4/10. Podcast series on the
death in 2004 of superstar Italian
cyclist Marco Pantani, aged 34.
1.00am Laura McGhie

BBC 5 Sports Extra
DAB bbc.co.uk/sports extra
F’view 706 F’sat 706 Sky 0131 Virgin 908
10.00am—7.00pm Test Match
Special Day three of England v
Australia in the Ashes’s Fifth Test.

Talksport
1053, 1089 MW DAB talksport.co.uk
F’view 723 F’sat 731 Sky 0108 Virgin 927
6.00am Sports Breakfast With
Natalie Sawyer and Tony Cascarino.
10.00 The Warm Up With Max
Rushden and Charlie Baker.
1.00pm Saturday Session
5.00 Following On: Ashes
Inquest Cricket analysis.
7.00 The Transfer Insiders
8.00 Fight Night Boxing news.
11.00 A Talksport Special
12.00 A Talksport Special
1.00am Extra Time

Talksport 2
DAB talksport.co.uk
6.00pm—11.00 PGA Tour Golf
Coverage of the 3M Open.

LBC
97.3 FM (London area) DAB lbc.co.uk
F’view 732 F’sat 734 Sky 0123 Virgin 919
7.00am Andrew Castle 10.00
Matt Frei 1.00pm Sangita Myska
4.00 Clare Foges 7.00 Natasha
Devon 9.00 The Legal Hour with
Daniel Barnett 10.00 Nick Abbot
1.00am Clive Bull 4.00 Ali Miraj

Times Radio
DAB thetimes.co.uk/radio
6.00am Chloe Tilley and Calum
Macdonald 10.00 Hugo Rifkind
1.00pm Alexis Conran 4.00
Ayesha Hazarika 7.00 Mariella
Frostrup 8.00 Stories of Our
Times 8.30 Best of Matt Chorley
9.00 Highlights 10.00 Darryl
Morris 1.00am Highlights

Listen live, catch up and follow your favourites at bbc.co.uk/sounds

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BBC Radio 1
97.6—99.8 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio1
F’view* 700 F’sat 700 Sky 0101 Virgin 901
6.00am Chillout Anthems 7.00 Dance
Weekend 10.00 Anthems 11.00 Dance
Weekend 12.00pm Future Soul 1.30am
UK R&B Mix 2.00 Decompression
Session 3.00 Chillout Anthems
4.00 Dance 5.00 Sam and Danni

Radio

SUNDAY

BBC Radio 2
88—90.2 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio2
F’view* 702 F’sat 702 Sky 0102 Virgin 902

6.00am Good Morning Sunday
The Rev Kate Bottley and Jason
Mohammad with faith discussion.

9.00 Steve Wright’s Sunday
Love Songs Personal dedications.
11.00 The Michael Ball Show
Guests include TV personality Jenny
Ryan (The Chase) — ahead of her
Edinburgh Festival Fringe show
— and comedian Ashley Baker.

The Dawn-Care

1.00pm Elaine Paige on Sunday

4.30pm Radio 4
Poetry lovers may well know
Helen Mort from her
appearances on Poetry Please,
The Verb and Woman’s Hour.
But this one-off programme is
something very different. Mort
takes an imaginative (and
poetic) look at uhtceare — the
Old English word for the anxiety
people experienced in the early
hours of the morning, the
modern translation for which
would be “dawn-care”. She is
joined by the historian Janina
Ramirez, medievalist Eleanor
Parker and author and
adventurer Maria Coffey to
examine the causes of this kind
of anxiety — then and now. And
there’s a poem by Helen
herself, written during
pre-dawn wakings. ANNA JONES

BBC Proms
In the pursuit of accessibility,
the BBC Proms has quietly
dropped its long-running series
of Monday-lunchtime chamber
music concerts at London’s
Cadogan Hall (and, before that,
the V&A) in favour of a smaller
smattering of weekend
matinées sprinkled randomly
around the provinces. In
today’s choral concert from
Aberystwyth, originally
assigned to the BBC Singers
before they were cut (though
later reinstated), the Gesualdo
Six chart the history of the
madrigal from Renaissance
Italy to the present day.
MARK PAPPENHEIM

THIS WEEK’S
HIGHLIGHTS See p111
NICHOLAS STEVENSON

Drama: The Venice
Conundrum
3.00pm Radio 4
Honouring the writer Jan Morris.

The Archers
7.00pm Radio 4
The latest Ambridge Diary.

RT SHOP

3.00 Sounds of the 70s with
Johnnie Walker
5.00 Rob Beckett
7.00 Tony Blackburn’s
Golden Hour
8.00 Sunday Night Is Music
Night
Larry Blank conducts the BBC
Concert Orchestra in a celebration
of George Gershwin (1898—1937).
With stage stars Debbie Gravitte,
Doug LaBrecque and Rebecca
Trehearn and jazz vocalist Matt Ford.
The gems include Swanee, The Man I
Love, But Not for Me, I Got Rhythm
and Rhapsody in Blue — Overture.
Recorded in January 2017 at east
London’s Hackney Empire. (R)

10.00 Radio 2 Unwinds with
Angela Griffin
12.00 Phil Williams
3.00am Alternative Sounds of
the 90s with Dermot O’Leary
4.00 Owain Wyn Evans

BBC 6 Music

2.00pm Radio 3

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Music from Broadway, Hollywood and
the West End. Plus stage news, with
highlights from this year’s Edinburgh
Festival Fringe (4—28 August).

DAB bbc.co.uk/6music
Freeview 707 Freesat 707 Sky 0120 Virgin 909
6.00am Amy Lamé
8.00 Radcliffe and Maconie
10.00 Gideon Coe Eclectic playlist.
1.00pm Huw Stephens Repeated 1am
4.00 Iggy Pop Personal picks.
6.00 Now Playing @6Music
8.00 Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone
10.00 Don Letts’s
Culture Clash Radio
12.00 The Huey Show Presents
the Hip-Hop Mixtape 4/6. Aspects of
hip-hop. Today: graffiti artists. See Tue 3am
1.00am Huw Stephens (R)
4.00 BBC Introducing Mixtape
5.00 Chris Hawkins

Greatest Hits
DAB greatesthitsradio.co.uk
F’view 716 Sky 0151 Regional variations on FM/MW
6.00am Jenny Powell 10.00 Mark
Goodier 1.00pm Simon Mayo 4.00
Weekend Anthems 5.00 The Smash
Hits Years 7.00 Arlene Stuart
10.00 Andy Crane 1.00am Music
Marathon 4.00 Alex Lester

Boom Radio
DAB boomradiouk.com
7.00am Rod Whiting 10.00 Les
Ross 12.00 Vintage Charts of 1971
and 1981 2.00pm Dave Brown
4.00 Judi Spiers 6.00 Paul Robey
8.00 The Easy Hour 9.00 Chris
Difford’s Choices 10.00 Bill Bingham
12.00 Through the Night

BBC Radio 3
90.2—92.4 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio3
Freeview* 703 Freesat 703 Sky 0103 Virgin 903

read from texts by WB Yeats, Oscar Wilde, Paul
Laurence Dunbar, Arthur Schnitzler, Léopold Senghor,
Philip Larkin, Levi-Strauss and Lucretius. Plus
music by Offenbach, Bach, Schnittke and others.

News and weather 7.00am, 8.00 and 1.00pm

7.00am Breakfast With Martin Handley.
9.00 Sunday Morning With Sarah Walker
12.00 The Early Music Show

6.45 Between the Ears: Songs of the Sky

Lucie Skeaping presents Madrid ensemble
L’Apotheose in a concert of rarely performed
chamber works by Mannheim-born composer Carl
Stamitz (1745—1801), recorded on 13 July at the
York Early Music Festival.

1.00pm Choral Evensong
Wednesday’s service from Gloucester Cathedral,
during the Three Choirs Festival. Responses:
Randall Svane. Psalm 119, vv145—176 (Cooper,
Wesley, Miller, Hylton Stewart). First Lesson: Isaiah
49, vv8—13. Magnificat (Finzi, completed David
Bednall). Second Lesson: 2 Corinthians 8, vv1—11.
Nunc dimittis (David Bednall). Anthem: The
Pilgrimes Travels (Judith Bingham). Voluntary:
Acclamations (Neil Cox). Repeated from Wednesday

2.00 BBC Proms

Live from the Great Hall of Aberystwyth
Arts Centre, Owain Park conducts the
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Gesualdo Six in a journey through five centuries
of madrigals, from Weelkes and Gibbons to Ligeti
and Judith Weir. Presented by Ian Skelly.
Marenzio Potro viver io piu se senza luce
Palestrina Io son ferito ahi lasso
Casulana Morir non puo il mio cuore
Gesualdo Asciugate i begli occhi
Monteverdi Si, ch’io vorrei morire
Arcadelt Il bianco e dolce cigno
Gibbons The Silver Swan
Byrd This Sweet and Merry Month of May
Weelkes As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill
Descending
2.50 Interval Joan Passey talks to poet Zoe
Skoulding and writer Tom Bullough.
3.10 Weelkes Thule the Period of Cosmographie
Ligeti Two Dreams and Little Bat; Cuckoo in the
Pear-Tree; The Alphabet (Nonsense Madrigals)
Weelkes The Nightingale, the Organ of Delight;
The Ape, the Monkey and Baboon
Ligeti Flying Robert; The Lobster Quadrille;
A Long, Sad Tale (Nonsense Madrigals)
Judith Weir Madrigal
Sarah Rimkus My Heart Is like a Singing Bird

4.00 Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton with a broad spectrum of jazz requests.

5.00 The Listening Service
Tom Service finds out how classical concertos work
and what it’s like to be the soloist, walking the tightrope
of virtuosity, sandwiched between orchestral
colleagues and the audience. Rptd Friday 4.30pm (R)

5.30 Words and Music
Masks. From the highwaywoman described by Niamh
Murphy to the adventurer and lover extraordinaire
Casanova and the Furies of the ancient Greek stage,
masks can conjure up notions of primordial terror,
but they can also be fun. Such images and ideas
are evoked in a phantasmagoria of hiding, veiling
and concealing, as Nathalie Buscombe and Jot Davies

Scala Radio

Producer Kate Bissell (R)

7.30 BBC Proms

From the Royal Albert Hall, Gustavo Gimeno
conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in
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Prokofiev’s Third Symphony, with soloist Vladim
Gluzman joining for Korngold’s Violin Concerto.
The concert opens with Bernard Herrmann’s
suite from his score for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958
psychological romantic thriller Vertigo. Presented
by Petroc Trelawny.
Vladim Gluzman (violin), BBC Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Gustavo Gimeno
Herrmann Vertigo — Suite
Korngold Violin Concerto
8.10 Interval Gillian Moore looks ahead to an
exciting week of Proms coming up.
8.30 Prokofiev Symphony No 3 Rptd Mon 7 August

10.00 Music Planet: Womad 2023
Lopa Kothari with further highlights from the
four-day Womad festival which kicked off on
Thursday in Wiltshire. Including yesterday’s sets
from Alogte Oho and his Sounds of Joy (Ghana)
and Catrin Finch and Cimarrón (UK/Colombia)
and, from today, Asmâa Hamzaoui and Bnat
Timbouktou (Morocco) and Femi Kuti (Nigeria).

12.00 Classical Fix
Linton Stephens creates a bespoke classical playlist
for comedian and writer Catherine Bohart. (R)

12.30am Through the Night
With Jonathan Swain, including a concert of Spanish
music by Falla and Ravel, recorded in June 2021 in Monaco.
Ravel Alborada del gracioso (orch version) Falla Nights
in the Gardens of Spain Chopin Nocturne No 20 in C
sharp minor, Op posth Ravel Rapsodie espagnole Falla
El amor brujo Maria Toledo (singer), Nelson Goerner (piano),
Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Josep
Pons 1.53 Granados Coloquio en la Reja; El Fandango
del Candil; Quejas o la Maja y el Ruiseñor (Goyescas, Op
11) 2.17 Boccherini La musica notturna delle strade di
Madrid, Op 30 No 6 2.31 Sullivan The Tempest, Op 1
2.59 Martin Five Songs of Ariel 3.11 JC Bach Quintet
in D, Op 11 No 6 3.28 Balakirev Overture on Three
Russian Themes 3.36 Schumann Prelude and Fugue in
B flat, Op 16 No 2 3.41 Vanhal Concerto in F for two
bassoons and orchestra 4.04 Rossi Rimanti in pace
4.10 Dvorak Romance in F minor, Op 11 (vers for violin and
piano) 4.22 Le Concert brisé Improvisation on La Monica
4.31 Monteverdi Beatus vir, SV268 4.39 Respighi Ancient
Airs and Dances: Suite No 2 4.57 Agata-Maria Raatz
(Clara Jaz) Zytglogge 5.01 Telemann Ouverture-Suite,
TWV.55:B8 5.16 Strauss Es gibt ein Reich (Ariadne auf
Naxos) 5.22 Chopin Berceuse in D flat major, Op 57
5.27 Rota Otto e mezzo 5.32 Moszkowski Piano
Concerto in E, Op 59 6.10 Stenhammar Violin Sonata in
A minor, Op 19 (R)

Classic FM

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7.00am Danielle Perry With the Choral Playlist at 8.00.
10.00 Simon Mayo A playlist of music showcased from
January to July of this year in Scala features such as Album
of the Week, Scala Sessions and Artist of the Week. The
Weekly Mozart Pick features Raphaela Gromes in a
cello arrangement of an aria from The Marriage of Figaro.
12.00 YolanDa Brown 3.00pm Jack Pepper
5.00 The West End Weekend on Scala Radio
6.00 Alfie Boe’s Summer Soundtrack on Scala Radio
5/5. Final personal picks, including Delius and Bizet.
8.00 Sunday Night Scala A pick of 2023 releases so far,
including violinist Midori and the Vienna Philharmonic.
10.00 The Space Soothing and calming music.
1.00am Night Music 5.00 In the Park

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1.00pm Joanna Gosling Favourites and discoveries.
4.00 John Humphrys Anecdotes and music.
7.00 Smooth Classics at Seven Charlotte Hawkins
with a laid-back playlist, plus the Young Classical Star
feature, today showcasing Segun Akinola, now director
and composer of the music for Doctor Who.
9.00 Classical Legends with John Suchet 3/6
This instalment celebrates English cellist Jacqueline
du Pré (1945—87) — and her iconic rendering of Elgar’s
Cello Concerto — and London-born horn player Dennis
Brain (1921—57) who, like du Pré, died young.
10.00 Calm Classics With Karthi Gnanasegaram.
1.00am Bill Overton 4.00 Lucy Coward

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8.00am Ben Burrell 11.00 Sarah Champion 2.00pm
Jay Lawrence 6.00 Request Show 8.00 Music Club
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BBC Radio 5 Live
11.15 FM Desert Island Discs

5.00 FM File on 4

Formula One executive Toto Wolff is Lauren
Laverne’s castaway.

News 5.30am, 6.00 and hourly to 9.00 (FM/LW);
12 noon and hourly to 6.00pm (FM); then
7.00pm and hourly to midnight (FM/LW)
Weather 6.57am, 7.57, 12.57pm (FM), 5.57 (FM),
9.59, 12.15am
Shipping Forecasts 5.20am, 12.01pm (LW),
5.54pm, 12.48am

Producer Paula McGinley Repeated Friday 9am

5.30am News Briefing
5.43 Bells on Sunday From St Michael’s in
Angersleigh, near Taunton in Somerset.
5.45 Profile Repeated from yesterday 7pm

Repeated from Monday
Repeated tomorrow 10pm BBC Radio 4 Extra

3/3. Modern Slavery: Hidden in Plain Sight.
With the number of potential modern slavery
cases in England and Wales at a record level,
Datshiane Navanayagam investigates how
vulnerable people are being targeted and
exploited for cheap labour. She embeds
herself into several police forces as they look
to get a grip on rogue businesses in the car
wash and construction industries. Rptd from Tue

6.00 News Summary
6.05 Something Understood
Rabindranath Tagore: Unity in Diversity
In a programme from 2011, Mark Tully
celebrates what was then the 150th
anniversary of the birth of artist, musician,
philosopher and Nobel Prize-winning poet
Rabindranath Tagore. Producer Jo Coombs (R)
4/8. Richard Baynes visits a farm near
Edinburgh that has become an agricultural
hub for the community, with plots for locals,
livestock in the fields and, even plans for
cereal crops. Producer Richard Baynes

7.00 News; Sunday Papers
7.10 Sunday
Topical religious and ethical issues.

7.54 The Radio 4 Appeal
Sandi Toksvig presents an appeal on behalf
of Hand in Hand International, a charity
which nurtures the creation of more than
1,000 jobs a day in 12 countries.
Repeated 9.25pm and Thursday 3.27pm
Donations: Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, marked
Hand in Hand International on the back of the envelope;
Credit/debit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144;
online via the Radio 4 website

8.00 News; Sunday Papers
8.10 Sunday Worship
A service reflecting on the life and work of
St Francis of Assisi, from the National Gallery
in London, led by Denis Nowlan with Gabriele
Finaldi, Director of the Gallery.

8.48 A Point of View
Reflection on a topical issue. Rptd from Friday

8.58 Tweet of the Day
The gannet, with Danielle Meyer. (R)

9.00 Broadcasting House
Presented by Paddy O’Connell.
10.00 The Archers FM only from 10.30
Omnibus edition.

10.30am—12.01pm, 12.04—5.54,
5.57—7.00* LW Test Match Special
England v Australia
Commentary on day four of the Fifth Test
from the Oval.
For details see yesterday
*approximate times
Coverage also on BBC 5 Sports Extra from 10am

3/6. Jack Dee hosts the comedy panel
game from the Regent Theatre, Ipswich,
with a panel of Vicki Pepperdine, Omid Djalili,
Andy Hamilton and Henning Wehn.

12.30 FM The Food Programme
Feeding Your Brain: A User’s Guide
Dan Saladino and psychologist Kimberley
Wilson look at what the latest science is
telling us about food and mental health, and
its capacity to boost brain power.
Producer Dan Saladino Rptd tomorrow 3.30pm (FM only)

1.00 FM The World This Weekend
With James Naughtie.

1.30 FM Director of Me
3/3. Faris. Make-up artist and musician
Faris came to the UK as an unaccompanied
child asylum-seeker. He reflects on living with
PTSD, generalised anxiety disorder and
depression, alongside chronic physical pain.
Producer Catherine Carr

2.00 FM Gardeners’ Question Time
From Haywards Heath, with Peter Gibbs in
the chair, and a panel of Kirsty Wilson,
Christine Walkden, and Pippa Greenwood.
Repeated from Friday (FM only)

2.45 FM Opening Lines
Ahead of The Venice Conundrum, John Yorke
delves into how Jan Morris defied boundaries
in Venice, exploring why her first impressions
of the city in 1945 were so powerful.

3.00 FM Drama: The Venice Conundrum

4

Robin Brooks’s dramatisation of two
of Jan Morris’s non-fiction works — her
travel book Venice, and Conundrum, a
personal account of her transition from man
to woman, a ten-year journey that began
shortly after Venice was published. Starring
Edalia Day and Theo Fraser Steele.
See choice, p111. Producer Fiona McAlpine

4.00 FM Open Book
Johny Pitts explores Birmingham’s
contemporary writing and literary heritage
with two of its rising stars, Natalie Marlow
and Kate Mascarenhas. And Kit de Waal
discusses her upbringing in a city renowned
for its novelists and an exciting new project
for writers living there.
Producer Ciaran Bermingham Rptd Thursday 3.30pm

4.30 FM The Dawn-Care

7.00 The Archers

is on a mission, and Lynda
selects her victim. See choice: p111.
4Helen
For cast see Friday Repeated tomorrow 2pm (FM only)

7.15 Alexei Sayle’s Strangers on a Train
4/6. Cheltenham to Maesteg. The comedian
meets passengers on a journey from
Cheltenham to Maesteg. Jenny tells Alexei
how her years in the Middle East changed
her life, Donna and Paul reveal the addictive
world of murder mystery weekends, Ruth
shares her memories of her childhood in a
mining community, and shopkeepers Julie and
David describe to Alexei how, after 50 years,
they are now the only shop left in their village.
Producer Peter Lowe Rptd Fri 10pm BBC Radio 4 Extra

7.45 Golden Eggs
3/5. Crinkum Crankum by Amanthi Harris,
inspired by the tale of the Crinkum Crankum
tree. Anya learns the art of oral storytelling.
Read by Aiysha Hart. Producer Jeremy Osborne

8.00 Feedback
Andrea Catherwood fields listeners’ views
and puts them to programme-makers.
Repeated from Friday (FM only)

8.30 Last Word
Matthew Bannister celebrates the lives of
famous and less well-known people who
have recently died. Repeated from Friday (FM only)

9.00 Money Box
Repeated from yesterday 12.04pm (FM only)

9.25 The Radio 4 Appeal
9.30 Loose Ends

Rptd from 7.54am

Repeated from yesterday 6.15pm (FM only)

10.00 The Westminster Hour
Political magazine.

11.00 The Moral Maze
10/10. Michael Buerk is joined by Tim Stanley,
Giles Fraser, Anne McElvoy and Ash Sarkar —
as well as the witnesses they call — to discuss
the moral aspects of a topical issue.
Repeated from Wednesday

adventurer Maria Coffey, medievalist
Eleanor Parker, historian Janina Ramirez,
and poets Sharon Olds and Hannah Lowe.

4/6. Love Thy Villain. Matthew Syed looks
at the merits of finding our inner “villain”. l

Repeated Saturday 12.15am

1.00 as BBC World Service

12.00 News and Weather
12.15—12.45am Sideways
Repeated from Wednesday

5.00 Poetry ExtraWith Daljit Nagra in 2012
5.30 Je t’aime: the Legendary Love Story of
Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg Following
the death on 16 July of English actor Jane Birkin,
aged 76, a chance to hear a 2019 radio adaptation
of Véronique Mortaigne’s book charting the
relationship of Birkin and French singer/songwriter
Serge Gainsbourg (1928—91). Abridged by Polly
Coles and read by Jane Slavin (1—5/5)
6.40 Inheritance Tracks With Alex George
6.50 Your Blue-Eyed Boy Fiona Evans’s
dramatisation of Helen Dunmore’s 1998 novel.
With Pippa Nixon and others — omnibus (1—5/5)
8.00 Meet the Huggetts 1957 comedy
8.30 The Navy Lark 1967 sictom
9.00 Desert Island Discs Revisited A 2009
editon with Steve Coogan discussing his life and
then favourite music, from Elgar to the Smiths
9.45 David Attenborough’s Life Stories
10.00—12.00 Comedy Club: Start/Stop
(4/8), at 10.30 The Celebrity Voicemail Show
(1/4), at 10.45 Tina C’s Tiny Island Tour (1/4),
at 11.00 Linda Smith’s A Brief History of
Timewasting (2/6), and at 11.30 Radio 9 (3/5)
12.00 as 5pm 12.30am as 5.30pm 1.40 as
6.40pm 1.50 as 6.50pm 3.00 as 8pm 3.30 as
8.30pm 4.00 as 9pm 4.45 as 9.45pm 5.00 Baldi
The murder taleTempus Fugit 5.45 Short Works
Dermot Bolger’s The Rivals. From 2019

BBC 5 Sports Extra
DAB bbc.co.uk/sports extra
F’view 706 F’sat 706 Sky 0131 Virgin 908
10.00am—7.00pm Test Match
Special Day four of the Fifth Test
in the Ashes series between England
and Australia at the Oval in London.

Talksport
1053, 1089 MW DAB talksport.co.uk
F’view 723 F’sat 731 Sky 0108 Virgin 927
6.00am Weekend Sports
Breakfast Presented by Natalie
Sawyer and Tony Cascarino.
10.00 The Warm Up With Max
Rushden and Charlie Baker.
5.00 The Transfer Insiders
With Mark Goldbridge.
7.00 A Talksport Special
9.00 Trans Europe Express
Presented by Danny Kelly.
12.00 A Talksport Special
1.00am Extra Time
5.00 Early Breakfast

Talksport 2

BBC World Service

*Not available on Freeview in Scotland 4pm—1am. Key (R) Repeat

RadioTimes 29 July–4 August 2023

With Phil Maguire. Producer Lizzie Foster

Helen Mort explores the Old English
word uhtceare, meaning anxiety before
4
dawn. With contributions from author and

BBC Radio 4 Extra
DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4extra
Freeview 708 Freesat 708 Sky 0126 Virgin 910
6.00am Poetry Extra With Daljit Nagra in 2012
6.30 Je t’aime: the Legendary Love Story of
Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg as 5.30pm
7.40 Inheritance Tracks With Alex George
7.50 Your Blue-Eyed Boy as 6.50pm
9.00 Meet the Huggetts 1957 comedy
9.30 The Navy Lark 1967 sitcom
10.00 Desert Island Discs Revisited as 9pm
10.45 David Attenborough’s Life Stories
11.00 Poetry Extra With Daljit Nagra in 2012
11.30 Je t’aime: the Legendary Love Story of
Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg as 5.30pm
12.40pm Inheritance Tracks With Alex George
12.50 Your Blue-Eyed Boy as 6.50pm
2.00 Meet the Huggetts 1957 comedy
2.30 The Navy Lark 1967 sitcom
3.00 Desert Island Discs Revisited as 9pm
3.45 David Attenborough’s Life Stories
4.00 Cold Storage Philip Levene’s comedy
drama in which an accident-prone frozen-food
manufacturer finds his imagination running wild
after he is locked in a refrigerator. From 1973
4.30 I Am Legend Richard Matheson’s cult 1954
sci-fi set in 1976 America, where the last man on
earth battles against plague-infected vampires.
Abridged by Scott Stainton Miller (9/9)

5.40 FM Profile Repeated from yesterday 7pm
6.00 FM Six o’Clock News
6.15 FM Pick of the Week

News and sport bulletin every half-hour
Times vary during live sports coverage

5.00am Newscast
With Adam Fleming and friends.
6.00 5 Live Science
Dr Chris Smith with science issues.
7.00 Sunday Breakfast With
Chris Warburton and Mairead Smyth.
10.00 Helen Skelton
Sports content, including interviews.
12.00 5 Live Sport
Steve Crossman with the day’s
sport, including updates from the
Ashes. And at 2.00 5 Live
Formula One, featuring live
commentary on the Belgian Grand
Prix. From 4.00 there’s further
coverage of the day’s sport.
6.00pm 6-0-6
Football phone-in with Robbie
Savage and Chris Sutton.
8.00 Gordon Smart
Listener input and a topical look at
sports, news, culture and
entertainment, including an
insider’s take on the weekend’s
big sporting stories. Plus a
preview of the following week.
10.00 Stephen Nolan
The day’s main news stories,
topical debate and interviews.
1.00am Dotun Adebayo
Topical and cultural discussion,
with the chance for listeners to
phone in throughout the night.

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5.00am The Newsroom 5.30 The Documentary:
Song of the Bell: the journey of Italian-built church
bells to their new home in Nigeria 6.00 Weekend
9.00 News 9.05 From Our Own Correspondent
9.30 Outlook 10.00 News 10.05 Music Life:
Sampa the Great hosts a discussion on African music
11.00 The Newsroom 11.30 The Explanation:
the challenges facing the European Union 11.50
More or Less 12.00 News 12.05pm BBC OS
Conversations 12.30 Assignment 1.00 Newshour
2.00 News 2.05 Music Life 3.00 News 3.05
Sportsworld 7.00 The Newsroom 7.30 In the
Studio: with architectural practice SO-IL 8.00
News 8.05 Unexpected Elements 9.00 Newshour
10.05 The Climate Question 10.30 Pick of the
World 10.50 Over to You 11.00 The Newsroom
11.20 Sports News 11.30 Outlook 12.00 News
12.05am From Our Own Correspondent 12.30
The Explanation 12.50 More or Less 1.00 The
Newsroom 1.30 Happy News 2.00 The
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3.05 People Fixing the World: a Dutch invention
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Pick of the World 3.50 Over to You 4.00 The
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6.00pm—11.00 PGA Tour Golf
The 3M Open.

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7.00am Andrew Castle:
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from the UK and around the
world 10.00 David Lammy
1.00pm Sangita Myska 4.00 Ben
Kentish 7.00 Rachel Johnson
10.00 Nick Abbot 1.00am
Richard Spurr 4.00 Ian Payne

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6.00am Kait Borsay and Calum
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Sundays with Carole Walker
1.00pm Alexis Conran 4.00
Ayesha Hazarika 7.00 What I Wish
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Darryl Morris 1.00am Highlights

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Radio

BBC Radio 1
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F’view* 700 F’sat 700 Sky 0101 Virgin 901
7.30am Greg James 11.00 Rickie,
Melvin and Charlie 1.00pm Dean and
Vicky 3.30 Vick and Jordan 6.00
Jack Saunders 8.00 Future Artists
10.00 Power Down Playlist 11.00
Alyx Holcombe 1.00am BBC
Introducing Rock 2.00 Future
Alternative 3.00 Workout Anthems
4.00 Dance 5.00 Sam and Danni

BBC Radio 2
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F’view* 702 F’sat 702 Sky 0102 Virgin 902

6.30am Gaby Roslin
9.30 Vernon Kay

BBC Proms
7.30pm Radio 3
Tonight’s Prom under
Californian-born conductor
Ryan Bancroft delivers a classic
all-American melting-pot mix.
Belgian virtuoso Annelien Van
Wauwe (above) plays the jazzy
Clarinet Concerto that Aaron
Copland, one son of Jewish
immigrants, wrote for another:
Benny Goodman, 1930s
America’s “King of Swing”.
Himself the son of a swing-band
clarinettist, John Adams found
his personal voice by mixing
minimalist tropes with maximalist
ambitions. And, in his new piece,
LA-based Derrick Skye salutes
the Sun in a mingling of African,
Indian, Balinese and Persian
modes. MARK PAPPENHEIM

1.45pm Radio 4
Rejoice! The future of audio
production is alive and well. All
five short documentaries in this
slot this week were made by
winners of the Charles Parker
Prize 2023 for the Best Student
Radio feature, with the gold
award going to Friday’s Our Dad,
by Thea Rickard. Congratulations
to Dom Brown, producer of
today’s programme, for securing
the input of veteran broadcaster
Paul Gambaccini, but even more
so for his editing of the words of
two sets of sisters who won a
competition to be the “European
Fanclub band” for the Osmonds
in 1974. It’s a perfect piece of
nostalgia without any
sentimentality. ANNA JONES

THIS WEEK’S
HIGHLIGHTS See p111

The Rooster House: My
Ukrainian Family Story

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programme on Mozart. This week, Donald
Macleod celebrates 80 years by looking back on
ten memorable interviews with composers over his
24 years as presenter, starting today with Stephen
Sondheim (1930—2021), and Judith Weir (born 1954).
Sondheim Pretty Little Picture (A Funny Thing
Happened on the Way to the Forum)
Stephen Sondheim (vocals and piano)
Pretty Little Picture (A Funny Thing Happened on
the Way to the Forum)

Pseudolus
Hero

A special edition recorded at the
BBC’s Maida Vale Studios in London,
with Cerys joined by Memphis project
the Take Me to the River All-Stars
during their time in the UK recording
and filming for their new and third
film, Take Me to the River London.

10.00 Trevor Nelson’s
Rhythm Nation
12.00 Phil Williams
With One Hit Wonders at 2.30am.
3.00am Pick of the Pops 1/2. Paul
Gambaccini with the singles chart from
this week in 1980, from Abba to Bob
Marley and the Wailers. See tomorrow (R)
4.00 Owain Wyn Evans

DAB bbc.co.uk/6music
Freeview 707 Freesat 707 Sky 0120 Virgin 909
7.30am Lauren Laverne
10.30 Mary Anne Hobbs
1.00pm Craig Charles
4.00 Steve Lamacq New music and
features, with the National Anthem.
7.00 New Music Fix Daily
Deg Grant presents solo.
9.00 The First Time with...
Matt Everitt chats to Thomas Bangalter.
10.00 Riley and Coe
12.00 In Their Own Words A profile
of Little Simz kicks off five hours of
programming devoted to the
British-Nigerian rapper, singer and
actor born Simbiatu Ajikawo. (R)
1.00am Little Simz A 2020 show in
which she presented personal picks.
3.00 Little Simz Live BBC archive
live sessions from 2014, 2019 and 2021.
4.00 The Little Simz Playlist
5.00 Chris Hawkins

Greatest Hits
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F’view 716 Sky 0151 Regional variations on FM/MW
6.00am Greatest Hits 10.00 Ken
Bruce 1.00pm Debbie Mac 4.00
Simon Mayo 7.00 Kate Thornton
10.00 Andy Crane 1.00am Music
Marathon 4.00 Alex Lester

Boom Radio

A moving story from Ukrainian
journalist Victoria Belim.

6.00am Andy Marriott 7.30 Graham
Dene 10.00 David Lloyd 12.00 David
Hamilton 2.00pm Jane Markham 4.00
Nicky Horne 6.00 Roger Day 8.00
The Easy Hour 9.00 David Hamilton
10.00 Diana Luke 12.00 Night Ride
2.00am Through the Night

An 80th anniversary celebration.

1/5. Stephen Sondheim and Judith Weir
One of the longest-running strands on the
4
BBC, Composer of the Week began in 1943 with a

12.00 Jeremy Vine
2.00pm Scott Mills
4.00 Sara Cox
7.00 Jo Whiley
9.00 The Blues Show with
Cerys Matthews

DAB boomradiouk.com

12 noon Radio 3

6.30am Breakfast With Petroc Trelawny.
9.00 Essential Classics With Georgia Mann.
12.00 Composer of the Week Anniversary
Special: Composers in Conversation

Pseudolus
Hero
Philia

9.45am/12.30am Radio 4

Composer of the Week

News and weather Half-hourly 6.30—8.00am, 1.00pm, 6.00

Music, chat and features, including
at 10.15 The Love Song, at 10.30
the pop quiz Ten to the Top, and at
11.40 Tracks of My Years, this week
featuring — two per day — ten of the
favourite records of veteran disc
jockey Johnnie Walker. In this first
edition he discusses signature hits
by the Shirelles and Wilson Pickett.

BBC 6 Music
New Storytellers

BBC Radio 3
90.2—92.4 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio3
Freeview* 703 Freesat 703 Sky 0103 Virgin 903

Zero Mostel
Brian Davies
Preshy Marker

Studio orchestra, conductor Hal Hastings
Styne Everything’s Coming Up Roses (Gypsy)
Rose

Ethel Merman

Studio orchestra, conductor Milton Rosenstock
Sondheim Free (A Funny Thing Happened on the
Way to the Forum)
Zero Mostel
Brian Davies

Studio orchestra, conductor Hal Hastings
There’s Always a Woman (Anyone Can Whistle)
Cora
Fay Apple

Madeline Kahn
Bernadette Peters

American Theatre Orchestra/Paul Gemignani
Judith Weir To Judith, from Judith (Variations for
Judith) Melvyn Tan (piano)
Vertue Gonville and Caius College Choir,
conductor Geoffrey Webber
Piano Quartet (1st mvt) Schubert Ensemble
Airs from Another Planet (excerpt)
Lontano, conductor Odaline de la Martínez
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1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
An all-French edition featuring recent performances by
BBC New Generation Artists. With Sara Mohr-Pietsch.
Rameau L’entretien des muses (Suite in D)
Ryan Corbett (accordion)
Berlioz Les nuits d’été Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha
(soprano), BBCSO, conductor Kerem Hassan
Ravel Cello Sonata in A
Santiago Cañón-Valencia, Naoko Sonoda (piano)

2.00 Afternoon Concert
With Penny Gore. Including at 2.15 another chance to
hear a recent BBC Prom, with a break at 2.55 for the
feature Proms Artist Choice, with conductor Ilan
Volkov introducting a favourite work. Plus further
highlights throughout the week from this year’s
Schwetzingen Festival in Germany (28 April—28 May),
featuring early music interspersed with contemporary
pieces performed by the duo Gambelin (Christian
Elin, soprano saxophone and bass clarinet; Lucile
Boulanger, viola da gamba and lira da gamba).
Bennett Celebration BBCSSO, conductor John Wilson
L Couperin Prelude; Courante (Suite in A)
Pavel Kolesnikov (piano)

Scala Radio
DAB scalaradio.co.uk
7.00am Charles Nove Music and features.
10.00 Penny Smith Including at 11.00 the Scala
Album of the Week and at 12.00 listeners’ requests.
1.00pm Sam Hughes Popular classical works
4.00 Richard Allinson Music and features,
including at 5.30 Classical Bangers.
7.00 Mark Forrest At 8.00 the Peaceful Piano playlist.
10.00 The Space Soothing and calming music.
1.00am Night Music 5.00 In the Park

Asian Network
DAB bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork
F’view 709 F’sat 709 Sky 0119 Virgin 912
6.00am The Everyday Hustle 7.00 Smash Bengali
10.00 Certified 11.00 Haroon Rashid 2.00pm Certified
Throwbacks 3.00 Ankur Desai 6.00 Bobby Friction
8.00 Motivation 10.00 Chill 11.00 Asian Network
News Presents 12.00 Shades On Mix 1.00am Bobby
Friction 3.00 R&B Anthems 4.00 Noreen Khan

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2.15 A BBC Prom from last Monday, with Ilan Volkov
conducting the BBCSSO in works by Catherine Lamb
and Tchaikovsky, presented by Kate Molleson.
Catherine Lamb Portions Transparent/Opaque
(BBC commission: first performance)
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6 in B minor (Pathétique)
4.10 Christian Elin La chiesetta Gambelin
Vivaldi Violin Concerto in A minor, RV356
(arr for guitar) Angel Romero, Academy of
St Martin in the Fields, conductor Iona Brown
Falla Three Cornered Hat: Suite No 1
BBC Philharmonic, conductor Juanjo Mena

5.00 In Tune
Katie Derham with arts news, music and guests.
7.00 Classical Mixtape An inspired playlist.

7.30 BBC Proms

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, Ian Skelly
presents an all-American programme.
4
Annelien Van Wauwe (clarinet), BBC National
Chorus and Orchestra of Wales, Crouch End
Festival Chorus, conductor Ryan Bancroft
Derrick Skye Nova Plexus
(BBC commission: first performance)
Copland Clarinet Concerto
8.15 Interval Violinist Tasmin Little meets
tonight’s soloist Annelien Van Wauwe.
8.35 John Adams Harmonium Rptd Tue 8 August

10.00 Free Thinking
Following the death last month of actor and politician
Glenda Jackson, at 87, another chance to hear an
edition from 2021 in which Matthew Sweet re-watches
John Schlesinger’s commercially unsuccessful
1971 film Sunday Bloody Sunday. He’s joined by
Jackson who, like co-star Peter Finch, won a Bafta
for the film, which concerns an artist who has
relationships with a female job consultant and a male
doctor. They discuss, among other things, the film’s
use of Mozart and its evocation of late-1960s London
and its score. Other guests include playwright Mark
Ravenhill, film historian Melanie Williams and BFI
archivist Simon McCallum. Producer Fiona McLean (R)

10.45 The Essay: Blood and Bronze
6/10. Crime and Punishment. Jerry Brotton,
professor of Renaissance studies at Queen Mary
University of London, retraces the life of
Benvenuto Cellini (1500—71). In this instalment
Cellini is imprisoned in Rome, enduring various
attempts on his life. Producer Mark Rickards (R)

11.00 Night Tracks
Hannah Peel with a playlist for late-night listening.

12.30am Through the Night With Jonathan Swain.
Beethoven Piano Sonata in B flat, Op 22 Prokofiev Piano
Sonata No 6, Op 82 Chopin Impromptu No 2 in F sharp,
Op 36; Etudes Op 25 (excerpts); Berceuse in D flat, Op 57;
Scherzo No 3 in C sharp minor, Op 39; Waltz No 1 in E flat,
Op 18 Garrick Ohlsson (piano) 2.12 Ravel Valses nobles
et sentimentales 2.31 Bach Cantata No 21: Ich hatte viel
Bekummernis 3.08 Grieg String Quartet No 2 in F
(unfinished) 3.29 Magi Bucolic 3.38 Haydn Piano Sonata
in G, H XVI 39 3.52 Bartok Romanian Folk Dances, Sz68
(orch from Sz56) 3.59 Holst Wind Quintet in A flat
4.14 Albicastro Concerto a 4 in D minor, Op 7 No 2
4.22 Spohr Fantasie and Variations on a Theme of Danzi,
Op 81 4.31 Pezel Four Intradas for brass 4.38 Hildegard
of Bingen Alma Redemptoris Mater; Ave Maria, O auctrix
vite 4.49 Turina Rapsodia sinfonica, Op 66 4.58 Lipatti
Chorale for String Orchestra 5.03 Brahms Piano Trio No
3 in C minor, Op 101 5.24 Sibelius Serenade No 1, Op 69a
5.32 De Mondonville Grand Motet Dominus regnavit
5.57 Nielsen Symphony No 2 (The Four Temperaments) (R)

Classic FM
99.9—101.9 FM DAB classicfm.com
Freeview 731 Freesat 721 Sky 0106 Virgin 922
6.00am More Music Breakfast John Humphrys
sits in for Tim Lihoreau with music and features.
9.00 Alexander Armstrong Classical hits and chat.
12.00 Anne-Marie Minhall At 12.00—2.00pm
Classic FM Requests — with listeners phoning in
requests — and at 3.00 Hall of Fame 3 at 3, featuring
three works from the current Classic Hall of Fame chart.
4.00pm Margherita Taylor Classic FM favourites.
7.00 Smooth Classics at Seven With Zeb Soanes.
10.00 Calm Classics Presented by Ritula Shah.
1.00am Bill Overton 4.00 Lucy Coward

Absolute Radio
DAB absoluteradio.co.uk
Freeview 727 Freesat 724 Sky 0107 Virgin 915
6.00am Dave Berry 10.00 Claire Sturgess
1.00pm Ben Burrell 4.00 Richie 7.00 Danielle Perry
10.00 Jay Lawrence 1.00am Dan Noble

See p138 for details

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BBC Radio 4
92.4—94.6 FM 198 LW DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4
Freeview 704 Freesat 704 (FM) 710 (LW)
Sky 0104 (FM) 0130 (LW) Virgin 904 (FM) 911 (LW)
News 5.30am, 6.00 and hourly to 10.00 (FM/LW);
11.00 and hourly to 6.00pm (FM); then 7.00pm and
hourly to 12 midnight (FM/LW)
Weather 5.56am, 6.07, 6.57, 7.57, 12.57pm (FM),
5.57 (FM), 9.59, 12.30am
Shipping Forecasts 5.20am, 12.01pm (LW),
5.54pm (LW), 12.48am

6.00 Today
With Chris Mason and Justin Webb.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day
With Bishop Philip North.

9.00 The NHS: Who Cares?

Producer Emily Bird Repeated 9.30pm

9.30 Shock and War: Iraq 20 Years On
4/10. The Inspectors. While politicians
were making bold claims about weapons
of mass destruction, inside Iraq UN
inspectors were hunting for them and finding
nothing. Gordon Corera explores why this did
not stop the march to war.
Producers Claire Bowes and Ellie House
Series producer John Murphy (R)

9.45 FM Book of the Week: The Rooster
House: My Ukrainian Family Story

4

1/5. Return to Bereh. Ukrainian
journalist Victoria Belim’s account of
returning to her country to unravel her
family’s history. Victoria’s questions about
her missing uncle stir up old family fears and
evasions. Abridged by Libby Spurrier and
read by Vera Graziadei. See choice: p111.
Producer Sara Davies Repeated 12.30am

9.45 LW Daily Service
An act of worship, featuring readings from
scripture and a range of choral music. Led by
the Rev Catherine De Souza. Ecclesiastes 4
vv8—12. I am a Friend of God, Israel and New
Breed; Jesus Friend Forever, Delirious?; The
Earth Shall Know, the Porter’s Gate.

10.00 Woman’s Hour FM only from 10.30
With Nuala McGovern. Editor Karen Dalziel

10.45am—12.01pm; 12.04—5.54;
6.00—7.00* LW Test Match Special
England v Australia
Commentary of day five of the Fifth Test in
the Ashes series, at the Oval in London.
For details see Saturday
*approximate times
Commentary also on 5 Sports Extra from 10am

2/4. Anita Anand uncovers hidden stories
from recent British history, today travelling
to Scotland on the trail of the so-called
“tinker experiment” whereby, in the 1940s,
an attempt was made to settle gypsy
travellers into society. This involved moving
families into accommodation that was small
and overcrowded and lacked amenities such
as electricity. There was also asbestos in the
walls which wasn’t removed until the 1980s.

4/6. Chaired by Jack Dee from the Regent
Theatre, Ipswich, with a panel of Omid Djalili,
Vicki Pepperdine, Andy Hamilton and
Henning Wehn.

Producer Sara Parker

11.30 FM The Bottom Line
8/8. Does “Funny” Sell? Evan Davis and
guests consider the role of comedy in
marketing. How much humour — and what kind
— are consumers ready for? Rptd from Thu

12.04pm FM You and Yours
Reports on consumer affairs.

1.00 FM The World at One
Presented by Jonny Dymond.

1.45 FM New Storytellers

4

New series. 1/5. The Final Fanfayre
A showcase of work by new radio
producers begins with an account of a young
girl band from Middlesbrough who, in 1974,
made a record for their idols — the Osmonds.
With contributions from the broadcaster
Paul Gambaccini, who reflects on fandom in
the mid-1970s. Producer Dom Brown

2.00 FM The Archers Rptd from yesterday 7pm
2.15 FM Drama: Exposure
By Hayley Wareham. When an intimate photo
falls into the wrong hands, Kate and Emma’s
worlds start to crumble. The image
circulates, and the story evolves — so is
justice, forgiveness or revenge the answer?
Kate
Emma
Patrick

Kymberley Cochrane Nadi
Jadie Rose Hobson Jonesy
Kwabena Ansah

Yasemin Ozdemir
Will Kirk

Tom hatches a plan and Brad is put on the spot.
For cast see Friday Repeated tomorrow 2pm

7.15 Front Row
The Hollywood sign is one of the world’s
most memorable and recognisable
landmarks. As it celebrates its 100th
birthday, Tom Sutcliffe hears about the sign’s
stand-out moments on film and in culture.
Producer Harry Parker

8.00 Burning Sun
6/6. The Reckoning. Chloe Hadjimatheou
concludes her account of the sex scandals
that brought down some of Korea’s biggest
K-pop stars. In this final instalment, the K-pop
stars are jailed for their crimes and some
women hope the moment might finally spark
social change. Producer Lee Hyun Choi Rptd Wed 11am

8.30 Crossing Continents
1/9. Botswana: Living with Elephants. The
earth’s largest land mammal, the elephant, is
an endangered species, but not in Botswana.
John Murphy reports on efforts being made
to keep them safe — and also keep local
people safe from the dangers that elephants
present . Repeated from Thursday (FM only)

9.00 The Trouble with Sheep
Charlotte Smith travels to north Wales to find
out the importance of sheep. She examines
how sheep farming has changed post-Brexit
and what that means for their future.
Producer Heather Simons Repeated from Tuesday

9.30 The NHS: Who Cares?
10.00 The World Tonight

Rptd from 9am

With James Coomarasamy.

3.00 FM The Third Degree

10.45 Book at Bedtime: Money

News and sport bulletin every half-hour
Times vary during live sports coverage

5.00am Wake Up to Money
6.00 5 Live Breakfast
Rachel Burden and Rick Edwards
with a look at the headlines, sports
news, weather and unique stories.
9.00 Nicky Campbell
Topical discussions, big-name
interviews and listeners’ calls.
Simulcast with BBC2

11.00 Naga Munchetty
With the latest news headlines.
1.00pm Nihal Arthanayake
News and topical conversation.
4.00 5 Live Drive
Tony Livesey and Clare McDonnell
with the latest news and sport.
Plus interviews linked to topical
and cultural issues.
7.00 5 Live Sport
Mark Chapman with sports news
and debate, including analysis from
the Ashes. Plus features, including
at 8.00 The Monday Night Club,
in which he’s joined by Steph
Houghton, Nedum Onuoha and
Carly Telford to discuss the latest
news from the Women’s World Cup.
10.00 Colin Murray
Topical discussion. Including at
12.00 Monday Night Fan Club,
with experts discussing in depth a
favourite hobby or interest declared
by a listener, who also features.
1.00am Dotun Adebayo

BBC 5 Sports Extra
DAB bbc.co.uk/sports extra
F’view 706 F’sat 706 Sky 0131 Virgin 908
10.00am—7.00pm Test Match
Special England v Australia on day
five of the Fifth Test in the Ashes.

Producer David Tyler Repeated Saturday 11pm

6/10. I Was a Mean Kid. By Martin Amis.
Reeling from the disastrous script for his movie,
John Self jets back to London and his errant
girlfriend. Abridged by Katrin Williams and
read by Bertie Carvel. Producer Justine Willett

3.30 FM The Food Programme

11.00 Word of Mouth

1053, 1089 MW DAB talksport.co.uk
F’view 723 F’sat 731 Sky 0108 Virgin 927
6.00am Talksport Breakfast
10.00 Jim White and Simon
Jordan Sporting insight.
1.00pm Hawksbee and Jacobs
4.00 Drive Andy Goldstein
and Darren Bent with
opinionated sports debate.
7.00 Kick Off Sports debate.
10.00 Sports Bar Reaction,
analysis and your chance to have
your say on the day’s sport.
1.00am Extra Time
5.00 Early Breakfast

5/6. Three students from King’s College
London take on their dons. The specialist
subjects are law, cosmology and culture, and
media and creative industries.
Repeated from yesterday 12.30pm (FM only)

4.00 FM The Infinite Monkey Cage
Repeated from Saturday 7.15pm

4.30 FM Soul Music
1/5. Purple Rain. Stories of what Prince’s
1984 ballad Purple Rain means to different
people around the world. Members of Prince’s
band remember the buzz of recording and
touring the song; comedian Sindhu Vee recalls
its impact on her as a teenager in India; social
historian Zaheer Ali considers Purple Rain as
a call for change. Producer Becky Ripley (R)
5.00 FM PM With Evan Davis.

6.00 FM Six o’Clock News

3/7. Audio Description: Putting Art into
Words. Michael Rosen talks to Lonny Evans,
who audio describes in theatres and museums,
and Terry James, who is vision-impaired and
trains audio describers. Repeated from Tuesday

11.30 Rewinder
3/3. Endless Pips. Greg James digs out
recordings to be played on the radio in the
case of a nuclear attack. Producer Tim Bano (R)

12.00 News and Weather
12.30—12.45am Book of the Week:
The Rooster House: My Ukrainian
Family Story Repeated from 9.45am (FM only)
1.00 as BBC World Service

BBC World Service
tale Mr Marmaduke and the Minister (1878). With
Peter Kelly, Emma Fielding and, as Wilkie Collins,
Ronald Pickup (1940—2021). From 1997
4.30 Cordoba By Nigel Baldwin. From 1992 (6/6)
5.00 You Will Be Safe Here By Damian Barr (6/10)
5.15 The Cazalets: The Light Years (6/10)
5.30 Simon Evans Goes to Market (3/4)
6.00 Stop Messing About! 1969 camp comedy
6.30 Taking It Up the Octave From 1997 (4/5)
7.00 The Write Stuff Literary panel show (1/6)
7.30 The Change 2001 sitcom (5/6)
8.00 The Moth Radio Hour Meg Bowles with
stories of testing one’s limitations. From 2020 (5/8)
8.50 Inheritance Tracks With Alison Goldfrapp
9.00 Mastertapes John Wilson meets Angélique
Kidjo. From 2014. Continues tomorrow (1/2)
9.30 Short Works: A Season of Murder,
Mystery and Suspense Samuel West reads Ruth
Rendell’s The Price of Joy. From 2019 (1&2/2)
10.00—12.00 Comedy Club: I’m Sorry I Haven’t
a Clue (3/6), 10.30 And Now in Colour (2/6), 11.00
The Newsmakers, 11.30 Concrete Cow (3/6)
12.00 as 3pm 12.45am as 3.45pm 1.00 as
4pm 1.30 as 4.30pm 2.00 as 5pm 2.15 as
5.15pm 2.30 as 5.30pm 3.00 as 6pm
3.30 as 1.30pm 4.00 as 2pm 4.30 as 2.30pm
5.00 Baldi Simon Brett’s mystery The Book
Case 5.45 Short Works Dawn Watson’s
Sonny’s Bench, set in Belfast. From 2003

*Not available on Freeview in Scotland 4pm—1am. Key (R) Repeat

RadioTimes 29 July–4 August 2023

7.00 The Archers

Director Anne Isger

BBC Radio 4 Extra
DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4extra
Freeview 708 Freesat 708 Sky 0126 Virgin 910
6.00am Little Novels by Wilkie Collins as 4pm
6.30 Cordoba Thriller by Nigel Baldwin (6/6)
7.00 You Will Be Safe Here as 5pm
7.15 The Cazalets: The Light Years (6/10)
7.30 Simon Evans Goes to Market as 5.30pm
8.00 Stop Messing About! 1969 camp comedy
8.30 Taking It Up the Octave From 1997 (4/5)
9.00 The Write Stuff Literary panel show (1/6)
9.30 The Change 2001 sitcom (5/6)
10.00 Baldi as 3pm
10.45 Short Works as 3.45pm
11.00 Little Novels by Wilkie Collins as 4pm
11.30 Cordoba Thriller by Nigel Baldwin (6/6)
12.00 You Will Be Safe Here as 5pm
12.15pm The Cazalets: The Light Years (6/10)
12.30 Simon Evans Goes to Market (3/4)
1.00 Stop Messing About! 1969 camp comedy
1.30 Taking It Up the Octave From 1997 (4/5)
2.00 The Write Stuff Literary panel show (1/6)
2.30 The Change 2001 sitcom (5/6)
3.00 Baldi Martin Meenan’s mystery Tempus Fugit.
WithDavidThrelfall,TinaKellegherandPaulineMcLynn
3.45 Short Works Dermot Bolger’s The Rivals.
4.00 Little Novels by Wilkie Collins
Dramatisation by John Arden of five Victorian
mysteries by Wilkie Collins, continuing with the

Producer Jon Naismith Repeated Sunday 12.04pm

693, 909 MW DAB bbc.co.uk/fivelive
F’view 705 F’sat 705 Sky 0105 Virgin 905
Sports Extra F’view 706 F’sat 706
Sky 0131 Virgin 908

DAB bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio
Freeview* 710 Freesat 711 Sky 0115 Virgin 906
Programmes may differ online, and on Freesat, Sky, and Virgin

5.00am Newsday 8.00 News 8.05 Hardtalk
8.30 Business Daily 8.50 Witness History 9.00
The Newsroom 9.30 Crowd Science 10.00 News
10.05 The History Hour 11.00 The Newsroom
11.30 The Conversation: two women rebuilding
Beirut after its businesses were destroyed in the
2020 explosion 12.00 News 12.05pm Outlook
12.50 Witness History 1.00 The Newsroom 1.30
Crowd Science: how music can make a person feel
sad 2.00 Newshour 3.00 News 3.05 Hardtalk
3.30 World Business Report 4.00 BBC OS 6.00
News 6.05 Outlook 6.50 Witness History 7.00
The Newsroom 7.30 Sport Today 8.05 From Our
Own Correspondent 8.30 Discovery: The Life
Scientific — Andre Geim: an interview with the
physicist 9.00 Newshour 10.00 News 10.05
Hardtalk 10.30 The Conversation 11.00 The
Newsroom 11.20 Sports News 11.30 World Business
Report 12.00 News 12.05am The History Hour 1.00
News 1.05 Business Matters 2.00 The Newsroom
2.30 The Documentary: Invading the Past — Russia
and Science Fiction: how once visionary Russian
science fiction shifted to become a reactionary
playground 3.00 News 3.05 Outlook 3.50 Witness
History 4.00 The Newsroom 4.30 In the Studio

Radio

4/4. Road to Recovery. Kevin reveals how
solutions devised by the workforce during
the pandemic could be key to the future
success of the NHS. Could locally-sourced
solutions also help to tackle wider problems?

6.30 FM I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue

MONDAY

5.30am News Briefing
5.43 Prayer for the Day
With Methodist preacher George Craig.
5.45 Farming Today
5.58 Tweet of the Day
Paul Brook talks about the garden warbler. (R)

BBC Radio 5 Live
11.00 FM History on the Edge

Talksport

Talksport 2
DAB talksport.co.uk
10.00am—1.00pm Women’s
World Cup Football Republic of
Ireland v Nigeria (kick-off 11.00).

LBC
97.3 FM (London area) DAB lbc.co.uk
F’view 732 F’sat 734 Sky 0123 Virgin 919
7.00am Nick Ferrari 10.00
Topical Programme 1.00pm
Shelagh Fogarty 4.00 Tom
Swarbrick 6.00 Tonight with
Andrew Marr 7.00 Iain Dale
10.00 Colin Brazier 1.00am
Richard Spurr 4.00 Ian Payne

Times Radio
DAB thetimes.co.uk/radio
5.00am Rosie Wright 6.00
Aasmah Mir and Luke Jones
10.00 Matt Chorley 1.00pm
Mariella Frostrup 3.00 Jane
Garvey and Fi Glover 5.00 Adam
Boulton 7.00 Adam and Friends
8.00 The Evening Edition with
Kait Borsay 10.00 Rick Kelsey
1.00am Stories of Our Times
1.30 Red Box 2.00 Highlights

Listen live, catch up and follow your favourites at bbc.co.uk/sounds

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TODAY’S CHOICES

TUESDAY

Radio

BBC Radio 2
88—90.2 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio2
F’view* 702 F’sat 702 Sky 0102 Virgin 902

6.30am Gaby Roslin
Sitting in for Zoe Ball.

9.30 Vernon Kay
Including at 11.40 Tracks of My
Years, today with Johnnie Walker
discussing 1965 classics by the Four
Tops and Simon and Garfunkel.

The Balsall Heath
Bohemians: Stewart Lee
and the Story of the
Birmingham Surrealists
11.30am Radio 4
Salvador Dali donning a diving
suit at a 1936 exhibition in
London could have been the
perfect launch for British
surrealism. But according to
stand-up comedian Stewart
Lee (above), the movement
had already burst into life in
Birmingham in 1935 under the
leadership of Conroy Maddox,
whose sensible, bespectacled
exterior belied a subversive
fondness for posing naked with
nuns in his collages. Among
those inspired by Maddox were
author and TV naturalist
Desmond Morris (now in his
90s and interviewed here) who
hauled an elephant skull
through the city centre in
search of a dentist to fix its
teeth. Fascinating stuff.
JEREMY ASPINALL

Rethink Work
9.00am Radio 4
With the soaring number of
working-age adults not in work
or looking for jobs, along with an
increase in the long-term sick,
there is a pressing need for a
strategy to address this
ever-expanding economic
inactivity. And at a time when
jobs are plentiful and more
people are arriving in the UK
than ever. Amol Rajan convenes
a panel from the fields of
journalism, politics and
economics to come up with a
policy response to the quandary
of mass joblessness, mass
worker shortages and mass
immigration. JEREMY ASPINALL

THIS WEEK’S
HIGHLIGHTS See p111

In the Studio
11.30am BBC World Service
Sophie Hannah on inhabiting
the world of Agatha Christie.

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BBC Radio 1
97.6—99.8 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio1
F’view* 700 F’sat 700 Sky 0101 Virgin 901
7.30am Matt Edmondson 11.00
Rickie, Melvin and Charlie 1.00pm
Dean and Vicky 3.00 Anthems
3.30 Vick and Jordan 6.00 Future
Sounds 8.00 Future Artists 10.00
Power Down Playlist 11.00 Annie
Nightingale 1.00am Drum ’n’ Bass
Mix 2.00 Relax 3.00 Danny Howard
4.00 Dance 5.00 Sam and Danni

12.00 Jeremy Vine
2.00pm Scott Mills
4.00 Sara Cox
7.00 Jo Whiley
9.00 Be Bop to Hip-Hop
Jazz singer Jamie Cullum is joined
by hip-hop enthusiast Romesh
Ranganathan to celebrate the
musical relationship between the
two genres. See Friday 12 midnight

10.00 Trevor Nelson’s
Rhythm Nation
12.00 Phil Williams
3.00am Pick of the Pops
2/2. Paul Gambaccini with hits from this
week in 1990, when the Top 20 included
Madonna, Technotronic, Prince, Bell
Biv DeVoe and Roxette. (R)
4.00 Owain Wyn Evans

BBC 6 Music
DAB bbc.co.uk/6music
Freeview 707 Freesat 707 Sky 0120 Virgin 909
7.30am Lauren Laverne
10.30 Nemone
1.00pm Craig Charles
4.00 Steve Lamacq
7.00 New Music Fix Daily
With Deb Grant, including a live session
from Japanese-British rapper, vocalist
and producer Miso Extra, best known
for her 2022 EP Great Taste.
9.00 The First Time with...
Matt Everitt chats to Canadian indie
pop singer/songwriter Feist about
critical music and moments in her life.
10.00 Riley and Coe
12.00 6 Music’s Indie Forever
Including a Versus battle between
Bloc Party and the Cribs.
1.00am The Road to Nirvana 1—4/4
A 2011 series in which Mark Sutherland
celebrates the late 1980s/90s grunge
band fronted by Kurt Cobain (1967—94).
2.00 Music programme
3.00 The Huey Show Presents the
Hip-Hop Mixtape 5/6. A playlist
devoted to sampling. See tomorrow 3am
4.00 The 6 Music Playlist
5.00 Chris Hawkins

Greatest Hits
DAB greatesthitsradio.co.uk
F’view 716 Sky 0151 Regional variations on FM/MW
6.00am Greatest Hits at Breakfast
10.00 Ken Bruce including the
PopMaster quiz at 10.30 1.00pm
Debbie Mac 4.00 The Simon Mayo
Drivetime Show 7.00 Kate Thornton
10.00 Andy Crane 1.00am Music
Marathon 4.00 Alex Lester

Boom Radio
DAB boomradiouk.com
6.00am Andy Marriott 7.30 Graham
Dene 10.00 David Lloyd 12.00 David
Hamilton 2.00pm Jane Markham 4.00
Nicky Horne 6.00 Roger Day 8.00
The Easy Hour 9.00 David Hamilton’s
Million Sellers 10.00 Diana Luke 12.00
Night Ride 2.00am Through the Night

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BBC Radio 3
90.2—92.4 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio3
Freeview* 703 Freesat 703 Sky 0103 Virgin 903
News and weather as Monday

6.30am Breakfast With Petroc Trelawny.
9.00 Essential Classics With Georgia Mann.
12.00 Composer of the Week Anniversary
Special: Composers in Conversation
2/5. Meredith Monk and Steve Reich. Donald
Macleod revisits conversations with two of America’s
major living composers, Meredith Monk and Steve
Reich, who discuss their different musical
responses to the Second World War.
Meredith Monk Gotham Lullaby
Meredith Monk (vocals and piano)
Quarry (Quarry Weave 2)
Musica sacra, conductor Richard Westenburg
Dolmen Music (excerpt)
Andrea Goodman, Meredith Monk, Monica Solem
and Paul Langland (voices), Julius Eastman (voice
and percussion), Robert Een (voice and cello)
Steve Reich The Cave (excerpts) Cheryl Bensman
Rowe and Marion Beckenstein (sopranos), James
Bassi (tenor), Hugo Munday (baritone), Steve
Reich Ensemble, conductor Paul Hillier
After the War (Different Trains) Kronos Quartet
Piano Phase (remixed by D*Note)
D*Note (electronics)

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Another chance to hear a series of performances
given in August 2022 at Northern Ireland Opera’s
12th Glenarm Festival of Voice, recorded at St
Patrick’s Church of Ireland in Glenarm, Antrim.
Presented by John Toal. Continues tomorrow.
Schumann Widmung, Op 25 No 1;
Die Lotosblume, Op 25 No 7
Schubert Alles um Liebe, D241; Labetrank der
Liebe, D302
Wolf Sterb’ ich...; Ihr seid die Allerschönste
Granados No lloreis ojuelos; Lloraba la Niña;
Gracia mia
Alessandro Fisher (tenor), Simon Lepper (piano)
Strauss Schlagendeherzen; Das Rosenband;
Allerseelen; Morgen!; Ständchen
Soraya Mafi (soprano), Simon Lepper (piano)
Strauss Die Georgine, Op 10 No 4
Brahms Wir Wandelten, Op 96 No 2
Clara Schumann Liebeszauber, Op 13 No 3;
Die stille lotosblume, Op 13 No 6
Schumann Zum Schluss
James Newby (baritone), Simon Lepper (piano) (R)

2.00 Afternoon Concert
With Penny Gore. Including at 2.15 another chance
to hear a recent BBC Prom, with a break at 2.55 for
the feature Proms Artist Choice, in which conductor
Elim Chan introduces a favourite recording of a
music work. Plus further highlights from the recent
Schwetzingen Festival in Germany, and more.
Wagner Prelude, Act 3: Lohengrin
BBCSO, conductor Jiri Belohlavek
Forsyth Chanson celtique
Timothy Ridout (viola), James Baillieu (piano)
2.15 A BBC Prom from last Tuesday, with Elim
Chan conducting the BBCSO, joined by pianist Jan
Lisiecki (piano) and the BBCSO, Ian Skelly presents.
Noriko Koide Swaddling Silk and Gossamer Rain
(BBC commission: first European performance)
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor
Elgar Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma)

Scala Radio
DAB scalaradio.co.uk
7.00am Charles Nove Including Questions of the
Day and, from 9.00, Screen Time, featuring an hour
of music from films, TV, adverts and video games.
10.00 Penny Smith Including at 11.30 a guest from the
arts and entertainment world. Plus requests at 12.00.
1.00pm Sam Hughes
4.00 Richard Allinson Classical music.
7.00 Mark Forrest Music and features.
10.00 The Space Soothing and calming music.
1.00am Night Music 5.00 In the Park

Asian Network
DAB bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork
F’view 709 F’sat 709 Sky 0119 Virgin 912
6.00am Chill 7.00 Smash Bengali 10.00 Certified 11.00
Haroon Rashid 2.00 Certified Throwbacks 3.00 Ankur
Desai 6.00 Bobby Friction 8.00 BBC Introducing 10.00
All Star Anthems 11.00 Asian Network Celebrates 12.00
Ankur Desai 1.00am Bobby Friction 3.00 DJ Limelight
and Kan D Man 5.00 Asian Network News Presents

Haydn String Quartet in G, Op 33 No 5 (1st mvt)
Mosaïques
Michael Torke Javelin Atlanta SO, conductor Yoel Levi
Christian Elin Prelude and Hymn Gambelin
Rossini Overture: L’italiana in Algeri
BBC NOW, conductor Richard Hickox
Price Poem of Praise BBC Singers, Elizabeth
Burgess (piano), conductor Benjamin Nicholas.

5.00 In Tune
Katie Derham invites Le Vent du Nord to perform live.

7.00 BBC Proms

From the Royal Albert Hall, London, Ian
Skelly presents a concert featuring Isata
n
Kanneh-Mason, who makes her Proms solo debut.
Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano), BBC NOW,
conductor Ryan Bancroft
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 3
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5 in E minor
Repeated Wednesday 9 August

9.15 Free Thinking
The Wife of Bath. Shahidha Bari explores the
influence of Chaucer’s Wife of Bath character from
The Canterbury Tales. Producer Torquil MacLeod (R)

10.00 The Essay: Blood and Bronze
7/10. Golden Years. Cellini arrives in Fontainebleau
to work for the French King Francis I. He makes his
first masterwork, a golden salt cellar. But his
sexual indiscretions soon catch up with him. (R)

10.15 BBC Proms

From the Royal Albert Hall, an evening of
jazz standards performed by Grammy-winning
n
Memphis-born singer/songwriter Dee Dee
Bridgewater alongside Carnegie Hall’s National
Youth Jazz Orchestra. Presented by Katie Derham.
Dee Dee Bridgewater (vocals), NYO Jazz, director
Sean Jones (trumpet)
Ellington, transcr Berger Braggin’ in Brass
Sean Jones The 29ers
Hargrove, arr Gibson Strasbourg/St Denis;
Wycliffe Gordon We’re Still Here; Santamaría,
arr Clayton: Afro Blue
Williams arr Clayton Basin Street Blues
Holiday, arr C Bridgewater Fine and Mellow;
Ellington, arr Hampton Cotton Tail
Nichols, arr Gomez and C Bridgewater
Lady Sings the Blues
Lee, arr Foster Let the Good Times Roll
12.00 Night Tracks With Hannah Peel.

12.30am Through the Night With Jonathan Swain.
Lobo de Borja Versa est in luctum Victoria Tenebrae
Responses and Lamentations (excerpts) Allegri Miserere
mei, Deus Victoria Requiem Mass Tenebrae, conductor
Nigel Short 1.49 Chopin Piano Sonata No 2 in B flat
minor, Op 35 2.12 Haydn String Quartet in B minor, Op
33 No 1 2.31 Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4 in F minor
3.16 Widor Suite, Op 34 3.34 Gautier Touz esforciez
avrai chante souvent 3.40 Dvorak Two Waltzes, Op 54
3.48 Escosa Three Dances 3.54 Kuula Festive March,
Op 13 4.03 Spohr Fantasia, Theme and Variations on a
Theme by Danzi, Op 81 4.12 Monteverdi Audi, coelum,
verba mea (Vespro della Beata Vergine) 4.20 Telemann
Quadro in G minor, TWV43:g4 4.31 Verhulst Gijsbrecht
van Aemstel, Op 3 4.40 Françaix Huit danses
exotiques 4.50 Piotr Moss Spring 4.59 RimskyKorsakov The Three Wonders (Suite: The Tale of Tsar
Saltan, Op 57) 5.07 Nenov Cinema Suite 5.25 Goleminov
Solo Cello Sonata 5.32 Bach Orchestral Suite No 1 in C,
BWV1066 5.55 Schumann Sieben Klavierstücke in
Fughettenform, Op 126 (selection)
6.04 Mozart Violin Concerto No 3 in G, K216 (R)

Classic FM
99.9—101.9 FM DAB classicfm.com
Freeview 731 Freesat 721 Sky 0106 Virgin 922
6.00am More Music Breakfast With John Humphrys.
9.00 Alexander Armstrong Classical hits, starting
with the Classic Hall of Fame Hour, featuring
favourite pieces voted into the current Classic FM Top
300. At 10.15 Album of the Week.
12.00 Anne-Marie Minhall
4.00pm Margherita Taylor Classic FM favourites.
7.00 Smooth Classics at Seven
Zeb Soanes with three hours of potentially calming
classical music to help listeners relax and recharge.
10.00 Calm Classics With Ritula Shah.
1.00am Bill Overton 4.00 Lucy Coward

Absolute Radio
DAB absoluteradio.co.uk
Freeview 727 Freesat 724 Sky 0107 Virgin 915
6.00am Dave Berry 10.00 Claire Sturgess
1.00pm Ben Burrell 4.00 Richie 7.00 Danielle Perry
10.00 Jay Lawrence 1.00am Dan Noble

1 AUGUST TUESDAY
BBC Radio 4
92.4—94.6 FM 198 LW DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4
Freeview 704 Freesat 704 (FM) 710 (LW)
Sky 0104 (FM) 0130 (LW) Virgin 904 (FM) 911 (LW)
News 5.30am, 6.00 and hourly to 12 midnight
Weather 6.07am, 6.57, 7.57, 12.57pm, 5.57, 9.59,
12.30am
shipping forecasts 5.20am, 12.01pm (LW),
5.54pm (LW), 12.48am

6.00 Today
With Chris Mason and Justin Webb.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day
With Canon Angela Tilby.

9.00 Rethink Work

4

9.45 FM Book of the Week: The Rooster
House: My Ukrainian Family Story
2/5. In the Archives. By Victoria Belim.
After a frustrating visit to the Regional
Archive Bureau, a chance encounter leads
Victoria to an archive of a different kind.
Read by Vera Graziadei.

7.15 Front Row
Some of Freddie Mercury’s greatest costumes
go on display this week, ahead of an auction
at Sotheby’s. Samira Ahmed hears from the
exhibition’s curators about the highlights of
the archive. Producer Paula McGrath

2.15 Drama: What’s Love Got to Do
with It?
Futuristic comedy by Tom Wainwright.
Couple Tina and Turner use an app called Q
to manage their relationship. Via their smart
watches, Q can track everything from their
body temperature to their work diary. When
they delete it, things prove far from plain
sailing. Can they find happiness without the
app? With Georgie Fuller and Edward Easton.
Tina
Turner
Georgie

Georgie Fuller Rob
Ian Dunnett Jr
Edward Easton The groom
Justice Ritchie
Elinor Coleman Narrator Gwyneth Keyworth

Director Anne Isger (R)

3.00 The Kitchen Cabinet
Repeated from Saturday 10.30am (FM only)

3.30 A Very British Cult
4/8. Getting Out. Catrin finds out what
happens to members who question
Lighthouse on their behaviour. She meets
with Erin who raised concerns and was
accused of being a “cynical little old witch”.
Producers Osman Iqbal, Natalie Truswell, Ed Main and
Jo Adnitt (R) Repeated Friday 9pm

4.00 Word of Mouth

10.00 Woman’s Hour

Producer Beth O’Dea Repeated Monday 11pm

With Nuala McGovern.

4.30 Great Lives

11.00 Bug in the System: the Past,
Present and Future of Cancer

New series. 1/9. Susie Dent on Thomas
Mann. Lexicographer and Countdown
wordsmith Susie Dent says German was her
first love and she first read works by Thomas
Mann while studying at university. She loves
the tension in the Death in Venice writer’s
work, between the pull of one’s senses and
the desire to stay aloof and detached. Susie
and presenter Matthew Parris are joined
by Karolina Watroba, research fellow in
German and comparative literature at the
University of Oxford, who was born in Poland
where Mann is a huge cultural icon and first
read The Magic Mountain in the summer
before she went to university.

New series. 1/3. An investigation into
cancer, where it came from, where it is going
and how it can be overcome in the future.
Producer Beth Sagar-Fenton Repeated Monday 9pm

11.30 The Balsall Heath Bohemians:
Stewart Lee and the Story of the
Birmingham Surrealists

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Stewart Lee unravels the story of the
Birmingham Surrealist movement,
championing the irrational in the unlikely
setting of Balsall Heath in Birmingham from
the 1930s to the 50s. Producer Sara Conkey

12.04pm Call You and Yours
Presented by Winifred Robinson.
PHONE: 0370 010 0444 (Lines open from 10am)
EMAIL: youandyours@bbc.co.uk

Producer Toby Field Repeated Thursday 11.30am

5.00 PM Presented by Evan Davis.
6.00 Six o’Clock News

BBC Radio 4 Extra
DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4extra
Freeview 708 Freesat 708 Sky 0126 Virgin 910
6.00am Little Novels by Wilkie Collins
6.30 Julie Enfield Investigates as 4.30pm
7.00 You Will Be Safe Here as 5pm
7.15 The Cazalets: The Light Years as 12.15pm
7.30 Gloomsbury Sue Limb’s parody (5/6)
8.00 The Goon Show Vintage 1958 comedy
8.30 Jerusalem as 1.30pm
9.00 The Motion Show Debating game (6/6)
9.30 Trapped Comedy drama (4/4)
10.00 Baldi Simon Brett’s The Book Case
10.45 Short Works as 3.45pm
11.00 Little Novels by Wilkie Collins
Dramatisation of the 1877 tale Miss Bertha and
the Yankee (aka The Duel in Herne Wood)
11.30 Julie Enfield Investigates as 4.30pm
12.00 You Will Be Safe Here as 5pm
12.15pm The Cazalets: The Light Years
Dramatisation by Sarah Daniels of the 1990 family
saga by Elizabeth Jane Howard, set in 1937—38
Sussex. Narrated by Penelope Wilton (7/10
12.30 Gloomsbury Sue Limb’s parody (5/6)
1.00 The Goon Show Vintage 1958 comedy
1.30 Jerusalem Comedy by poet Simon Armitage,
about a bedroom-bound former firefighter who
communicates with the local village using radio.
Narrated by Colin Welland. With Tom Bell (1/3)

8.00 The Wolf of Crypto
The world of crypto-currencies conjures
images of wealthy tech mavericks and silicon
valley investors. But in 2021, the village of
Winchmore Hill in Buckinghamshire became
the unlikely recruiting ground for a
crypto-currency called Koda. It didn’t end
well. Lucinda Borrell explores the lasting
impact on this small village, and asks why
this particular crypto coin became so
appealing in the first place.
Producer Lucinda Borrell Repeated Sunday 5pm

8.40 In Touch
Peter White with news and features for
people who are blind or partially sighted.
Producer Pete Wilson

9.00 Rethink Work Repeated from 9am
9.45 An Almanac of Anxiety:
in Search of a Calmer Mind
5/5. Earth. Helen Needham visits the
Horticulture for Wellbeing allotment in
Plymouth, finding out how gardening can be
soothing for people with severe mental illness.
Producer Helen Needham

10.00 The World Tonight
With James Coomarasamy.

10.45 Book at Bedtime: Money
7/10. I Can Butch This Out. By Martin Amis.
After learning of Selina’s duplicity, John Self
throws himself into further gluttony, alcohol
and pornography. Read by Bertie Carvel.
For details see yesterday

11.00 Witch
10/13. Palms of Silver. India Rakusen
explores the business of witchcraft and the
murky ways in which people might profit
from the idea. Producers Elle Scott and Lucy Dearlove

11.30 Rewinder
1/3. A Trout Called Barbie. Greg James
unearths coverage of the first Formula One
championship; an interview with the creators
of Barbie; and the secret of eternal youth.
Producer Tim Bano (R)

12.00 News and Weather
12.30—12.45am Book of the Week:
The Rooster House: My Ukrainian
Family Story Rptd from 9.45am (FM only)
1.00 as BBC World Service

BBC World Service
2.00 The Motion Show Debating game (6/6)
2.30 Trapped Comedy drama (4/4)
3.00 Baldi Simon Brett’s The Book Case
3.45 Short Works Sonny’s Bench. From 2019
4.00 Little Novels by Wilkie Collins as 11am
4.30 Julie Enfield Investigates: The Net and
the Canal Crime horror. From 1996 (1/4)
5.00 You Will Be Safe Here By Damian Barr (7/10)
5.15 The Cazalets: The Light Years as 12.15pm
5.30 Gloomsbury Sue Limb’s parody (5/6)
6.00 The Goon Show Vintage 1958 comedy
6.30 Jerusalem as 1.30pm
7.00 The Motion Show Debating game (6/6)
7.30 Trapped Comedy drama (4/4)
8.00 TED Radio Hour How to revitalise
8.50 Inheritance Tracks US singer PP Arnold
9.00 Mastertapes With Angélique Kidjo (2/2)
9.30 Murder and Mystery Teresa Gallagher reads
Louisa May Alcott’s Doctor Dorn’s Revenge (1&2/2)
10.00—12.00 Comedy Club: The Ultimate
Choice (1/6), 10.30 The Lee Mack Show
(6/6),11.00 The Damien Slash Mixtape (1/4),
11.15 Where Did It All Go Wrong? (1/4), and at
11.30 ElvenQuest Comedy from 2011 (5/6)
12.00 as 3pm 12.45am as 3.45pm 1.00 as 4pm
1.30 as 4.30pm 2.00 as 5pm 2.15 as 5.15pm
2.30 as 5.30pm 3.00 as 6pm 3.30 as 1.30pm
4.00 as 2pm 4.30 as 2.30pm 5.00 Baldi The
Sick Rose 5.45 Short Works The Bean Room

*Not available on Freeview in Scotland 4pm—1am. Key (R) Repeat

RadioTimes 29 July–4 August 2023

Adil smells a rat, while Chelsea struggles
with a conundrum. For cast see Fri Rptd tomorrow 2pm

Repeated from yesterday 7pm

Led by the Rev Sharon Grenham-Thompson.
Proverbs 13: 15-23. Lead Us Heavenly Father,
Lead Us, St Martin’s Voices; When Peace like
a River, Geraldine Latty; Abide with Me,
Yvonne and David Lyon.

9.45 LW Daily Service

7.00 The Archers

2.00 The Archers

4/7. The Stories behind Our Names
Michael Rosen finds out about the family and
cultural histories revealed by people’s
names. He talks to journalist Sheela
Banerjee, whose book What’s in a Name?
Friendship, Identity and History in Modern
Multicultural Britain, takes a dive into her
own personal and family names.

For details see yesterday Repeated 12.30am

2/6. Steph McGovern is joined by Amy
Gledhill and Andrew Maxwell for the comedy
panel show that comes up with answers to
mischievous dilemmas. Producer Jon Harvey (R)

DAB bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio
Freeview* 710 Freesat 711 Sky 0115 Virgin 906
Programmes may differ online, and on Freesat, Sky, and Virgin

5.00am Newsday 8.00 News 8.05 People
Fixing the World 8.30 Business Daily 8.50
Witness History 9.00 The Newsroom 9.30 The
Documentary: Invading the Past — Russia and
Science Fiction 10.00 News 10.05 The Arts
Hour 11.00 The Newsroom 11.30 CHOICE: In
the Studio: writer Sophie Hannah talks about her
updated Poirot novels Review: p111 12.00 News
12.05pm Outlook 12.50 Witness History 1.00
The Newsroom 1.30 Discovery: The Life Scientific
— Andre Geim 2.00 Newshour 3.00 News 3.05
People Fixing the World 3.30 World Business
Report 4.00 BBC OS 6.00 News 6.05 Outlook
6.50 Witness History 7.00 The Newsroom 7.30
Sport Today 8.00 News 8.05 The Documentary:
Invading the Past — Russia and Science Fiction:
how Russian science fiction became a
reactionary playground 8.30 Tech Life 9.00
Newshour 10.05 People Fixing the World 10.30
In the Studio 11.00 The Newsroom 11.20 Sports
News 11.30 World Business Report 12.00 News
12.05am The Arts Hour 1.00 News 1.05 Business
Matters 2.00 The Newsroom 2.30 The Climate
Question 3.05 Outlook 3.50 Witness History
4.00 The Newsroom 4.30 On the Podium

693, 909 MW DAB bbc.co.uk/fivelive
F’view 705 F’sat 705 Sky 0105 Virgin 905
Sports Extra F’view 706 F’sat 706
Sky 0131 Virgin 908
News and sport bulletin every half-hour
Times vary during live sports coverage

5.00am Wake Up to Money
6.00 5 Live Breakfast
With Rachel Burden and Rick Edwards.
9.00 Nicky Campbell
Topical discussion, with a phone-in.
Simulcast with BBC2

11.00 5 Live Sport
Juliette Ferrington with sports news
and build-up to China v England in
Group D of the Women’s World Cup,
with live commentary at 12.00.
2.15pm Nihal Arthanayake
4.00 5 Live Drive
Tony Livesey and Clare McDonnell
with the latest news and sport.
7.00 5 Live Sport
Kelly Cates presents debate and
discussion surrounding the Women’s
World Cup following this morning’s
England game. At at 8.00 72+, in
which Aaron Paul and guests Jobi
McAnuff and Curtis Davies preview
the 2023—24 English Football
League season.
10.00 Colin Murray
Including at 11.00 The Big News
Hour — an in-depth look at a news
story — and at 12.00 Midnight
Meets, in which Colin sits down with
guests to see what makes them tick.
1.00am Dotun Adebayo

Radio

New series. 1/3. The Work Revolution
Since Covid 19 there has been an
upheaval in Britain’s workforce. The
number of working-age adults who are not
in work or looking for jobs has soared to
nearly nine million. Amol Rajan discusses
what is driving this change with guests
Vince Cable, Fraser Nelson, Ben Habib and
Dr Miatta Fahnbulleh. Repeated 9pm

2/5. Harassment Architecture. Charlston
draws on his first-hand experience of being
homeless to reflect on how modern public
spaces are being redesigned to lead him out
of sight, sometimes forcing him into hidden
and dangerous places. Producer George Ruskin

6.30 The Ultimate Choice

TUESDAY

5.30am News Briefing
5.43 Prayer for the Day
With Methodist preacher George Craig.
5.45 Farming Today Countryside stories.
5.58 Tweet of the Day
Frank Gardner discusses the golden oriole. (R)

BBC Radio 5 Live
1.00 The World at One With Jonny Dymond.
1.45 New Storytellers

BBC 5 Sports Extra
DAB bbc.co.uk/sports extra
F’view 706 F’sat 706 Sky 0131 Virgin 908
2.45pm Cricket Live coverage of
Trent Rockets v Southern Brave —
a women’s Hundred match at Trent
Bridge— followed at 6.25 by Trent
Rockets v Southern Brave, a men’s
Hundred match at Trent Bridge.

Talksport
1053, 1089 MW DAB talksport.co.uk
F’view 723 F’sat 731 Sky 0108 Virgin 927
6.00am Sports Breakfast
10.00 Jim White and Simon
Jordan Sporting insight.
1.00pm Hawksbee and Baker
Sports news, guests and more.
4.00 Talksport Drive With
Andy Goldstein and Darren Bent.
7.00 Kick Off Sporting issues.
10.00 Sports Bar
1.00am Extra Time.
5.00 Early Breakfast

Talksport 2
DAB talksport.co.uk
11.00am—2.00pm Women’s
World Cup Football China v
England (kick-off 12.00).
2.00—4.00 Racing
Coverage of Glorious Goodwood.

LBC
97.3 FM (London area) DAB lbc.co.uk
F’view 732 F’sat 734 Sky 0123 Virgin 919
7.00am Nick Ferrari 10.00
Topical Programme 1.00pm
Shelagh Fogarty 4.00 Tom
Swarbrick 6.00 Tonight with
Andrew Marr 7.00 Iain Dale
10.00 Colin Brazier 1.00am
Richard Spurr 4.00 Ian Payne

Times Radio
DAB thetimes.co.uk/radio
5.00am Rosie Wright 6.00
Aasmah Mir and Luke Jones
10.00 Matt Chorley 1.00pm
Mariella Frostrup 3.00 Jane
Garvey and Fi Glover 5.00 Adam
Boulton 7.00 Adam and Friends
8.00 The Evening Edition with
Kait Borsay 10.00 Rick Kelsey
1.00am Stories of Our Times
1.30 Red Box 2.00 Highlights

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BBC Radio 2
88—90.2 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio2
F’view* 702 F’sat 702 Sky 0102 Virgin 902

6.30am Gaby Roslin
9.30 Vernon Kay
Including at 11.40 Tracks of My
Years, with Johnnie Walker, today
discussing a Derek and the
Dominos classic and a non-charting
1964 Fortunes single that recalls
Johnnie’s days on pirate radio.

BBC Proms
7.30pm Radio 3
Eight decades since his demise,
Russian Romantic composer
Sergey Rachmaninov (above) is
receiving a serious push at this
year’s Proms on the slightly
spurious grounds that his public
popularity still needs defending
against critical disdain. But, if
that’s the excuse for rolling out
the rich emotionalism and lyrical
effusiveness of his Second
Symphony, who’s complaining?
To open the concert, conductor
Kirill Karabits, always a proud
champion of Ukrainian music
but obviously more so today,
presents the first Proms
performance of his father Ivan’s
colourful concerto for
orchestra, A Musical Gift to Kyiv,
written to celebrate his native
city’s 1,500th anniversary. And
there’s a Proms debut too for
Felix Klieser, the remarkable
German horn player who, having
been born without arms, uses
his left foot to operate the
valves. MARK PAPPENHEIM

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BBC Radio 1
97.6—99.8 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio1
F’view* 700 F’sat 700 Sky 0101 Virgin 901
7.30am Matt Edmondson 11.00
Rickie, Melvin and Charlie 1.00pm
Dean and Vicky 3.30 Vick and
Jordan 6.00 Radio 1’s Future Sounds
8.00 Radio 1’s Future Artists 10.00
Power Down Playlist 11.00 Benji B
2.00am The Radio 1 Interview 2.15
Playlists 2.30 Six Degrees from Jamie
and Spencer 3.00 Relax in Love
4.00 Dance 5.00 Sam and Danni

11.30am Radio 4
As this superb documentary
series draws to a close, it’s
worth noting that the box set is
available on BBC Sounds. What
makes it so good? Helena
Bonham Carter’s narration of
these incredible tales of
bravery from Second World
War heroes who don’t feature
in history books or films or TV
documentaries, for starters.
Her delivery is measured,
respectful and engaged. Then
there’s the meticulous research
by historian and screenwriter
Alex von Tunzelmann (who
wrote the script for the 2017
film Churchill). This episode
focuses on a Kosovan–Albanian
merchant who risked his life
and his family to offer shelter to
Jewish families fleeing Nazi
Germany and Austria.
ANNA JONES

12.00 Jeremy Vine
2.00pm Scott Mills
4.00 Sara Cox
7.00 Jo Whiley
9.00 The Folk Show with
Mark Radcliffe
With highlights of live performances
from last weekend’s Cambridge
Folk Festival, which featured Eliza
Carthy and the Restitution, Angeline
Morrison and the Sorrow Songs Band,
and Rufus Wainwright. A two-hour
programme of highlights is available
on the BBC Sounds app, from today.

10.00 Trevor Nelson’s
Rhythm Nation
12.00 Phil Williams
3.00am Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s
Kitchen Disco (R)
4.00 Owain Wyn Evans

BBC 6 Music
DAB bbc.co.uk/6music
Freeview 707 Freesat 707 Sky 0120 Virgin 909
7.30am Lauren Laverne
10.30 Nemone
1.00pm Craig Charles
4.00 Steve Lamacq
7.00 New Music Fix Daily
9.00 The First Time with...
Matt Everitt invites actor Damien Lewis
to share critical moments and music
in his life and career.
10.00 Riley and Coe
12.00 Freak Zone Playlist
1.00am Insight: New Orleans
A 1976 programme celebrating the
music of New Orleans, presented by
Charlie Gillett (1942—2010).
2.00 The First Time with...
Matt Everitt’s 2014 chat with New Orleans
singer/songwriter Dr John (1941—2019),
born Malcolm Rebennack Jr.
3.00 The Huey Show Presents the
Hip-Hop Mixtape
6/6 Huey Morgan’s final hip-hop
playlist is devoted to knowledge, with
from DJ Sarah Love and DJ Format.
4.00 Jukebox 5.00 Chris Hawkins

Greatest Hits
DAB greatesthitsradio.co.uk
F’view 716 Sky 0151 Regional variations on FM/MW
6.00am Breakfast 10.00 Ken Bruce
1.00pm Debbie Mac 4.00 Simon
Mayo 7.00 Kate Thornton
10.00 Andy Crane 1.00am Music
Marathon 4.00 Alex Lester

Boom Radio
DAB boomradiouk.com
6.00am Andy Marriott 7.30 Graham
Dene 10.00 David Lloyd 12.00 David
Hamilton 2.00pm Jane Markham
4.00 Nicky Horne 6.00 Roger Day
8.00 The Easy Hour 9.00 More Music
10.00 Diana Luke 12.00 Night Ride
2.00am Through the Night

BBC Radio 3
90.2—92.4 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio3
Freeview* 703 Freesat 703 Sky 0103 Virgin 903
News and weather as Monday

6.30am Breakfast
Petroc Trelawny with music, arts news and texts.
9.00 Essential Classics With Georgia Mann.

12.00 Composer of the Week Anniversary
Special: Composers in Conversation
3/5. Harrison Birtwistle and Hans Werner Henze
Donald Macleod looks back at memorable visits to the
homes of then living composers, Harrison Birtwistle
(1934—2022) and Hans Werner Henze (1926—2012).
Birtwistle Virelai (Sus une fontayne)
London Sinfonietta, conductor David Atherton
The Minotaur (excerpt)
Minotaur
Ariadne
Theseus

John Tomlinson (bass)
Christine Rice (mezzo)
Johan Reuter (baritone)

Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra,
conductor Antonio Pappano
The Moth Requiem Philippa Davies (alto flute),
Lucy Wakefield, Helen Tunstall and Hugh Webb
(harps), BBC Singers, conductor Nicholas Kok
Henze Kammerkonzert (3rd mvt) Matthias Perl (flute),
Christopher Tainton (piano), NDR SO/Peter Ruzicka
Adagio adagio Nash Ensemble
Scorribanda sinfonica NDR SO/Peter Ruzicka
Requiem (excerpt) Ensemble Moderne,
conductor Ingo Metzmacher

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
John Toal with festival performances from 2022.
Britten On This Island
Soraya Mafi (soprano), Simon Lepper (piano)
Stanford A Broken Song
Vaughan Williams Let Beauty Awake;
The Roadside Fire; Youth and Love;
Whither Must I Wander? (Songs of Travel)
Schubert Der Leiermann
James Newby (baritone), Simon Lepper (piano)
Haydn Wood Roses of Picardy
Alan Murray I’ll Walk beside You
Lilian Ray The Sunshine of Your Smile
Haydn Wood A Brown Bird Singing; Love’s Garden
of Roses Alessandro Fisher (tenor), Simon Lepper
(piano) (R)
2.00 Afternoon Concert With Penny Gore,
who starts with the repeat of a BBC Prom from
Tuesday 25 July, presented by Andrew McGregor.
Kristina Arakelyan Star Fantasy
Ghislaine Reece-Trapp In paradisum
Olivia Belli Limina luminis (BBC commission)
Hans Zimmer, arr Lapwood Interstellar Suite,
Part 1 — Stay
Price Retrospection (An Elf on a Moonbeam)
Philip Glass Mad Rush
Hans Zimmer, arr Lapwood Interstellar Suite,
Part 2 — Cornfield Chase
Debussy, arr Guilmant String Quartet in G minor
(3rd mvt)
Debussy, arr LapwoodClairdelune(Suitebergamasque)
Hans Zimmer, arr Lapwood Interstellar Suite,
Part 3 — No Time for Caution
3.20 Abel Allegro in D minor; Adagio in D minor (27
Pieces for bass viol) Lucile Boulanger (viola da gamba)
3.30 Kozeluch Symphony in G minor
Frankfurt RSO, conductor Vaclav Luks

Scala Radio
DAB scalaradio.co.uk
7.00am Charles Nove
10.00 Penny Smith Popular classical works and
features, including at 11.30 the weekly classical Scala
Sessions, Carly Anderson and Charlie Stemp,
currently on the West End Stage in a production of
Crazy for You, with music by George and Ira Gershwin.
Here they perform the Gershwin classics Someone to
Watch over Me and They Can’t Take That Away from Me.
1.00pm Sam Hughes With popular classical works.
4.00 Richard Allinson 7.00 Mark Forrest
10.00 The Space Soothing and calming music.
1.00am Night Music 5.00 In the Park

Asian Network
DAB bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork
F’view 709 F’sat 709 Sky 0119 Virgin 912
6.00am R&B Anthems 7.00 Smash Bengali 10.00
Certified 11.00 Haroon Rashid 2.00pm Certified
Throwbacks 3.00 Ankur Desai 6.00 Bobby Friction
8.00 DJ Limelight and Kan D Man 10.00 Takeover
12.00 Asian Network News Presents 1.00am AJD
3.00 DJ Nish 5.00 The Everyday Hustle

4.00 Choral Evensong
From the Church of St Alban-the-Martyr, Holborn, with
Genesis Sixteen, with music by Assandra, Esquivel
and Byrd. Introit: Salve regina (Assandra); Responses:
Rose; Psalms 12, 13, 14 (Turle [after Bach], Turle,
Latham); First Lesson: Isaiah 55, vv8—13; Office Hymn:
Before the Ending of the Day (Te lucis ante terminum);
Magnificat Quinti Toni (Esquivel); Second Lesson: 2
Timothy 2, vv8—19; Nunc dimittis (Esquivel); Anthem:
Quomodo cantabimus (Byrd); Hymn: Christ Is Made
the Sure Foundation (Westminster Abbey); Voluntary:
Fantasia of Foure Parts (Gibbons). Conductors Harry
Christophers, Eamonn Dougan and Olivia Shotton.
Organist James Orford. Repeated Sunday 2pm.
5.00 In Tune Katie Derham welcomes Ukrainian
pianist Anna Fedorova ahead of her appearance at
the Oxford Piano Festival.
7.00 Classical Mixtape An inspired playlist.

7.30 BBC Proms

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, a concert
featuring Ukrainian father and son Ivan and
4
Kirill Karabits, composer and conductor respectively,
as a 1981 work by Ivan — who died in 2002 — receives
its UK premiere this evening. With Martin Handley.
Felix Klieser (horn), Bournemouth Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Kirill Karabits
Ivan Karabits Concerto for Orchestra No 1 (A
Musical Gift to Kyiv) (first UK performance)
Mozart Horn Concerto No 4 in E flat, K495
8.00 Interval Marina Frolova-Walker explores
Rachmaninov’s life and music.
8.25 Rachmaninov Symphony No 2 in E minor
Repeated Thursday 10 August

10.00 Free Thinking
Matthew Sweet celebrates Oliver Postgate (1925—
2008), creator of children’s TV classics such as Noggin
the Nog, Clangers and Bagpuss and Pogles’ Wood.
He’s joined by son (and illustrator) Daniel Postgate
and others, including singer Sandra Kerr (the voice of
Madeleine in Bagpuss), Neil Brand and more. (R)

10.45 The Essay: Blood and Bronze
8/10. Forging the Renaissance. Jerry Brotton
retraces the life of the charismatic yet dangerous
character Benvenuto Cellini (1500—71). (R)
11.00 Night Tracks With Hannah Peel.

12.30am Through the Night With Jonathan Swain.
12.31 Rebel Les élémens Clérambault La Muse de l’opéra, ou
les caractères liriques Couperin, arr Bernolet Concert No 8
(Dans le goût théâtral) (Les gouts réunis) Rebel Les
caractères de la danse Clérambault Le soleil, vainqueur des
nuages Deborah Cachet (soprano), Il Gardellino, conductor
Korneel Bernolet 2.01 Clérambault Suite du deuxième ton for
organ 2.18 Jiranek Flute Concerto in G 2.31 Schubert Six
Moments Musicaux, D780 2.57 Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht,
Op 4 3.27 Bourdon Elegiac poem for cello and orchestra
3.33 Arvo Pärt The Woman with the Alabaster Box
3.39 Biber Partita No 6 in D (Harmonia artificiosa-ariosa)
3.52 Mantzaros Sinfonia di genere Orientale in A minor
4.01 Scarlatti, arr Gieseking Chaconne on a Theme by
Scarlatti (after Keyboard Sonata in D minor, Kk32) 4.09
Mozart Non piu, tutto ascoltai...Non temer amato bene, K490
4.18 Doppler L’oiseau des bois, Op 21 4.24 Medins Flower
Waltz (Victory of Love) 4.31 Kreisler Chanson Louis XIII et
Pavane in the Style of Couperin 4.36 Viardot Choeur des
elfes 4.43 Sauguet La Nuit 4.55 Durante Harpsichord
Concerto in B flat 5.05 Meulemans Five Piano Pieces 5.24
Mendelssohn Incidental music: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
5.48 Dvorak String Quartet No 12 in F, Op 96 (American)
6.13 Mozart Piano Sonata No 4 in E flat, K 282 (R)

Classic FM
99.9—101.9 FM DAB classicfm.com
Freeview 731 Freesat 721 Sky 0106 Virgin 922
6.00am More Music Breakfast With John Humphrys.
9.00 Alexander Armstrong Classical hits, starting
with the Classic Hall of Fame Hour.
12.00 Anne-Marie Minhall At 12.00—2.00pm
Classic FM Requests — with listeners phoning in
requests — and at 3.00 Hall of Fame 3 at 3, featuring
three works from the current Classic Hall of Fame chart.
Text requests on 61812 or via the website at ClassicFM.com

4.00pm Margherita Taylor Classical favourites.
7.00 Smooth Classics at Seven Zeb Soanes with
three hours of potentially calming classical music to
help listeners relax, including at 9.00 the Great Escape.
10.00 Calm Classics With Ritula Shah.
1.00am Bill Overton 4.00 Lucy Coward

Absolute Radio
DAB absoluteradio.co.uk
Freeview 727 Freesat 724 Sky 0107 Virgin 915
6.00am Dave Berry 10.00 Claire Sturgess
1.00pm Ben Burrell 4.00 Richie 7.00 Danielle Perry
10.00 Jay Lawrence 1.00am Dan Noble

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BBC Radio 4
92.4—94.6 FM 198 LW DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4
Freeview 704 Freesat 704 (FM) 710 (LW)
Sky 0104 (FM) 0130 (LW) Virgin 904 (FM) 911 (LW)
News, weather and shipping forecasts as yesterday

6.00 Today
With Martha Kearney and Chris Mason.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day
With Daniel Greenberg.

9.00 Rethink Work

9.45 FM Book of the Week: The Rooster
House: My Ukrainian Family Story
3/5. On the Trail of Nikodim. Victoria Belim
continues her journey into the complex
history of a wounded country — a moving
tribute to hope and the refusal of despair.
Today: a visit to her great-grandfather’s
village brings Victoria closer to the missing
Nikodim. Read by Vera Graziadei.
For details see Monday Repeated 12.30am

9.45 LW Daily Service
Led by Jay Hulme. In Christ There is No East
or West, Mavis Staples; Nothing but Grace,
Chris Sayburn; O Happy Day, the Spirituals
(BBC Recording).

10.00 Woman’s Hour

3/5. Out at Sea, Out of Mind. A journey of
discovery beneath the waves to look at the
importance of sound to sea creatures,
revealing how it is an essential part of
everything from whales, dolphins and
porpoises to the smallest invertebrates.

Are comedians interested in showcasing
their work at the Edinburgh Festival when
they can find a bigger audience on social
media? Nick Ahad reports. Producer Ekene Akalawu

Producer Lottie Steele

2.00 The Archers Repeated from yesterday 7pm
2.15 Drama: Bangla Bantams
Kamal Kaan and Mary Cooper’s drama based
on the true story of how a Bradford women’s
community group became part of the Bangla
Bantams supporters group for Bradford City
football club. When Nessa’s son-in-law
proposes that her Ladies group come and
watch the football live, she thinks he’s crazy.
Her best friend, Farida thinks differently.
Nessa
Farida
Lippy
Rukon

Sudha Bhuchar Sabina
Natalie Davies
Nina Wadia Dave/Football staff
Farzana Dua Elahe
Russell Richardson
Darren Kuppan

Producer/Director Pauline Harris (R)

3.00 Money Box Live
Listeners receive expert advice on their
personal financial questions.
EMAIL: moneybox@bbc.co.uk

Your RT Money: page 136

3.30 Inside Health
4/6. Weekly quest to demystify health
issues, separating fact from fiction and
shedding light on the latest scientific research.

4.00 Sideways
5/6. Inside Marjorie’s Parlour. Every
Sunday afternoon for more than 30 years,
Marjorie Eliot has played a jazz concert in her
Harlem apartment for anyone who comes. It
all began on a Sunday morning in 1992, after
she was faced with an unimaginable loss.
Through her story, Matthew Syed explores
how music has allowed Marjorie to look for
joy within the deepest of losses. And through
the history of jazz itself, he tries to
understand how music can become such a
powerful, even transformational force.

8.00 AntiSocial
1/7. Adam Fleming investigates an issue of
the day, taking something that’s being
fiercely debated on social media. He finds out
how it all began, fact-checks claims and
counter-claims, hears from people whose
voice is often drowned out and slows down
the debate to give listeners a better
understanding of what the heat is all about.
Repeated from Friday (FM only)

8.45 Just One Thing with
Michael Mosley
1/10. Swap Out Sugar. In a series in which he
considers small ways people can improve their
fitness and wellbeing, Michael Mosley talks to
Evelyn Medawar and Max Planck about how
swapping sugar for fruit can improve mood
and memory and may reduce cravings. (R)

9.00 Rethink Work Shortened rpt from 9am
9.45 Living on the Edge
9/10. The writer Richard King travels around
the UK coast to meet people who live and
work there. In this instalment he joins John
Nuttall and his donkeys on Skegness beach.
Producer Martin Williams Repeated Friday 5.45am

10.00 The World Tonight
Presented by James Coomarasamy.

10.45 Book at Bedtime: Money
8/10. I Don’t Seem to Be Able To
By Martin Amis. After an eye-watering night
at the opera with Martina, John Self is finally
getting closer, though not close enough, to
his old crush. Read by Bertie Carvel.
For details see Monday

11.00 Bunk Bed
3/6. Droll, late-night conversation between
Peter Curran and Patrick Marber, who are
joined once more by Kathy Burke.
Producer Peter Curran

Producer Jake Otajovic Repeated Sunday 12.15am

11.15 The Skewer

With Nuala McGovern.

4.30 The Media Show

11.00 Burning Sun

With Ros Atkins Repeated 9.30pm

7/8. Jon Holmes twists current affairs clips
into a surreal, satirical soundscape.

Repeated from Monday 8pm

5.00 PM

11.30 History’s Secret Heroes

4

10/10. Arslan Rezniqi and the Besa
Code. Helena Bonham Carter tells
the story of Kosovan-Albanian merchant
Arslan Rezniqi, and the part he played in
ensuring that Albania was one of the few
European countries to have a larger
Jewish population at the end of the war
than it had at the beginning.

Producer Amie Liebowitz; Exec producer Paul Smith

12.04pm You and Yours
Consumer affairs and public interest stories.

1.00 The World at One
Presented by Jonny Dymond.

Presented by Evan Davis.

6.00 Six o’Clock News
6.30 John Finnemore’s Souvenir
Programme
3/6. John Finnemore’s sketch show, featuring
handy mnemonics, an unilluminating interview,
and a de-illuminating editor’s note. John is joined
throughout the programme by his regular
ensemble cast of Margaret Cabourn-Smith,
Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan.
Producer Ed Morrish Rptd next Wed on Radio 4 Extra (R)

7.00 The Archers
Pat has a brainwave and Mia makes the effort.
For cast see Friday Repeated tomorrow 2pm

BBC Radio 4 Extra
DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4extra
Freeview 708 Freesat 708 Sky 0126 Virgin 910
6.00am Little Novels by Wilkie Collins as 4pm
6.30 Julie Enfield Investigates as 4.30pm
7.00 You Will Be Safe Here By Damian Barr (8/10)
7.15 The Cazalets: The Light Years (8/10)
7.30 Dot Series three of Ed Harris’s sitcom (2/4)
8.00 Hancock’s Half Hour Vintage 1957 comedy
8.30 The Fall of the Mausoleum Club as 1.30pm
9.00 It’s Not What You Know From 2015 (6/6)
9.30 People in Cars as 7.30pm
10.00 Baldi as 3pm
10.45 Short Works as 3.45pm
11.00 Little Novels by Wilkie Collins as 4pm
11.30 Julie Enfield Investigates as 4.30pm
12.00 You Will Be Safe Here By Damian Barr (8/10)
12.15pm The Cazalets: The Light Years (8/10)
12.30 Dot Series three of Ed Harris’s sitcom (2/4)
1.00 Hancock’s Half Hour Vintage 1957 comedy
1.30 The Fall of the Mausoleum Club Ian Brown
and James Hendrie’s sci-fi black comedy Bleak Horse.
The Stranger has sent Mr Tamperton to murder the
evil Joshua Farley who may be at large in Dickensian
London. With Stephen Moore. From 1988
2.00 It’s Not What You Know From 2015 (6/6)
2.30 People in Cars as 7.30pm
3.00 Baldi Martin Meenan’s detective mystery
The Sick Rose. With David Threlfall. From 2003

Producer Jon Holmes Repeated Saturday 9.45pm

11.30 What’s Funny about...
1/3. The Vicar of Dibley. In the first of three
episodes from a 2020 series revealing inside
stories about top TV comedies, Peter Fincham
and Jon Plowman talk to Dawn French and
Richard Curtis about the making of The Vicar of
Dibley. They discuss how to make an intrinsically
nice character funny and French’s strangest
ever Vicar of Dibley gig. Producer Owen Braben (R)

12.00 News and Weather
12.30—12.45am Book of the Week:
The Rooster House: My Ukrainian
Family Story Repeated from 9.45am (FM only)
1.00 as BBC World Service

BBC World Service
3.45 Short Works Christopher Grant reads
Irish author Caitriona Lally’s tale The Bean Room,
about love, obsession and baked beans
4.00 Little Novels by Wilkie Collins
Dramatisation of five mysteries by Wilkie Collins,
continuing with Miss Morris and the Stranger (1881)
4.30 Julie Enfield Investigates: The Net and
the Canal Crim tale with Imelda Staunton (2/4)
5.00 You Will Be Safe Here By Damian Barr (8/10)
5.15 The Cazalets: The Light Years (8/10)
5.30 Dot Series three of Ed Harris’s sitcom (2/4)
6.00 Hancock’s Half Hour Vintage 1957 comedy
6.30 The Fall of the Mausoleum Club as 1.30pm
7.00 It’s Not What You Know From 2015 (6/6)
7.30 People in Cars Anne Reid stars in Miles on
the Clock — the second of three linked comedies
by Simon Brettt. From 2010 (2/3)
8.00 Charles Parker: Radio Pioneer
9.00 What’s Funny about... The making of The
Vicar of Dibley (1/3) See 11.30pm Radio 4 for details
10.00—12.00 Comedy Club: John Finnemore’s
Souvenir Programme (2/6), at 10.30 Pick-Ups
(4/6), at 11.00 Holland’s Shorts (6/6), at 11.15
A Stuggy Pren (2/5), at 11.30 Delve Special (1/4)
12.00 as 3pm 12.45am as 3.45pm 1.00 as 4pm
1.30 as 4.30pm 2.00 as 5pm 2.15 as 5.15pm 2.30
as 12.30pm 3.00 as 6pm 3.30 as 1.30pm 4.00 as
2pm 4.30 as 7.30pm 5.00 Baldi Settling Scores
5.45 Short Works A Long Way to Go

*Not available on Freeview in Scotland 4pm—1am. Key (R) Repeat

DAB bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio
Freeview* 710 Freesat 711 Sky 0115 Virgin 906
Programmes may differ online, and on Freesat, Sky, and Virgin

5.00am Newsday 8.00 News 8.05 Hardtalk
8.30 Business Daily 8.50 Witness History: how
deaf children in Nicaragua invented their own
sign-language 9.00 The Newsroom 9.30 The
Climate Question 10.00 News 10.05 The
Documentary: Women Writing Zimbabwe: why
Zimbabwe has produced so many talented
women writers 11.00 The Newsroom 11.30 On
the Podium: with gold medal-winning speed skater
Denny Morrison 12.00 News 12.05pm Outlook
12.50 Witness History 1.00 The Newsroom
1.30 Tech Life 2.00 Newshour 3.00 News
3.05 Hardtalk 3.30 World Business Report
4.00 BBC OS 6.00 News 6.05 Outlook 6.50
Witness History 7.00 The Newsroom 7.30
Sport Today 8.00 News 8.05 The Climate
Question 8.30 Health Check 9.00 Newshour
10.00 News 10.05 Hardtalk 10.30 On the
Podium 11.00 The Newsroom 11.20 Sports
News 11.30 World Business Report 12.00 News
12.05am The Documentary: Women Writing
Zimbabwe 1.00 News 1.05 Business Matters
2.00 The Newsroom 2.30 Assignment 3.00
News 3.05 Outlook 3.50 Witness History 4.00
The Newsroom 4.30 The Food Chain

693, 909 MW DAB bbc.co.uk/fivelive
F’view 705 F’sat 705 Sky 0105 Virgin 905
Sports Extra F’view 706 F’sat 706
Sky 0131 Virgin 908
News and sport bulletin every half-hour
Times vary during live sports coverage

5.00am Wake Up to Money
6.00 5 Live Breakfast
Rachel Burden and Rick Edwards
with a detailed look at the headlines.
9.00 Nicky Campbell
Discussions, interviews and calls.
Simulcast with BBC2

11.00 Naga Munchetty
With news, big-name interviews
and listeners’ personal experiences.
1.00pm Nihal Arthanayake
News and topical conversation.
4.00 5 Live Drive
Tony Livesey and Clare McDonnell
with the latest news and sport.
7.00 5 Live Sport
Mark Chapman with sports news
and features, including at 7.30 a
programme in which Mark is joined
by guests for a football special on
the Saudi Pro League. Further
sports analysis, interviews and
features follow at 9.30.
10.30 Colin Murray
Including at 11.00 This House
Believes — a lively debate on myriad
topics where listeners decide who
comes out on top — and at 12.00
Midnight in America, with the latest
headlines from across the Atlantic.
1.00am Dotun Adebayo

Radio

2/3. Working Culture. The culture of the
workforce has been radically altered by the
resignation of older workers, the sharp rise in
long-term sick, and the explosion in working
from home. Amol Rajan and his guests
discuss whether new habits and working
patterns will become embedded, or whether
new technologies, including AI, will upend
things again. Shortened repeat 9pm

7.15 Front Row

WEDNESDAY

5.30am News Briefing
5.43 Prayer for the Day
With Methodist preacher George Craig.
5.45 Farming Today
News about food, farming and the countryside.
5.58 Tweet of the Day
Brett Westwood introduces the great reed warbler,
which breeds around reed beds in continental
Europe and boasts a loud call that can be heard
over unexpectedly long distances. (R)

BBC Radio 5 Live
1.45 New Storytellers

BBC 5 Sports Extra
DAB bbc.co.uk/sports extra
F’view 706 F’sat 706 Sky 0131 Virgin 908
11.25am Cricket Welsh Fire v
Manchester Originals — the women’s
Hundred match at Sophia Gardens in
Cardiff — followed at 2.55 by
Welsh Fire v Manchester Originals, the
men’s Hundred match in Cardiff.

Talksport
1053, 1089 MW DAB talksport.co.uk
F’view 723 F’sat 731 Sky 0108 Virgin 927
6.00am Talksport Breakfast
10.00 Jim White and Simon
Jordan Sporting insight.
1.00pm Hawksbee and Jacobs
Paul Hawksbee and Andy Jacobs
with sports news, guests and more.
4.00 Talksport Drive Andy
Goldstein and Darren Bent with
opinionated sports debate.
7.00 Kick Off Sports debate.
10.00 Sports Bar Reaction,
analysis and the chance for listeners
to have a say on the day’s sport.
1.00am Extra Time
5.00 Early Breakfast

Talksport 2
DAB talksport.co.uk
1.00pm—4.00 Racing
Glorious Goodwood.

LBC
97.3 FM (London area) DAB lbc.co.uk
F’view 732 F’sat 734 Sky 0123 Virgin 919
7.00am Nick Ferrari 10.00 Topical
Programme 1.00pm Shelagh
Fogarty 4.00 Tom Swarbrick 6.00
Tonight with Andrew Marr 7.00 Iain
Dale 10.00 Colin Brazier 1.00am
Richard Spurr 4.00 Ian Payne

Times Radio
DAB thetimes.co.uk/radio
5.00am Rosie Wright 6.00
Aasmah Mir and Luke Jones
10.00 Matt Chorley 1.00pm
Mariella Frostrup 3.00 Jane
Garvey and Fi Glover 5.00 Adam
Boulton 7.00 Adam and Friends
8.00 The Evening Edition with
Kait Borsay 10.00 Rick Kelsey
1.00am Stories of Our Times
1.30 Red Box 2.00 Highlights

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THURSDAY

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BBC Radio 2
88—90.2 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio2
F’view* 702 F’sat 702 Sky 0102 Virgin 902

6.30am Gaby Roslin
9.30 Vernon Kay
Music, chat and features, including
at 10.30 the Ten to the Top music
quiz and at 11.40 Tracks of My
Years, with Johnnie Walker
discussing ravourite recordings by
the Beatles and the Steve Miller Band.

The Country Show
with Bob Harris
9.00pm Radio 2
What a comeback year this has
been for the great singer/
songwriter Lucinda Williams
(above). The stroke she
suffered in November 2020
exacted a considerable physical
toll, but — miraculously — her
voice escaped any damage, and
she’s been touring again to
great acclaim. Now 70, she has
just published a revealing
memoir (Don’t Tell Anybody the
Secrets I Told You) and released
her 15th studio album, Stories
from a Rock n Roll Heart, to
which Bruce Springsteen made
contributions. Erudite music
website Pitchfork calls the
record her “lightest, most
earthbound in years in which
she finds inspiration in the
sweetly silly sound of bar-room
rock’n’roll”, and on tonight’s
Country Show we get a chance
to hear her performing a few
tracks from it. SIMON O’HAGAN

ALAMY

Open Country

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BBC Radio 1
97.6—99.8 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio1
F’view* 700 F’sat 700 Sky 0101 Virgin 901
7.30am Greg James 11.00 Rickie,
Melvin and Charlie 1.00pm Dean and
Vicky 3.30 Vick and Jordan 6.00
Future Sounds 8.00 Future Pop
10.00 BBC Introducing Dance 11.00
Residency 1.00am Dance Presents
2.00 Relax 3.00 Chillout Anthems
4.00 Dance 5.00 Yinka Bokinni

3.00pm Radio 4
My curiosity was aroused
immediately by the concept of
a temperate rainforest on the
Isle of Man. The Manx Wildlife
Trust is one of the beneficiaries
of a £38 million grant from the
Aviva insurance company to
develop surviving fragments of
British rainforests. There are
precious few. Helen Mark visits
Creg y Cowin, near the middle
of the island, which will be
replanted with native trees and
other flora. Mosses that will
form part of the rainforest
ecosystem already cover many
of the “tholtans” typical of the
Manx landscape. They’re the
abandoned remains of ancient
agricultural dwellings, and Mark
learns more about them from
photographer Ray Kelly and his
partner Carla Callow, who have
been researching them for
years. DAVID MCGILLIVRAY

12.00 Jeremy Vine
2.00pm Scott Mills
4.00 Sara Cox
7.00 Jo Whiley
9.00 The Country Show
with Bob Harris

The latest from the worlds of
country, roots and Americana,
4
plus classic recordings and studio
guests, tonight with Louisianaborn singer/songwriter Lucinda
Williams playing songs from her
recently released 15th studio album,
Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart.

10.00 Trevor Nelson’s
Rhythm Nation
12.00 Phil Williams
3.00am Sounds of the 90s
With Fearne Cotton. (R)
4.00 Owain Wyn Evans

BBC 6 Music
DAB bbc.co.uk/6music
Freeview 707 Freesat 707 Sky 0120 Virgin 909
7.30am Lauren Laverne Chat and
music, including a People’s Playlist.
10.30 Nemone Including the
HouseQuake Playlist, with potentially
uplifting tracks picked by listeners.
1.00pm Craig Charles
4.00 Steve Lamacq New music,
phone-ins, guests and features,
including the Tea Time Anthem and
at 6.00 Roundtable, with guests
assessing the week’s new releases.
7.00 New Music Fix Daily
Tom Ravenscroft and Deb Grant with
new music that is being made,
performed and/or shared right now.
9.00 The First Time with...
Matt Everitt chats to Jenny Lewis.
10.00 Riley and Coe
12.00 New Music Fix Three 6 Music
presenters each curate an hour of their
favourite new music, starting with Steve
Lamacq. At 1.00am Mary Anne Hobbs,
followed at 2.00 by Jamz Supernova.
And at 3.00 New Album Fix — Matt
Everitt’s review of releases — followed
at 4.00 by New Music Fix Playlist.
5.00am Chris Hawkins

Greatest Hits
DAB greatesthitsradio.co.uk
F’view 716 Sky 0151 Regional variations on FM/MW
6.00am Greatest Hits 10.00 Ken
Bruce 1.00pm Jo Russell 4.00
Simon Mayo 7.00 Kate Thornton
10.00 Andy Crane 1.00am Music
Marathon 4.00 Alex Lester

Boom Radio
DAB boomradiouk.com
6.00am Andy Marriott 7.30 Graham
Dene 10.00 David Lloyd 12.00 David
Hamilton 2.00pm Jane Markham
4.00 Nicky Horne 6.00 Roger Day
8.00 Easy Hour 9.00 Chris Difford’s
Choices 10.00 Diana Luke 12.00 Night
Ride 2.00am Through the Night

BBC Radio 3
90.2—92.4 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio3
Freeview* 703 Freesat 703 Sky 0103 Virgin 903
News and weather as Monday

6.30am Breakfast With Petroc Trelawny.
9.00 Essential Classics With Tom McKinney.
12.00 Composer of the Week Anniversary
Special: Composers in Conversation
4/5. Adolphus Hailstork and Thea Musgrave
Another chance to hear Adolphus Hailstork (born
1941) telling Donald Macleod about the lifelong impact
of spirituals on his creative journey. And on her 90th
birthday, Thea Musgrave (born 1928) discusses the
pleasure she continues to derive from composing,
and the importance of musical friendships.
Adolphus Hailstork Fanfare on Amazing Grace
Eastern Virginia Brass Quintet, Rob Cross
(timpani), James Kosnik (organ)
Three Spirituals Virginia SO, conductor JoAnn Falletta
Symphony No 2 (excerpts) Grand Rapids
Symphony, conductor David Lockington
Thea Musgrave Sometimes (On the Underground,
Set 1) New York Virtuoso Singers, conductor
Harold Rosenbaum
Two’s Company Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Evelyn Glennie
(percussion), BBC SO, conductor Jiri Belohlavek

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Joan Toal with further performances given in
August 2022 at Northern Ireland Opera’s 12th
Glenarm Festival of Voice, recorded at St Patrick’s
Church of Ireland in Glenarm, Antrim.
Mozart An Chloe, K524; Wie unglücklich bin ich nit,
K147; Abendempfindung, K523; Das Veilchen, K476
Soraya Mafi (soprano), Simon Lepper (piano)
Bellini Malinconia, ninfa gentile;
Per pieta bell’ idol mio; Ma rendi pur content
Verdi Il poveretto
Puccini Sole e amore; Storiella d’amore
Alessandro Fisher (tenor), Simon Lepper (piano)
Donzietti Il pescatore
Soraya Mafi (soprano), Simon Lepper (piano)
Julius Benedict Farewell
Balfe The Day Is Done
Wallace Good Night
Sullivan The Lost Chord
James Newby (baritone), Simon Lepper (piano) (R)
2.00 Afternoon Concert With Penny Gore.
Including at 2.15 another chance to hear a recent BBC
Prom, with a break at 2.50 for the feature Proms
Artist Choice. Plus more from the Schwetzingen
Festival and music by Finnish composers.
Shostakovich Festive Overture
BBC Philharmonic, conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
Dalza Pavana e Saltarello alla Venetiana; Piva
La Bellemont
2.15 A BBC Prom from Wednesday last week, with
Mark Elder conducting the BBC Symphony Chorus,
Hallé Choir and the Hallé Orchestra, joined by Mane
Galoyan (soprano), Dmytro Popov (tenor) and Rodion
Pogossov (baritone). Presented by Martin Handley.
Rachmaninov The Bells
Shostakovich Symphony No 5
4.00 Sibelius Tapiola
BBC Philharmonic, conductor Elena Schwarz

Scala Radio
DAB scalaradio.co.uk
7.00am Charles Nove Music and daily features.
10.00 Penny Smith With music and features,
including after 11.30 the Scala Radio Book Club,
today with thriller writer Steve Cavanagh discussing
his new novel, Kill for Me Kill for You, published today.
The story concerns two women — both desperate for
revenge against the men who destroyed their families
— as they hatch the perfect plan to get away with murder.
1.00pm Sam Hughes Music and daily features.
4.00 Richard Allinson With Classical Bangers at 5.30.
7.00 Mark Forrest Including the latest classical
releases and at 8.00 the Peaceful Piano playlist.
10.00 The Space Soothing and calming music.
1.00am Night Music 5.00 In the Park

Asian Network
DAB bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork
F’view 709 F’sat 709 Sky 0119 Virgin 912
6.00am Beats 7.00 Smash Bengali 10.00 Certified
11.00 Haroon Rashid 2.00pm Certified Throwbacks
3.00 Ankur Desai 6.00 AJD 8.00 DJ Nish 10.00 Club
Hit Squad Mix 11.00 Shisha Lounge Mix 12.00 Love Friday
Mix 1.00am The Bangladesh Sessions 2.00 Takeover
4.00 Ankur Desai 5.00 Asian Network Celebrates

Christian Ellin L’incantesimo del profumo di legno
Gambelin
Rautavaara Into the Heart of Light
Ostrobothnian CO, conductor Malin Broman

5.00 In Tune
Katie Derham with news from the classical world,
music and studio guests, including live performances.
7.00 Classical Mixtape Nonstop music.

7.30 BBC Proms
From the Royal Albert Hall. Tom McKinney
presents a concert featuring an orchestral world
premiere by irreverent Irish composer Gerald Barry,
inspired by Franz Kafka’s obsession with wearing
earplugs to block out the noise around him.
James Ehnes (violin), BBC Philharmonic,
conductor John Storgards
Gerald Barry Kafka’s Earplugs
(BBC commission: first performance)
Walton Violin Concerto
8.15 Interval New Generation Thinker Noreen
Masud joins Tom McKinney to discuss literary
examples of nonsense and absurdity.
8.35 Sibelius Symphony No 1 Repeated Fri 11 August

10.00 Free Thinking
A programme first broadcast last October to coincide
with the Royal Shakespeare Company stage
production of an adaptation of My Neighbour Totoro
— the 1988 animated film by Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited
Away). Chris Harding and guests explore how this
story relates to Japanese beliefs about ghosts and
nature, plus Miyazaki’s critique of postwar Japan. (R)

10.45 The Essay: Blood and Bronze
9/10. Sex and Death. Jerry Brotton retraces the
life of the charismatic character Benvenuto Cellini
(1500—71) through the goldsmith’s shocking
autobiography. The reader is Marco Gambino. (R)
11.00 The Night Tracks Mix With Hannah Peel.

11.30 Ultimate Calm
3/12. Icelandic composer and pianist Olafur Arnalds
taps into the sounds of the sea and shares music
inspired by the ocean. Plus Seattle-based electronic
duo Odesza as guests in the Safe Haven feature. (R)

12.30am Through the Night With Jonathan Swain.
Handel Donna che in ciel Bach Christ lag in Todesbanden,
BWV4 Handel Dixit dominus (Psalm 110), HWV232 Ann
Hallenberg (soprano), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque
Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner 2.01 Bach Violin
Sonata No 2 in A minor, BWV1003 2.23 Rameau L’entretien
des muses (Pièces de clavecin avec une méthode)
2.31 Mozart Wind Serenade in C minor, K388 2.56
Debussy 12 études 3.39 Popper Concert polonaise, Op 14
3.45 Luzzaschi O primavera; O dolcezz’ amarissime d’amore
(12 madrigali per cantare e sonare) 3.53 Chabrier España
4.00 Brahms Hungarian Dances: No 11 in D minor; No 5 in
G minor 4.08 Gounod Méditation sur le premier prélude
de Bach (Ave Maria) 4.14 Field, arr Douglas Aria;
Nocturne and Chanson 4.22 Schmelzer Die Fechtschule
4.31 Suppé Overture: Die leichte Kavallerie
4.39 Alfven Pictures from the Achipelago, Op 17
4.48 Norman Rosa rorans bonitatem, Op 45 4.57 Kuljeric
Toccata 5.04 Franceschini Sonata in D for two trumpets,
strings and basso continuo 5.12 Delius The Walk to the
Paradise Garden 5.23 Roussel Piano Trio in E flat, Op 2
5.52 Chopin Berceuse in D flat, Op 57
5.57 Schubert Symphony No 2 in B flat Revised repeat

Classic FM
99.9—101.9 FM DAB classicfm.com
Freeview 731 Freesat 721 Sky 0106 Virgin 922
6.00am More Music Breakfast John Humphrys with
music and features, including at 7.25 Breakfast Serial.
9.00 Alexander Armstrong Classical hits, starting
with the Classic Hall of Fame Hour, featuring
favourite pieces voted into the current Classic FM
Top 300. At 10.15 Album of the Week.
12.00 Anne-Marie Minhall Including at 12.00
Classic FM Requests — with listeners phoning in —
and at 3.00pm Hall of Fame, with three works from
the current Classic Hall of Fame chart.
4.00pm Margherita Taylor Classic FM favourites,
including the Discovery of the Week at 6.20.
7.00 Smooth Classics at Seven With Zeb Soanes.
10.00 Calm Classics Presented by Ritula Shah.
1.00am Bill Overton Music through the night.
4.00 Lucy Coward Music and features.

Absolute Radio
DAB absoluteradio.co.uk
Freeview 727 Freesat 724 Sky 0107 Virgin 915
6.00am Dave Berry 10.00 Claire Sturgess
1.00pm Ben Burrell 4.00 Richie 7.00 Danielle Perry
10.00 Jay Lawrence 1.00am Dan Noble

RT TRAVEL Discover the best of Scotland on an escorted tour Go to radiotimes.com/scotbrochure

3 AUGUST THURSDAY
BBC Radio 4
92.4—94.6 FM 198 LW DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4
Freeview 704 Freesat 704 (FM) 710 (LW)
Sky 0104 (FM) 0130 (LW) Virgin 904 (FM) 911 (LW)
News, weather and shipping forecasts as Tuesday

6.00 Today
Co-presented by Martha Kearney.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day
With the Rt Rev Nick Baines.

9.00 Rethink Work

Repeated 9pm

9.45 FM Book of the Week: The Rooster
House: My Ukrainian Family Story
4/5. Case Number 1056846.
Recollections from 2014, in the wake of
Russia’s annexation of Crimea, when journalist
Victoria Belim returned to her native Ukraine
to unravel her family’s history. Victoria was
given the official file on her great uncle
Nikodim’s imprisonment, but told to read
between the lines. Read by Vera Graziadei.

3/10. Charlotte Stavrou and Amit Katwala
explore our culture of consumption through
products that have changed the world, looking
at the mysteries of marketing and the forces
that drive purchasing. Today’s topic: house
plants. Producer Emily Uchida Finch Rptd Sat 5.30pm

4/6. Ed in Paris. Comedy by Andrew
Nickolds and Christopher Douglas. Jaz
Milvane is to be offered a peerage and hopes
he can use the title Jaz Milvane of Tinseltown.
This is the last series of Ed Reardon that
Nickolds and Douglas worked on together
before the former’s death last year aged 73.

1.00 The World at One
With Jonny Dymond.

1.45 New Storytellers
4/5. Life Partners. Christina Hardinge
adapts the drama-therapy technique of
“characterisation” to create this unscripted
story. It reveals totally new perspectives on a
remarkably common experience as Hania
Fares examines what happens when people
reframe the relationship to their body as a
life partnership, recounting the highs and
lows of her 33-year relationship with “Bea”.
One of the winners of the Charles Parker Prize
for the Best Student Radio Feature 2023.
Producer Christina Hardinge

2.00 The Archers Rptd from yesterday 7pm
2.15 Drama: The Citadel
2/2. Drama by Mike Harris, based on the
novel by AJ Cronin, set in a doctor’s surgery
in south Wales. Andrew and Christine are
worried that they might have lost their baby.
Denny is infatuated with aristocratic birth
control campaigner Frances Pemberton. But
are her aims benign? With Matthew Gravelle.
Denny
Manson
Christine
Frances

Matthew Gravelle Dai/Father Michael
Richard Fleeshman
Stephen Marzella
Catrin Stewart Olwyn
Sacha Parkinson
Emily Pithon Gwynnie
Juno Robinson

Producer/Director Gary Brown

3.00 Open Country

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5/11. Helen Mark visits the Isle of Man
to learn about a project to nurture
temperate rainforests. She also finds out
about “tholtans” — abandoned agricultural
dwellings which are a feature of the Isle of
Man landscape.

For details see Monday Repeated 12.30am

Producer Emma Campbell Repeated Saturday 6.07am

9.45 LW Daily Service

3.27 The Radio 4 Appeal

Led by Rev Richard Carter. 1 Peter 4: 7-11.

10.00 Woman’s Hour
Presented by Anita Rani.

11.00 Crossing Continents
2/9. Millions of people left Romania after it
entered the EU in 2007. Now the Romanian
government wants them to come home.
They’ve doubled health care salaries, offered
tax breaks to builders and dished out
thousands of euros in grants for returners
who start up a business. Romania-British
relations specialist Tessa Dunlop reports .

Ed Reardon
Christopher Douglas
Ping Barunka O’Shaughnessy
Jaz Milvane
Phillip Jackson
Maggie
Pippa Haywood
Stan
Geoffrey Whitehead

Olive
Sally Grace
Winnie
Ellen Thomas
Claude
Rachel Atkins
Radio announcer
Nicola Sanderson

Simulcast with BBC2

7.00 The Archers

11.00 Adrian Chiles
1.00pm Nihal Arthanayake
4.00 5 Live Drive
Tony Livesey and Clare McDonnell
with the latest news and sport.
7.00 5 Live Sport
Eleanor Oldroyd with commentary
on Northern Superchargers v
Birmingham Phoenix. Further
sports analysis, interviews and
features follow at 9.30.
10.00 Colin Murray
Including at 11.00 Our Ukrainian
Radio Family and at 12.00
Midnight Mixtape, featuring a
curated playlist with a chance for
listeners to make suggestions.
1.00am Dotun Adebayo

Disaster strikes at Home Farm and Brad is
determined to put things right.
For cast see Friday Repeated tomorrow 2pm

7.15 Front Row
Tom Sutcliffe presents, joined by guests for
the regular Thursday night review of some
of the week’s cultural highlights.
Producer Paul Waters

8.00 The Briefing Room
7/18. David Aaronovitch and guests drill
down into an issue in the news.
Repeated tomorrow 11am BBC Radio 4

8.30 BBC Inside Science
Repeated from 4.30pm

9.00 Rethink Work
Repeated from 9am

9.45 In the Loop
5/5. Particle Accelerator. To conclude his
circular journey, Paul Farley visits the Large
Hadron Collider, which is 27 kilometres in
circumference and lies deep beneath the
Swiss/French border. A ring of supercooled
magnets which accelerates subatomic
particles to unimaginable speeds and
smashes them together, its aim is to reveal the
secrets of the Universe. Producer Jeremy Grange

10.00 The World Tonight
With Julian Worricker.

10.45 Book at Bedtime: Money

Repeated from Sunday 4pm (FM only)

4.00 Walt Disney: a Life in Films

11.00 Damien Slash: Select All

3.30 Open Book
6/10. Cinderella. Mel Giedroyc explores
Cinderella, one of Walt Disney’s most revered
animations. It emerged from a period of the
Disney studio’s most profound instability yet,
and Walt had unwavering faith that Cinderella
would be its salvation. It’s a film filled with
romance and wonder, but as Mel discovers,
Walt’s own love life wasn’t always a fairy tale.

Producer Phoebe Keane Repeated Monday 8.30pm

4.30 BBC Inside Science

11.30 Great Lives

With Marnie Chesterton. Repeated 8.30pm

2/2. Comedy sketches written and performed
by Daniel Barker, with Natasia Demetriou.
Producer Gwyn Rhys Davies

11.30 What’s Funny about...
2/3. Absolutely Fabulous. Peter Fincham
and Jon Plowman invite Jennifer Saunders
to discuss in detail the making of her classic
sitcom Absolutely Fabulous. From 2020. (R)

Repeated from Tuesday 4.30pm

5.00 PM

12.04pm You and Yours

With Evan Davis.

12.00 News and Weather
12.30—12.45am Book of the Week:
The Rooster House: My Ukrainian
Family Story Repeated from 9.45am (FM only)

Consumer affairs and public interest stories.

6.00 Six o’Clock News

1.00 as BBC World Service

BBC Radio 4 Extra
DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4extra
Freeview 708 Freesat 708 Sky 0126 Virgin 910
6.00am Sherlock Holmes as 4pm
6.30 Julie Enfield Investigates as 4.30pm
7.00 You Will Be Safe Here By Damian Barr (9/10)
7.15 The Cazalets: The Light Years (9/10)
7.30 Michael Frayn’s Magic Mobile (3/4)
8.00 Dad’s Army 1974 sitcom
8.30 Second Thoughts 1988 comedy (4/8)
9.00 Funny You Should Ask as 2pm
9.30 Two Doors Down 2001 comedy (3/4)
10.00 Baldi as 3pm
10.45 Short Works as 3.30pm
11.00 Sherlock Holmes as 4pm
11.30 Julie Enfield Investigates as 4.30pm
12.00 You Will Be Safe Here as 5pm
12.15pm The Cazalets: The Light Years (9/10)
12.30 Michael Frayn’s Magic Mobile (3/4)
1.00 Dad’s Army 1974 sitcom
1.30 Second Thoughts 1988 comedy (4/8)
2.00 Funny You Should Ask as 7pm
2.30 Two Doors Down 2001 comedy (3/4)
3.00 Baldi Mark Holloway’s Settling Scores
3.45 Short Works Daisy Johnson’s taleA Long
Way to Go, set in deep space. From 2019
4.00 Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1910
tale The Devil’s Foot, set in Cornwall. Adapted by
Joanne Reardon. Read by James Nickerson (1/2)

BBC World Service
4.30 Julie Enfield Investigates: The Net and
the Canal Nick Fisher’s third crime horror tale
with Imelda Staunton as DSI Julie Enfield. With
Paul Panting From 1996 (3/4)
5.00 You Will Be Safe Here By Damian Barr (9/10)
5.15 The Cazalets: The Light Years (9/10)
5.30 Michael Frayn’s Magic Mobile Comedic
monologues and dialogues. From 2020 (3/4)
6.00 Dad’s Army 1974 sitcom
6.30 Second Thoughts 1988 comedy (4/8)
7.00 Funny You Should Ask A 1979 episode of
the quiz about comedy, with Peter Jones testing
experts Barry Cryer, Sid Colin and John Junkin
7.30 Two Doors Down 2001 comedy (3/4)
8.00 Charles Parker Prize Sara Parker
introduces a new generation of feature makers
9.00 What’s Funny about... Jennifer Saunders
discusses in detail the making of Absolutely
Fabulous (2/3) See 11.30pm Radio 4 for details
10.00—12.00 Comedy Club: Ed Reardon’s Week
(3/6), at 10.30 Tom Wrigglesworth’s HangUps (3/4), at 11.00 Hearing with Hegley (1/6), at
11.15 Sam Simmons Is Not a People Person
(3/4), and at 11.30 The Curried Goat Show (7/8)
12.00 as 3pm 12.45am as 3.45pm 1.00 as 4pm
1.30 as 4.30pm 2.00 as 5pm 2.15 as 5.15pm
2.30 as 5.30pm 3.00 as 6pm 3.30 as 1.30pm
4.00 as 2pm 4.30 as 2.30pm 5.00 Baldi The
Dig 5.45 Short Works Two Big, Three Small

*Not available on Freeview in Scotland 4pm—1am. Key (R) Repeat

RadioTimes 29 July–4 August 2023

News and sport bulletin every half-hour
Times vary during live sports coverage

5.00am Wake Up to Money
Fiscal news, reports and analysis,
with input from the business world.
6.00 5 Live Breakfast
With Rachel Burden and Rick Edwards.
9.00 Nicky Campbell
Topical discussions, big-name
interviews and listeners’ calls.

Producer Dawn Ellis

9/10. Where’s the Money? Martin Amis’s
cult novel that defined the 1980s. John Self
finds himself face to face with Frank the Phone.
Read by Bertie Carvel. For details see Monday

Repeated from Sunday 9.25pm

693, 909 MW DAB bbc.co.uk/fivelive
F’view 705 F’sat 705 Sky 0105 Virgin 905
Sports Extra F’view 706 F’sat 706
Sky 0131 Virgin 908

DAB bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio
Freeview* 710 Freesat 711 Sky 0115 Virgin 906
Programmes may differ online, and on Freesat, Sky, and Virgin

5.00am Newsday 8.00 News 8.05 The
Inquiry 8.30 Business Daily 8.50 Witness
History 9.00 The Newsroom 9.30 Assignment
10.00 News 10.05 Unexpected Elements
11.00 The Newsroom 11.30 The Food Chain:
the business and science of food 12.00 News
12.05pm Outlook 12.50 Witness History: a
treehouse built on disputed land against the
Berlin Wall 1.00 The Newsroom 1.30 Health
Check 2.00 Newshour 3.00 News 3.05 The
Inquiry 3.30 World Business Report: informed
analysis 4.00 BBC OS 6.00 News 6.05 Outlook
6.50 Witness History 7.00 The Newsroom 7.30
Sport Today 8.00 News 8.05 Assignment
8.30 Science in Action 9.00 Newshour 10.00
News 10.05 The Inquiry 10.30 The Food Chain
11.00 The Newsroom 11.20 Sports News
11.30 World Business Report 12.00 News
12.05am Unexpected Elements: scientific
stories and connections from around the globe
1.00 News 1.05 Business Matters 2.00 The
Newsroom 2.30 Tech Life 3.00 News
3.05 Outlook 3.50 Witness History 4.00
The Newsroom 4.30 Heart and Soul: exploring
spiritual questions outside of traditional religion

Radio

3/3. Jobs of the Future. Amol Rajan and a
panel of experts discuss what political and
business leaders should be doing to prepare
for the job market of the future. His guests
are journalist and fellow at Policy Exchange
think tank, author of Head Heart Hand —
Why Intelligence Is Over-Rewarded, Manual
Workers Matter, and Caregivers Deserve
More Respect David Goodhart; CEO of
executive search firm Barrington Hibbert
Associates and founder of the 10,000 Black
Interns initiative Michael Barrington Hibbert;
former head of economics and now assistant
general secretary of the TUC Kate Bell; and
Abby Gilbert, who is director of praxis at the
Institute for the Future of Work.

6.30 Ed Reardon’s Week

THURSDAY

5.30am News Briefing
5.43 Prayer for the Day
With George Craig.
5.45 Farming Today
5.58 Tweet of the Day
The great snipe, with Chris Packham. (R)

BBC Radio 5 Live
12.33 All Consuming

BBC 5 Sports Extra
DAB bbc.co.uk/sports extra
F’view 706 F’sat 706 Sky 0131 Virgin 908
7.55—10.00am Netball
Commentary from stage two of the
Netball World Cup in Cape Town.
2.55pm Cricket Northern
Superchargers v Birmingham
Phoenix — a women’s Hundred
match at Headingley — followed at
6.25 by Northern Superchargers
v Birmingham Phoenix, a men’s
Hundred match at Headingley.

Talksport
1053, 1089 MW DAB talksport.co.uk
F’view 723 F’sat 731 Sky 0108 Virgin 927
6.00am Talksport Breakfast
Presented by Alan Brazil.
10.00 Jim White and Simon
Jordan Sporting insight.
1.00pm Hawksbee and Baker
Sports news, guests and more.
4.00 Talksport Drive With
Andy Goldstein and Darren Bent.
7.00 Kick Off Sporting issues.
10.00 Sports Bar
1.00am Extra Time
5.00 Early Breakfast

Talksport 2
DAB talksport.co.uk
1.00pm—4.00 Racing
Coverage of Glorious Goodwood.
5.00—11.00 PGA Tour Golf
The Wyndham Championship.

LBC
97.3 FM (London area) DAB lbc.co.uk
F’view 732 F’sat 734 Sky 0123 Virgin 919
7.00am Nick Ferrari 10.00 Topical
Programme 1.00pm Shelagh
Fogarty 4.00 Tom Swarbrick
6.00 Tonight with Andrew Marr
7.00 Iain Dale 10.00 Colin Brazier
1.00am Clive Bull 4.00 Ian Payne

Times Radio
DAB thetimes.co.uk/radio
5.00am Rosie Wright 6.00
Aasmah Mir and Luke Jones
10.00 Matt Chorley
1.00pm Mariella Frostrup
3.00 Jane Garvey and Fi Glover
5.00 Adam Boulton 7.00 Adam
and Friends 8.00 The Evening
Edition with Kait Borsay
10.00 Carole Walker
1.00am Stories of Our Times
1.30 Red Box 2.00 Highlights

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BBC Radio 1
97.6—99.8 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio1
F’view* 700 F’sat 700 Sky 0101 Virgin 901
7.00am Greg James 10.30 Katie
Thistleton 1.00pm Matt and Mollie
4.00 The Official Chart 6.00 Dance
Party 8.00 Future Dance 10.00
Pete Tong 12.00 Essential Mix
2.00am Radio 1 Dance Presents
3.00 Danny Howard 4.00 Radio 1’s
Wind Down Presents 5.00 Relax

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BBC Radio 2
88—90.2 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio2
F’view* 702 F’sat 702 Sky 0102 Virgin 902

6.30am Gaby Roslin
9.30 Vernon Kay
Including at 11.40 Tracks of My
Years, with Johnnie Walker and
his final two personal music picks,
featuring one by Cyndi Lauper and
one by the New Radicals. See 11pm

Marriage Lines
8.00am/1.00pm/6.00pm
Radio 4 Extra
Naturalistic sitcom Marriage
Lines (1963—66) was just what
TV viewers wanted before
comedy became more
anarchic. The perfectly paired
stars were up-and-coming
comic actors Prunella Scales
and Richard Briers (above) as
young newlyweds negotiating
the perils and pitfalls of
marriage. Richard Waring’s
sophisticated dialogue
transferred easily to radio in
1965. Here’s the whole of the
first, 13-part series beginning
today with George and Kate
Starling returning from their
Paris honeymoon to find that
they’re locked out of their
London flat without so much as
fourpence for the telephone
box. It’s charmingly cheeky and
of course immaculately played.
DAVID MCGILLIVRAY

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The Rachmaninov retrospective
continues at the Proms with
sensational Chinese pianist
Yuja Wang playing the
devilishly virtuosic and
death-haunted variations of the
Russian master’s Paganini
Rhapsody. America’s top
baritone, Thomas Hampson,
sees the writing on the wall in
William Walton’s biblical belter
of a “roaratorio”, Belshazzar’s
Feast. And 20-something
Finnish wunderkind Klaus
Makela opens this BBCSO
concert with a colourful “salute
to the black musical heritage of
Peru” — including fragments of
popular street-sellers’ songs
— from the Lima-born,
Finnish-trained, Californiabased composer Jimmy López
Bellido, whose eclectic style
combines Afro-Peruvian and
Sibelian influences with
dissonant modernisms.
MARK PAPPENHEIM

12.00 Jeremy Vine
2.00pm Scott Mills
4.00 Sara Cox
7.00 Michelle Visage
Including at 8.30 Handbag Hits,
with a holiday-themed mix of tracks by
Madonna, Wham!, Whigfield and more.

9.00 The Good Groove
with DJ Spoony
11.00 The Rock Show
with Johnnie Walker
12.00 Romesh Ranganathan:
for the Love of Hip-Hop
1.00am Greta Gerwig: My
Soundtrack Stories To mark the
release of her film Barbie, screenwriter,
director and actor Greta Gerwig (Frances
Ha, Mistress America, Lady Bird, Little
Women) talks to film critic James King
about the music in her films. Barbie
features tracks by Dua Lipa, Nicki Minaj,
Billie Eilish, Lizzo, Charli XCX, Haim,
Tame Impala, Ava Max and more, all
overseen by producer Mark Ronson.
2.00 Radio 2 Unwinds with Angela
Griffin A mix of Eurovision ballads. (R)
3.00 Sounds of the 80s Mega
Mastermix With Gary Davies.
4.00 Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s
Kitchen Disco Uplifting disco tunes.
5.00 Radio 2 in Concert A 1996 gig
by Mark Knopfler at Bristol Beacon. (R)

BBC 6 Music
DAB bbc.co.uk/6music
Freeview 707 Freesat 707 Sky 0120 Virgin 909
7.30am Lauren Laverne Third of
four all-day-Friday specials celebrating
the dance music and club culture of
the 1980s, 90s, 00s and 10s. The last
30 minutes in each of today’s shows
between 5am and 9pm features a
2000s guest mix. Plus special guests.
10.30 Nemone
1.00pm Craig Charles
4.00 Steve Lamacq
7.00 The People’s Party with
Afrodeutsche
9.00 6 Music’s Indie Forever
11.00 The Ravers Hour
12.00 Rave Forever 1.00am Emo
Forever 2.00 Focus Beats
4.00 Ambient Focus

Greatest Hits
DAB greatesthitsradio.co.uk
F’view 716 Sky 0151 Regional variations on FM/MW
6.00am Breakfast 10.00 Ken Bruce
1.00pm Jo Russell 4.00 Simon Mayo
7.00 Martin Kemp 10.00 Rhythm of
the Night 1.00am Music Marathon

Boom Radio
DAB boomradiouk.com
6.00am Andy Marriott 7.30 Graham
Dene 10.00 David Lloyd 12.00 David
Hamilton 2.00pm Judi Spiers 4.00
Nicky Horne 6.00 John Peters 8.00
The Easy Hour 9.00 Kid Jensen’s ’70s
10.00 Graham Torrington 12.00 Dave
Brown 2.00am Through the Night

BBC Radio 3
90.2—92.4 FM DAB bbc.co.uk/radio3
Freeview* 703 Freesat 703 Sky 0103 Virgin 903
News and weather as Monday

6.30am Breakfast With Petroc Trelawny.
9.00 Essential Classics With Georgia Mann.
12.00 Composer of the Week Anniversary
Special: Composers in Conversation
5/5. Anoushka Shankar and Oliver Knussen
Donald Macleod reminisces about the
programme’s live residency at London’s Southbank
Centre in 2016 and his encounters there with
Anoushka Shankar (born 1981) — who talks about
the influence of her father, Ravi — and Oliver
Knussen (1952 — 2018), who shares what drives
him to compose, and how his perspective on life
and music changed after turning 60.
Anoushka Shankar and Nitin Sawnhey
Traces of You Norah Jones (vocals), Anoushka
Shankar (sitar), Tanmoy Bose (tabla), Manu Delago
(glockenspiel), Nitin Sawhney (guitars, percussion,
ukulele and programming)
Voice of the Moon Anoushka Shankar (sitar),
Bhaskar (violin), Barry Phillips (cello), Tarun
Bhattacharya (santoor), Bikram Ghosh
(percussion), Pulak Sarcar (keyboards)
Red Sun Bikram Ghosh and Tanmoy Bose (vocals), Jesse
Charnow (drums), Bikram Ghosh (percussion), Ajay
Prasanna (bansuri), Kevin Cooper (bass), Anoushka
Shankar (keyboards), Sukanya Shankar (tanpura)
Knussen Flourish with Fireworks, Op 22
CBSO, conductor Simon Rattle
Music for a Puppet Court, Op 11
London Sinfonietta, conductor Oliver Knussen
Upon One Note Michael Collins (clarinet), Clio Gould
(violin), Paul Silverthorne (viola), Christopher van
Kampen (cello), John Constable (piano)

1.00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
John Toal with performances from August 2022 at
Northern Ireland Opera’s 12th Glenarm Festival of Voice.
Mendelssohn Der Blumenkranz
Schumann Venetianisches Lieder, Nos 1 and 2
Dillys Elwyn-Edwards The Cloths of Heaven
Butterworth Requiescat
Barber Rain Has Fallen; Sleep Now
James Newby (baritone), Simon Lepper (piano)
Michael Head Over the Rim of the Moon
Boyle The Last Invocation; Since Thou, O Fondest
and Truest; The Joy of Earth
Alessandro Fisher (tenor), Simon Lepper (piano)
Michael Head A Piper
Stanford Fairy Lough
Hamilton Harty My Lagan Love
Britten How Sweet the Answer
Bax I Heard a Piper Piping
Moeran The Tinker’s Daughter
Soraya Mafi (soprano), Simon Lepper (piano) (R)

2.00 Afternoon Concert
With Penny Gore. Including at 2.15 another chance
to hear a recent BBC Prom, with a break at 2.40
for the feature Proms Artist Choice. Plus more
recordings from this year’s Schwetzingen Festival.
John Adams Tromba lontana Jonathan Holland
and Wesley Warren (trumpets), CBSO/Simon Rattle
Mozart Overture: Mitridate, re di Ponto Europa
Galante, director Fabio Biondi
2.15A BBC Prom from Thursday last week, with Kazuki
Yamada conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony
Chorus, Youth Chorus and Children’s Choir, University

Scala Radio
DAB scalaradio.co.uk
7.00am Charles Nove Music and features.
10.00 Penny Smith Including at 11.30 a guest from the
arts and entertainment world. Plus requests from 12.00.
1.00pm Sam Hughes
4.00 Richard Allinson Classical music and features.
7.00 Classical Bangers Darren Redick with an
upbeat playlist to start the weekend.
10.00 The Space Soothing and calming music.
1.00am Night Music Nonstop classical music.
5.00 In the Park Calming sounds.

Asian Network
DAB bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork
F’view 709 F’sat 709 Sky 0119 Virgin 912
6.00am Asian Network Fresh 7.00 Smash Bengali
10.00 Certified 11.00 Haroon Rashid 2.00pm
Certified Throwbacks 3.00 The Official Asian Music
Chart 5.00 Certified 6.00 Panjabi Hit Squad 9.00
DJ Limelight 12.00 Desi Dancefloor Mix 1.00am Pure
Spice with DJ Manara 4.00 Asian Network Fresh

of Birmingham Voices, CBSO, joined by Mari Eriksmoen
(soprano), Levy Sekgapane (tenor) and German
Olvera (baritone). Presented by Martin Handley.
Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms
Orff Carmina burana
4.10 Christian Elin Recercada primeira Gambelin

4.30 The Listening Service
5.00 In Tune

Rptd from Sun 5pm

Katie Derham presents a live performance by cellist
Laura van der Heijden and pianist Jâms Coleman
ahead of their Proms concert at Dewsbury Town Hall.
7.00 Classical Mixtape An inspired playlist.

7.30 BBC Proms

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, a concert
given by the BBCSO joined by Beijing-born
4
pianist Yuja Wang. Presented by Martin Handley.
Thomas Hampson (baritone), Yuja Wang (piano),
BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, conductor
Klaus Makela
Jimmy López Bellido Perú negro
Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini
8.05 Interval Katharine Dell explores the theological
significance of Belshazzar’s doom-laden feast
8.25 Walton Belshazzar’s Feast Rptd Mon 14 August

10.00 Free Thinking
Works by horror and fantasy author ETA Hoffmann
(1776—1822) formed the basis of Jacques Offenbach’s
opera The Tales of Hoffmann and the ballets Coppélia
and The Nutcracker. In this programme broadcast
in June 2022 to mark the 200th anniversary of
Hoffmann’s death, Anne McElvoy assesses his legacy,
joined by literary and musical scholars Joanna
Neilly (of the University of Oxford), Keith Chapin (of
Cardiff University) and Tom Smith (of University of
St Andrews), who is also a BBC/AHRC New
Generation Thinker. Producer Tim Bano (R)

10.45 The Essay: Blood and Bronze
10/10. Rebirth. Cellini’s violent life leaves behind
a complex and controversial legacy. (R)

11.00 Late Junction
Verity Sharp with an adventurous playlist of new
music, including a collaboration session between
London vocalist, rapper and producer Gaika and
master percussionist Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah (of
psychedelic dub ensemble African Head Charge).
Plus a showcase of new releases, including
hydrophone recordings of goings-on under the sea,
the gamelan soundtrack of a purification ritual in
Bali, and a reissue of 1980s bikutsi from Cameroon.
1.00am Tearjerker with Jordan Rakei (R)
2.00 Happy Harmonies with Laufey
Icelandic-Chinese musician Laufey (Jonsdottir) with a
playlist marked by love and friendship (and mild
swearing), featuring music by Vaughan Williams and
recordings by the Beatles and Phoebe Bridgers. (R)
3.00 Through the Night With Jonathan Swain.
Glazunov Idylle (Two pieces for orchestra, Op 14)
Glière Horn Concerto in B, Op 91 Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 5 in E minor Yun Zeng (horn), Shanghai
Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Yi Zhang
4.22 Mozart String Quintet in G minor, K516
5.01 Geminiani Concerto grosso in G minor
5.09 Liszt Tarantella (Venezia e Napoli, S162)
5.18 Szymanowski Litany to the Virgin Mary
5.28 Sorkocevic, arr Matusic Symphony No 3 in D
5.35 Aldemaro Fuga con pajarillo 5.44 Ravel Tzigane
5.53 Strauss Suite in B flat for 13 wind instruments, Op 4
6.18 Marson Waltzes and Promenades for two harps
6.31 Dvorak Piano Trio in G minor, Op 26 (R)

Classic FM
99.9—101.9 FM DAB classicfm.com
Freeview 731 Freesat 721 Sky 0106 Virgin 922
6.00am More Music Breakfast With John Humphrys.
9.00 Alexander Armstrong Classical hits, starting
with the Classic Hall of Fame Hour, featuring favourite
pieces voted into the current Classic FM Top 300.
12.00 Anne-Marie Minhall Including at 12.00
Classic FM Requests — with listeners phoning in —
and at 3.00 Hall of Fame, with three works from
the current Classic Hall of Fame chart.
4.00pm Margherita Taylor Classical favourites.
7.00 Smooth Classics at Seven With Zeb Soanes.
10.00 Calm Classics With Ritula Shah.
1.00am Katie Breathwick 4.00 Sam Pittis

Absolute Radio
DAB absoluteradio.co.uk
Freeview 727 Freesat 724 Sky 0107 Virgin 915
6.00am Dave Berry 10.00 Claire Sturgess 1.00pm
Ben Burrell 4.00 Richie 7.00 Absolute 80s Greatest
Hits 10.00 Sophie K 4.00am Jennie Longdon

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BBC Radio 4
92.4—94.6 FM 198 LW DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4
Freeview 704 Freesat 704 (FM) 710 (LW)
Sky 0104 (FM) 0130 (LW) Virgin 904 (FM) 911 (LW)
News, weather and shipping forecasts as Tuesday

5.30am News Briefing
5.43 Prayer for the Day With George Craig.
5.45 Farming Today
5.58 Tweet of the Day
Miranda Krestovnikoff introduces the call of the
greater honeyguide of sub-Saharan Africa. (R)

With Martha Kearney and Justin Webb.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day
With the Venerable Liz Adekunle.

9.00 Desert Island Discs
Repeated from Sunday 11.15am (FM only)

9.45 FM Book of the Week: The Rooster
House: My Ukrainian Family Story

Mary
Jackie
Carl

Séainín Brennan Eoin
Seamus O’Hara
Charlotte McCurry Warren
Martin McCann
Shaun Blaney Jackie’s mum
Carol Moore

8.50 A Point of View

Arafat Goes to the United Nations
Recollections of Yasser Arafat’s 1974
speech at the United Nations, where his
plea for an independent Palestinian state
was to go down in history. (R)

A topical issue. Repeated Sunday 8.48am

3.00 Gardeners’ Question Time
A second show from RHS Bridgwater, with
Kathy Clugston in the chair, and a panel of
Neil Porteous, Marcus Chilton-Jones and
Bunny Guinness. Repeated Sunday 2pm
She Named Us by Matthew McDevitt. A musician
looks back at the punk band he left just before
they hit the big time. Read by Nigel O’Neill.

11.00 The Briefing Room
Repeated from yesterday 8pm Repeated tomorrow 11am

11.30 Ashley Blaker: 6.5 Children
New series. 1/4. Labels. In a mix of
stand-up and observational documentary,
the comedian reflects on his home life — six
children, including three with special needs
(two boys with autism and ADHD and a girl
with Down syndrome) — as he finds the funny
in raising children with disabilities. With
Shelley Blond, Kieran Hodgson, Rosie Holt
and Judith Jacob. Producer Steve Doherty

12.04pm AntiSocial
2/7. Adam Fleming investigates an issue of
the day, taking something that’s being
fiercely debated on social media and
elsewhere, finding out how it all began and
hearing from people whose voice is often
drowned out. Producer Lucy Proctor Rptd Wed 8pm
1.00 The World at One With Simon Jack.

1.45 New Storytellers
5/5. Our Dad. In Thea Rickard’s Our Dad,
which won the Gold Award of the Charles
Parker Prize for the Best Student Radio
Feature in 2023, she reveals the legacy of
growing up in the shadow of violence and
alcohol abuse. Producer Thea Rickard

Producer Michael Shannon; Editor Andy Martin

4.00 Last Word
Matthew Bannister looks back at the lives of
notable people who have died recently.

Repeated from Tuesday 3.30pm

9.30 Windrush: a Family Divided
2/4. Identity and Culture. In the second
part of their series, Robert and Jennifer
Beckford unravel the intricate layers of the
Windrush legacy through the prism of
identity and culture. Robert argues that
moving to the UK was a transformative
experience for not only the Windrush
generation but for the whole of British
society. In contrast, Jennifer asserts that
Caribbean culture in the UK is defined by
stereotypes, and that the communities’
achievements in science and industry are
overlooked. Producer Rajeev Gupta (R)

10.00 The World Tonight
10.45 Book at Bedtime: Money

Andrea Catherwood fields listeners’ views.
Repeated Sunday 8pm
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PHONE: 0333 344 4544 EMAIL: feedback@bbc.co.uk

5.00 PM
Presented by Anita Anand.

6.00 Six o’Clock News
6.30 What Are You Talking About?

4

Rhys James fronts a new comedy slot,
with Maisie Adam, Kiri Pritchard
Mclean, Ashley Storrie and Diona Doherty
bringing news from their corners of the UK.

Producer Georgia Keating Rptd tomorrow 12.30pm

7.00 The Archers
Ruth feels guilty and it’s a hard day at the
office for Alistair.
Ruth Archer
Felicity Finch
Helen Archer Louiza Patikas
Pat Archer Patricia Gallimore
Tom Archer William Troughton
Eddie Grundy Trevor Harrison
Mia Grundy
Molly Pipe
Brad Horrobin
Taylor Uttley
ChelseaHorrobin MadeleineLeslay

Joy Horville
Jackie Lye
Alistair Lloyd Michael Lumsden
Paul Mack
Joshua Riley
Kirsty Miller Annabelle Dowler
Stella Pryor
Lucy Speed
Adil Shah
Ronny Jhutti
Lynda Snell
Carole Boyd

Writer Nick Warburton; Director Jess Bunch
Editor Jeremy Howe

10/10. Well, You’ve Got to Laugh.
Self-destructive anti-hero John Self finally
gets some answers — on fathers and sons, his
ill-fated movie, life and money. Read by Bertie
Carvel. For details see Monday

11.00 Americast
Justin Webb, Sarah Smith, Marianna Spring
and Anthony “The Zurch” Zurcher explore
the huge cultural and social stories that
define political debate in the US.

11.30 What’s Funny about...
3/3. Blackadder. TV veterans Peter Fincham
and Jon Plowman talk to writer/producer
John Lloyd and actor Tony Robinson about
the making of Blackadder — the problems
they had when making the first series, the
tensions among the team, and the story
behind that famous final scene. With clips
written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton. (R)

12.00 News and Weather
12.30—12.45am Book of the Week:
The Rooster House: My Ukrainian
Family Story Repeated from 9.45am (FM only)
1.00 as BBC World Service

BBC World Service
2.30 Bleak Expectations Comedy (4/6)
3.00 Baldi Martin Meenan’s mystery The Dig
3.45 Short Works Mark Lambert reads Anne
Griffin’s Two Big, Three Small. From 2019
4.00 Sherlock Holmes The Devil’s Foot (2/2)
4.30 Julie Enfield Investigates: The Net and
the Canal Horror tale with Imelda Staunton (4/4)
5.00 You Will Be Safe Here (10/10)
5.15 The Cazalets: The Light Years (10/10)
5.30 Ankle Tag as 12.30pm
6.00 CHOICE: Marriage Lines as 1pm
6.30 Rent Sitcom. From 1993 (3/6)
7.00 Listomania Comedy panel show (2/6)
7.30 Bleak Expectations Dickensian pastiche (4/6)
8.00 Dance Your Life Away Beaty Rubens
profiles dance guru Cecilia Macfarlane. From 2016
8.30 A Good Read With Harriett Gilbert in 2018
9.00 What’s Funny about... The making of
Blackadder (3/3) See 11.30pm Radio 4 for details
10.00—12.00 Comedy Club: Alexei Sayle’s
Strangers on a Train (4/6), 10.30 Sarah
Kendall: Australian Trilogy (1/3), 11.00 Brian
Gulliver’s Travels (3/6), 11.30 Richard
Herring’s Objective (1/4)
12.00 Metropolis Adaptation of Thea von
Harbou’s 1925 sci-fi novel 1.00am as 3pm 1.45 as
3.45pm 2.00 as 4pm 2.30 as 4.30pm 3.00 as 5pm
3.15 as 5.15pm 3.30 as 5.30pm 4.00 as 6pm
4.30 as 1.30pm 5.00 as 2pm 5.30 as 2.30pm

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5.00am Wake Up to Money
6.00 5 Live Breakfast
With Rachel Burden and Rick Edwards.
9.00 Nicky Campbell
11.00 Chiles on Friday
1.00pm Jill Scott’s Coffee Club
The former footballer invites
Lionesses manager Sarina Wiegman
to discuss yoga and winning.
1.30 Fantasy 606
Alistair Bruce-Ball, Chris Sutton and
Statman Dave pick their teams ahead
of the new Premier League season.
2.00 Elis James and John Robins
Myriad cultural issues, with laughs.
4.00 5 Live Drive
Tony Livesey and Clare McDonnell
with the latest news and sport.
7.00 5 Live Sport
With Aaron Paul, including at 7.00
The Friday Football Social, in which
he’s joined by guests for a look
ahead to this weekend’s football
action. And at 9.00 5 Live Rugby
League, featuring commentary on
Super League match.
10.00 Stephen Nolan
1.00am Laura McGhie

BBC 5 Sports Extra
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Producer Gareth Nelson Davies Rptd Sunday 8.30pm

BBC Radio 4 Extra
DAB bbc.co.uk/radio4extra
Freeview 708 Freesat 708 Sky 0126 Virgin 910
6.00am Sherlock Holmes The Devil’s Foot (2/2)
6.30 Julie Enfield Investigates as 4.30pm
7.00 You Will Be Safe Here (10/10)
7.15 The Cazalets: The Light Years (10/10)
7.30 Ankle Tag as 12.30pm
8.00 CHOICE: Marriage Lines as 1pm
8.30 Rent Sitcom. From 1993 (3/6)
9.00 Listomania Comedy panel show (2/6)
9.30 Bleak Expectations Dickensian pastiche (4/6)
10.00 Baldi as 3pm
10.45 Short Works as 3.45pm
11.00 Sherlock Holmes The Devil’s Foot (2/2)
11.30 Julie Enfield Investigates as 4.30pm
12.00 You Will Be Safe Here (10/10)
12.15pm The Cazalets: The Light Years (10/10)
12.30 Ankle Tag Series two of the sitcom by Ben
Partridge and Gareth Gwynn, about a fraudster
dad on parole. With Steve Spiers and, among
others, Elis James, who co-presents a Friday show
on 5 Live. From 2018 (1/4) See 2pm 5 Live
1.00 CHOICE: Marriage Lines 1965 sitcom by
Richard Waring, with Richard Briers and Prunella
Scales reprising their TV roles as as newlyweds
1.30 Rent Sitcom with Patrick Barlow and
Barbara Flynn. Series one. From 1993 (3/6)
2.00 Listomania Comedy panel show (2/6)

Alex Forsyth hosts the first of four August
editions in which the programme takes a tour
of the UK seaside, addressing issues of
particular concern to Britain’s coastal
communities. Tonight she and her panel are
in Redcar. Later editions will come from
Teignmouth, Southend and Peterhead.
Producer Camellia Sinclair Repeated tomorrow 1.10pm

3.45 Short Works

Presented by Anita Rani.

8.00 Any Questions?

2.45 Witness

9.45 LW Daily Service

10.00 Woman’s Hour

Producer Jerome Weatherald Rptd tomorrow 10.15pm

Producer Michael Shannon

For details see Monday Repeated 12.30am

Led by Rev Grace Thomas. O Love that Wilt not
Let Me Go, the Daily Service Singers; Greater
Love Hath No Man, St Paul’s Cathedral.

9/9. Last in the current series of musical
journeys of discovery, with Cerys Matthews
and Jeffrey Boakye. They are joined by
Richard Stilgoe as the programme moves
seamlessly from prison rock to a popular
Mozart opera in five moves.

693, 909 MW DAB bbc.co.uk/fivelive
F’view 705 F’sat 705 Sky 0105 Virgin 905
Sports Extra F’view 706 F’sat 706
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5/5. He Left No Note. Recollections
from 2014, in the wake of Russia’s annexation
of Crimea, when journalist Victoria Belim
returned to her native Ukraine to unravel
her family’s history. Learning about what
happened to her great uncle allows
Victoria to begin to come to terms with a
much closer and more painful loss.
Read by Vera Graziadei.

5/5. Face the Fear. After a traumatic car
crash, Mary joins a clinical drug trial that
promises a cure for PTSD. The medication
triggers intense flashbacks of the accident
that left her fiancée comatose. But is Mary
simply remembering the event, or reliving it?
And if she is actually returning to the past,
does that mean she can change her future?
In the concluding episode of Michael Patrick
and Oisín Kearney’s drama, time is running
out for Mary.

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2.00 The Archers Rptd from yesterday 7pm
2.15 Drama: Bitter Pill

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Freeview* 710 Freesat 711 Sky 0115 Virgin 906
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5.00am Newsday 8.00 News 8.05 Hardtalk
8.30 Business Daily 8.50 Witness History: a
dinosaur skeleton that became the subject of a
restraining order in 2012 9.00 The Newsroom
9.30 Science in Action 10.00 News 10.05 The
Real Story 11.00 The Newsroom 11.30 Heart
and Soul: people exploring spiritual questions
outside of traditional religion 12.00 News
12.05pm The Fifth Floor: global news 12.50
Witness History 1.00 The Newsroom 1.30
Science in Action: science and technology news
2.00 Newshour 3.00 News 3.05 Hardtalk
3.30 World Business Report 4.00 BBC OS
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BBC Local Radio

Get to know...Fix Radio

Radio

LOCAL

A station for tradespeople that serves up music, laughs and support
You wouldn’t expect a radio station
to have won a Loo of the Year
Award, but Fix Radio is an
exceptional station. It was launched
in 2017 by Louis Timpany, who had
worked on a building site after
graduating from Leeds University
and noticed that while builders
listen to the radio all day, they can’t
often agree on a station. So he set
out to give them one of their own.
Catering to an audience of
tradespeople that ranges from
builders, plumbers and electricians
to plasterers, fitters, roofers,
decorators and other construction
workers, it offers a mix of upbeat
music, chat and industry-specific
information. And yes, it also
noticed a gap in the Loo of the
Year Awards for a builders’
portaloo and this year submitted
its own design, complete with a
radio with Fix on it!
Yet toilets are not the only ways
to win awards and the station won
silver at the prestigious 2023 Audio
and Radio Industry Awards, for its
station sound, while two of its

specifically aimed at trades
working outdoors, and as well as
discussing matters such as tools
and how much to get paid, it also
campaigns to raise awareness of
mental health problems, the
devastating impact of tool theft on
a business, best practice and
supply chain issues.
shows, The Heating and Plumbing
Since its launch, when it
Show and The Bald Builders
broadcast on DAB only in Greater
Breakfast, were nominated in the
London, the station has widened its
best new show category.
reach and now broadcasts
Social media stars Brad Hanson
nationwide, with agreements with
and Sam Hughes, aka “the Bald
a number of large contractors that
Builders”, had built up a following
it is played in their canteens and in
by shooting videos in their van and plumbing merchants.
at work, which brought them to the The programming is scheduled to
attention of Fix. They’ve been on
fit in with a builder’s day and breaks,
the station since 2020 and co-host the station promises to limit adverts
the breakfast show (6am—9am
and not repeat songs during the
Monday—Friday). “It’s authentic. It’s working day and while the first song
a people-based show. We have lots played in 2017 was, appropriately,
of banter,” says Brad. Sam agrees, Starship’s We Built This City, Bob the
“It’s like eavesdropping on a couple Builder and Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
of mates at the pub.”
are not on constant rotation.
The station is more than just
banter, though. It claims to have
Listen at
the most detailed weather forecast fixradio.co.uk/radioplayer

Sunday

Monday—Friday

6am June Woolerton 10.00
The Essex Quest 2pm The
Essex Rock Show 4.00 John
Leech 6.00 Ray Clark 8.00
Mark Punter’s Vintage Vinyl
10.00—1am David Clayton

6am James Hoggarth 10.00
Phil White 2pm Andy Comfort
6.00 Mon/Tue/Fri: Sportstalk;
Wed: Cricket; Thu: Bek Homer
7.00 Mon: Alan Raw; Tue/Wed:
Sanchez Payne; Fri: Sport
8.00 Thu: BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Russell Walker

Monday—Friday
6am Sonia Watson; Mon/Fri:
Ian Wyatt 10.00 Ben Fryer
2pm Sadie Nine; Fri: Dave
Monk 6.00 Rob Jelly;
Wed: Around the Wicket;
Fri: BBC Essex Fans Phone-in
7.00 Wed: Rob Jelly; Fri: John
Leech’s Big Essex Soul Night
10.00—1am Mon/Wed/Thu:
(Tue: 10.30) Paul Miller;
Tue: Framed; Fri: Alex Dyke

Gloucestershire
Saturday
6am Nicky Price 10.00 Kate
Clark2pmSummer6.00James
Threlfall 8.00 Introducing
10.00—1am David White

Sunday
6amJonSmith10.00KateClark
2pm Mike Vitti 6.00 Manny
Masih 10.00—1am Jim Colvin

Monday—Friday
6am David Smith 10.00
Maddie Simpson 2pm Steve
Kitchen 6.00 Jon Smith;
Thu/Fri: Evening Show
10.00—1am Chris Baxter

Guernsey
Saturday

Berkshire

Cambridgeshire

Cumbria

Derby

Saturday

Saturday

Saturday

Saturday

6am PaulCoia10.00 BillBuckley
2pm Sport 6.00 Stereo
Underground 8.00 BBC
Introducing 9.00 Bridgitte
Tetteh 10.00—1am Alex Dyke

6am Kev Lawrence 10.00
David Webster 2pm Sport
6.00 Rock ’n’ Roll Heaven
8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Justin Dealey

6am Ian Timms 10.00 Vicky
Warham 2pm Sport 6.00 Joe
Costin 8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Simon Logan

6am Donna Alos 10.00 Susan
Hanks 2pm Rob Rose 6.00
The Beat 8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Natalie Graham

Sunday

Sunday

Sunday

Sunday

6am Paul Coia 10.00
Bill Buckley 2pm Tony
Blackburn 6.00 Pat Sissons
10.00—1am Bill Rennells

6am Louise Hulland 10.00
The Great Outdoors 2pm
Keith Greentree 4.00 The
John Leech Soul Show 6.00
Walk Right Back 8.00 The Folk
Show10.00—1am DavidClayton

6am Helen Millican 10.00
Vicky Warham 2pm Joe
Costin 6.00 Paul Braithwaite
10.00—1am Simon Logan

6am Donna Alos 10.00 Dean
Jackson 2pm James Watt
6.00 Satvinder Rana
8.00 Devon Daley
10.00—1am Summaya Mughal

Monday—Friday
6am Andrew Peach; Fri: Sarah
Walker 10.00 Sarah Walker;
Fri: Bill Buckley 2pm Phil
Kennedy 6.00 Dan Simpson;
Fri: Weekend Kick-Off 7.00
Fri: Katie Tyler 10.00—1am
Paul Miller; Fri: Alex Dyke

Bristol
Saturday
6am Ali Vowles 10.00 Steve
Yabsley2pmSummerSaturdays
6.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am David White

Sunday
6am Lucy Tegg 10.00 Joe
Lemer 2pm Steve Yabsley
6.00 Kevin Philemon
10.00—1am Jim Colvin

Monday—Friday
6am Claire Cavanagh
10.00 John Darvall
2pm Adam Crowther;
Fri: Steve Yabsley
6.00 Mon: Upload: with Elliot
Darby; Tue: The Pavilion;
Wed: Richard Hoskin;
Thu: One to One; Fri: Sport
7.00 Tue—Thu: Upload: with
Elliot Darby; Fri: Upload:
with Adam Crowther
10.00—1am Chris Baxter

Monday—Friday
6am Dotty McLeod 10.00
Morning Show; Fri: Amir
Suleman 2pm Chris Mann; Fri:
David Webster 6.00 Mon/Fri:
Sport; Tue: Upload; Wed: Louise
Hulland; Thu: Naked Scientists
7.00 Mon: Monday Night
Speedway; Tue: Steve Jackson;
Thu:NewVoicesCambridgeshire;
Fri: That Friday Feeling 8.00
Thu: BBC Introducing 10.00—
1am Paul Miller; Fri: Alex Dyke

Cornwall
Saturday
6am Mel Osborne 10.00 Emma
Gill 2pm Sport 6.00 Dan
Pascoe 10.00—1am David White

Sunday
6am Faith Programme
10.00 Mel Osborne 2pm The
Afternoon Show 6.00 Richard
Green 10.00—1am Jim Colvin

Monday—Friday
6am Justin Leigh; Mon/Tue:
Anoushka Williams 10.00
Julie Skentelbery 2pm David
White 6.00 Sport 7.00 Emma
Gill; Fri: James Dundon
10.00—1am Chris Baxter

Monday—Friday
6am Mike Zeller 10.00 Val
Armstrong; Thu: Chris Felton
2pm Pete Moss; Fri: Helen
Millican 6.00 Mon: Ian Timms;
Tue/Fri: Sport; Wed: Darren
Milby; Thu: BBC Introducing
7.00 Thu: Helen Millican; Fri:
Darren Milby 10.00—1am John
Gillmore; Fri: Steffen Peddie

CWR
Saturday
6am Richard Williams 10.00
MichelleDawesandDarrenRudge
12.00 Michelle Dawes 2pm
Letitia George 6.00 Dave
MarshallBarrett8.00Introducing
10.00—1am Natalie Graham

Sunday
6am Sandra Godley 10.00
Richard Williams 2pm Bob
Brolly 6.00 Gagan Grewal
8.00 Nikki Tapper
10.00—1am Caroline Martin

Monday—Friday
6am Phil Upton; Mon: Ed Nell
10.00 Vic Minett 2pm Trish
Adudu; Fri: Lorna Bailey 6.00
Mon:SandraGodley;Tue:Marian
McNamee; Wed/Thu: Letitia
George; Fri: Marian McNamee
10.00—1am Caroline Martin;
Fri: Natalie Graham

Monday—Friday
6amAndyTwigge10.00IanSkye
2pm Sally Pepper; Mon/Tue:
Donna Alos 6.00 Sportscene
7.00MartynWilliams10.00—1am
CarolineMartin;Fri:DeanJackson

Devon
Saturday
6am Caroline Cook 10.00
Richard Green 2pm James
Vickery 6.00 Dan Pascoe
10.00—1am David White

Sunday
6am Michael Chequer
10.00 Toby Buckland 2pm Mel
Everett 6.00 Richard Green
10.00—1am Jim Colvin

Monday—Friday
6am Angela Kalwaites 10.00
David FitzGerald; Fri: Richard
Green 2pm Rick Edwards 6.00
Matt Tancock; Thu/Fri: Tiffany
Truscott10.00—1amChrisBaxter

Essex
Saturday
6am Tony Fisher 10.00 Ian
Wyatt and Steve Scruton 2pm
Jodie Halford 6.00 Rock ’n’
Roll Heaven 8.00 Introducing
10.00—1am Justin Dealey

6am Charlie McArdle 10.00
JimDelbridge2pm JamesHand
6.00 Richard Latto 8.00 Tom
Girard 10.00—1am David White

Sunday
6am Charlie McArdle
10.00 Jim Delbridge 2pm
John Randall 6.00 Richard
Green 10.00—1am Jim Colvin

Jersey
Saturday
6am CharlieMcArdle10.00 Jim
Delbridge 2pm James Hand
6.00 Richard Latto 8.00 Tom
Girard 10.00—1am David White

Sunday
6am Charlie McArdle
10.00 Jim Delbridge 2pm
John Randall 6.00 Richard
Green 10.00—1am Jim Colvin

Monday—Friday
6am Jenny Mullin 10.00
Alison Moss 2pm Darcy Kelly
6.00 Harry Barratt
10.00—1am Chris Baxter

Kent
Saturday
6am Pat Marsh 10.00 Steve
Ladner 2pm Erika North 6.00
Underground 8.00 Introducing
10.00—1am Alex Dyke

Sunday
6am Mike Ziolek 10.00 Andy
Garland 2pm Erika North
6.00 Ray Clark 8.00 Mark
Punter 10.00—1am Bill Rennells

Monday—Friday
6am Anna Cookson
10.00 Julia George; Thu/Fri:
Steve Ladner 2pm Pat Marsh;
Fri: Erika North 6.00 Dominic
King; Fri: Stephen Brown 9.00
Mon—Thu: Upload 10.00—1am
Paul Miller; Fri: Alex Dyke

Lancashire

Monday—Friday

Saturday

6am Tim Hunter 10.00 Steph
Watkins 2pm Darcy Kelly
6.00 Harry Barratt
10.00—1am Chris Baxter

6am Shigufta Khan 10.00 Gary
Hickson 2pm Summer 6.00
Soul Sessions 8.00 Introducing
10.00—1am Allan Beswick

Hereford/Worcester
Saturday
6am Andrew Easton 10.00
Toni McDonald 2pm Summer
Saturday 6.00 Introducing
10.00—1am Natalie Graham

Sunday
6am Tammy Gooding 10.00
MalcolmBoyden2pm Jonathan
Ray 6.00 Andrew Marston
10.00—1am Caroline Martin

Monday—Friday
6am Elliott Webb; Thu/Fri:
Toni McDonald 10.00 Malcolm
Boyden; Mon: Tammy Gooding
2pm Jonathan Ray; Thu/Fri:
Tammy Gooding 6.00 Kate
Justice 10.00—1am Caroline
Martin; Fri: Natalie Graham

Humberside

Sunday
6am Joe Wilson 10.00 Gary
Hickson 2pm Hayley Kay
6.00 Unforgettable
10.00—1am Allan Beswick

Monday—Friday
6am Graham Liver 10.00
Sharon Hartley 2pm Nishma
Hindocha; Mon/Fri: Joe Wilson
6.00 Sport 7.00 Mon: Desi
Nation; Tue/Wed: Garry Scott;
Thu: Your Lancashire; Fri:
Darren Milby 10.00—1am John
Gillmore; Fri: Linda McDermott

Leeds
Saturday
6am Andrew Edwards 10.00
Nick Ahad 2pm Sile Sibanda
6.00 Mixtape 8.00 Introducing
10.00—1am Xanthe Palmer

Sunday

Saturday
6am Sally Fairfax 10.00 Fiona
Mills 2pm Sile Sibanda 6.00
John Kane 8.00 Introducing
10.00—1am Xanthe Palmer

Sunday
6am Sally Fairfax 8.00 Great
Outdoors10.00 FionaMills2pm
Sile Sibanda 6.00 Neil Foster
10.00—1am Xanthe Palmer

6am Andrew Edwards
10.00 Nick Ahad 2pm Sport
6.00 Waheed Akhtar
10.00—1am Xanthe Palmer

Monday—Friday
6am Rima Ahmed 10.00
Gayle Lofthouse 2pm Johnny
I’Anson 6.00 Sport 7.00
Sanchez Payne; Fri: Sport
10.00—1am Russell Walker

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Saturday 29 July–Friday 4 August

All England regions
Leicester
Saturday
6am Kelly Hinch 10.00
Dino 2pm Emily Herbert
6.00 The Beat 10.00—1am
Natalie Graham

Sunday

Monday—Friday

Lincolnshire
Saturday
6am Sarah-Jane Honeywell
10.00 Jono Brine 2pm Hope
and Glory 6.00 The Beat
8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Natalie Graham

Sunday
6am Jake Garner 10.00
Pirate Gold 1pm Jono Brine
2.00 Sarah-Jane Honeywell
6.00 Country Lincs 7.00 Folk
10.00—1am Jack Rafferty

Monday—Friday
6am Sean Dunderdale 10.00
Ross Carrick; Thu/Fri: Jono
Brine 2pm Melvyn Prior; Tue:
Rob Makepeace 6.00 In the
Game; Fri: Hope and Glory: the
Preview Show 7.00 Mon/Tue:
Arun Verma; Wed/Thu:
Charlie Burley; Fri: George
Smith 10.00—1am Russell
Walker; Fri: Dean Jackson

London
Saturday
5am Claira Hermet 7.00
Carrie and David Grant 10.00
Robert Elms 1pm The Women’s
Sports Show 2.00 Sport
6.00 Gary Crowley 8.00 BBC
Introducing 10.00 LionHeart
1am—5.00 Laura McGhie

Sunday
5am ClairaHermet6.00 Inspirit
9.00 David Grant 12.00 Gaby
Roslin 3pm Jo Good 6.00
Tony Blackburn 7.00 Dotun
Adebayo 10.00 Sunny and Shay
1am—5.00 Dotun Adebayo

Monday—Friday
5am Jason Rosam; Fri:
Kath Melandri 7.00 Salma
El-Wardany; Fri: Riz Lateef
10.00 Mon: Eddie Nestor;
Tue—Thu: Kath Melandri;
Fri: Robert Elms 2pm Shay
Grewal; Fri: Jumoké Fashola
6.00 Sport 8.00 The Scene
10.00 Jo Good; Fri: LionHeart
1am—5.00 Dotun Adebayo;
Fri: Laura McGhie

Manchester
Saturday
6am Asma Younus 10.00
Simone Riley 1pm Sport

6am Asma Younus 10.00 Phil
Trow 2pm Sport 6.00 Indus
8.00 The People
10.00—1am Allan Beswick

Monday—Friday
6am Anna Jameson; Fri: Joe
McGrath 10.00 Mike Sweeney;
Fri: Simone Riley 2pm Becky
Want; Fri: David Scott 6.00
Sport 7.00 Mon: Mars; Tue:
Gaz Drinkwater; Wed: J Sky;
Thu/Fri: Emily Brobyn 10.00—
1am Mon/Tue: Phil Trow;
Wed—Fri: Stacey Copeland

Merseyside
Saturday
6am David North 10.00 Sean
Styles 2pm Summer Saturday
5.00 Late Late Beatles 6.00
Jade Burns 8.00 Introducing
10.00—1am Allan Beswick

Sunday
6am Paul Beesley
10.00 Sean Styles 2pm Billy
Hui 2.30 FM only Merseyside
Sport: Rugby League 4.00
DAB only until 5.00 Frankie
Connor 6.00 Andy Ball
8.00 Carl Learmond
10.00—1am Allan Beswick

Monday—Friday
6am Paul Salt; Fri: Lisa Marrey
10.00 Tony Snell; Fri: Sean
Styles 2pm Helen Jones; Thu:
Sean Styles; Fri: Claire Hamilton
6.00 Sport; Wed: Rugby
League 7.00 The Place;
Mon: Ngunan Adamu 7.30
Fri: Sport: Rugby League
9.00 Mon: Orient Express
10.00—1am Linda McDermott

Newcastle
Saturday
6am Kelly Scott 10.00 Simon
Logan 2pm Tom Campbell
6.00 Beat Surrender
8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—12.00 Simon Logan

Sunday
6am Kelly Scott 10.00 Tom
Campbell 2pm Simon Logan
6.00 Michael Poulter
10.00—1am Simon Logan

Monday—Friday
6am Matt Bailey 10.00 Anna
Foster 2pm Gilly Hope 6.00
Sport 8.00 Mon/Tue/Fri:
Nick Roberts; Wed: Upload;
Thu: BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Steffen Peddie

Norfolk
Saturday
6am Kirsteen Thorne 10.00
Graham Barnard 2pm Sport
5.00 Canary Call 6.00 Upload
8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Justin Dealey

Sunday
6am Matthew Gudgin 10.00
Treasure Quest 2pm The Big
Country Show 4.00 The John
Leech Soul Show 6.00 Ray
Clark 8.00 Mark Punter
10.00—1am David Clayton

Monday—Friday
6am Rob Butler; Thu/Fri:
Chris Goreham
10.00 Kayleigh Poacher
2pm Stephen Bumfrey

Northampton
Saturday
6am John Griff 10.00 DaisieBelle Downer 2pm Kerrie
Cosh 6.00 Rock ’n’ Roll
Heaven 8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Justin Dealey

Sunday
6am Cat James 10.00 DaisieBelle Downer 2pm Paul Lovett
4.00 The John Leech Soul
Show 6.00 Farzana Chaudry
8.00 Lily-May Symonds
10.00—1am David Clayton

Monday—Friday
6am Annabel Amos 10.00
Bernie Keith 2pm Akylah
Rodriguez 6.00 Cat James
10.00—1am Paul Miller;
Fri: Alex Dyke

Nottingham
Saturday
6am Liesl Soards 10.00
Morning Show 2pm Summer
Saturday 6.00 The Beat
10.00—1am Natalie Graham

Sunday
6am Andy Whittaker
10.00 Morning Show 2pm
Sarah-Jane Honeywell 5.00
We Are Notts 6.00 Hansa
Dabee 8.00 Ethel Mudavanhu
10.00—1am Jack Rafferty

Monday—Friday
6am Sarah Julian 10.00 Kelly
Hinch 2pm Andy Whittaker;
Wed: Dean Jackson 6.00 Arun
Verma 10.00—1am Caroline
Martin; Fri: Dean Jackson

Oxford
Saturday
6am Adam English 10.00
James Watt 2pm Sport 6.00
Stereo Underground 8.00
Introducing 9.00 Bridgitte
Tetteh 10.00—1am Alex Dyke

Sunday
6am Lilley Mitchell 10.00
Adam English 2pm Tony
Blackburn 6.00 Pat Sissons
10.00—1am Bill Rennells

Monday—Friday
6am Sophie Law 10.00 Adam
Ball 2pm Alice Hopkins 6.00
Dan Simpson; Fri: Sport 7.00
Fri: Warm-Up 10.00—1am
Paul Miller; Fri: Alex Dyke

Sheffield
Saturday
6am Kat Cowan 10.00 Becky
Measures 2pm Sile Sibanda
6.00 John Kane 8.00 BBC
Introducing 10.00—1am
Xanthe Palmer

2pm Howard Pressman
6.00 Sport 8.00 Sile Sibanda;
Tue: Introducing; Fri: Football
10.00—1am Russell Walker

Shropshire
Saturday
6am Ed Nell 10.00 Paul
Shuttleworth 2pm Andy
Broxton 6.00 Michaela Wylde
8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Natalie Graham

6.00 Sam Fletcher
10.00—1am Caroline Martin

Monday—Friday
6am Paula White 10.00 Susan
Hanks 2pm Liz Ellis; Fri: Lucas
Yeomans 6.00 Sport at Six;
Fri: Praise and Grumble 7.00
Sam Fletcher; Fri: Rev Geoff
Eze 10.00—1am Caroline
Martin; Fri: Natalie Graham

Suffolk

Sunday

Saturday

6am Ed Nell 10.00 Paul
Shuttleworth 2pm Andy
Martindale 6.00 Lizzie Crow
8.00 Genevieve Tudor
10.00—1am Caroline Martin

6am Sarah Lilley 10.00
Connor Bennett 2pm Steph
Mack 6.00 Upload
8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Justin Dealey

Monday—Friday

Sunday

6am Adam Green 10.00 Mark
Elliott 2pm Clare Ashford; Fri:
Ed Nell 6.00 Mon/Thu:
Michaela Wylde; Tue: Active
Shropshire; Wed: Ed Nell; Fri:
NielJackson7.00 Tue: Michaela
Wylde 10.00—1am Caroline
Martin; Fri: Natalie Graham

6am Sarah Lilley 10.00 Paul
Morris 2pm Keith Greentree
4.00 John Leech 6.00 Ray
Clarke 8.00 Mark Punter
10.00—1am David Clayton

Radio Solent
Saturday
6am Katie Martin 10.00 Lucy
Ambache 2pm Sport
6.00 Stereo Underground
8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Alex Dyke

Sunday
6am Lucy Ambache
10.00 Rebecca Parker 1.10pm
Solent’s Life Stories 2.00 Tony
Blackburn 6.00 Pat Sissons
10.00—1am Alex Dyke

Monday—Friday
6am Alun Newman 10.00 Lou
Hannan 2pm Lucy Ambache;
Mon/Fri: Tom Stroud 6.00
Sport; Tue: Katie Martin; Wed:
Ollie Peart 8.00 Mon: Fern
Buckley; Thu: BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Paul Miller;
10.00—1am Fri: Alex Dyke

103.8 FOR WEST DORSET
As Radio Solent, including
Dorset news and features, plus:

Monday—Friday
7.00 Steve Harris
9.00—10.00 Alun Newman

Somerset
Saturday
6am Simon Parkin 10.00
Andy Bennett 2pm Summer
Saturdays 6.00 Dan Pascoe
10.00—1am David White

Sunday
6am Adam Crowther
10.00 Andy Bennett 2pm Mel
Everett 6.00 Richard Green
10.00—1am Jim Colvin

Monday—Friday
6am Claire Carter
10.00 Simon Parkin 2pm
Matt Faulkner 6.00 Charlie
Taylor; Fri: Jenna Myles
10.00—1am Chris Baxter

Stoke

Sunday

Saturday

6am Kat Cowan 9.00 The
Grow Show 10.00 Becky
Measures 2pm Sile Sibanda
6.00 Waheed Akhtar
10.00—1am Xanthe Palmer

6am Paula White 10.00
Louise Stones 2pm Sport
6.00 Michaela Wylde
8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Natalie Graham

Monday—Friday

Sunday

6am Toby Foster
10.00 Paulette Edwards

6am Rev Geoff Eze 10.00 Paula
White 2pm Louise Stones

Monday—Friday
6am Luke Deal 10.00 Wayne
Bavin 2pm Johnnie Wright;
Mon/Fri: Sarah Lilley 6.00
Mon: Steph Mack; Tue: The
Tuesday Takeover with Sam
Day; Wed: The Social; Thu:
Thursday Night Sports Social;
Fri: Angelle Joseph 8.00
Mon: BBC Belongings 10.00—
1am Paul Miller; Fri: Alex Dyke

BBC Surrey and
BBC Sussex
Saturday
6.00 Surrey: Nicky Patrick;
Sussex: Mark Carter 10.00
Amanny Mo 2pm Sport
6.00 Stereo Underground
8.00 Introducing the South
with Melita Dennett
10.00—1am The Late Show

Sunday
6am Kevin Duala 10.00 Dig It
2pm Sylvie Blackmore
6.00 Pat Sissons
10.00—1am Alex Dyke

Monday—Friday
6.00 Surrey: Peter Gordon;
Mon/Tue/Fri: Sussex: Allison
Ferns; Wed/Thu: Sussex:
Emily Jeffery 10.00 Sarah
Gorrell 2pm Danny Pike
6.00 Connor Moseley; Fri:
Nicky Patrick 8.00 Mon: Tony
Blackburn; Tue: Sport Focus;
Wed: Kathy Caton; Thu:
Introducing the South with
Melita Dennett 10.00—1am
Paul Miller; Fri: Alex Dyke

Tees

Three Counties
Beds, Herts and Bucks
Saturday
6am Babs Michel 10.00 Miles
Blumsom 2pm Kerrie Cosh
6.00 Rock ’n’ Roll Heaven
8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Justin Dealey

Sunday
6am Kady Braine 7.00 Dr
Nighat Arif 10.00 Babs Michel
2pm Mike Naylor 4.00 John
Leech 6.00 Farzana Chaudry
8.00 Lily-May Symonds
10.00—1am David Clayton

Monday—Friday
6am Andy Collins 10.00 The
JVS Show 2pm Roberto
Perrone 6.00 Mon/Fri: Babs
Michel; Tue: Sport; Wed:
Chance Litchfield; Thu: Danny
Fullbrook 8.00 Thu: BBC
Introducing 10.00—1am
Paul Miller; Fri: Alex Dyke

Wiltshire
Saturday
6am Shelley Keen 10.00 Sue
Davies 2pm Sport 6.00 James
Threlfall 8.00 Introducing
10.00—1am David White

Sunday
6am Jonathan Fido 10.00
Sue Davies 2pm Dominic
Cotter 6.00 Manny Masih
10.00—1am Jim Colvin

Monday—Friday
6am Ben Prater 10.00
Sue Kinnear 2pm Graham
Rogers 6.00 Wiltshire Live
10.00—1am Chris Baxter

WM
Saturday
6am Mollie Green 10.00 Elise
Evans 2pm Summer 6.00 DJ
Day Day 8.00 Introducing
10.00—1am Natalie Graham

Sunday
6amMyaKhan10.00EliseEvans
2pm Mollie Green 4.00 We Are
West Midlands 6.00 Gagan
Grewal 8.00 Nikki Tapper
10.00—1am Caroline Martin

Monday—Friday
6am Rakeem Omar 10.00
Kathryn Stanczyszyn; Fri: Elise
Evans2pm PaulFranks;Fri: Trish
Adudu 6.00 Natalie Graham;
Thu: Amber Sandhu 7.00
NatalieGraham;Thu/Fri: Amber
Sandhu 10.00—1am Caroline
Martin; Fri: Natalie Graham

York

Saturday

Saturday

6am Rachel Teate 10.00
Antony Collins 2pm Sport
6.00 Beat Surrender
8.00 BBC Introducing
10.00—1am Simon Logan

6am Steve Bailey 10.00 Harry
Whittaker2pmSileSibanda6.00
John Kane 8.00 Introducing
10.00—1am Xanthe Palmer

Sunday

6am Steve Bailey 10.00 Sarah
Urwin 2pm Sport 5.00 Sile
Sibanda 6.00 Neil Foster
10.00—1am Xanthe Palmer

6am Rachel Teate 10.00
Antony Collins 2pm Goffy
4.00 Vintage Vinyl 6.00 Alex
Hall 10.00—1am Simon Logan

Monday—Friday
6am Amy Oakden 10.00 Gary
Philipson 2pm Scott Makin
6.00 Sport; Tue: Sport Extra
7.00 Mon: Antony Collins;
Wed: Jordan Blyth;
Thu: Shakk; Fri: Upload
10.00—1am Steffen Peddie

Radio

6am Ady Dayman 10.00
Mon/Tue: Aminata Kamara;
Wed/Thu: Summaya Mughal;
Fri: Shruti Chauhan 2pm Ben
Jackson; Fri: Jo Bostock 6.00
Mon: Football Forum; Tue:
Game Night; Wed: Sport; Thu:
The Boot Room; Fri: Weekend
Preview 7.00 Mon/Tue:
Chance Litchfield; Wed: The
Vibe; Thu: The Shruti Show;
Fri: Kevin N’Cube 9.00 Thu:
Real Talk 10.00—1am Caroline
Martin; Fri: Dean Jackson

Sunday

6.00 Mon: Georgy Jamieson;
Tue: Sam Day; Wed: The
Social; Thu: The Scrimmage;
Fri: Angelle Joseph 6.30
Thu: Sport 7.00 Thu: Cricket
8.00 Mon: Belongings;
Thu: Rob Butler 10.00—1am
Paul Miller; Fri: Alex Dyke

LOCAL

6am Helen McCarthy
9.00 Sport 2pm Andy Pierce
6.00 Chance Litchfield
10.00—1am Caroline Martin

6.00 Upload 8.00 Introducing
10.00—1am Allan Beswick

Sunday

Monday—Friday
6am Georgey Spanswick 10.00
JerichoKeys2pmJoanitaMusisi
6.00 Mon/Thu: Bek Homer;
Tue: Sharon Shortle; Wed:
Cricket;Fri:Sport7.00Tue/Wed:
Sanchez Payne; Fri: George
Smith 8.00 Thu: Introducing
10.00—1am Russell Walker

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BBC Radio Scotland

Get to know...Fix Radio

Radio

LOCAL

A station for tradespeople that serves up music, laughs and support
You wouldn’t expect a radio station
to have won a Loo of the Year
Award, but Fix Radio is an
exceptional station. It was launched
in 2017 by Louis Timpany, who had
worked on a building site after
graduating from Leeds University
and noticed that while builders
listen to the radio all day, they can’t
often agree on a station. So he set
out to give them one of their own.
Catering to an audience of
tradespeople that ranges from
builders, plumbers and electricians
to plasterers, fitters, roofers,
decorators and other construction
workers, it offers a mix of upbeat
music, chat and industry-specific
information. And yes, it also
noticed a gap in the Loo of the
Year Awards for a builders’
portaloo and this year submitted
its own design, complete with a
radio with Fix on it!
Yet toilets are not the only ways
to win awards and the station won
silver at the prestigious 2023 Audio
and Radio Industry Awards, for its
station sound, while two of its

Saturday
NEWS: SPORT: WEATHER
hourly 8.00am to 12 noon, 6.00pm,
7.00, 9.00, 10.00, 11.00, 12 midnight
NEWS HEADLINES 2.00pm, 5.00

6.30am Out of Doors
Mark Stephen and Rachel
Stewart with stories from
the great outdoors in
Scotland and beyond.
Email: outofdoors@bbc.co.uk

8.00 Good Morning Scotland
The nation’s morning
news programme.
10.00 Rona Dougall
Rona sits in for Shereen with a
unique take on the things
getting Scotland talking this
Saturday morning.
11.30 Breaking the News
Des Clarke hosts the awardwinning comedy news quiz.

specifically aimed at trades
working outdoors, and as well as
discussing matters such as tools
and how much to get paid, it also
campaigns to raise awareness of
mental health problems, the
devastating impact of tool theft on
a business, best practice and
supply chain issues.
shows, The Heating and Plumbing
Since its launch, when it
Show and The Bald Builders
broadcast on DAB only in Greater
Breakfast, were nominated in the
London, the station has widened its
best new show category.
reach and now broadcasts
Social media stars Brad Hanson
nationwide, with agreements with
and Sam Hughes, aka “the Bald
a number of large contractors that
Builders”, had built up a following
it is played in their canteens and in
by shooting videos in their van and plumbing merchants.
at work, which brought them to the The programming is scheduled to
attention of Fix. They’ve been on
fit in with a builder’s day and breaks,
the station since 2020 and co-host the station promises to limit adverts
the breakfast show (6am—9am
and not repeat songs during the
Monday—Friday). “It’s authentic. It’s working day and while the first song
a people-based show. We have lots played in 2017 was, appropriately,
of banter,” says Brad. Sam agrees, Starship’s We Built This City, Bob the
“It’s like eavesdropping on a couple Builder and Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
of mates at the pub.”
are not on constant rotation.
The station is more than just
banter, though. It claims to have
Listen at
the most detailed weather forecast fixradio.co.uk/radioplayer

9.00 Crùnluath
BBC Radio Scotland plays
selection of pipe music.
10.00 Billy Sloan
A varied selection of music
from the rich history of
Scotland’s — and the rest of the
world’s — rock and pop.
1.00am—7.00 as Radio 5 Live

Sunday
NEWS: SPORT: WEATHER
hourly 6.00am to 9.00, 11.00, 12 noon,
2.00pm, 5.00, hourly 7.00 to 11.00

7.00 Take the Floor
Gary Innes presents traditional
music, including an appearance
from two members of Blazin’
Fiddles as they celebrate the
band’s 25th anniversary.

7.00am New Every Sunday
Acts of worship from different
churches around Scotland.
7.30 Our Scotland
Mark Stephen meets people
from various communities
around Scotland who tell the
stories that matter to them.
8.00 Sunday Morning
Tony Kearney presents
music and conversation
with a faith and ethical
perspective, looking back
at the week’s events to ask
what they say about people’s
values and beliefs.
10.00 The Sunday Show
Martin Geissler and Fiona
Stalker discuss the big
issues of the week and
talk to the people behind
the political headlines.
12.00 Off the Ball
Football forum with lighthearted features and
competitions, the most petty
and ill-informed football show
on radio. Presented by
Stuart Cosgrove and Tam
Cowan. Text 80295.

Email: takethefloor@bbc.co.uk

Email: offtheball@bbc.co.uk

Repeated from yesterday

12.00 Off the Ball
Light-hearted football
magazine presented by
Stuart Cosgrove and
Tam Cowan. Text 80295.
Email: offtheball@bbc.co.uk

2.00pm Sportsound
Comprehensive coverage
of Scottish sport, including
live and exclusive
commentary. Text 80295.
@BBCSportsound on social media

5.00 Sportsound
A round-up of the day’s big
football stories. Text 80295.
@BBCSportsound on social media

2.00pm Sportsound
Comprehensive coverage of
Scottish sport including live
and exclusive commentary,
breaking news, interviews,
analysis and discussion.
Text 80295.
@BBCSportsound on social media

5.00 Your Requests with
Gary Innes
Gary shares listeners’
messages and dedications
and plays favourite Scottish
music requests.
7.00 Classical Now
Jamie MacDougall shares
more from the BBC Scottish
Symphony Orchestra in
Aberdeen Music Hall playing
James MacMillan’s modern
classic The Confession of
Isobel Gowdie and Dvorak’s
Symphony No 7 that he hoped
would “stir the world”. He
looks ahead to this year’s
Edinburgh Festival, with
music by Scottish early music
specialists the Dunedin
Consort. Plus conductor
Kellen Gray leading the Royal
Scottish National Orchestra in
one of William Grant Still’s
best-known works.
9.00 Iain Anderson
The presenter invites listeners
to end the day in the company
of the songwriting masters of
country, folk, blues and soul.
11.00 Seven Days
The news, sport and
entertainment stories
of the past week are
explained and analysed.
12 midnight—6.00am
as Radio 5 Live

Monday
NEWS: SPORT: WEATHER
hourly 6.00am to 8.00, 10.00 to 5.00pm,
7.00, 8.00, 10.00, 11.00
LOCAL NEWS Dumfries, Aberdeen,
Inverness, Selkirk: 6.30am, 7.30,
8.30, 12.30pm, 4.30, 5.30;
Orkney: 7.30am, 12 noon, 6.00pm;
Shetland: 12.30pm, 5.30, 6.00

6.00am Good Morning
Scotland
The latest news from home
and abroad. With travel
reports every 15 minutes,
business updates at 7.45 and
8.45, weather reports at 7.29
and 7.59, and sports reports at
7.08, 7.35, 8.08 and 8.35.
9.00 Mornings
Stephen Jardine gets to
the heart of the news and
offers listeners the
opportunity to have their say.
12.00 Lunchtime Live
News updates from Scotland
and beyond, plus lunchtime
sport, travel and weather.
1.30pm The Afternoon Show
Janice Forsyth presents a
round-up of what’s making the
news in the Scottish arts,
entertainment and music,
scene, and talks to some of
the people involved.
4.00 Drivetime
John Beattie presents
comment and opinion on
the day’s talking points, plus
sport, travel and weather.
6.00 Get It On...
with Bryan Burnett
Bryan presents a selection of
essential music chosen by
listeners. To get a tune played
on the radio, text 80295.
Email: getiton@bbc.co.uk

8.00 Vic Galloway
Vic introduces new releases
from Scotland’s best
alternative artists, and classic
album cuts alongside live
session tracks. Text 80295.
Repeated Wednesday 10pm
Email: vicgalloway@bbc.co.uk

9.45 From Scotland with
Love
Vic Galloway delves into his
archives for a look back at the
ultimate, home-grown
alternative music from
1960s onwards.
Repeated Wednesday 11.45pm

10.00 Iain Anderson
Iain invites listeners to end the
day in the company of the
songwriting masters of
country, folk, blues and soul.
12 midnight—6.00am
as Radio 5 Live

Tuesday
NEWS: SPORT: WEATHER:
LOCAL NEWS as Monday

6.00am Good Morning
Scotland
The latest news from home
and abroad. With travel
reports every 15 minutes,
business updates at 7.45 and
8.45, weather reports at 7.29
and 7.59, and sports reports at
7.08, 7.35, 8.08 and 8.35.
9.00 Mornings
Stephen Jardine gets to the
heart of the news and offers
listeners the opportunity to
have their say.
12.00 Lunchtime Live
News updates from Scotland
and beyond, plus lunchtime
sport, travel and weather.
1.30pm The Afternoon Show
Janice Forsyth presents a
round-up of what’s making the
news in the Scottish arts,
entertainment and music,
scene, and talks to some of
the people involved.
4.00 Drivetime
John Beattie presents
comment and opinion on
the day’s talking points, plus
sport, travel and weather.
6.00 Get It On...
with Bryan Burnett
Bryan presents a selection of
essential music chosen by
listeners. Text 80295.
Email: getiton@bbc.co.uk

8.00 Another Country with
Ricky Ross
A selection of new and classic
Country and Americana music.
10.00 Roddy Hart
A selection of new music and
back-catalogue selections.
12 midnight—6.00am
as Radio 5 Live

Wednesday
NEWS: SPORT: WEATHER:
LOCAL NEWS as Monday

6.00am Good Morning
Scotland
The latest news from home
and abroad. With travel
reports every 15 minutes,
business updates at 7.45 and
8.45, weather reports at 7.29
and 7.59, and sports reports at
7.08, 7.35, 8.08 and 8.35.

9.00 Mornings
Stephen Jardine gets to the
heart of the news and offers
listeners the opportunity to
have their say.
12.00 Lunchtime Live
News updates from
Scotland and beyond, plus
lunchtime sport, travel
and weather forecasts.
1.30pm The Afternoon Show
Michelle McManus presents a
round-up of what’s making the
news in the Scottish arts,
entertainment and music,
scene, and talks to some of
the people involved.
4.00 Drivetime
John Beattie presents
comment and opinion on
the day’s talking points, plus
sport, travel and weather.
6.00 Get It On...
with Bryan Burnett
Bryan presents a selection of
essential music chosen by
listeners. To get a tune played
on the radio, text 80295.
Email: getiton@bbc.co.uk

8.00 The Quay Sessions
with Roddy Hart
Live performances from
across the musical landscape
— all captured in front of an
audience in the intimate
setting of the foyer at BBC
Radio Scotland’s Pacific Quay.
10.00 Vic Galloway
Vic introduces new
releases from Scotland’s
alternative artists, and classic
album cuts alongside live
session tracks.
Repeated from Monday 8pm

11.45 From Scotland with
Love
Vic Galloway delves into his
archives for a look back at the
ultimate, home-grown
alternative music from
1960s onwards.
Repeated from Monday 9.45pm

12 midnight—6.00am
as Radio 5 Live

Thursday
NEWS: SPORT: WEATHER:
LOCAL NEWS as Monday

6.00am Good Morning
Scotland
The latest news from home
and abroad. With travel
reports every 15 minutes,
business updates at 7.45 and
8.45, weather reports at
7.29 and 7.59, and sports
reports at 7.08, 7.35,
8.08 and 8.35.
9.00 Mornings
Stephen Jardine gets to the
heart of the news and offers
listeners the opportunity
to have their say.
12.00 Lunchtime Live
News updates from
Scotland and beyond, plus
lunchtime sport, travel
and weather forecasts.
1.30pm The Afternoon Show
Michelle McManus presents a
round-up of what’s making the
news in the Scottish arts,
entertainment and music,
scene, and talks to some of
the people involved.

Listen on the internet at radiotimes.com/radio/radio-listings

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Frequencies

Email: getiton@bbc.co.uk

Friday
NEWS: SPORT: WEATHER:
LOCAL NEWS as Monday

6.00am Good Morning
Scotland
The latest news from home
and abroad. With travel
reports every 15 minutes,
business updates at 7.45 and
8.45, weather reports at 7.29
and 7.59, and sports reports at
7.08, 7.35, 8.08 and 8.35.
9.00 Mornings
Stephen Jardine gets to the
heart of the news and offers
listeners the opportunity to
have their say.
12.00 Lunchtime Live
News updates from Scotland
and beyond, plus lunchtime
sport, travel and weather.
1.30pm Breaking the News
Des Clarke hosts the awardwinning comedy news quiz.

ORKNEY

Weekdays
7.30am—8.00 Around
Orkney 6.00pm—7.00 Fri:
Friday Requests: weekly
dedication programme.
PHONE: 01856 873939
EMAIL: radio.orkney@bbc.co.uk

SHETLAND

Weekdays
5.30pm Good Evening
Shetland: news and features
from around the isles
6.00—7.00 Fri: Give Us a Tune:
weekly all-request show.

ath-chraoladh aig 9.30pm

Mar Radio Alba ach:

9.00 Buachaillean a’ Bhìobaill
An t-Urr Ruairidh
Dòmhnallach — ministear,
sgrìobhaiche, bàrd is eadartheangadair. (ath-chraoladh)
9.30—10.00 Rogha is Tagha
Taghadh à prògraman na
seachdain air a thoirt thugaibh
le Anna Nic na Ceardaich.

Disathairne

Diluain

9.00am Spòrs na Seachdain
Spòrs ionadail, nàiseanta agus
bho air feadh an t-saoghail
còmhla ri Iain Moireasdan.

7.30am Aithris na Maidne
Naidheachdan ionadail,
nàiseanta is eadar-nàiseanta
gach madainn.
9.00 Naoi gu Deich
Còmhradh, deasbad, cultur
agus cur-seachadan.

PHONE: 01595 694747
EMAIL: radio.shetland@bbc.co.uk

Radio nan
Gaidheal

POST DEALAIN: sns@bbc.co.uk
FON AN ASGAIDH: 08000 967050

10.00 Fàilt’ air an Dùthaich
Taghadh de cheòl dùthchail
sean is ùr.
11.00 Tiompan
Ceòl Ceilteach, clàran ùra
agus fios mu cò tha cluich
càite le Mairead NicIllinnein.
12.00—1.00pm Sàr Chlàr
Tha Ingrid NicEanraig a’
taghadh òrain bhon chlàr as
fheàrr leatha.

Didòmhnaich
9.00am Dèanamaid Adhradh
Còmhla ris an Urr Coinneach
Stiùbhart, Eaglais Nan
Clèireach Ath-leasaichte,
Steòrnabhagh. (ath-chraoladh)

Repeated tomorrow

ath-chraoladh aig 3pm

2.00 The Afternoon Show
Nicola Meighan presents
ideas for fun things to do in the
days ahead and a soundtrack
to kickstart the weekend.
4.00 Drivetime
Fiona Stalker presents
comment and opinion on
the day’s talking points, plus
sport, travel and weather.
6.00 Grant Stott’s Vinyl
Collective
Grant celebrates the vinyl
revival with classic records and
new releases, playing album
tracks from his own collection
and hearing the stories about
listeners’ cherished LPs.
8.00 BBC Introducing in
Scotland
Phoebe I-H and Shereen
Cutkelvin present the best
unsigned, undiscovered and
under-the-radar music
Scotland has to offer.
10.00 Ashley Storrie
The comedian kicks off the
weekend with a hand-picked
playlist, lively chat and listener
interaction, with the help of
sidekick “Silent Paul”.
1.00am—6.30 as Radio 5 Live

9.30 Alleluia
Tha Iain MacFhionghain a’
toirt thugaibh laoidhean, sailm
agus sgeulachdan pearsanta.

BBC Radio Scotland
40 Pacific Quay
Glasgow G51 1DA
bbc.co.uk/radioscotland

2.00 Gleus
Fuinn, còisirean agus òrain bho
shaoghal ceòl clasaigeach
agus eile, le Iain Moireach.
3.00 Dèanamaid Adhradh
Còmhla ris an Urr Coinneach
Stiùbhart, Eaglais Nan
Clèireach Ath-leasaichte,
Steòrnabhagh.
3.30—4.00 Rogha is Tagha
Taghadh à prògraman na
seachdain air a thoirt thugaibh
le Anna Nic na Ceardaich.

(ath-chraoladh)

10.00 Metagama — Bun-sgoil
Bhrèascleit Dealbh-chluich le
Bun-sgoil Steòrnabhaigh ag
innse mar a sheòl am SS
Metagama ann an 1923.
ath-chraoladh a’maireach aig
3.30pm/Diciadain aig 8pm

10.30 Crùnluath
Taghadh de cheòl na pìoba.
ath-chraoladh Diardaoin aig 3.30pm

12.00 Naoi gu Deich
Còmhradh, deasbad, cultur
agus cur-seachadan.
1.00pm SpeakGaelic
Pod-chraoladh do luchdionnsachaidh na Gàidhlig air a
thaisbeanadh le Iain
Urchadan.
1.30 An Litir Bheag
Litir Bheag na seachdain sa le
Ruairidh MacIlleathain.
1.35 SpeakGaelic
Podcast seachdaineach do
luchd-ionnsachaidh na
Gàidhlig, an cois an t-sreath
BBC Alba, SpeakGaelic.
(ath-chraoladh)

1.55 Litir do Luchdionnsachaidh
Litir do Luchd-ionnsachaidh
le Ruairidh MacIlleathain.

ath-chraoladh aig 10.25pm

10.00 A’ Mire ri Mòir
Tha i beachdail, tha i beòthail
agus tha i feitheamh ribh le
taghadh ciùil.
12.00 Feasgar an-diugh
Naidheachdan, còmhradh,
spòrs, ceòl agus fealla-dhà.
ath-chraoladh aig 9pm

1.30pm Caithream Ciùil
Ceòl Gàidhealach ’s Ceilteach
agus fiosrachadh air na tha
dol agaibhse gach feasgar.
POST DEALAIN: dethadol@bbc.co.uk

3.30 Metagama — Bun-sgoil
Bhrèascleit Dealbh-chluich le
Bun-sgoil Steòrnabhaigh ag
innse mar a sheòl am SS
Metagama ann an 1923.
ath-chraoladh Diciadain aig 8pm

4.00 Fàilt’ air an Dùthaich
Taghadh de cheòl dùthchail
sean is ùr.
5.00 Aithris an Fheasgair
Naidheachdan nàiseanta is
ionadail o Dhiluain gu Dihaoine.
5.30 Siubhal gu Seachd le
Pluto
Ceòl, spòrs agus fealla-dhà air
ar slighe dhachaigh còmhla ri
Derek “Pluto” Moireach.
POST DEALAIN: pluto@bbc.co.uk
FON AN ASGAIDH: 08000 967050

7.00 Cruinn
Ceòl, amaideas agus na
beachdan agaibh air
cuspairean a’ là.
9.00 Feasgar an-diugh
Naidheachdan, còmhradh,
spòrs, ceòl agus fealla-dhà.
10.25—11.25 Naoi gu Deich
Còmhradh, deasbad, cultur
agus cur-seachadan.

Dimàirt
7.30am Aithris na Maidne
Naidheachdan ionadail,
nàiseanta is eadar-nàiseanta
gach madainn.
9.00 Naoi gu Deich
Còmhradh, deasbad, cultur
agus cur-seachadan.
ath-chraoladh aig 10.25pm

10.00 A’ Mire ri Mòir
Tha i beachdail, tha i beòthail
agus tha i feitheamh ribh le
taghadh ciùil.
12.00 Feasgar an-diugh
Naidheachdan, còmhradh,
spòrs, ceòl agus fealla-dhà.
ath-chraoladh aig 9pm

1.30pm Caithream Ciùil
Ceòl Gàidhealach ’s Ceilteach
agus fiosrachadh air na tha
dol agaibhse gach feasgar.
3.30 Spòrscast
A còmhradh ri daoine ’s iad ag
innse mun phàirt a tha spòrs
a cluich nam beatha.
4.00 Sàr Chlàr
Tha Carol McGlone a’ taghadh
òrain bhon chlàr aig Rod
Stewart, Blood Red Roses.
(ath-chraoladh)
ath-chraoladh a’maireach aig 7pm

5.00 Aithris an Fheasgair
Naidheachdan nàiseanta is
ionadail o Dhiluain gu Dihaoine.
5.30 Siubhal gu Seachd le
Pluto
Ceòl, spòrs agus fealla-dhà air
ar slighe dhachaigh còmhla ri
Derek “Pluto” Moireach.
7.00 Rapal Taghadh de na
h-òrain ùra as fheàrr.
POST DEALAIN: rapal@bbc.co.uk
FON AN ASGAIDH: 08000 967050

Diardaoin
7.30am Aithris na Maidne
Naidheachdan ionadail,
nàiseanta is eadarnàiseanta gach madainn.
9.00 Naoi gu Deich
ath-chraoladh aig 10.25pm

10.00 A’ Mire ri Mòir
Tha i beachdail, tha i beòthail
agus tha i feitheamh
ribh le taghadh ciùil.
12.00 Feasgar an-diugh
Naidheachdan, còmhradh,
spòrs, ceòl agus fealla-dhà.
ath-chraoladh aig 9pm

1.30pm Caithream Ciùil
Ceòl Gàidhealach ’s Ceilteach
agus fiosrachadh air na tha
dol agaibhse gach feasgar.
3.30 Crùnluath
Taghadh de cheòl na pìoba.
5.00 Aithris an Fheasgair
Naidheachdan nàiseanta is
ionadailoDhiluainguDihaoine.
5.30 Siubhal gu
Seachd le Pluto
7.00 Spòrscast
7.30 Mo Chuairt Ciùil
Sùil air na h-òrain agus an
ceòl a tha air buaidh a thoirt
air beatha Amber.
ath-chraoladha’maireachaig3.30pm

9.00 Feasgar an-diugh
10.25—11.25 Naoi gu Deich

9.00 Feasgar an-diugh
10.25—11.25 Naoi gu Deich

Diciadain

Dihaoine

7.30am Aithris na Maidne
9.00 Naoi gu Deich

7.30am Aithris na Maidne
Naidheachdan ionadail,
nàiseanta is eadarnàiseanta gach madainn.
9.00 Naoi gu Deich
Còmhradh, deasbad, cultur
agus cur-seachadan.

ath-chraoladh aig 10.25pm

10.00 A’ Mire ri Mòir
Tha i beachdail, tha i beòthail
agus tha i feitheamh ribh le
taghadh ciùil.
12.00 Feasgar an-diugh
Naidheachdan, còmhradh,
spòrs, ceòl agus fealla-dhà.
ath-chraoladh aig 9pm

1.30pm Caithream Ciùil
Ceòl Gàidhealach ’s Ceilteach
agus fiosrachadh air na tha dol
agaibhse gach feasgar.
3.30 SpeakGaelic
Pod-chraoladh do luchdionnsachaidh na Gàidhlig
air a thaisbeanadh le Iain
Urchadan. (ath-chraoladh)
ath-chraoladh aig 8.30pm

4.00 Gleus
Fuinn, còisirean agus òrain bho
shaoghal ceòl clasaigeach
agus eile, le Iain Moireach.
5.00 Aithris an Fheasgair
Naidheachdan nàiseanta is
ionadail o Dhiluain gu Dihaoine.
5.30 Siubhal gu Seachd le
Pluto
Ceòl, spòrs agus fealla-dhà air
ar slighe dhachaigh còmhla ri
Derek “Pluto” Moireach.
7.00 Sàr Chlàr
Tha Carol McGlone a’ taghadh
òrain bhon chlàr aig Rod
Stewart, Blood Red Roses.
8.00 Metagama — Bun-sgoil
Bhrèascleit Dealbh-chluich le
Bun-sgoil Steòrnabhaigh ag
innse mar a sheòl am SS
Metagama ann an 1923.
8.30 SpeakGaelic
9.00 Feasgar an-diugh
10.25—11.25 Naoi gu Deich

ath-chraoladh aig 12.00

10.00 A’ Mire ri Mòir
Tha i beachdail, tha i beòthail
agus tha i feitheamh ribh le
taghadh ciùil.
12.00 Feasgar an-diugh
Naidheachdan, còmhradh,
spòrs, ceòl agus fealla-dhà.
1.30pm Caithream Ciùil
Ceòl Gàidhealach ’s Ceilteach
agus fiosrachadh air na tha
dol agaibhse gach feasgar.
3.30 Mo Chuairt Ciùil
Sùil air na h-òrain agus an
ceòl a tha air buaidh a thoirt
air beatha Amber.
5.00 Aithris an Fheasgair
Naidheachdan nàiseanta is
ionadailoDhiluainguDihaoine.
5.30 Rogha is Tagha
Taghadh à prògraman na
seachdainairathoirtthugaibh
le Anna Nic na Ceardaich.
6.00 Na Dùrachdan Ceòl,
òrain agus beannachdan
còmhla ri Mairead agus Art.
9.00 Mac’ille Mhìcheil
Cuiridh Iain Mac’illeMhìcheil
agus aoighean air a’ fòn an
deireadh seachdain air a
chasan.
11.00 Tiompan
Ceòl Ceilteach, clàran ùra
agus fios mu cò tha cluich
càite le Mairead NicIllinnein.
12.00—12.55am Naoi gu
Deich Còmhradh, deasbad,
cultur agus cur-seachadan.

National
BBC Radio 1* FM 97.7–99.7
BBC Radio 2* FM 88.1–90.1
BBC Radio 3* FM 90.3–92.3
BBC Radio 4 FM 94.6–96.1,
103.5–104.9, LW 198, MW 1449
(Aberdeen, LW progs)
BBC Radio 5 Live MW 693, 909

BBC Radio Scotland
FM 92.5–94.7

BBC Radio Scotland Extra
MW 810

BBC Radio nan Gaidheal
FM 103.5–104.9 (carries R4 in
some parts)
Classic FM 99.9–101.9
Talksport MW 1053, 1089
Above stations also on Freeview
(*not Sat 4pm—1am, Sun 4pm—
12 midnight, weekdays 5pm—
12 midnight), plus satellite, cable,
internet and DAB (Radio Scotland
Extra service only).

Local
Argyll FM 106.5, 107.1, 107.7
(Campbeltown)
BBC Cumbria FM 95.6 (Carlisle),
96.1 (Morecambe Bay), 95.2
(Kendal), 104.1 (Whitehaven/
Keswick), 104.2 (Windermere),
MW 756 (Carlisle),
837 (Barrow-in-Furness)
Capital 106.1 (Glasgow),
105.7 (Edinburgh)
Central FM 103.1 (Stirling/
Falkirk/Clackmannanshire)
Clyde 1 FM 102.3 (Rothesay),
102.5 (Glasgow), 103.3 (Firth of
Clyde), 97 (Vale of Leven)
Forth 1 FM 97.3, 97.6 (Edinburgh),
102.2 (Penicuik)
Greatest Hits Radio FM 96.4
(Carlisle), 96.8 (Selkirk),
97 (Dumfries), 102.2 (Workington),
102.3 (Berwick), 102.5 (Penrith),
103.1 (Peebles), 103.4 (Eyemouth/
Whitehaven), MW 1035
(Ayrshire), 1107 (North of
Scotland), 1152 (Glasgow & the
West), 1161 (Dundee/Perth), 1548
(Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife &
Falkirk), DAB (North East Scotland)
Heart FM 100 (Vale of Leven),
101.1 (Edinburgh/Rosneath),
100.3 (Glasgow), 103.3 (Penicuik)

Radio

8.00 Travelling Folk
Anna Massie with the very
best of folk and roots music
from around the world.
10.00 Natasha Raskin Sharp
Natasha presents an eclectic
mix of music, as well as paying
tribute to a “Late Great” and
spinning the globe for the
Out of This World feature.
12 midnight—6.00am
as Radio 5 Live

Local programmes

LOCAL

4.00 Drivetime
Fiona Stalker presents
comment and opinion on the
day’s talking points, plus sport,
travel and weather.
6.00 Get It On...
with Bryan Burnett
Bryan presents a selection of
essential music chosen by
listeners. Text 80295.

Heartland FM
97.5 (Pitlochry/ Aberfeldy)

Isles FM 103 (Western Isles)
Kingdom FM 105.4 (St Andrews),
106.3 (The East Neuk), 95.2
(West Fife), 96.1 (Central & East
Fife), 96.6 (Kirkcaldy)
Lochbroom FM 102.2 (Ullapool),
96.8 (North West Scotland)
Mearns FM 105.1 (Portlethen),

105.7 (Stonehaven),
106.2 (Inverbervie),
107.3 (Laurencekirk)
MFR FM 96.6 (Speyside),
96.7 (Fraserburgh/Wick),
97.4 (Highlands/Moray/
Aberdeenshire),
102.5 (Caithness), 102.8 (Keith)
Nation FM 96.3 (Glasgow),
106.9 (Helensburgh),
103 (Dumbarton)
Nevis FM 96.6 (Fort William),
97 (Glencoe), 102.4 (Loch Leven),
102.3 (Skye & Mallaig)
Northsound 1 FM 96.9 (Aberdeen),
97.6 (Balgownie), 103 (Peterhead)
Oban FM 103.3
Original FM 106 (Aberdeen)
Pure FM 106.6 (Perth),
102 (Dundee)
SIBC FM 96.2 (Bressay),
102.2 (Shetland)
Skye 106.2, 102.7
(Skye/Lochalsh)
Smooth Radio
FM 105.2 (Glasgow)
Tay FM MW 102.8 (Dundee),
96.4 (Perth)
Two Lochs FM 106.6 (Loch Ewe),
106 (Gairloch)
Wave FM 102 (Dundee)
Waves Radio FM 101.2
(Peterhead/Fraserburgh)
West FM 96.7 (Ayrshire),
97.5 (Girvan), 106.7 (Rothesay)
West Sound FM 97 (Dumfries),
103 (Kirkcudbright),
96.5 (Stranraer)

Get listings for digital, national and local radio at radiotimes.com/radio/radio-listings

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BBC Radio Ulster

Get to know...Fix Radio

Radio

LOCAL

A station for tradespeople that serves up music, laughs and support
You wouldn’t expect a radio station
to have won a Loo of the Year
Award, but Fix Radio is an
exceptional station. It was launched
in 2017 by Louis Timpany, who had
worked on a building site after
graduating from Leeds University
and noticed that while builders
listen to the radio all day, they can’t
often agree on a station. So he set
out to give them one of their own.
Catering to an audience of
tradespeople that ranges from
builders, plumbers and electricians
to plasterers, fitters, roofers,
decorators and other construction
workers, it offers a mix of upbeat
music, chat and industry-specific
information. And yes, it also
noticed a gap in the Loo of the
Year Awards for a builders’
portaloo and this year submitted
its own design, complete with a
radio with Fix on it!
Yet toilets are not the only ways
to win awards and the station won
silver at the prestigious 2023 Audio
and Radio Industry Awards, for its
station sound, while two of its

Saturday
RADIO ULSTER NEWS:
hourly 7.00am to 11.00pm, then 11.55

7.05am Kerry McLean
The host presents music, chat
and requests to ease her
listeners into the weekend.
Text: 81771
Email: kerry.mclean@bbc.co.uk

8.05 Your Place & Mine
An insight into some of
the people, places and stories
that make Northern Ireland
unique, presented by Anne
Marie McAleese.
Phone: 0289 033 8307
Email: ypam@bbc.co.uk

9.05 Gardeners’ Corner
The weekly programme for
keen horticulturists with the
latest advice, news and visits
to gardens large and small
around the province.
Presented by David Maxwell.
Phone: 03030 80 55 55

10.05 On Your Behalf
Linda McAuley champions the
cause of consumers in
Northern Ireland, helping
them to solve their problems,
make the right choices and
avoid the pitfalls.
Write to: On Your Behalf,
BBC Broadcasting House,
Ormeau Avenue, Belfast BT2 8HQ
Phone: 0289 033 8314
bbc.co.uk/oyb

11.05 Saturday with John
Toal
The presenter invites
tales of family and community
life. Plus a blend of recipes,
craic and music. Including
news at 12 noon.
Text: 81771
Phone: 03030 80 55 55
Email: john.toal@bbc.co.uk

specifically aimed at trades
working outdoors, and as well as
discussing matters such as tools
and how much to get paid, it also
campaigns to raise awareness of
mental health problems, the
devastating impact of tool theft on
a business, best practice and
supply chain issues.
shows, The Heating and Plumbing
Since its launch, when it
Show and The Bald Builders
broadcast on DAB only in Greater
Breakfast, were nominated in the
London, the station has widened its
best new show category.
reach and now broadcasts
Social media stars Brad Hanson
nationwide, with agreements with
and Sam Hughes, aka “the Bald
a number of large contractors that
Builders”, had built up a following
it is played in their canteens and in
by shooting videos in their van and plumbing merchants.
at work, which brought them to the The programming is scheduled to
attention of Fix. They’ve been on
fit in with a builder’s day and breaks,
the station since 2020 and co-host the station promises to limit adverts
the breakfast show (6am—9am
and not repeat songs during the
Monday—Friday). “It’s authentic. It’s working day and while the first song
a people-based show. We have lots played in 2017 was, appropriately,
of banter,” says Brad. Sam agrees, Starship’s We Built This City, Bob the
“It’s like eavesdropping on a couple Builder and Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
of mates at the pub.”
are not on constant rotation.
The station is more than just
banter, though. It claims to have
Listen at
the most detailed weather forecast fixradio.co.uk/radioplayer

1.05pm A Perforated Ulster
Ep 4. Da and Uncle Andy host
the award-winning topical
sketch show that takes the
week’s news and it gives it the
unique Hole in the Wall Gang
treatment. Featuring political
satire, silly jokes, impressions
of the great and the good,
character comedy and the
occasional song. Performed
by Tim McGarry, Ali Ford,
Damon Quinn, Diona Doherty,
Paddy Jenkins, Michael
McDowell and Marty Reid.
1.30 Short Works
Says Himself by Sue Divin.
A mother plans to help her son
through a stressful week by
sticking to their routine. Read
by the author. Followed by
Every Ballymena Man’s Dream
by Gerard McKeown. An illtimed attempt to kick a football
leads to a trip to the hospital.
Read by Seamus O’Hara. First
broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
2.05 Summer Sportsound
Sports discussion and a lighthearted look what interests
the big names away from their
familiar surroundings.
4.05 The Summer Social
with Donna and Rigsy
Presenters celebrate summer
with family friendly life hacks,
perfect day trips, great music
and their own seasonal
memories. With news at 5.00.
6.05 The House Party with
Phil Taggart
Phil kicks off Saturday night
with dance music to get the
party started, from soul to
house and funk to techno.
Including news at 7.00.

8.05 Folk Club with
Lynette Fay
Lynette selects traditional and
contemporary folk music and
song with studio guests,
concert performances, new
releases and vintage vinyl.
Including news at 9.00.
Email: lynette.fay@bbc.co.uk

10.05 Saturday Club with
John Bennett
Late-night music club
featuring classic tracks from
the 1960s, 70s and 80s.
Including news at 11.00.
Text: 81771

12.00 as Radio 5 Live

Sunday
RADIO ULSTER NEWS:
hourly 7.00am to 11.00pm, then 11.55

7.05am Kerry McLean
The host presents music, chat
and requests to ease her
listeners into the morning.
Including Thought for the Day
at 7.55 and news at 8.00.
Text: 81771
Email: kerry.mclean@bbc.co.uk

8.30 Sunday Sequence
Audrey Carville and guests
discuss how the agricultural,
environmental and ethical
issues around farming affect
the food chain, consumer
choice, and the viability of rural
life. Including news at 9.00.
Phone: 0289 033 8355
Email: sunday.sequence@bbc.co.uk

10.05 Morning Service
An act of worship led by
broadcaster Tony Macaulay.
10.45 Thought for the Week
Audrey Carville presents clips
from last week’s Thought for
the Day programmes.

11.05 Sunday with Steven
Rainey
Steven brings the best of
in-depth current affairs,
interviews, discussion and
analysis — including an
essential guide to the Sunday
papers. With news at 12 noon.
12.05pm Steven Rainey’s
Summer Takeaway
An essential summer playlist,
with a personal musical
selection from Steven’s own
collection, and audio from
the BBC archives.
1.05 Sunday with Brian
D’Arcy
Brian delves into his wide
experience of music to bring
listeners some tracks just right
for a Sunday afternoon, along
with some reflections to make
them think, or laugh or cry.
Write to: Sunday with Brian D’Arcy,
BBC Radio Ulster, Ormeau Avenue,
Belfast BT2 8HQ

2.05 Countryside
Voices, views, stories, news
and chat from Northern
Ireland’s rural community,
hosted by Nicola Weir.
Including essential livestock
and weather reports.
3.05 The Culture Café
From the page to the stage,
Marie-Louise Muir hosts the
essential cultural conversation.
4.05 Inna Rhythm with
Kwame Daniels
New series. Ep 1. Kwame
Daniels returns with a
selection from boogie and
electronica to Afrobeat, jazz
and funk, including music by
Jay-Z, Yoofee, the Rolling
Stones and Astrud Gilberto.

5.05 Sounds Sacred
Richard Yarr introduces
popular sacred music by local
and internationally acclaimed
performers. He also plays
listeners’ requests and
provides news of music events
across Northern Ireland.
6.05 Kintra
Helen Mark and the Kintra
team present stories, news,
music and banter from
Ulster-Scots communities
at home and abroad.
Email: kintra@bbc.co.uk

6.30 Beat Seekers
Ep 3. The best upcoming
DJs bring the freshest beats.
This week, Carlton Doom
presents the latest dance
releases and exclusives.
7.05 Classical Connections
with John Toal
An evening of popular classical
music. Plus news, reviews and
interviews with local and
touring performers.
Including news at 8.00.
9.05 Jazz Club with Walter
Love
Recordings by jazz musicians,
including tracks that have
been performed exclusively
for BBC Radio Ulster.
10.05 Sunday Club with
John Bennett
A late-night selection of music
designed to soothe away the
problems of the past week.
Dedications to: The Sunday Club,
BBC Radio Ulster, Broadcast House,
Belfast BT2 8HQ
Email: jb@bbc.co.uk

12.00 as Radio 5 Live

1.30 Hugo Duncan
Country music, plus the
opportunity for listeners to
submit requests. Including
news and travel at 2.00.
Phone: 03030 80 55 55
Text: 81771

3.05 The Lynette Fay Show
The host sets out to brighten
up the afternoon with music,
features and interviews.
Text: 81771
Email: lynette.fay@bbc.co.uk

4.00 Evening Extra
A look back at the day’s events,
with Richard Morgan, Tara
Mills and Declan Harvey.
Featuring news on the halfhour, plus regular sport, traffic
and weather reports, and the
latest agri-business.
6.05 Vinny and Cate
Teatime music and craic, with
Vinny Hurrell and Cate Conway.
Including news at 7.00.
7.30 Blas
Fearghal Mag Uiginn le súil siar
ar aicsean spóirt dheireadh na
seachtaine.
Fearghal Mag Uiginn looks
back at the weekend’s
sporting action.
8.05 The Ralph McLean Show
Classic rock, soul, blues, pop,
gospel, reggae and funk both
old and new, from home and
abroad featuring live
performance, interviews and
more. Including news at 9.00.
10.05 The Late Show with
Eve Blair
Chilled-out music, including
easy listening melodies old
and new, together with material
by the Artist of the Week.
Email: eve.blair@bbc.co.uk

Monday
RADIO ULSTER NEWS:
half-hourly 6.30am to 9.30, hourly 10.00
to 11.00pm plus 4.30pm, 5.30, 11.55.

12.00 as Radio 5 Live

6.30am Good Morning Ulster
With Sarah Brett and Joel
Taggart, including travel
updates and analysis of
finance and business news,
plus agri-business in Farm
Gate and a Thought for
the Day at 7.20.

RADIO ULSTER NEWS: see Monday

Email: good.morning.ulster@bbc.co.uk

Email: good.morning.ulster@bbc.co.uk

9.00 The Nolan Show
Breaking news and topical
debate with Stephen Nolan.
Listeners can share their views
by phone, text or email. With
news and travel at 10.00.
Phone: 03030 80 55 55
Text: 81771
Email: nolan@bbc.co.uk

Tuesday
6.30am Good Morning Ulster
With Sarah Brett and Chris
Buckler including regular
news, travel and sport updates
and analysis of finance and
business news and Thought
for the Day at 7.20.
9.00 The Nolan Show
Breaking news and topical
debate with Stephen Nolan.
Listeners can share their views
by phone, text or email. With
news and travel at 10.00.
Phone: 03030 80 55 55
Text: 81771
Email: nolan@bbc.co.uk

10.30 The Connor Phillips
Show
Music and mischief, with fun
features such as Does My
Head In, Useless Superpowers,
Guess the Guest and Taylor
Sifts. Including news at 11.00.
Phone: 03030 805555
Text: 81771
Email: connor@bbc.co.uk

10.30 The Connor Phillips
Show
Music and mischief, with fun
features such as Does My
Head In, Useless Superpowers,
Guess the Guest and Taylor
Sifts. Including news at 11.00.
Phone: 03030 805555
Text: 81771
Email: connor@bbc.co.uk

12.05pm Talkback
William Crawley and the team
present news and invite
listeners’ on-air reactions to all
the breaking stories of the day,
from politics and health to
consumer issues and education.
Including news at 1.00.

12.05pm Talkback
William Crawley and the team
present news and invite
listeners’ on-air reactions to all
the breaking stories of the day,
from politics and health to
consumer issues and education.
Including news at 1.00.

Phone: 03030 80 55 55
Email: talk.back@bbc.co.uk
bbc.co.uk/talkback

Phone: 03030 80 55 55
Email: talk.back@bbc.co.uk
bbc.co.uk/talkback

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Saturday 29 July–Friday 4 August
Frequencies
1.30 Hugo Duncan
Country music old and new,
plus the opportunity for
listeners to submit requests by
phone or text. Including news
and travel at 2.00.
Phone: 03030 80 55 55
Text: 81771

Text: 81771
Email: lynette.fay@bbc.co.uk

Email: eve.blair@bbc.co.uk

12.00 as Radio 5 Live

Wednesday
RADIO ULSTER NEWS: see Monday

6.30am Good Morning Ulster
With Sarah Brett and Chris
Buckler including regular
news, travel and sport updates
and analysis of finance and
business news and Thought
for the Day at 7.20.
Email: good.morning.ulster@bbc.co.uk

9.00 The Nolan Show
Breaking news and hardhitting topical debate with
Stephen Nolan. Listeners can
share their views by phone,
text or email. Including news
and travel at 10.00.
Phone: 03030 80 55 55
Text: 81771
Email: nolan@bbc.co.uk

10.30 The Connor Phillips
Show
A selection of music and
mischief, with fun features
such as Does My Head In,
Useless Superpowers, Guess
the Guest and Taylor Sifts.
Including news at 11.00.
Phone: 03030 805555
Text: 81771
Email: connor@bbc.co.uk

1.30 Hugo Duncan
Country music old and new,
plus the opportunity for
listeners to submit requests by
phone or text. Including news
and travel at 2.00.
Phone: 03030 80 55 55
Text: 81771

3.05 The Lynette Fay Show
The host sets out to brighten
up the afternoon with music,
features and interviews.
Text: 81771
Email: lynette.fay@bbc.co.uk

4.00 Evening Extra
A look back at the day’s events,
with Richard Morgan, Tara
Mills and Declan Harvey.
6.05 Vinny and Cate
Music and craic with Vinny
Hurrell and Cate Conway.
7.05 The Dream Team with
Vinny and Cate
Vinny Hurrell and Cate Conway
talk about slumber journeys
with guests and listener
interaction, investigating what
they might mean.
7.30 Blas
Caint agus comhrá faoi
imeachtaí an tsaoil mhóir agus
shaol an ghnáthlae.
Máire Bhreathnach has all the
latest news on local and
international events.
8.05 Ralph McLean —
Country
From the sounds of Nashville
to new bluegrass, Ralph takes
another journey into the world
of American roots music,
offering a selection of classic
tracks, live performance and
timeless Americana along the
way. Including news at 9.00.
9.55 Wah Yan Jee Sing
Local information on health
and social issues in Cantonese.
10.05 The Late Show with
Eve Blair
Chilled-out music and easy
listening melodies,plusmaterial
by the Artist of the Week.
Email: eve.blair@bbc.co.uk

12.00 as Radio 5 Live

Thursday
RADIO ULSTER NEWS: see Monday

6.30am Good Morning Ulster
With Sarah Brett and Chris
Buckler including regular
news, travel and sport updates
and analysis of finance and
business news and Thought
for the Day at 7.20.
Email: good.morning.ulster@bbc.co.uk

9.00 The Nolan Show
Breaking news and topical
debate with Stephen Nolan.
Listeners can share their views
by phone, text or email. With
news and travel at 10.00.
Phone: 03030 80 55 55
Text: 81771
Email: nolan@bbc.co.uk

10.05 The Late Show with
Eve Blair
Chilled-out music, including
easy listening melodies old
and new, plus material by
the Artist of the Week.

Phone: 03030 805555
Text: 81771
Email: connor@bbc.co.uk

12.00 as Radio 5 Live

12.05pm Talkback
William Crawley and the
Talkback team present news
and invite listeners’ on-air
reactions to all the breaking
stories of the day, from politics
and health to consumer
issues and education.
Including news at 1.00.
Phone: 03030 80 55 55
Email: talk.back@bbc.co.uk
Website: bbc.co.uk/talkback

1.30 Hugo Duncan
Country music old and new,
plus the opportunity for
listeners to submit requests
by phone or text. Including
news and travel at 2.00.
Phone: 03030 80 55 55
Text: 81771

3.05 The Lynette Fay Show
The host sets out to brighten
up the afternoon with music,
features and interviews.
Text: 81771
Email: lynette.fay@bbc.co.uk

4.00 Evening Extra
A look back at the day’s events,
with Richard Morgan, Tara
Mills and Declan Harvey.
Featuring news on the
half-hour, plus regular sport,
traffic and weather reports,
and the latest agri-business.
6.05 Vinny & Cate
Music and craic with Vinny
Hurrell and Cate Conway.
7.05 The Mystery Mix Tape
with Vinny and Cate
Vinny Hurrell and Cate
Conway challenge listeners —
and each other — to search
through the music memory
banks to correctly identify
the year in question.
7.30 Blas
Dearcadh an duine óig ar
ábhair a bhfuil spraoi ag baint
leo agus ábhair níos troime,
gach rud ón stíl mhaireachtála
go taisteal agus cúrsaí spóirt.
Caoimhe Ní Chathail presents
a youthful view of lifestyle
issues, travel, sport, beauty,
fashion, cookery and more.
8.05 Blas Ceoil
Cuireann Caoimhe “Ceol’ Ní
Chathail tús spleodrach le do
dheireadh seachtaine.
Caoimhe “Ceol”
Ní Chathail introduces new
releases, gig guide details
and live acoustic sessions
to keep listeners in touch with
the best in traditional, roots
and folk music.
9.05 Hannah Peel’s
Unfinished Symphony
4/10. The musician and
composer delves into her vast
record collection, serving up
Blur, Jeff Buckley and David
Bowie alongside modernist
producers A Winged Victory
for the Sullen and some
listeners’ favourite movie
soundtracks. Repeat

Email: eve.blair@bbc.co.uk

Friday
RADIO ULSTER NEWS:
half-hourly 6.30am to 9.30, hourly
10.00 to 11.00pm, plus 4.30pm, 11.55.

6.30am Good Morning Ulster
With Chris Buckler and Joel
Taggart, including regular
news, travel and sport updates
and analysis of finance and
business news and Thought
for the Day at 7.20.
Email: good.morning.ulster@bbc.co.uk

9.00 The Nolan Show
Breaking news and hardhitting topical debate with
Stephen Nolan. Listeners can
share their views by phone,
text or email. Including news
and travel at 10.00.
Phone: 03030 80 55 55
Text: 81771
Email: nolan@bbc.co.uk

10.30 The Connor Phillips
Show
A selection of music and
mischief, with fun features
such as Does My Head In,
Useless Superpowers, Guess
the Guest and Taylor Sifts.
Including news at 11.00.
Phone: 03030 805555
Text: 81771
Email: connor@bbc.co.uk

11.30 Mobile Disco
Connor Phillips introduces
30 minutes of the biggest
anthems to help round
off the working week.
12.05pm Talkback
William Crawley and the
Talkback team present news
and invite listeners’ on-air
reactions to all the breaking
stories of the day, from politics
and health to consumer
issues and education.
Including news at 1.00.
Phone: 03030 80 55 55
Email: talk.back@bbc.co.uk
bbc.co.uk/talkback

1.30 Hugo Duncan
Country music plus the
opportunity for listeners to
submit requests. Including
news and travel at 2.00.
Phone: 03030 80 55 55
Text: 81771

3.05 The Ticket
Kathy Clugston previews
upcoming cultural attractions,
from blockbuster movies to
comedy gigs.
4.00 Evening Extra
A look back at the day’s events,
with Richard Morgan, Tara
Mills and Declan Harvey.
Featuring news on the halfhour, plus regular sport, traffic
and weather reports, and the
latest agri-business.
5.30 Red Lines
Mark Carruthers details the
inside story of what’s going on
in Northern Ireland politics,
with the occasional foray
among the big beasts of
Westminster, Dáil Eireann,
Holyrood, Brussels and
Washington, DC.

6.05 ATL Introducing
Gemma Bradley serves
up the freshest new Irish
musical talent, from
indie-rock to hip-hop with live
music and interviews.
7.05 The Stephen McCauley
Show
Alternative music from punk
to electronica from home and
abroad, featuring live
performance, interviews
and more. Including news
at 8.00 and 9.00.
10.05 The Mickey Bradley
Record Show
There are loads of great
records out there and Mickey
has bought, borrowed and
blagged lots of them since his
teenage years. Here, he
invites listeners to another
selection of vintage rock,
pop, and new releases.
Including news at 11.00.

National
BBC Radio 1

FM 97.9—99.7
BBC Radio 2

FM 88.3—90.1
BBC Radio 3

FM 90.5—92.3
BBC Radio 4

93.2 (Ballycastle),
93.2 (Carnmoney Hill),
94 (Limavady),
94.9 (Londonderry),
95.6 (Brougher Mountain),
96 (Belfast),
103.5 (Larne),
103.9 (Rostrevor Forest/
Kilkeel),
104.6 (Camlough),
(R4 FM cannot be heard in
some parts of N Ireland)
LW 198 MW 720, 774
(Enniskillen (carry LW
programmes)
BBC Radio 5 Live

Text: 81771
Email: michael.bradley@bbc.co.uk

MW 693, 909

12.00 as Radio 5 Live

FM 93.1

BBC Northern Ireland
Broadcasting House
Ormeau Avenue, Belfast BT2 8HQ
02890 338 000
Phone-in 0845 955 5678

RADIO FOYLE
As Radio Ulster except:

Weekdays
RADIO FOYLE NEWS:
8.30am, then hourly 9.00 to 3.00pm

6.30am Good Morning
Ulster
News from home and abroad,
presented by: Mon: Sarah
Brett and Joel Taggart;
Tue—Thu: Sarah Brett and
Chris Buckler; Fri: Chris
Buckler and Joel Taggart.
Including 6.30, 7.00, 7.30 and
8.00 news; 6.40 and 7.40
business and finance; 6.45
Farm Gate; 7.20 Thought for
the Day; 7.35 Sportsdesk.
Plus regular traffic news.
8.30—9.00
The North West Today
An essential round-up of
news, sport and weather
across the north-west of
Northern Ireland.
12.05pm—1.30 The Mark
Patterson Show
Issues affecting the daily lives
of people in the north-west of
Northern Ireland. Including an
extended Radio Foyle News
bulletin at 1.00.
3.05—4.00 Sean Coyle
The presenter brightens up
the day with music and chat,
plus listeners from across
the region are invited to
phone in with their requests
and dedications.
Mon: 8.05—10.00 Caschlár
Lig do scíth le scoth an cheoil le
rogha Brian Mullen ó
phopcheol, fréamhcheol, ceol
traidisiúnta, na gormacha
agus anamcheol.
Brian Mullen presents a wideranging mix of music, including
pop, blues and soul. Including
news at 9.00.
BBC Radio Foyle, 8 Northland Road
Londonderry BT48 7GD
Tel: 02871 266 522

BBC Radio Foyle

Radio

4.00 Evening Extra
A look back at the day’s events,
with Richard Morgan, Tara
Mills and Declan Harvey.
Featuring news on the halfhour, plus regular sport, traffic
and weather reports, and the
latest agri-business.
6.05 Vinny and Cate
Teatime music and craic, with
Vinny Hurrell and Cate Conway.
Including news at 7.00.
7.30 Ocht gCeathrú
Ep5. Glacann Aodhán O Baoill
agus Niamh Ní Dhubhgáin
turas thart ar Cheathrúna
Bhéal Feirste ag fiosrú faoi cad
é atá éagsúil ó cheathrú go
ceathrú.
Aodhán O Baoill and
Niamh Ní Dhubhgáin take a
tour around Belfast’s
Quarters to find out what
is distinctive about the
various areas of the city.
8.05 The Ralph McLean
Show
Classic rock, soul, blues, pop,
gospel, reggae and funk both
old and new, from home and
abroad featuring live
performance, interviews and
more. Including news at 9.00.
10.05 The Late Show with
Eve Blair
Chilled-out music, including
easy listening melodies old
and new, plus material by
the Artist of the Week.

Phone: 03030 80 55 55
Email: talk.back@bbc.co.uk
bbc.co.uk/talkback

10.30 The Connor Phillips
Show
Music and mischief, with fun
features such as Does My
Head In, Useless Superpowers,
Guess the Guest and Taylor
Sifts. Including news at 11.00.

LOCAL

3.05 The Lynette Fay Show
The host sets out to brighten
up the afternoon with music,
features and interviews.

12.05pm Talkback
William Crawley and the
Talkback team present news
and invite listeners’ on-air
reactions to all the breaking
stories of the day, from politics
and health to consumer
issues and education.
Including news at 1.00.

BBC Radio Ulster

FM 92.7—95.4
RTE Radio 1

FM 87.8—90.0, LW 252
RTE 2FM 90.4—92.2, 97
RTE Raidió na Gaeltachta

92.6—94.4, 102.7
RTE Lyric FM 97.8—99.6,
92.2, 95.2, 96.7, 102.2
Classic FM 99.9—101.9 (not
Freeview)
Talksport MW 1053,
1089
Absolute MW 1215
Today FM FM 105.5

All the above stations are
also broadcast via
Freeview, satellite, cable,
digital radio and the
internet.

Local
Cool FM 97.4

Music, news and sport
Downtown FM 102.3

(Ballymena), 96.6
(Omagh/Enniskillen),
97.1 (Larne), 96.4
(Limavady), 102.4
(Londonderry), 103.4
(Newcastle), 103.1 (south
Newry), MW 1026
(Belfast) Music, news
Q FM 96.7 (Belfast),
102.5 (Bangor), 102.5
(Carrickfergus), 102.9
(North West), 97.2 (North
Coast), 97.6 (Ballycastle),
107.0 (Mid Antrim),
107.6 (Larne),
106.0 (Mid Ulster),
107.2 (Dungannon),
106.3 (Maghera),
101.2 (Tyrone/Fermanagh),
102.1 (Enniskillen),
100.5 (Newry & Mourne),
101.1 (Kilkeel),
101.1 (Newcastle)

Get listings for digital, national and local radio at radiotimes.com/radio/radio-listings

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RADIO in your area

BBC Radio Wales

Get to know...Fix Radio

Radio

LOCAL

A station for tradespeople that serves up music, laughs and support
You wouldn’t expect a radio station
to have won a Loo of the Year
Award, but Fix Radio is an
exceptional station. It was launched
in 2017 by Louis Timpany, who had
worked on a building site after
graduating from Leeds University
and noticed that while builders
listen to the radio all day, they can’t
often agree on a station. So he set
out to give them one of their own.
Catering to an audience of
tradespeople that ranges from
builders, plumbers and electricians
to plasterers, fitters, roofers,
decorators and other construction
workers, it offers a mix of upbeat
music, chat and industry-specific
information. And yes, it also
noticed a gap in the Loo of the
Year Awards for a builders’
portaloo and this year submitted
its own design, complete with a
radio with Fix on it!
Yet toilets are not the only ways
to win awards and the station won
silver at the prestigious 2023 Audio
and Radio Industry Awards, for its
station sound, while two of its

Saturday
NEWS: hourly 7.00am to 2.00pm;
plus 5.00pm
WEATHER: before most news bulletins
HILL FORECAST: 6.59am

5.00am Vicki Blight
Start the weekend with
music and chat.
7.00 Radio Wales Breakfast
The latest news, travel and
weather from Wales and the
world, with Oliver Hides.
9.00 Money for Nothing
Dedications and song requests
from the 1950s to the 80s.
Phone: 03700 100 110

11.30 Carol Vorderman
Music and chat.
2.00pm Rob Phillips and
Molly Stephens
Music and chat with a sporting
edge for Saturday afternoon.
5.00 Aleighcia’s Sounds of
Summer
Aleighcia Scott presents a
perfect selection of tunes
with a summer vibe.
7.00 Bethan Elfyn
Featuring the Wales Mix and a
guest DJ Takeover.
10.00 BBC Introducing with
Adam Walton
New Welsh music, exclusive
sessions, interviews and demos.
1.00am—6.00 as Radio 5 Live

Sunday
NEWS: hourly 7.00am to 6.00pm
WEATHER: before most news bulletins
HILL FORECAST: 6.58am

6.00am Radio Wales Arts
Show
The current art scene in Wales.
Repeated from last Friday
Repeated Monday 6.30am

specifically aimed at trades
working outdoors, and as well as
discussing matters such as tools
and how much to get paid, it also
campaigns to raise awareness of
mental health problems, the
devastating impact of tool theft on
a business, best practice and
supply chain issues.
shows, The Heating and Plumbing
Since its launch, when it
Show and The Bald Builders
broadcast on DAB only in Greater
Breakfast, were nominated in the
London, the station has widened its
best new show category.
reach and now broadcasts
Social media stars Brad Hanson
nationwide, with agreements with
and Sam Hughes, aka “the Bald
a number of large contractors that
Builders”, had built up a following
it is played in their canteens and in
by shooting videos in their van and plumbing merchants.
at work, which brought them to the The programming is scheduled to
attention of Fix. They’ve been on
fit in with a builder’s day and breaks,
the station since 2020 and co-host the station promises to limit adverts
the breakfast show (6am—9am
and not repeat songs during the
Monday—Friday). “It’s authentic. It’s working day and while the first song
a people-based show. We have lots played in 2017 was, appropriately,
of banter,” says Brad. Sam agrees, Starship’s We Built This City, Bob the
“It’s like eavesdropping on a couple Builder and Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
of mates at the pub.”
are not on constant rotation.
The station is more than just
banter, though. It claims to have
Listen at
the most detailed weather forecast fixradio.co.uk/radioplayer

6.30 Bleeding Hell
Comedian Bella Humphries
discusses living with
Premenstrual Dysphoric
Disorder, and discusses how
she hopes she can encourage
others to open up.
Repeated from last Wednesday

7.00 Country Focus
Caroline Evans visits Dyfed
Shire Horse Farm, where a
family have increased the
number of breeding rare and
endangered heavy horses to
try to sustain the breed.
Repeated Wednesday 6.30pm and
Thursday 6.30am

7.30 Celebration
A service led by the Rev Dr Mark
Clavier, bishop’s chaplain and
vicar of St Mary’s Brecon.
The evening edition includes
My Favourite Hymn.
Repeated 7.30pm

8.00 Sunday Supplement
Political news, discussions
and analysis, plus a round-up
of the Sunday papers.
9.00 All Things Considered
Religious affairs programme.
Repeated Friday 6.30am
Email: religion.wales@bbc.co.uk

9.30 Bronwen Lewis
Music and guests.
11.00 Owen Money’s Solid
Gold Sunday
Hits from the 1960s and 70s.
1.00pm Kiri PritchardMcLean
Music and chat.
3.00 Lynn Bowles
Music and entertainment.
5.00 Roy Noble
Songs and conversation.
Email: roy.noble@bbc.co.uk

7.00 Radio Wales Rewind
Two programmes from 1977
and 2002 exploring UFO
sightings across Wales.
Repeated from last Tuesday

7.30 Celebration
A service led by the Rev Dr
Mark Clavier, bishop’s chaplain
and vicar of St Mary’s Brecon.
This edition of the programme
includes My Favourite Hymn.
Repeated from 7.30am

8.00 Celtic Heartbeat
Frank Hennessy presents the
best in folk, roots and acoustic
music from the Celtic
countries and beyond.
10.00Beverley’sWorldofMusic
Performances from stage
and screen, and orchestral
and choral works.
1.00am—6.00 as Radio 5 Live

Monday
NEWS: hourly 7.00am to 10.00pm
WEATHER: before most news bulletins

6.05am Wake Up with
Radio Wales
Music to start the day.
6.30 Radio Wales Arts Show
The current art scene in Wales.
Repeated from Sunday 6am

7.00 Radio Wales Breakfast
The latest news, travel and
weather, with Dot Davies
and James Williams.
9.00 Wynne Evans
Featuring soundtrack stories
and the Mystery Voice.
12.00 The Phone-in
With Jason Mohammad.
2.00pm Behnaz Akhgar
Featuring celebrity guests, TV
Turn Ons, and Backtracks.

5.00 Radio Wales Drive
Everything you need to know
as you head home.
6.30 The Takeaway
Sixty years ago, the first
Chinese takeaway opened in
the UK, offering affordable
new flavours to working-class
Britons who’d never even
heard of soy sauce. Since then,
these takeaways have often
been seen through a lens of
exoticism and racism. Having
grownupinherparents’Chinese
takeaway in the former mining
town of Beddau, food critic
Angela Hui reflects on the place
they hold in British culture, and
her mixed feelings concerning
her own childhood working in
her parents’ kitchen.
Repeated tomorrow 6.30am

7.00 Huw Stephens
Featuring the Artist of the
Week and new music from
Wales and beyond.
10.00 Eleri Siôn
Music and chat.
12.00 Relax with Radio Wales
Contemporary tunes.
1.00am—6.00 as Radio 5 Live

Tuesday
NEWS AND WEATHER: as Monday

6.05am Wake Up with
Radio Wales
Music to start the day.
6.30 The Takeaway
Food critic Angela Hui reflects
on the place Chinese
takeaways hold in British
culture, and her mixed feelings
concerning her own childhood
working in her parents’ kitchen.
Repeated from yesterday 6.30pm

7.00 Radio Wales Breakfast
News, travel and weather, with
Dot Davies and James Williams.
9.00 Wynne Evans
Featuring soundtrack stories
and the Mystery Voice.
12.00 The Phone-in
With Jason Mohammad.
2.00pm Behnaz Akhgar
Featuring celebrity guests,
expert advice, and Backtracks.
5.00 Radio Wales Drive
Everything you need to know
as you head home.
6.30 Eco Worrier: My Carbon
Neutral Journey
1/2. Francis Jones tries to
embrace an eco-friendly,
carbon-neutrallifestyle,gauging
how difficult it is to balance
environmental awareness
with modern-day living.
Repeated tomorrow 6.30am

7.00 Huw Stephens
Featuring the Artist of the Week
and new music from Wales.
10.00 Eleri Siôn
Music and chat.
12.00 Relax with Radio Wales
Contemporary tunes.
1.00am—6.00 as Radio 5 Live

Wednesday
NEWS AND WEATHER: as Monday

6.05am Wake Up with Radio
Wales
Music to start the day.
6.30 Eco Worrier: My Carbon
Neutral Journey
1/2. Francis Jones tries to
embrace an eco-friendly,
carbon-neutrallifestyle,gauging
how difficult it is to balance
environmental awareness
with modern-day living.
Repeated from yesterday 6.30pm

7.00 Radio Wales Breakfast
The latest news, travel and
weather, with Dot Davies and
James Williams.
9.00 Wynne Evans
Featuring soundtrack stories
and the Mystery Voice.
12.00 The Phone-in
Be part of the nation’s
conversation, with
Jason Mohammad.
2.00pm Behnaz Akhgar
Featuring celebrity guests,
Midweek Menu recipes, expert
advice and Backtracks.
5.00 Radio Wales Drive
With Wyre Davies.
6.30 Country Focus
Caroline Evans visits Dyfed
Shire Horse Farm, where a
family have increased the
number of breeding rare and
endangered heavy horses to
try to sustain the breed.
Repeated from Sunday 7am
Repeated tomorrow 6.30am

7.00 Huw Stephens
Featuring the Artist of the
Week and new music from
Wales and beyond.
10.00 Eleri Siôn
Brighten your night-time with
music and chat.
12.00 Relax with Radio Wales
Contemporary tunes.
1.00am—6.00 as Radio 5 Live

Thursday
NEWS AND WEATHER: as Monday

6.05am Wake Up with
Radio Wales
Music to start the day.
6.30 Country Focus
Caroline Evans visits Dyfed
Shire Horse Farm, where a
family have increased the
number of breeding rare and
endangered heavy horses.
Repeated from yesterday 6.30pm

7.00 Radio Wales Breakfast
Start the day with Dot Davies
and James Williams.
9.00 Wynne Evans
Featuring soundtrack stories
and the Mystery Voice.
12.00 The Phone-in
With Natasha Livingstone.
2.00pm Behnaz Akhgar
Featuring celebrity guests,
expert advice and Backtracks.
5.00 Radio Wales Drive
Everything you need to know
as you head home.
6.30 Comedy Club at
Machynlleth
Kiri Pritchard-McLean hosts a
comedy showcase featuring
acts from this year’s festival.
7.00 Aleighcia Scott
Music and culture.
10.00 Eleri Siôn
Music and chat.
12.00 Relax with Radio Wales
Contemporary tunes.
1.00am—6.00 as Radio 5 Live

Friday
NEWS AND WEATHER: as Monday

6.05am Wake Up with Radio
Wales
Music to start the day.
6.30 All Things Considered
Religious affairs programme.
Repeated from Sunday 9am
Email: religion.wales@bbc.co.uk

7.00 Radio Wales Breakfast
The latest news, travel and
weather, with Oliver Hides.
9.00 Wynne Evans
Featuring soundtrack stories.
12.00 The Phone-in
With Natasha Livingstone.
2.00pm Eleri Siôn
Celebrity guests, film reviews,
Foodie Friday recipes and
music quiz Backtracks.
5.00 Radio Wales Drive
Everything you need to know
as you head home.
6.30 Radio Wales Arts Show
The current arts scene in Wales.
7.00 Radio Wales Sport
Live commentary, analysis
and special features.
10.00 Friday Night H
Music and chat.
12.00 The Party Playlist
with H
An ultimate party playlist.
1.00am—5.00 as Radio 5 Live
BBC Wales, 3 Central Square,
Cardiff CF10 1FT
03703 500 700
(weekdays 9.30am to 5.30pm)
(landline calls charged at a
maximum of 8p per minute)
SMS: 81012
bbc.co.uk/radiowales

Listen on the internet at radiotimes.com/radio/radio-listings

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Saturday 29 July–Friday 4 August

Cymru

Frequencies
Sadwrn
5.30am Richard Rees
Cerddoriaeth a chwmnïaeth
ar gyfer bore Sadwrn.
7.00 Galwad Cynnar
Gerallt Pennant a’i westeion
yn trafod natur, bywyd
gwyllt a chadwraeth.
8.00 Dros Frecwast
Y newyddion diweddaraf
yng Nghymru a thu hwnt,
gyda Dylan Jones.
8.30 Ar y Marc
Dylan Jones a’r criw yn trafod
pob math o bethau’n
ymwneud â phêl-droed.
EBOST: arymarc@bbc.co.uk

EBOST: marc.griffiths@bbc.co.uk

9.00 Ffion Emyr
Cerddoriaeth a chwmnïaeth
ar nos Sadwrn.
12.00 gweler World Service

Sul
5.30am Linda Griffiths
Dechreuwch eich dydd
Sul yn sain dewis cerddorol
Linda Griffiths.
7.00 Troi’r Tir
Y straeon diweddaraf o fyd
amaeth a bywyd cefn gwlad.
7.30 Caniadaeth y Cysegr
R Alun Evans yn bwrw
golwg ar fwy o emynau gan
rai o’n prifeirdd.
Ail-ddarlledir 4.30pm

8.00 Bore Sul
Trin a thrafod papurau’r Sul,
cerddoriaeth a sgyrsiau
hamddenol.
10.00 Swyn y Sul
Ycyfansoddwra’rcerddorRobat
Arwyn yn dewis cerddoriaeth
ar gyfer bore Sul hamddenol.
12.00 Yr Oedfa
Gwasanaeth yn arbennig i
wrandawyr Radio Cymru, dan
ofal Aled Davies, Chwilog.
12.30pm Bwrw Golwg
John Roberts a’i westeion
yn trafod materion moesol a
chrefyddol.
EBOST: bwrw.golwg@bbc.co.uk

1.00 Cofio
Archif, atgof a chân yng
nghwmni John Hardy.

5.00 Dei Tomos
Sgyrsiau am Gymru, ei
phobl a’i diwylliant.
Ail-ddarlledir Mawrth am 6pm
EBOST: deitomos@bbc.co.uk

6.00 Beti a’i Phobol
Cyfle arall i glywed sgwrs
rhwng Beti George a’r actores,
y diweddar Christine
Pritchard. Ail-ddarllediad
Ail-ddarlledir Iau am 6pm

6.50 Dramâu Christine
Pritchard
Detholiad o ddramâu wnaeth
Christine Pritchard dros
y blynyddoedd ar gyfer
Radio Cymru.
Ail-ddarlledir Iau am 6.50pm

7.00 Y Talwrn
Dau dîm o feirdd yn cystadlu i
gyrraedd y rownd derfynol yn
Eisteddfod Genedlaethol.
Ail-ddarlledir Mercher am 6pm

8.00 Ar Eich Cais
Rhys Meirion yn darllen
cyfarchion ac yn chwarae
ceisiadau.
EBOST: areichcais@bbc.co.uk

9.00 John ac Alun
Cerddoriaeth a sgwrsio
i gloi’r penwythnos.
12.00 gweler World Service

Llun
5.30am John Hardy
Cerddoriaeth a chwmnïaeth
ben bore gydag Irfon Jones
yn lle John Hardy.
7.00 Dros Frecwast
Y newyddion diweddaraf
yng Nghymru a thu hwnt,
gyda Kate Crockett a
Dylan Ebenezer.
9.00 Aled Hughes
Straeon cyfredol, cerddoriaeth,
a holi’r cwestiynau sydd ar
feddwl pawb.
11.00 Bore Cothi
Croeso cynnes dros baned
gyda Shân Cothi.
1.00pm Dros Ginio
Trin a thrafod Cymru a’r byd
gyda Dewi Llwyd yn cyflwyno.
EBOST: drosginio@bbc.co.uk
Ffôn: 03703 500 500

2.00 Ifan Jones Evans
Digon o gerddoriaeth,
chwerthin a sgwrsio, yn ogystal
â chystadleuaeth neu ddwy.
5.00 Post Prynhawn
Newyddion y dydd yng
Nghymru a thu hwnt gyda Nia
Thomas yn cyflwyno.
EBOST: postprynhawn@bbc.co.uk
Post Prynhawn,
BBC Radio Cymru
Canolfan y BBC, Bryn Meirion
Bangor, LL57 2BY

Ail-ddarlledir tomorrow am 6pm

6.00 Cofio
Archif, atgof a chân yng
nghwmni John Hardy.

2.00 Ffion Dafis
Golwg ar y byd celfyddydol
yng Nghymru a thu hwnt
gyda Ffion Dafis.
4.00 Mordaith Pen Llŷn
Aled Hughes
Aled Hughes sy’n mynd ar gwch
o amgylch un o arfordiroedd
prydferthaf Cymru.

7.00 Rhys Mwyn
Clasuron coll o gasgliad
Mr Mwyn, a gwesteion
yn hel atgofion.
9.00 Caryl
Cerddoriaeth a hwyl gyda’r
hwyr gyda Caryl Parry Jones.
12.00 gweler World Service

Darlledwyd yesterday am 1pm

5.30am John Hardy
Cerddoriaeth a chwmnïaeth
ben bore.
7.00 Dros Frecwast
Y newyddion diweddaraf yng
Nghymru a thu hwnt, gyda Kate
Crockett a Dylan Ebenezer.
9.00 Aled Hughes
Straeon cyfredol, cerddoriaeth,
a holi’r cwestiynau sydd ar
feddwl pawb.
11.00 Bore Cothi
Croeso cynnes dros baned
gyda Shân Cothi.
1.00pm Dros Ginio
Trin a thrafod Cymru a’r
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yn cyflwyno.
EBOST: drosginio@bbc.co.uk
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6.00 Dei Tomos
Sgyrsiau am Gymru, ei
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Darlledwyd Sul am 5pm
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7.00 Georgia Ruth
Dewis eclectig o gerddoriaeth
o gasgliad Georgia Ruth.
9.00 Caryl
Cerddoriaeth a hwyl gyda’r
hwyr gyda Caryl Parry Jones.
12.00 gweler World Service

Mercher
5.30am John Hardy
Cerddoriaeth a chwmnïaeth
ben bore.
7.00 Dros Frecwast
Y newyddion diweddaraf
yng Nghymru a thu hwnt,
gyda Kate Crockett a
Dylan Ebenezer.
9.00 Aled Hughes
Straeon cyfredol, cerddoriaeth,
a holi’r cwestiynau sydd ar
feddwl pawb.
11.00 Bore Cothi
Croeso cynnes dros baned
gyda Shân Cothi.
1.00pm Dros Ginio
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byd gyda Vaughan Roderick
yn cyflwyno.
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2.00 Ifan Jones Evans
Digon o gerddoriaeth,
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neu ddwy.
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7.00 Mirain Iwerydd
Cerddoriaeth newydd Cymru.
9.00 Caryl
Cerddoriaeth a hwyl gyda’r
hwyr gyda Caryl Parry Jones.
12.00 gweler World Service

Iau
5.30am John Hardy
Cerddoriaeth a chwmnïaeth
ben bore, gyda bwletinau
newyddion, chwaraeon,
tywydd a thraffig. Hefyd, y
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Y newyddion diweddaraf yng
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Straeon cyfredol, cerddoriaeth,
a holi’r cwestiynau sydd ar
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Cerddoriaeth ar gyfer
nos Wener yng nghwmni
Lauren Moore.
9.00 Nos Wener Ffion Emyr
Tanio’r penwythnos gyda
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yn lle Ffion.
12.00 gweler World Service
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Radio Cymru 2
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Sadwrn
7.00am—9.00 Sioe Frecwast:
cerddoriaeth ac adloniant
gyda Molly Palmer yn
cyflwyno yn lle Daniel Glyn

Sul
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National
BBC Radio 1 97.6—99.8
BBC Radio 2 88—90.2
BBC Radio 3 90.2—92.4
BBC Radio 4 92.4—94.6, 103.5—
105, LW 198
BBC Radio 5 Live MW 693,
909, 990
Radio Cymru 92.4—96.1, 96.8,
103.5—105
Radio Cymru 2 This station
only broadcasts on Freeview,
satellite television, digital radio
and the internet
BBC Radio Wales 93.9—95.9,
103.7, 103.9
BBC Radio Wales Extra
MW 1125 (mid-Wales)
Classic FM 99.9—101.9
Talksport MW 1053, 1089
Absolute MW 1197, 1242, 1260
The above stations also broadcast
via Freeview, satellite, cable,
digital radio and the internet.

Local
BBC stations:
Bristol 94.9 (Bristol), 103.6
(Severn), 104.6 (Bath)
Gloucestershire 104.7
(Churchdown Hill), 95 (Stroud),
95.8 (Cirencester), MW 1413
Hereford and Worcester 94.7
(Hereford), 104 (Worcester & Gt
Malvern), 104.6 (Kidderminster),
MW 738, 1584 (Tenbury Wells)
Somerset 95.5, MW 1566
Wiltshire 104.3 (west Wiltshire),
104.9 (Marlborough), 103.5
(Salisbury), 103.6 (Swindon)
Independent stations:
Bay Radio 102.1 (Swansea)
Bridge FM 106.3 (Bridgend/
Vale of Glamorgan)
Capital 103.2 (Cardiff), 97.4
(Newport), 96.3 (north Wales
Coast), 103.4 (Cheshire/north east
Wales), 97.1 (Wirral), 103
(Anglesey) Music, news
Carmarthenshire 97.1
(Carmarthenshire), 97.5
(Llanelli/Carmarthen Town)
Chester’s Dee 106.3
Freeradio 103.1 (Shropshire),
97.2 (Wolverhampton) Music,
news, 97.6 (Hereford), 96.7
(Kidderminster), 102.8
(Worcester) Music
Heart 88 (Wrexham), 103 (Bath/
Weston Super-Mare), 96.3
(Bristol), 102.2 (west Wiltshire),
102.4 (Gloucester/ Cheltenham),
102.6 (Somerset), 97.2 (Swindon),
105.2 (Abergavenny/
Carmarthenshire), 105.4 (Cardiff),
105.9 (Aberdare), 105.7 (Colwyn
Bay), 105.9 (Newport), 105.7
(Pembrokeshire), 106 (Swansea/
Carmarthen), 106.1 (Ebbw Vale),
106.2 (Fishguard), 106.9 (Mold/
Flint), 107.2 (Caernarfon/
Anglesey), 107.3 (Rhyl/Prestatyn)
Greatest Hits Radio 100.8
(Porlock), 102 (Salisbury), 102.4
(west Somerset), 107.2 (Bristol),
107.4 (Telford/Wrekin), 107.5
(west Wiltshire), 107.5
(Gloucestershire), 107.7 (WestonSuper-Mare/north Somerset/
(Swindon) 107.9 (Bath), MW 1170
(Swansea/south west Wales)
GTFM 107.9 Pontypridd,
100.7/107.1 Cynon Valley
Kiss 101 (Severn Estuary), 97.2
(Bristol) Dance music, news
Nation Radio 106.8 (Cardiff),
107.3 (Swansea) Music, news
Pembrokeshire 102.5, 107.5
(Fishguard/Tenby)
Radio Cardiff 98.7
Radio Tircoed 106.5 (West
Swansea) Music, news
Scarlet FM 97.5 (Llanelli)
Smooth 100.4 (north-west
England); MW 1359 (south
Wales), 1305 (Gwent), 1260
(north Wales/Cheshire/Bristol),
774 (Gloucester), 1161 (Swindon),
936 (West Wiltshire)
Sunshine 106.2 (Hereford), 107.8
(Leominster), 107 (Monmouth),
MW 855 (south Shropshire)
The Wave 96.4 (Swansea)

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HYTHM OF BODY, rhythm of mind,
rhythm of time. Balance, purpose,
pace, step, tread, trace. We wander,
we traipse and we sometimes trip,
stumble, slip or slide. Sometimes we
steal in secrecy, sometimes we mark
the ground with our footprints. Sometimes we
walk this way once, sometimes we step through
the ghosts of many of our journeys and tattoo
those ways with our memories.
We walk alone, we walk in love, we walk in
pain. We walk in joy, for joy, and if we walk in
sadness, then inevitably we can walk back to
happiness. And how far we have walked! As a
species, across the world, and as individuals all
the miles as we criss-cross the maps of our lives.
We walk from A to B, along uncertain paths, in
directions unknown, into our distance. As we

‘Go with your own flow
and find that sweet
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live we walk, and we walk to live, and if we ever
stop to think about those commonplace human
things we take for granted, then just as we
breathe or beat our hearts, we recognise that
walking is simply wonderful.

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IZE 4, 5 or 10½, it was not Nancy’s boots
that were made for walking, it was her
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machines. We are very good at walking,
made for it step by step over the last 4.4 million
years. I’ll prove it… Find a wide-open empty
space with level ground, flat and stable substrate,
perhaps a beach at low tide, and choose a far-off
spot and begin to walk towards it. There’s
no rush, so just tread as your body says, go
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that feels right. Swing your arms, relax into
a gait, a pattern of perfect movement, just do
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your head balanced on top of all those swaying
bones and muscles, constantly falling forward
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to see. If it’s the former, I walk fast, I’m focused
and I don’t think much about walking, just getting

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but there’s beauty as well as function in stepping out
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‘Walking maximises
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Most of all, I like walking alone at night along
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I feel necessarily insignificant. My head clears, my
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there. If it’s the latter, I might stroll, amble even,
perhaps stop walking to look. And for me, walking
provides both a pace and perspective, which
maximises my connection with the world that I
want to experience.
My senses seem optimised with my walking
speed as I can scan, squint and swivel to peer
wherever I wish. I thus see more when I’m walking

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New Zealand may be in the headlines for the Women’s World Cup, but
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T’S ONE THING, as a football fan with a
packed schedule, to zip through World Cup
host cities at the rate of a kangaroo on
amphetamines. But after a 24-hour flight,
for most travellers arriving in New Zealand,
a dose of slow travel through one of the
most picturesque landscapes on earth might be
just what the chief medic ordered.
The good news is that NZ has not only a solid
“regular” rail infrastructure, but also offers some
very special scenic trains. Great Journeys New
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major rail trips: the Coastal Pacific and the
TranzAlpine will get you halfway down the
country’s South Island – via Christchurch on
the east coast to the aptly named Greymouth
on the west – but the one I’ve chosen takes in the
length of the North Island.
The Northern Explorer – the clue is indeed in
the name – gets you from Auckland, the most
populous city in New Zealand, where the Opening Ceremony and inaugural match of the
Women’s World Cup took place, to its far more
artsy capital Wellington, in around 11 hours.
That’s plenty of time to gaze out of the panoramic windows that reach right up towards
the ceiling, taking in the gorges, ravines, mountains, viaducts and… let’s be honest… the countryside that doubled as Mordor in The Lord of
the Rings. It’s the country’s longest passenger

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train service, stopping at the cultured towns of
Hamilton and Palmerston, wild Tongariro
National Park and Otorohanga (for Waitomo’s
glow-worm-lit caves), outdoorsy Ohakune and
Taumarunui, before ending at Wellington.
A journey this length demands an early(ish)
start, so as the sun rises over Auckland’s skyline
on a thankfully clear day, I arrive at the edgeof-town railway station, my bag being checked
in airport-style before I take my spacious seat.
One cheese scone and unexpected nap later, I
awake among rolling hills on a luminous day.
The morning light cascades through the

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slowly into the mountainous regions, the
stations bearing an increasing resemblance to
those you see in westerns (these are frontier
towns, too). You’re able to alight and break this
journey up, and all the towns I pass through
seem to be geared towards this one endeavour,

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and the botanical
gardens are always
worth a visit. Be
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is not a pedestrianfriendly city.

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of the Australian
cities, this metropolis
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the cultural and
culinary. Try the
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restaurant scene,
which stems from
the melting pot of
different immigrant
cultures, and the
Australian Sports
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way about itself
while fostering a
hipster buzz with its
natural wine scene
and European-style
central market. It’s
also worth visiting
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F

OR THE FOURTH time this
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August draw, 4% of the
total amount invested will go into
the prize fund each year, and the
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number of £25 prizes much the
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Premium bonds are best for people
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Varieties of apple
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The connecting wall from Only Connect combines
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Using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division,
try to get as close to the target as possible in 30 seconds.
You can use each of the six numbers only once, but you
don’t have to use them all. Rachel’s solution is on the
previous page.

632
50

100

SUPER SUDOKU
Galactica

Mo

Nostromo

Millennium
Falcon

Wicker Man

Granny Smith

9
Oblivion

Red Dwarf

Rita

10

2

4 5

SUDOKU NO 917 SOLUTION

2
8

Davina

Braeburn

How to play Complete the grid
so that every row, column and
3 x 3 box contains the digits
1 to 9. Difficulty: 15/20

9
6

7

Fuji

7
7

Gala

25

918

1
Jonathan

75

The Smiler

Milano

2
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7
3
5
6
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6 5 9
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5

THE ENIGMA CODE

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Can you crack the Enigma code? Each grid number represents a letter.
Every letter of the alphabet is used. Use the given letter or letters —
below the main grid — to start. The solution is on the previous page.
Difficulty: 16/20 Target time: 32 minutes
5
10

18
13

14
19

TRACKWORD

P L E
D A H
N A N

TRACKWORD FOR LAST ISSUE Nine-letter word BLOCKHEAD
ado, ahold, alb, alod, aloe, blad, blae, blah, bloc, block, blockhead, boa, boche, bock,
bod, boh, bohea, bold, cha, chad, chal, chalk, che, coal, cob, cod, coda, col, cola, cold,
dae, dah, dal, dob, doc, dock, doe, don, had hae, halo, head, headlock, heal, heald,
hob, hoc, hock, hod, hoe, hol, hold, koa, kob, kola, lad, lah, load, lob, loch, lock, lod,
och, oda, odal, old (Ref: Chambers English Dictionary)

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CLIVE DOIG

How many words of three letters or more can you
find by tracking from one square to the next, going
up, down, sideways or diagonally in order? You may
not use the same letter square twice in any word.
What is the nine-letter word?
BRAINBOX 45 words AVERAGE 30

4

17

6

4

Across 7 Caerphilly 9 Iron 10 Barn owls 11 Retire 12 David Suchet 15 Blanket
16 Vicious 18 Spirit level 21 Hawaii 22 Shamrock 23 Acne 24 Kidney bean
Down 1 Fatal 2 Brink 3 The Weakest Link 4 Elastic 5 Pistachio 6 Courteous
8 Yorkshire Dales 13 Flippancy 14 Increased 17 Seaside 19 Bribe 20 Scram

TRY THESE CLUES: GROUP ONE: GALACTICA. GROUP TWO: JONATHAN.
GROUP THREE: GALA. GROUP FOUR: RED DWARF. © RDF WEST

How to play Your task is to sort the 16 seemingly
random words/phrases below into four groups of
four connected words. You may find some clues fall
into more than one category, but there is only one
complete solution. If you get stuck, have
a look at the clues on the side of the page…

3

10

7

7

13
12

7

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13

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BRILLE, GNAVPOT, LYSTIG, SØVNIG,
FLOVMAND, PROSIT, DUMPE
CHEF, BRUMMBÄR, HAPPY, SCHLAFMÜTZ,
PIMPEL, HATSCHI, SEPPL
DOTTO, BRONTOLO, GONGOLO, PISOLO,
MAMMOLO, EOLO, CUCCIOLO
KLOKER, BUTTER, GLADER, TRÖTTER,
BLYGER, PROSIT, TOKER
PROF, GRINCHEUX, JOYEUX, DORMEUR,
TIMIDE, ATCHOUM, SIMPLET

1960s
1 What was the
title of the first top
20 hit achieved by
Amen Corner?
2 Whose single Yes
My Darling Daughter reached the top ten
in 1962?

1970s
3 Which singer made his top ten chart
debut in 1973 with My Coo-Ca-Choo?
4 Can you name the only number one hit
achieved by the Jimi Hendrix Experience?

1980s

EGGHEADS
online database, means what?

OLAV BJORTOMT
1 Which biblical king of Israel was
anointed king while his father
David was still alive?

a Fast b Huge c Complex

6 The sinister Monks turns out
to be the half-brother of which
Charles Dickens character?

a Saul b Rehoboam c Solomon

a David Copperfield b Oliver Twist
c Little Dorrit

2 Soprano in Hollywood and
Travelling Light are albums by
which Doncaster-born diva?

BARRY SIMMONS
7 What is the term for the mud-like
deposit on the ocean floor, partly
made of marine organisms’ remains?

a Jane McDonald b Lesley Garrett
c Elaine Paige

STEVE COOKE
3 Bluegrass musician Earl Scruggs
is famous for his three-finger
picking style on which instrument?

a Ooze b Crud c Mire

8 Which Andrew Lloyd Webber
musical is set in a huge junkyard?

a Violin b Banjo c Steel guitar

BETH WEBSTER
9 Where is the “nictitating
membrane”, found in some animals?
a Ears b Eyes c Feet

a Phil Brown b David Moyes
c Harry Redknapp

10 Which of the halogens, in the
periodic table, is the most reactive?
a Iodine b Astatine c Fluorine

PAT GIBSON
5 The Hawaiian word “wiki”, which
is used for a type of collaborative

DICTIONARY CORNER
Phrase of the week Not a sausage

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1990s
7 What was the title of the only top 20 hit
single achieved by Eurythmics in the 90s?
8 Can you give the title of the Take That
album that contains the tracks Pray,
Another Crack in My Heart and Babe?

2000s—present day
9 Ozzy Osbourne had a top three
album in 2022 — what was it called?
10 According to his 2006 top three
hit, who wanted to Break the Night
with Colour?

a Whistle Down the Wind b Starlight
Express c Cats

4 Which Premier League football
manager caused a stir in 2008
when he gave his side their halftime team talk on the field of play?

“Have you
heard from
him?” “Not
a sausage!”
This very
British retort
is recorded
from at least
the 1930s. But how does an expression
meaning “nothing at all” involve
sausages in the first place? The
answer may lie in a piece of rhyming
slang, in which “sausage” is short for

5 Which group had their last number
one in 1982 with Beat Surrender?
6 Cliff Richard and Europe both had
hits with two different songs with
the same title, can you name it?

“sausage and mash/cash” — so not
having “a sausage” would mean not
having any money. Over time, the
expression has broadened in its
meaning to include a lack of other
things. A similar formulation is “not a
dicky bird”, again meaning “nothing”.
As a playful name for a small bird,
“dicky bird” dates from the 18th
century, as seen in the nursery rhyme
Two Little Dicky Birds. By the 1930s, it
had become rhyming slang for “word”
— “She hasn’t said a dicky-bird”.

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LAURA RUTKOWSKI

…It’s good to have a new
presenter of University Challenge,
but can Amol Rajan please speak
more slowly and clearly – as both
Bamber Gascoigne and Jeremy
Paxman did?
He gabbled through the
questions so quickly, some were
incomprehensible. The object
is for contestants to get the
answers right, not to fit in as many
questions as you possibly can.
Michael Collon
Claygate, Surrey
…Loved the new version of
University Challenge with Amol
Rajan. I may have missed it in the
introduction, but nowhere in RT
or on the web can I find out who
the new name caller is.
Peter May
Newcastle-under-Lyme,
Staffordshire
It’s still Roger Tilling, who has been
doing the voiceover for 26 years!
We ran an interview with him in
Feedback in the 15 July issue of RT.

REAL-LIFE DRAMA

JUST STOP OIL

The episode of Casualty
celebrating 75 years of the NHS
(How to Save a Life, 15 July BBC1)
was brilliant. Interweaving
comments from actual NHS
workers (inset below) was inspired,
and worked so well with the
storyline. It made everything
feel incredibly real.
The Casualty actors just get
better and better – in this episode
Elinor Lawless (Stevie Nash) and
Michael Stevenson (Iain Dean)
really stood out. Long may it
continue!
Rosemary Marshall
New Malden, south-west London

LETTER OF THE WEEK

Universities challenged
A new series of University Challenge (17 July BBC2).
A new host. Still the old exclusion of women. Seven
out of the eight contestants in the first episode were male.
The BBC cannot carry on saying it’s the universities’ choice.
It must insist on female participation in all teams, preferably
a 50/50 ratio. Nothing else is acceptable.
Valerie Weber Lewisham, south-east London
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that applies that viewers want to see teams that reflect the
diversity of the student population.
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Emmerdale’s vicar, Charles
Anderson (Kevin Mathurin), is an
angry, hot-tempered man who is
unable to forgive. His predecessor
was a murderer. Love and
forgiveness are at the heart of
Christianity. Please could the
writers of Emmerdale
provide us with a vicar
who is actually a
Christian?
Ann Walsh Girton,
Cambridgeshire

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surgery. That episode
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in our waiting room
and indeed in every
MEDIC
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MEET THE
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Casualty
people stop and think,
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to… segment of RT where
and appreciate the NHS for the
names and faces are given to the
wonderful thing that it is.
people behind the scenes who
Anna Fenn
make everything work. We read
Plymouth, Devon
with great interest about home

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BOYS’ CLUB?

economist Victoria Onions’ work on
The Great British Bake Off, as we’ve
often wondered if Prue and Paul
had actually “made one earlier”.
Peter Riley
Didsbury, Greater Manchester

NATURE BALM
Can we please have a compilation
of the mindfulness moments
from Springwatch and its sister
programmes? This would work
wonders for the nation’s mental
health. It could be on BBC iPlayer
and made available as a DVD –
a sure bestseller.
Paul Comaish
Horsforth, West Yorkshire
The BBC responds: “Mindful
Moments from the latest series of
Springwatch and Winterwatch
are available on BBC iPlayer and
the BBC programme pages as
compilations and standalone

New host Amol Rajan
in the 24 July heat of
University Challenge

episodes for audiences to enjoy.
Watch Springtime Contemplations
at bbc.in/43hrqVT and Winter
Wildlife Encounters at
bbc.in/43r6jjM.”

A KEEPER!
The Radio Times wall chart (15
July) for the Women’s World Cup is
wonderful and much appreciated.
It’s especially useful that England’s
matches are highlighted. I look
forward to filling it out as the
tournament progresses.
Daryl Millar
Mildenhall, Suffolk

DUE NORTH
In the 21 July edition,
you mention the reruns of
Schitt’s Creek and identify it
as an American sitcom. It is
absolutely CANADIAN and
we are very proud of it.
Mary Frances Laughton
Ottawa, Canada

LAW OF SUCCESSION?
The first episode of the new series
Earth (17 July BBC2) was terrific.
Now that David Attenborough is
too old for location TV presenting,
we have a worthy successor. Chris
Packham’s knowledge, enthusiasm
and commitment to conservation
are lovely to watch.
Carole Jesmont
Glasgow
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PROTEST AT THE PROMS
The leading news item on Saturday
morning (15 July) on Radio 4
concerned the heatwave affecting
much of western Europe, and its
effect on health and tourism,
including the reminder that there
were more than 60,000 heatrelated deaths in Europe during
last summer’s heatwave.
The second item was the Just
Stop Oil protest at the Proms,
which was greeted with “boos
and jeers”. Was the irony of this
juxtaposition totally lost on the
BBC news team? Why did no one
join the dots and realise that the
protesters were drawing attention
to the link between burning fossil
fuels and the devastating effects of
climate change?
Why did it not occur to someone
at the BBC to interview these
climate activists and ask them why
they felt compelled to take this
action on our behalf?
Geoff Jones Lincoln
A BBC spokesperson says: “The
Today programme has reported on
Just Stop Oil’s protests over recent
months and has highlighted their
position on the climate crisis in its
coverage. This includes interviews
with members of the group. The
BBC is clear that climate change
is happening and we will
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Rhian Jones
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…Comparing Paul Lewis’s Grieg
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Morecambe and Wise… how could
they? Clive Myrie and Sandi
Toksvig (BBC2) didn’t even give
us a minute to savour the moment
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Anne Reid’s acting career over
more than 60 years. We saw her
very briefly as Sid James’s young
secretary in an episode of
Hancock’s Half Hour from 1957
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Others you’ll be able to listen to
include Petticoat Line, an all-female
panel show from the 60s, and Year
of the Owl from 1983, a dramatised
natural history tale requested by
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original book, The Year of the
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Dildawn. The listeners who wrote
in will be namechecked, and some
will tell their stories on air.
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has access to the BBC archive
website, where most of the content
lives, as well as tapes sitting in
boxes that it can request to be
digitised to give these dramas and
other shows a new lease of life.

It’s Culver’s aim to play more of
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Given their permanent shortage
Bernie both shop at the charity
of cash, how can Corrie characters
shop in the precinct and Gemma’s
like Gemma Winter-Brown
quadruplets’ clothes are hand-me(Dolly-Rose Campbell) and Bernie
downs from the neighbours’ kids
Winter (Jane Hazlegrove) appear
on the street. Izzy Armstrong
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[Cherylee Houston] also helps
that are obviously not
them alter and repair items
from charity shops?
that have seen better days.”
Aine Hagan
Maidenhead,
Berkshire
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HISTORY
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I love travel series
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much so that
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we’ve actually
Trail Adventure,
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just taken an
ITVX). Her
Dolly-Rose
item off Bernie’s
soothing voice
Campbell as

is mesmerising, and she always
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nutmeg made such an impact on
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it’s also the reason why Britain
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VIEW FROM MY SOFA

JACK
WHITEHALL

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TO JACK ON

The comedian on cut-throat
panel shows, embarrassing
his dad and improv-insults

AVAILABLE FROM
25 JULY
Go to radiotimes.com
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What’s the view from your sofa?
It’s about to change quite radically
from bachelor pad to family home [with
the arrival of a baby]. When I moved into
the house, an interior designer said, “You
don’t want an L-shaped sofa; you want a
sofa that is up against the wall to make
the most of the space.” It means I’ve got
a sofa that doesn’t face the television. It
looks out at the garden. I have to watch
TV in my peripheral vision. Roxy, my
girlfriend, has started nesting, and she’s
looked at the furniture and feng shui
and decided it needs to change.
Who controls the remote?
Probably me, as Roxy isn’t as tech savvy.
But then, I’m really not tech savvy at all, I
just know how to work this complicated
remote. We’ve got one of those set-ups
where every streaming subscription goes
through one remote. A guy who lives in
Devon helped me put the system in. I
speak to him more than I do my family
and friends, saying, “I don’t know how
it works” or “It’s not working again.”

NEALE HAYNES; CONTOUR; GETTY IMAGES

When you can get the telly to work,
what do you watch? A lot of comedy?
Roxy likes true crime – anything with a
serial killer or murderer. She’s all over
that, especially late at night. She wakes
up the following morning complaining
of bad nightmares. I wonder why. I do
like comedy – I watch a fair amount of
stand-up and sitcoms – but it’s a bit of
a busman’s holiday.
You made a name for yourself on
panel shows — how did that shape
you as a comedian?
Those panel shows were huge. I
remember getting onto them being a
laser-focus ambition for me. Mock the
Week was famously cut-throat – you’d
need quite sharp elbows to get your bit
in. It was a great show and loads of
people watched it. It would help build
your profile and get bums on seats
when you wanted to tour. Would I Lie to
You? is one of the best panel shows on

SIDEKICK
Jack and
his cavapoo
dog, Coco

television; it has been so long lasting
because it has a water-tight format.
When you look back, are there any
moments that make you cringe?
I remember being on Celebrity Juice. It
was a great show, but not a good one to
go on as a comedian because you were
just fodder. I didn’t give a great account
of myself. I sat there in silence and had
the piss taken out of me. My dad called
me, told me he had watched it and said
that it was one of the most embarrassing
things he’d ever seen and that I should
have a word with my agent and be more
forthright about what was good and bad
for me to do. It was quite a seminal
moment in terms of me going, “OK,
maybe I need to be a bit more selective.”
Strong words of advice from your
father, Michael Whitehall. You’ve also
made TV programmes with him —
what’s it like working with your parents?
It’s good and lovely to be able to spend
time with them. That said, there is an
added level of stress to it. There is a
slight lack of professionalism – they are
your parents and you talk to each other

MY LIFE
IN TV

SNACK OF
CHOICE
Cheese, popcorn,
and crisps. Roxy
is diabetic so we
have to be careful
with what we
chuck down
our throats.

CHILDHOOD TV
My first TV
memory is my
mum watching
Coronation Street
— Corrie’s heyday,
when Sally
Wainwright used
to write on it.

slightly differently from how you would
talk to a regular colleague. Some of their
foibles can become a little irksome. You
are trying to create something and get
it done, and certain members of your
family want to be finished filming at four
o’clock, need an hour off at lunch and
insist on having a glass of wine – which
you know is going to make them much
less attentive for the three hours you
have to get the rest of the shooting done.
Sebastian, your character in whodunnit
series The Afterparty, is an archetype
of an old-money Englishman. How
many of the British insults are your own?
There was a lot of improvisation on set –
some of the actors, like Zach Woods, are
the best improvisers I’ve worked with. It
made me want to up the ante. It became
a game of how many obscure, bizarre
English insults I could hurl at people and
see who I could make laugh. I’m not very
good at figuring out [whodunnit]. I’m
the perfect audience member. I’ve always
loved watching them, so it was really fun
to be a part of one. KELLY-ANNE TAYLOR
Both series of The Afterparty are on Apple TV+

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